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VOX. jLVIII. XO. 18,2G3 Entered a t Portland (Oreroa) Post-office as Second-Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, 3IOXDAY, JUNK O, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. iBds WILSON MAY QUIT PARIS IN TWO WEEKS WASHINGTON CONFIRMS RFMOR OF INTENTION TO KETUKX. ADVERTISING PLANES LEAVE MATHER FIELD FOR PORTLAND FLEET EXPECTED TO COMPLETE TRIP LATE MONDAX. - SHIP BOARD GOVERNOR OLCOTT TO FLY TO ROSE SHOW AIRPLANE TO PICK IP EXECU TIVE AT FAIR GROUNDS. NICARAGUA SENDS CHEER OLE FOR 600 Ei of REGIME MEN ASKS 1 MILLIONS OUT GnLUflR HID Uncle Sam Asked to Re strain Costa Rica. Fall of Government in Fortnight Predicted. INTERNAL SITUATION ACUTE Allies May Find No One at Home to Sign or Refuse to J,. Sign Peace Treaty. POLITICAL CHAOS HELD NEAR Hopes for Young Republic Are ;. All but Abandoned New Militarism Big Factor. i BT CYRIL BROWN. BERLIN, June 8. (Special.) The present government will fall in a fort night, possibly in eight days, is the prophecy of political specialists. "Machine guns will be popping in the streets of Berlin within a few days," is a remark whispered often on Unter den Linden. Speculations on the terms of peace- have been suddenly eclipsed by an acute, explosive internal situation. It is quite possible that the allies will find nobody at home either to sign or refuse to sign any treaty. For the Germans may be too busy fighting among themselves about purely home affairs to bother about the allies' terms. The World correspondent rcents a real revolution or counter-revolution, or both, in the German wind. It looks like, a toss-up between a military die tatorship and a dictatorship of the proletariat, with the life of the young German republic apparently not worth ?0 cents. J Political Chaos Imminent. '; Inner political chaos seems most certainly imminent, and there is no foretelling the outcome. The new mili tarism is a probable winner. So far as surface appearances are concerned, Berlin shows no material change, barring a quiet and orderly one-day general strike in memory of Levine, the Munich radical leader, re cently executed, and the very elab orate military preparations to main tain order on that day. The grave in ternal situation is in no way the re sult of the peace parleyings at Ver sailles, but is due solely to domestic happenings. At bottom the principal cause of the current trouble is the new militarism as embodied in the new volunteer army, for the Noske guards have re stored and maintained order. This new militarism should prove the de cisive inner political factor for the present weak coalition government, which is supported solely by the hand grenades and bayonets of the volun teer army. If the government falls no other can take its place without the support of that body. - Army Vote Now Important. "How will the army vote?" is the question on which Germany's imme diate future now seems to hang. If its present leaders can keep it in hand with promises of continued good pay and larger rations, then a military dic tatorship is logical and inevitable, and many observers predict such a dicta torship soon. On the other hand, if the army should get out of hand and sympathize actively with the socialist masses, then a dictatorship of the proletariat is the equally logical out come. The independent socialists and com munists have conducted the most in tense propaganda among the rank and file of the troops, and the indications are today that in consequence the army itself is politically divided. This greatly enhances the chances of a sim ultaneous revolution and counter-revolution, with bloodshed. Early Smash Predicted. lwo extreme and opposite views tVirow light on the situation. The jirtnker Deutsche Tagszeitung says: "TJie underground agitation of the in deiendent socialists and spartacists appears to be leading to a coup d'etat on a large scale. This agitation has VJncluded un rte 7, Column 1.) Plans Depend on Progress at Ver saillesParty to Sec Belgium. Before Return. PARIS, Juree S. (By the Associated Press.) President Wilson, it is now regarded as probable, will leave France for the United States within, ten days or two weeks. WASHINGTON, June 8. The state ment in a Paris dispatch that President Wilson might leave France for the United. States within ten days or two. weeks was said to he "quite probable" tonigh't at the White House. It was not Indicated whether a definite date had been set for the sailing of the presi dent from France. In view of the plan of the president to visit Belgium it was considered that the sailing date more likely was two weeks distant than ten days. At any rate, it was said, all plans depended on progress at Versailles. It has been understood generally that the president would stay in Paris until after the signing of the peace treaty with Germany. BERLIN BACKS ANARCHISTS Testimony at Zurich Trial Also Cov ers California Hindus. ZURICH, June 8. Sensational state ments were made during the trial of secret agents and anarchists here yes terday. Testimony was given that one of the anarchist band blew up a train in the Montcenis tunnel in November. 