VOL. LVIII. SO. 18,274 Entered at Portland fOreo Potofflc as SffnnJ-CliM Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EBERT F IS SENATE COMMITTEE FOR 400,000 IN ARMY CPPEK HOUSE MEMBERS ALSO BOOST APPROPRIATIONS. CHANGE OF PANAMA CANAL TOLLS URGED COAST LUMBERMEN" EXPECTED TO REAEW FIGHT. AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARRY BY THOUSAND FORGED TO PUSS AFTER FIGHT IS 5000, FRENCH GIRLS HAVE BE. COME BRIDES OF FIGHTERS. TON SCHOOL BONDS DUE FPU BALLOT TODAY Voters to Decide. Whether N MURDER RESIGN CAPTAIN WANTED Collapse Follows Division on Peace Treaty. Solons See Need of Ablation and J Advance Hons Allowance to I Original Sim Asked. BREAK COUNTED FAVORABLE Indications Are Germany Will Accept Peace Pact. NEW CABINET IS EXPECTED 5cw Pi-rodent Ale Held to Be Among Possibilities; Jioske May Head Reorganization. WEIMAR. June 20. (Vta Amsterdam to London.) The German cablne headed by Philipp Schcidemann has re aimed. BERLIN. June 20. (By the Asso riated Press.) The cabinet resigned at 5 o'clock this morning. President tbert will retain his office temporarily. PARIS, June 20. The Scheidetnann government in Germany has fallen, it whs learned here today. News of the event, reported during the morning, waa conflicted later by military advices through Coblenz from both Weimar and Berlin. BERLIN. June 10. (By the Asso ciated Press. It was stated on good authority today that President Ebert had decided to stand or fall with Chan cellor Scheidetnann because he felt that he must resign rather than sign the peace-treaty. PARIS. June SO. (By the Associated Press.) The latest reports received over the military wire from Weimar indicate that at o'clock this evening (Friday Germany Is still in the throes of a, reconstltution of the admlniatra- tion in an endeavor to get a govern ment that Is capable of signing the peace treaty. PARIS. June 2u. (By the Associated Press.) The supreme council con firmed today the plans , made by the military authorities for a' resumption of the advance Into Germany in the event of the failure of the Germans to sign the peace treaty within the al lotted time. Marshal Foch. Major-General Bliss. General Robertson of the British army and other military chiefs were before the council this afternoon and explained Ihe details of the allied plans. The re ports of the fall of the Scheidemann government had not reached the council m hen these plans were discussed. It is not expected the order for the allied armies to advance, will be given exactly at the time of the expiration o fine time lifit of the allies, but it was indicated today thta there would be little delay, if any. in the maneuvers. Baron Sonulno was not present at WASHINGTON'. June 20. Decision of the senate military sub-committee to provide for an army of 400.000 for the next fiscal year was upheld by the lull committee tonight In considering the army appropriation bill. Appropriations approximating 900, 000.000 for the army in 1920, Instead of i?n. ooo.ooo. as voted by the lower house, were recommended by the sub committee. WASHINGTON. June 20. Action by senate committees today Indicated that appropriations for army and navy avia tion would be sharply increased over house totals in the annual appropria tion bills as they will be presented to the senate. With few dissenting votes the full naval committee decided to recom mend an increase of the house appro priation of 115,000,000 to J35.000.000 as urged by Secretary Daniels, while a sub-committee of the military commit tee voted to recommend an increase for army aviation from 315.000,000 to S53,-000,000. Issue Shall Be Approved. PASSAGE SEEMS TO BE SIP; Three Candidates for Are in Runr" tor DRAKE STANDS ON RECORD Communications Sent to Congress! Ask Early Legislation to Remodel 1 System of Levies. WASHINGTON, June 20. Efforts to get early enactment of legislation changing the system of levying Panama xnal tolls was renewed in communica Ons sent to congress todav hv Secre tary Baker, Governor Harding of the canal lone and Captain Sargent, ma rine superintendent at the canal. Proposed legislation failing in the last congress was recommended on the grounds that under it tolls would be based on tonnage, "so