VOL,. L.VIII. XO. 18,260 Entered at Portland (Ore son) Postoffice as Secor.d-Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN FRANCISCO PUTS BAN ON STRAWBERRY RETAIL MERCHANTS AXD HO TELS BALK AT HIGH PRICES. EVIDENCE SECURED HOUSE TO MAKE FIVE WAR-COST INQUIRIES COMMITTEE IS INCREASED TO MEMBERSHIP OF 15. OREGON LEADS WAY RECALL IN COOS WINS BY LARGE MAJORITY SDFFRAGE ADOPTED IN SENATE 56 TO 25 BIG BOMB PLOT ROOSEVELT ROAD C. R. WADE NAMED JUDGE AXD H. G. KERN" COMMISSIONER. RECONSTRUCTION MEASURE IS LOST Rural Vote Defeats Plans for $5,000,000 Bonds. ENABLING ACT IS DEAD, TOO Majority Against Main Bill Approximately 3779. Is HOSPITAL PLAN GOES DOWN Though Amendment Is Carried Sale Margin, Xo Funds lor Work Are Available. STATU MEASURES CARRIED. Six per cent indebtedness. Koosevelt highway bill. Soldiers', sailors" and marines' ed ucational aid bill. Market roads tax bill. Irrigation and drainage district interest guarantee. Measures In Doabt. Industrial and reconstruction hos pital amendment. Measures Defeated. Lieutenant-governor amendment. Reconstruction -bond amendment. Reconstruction bonding bill. The rural vote of Oregon Tuesday rallied to defeat tne $5,000,000 recon struction bill. That element had able assistance from some of the valley towns, so that whereas Portland and Multnomah county gave the bonding proposition -a favorable majority of nearly 4000. the bill appears definitely to be defeated. The same fate was accorded the con stitutional amendment enabling the people to adopt the bond bill, but the enabling amendment is defeated by a much smaller majority. In fact, the anomalous condition was nearly achieved whereby the constitution would be altered to permit an increase or $5,000,000 in state indebtedness for reconstruction purposes in the same election that the indebtedness itself was prohibited. Figures Nearly Complete. With fairly complete returns from 11 but two of the smaller counties, the vote outside of Multnomah county on the reconstruction bill is yes 17,908, no 26,135. When the Multnomah county figures are added to these totals the result is yes 30.349, no 31,218. Ma jority against 377?. The same upstate counties gave on he companion constitutional amend ment an affirmative vote of IS. 153 and a negative vote of 23.152. With the Addition of the Multnomah county fig ures the totals stand: Tcs, 30.521; no, 31.10S; majority against, 5S7. The com plete returns, according to present in dications, will increase this unfavorable majority and the amendment is prob ably defeated. Late Returns Show Trend. The disclosures that the main oppo sition to the reconstruction measures as in the rural districts came in the manner in which the returns were re ceived. Earlier figures arc almost ex clusively from county seats, and indi cate the trend of voting in those towns. Tuesday night the first returns from towns and cities outside of Portland indicated that the reconstruction bill had received a small adverse majority ipstate, which would be readily over come by the large favorable majority cast in Multnomah county. But later returns, which come from the country districts, overthrew this calculation completely. As the country districts reported, the unfavorable majorities swelled larger and larger. Particular heavy votes were cast against the measure in Wash ington, Marion, Linn, Douglas and Clackamas counties. State Opposes Hospital. Outside of Portland the amendment authorizing location of a reconstruc tion hospital at a place other than the etate capital was disapproved by the voters. The returns as far as received give an adverse majority against this amendment of 3540 outside of Multno mah county. But the vote in Multno mah county in favor of the amendment more than offsets the up-state vote at present. The incomplete returns including re turns from Multnomah, stand. Yes 30, ,740; no, 25,970. Majority for 1770. The fate of the amendment is still somewhat in doubt, but if it is shown ifinally to have been approved, there will exift authority to locate the hos pital elsewhere than at Salem, but -there will be no appropriation for it. The appropriation was carried in the defeated reconstruction bonding bill. Multnomah Saves East. The returns also find Multnomah county saving the day for the measure permitting guarantee of interest for five years on