1917, in which hundreds of French sol diers were returning from Italy on leave; Bombs and arms found in the river Aar were of German manufacture. Large sums of money that Hindu leaders spent freely, it was declared under oath, were supplied, not only by Berlin, but by Hindus in America, es pecially in California. Enrico MalateBta, the notorious Ital ian anarchist, residing in London, tried to join the anarchist band at Zurich, but was unable to get a passport. A former German consul at Tabriz, at tached to the Gerenian legation at Berne, according to the evidence, brought bombs from Berlin in a valise. METH0B1ST- FUND IS OVER Subscriptions Run Half-Million Be yond $105,000,000 Goal. According to a telegram received yes terday by R. H. Hushes, editor' of the Pacific Christian Advocate," the Metho dists have gene well beyond their goal of $103,000,000 in their great centenary drive. There are three areas that have exceeded their quotas the Helena, San Francisco and Detroit areas. The total for the 20 areas is $103. 535,728 for the Methodist Episcopal church (North) and $35,249,223 for the Methodist Kpiscopal church. South. The summaries for the church North areas are in part as follows: Portland, $2,196,764; Boston, $4,762,275; Buffalo, $8,415,000; Chattanooga, $1,036,725; Chi cago. $11,280,778; Cincinnati, $14,885. 73S; Denver, $1,538,041; Detroit, $5,951, 187; Helena. $1,700,000; New Orleans, $975,174; New York, $6,S84,600; Omaha, $S, 150,000; Philadelphia, $6,754,000; San Francisco, $4,600,000 ASSAILANT JS UNKNOWN Man Who Fired at U. S. General's House Still at Large. COBLEN2, June S. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Investigation by the military authorities has failed to re veal the identity of the person who fired three shots Thursday night at the house in Coblenz occupied by Brigadier General Stalin Craig, chief of staff of the 3d army. It is said that the name of General Craig is the third on the German secret list of marked Americans. CHICAGO HOLDS ROUND-UP Police Arrest 4 00 Suspects in Clean up Campaign. CHICAGO, June 8. More than 400 suspects were taken in police raids last night and today in an effort to reduce crime. A city council crime investiga tion committee has heard many com plaints' against the police and some members have recommended abolish ment of the detective bureau. WESTERN MEN DECORATED Pershing Announces Distinguished Service Cross Awards. WASHINGTON, June S. General Tcr. shins notified the war department to day that he had awarded the distin guished service cross to the following: Joseph H. Carvo, Toppenish, Wash.; Mike Pirinoli, Sebastapol, Cal;. Peter Ratkovich, Amador, Cal., and Ernest Wernek, Mackey, Idaho. HUNS BLOCK ESTHONIANS Advance Against Rolshcvikl Is Hampered, Says London Report. LONDON, June 8. Having held up the bolshevik counter-offensive along the Gatschina railway, the Esthonians, according to an of flcial. communication, have commenced an advance toward Kreszburg. but are hampered by Ger man landwehr and the German gov ernment's "iron division. Polish' Nuncio Named. ROME, June 8. The pope has ap pointed Monsignor Ratti nuncio " to Poland Four Days' Sessions Open at Auditorium. MAYOR RAPS SEATTLE EDITOR Suppression of Reds Declared Duty of Government. MUSICAL NUMBERS PLEASE Fully 2 00 0 Delegates Arc Expected in Portland When Meetings , Arc Resumed Today. BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN. No, children, all those bonnie gentle men in white trousers, with roses thrust in their coat lapels. who thronged into Portland yesterday, are not personified translations from the advertising pages of our smartest clothiers. Nor do they celebrate the country club. Yet advertising is the shibboleth of their clan and they exalt it to the h.lls. They are the accredited delegates, members and friends of the Pacific Coast Advertising Men's association, met in Portland for the purpose of holding the 16tlr annual convention of their organization, and the roses were pinned on them by way of welcome. When they arc all in town, some time today, there will be about 2000 of them. from all the cities of the Pacific coast each one an individual dynamo of community progress and western enter prise. Several hundred had registered at headquarters, the Multnomah hotel. late last night, and new arrivals were reaching the city by every train and by a streaming procession of autos. Ole HanMD Score Redi. In the municipal auditorium yester day afternoon and last night the ad men opened their four-day sessions with an inspirational preliminary of speaking and music charging directly at thJ questions of the " day through the medium of logical oratory and re freshing the spirit .by several excep tionally 1 splendid solos