measured as to express actual earning capacity." Pacific coast lumber interests, who opposed the previous- legislation, may be expected to renew their fight. Cap tain Sargent said. SILVER VALUE TO STAY UP White Metal Will Not Go Below Dol lar an Ounce for Years. RENO, Nov.. June 20. That the price of silver will not fall below 41 per ounce in less than seven years, ana probably not for several years later than that, is the statement made here today by Raymond T. Baker, director of the United States mint, who is en route to San Francisco for the annual accounting of the mint at that place. Baker says that the probability of congress repealing the Plttman silver bill Is very remote. The government has melted, under the Pittman bill, 270,000.000 ounces of silver and 200.000,000 ounces have beon sent abroad. The silver production of the united Statea last year was 77.000,000 ounces, said Mr. Baker. A. C. Xewill and D. G. Tomasini Have Both Made Lively Cam paigns for Position. Barbur, Perkins and Mann Win Point. BAKER WILL FORCE NEW VOTE STUDENTS AIDED BOYCOTT Wholesale Arrests In China Are Made to Suppress Trouble. WASHINGTON. June 20. Arrest of 6000 Chinese students at Fuchow by Chinese and Japanese mi;itary authorlr ties was said In official circles here to day to have resulted from the anti- Japanese boycott growing out of the decision of the peace conference onathe Shantung question. The Chinese authorities, fearing forcible action by Japan, are said to have been trying to stop the boycott. which has been largely fomented by Chinese students. HARTLEY IS CANDIDATE Everett Man Announces Race for Washington Governorship. SPOKANE. Wash.. June 20. An- ouncemcnt of his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor the meeting of the council, but the fact WM mde hcre ,od-r bv oln& H. that General Cavallero was called in was regarded as Indicating that ihe allies still regard Italy's position as not materially changed by the overthrow of the Orlando government. WEIMAR, June 20. (Via London.) Six members of the cabinet. It is said. declared in a cabinet meeting for an absolute rejection of the peace terms. The ministers were said to have been I Count von Brockdorff-Rantsau, Herr 1-andsberg. Herr Geisberts. Dr. Dern- burg. Herr Preuss and Herr Gothcin. TARIS, June 20. All reports concern ing changes in the German cabinet are premature, says an official German wireless message sent from Nauen at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Division among the parties has pre vented the national assembly forming majority coalition in favor of accept ing the peace terms, the message adds The text of the message reads: "The national assembly at Weimar tried to constitute a majority in favor of signing the peace treaty. That was Impossible because of the division among the parties. "All news regarding changes in the I cabinet Is premature." LONDON'. June 20. A Reuter dis- I patch from Weimar states that a meet ing Thursday of the centrist members lof the German national assembly de cided by a four-fifths majority In favor lof oignlng the treaty, with reservations regarding responsibility for the war land the honor of the German nation. The German national party, it Is said, is unanimously resolved against sign ing. Fifty-six members of the Ger- democratic party voted against I signing the allied terms, while eight I others voted that the treaty be signed conditionally and one was in favor of I signing without conditions. - PARIS, June 20. (Havas.) Whether I the Germans sign or not. Premier Clem- enceau. the Echo de Paris says, will make known to the chamber of dep uties the part taken by France in fram ing the peace terms. . The newspaper says in case of a neg ative reply from the Germans the al lied troops will occupy Frankfort on ihe first day of the advance, and the I Ruhr industrial region the second day. Hartley of Everett. He issued a state ment in which he said he planned to make a short, but vigorous, campaign on a platform of "straight-out Amerl canlsm, lower taxes, business adminis tratlon. less politics, and more sound business, and a fair deal to both capl tal and labor." Mr. Hartley sought the republican nomination for governor