approved irrigation and drainage district bonds. Multnomah county gave this measure an affirma tive majority of nerrly 6000 votes, but the counties outside of Multnomah county, so far as reports are. in, went ssralnst it by about 700 votes. The totals for up-state counties with Mult nomah added are as follows: les 33, 113. no 2S.00S. Majority for 5211. On other measures the counties stood iC'uncludtd on t'r. CoilUQD 1.) Public 'Requested'' to Go Without Until Cost Comes Down; Grow ers Accused of 'Unfairness. S.VN FRANCISCO. Cal.. June 4. Spe cial.) San Francisco retail merchants have started a bitter fight against ex orbitant food prices. They fired the opening gun this morning with a boy cott against fresh strawberries. After today there will be no fresh straw berries on sale in any San Francisco retail store. Consumers are going to do without them upon "request" and advice of their corner groceryman. The large jobbing houses have al ready tabooed them and their action will be followed by every retail dealer in the city. The boycott action was decided upon at a meeting of the large dealers held this afternoon. Every small retail gro ceryman was notified of the action. Xo purchases will be made after today. All of the restaurants and hotels have combined with the retailers in their fight, and have made a verbal agree ment not to use strawberries until the action taken results in lower prices. The retail merchants say they have been discriminated against this season. While they have been forced to pay $12 to $15 a chest of 60 pounds for strawberries, the same berries are sold to the canneries at 10 and 14 cents a pound, equivalent to a trifle over $6 a chest, by the Central California Straw berry Growers' association. The fight against the strawberry price is the widest and strongest that has ever taken place in San Francisco against any article of food. It is some thing that has been threatened for many weeks, but reached the critical point today when the growers boosted the wholesale market to $15 a chest. BOY MAKES BEST BREAD Harry Moore of Eugene TakeJ Honors in Cooking Contest. EUGENE, Or., June 4. (Special.) Harry Moore, 16 years old, of Eugene, won first prize on his bread at a cook ing contest held in connection with an achievement meeting of the Dunn school club near this city. The meeting was featured by a. club programme, club yells, songs, -demonstrations of cooking and sewing and a general celebration in honor of the fact that their club was the first I. the state to finish all of their cooking and sewing club projects. Miss Helen J. Cowgill, assistant state club leader at the Oregon Agricultural college, was present at the meeting. She says she is but voicing the feeling of the boys and girls when she says that much of the credit for the work done is due Mrs. F. L. fcenter, their local leader. Seven boys are members of the club. Most of them take the cooking club work in order to be able to cook on camping parties. LOANS TO SOLDIERS URGED Texan Pronoscs to Let Men Have $5000 to Purchase Farms. WASHINGTON", June 4. S t r a 1 g h t loans to soldiers and sailors of not to exceed $5000 for the purchase of farms was proposed to the house public lands committee by Representative Garner of Texas as a substitute for Secretary Lane's project for farms for service men. While he favored generally the Lane plan, Mr. Garner said he regarded it as an attempt to deceive the soldier by ffering him something which was a reclamation acneuie. He gave notice that he would offer his plan as an amendment In the house. STRIKING COAL MINERS WIN War Bonus to Continue and Men Will Resume Work Today. ELLEN SBURG, Wash.. June 4. Striking coal miners of Clc Elum and Roslyn, near here, will return to work tomorrow, a telegram having been re ceived today from Indianapolis stating the strikers had won their point. Recently representatives of the em ployers and strikers went to Indianap olis to lay the question before the in ternational president of the miners' union. The men struck when the com pany stopped paying what it termed a war bonus. FIRST FOREST FIRE OUT Mill Crews and Ranchers Fl Blaze in Jackson County. GOLD HILL, Or.. une 4. (Special.) The first forest fire of the season in the north end of Jackson county oc curred this week on the railway lead ing out from the Rogue River