and the har monious warbling of their, own quartets. Distinctly the big dipper of the aft ernoon constellation, for forensic stars shine with equal brilliancy by day or night, was Mayor Olc Hanson, the slashing, hard-hitting, loyal direct-ac-tionist of the city of Seattle, who but recently returned from telling the east a few facts about bolshevism and its manifestations in the land of liberty. To place the cart before the dob bin is not good equestrian form, but an incident that followed the audi torium assembly is its own justifica tion. Ole, warmed by the vigor of his own remarks, his overcoat cavalierly :onctuded on Page 6. Column 3.) t. ........................... ........... ...................................... ,T "YOU'RE A GOOD SCOUT!" ' A Craft Arc In Command or Colonel Henry Watson and Carry Eleven Passengers. SACRAMENTO, June 8. (Special.) At one minute past 8 o'clock this morn ing, leaving from the aviation grounds at Mather Field, eight army airplanes, under the leadership of Colonel Henry L. Watson and carrying 11 passengers, with smoothly-purring engines, rose gracefully into the air; pausing, momentarily it seemed as if to get bearings, headed northward and sailed swiftly out over the city, bound for Portland and its Rose Carnival, and expecting to arrive there Monday night or Tuesday morning. One mammoth Do Haviland plane of 400 horsepower and capable of attain ing a speed of 138 miles an hour was in the caravan. This machine will probably travel along at the rate of 120 miles an hour, and is expected to reach Portland several hours in ad vance of the other machines, which are of the"Curtiss H" type and are of 150 horsepower. Before starting upon the journey this morning. Colonel Watson said that it was probably the route taken by Lieu tenant Al-.xander F. Hogeland of Mather field, when he blazed a trail f r the future establishment of regular mail service during a pioneer trip taken in December of last year, would for the most part be followed. Plans also were made to stop at Chico, Red ding and Granada in California: Mcd ford, Roseburg. Eugene, Corvallis and Salem, In Oregon. At Medford the squadron is to di vide. A . recruiting campaign will be conducted in conjunction with the flight. Klrt Stop In At Redding. The first stop made by the birdmen was at Redding, where 150 gallons of gasoline were awaiting them for the benefit of the machines and a lunch was all in readiness for the pilots. Hundreds of spectators were on hand to watch the aviators make their land ing, all but one of the machines mak ing their descent at different inter vals during the afternoon. But the big De Haviland. however, dfd not halt but kept right on its way northward At an early hour this evening Cap tain T. S. Voss. in charge of aviation at Mather Field, said that, inasmuch as he had as yet received no direct re port from the squadron, this fact could be taken as assurance that tho aviators had met with no mishap in the first leg of their flight. He pointed out that it bad been agreed that word would be sent him Immediately should any ac cidents occur. Captain Voss also Etated that the fliers would stop for the night at Granada, which lies very close to the Oregon line. Before leaving this morning Colonel Henry L. Watson, in charge of the air cavalry, said concerning the plans and purposes of the flight: "We shall probably follow pretty closely the route taken by Lieutenant Hogeland in his flight made to Seattle last December. However, our trip will not be made with any views of break ing speed records. On the other hand, we plan to make several stops, taking close observations of physical and (ConcliHled on Pag 4. Column ". Hurley Submits Needs of Building Programme. FLEET DEVELOPMENT SOUGHT Cancellation or Suspension of 751 Contracts Provided. SAVING TO fiE $594,000,000 Chairman Indicates Actual Cost to Government AY1II Be $180 for Each Deadweight Ton. ' WASHINGTON. June 8. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board has asked congress for a final appropriation of a little more than $600,000,000 to wind up the government's shipbuilding opera tions. This sum, he said, which will com plete the work of raising the United Slates as a shipbuilding nation to first place and develop the American mer cantile marine fleet from a negligible quantity to second place,- actually is $400,000,000 less than congress already has authorized. The present needs of the shipbuilding programme, as Chairman Hurley out lines them, take into consideration the cancellation or suspension of contracts for 751 ships, which alone will effect a saving of more than $594,000,000. The administration charges of the whole business will be only 1.32 per cent of the total final expenditure. Coat Total to Be Big. When all is done. Chairman Hurley points out In a letter to Chairman Good of the house appropriations com mittee, $2,861,755,570 will have been ex pended in tho country's great effort which