In 1916. Decision by the voters of Portland relative to the proposed bond issue of 12,500.000 will settle the fate of the ex tensive building programme of the city schools at the school election to b held today, with the polls opening at 12 o'clock noon and closing at 8 o'clock tonight. Likewise the election will determine the successor of J. Francis Drake as school director, with Dr. Drake in the race to succeed himself. Other can didates are A. C. Newill and D. G. Tomasini. Interest in the election o a director Is keen, the latter two can didates having made active campaigns but the bond issue overshadows the candidates in the public attention. Bonda Expected to Pass. Proponents of the bond issue, with their case squarely presented to the public, citing the extensive growth of the city and the consequent crowding of the existing school facilities, are of the opinion that the bonds will carry and that the school board will at once be enabled to enter upon the construc tion of the needed modern school build' ings to displace the 68 portable frame schoolhouses, which are the alternative for the coming term. "The situation, on the eve of elec tion. Is favorable to the carrying of the bond issue." said D. A. Grout, school superintendent,, late last night. "There is-nothing novel about the pro. posed action here in Portland, as other cities have found themselves in the same predicament and are now urging similar and larger bond Issues, or have already carried them.". Seattle line Cited. Superintendent Grout directed atten tion to the proposed school bond issue In Seattle, of $4,500,000, designed to meet the building requirements of the Puget Sound city within the. next two years. And this issue, observed the su perintendent. Is In addition to approxi mately 84,000,000 in school bonds al ready outstanding in the Seattle dis trict. Seattle has 75 portable school houses, makeshifts impelled by. the rapid growth of the city, whereas Port- (Concluded on Pace 14, Column 1.) FAR NORTH TO CELEBATE Alaskans Today Observe Festival of Midnight Sun. DAWSON, Y. T., Juna 20. Camps and towns in this northern part of the continent will celebrate the festival of the midnight sun tomorrow, the long oaj oi me year, on which the sun does not drop below the horizon dur ing the entire 24 hdurs. lwo steamboat loads of "midnight sun excursionists," bound from the United States and Canada to Fort Yukon, Alaska, to witness the 24 hours of daylight, were to pass through here today. Fort Yukon is ten miles inside tho arctic circle. GIRL TO CONTINUE SEARCH Portland Man Not Father of. Miss Celeste Sturgeon. SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. After de termining that Henry E. Sturgeon of Portland is not her long-lost parent of the same name, Miss Celeste Stur geon of Salt Lake City Is here today to continue a search for her relative. Sturgeon disappeared 23 years ago. Miss Sturgeon said she had been hunt ing for him for five years. AMERICAN SHIP IN DISTRESS Steamer West Point Is Disabled and Calling for Help. HALIFAX, N. S., June 20. A wire less call for assistance was received here today from the United States steamship West Point, which sailed from Baltimore June 12 for Rotterdam, carrying food products. The radiogram said the ship's en gines were disabled and asked that American coast guard cotters be sent WOMEN'S PLEAS REFUSED Illinois Legislature Refuses to Ap prove Shorter Work Day. SPRINGFIELD, 111 June 20. The house late today refused to concur in the conference committee report on the Barr bill, limiting workinghours of women, and defeated lhej attempt of labor forces to shorten the existing ten hour day and 70-hour week for em ployed women. Xewly-Weds Have Honeymoon Voy age Home on Transports; Negroes Find Brides, Too. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished, by arrangement.! PARIS, June 20. (Special cable.) According to Le Journal more than 5000 American soldiers have married Freuch girls. In certain unfortunate cases the marriages became dissolved at the port of embarkation, the young women who supposed themselves wives finding that they had been tricked. Happily, most of the cases were regular throughout. and the Rrench giris started with their soldiedr husbands for the United States. At Bordeaux no girls were left behind and all set out for a honeymoon trip by sea. The naval authorities have usually Advances Given Range B'rom 30 Peri placed cttbins at th8 service of the newly-weds, and the soldier bride Mayor Says Plan Followed Is Not Fair to City Workers. BIGELOW SEEKS FLAT RISE Agarista's Mate Slain, Say Hoquiam i Officers. VIOLENT . QUARREL REVEALED Warrant Issued at Aberdeen for Arrest of Jacob Nielsen. Cent Down to Nothing; Vote Is 3 to 3 on All Disputes. grooms were exempted from all duties on the way home. Happy couples may be seen walking arm in arm along the decks, conversing ina curious lingo c . I wiitwi .a uiiuvioluuii iriu uy ilium- Salary increases for city employes i. Many army commanders, on the other hand, have been in receipt of pitiful letters from loving girls who had wedded Americans and had learned in departments of which Commission ers Barbur, Perkins and Mann are the respective heads were granted yester day, with Mayor Baker and Commis- !. . .... I w vuutu J ut wunoui later that tne men of thelr cnolce were ., uGamai tne increases. The final action of the council came already married. 'There are reports of marriages which were "decided over two glasses of beer." Such cases are put down to the American habit of quick decision. One sort of marriage that troubles both the French and American aathori ties is of French girls to American olher thru ,.,,. .v.- i. I . f. uuB ... - ""5 vuu,n.u, R.i. mnrriai,,, tn P,a... whs, V , , V J , .J 1. j .. 1 . . I - ...... " - ' 1 " 1 ' V'J after Commissioner Bigelow failed to I secure a second to his motion to give a general 12 per cent increase of sal ary to all city employes with the ex ception of the commissioners. The plan wa3 supported by Mayor Bilker, but did not meet with the approval of the FRIENDS ARE SURPRISED Portland 3Ian, Officer in Jfavy Dur ing War, Is or Good Repute. Murder Charge Doubted. ABERDEEN, Wash., June 10. A war rant charging Captain Jacob Nielsen, master of the emergency fleet corpora tion steamer Agarista, with the murder of Frank J. Sale, first mute who was found In his room aboard the shin on its way to sea in the lower harbor last night, was issued here today. This action follows the verdict of Acting Coroner I. R. Watkins, that Sale did not commit suicide, but was murdered. ABERDEEN, Wash.. June 20. (Spe cial.) With Deputy Sheriff Gibson on his wa yto Astoria tonight bearing a warrant for the arrest of Captain Jacob Nielson, master of the federal emer gency fleet steamer Agarista, on Sure is rtftpn hrmip-ht tn hAQP hut creases in their respective departments usu;ny i vain Some of the r ri," , "learner Agarista. on a and stood "pat." " n' ,me , the g,rls 80 charge of having slain Frank J. Sales, ..uwevor, n is nrst mate, who was shot to death when their future life in America is in the harbor here last night as the Mayor Seeks Pier's Vote. Although Mayor Baker has no regu- I pictured to them.. lar veto power, he has the right given by the city charter to file written ob ship was on its way to sea. County Prosecutor J. E. Stewart has in prog- jections against any ordinance passed! COUNCIL REBUKE IS U R G E D ied InVe8t'8atfn f aU ordinance objected to Th,slan. May- Appearance of Chief at Banket toLensIoTof J.l MichaeU. Reward meeting yesterday, would be resorted Convicts Disapproved. to; and he also, made it plain that he SEATTLE, June 20. Recommenda- of the ship, who did not rejoin the ves sel after bringing the wounded mate to Hoquiam. . Qoarrel Precedes Shooting. Facts leading up to the warrant for the arrest of Captain Nielson are, ac cording to Prosecutor Stewart, that on would not file his objections until the I tion that the city council publicly ex last moment, thus making it necessary press Its disapproval of the action of for Commissioner-elect Pier to, record I w- D. Lane, president of the council, his vote. I in appearing and speaking at a ban Commissioner Perkins retires from quet given June 3 ' to two men con office July 1, and under the charter vlcted of sedition, was Teported by I the way down the harbor the Agarista, provisions tne ordinances objected to I tpe council