Lumber & Box company's mills, six miles north of Gold Hill. Mill and timber crews and ranchers prevented a heavy loss. A heavy wind was blowing. After burn ing over quite an area and destroying logs yarded along the railway, the fire was extinguished. The warm weather is a serious men ace to crops on unirrigated lands. SAILORS TO BE DISCHARGED Naval Personnel Ordered Reduced to 250,000 Men. WASHINGTON, June 4. Secretary Daniels today ordered reduction of the naval personnel to 250.000 men or less by July 1. Commandants of all shore stations and districts were directed to discbarge immediately every man who could possibly be spared without im pairing the efficiency of the navy. On June 1 there were approximately 273,000 men in the navy, of whom about 125,000 were at shore stations. Federal Operatives Silent as to Exact Nature. TRAIL LEADS TO NEW .X Clues Point to Rus Rad- icals Headqio ,rs. W. W. HEAD MENTIONED Partial Confession from Suspect at Pittsburg May lead Solution of Mystery. Held to WASHINGTON, June 4. Secret serv ice heads were uncommunicative but hopeful tonight as to prospects in the nation-wide hunt for the perpetrators of the series of bomb outrages Mon day night. William J. Flynn, appointed but not formally installed as the head of the investigation bureau of the de partment of justice, was assisting in the operations and it was admitted that much evidence had been gathered which would prove helpful, though nothing could be disclosed as to its nature. Members of a coroner's Jury assem bled today to find a, verdict as to the death of the bomb planter killed by the explosion of his own bomb at the home of Attorney-General Palmer adjourned without a meeting to complete a verdict. President Cables Palmer. Officials said there was nothing to decide in view of the circumstances. Washington police were still working conjunction with New York and Philadelphia authorities and with the special agents of the department of justice, but no arrests were made. President Wilson in a cablegram to Mr. Palmer today said: My heartfelt congratulatiaons on your escape. I am deeply thankful that the miscreants failed in all their at tempts." Man-Hunt Nation-Wide. More than 60 suspects have been taken into custody in various parts of the country, but no information had been received that would indicate the capture of the actual plotters. Not since the early days of the war, when the efforts of the department were centered on spies and dangerous enemy aliens, has there been such a man-hunt. PITTSBURG, June 4. Evidence was in the hands of the police today that anarchists responsible for bomb ex plosions at the homes of Judge W. H. S. Thompson of the United States district court and W. W. Sibray, chief inspector of the bureau of immigration, Monday Tiijrht, were operating under orders (Concluded on Page 4. Column i.) ................... j GOING IN! j I" fei : -..... ........ Aviation, Ordnance, Camps, Quar z termaster Supplies and Foreign Expenditures to Be Probed. WASHINGTON", June 4. Unanimous approval was given by the house to day to a resolution increasing the war expenditures commitr.ee to 15 members so that five separate investigations of disposition of funds by the war de partment may be made. The vote came after two hours' debate and after the republicans had refused to permit the democrats to offer an amendment to the resolution under which the com mittee membership would have been divided, nine republicans and six demo crats. Instead of ten republicans and five democrats. The republican leaders explained that inquiries were planned into expendi tures for aviation, ordnance, camps and cantonments, quartermaster supplies and in foreign countries. Each Inquiry will be conducted by a subcommittee composed of two republicans and one democrat. The resolution came before the house today from the rules committee as a special order of business. During the debate the democrats charged that the investigations were to be made by the republicans "in search of political capital for the 1920 campaign," and de clared they were welcomed by the ad ministration. Republican spokesmen, however, said the Investigations were to be "non-partisan" and were designed solely to inform the country what had become of the $16,000,000,000 appro priated for the war department during the war. "This is not