will be shown in 13.8S5.106 dead weight tons of ships on the seas. Al though a cost of $206 a deadweight ton Is indicated, the actual cost to the gov ernment will be less for the reasons he outlines as follows: Some shipbuilders have paid into the United States treasury income and ex cess profits takes aggregating $40 a deadweight ton on the vessels , they have constructed. Others have paid the equivalent of $30 a ton. It is es timated that at least $25 a deadweight ton has been returned to the treasury in this manner by all shipbuilders. This $25 does not include any taxes paid by the 1,'indreds of sub-contractors who manufactured the steel, the boilers, the machinery and the many other things which go into the ships; but when mul tiplied by 13,885,106 deadweight tons it indicates a rebate of $347,127,650, which, when subtracted from $2,661,756,570 leaves $180 a deadweight ton as the actual cost to the government of the fleet which played an essential part i 'oncluilf t on PHjte 4. Column 4.) Salem Residents to Sec Machines on Last Lap ot Flight From Sac ramento to Portland. SALEM, Or., June 8. (Special.) Governor Olcott will take a little "flier" In De Haviland stock Tuesday morning. At least the state's executive an nounced today that he has accepted an invitation proffered by the Salem Com mercial club to become a passenger in one of the army De Haviland airplanes from Salem to Pdrtland. He will have been the first governor of Oregon to drop in on the Rose Festival by the air route. The army planes will reach Salem early Tuesday on their flight from Sacramento to the Rose Festival and the governor will take passage in one of the machines when it leaves the earth near the state fair grounds for the last lap of its flight for the city of roses. ' Great interest is being manifested In Salem in the arrival Tuesday of the fleet of planes, and the Salem street railway company will operate a string of special cars to the landing field near the state fair grounds to accom modate the hundreds of curious resi dents of this city. LETTERS AREJN0T IGNORED Federal Officers Flooded W ith Mis sives From "Cranks."' NEW YORK, June 8. Letters from "cranks" purporting to furnish clewr to the identity of radicals who last Monday night blew up residences ol public officials in various cities, are not being ignored In seeking to run down the anarchists, it was learned today. Officers of the department of jus tice here have been flooded with anonymous letters giving false ad dresses. However, the identity of the gunmen involved in the Rosenthal murder was established from such t source. DEMOCRAT SOLICITS HELP Former Progressives Asked to Join in Electing President. DENVER, June S. Former members of the progressive party were asked yesterday by Homer S. Cummings. chairman of the national committee of the democratic party, to join hands with the democrats next year in elect ing a president. To party leaders in conference here he asserted that the democratic party had accomplished much the progres sives desired, and that the party had proved it could manage governmental affairs efficiently. AVIATOR BEATS OWN MARK , - r : . . i uivuiciiani Ascends to a Height or 31,160 Feet. PARIS, June 8. The French aviator, Lieutenant Casale, yesterday estab lished a new world's record for height. He ascended 9000 meters (31,160 feet). He was the holder of the previous record, 31,000 feet. MUSICIAN'S B0DY IS FOUND Herbert Harris, 72, Formerly of Portland, Dies in Lake Michigan, CHICAGO. June 8. The body of Her bert Harris, 72, a musician, formerly of Portland. Or., was found in Lake Mich igan today with the pockets of the clothing filled with stones. An acquaintance said Harris had been in ill health. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. lESTERDAT'f Maximum tfmperature. 70 iifcrrM; minimum, ol arcrffti. TODAY'S Fair; wrjMfrlv winds. r'orviKn. Fair deal for Germans Maximilian Hardin'! pica, iago -- Germany's hopes crow as allies delay reply 10 counter proposals. rase .. Fall of Ocrman government in fortnight pre- aiciea. luge 1. National. Shipping: board asks appropriation of tilU.Htn.UOO. rase 1. Nicaragua sends call for help to Uncle Sam. l ago i. Foreign. Peace treaty declared death blow to Austria. fa tee s. Hungarian reds and Czccho-Slovaks In con flict. Face 2. Domestic. Portland Shrlnera are cheered at Chicago. t'age 4. Ameriran federation of labor to open conven tlon today. Face 11. Planrs leavo Mather Fiold for Portland. I'age 1. Telegraphers discharged on eve ot strike. Page 10. Pacific Northnrnt. Govrnnr Olcott to fly from Salem to Tort land. Page 1. Thousands witness Oregon pageant at Willamette university. Page i. State apportions county fair funds. Page J. Douglas fitorrs ronvirted by Jury'. Page ll. Boys and girls get summer course. Page 5. Sport. Champion all but knocks out Mcmple. l'ago 13. Young tennis stars play finals today. Page 13. Pacific Coast league results: Vernon 3-4, Oakland 1-0; San r r&nelnco 1-4, Lo Ang-les 8-0; Sacramento t. Portland ; .Seattle 7-3. Salt Lake 3-3. Page 1 J. Boxing commission to name matchmaker. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Rate schedule held unfair to Portland. Page 11. Early-morning carolers salute service flags with song. I'agu f. Oregon bankers see need of development. 1'age l'-. Modified control of railroads urged. Page 18. Rear-Admiral Kullam here and flagship coming. Page 18. Thousands arrive for opening of Rose Fes tival. Page 6. Portland enlivened by spirit of victory. Page 11. Hun nation yellow, pastor's assertion, rage .i Advertising men. cheer Ole Hanson. Page L FORCES MASSED ON FRONTIER Invasion Feared as Result of Old Grievances. FRIENDSHIP FOR U. S. CITED Statement Issued Declaring This Country Should Take Hand in Protecting Southern Republic. WASHINGTON. June S. Nicaragua has asked the United States to land forces there to cope with a threatened invasion from Costa Itica. The state department is investigating the situ- tion. The Nicaraguan legation here in a statement today declared that follow ing the collapse of the revolution In Costa Rica. President Tlnoco has massed large forces on the frontier. Tinot-o, whose brother as minister of war is at the head of the Costa Rican army in the field, has charged that the Nicaraguans aided the revolutionists The Nlcaraguans have denied the charge and cited that it was the liberal party in .Nicaragua, members of the old Zelaya regime, that went over to Tinoco. Strict Neutrality Avowed. This is the Nicaraguan legation's statement: "Notwithstanding that the revolution in Costa Kica. which started about one month ago. has come to an end; that the defeated revolutionists who vroiacd the Nicaraguan border were disarmed by the frontier patrol; that the govern ment of Nicaragua has maintained strict neutrality from the beginning of the revolution and has emphatically de nied having given any aid to the revo lutionists. General Tlnoco has been massing a big army on the frontier ot Nicaragua with large trains of ammu nition and supplies of all kinds. "H is known 4lmt he has in the de partment of Guanacaste, and not far from the frontier, aboui 6000 men under arms with whom he expects to invade Nicaragua, or else start a revolution in that country headed by General Irlas. formerly premier under Zelaya, Gen erals Sediles, Santos, Baca, Usaga. and other Nicaraguan generals opposed to the present government of General Chamorro. Mcaragus Friendly to United States. "Nicaragua, in accord with the finan cial plan suggested by the United States government, is in her reconstruction period after 17 years of the Zelaya re gime. It has adopted a strictly eco nomic budget by which the government can have under arms only 500 men and has no war budget. The people of Nicaragua have no complaint at having followed the friendly suggestion of the United States, as at the end of the last economic year there was a surplus of loOO.OOO and it is expected that at the end of the present year there will be a. surplus of 7rl.000.000. "We believe that the time has ar rived when the United States, in view of the friendly attitude that Nicaragua has maintained with the United States in giving this country th-3 option for building a canal through Nicaragua and for the cctslon of thi cau uava! bases, one on the Gulf of Uonscca, and the other on the islands of the Atlantic, and also oearing in mind that Nic aragua entered he war ugitst Ger many in narmooy with th United States and lo ai l he allies la cvti way in its power, should take a hand to pr?.:-. Nuait'ua aga.rtt her for eign foes. JUDGE C0HALAN IS BITTER Says Southern Democratic Admin istration" Recalls Civil War. CHICAGO, June 8. Justice Daniel F. Cohalan of the New York supreme court was the guest yesterday of the Friends of Irish Liberty, and spoke at several gatherings. Among his utter ances was the declaration that "naval ism is just as bad as autocracy or mili tarism"; that "In the army of George Washington 3S per cent of the soldiers were men of Irish blood; in the civil war Irish soldiers fought by thousands. A southern democratic administration cannot forget the ancient hatred for a race that spilled its blood to down a. Elave confederacy.' The Justice declared that "while America won the war," none of the president's 14 points had been applied in the workings of the peace coner ance, and that Kngland had drafted both the treaty and the league of na tions covenant- EDUCATOR SCORES LEAGUE Chancellor Day of Syracuse Bayt Plan" Is "Infamous Rargain." SYRACUSE. N. Y., June 8. Chan cellor James R. Day of Syracuse uni versity, condemned the league of na tions as "an infamous bargain," in hli commencement address today. Fralslng members of the senate who arc opposing the league, he said: "Thank God that there is a. remnant of statesmanship left standing between America and the imperiling quagmires o internationalism.' I