Judiciary, committee today. I which 1 in tow of a tug, grounded must be voted upon at the regular I me matter will come before the and a hei. ted quarrel between the cap council meeting following the filing of council next Monday. Tho banquet tain and the first mate ensued. When the objections. Mayor Baker may file was given for Hulet M. Wells and Sam 1 the mate was discovered in a dvins his objections on June 30, and thus I Sadler, who are serving penitentiary I condition the tug was ordered to cast break the combination which yesterday terms. ioosa from the ship and return the forced the passage of the salary in creases, providing, of course, that Com missioner Pier does not vote with Mann and Barbur. Trio Reward Efficiency. The division of opinion between Mayor Baker and Commissioner Bige low on one hand and Commissioners wounded man to Hoquiam. It was then Offerings Are Taken. f living. The commissioners who had filed (Concluded on Page 6, Column 1.) RUSSIANS TO BE DEPORTED Eight Mowaways on Canadian Liner Thought to Be Bolsheviks. VANCOUVER. B. C, June 20. Eight Russian stowaways, disguised as Can adian soldiers, found aboard the Canadian transport Monteagle, which arrived today from Vladivostok, are believed to be bolsheviki emissaries sent to the United States and Canada to spread bolsheviki doctrines. Tho eight will be sent back to Bus sia on the Monteagle's next trip. The Monteagle brought 747 Canadian troops home from Siberia. Two Hanged at San Qucntin. SAN QUKXTIN. Cal.. June 20. James I Rogers and Clarence .Rollins were hanged here this morning at 10:18 clock for the murder -f Charles Al- Ilen, a saloonkeeper on the Sonora road near Knijhts Ferry, last July. FRENCH AIRMEN FLY FAR Aviators Jloacli liss Ulanca on Parls-Agadir Journey. Morocco, Thursday, June 19. Lieutenant Lemaitre and Ad jutant Guignard. French aviators, at tempting a flight from Paris to Agadr, Dakar, arrived here at 5 o'clock this evening and will start for Agadir Sat urday. The airmen left Paris Wednesday morning. BRITISH FLIERS KNIGHTED King George Honors Men Who Flew Across Atlantic Ocean. LONDON, June 20. It was an nounced today that King George had conferred the order of Knight of the British Empire on both Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown, as a reward of merit for their trans-Atlantic airplane flight. HANSON HAS HAD ENOUGH Seattle Mayor Will Not Be Candidate for Re-election. SEATTLE. June 20. Mayor Ole Han son today announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election at the next municipal election. , . TURN OUT AND VOTE! i : -, ; , : , i i It 1 II M VW&t 111 C S Sr - J I at 7 " DDIWATr DIIVCDC PCT limni lo return to tne Agarista and take it I I1IVMIU BUItno Ut-l VVUUU out over the bar. When the tuc re turned the Steamer ha.fi disfinnf.ar.fl I I T, T 1- CI , , ., . , 1 Fr "" i u9iwiicu as ah evidently going out under its own power. There had been. It is reported to the orrusecutnr nn nr,vlnii Intontlnn jrr.iMjL.r.j.uiN, ur june au. (ape- , M..t iht Barbur. Mann and Perkins was over ouu-'--r-ostponemeni or tne wool sale The Droseoitnr rF.Td. it .,n,,i the reason and cause for increased sal- to De neId tomorrow at Pilot Rock was .f least, in vlow nf r.i,in mi. anes. mayor Bluer contenaea mat tne good reputation, that he did not wait increases should bo granted to over- 1-1 " " " eup ot me for the return of thR nilt ,HH ...... I OCA AAA nnmn efs.fr. A rnt,A I come, ir possible, tne increased cost i"""'"0 wuul to sea with apparent eagerness. uuugm tor easieni ana i rencn ouyers I by E. J. Burke and J. Defour. at mewara ot suspected. prices ranging from 2'A to 49 cents. I Suspicion which has been directed Smj-the Bros., one of the bie pro- I nere toward the steward seems silenced ducing firms here, have received word by tne fact if nothing else, that the from Boston that their half-blood wool steward brought the injured mate to sent there on consignment has beon Hoquiam. He was not nervous while sold at 59 cents. nere and returned with the tug, ex pecting to rejoin his vessel In the lower lIMUtA Ur lUUATO N tW6 I steamer had left he took the thain here with the intention, it is stated, of re TBe tteatner. I fninlno- the vnssel nt Astoria- Th,r YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 65 1 n,i k,, .!. ..n... decrees: minimum. 