to be in the spirit of making political capital." said Repre sentative Mondell. the republican leader, "but to provide an audit so as to inform the people regarding the great expenditures." POTASH MEN FEAR FRANCE Competition from Alsace to lie Based on Buying Trade. WASHINGTON, June 4. W e s t e r n potash producers, representing that shipments of potash from Alsace and other. points in Europe already are be Ing brought to the United States, have secured the promise of Chairman Poin- dexter of the senate committee on mines to give early consideration to legislation designed to protect the in dustry from foreign products. Licensing of Imports so as to permit Importers to bring in quantities in pro portion to their purchases in the do mestic market was proposed as the foundation for committee action. RUST INJURES WHEAT CROP Nebraska Winter Production May Be Cut Down Considerably. LINCOLN, Neb., June 4. Orange leaf rust, unusually prevalent in Nebraska may reduce production of the state's winter wheat crop, according to i statement Issued today by A. E. Ander son of the United States bureau of crop estimates. Government Matching of $2,500,000 Issue Next. 7 COUNTIES TO PRESS ACTION Same Name for Highway by Other States Suggested. FOREST FUNDS EXPECTED Six Per Cent Indebtedness to Enable Counties to Carry Out Exten sive Road Programme. Oregon has taken the initiative for coast military road in authorizing the governor to Issue $2,500,000 bonds in the next five years for the Roosevelt memorial highway. The next step is up to the government. Ben K. Jones, secretary of the Roosevelt Highway association, and author of the measure, will be sent to Washington within a week by the seven counties directly interested In the road. Word was re ceived from each of the counties yes terday that they will direct Immedi ately all their efforts on the federal government. The bonds are contingent on the federal government matching the sum and the Oregon delegation in Congress already has promised its sup port. L. J. Simpson yesterday sent the fol lowing telegram of suggestion to the association headquarters: State Co-operation Sougnt. "Congratulations upon the success of the Roosevelt highway measure and the splendid campaign which you have conducted for it. I understand that California has funds to complete its coast highway from the Mexican line to the Oregon line to connect with the Roosevelt highway in Oregon and that Washington either has or will provide funds to construct a coast highway from some point on the Columbia river north through Willapa and Grays har bor, along the coast of the Olympic peninsula, following the shores of Puget sound to Port Townsend; thence north to the Canadian line. "I suggest immediate request be made to the states of California and Washington - "e the same name to their coast highways as we have given ours in Oregon. Favorable action upbn their part would give a continuous coast military highway from Mexico to Canada and would be a fitting memo rial to that great American statesman, Roosevelt, who during his life so ar dently advocated preparedness and strenuous Americanism. "The assistance of senators and con- (Concluded on Page Column 3.) James AVatson and Archie Philip Lose Following Charges Mudc of Waste of County Funds. MARSH FIELD, Or., June 4. (Spe cial.) C. R. Wade, justice of the peace, a democrat, becomes county judge and Henry G. Kern, banker, foundryman and mayor of North Bend, county com missioner, as a result of an overwhelm ing landslide in the recall election yes terday in this county. The 2-to-l vote against County Judge James Watson and the 3-to-l against Commissioner Archie Philip surprised the most ardent adherent of the recall, and the defeat is attributed here to a campaign waged by the Agitator, a free lance paper, that had been after the county court for several years: the Evening Record of Marshfield and the Coos Bay Times, also of Marshficld. The main charge against the county officials was extravagance and vAsto of county funds and the good roads money, and In the case of Philip, of as suming regular salaried employment for the county. The new officials. It was stated, will assume office Immediately upon the of- iiciai canvass being made and an nounced. The vote for Wade was I13S. for Watson 1022. Kern 2418 and Philip 786. These represent the entire vote, save four precincts. The Coos County Taxpayers' league today sent the Oregon Journal, a Port land newspaper, this telegram: "Glad to inform you that Coos county's re call on Judge Watson and Commission er Philip carried by overwhelming ma jorities. Desire to express appreciation for Portland Journal's assistance to us in establishing good government in Coos county, as Coos county people be lieve Just opposite to what the Journal says, thereby coming nearer the truth. If your discredited Ralph Watson had printed a few more untruthful articles in the Journal, the result would have been nearly unanimous instead of three to one. You might convey information to your friends, the Warren Construc tion company." INDIANS DRUNK ON BEANS Prohibition Worker Wants Reds Kept from Fsing Pejot Bean. WASHINGTON. June 4. Prohibition ists gathered here today at the con vention of the Anti-Saloon League of America heard Mrs. Gertrude Bonin. a worker among Indians, make a plea for the legal protection of Indiana from the Peyot bean, used by them as an in toxicant. She declared the habit of using the bean was spreading through out the reservations. Repreeentative Cooper of Ohio as sailed Samuel Gompcrs for his stand on prohibition. He accused the labor lead er of "not telling the truth when he made the statement that organized labor was against prohibition." LISTER'S CONDITION BETTER Temperature of Governor 98.6, and Pulse 108. SEATTLE. June 4. Considerable im provement over his condition last nigh and early today was reported In Gov ernor Ernest Lister's condition tonight. His temperature was given as 9S 6. respiration 24 and pul.se 108. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTER DAY'S Maximum temperature. SI dgrrrs; minimum. dfirws. TOLiA Y'js Fair, moderate cstt-riy winds. Selection. State's rural vote rallies to defeat $."1,000,000 reconstruction bui. Fa Re 1. Defeat of --mill tax stirs council. Pa ice 16. One Mat measure loses in Multnomah. Page 16. Oregon counties authorise road bonds ex ceeding S-VOOO.O00. rag 7. Oregon leads way In Roosevelt road. Pace 1. l'orelgn. Pull pear treaty rlrcniafd among; Ger mans and neutrals. Page 4. Etrcet rioting feared In Winnipeg at sol diers and labor men parade. Pace 2. Canada, fares class war over "bis union" plan. Page 2. Hoover says food will be adequate. Page 5. National. Houcfl to make five separate probes of war expenditures. Pa pee 1. Senate adopts suffrage resolution. Page 1. Senate committee on commerce to be asked today to take up shipbuilding figuu Page 22. MeAdoo's boom Is revived again. Pace .V Postmaster Myers loses fight against Durand. Page 4. Borah threatens to put peace treaty In -penal o record if bo can get copy. Page 3. Iome1 Ic. Federal secret service men hopeful of clues found in" bomb plot. Pace 1. San Francisco puts ban on strawberricV Page 1. Coos county Judge and commissioner re called. Tage 1. Iarif1c Nort h went. Lou In- Compton named state parole officer. i'ase 5. Conrad P. Olson gets job of codifying Ore gon laws. Pago 6. Coast Shrlners parade at Spokane. Page 8. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: Low Angeles 3, Fan Franipco 2; Sattte 7, Salt L.ake B ; Vernon 20, Oakland 3 ; Port tand 7, Sac ramento 2. Page 14. Washington ties up race for first place. Page 14. Wlliard knocks out sparring partner. Page 15. Commercial and Marine. Large fall trade Is expected In Pacific coast states. Page 2 J. Advance In Chicago corn market Is checked. Page 2:. Stock: advanr continues with easier money market. Pace 23. St. Johns elevator site is defended. Page 22. Portland and Vicinity. Ro? Festival attractions to tie spread over whole week this year. Page 11. Returned engineers feted by Portland. Page 12. Bench warrant Issued for woman writers in accident commission probe. Page 9. Chamberlain plot charged to Morrow. Page 13. Railroad deal not . closed, says Ecclcs. Page 6. Rate hearing vital to city's Interest. Page 35. Weather report, data, and forecast. Page 22. Amendment Wins After 40 Years of Struggle. STATES MUST RATIFY NEXT Measure Is Drafted by Susan B. Anthony in 1875. APPLAUSE GREETS PASSAGE Signature of President Unnecessary. Opponents of Amendment Are Democrats Except for 8. WASHINGTON. June 4. Action by congress on equal suffrage, subject of a fight of 40 