71 deareea. ""''" TODAY'SS Fair; gentle westerly winds. I here say, to excite suspicion. Foreign. Prosecutor Stewart says he is pre- 5000 American soldiers wed French girls. I pared to give Captain Nielson the bene- i ago l. I fit- nf vrv arivantao-A i .im f , un. terlal denied, rage 6. I "- - - - o Sinning- of peace treaty by Germans held course last night that require explana- assured. i-age j. I tion. Authorities here have been en- Leaders in Germany bow to the Inevitable. deavoring all day to get in touch with T I f,G I , , ...1.1. m.mKaH nf , V. . ...A.n . Wilson returns to Paris from trip through I wc war xone. .Page i. Scheldeman-n-Ebert regime in Germany col lapses. Page 1. Bolshevism shown to have existed in Winni peg labor troubles. Page 1. N ational. Astoria, but up to a late hour tonight I had not succeeded. Suicide Held Impossible. It was supposed at first that Sale ha.d committed suicide, but the nature Stnt:" army 01 of the wounds, according to Acting Effort to change Panama 'canal tolls re newed. Page 1. Domestic. Coroner S. R. Watkins, Is such that suicide is out of the question. Two bullets were fired directly Into the General Pershing's old regiment lands in top cf Sale's head, probably as he was at his desk chair in his room. He by labor. New York. Page 5. Pace 4 I "fc,i- it l cwiiucuu, i.ica uiio v. Coast teleohwne strikers appeal to federal the shots by placing himself in a most government, rage i. I unnatural position, but Coroner Wat- Pacifie Tiorthwest. I He.olare he never could have fired Warrant out for captain of Agarista In con- ,, ,,,. WH .,M h.vA nection with death or ships mite. I "4D Page 1. 1 been fatal. In addition, there are no Children of Eugene man classed by state as I powder burns, which Coroner Watklna .orphans. Page 5. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: Salt Lake 10, Los Angeles w; Vernon o. aeame : Port land 0, Oakland 1; Saa Francisco 5, Sac ramento 4. Page 12. - Trapshooters here for northwest ' shoot. Page 1J. Wlllard's trainers are badly battered Page 13. Seattle Is assured golf championship. Page here nave j3 that of the steward. a Commercial and Marine. Government buys surplus of flour held by northwestern miners, rage l. Sharp advances In Chicago corn market are not malntalnea. nre ii. Stock dealings lighter than recently, but de mand broader. -age i. Last tie shipments due in beptemher. Page 20. Portland and Vicinity. Overseas man wins decree from wife. Page have expressed regret that the mate, asserts would have been certain If the wounds had been self-inflicted. The steward told the officials, it Is stated. that Sale had committed suicide, be ing despondent, according to opinion on the boat, over the quarrel between himself and the captain. The only story of the affair, however, officials Information that Captain Nielsen, for years in the lighthouse service, might be involved in the murder caused sur prise among his Portland friends and officials of the Pacific Steamship com pany. The ship reached Astoria at 6:30 yesterday morning and in telephone conversation Captain Nielsen is said to is. whose true name is Frank J. Sale, not Snellfng as first telegraphed, had ended his life. Steward Former Army Captain. The steward of the vessel is Major J. S. Michael, whose home Is at Dairymen declare higher price for milk Im perative. Page 14. Lumber tariff hearing makes progress on rate schedule. Page 7. Industrial welfare conference hears argu ment on women's hours of work. Vnman ma v be - bad check artist. Patrn T. Belgium seeks aid in restoring nation. Cleveland avenue, and Inquiry there last Pajce 15. 1 . w,t,w , V, a r.RnAnR. that h. t McCoy tak. fling at party )eader, P.n a expected home. He was first vntir man charged with wholesale robbery was " . . and fraud. Page la assigned to tne steamer vvesi neruw, Voters to pass on g.soe.ooo school bond I which the FaciItQ Bteamsnip company issue and picR dir-ctor tooay. page l. manages, hut because of complaints r-Ammiuionei-B turour, jrerKina ana Mann I . A - force city salary Increase. Page L i teonciuded on Page Column