years' duration, ended lata today In adoption by the senate by a vote of 56 to 25 of the historic Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment resolution. The proposed amendment, adopted by the house by a vote of 304 to 89 May 21 as the first act of the new congress, now goes to the states, ratification by legislatures of three-fourths of which is required for its incorporation in tha federal constitution. - . Msrgla la Mi a; at. The rollcall today showed two votes more than the necessary two-thirds for the resolution, which was drafted by Susan B. Anthony in 1875 and intro duced by Senator Sargent of California, In 1ST 8. Counting paired and absent members, the senate actually stood 66 to 30 for the measure. Loud applause, unchecked by tha presiding officer, swept the senate chamber when the final vote was an nounced following two days debate and many jubilation meetings were in progress tonight at headquarters of various women's organizations which have "been active in support of the measure. Immediately after the senate's ac tion, the resolution was taken to Speaker Gillett's office and signed. It was rushed back to the senate for Its presiding officer's signature, but arrived after the senate had adjourned and will be approved tomorrow. WlUon'a Siarnatare Vnessentlal. President "Wilson's signature, it was stated, is not necessary, although tha resolution will be sent to the White House as usual and may be signed by the executive. It will be certified to the states by the state department. Upon the senate's rollcall today tha " vote was as follows: For adoption: Republicans Capper. Cummins, Curtis, Kdce, Elkins, Fail, Femald, France. FreUng huysen. Gronna, Hale, Harding. Johnson of California. Jones of Washington. Kellogg. Kenyon. Keyes. Lafollette. Uenroot, McCor mick. McCumber, McNary. Nelson. New. Newberry, Norris, Page. Phipps, Poindcx ter. Sherman, Smoot, Spencer. Sterling. Sutherland, Warren, Watson. Total. 36. Democrats Ashurst, Chamberlain, Culber son. Harris. Henderson. Jones of New Mm fro, Kendrlcks, Kirby. McKellar, Myers. Nugent. Phelan. Pitt man. Ransdcll. Shep pard. Smith of Arisona. Stanley, Thomas. Walsh of Massachusetts. Walsh of Mon tana. Total. 20. Total for adoption, 56. Kight Republicans On posed. Apalnst : Republicans Borah, Prandegee. Dili in g- V ham, Knox. lodge, McLean, Mosea and Wadsworth. Total. S. lemocrats Hankhead, Beckham, Dial, Fletcher. Gay. Harrison. Hitchcock. Over man. Reed. Simmons, Smith of Maryland. Smith of South Carolina, S wanton. Tram mel, Fnderwood. Williams and Wolcott. To tal. 17. Total against. 25. Those paired were: Senators Ball and King for. with Shields against ; Calder and Townsend for. with Penrose against: Gerry and Johnson of South Dakota for, with Martin against: Gore and Cola for, mith Pomerene against. V Senators Owen, Robinson and Smith of 'Georgia were absent and were not paired. Amendment la Brief. Of the absentees. Senators Owen aid Kobinson favored the resolution and Senator Smith of Georgia was an op ponent. Including paired and absent senators, the actual lineup was 40 re publicans and 26 democrats for the resolution and 9 republicans and 1H democrats in opposition. The amendment, as it will be added to the constitution if ratified by tha states, reads: "Article , Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to irote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on ac count of sex. "Section 2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this artHc-Ve." All efforts to amend the resolution In the senate failed. Although few state legislatures now are in session, woman suffrage cham pions tonight claimed that rat if Nation soon would be secured, probably by next spring. In today's debate, how ever. Senator Gay predicted that with the southern states opposing the meas ure because of entailed enfranchise ment of negro women, the required number of states would refuse to ratify and cause its rejection. Opponents again occupied most of to day's debate and reiterated nrguMents' that the resolution Is destructive of state rights and popular rule. Since the resolution was drafted by Susan B. Anthony, the woman suffratC pioneor, virtually a continuous fight has been waged for its submission by congress to the states. Among the spectacular features of iCuncluded on Page 4. Column 4.) 5 TT