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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1919.
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GALLERIES CHEER
YAKIMA BEES VICTIMS
OF POISONED NECTAR
AIR DEPARTMENT
IN CABINET URGED
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WOMAN IN PORTLAND
EXONERATES SUSPECT
STREET GAR IMAGES
BOLSHEVIKI RETREAT
ON SOUTHERN FRONT
GRAirR LAKE EVEN
BAFFLES EDITORS
AT COVE
UP; FARES FOLLOW
WAR OX CODLING MOTH HITS
IXXOCEXT HOXEY-HAKERS.
ROY TAYLOR CLEARED OF MUR
GENERAL DEXIKIXE MEETING
DER CHARGE AND FREE.
SirC II RED RESISTANCE.
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Lodge's Attack on Pact
Wins Applause.
WILLIAMS HISSED IN REPLY
Mississippian Angers Audience
by Bitter Retort. '
REJECTION NOT DEMANDED
tlcpnblican Senators to Confer on
Kc&erralions as Basis of
Accepting League.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12- The tra
ditional decorum of senate procedure
was upset today by an unusual demon
stration of approval front the galleries
following an address by Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, chairman of the for
eign r-elations committee, assailing
provisions of the league of nations
covenant.
For more than a minute the gallery
spectators applauded and cheered in
violation of senate rules, and then
when order had been restored they in
terrupted with howls and hisses a
speech by Senator W illiams, democrat.
Mississippi, in neply to Mr. Lodge. In
spite of sharp admonition from the
chair there were more hisses mingled
with applause when Senator Hitchcock,
democrat, Nebraska, seconded Senator
Williams' speech.
Vice-president Marshall made no at
tempt to check the first demonstra
tion until it had begun to die out, but
later he twice threatened to clear the
galleries unless order was preserved.
Americanism Appealed For.
Senator Lodge's address, itself un
interrupted, was aimed chiefly against
league provisions which he said would
make the United States "a subject na
tion" and ended with an appeal for
the preservation of Americanism. The
covenant in its present form, he as
serted, would not establish a league
of peace, but would destroy the Mon
roe doctrine and give other nations the
power to decide, domestic American
questions and to order American
troops into foreign service.
Senator 'Williams bitterly assailed the
foreign relations chairman, declaring
that in three months of preparation he
had worded his address to serve re
publican political ends and to play to
tbe galleries.
There was no appeal in Senator
Lodge's address for rejection of the
league altogether, nor was there any
mention of the programme of reserva
tions proposed by seven republican
senators as a basis of its acceptance.
Acceptance Is Expected.
It was learned, however, that this
programme had been discussed with
him by some of its sponsors and that a
conference of republicans would be held
within a few days at which an attempt
wlil be made to bring the Massachu
setts senator and several others into
agreement on such a plan.
It was understood the reservation
group felt they had good ground for
believing that their proposal would be
accepted by Mr. Lodge and that enough
republicans could then be lined up to
insure success of the movement should
the democratic leaders give their as
sent. The uproar in the senate chamber
followed an equally tumultuous session
of the foreign relations committee at
which David Hunter Miller, legal ad
viser to the league of nations commis
sion at Versailles, was vigorously
questioned by republican senators about
the .genesis of the league covenant and
the meaning of some of its provisions.
Clashes over the manner of questioning
the witness resulted repeatedly in in
tervention by the chairman to restore
order.
American Plan Not Seem.
Mr. Miller said he never had seen the
"American plan" for a league of na
tions until it was in printed form ready
for submission to the commission, and
that later the basis of discussion by
the commission was a composite plan
framed from the drafts of the various
nations by himself and C. J. P. Hurst,
a legal attache of the British foreign
office.
Under questioning the witness said
he was a law partner of Gorden Au
chinsloss, son-in-law of Colonel K. M.
House, and never had any experience
in international negotiation until he
was given an appointment in the state
department in 1917.
The witness was asked many hypo
thetical questions about the operation
of the league covenant and fcis answers
were objected to several times by re
publican, members as evasive. On some
of the questions he reserved judgment.
Some Would Call Colonel House.
It was the opinion of committee
members, (however, that Mr. Miller
would not be recalled apd that no
further witnesses would be asked to
come before the committee in its con
sideration of the treaty.
Some members want to ask that Col
onel House, who still is in Europe, be
called to answer questions about the
league, but the general expectation is
that the proposal will be abandoned be
cause too great a delay would result.
The republican senators who have
agreed on a reservation programme
are anxious that the treaty be disposed
of at the earliest possible moment, and
It is believed they will try to impress
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Orcbardists and Apiarists Are in
Tangle, With Botb Standing to
Lose Profits.
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 12. (Special.)
Thorough spraying too thorough, it
is claimed on the part of Yakima or
cbardists has been fatal to Yakima
bees that have sipped nectar flavored
with arsenate of lead with the result,
according to bee men. that hundreds of
swarms have been entirely exterminat
ed while many others have been greatly
weakened. It is claimed that the bee
industry in the valley is threatened if
fruit growers continue to use the
poisonous spray, and there is talk of
agitation for a law forbidding its use.
The situation is merely an aggra
vated degree of a controversy that has
arisen periodically for years past. The
aggravation is regarded as due to the
fact that Yakima apple growers this
year have sprayed with unusual dili
gence because of th". loss they suffered
last season from codling moth.
In previous years it has been cus
tomary for the horticultural depart
ment to announce "spray dates." based
on observation of caged codlirjg moths
as to the approximate dates of the
hatching of the various "broods" and
on these days bees were kept at home.
This season the orchardists were ad
vised to "keep the fruit covered" and
they have been spraying, as a rule,
every threov weeks or oftencr. They
got the worms, also the bees, and inas
much as the bees are regarded as neces
sary for fertilization of the fruit, the
situation has two sides.
$1,500,000 FOR UNIVERSITY
Bequest Made to California by
Massachusetts Capitalist.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. A gift
of 25,000 shares of stock in the Pa
cific Improvement company, valued at
$1,500,000, has been made to the Uni
versity of California by Edward F.
Searles. a Massachusetts capitalist, it
was announced at a meeting of the
board of regents here today.
Searles is the donor of the Mark Hop
kins Institute of Art her,e, for which
he gave 91, 000,000 to the university
several years ago. He married the
widow of Mark Hopkins, one of the
builders of the Union Pacific railway.
The Pacific Improvement company
has large property interests in Califor
nia and Washington. One of its found
ers was the late United States Senator
Leland Stanford.
The gift was given to use as the
regents saw fit 'in promoting the edu
cational work of the university."
DEAD MAN VICTOR IN COURT
Washington Tribunal finds for
Plaintiff Following Demise.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 12. (Spe
cial.) Although dead and in his grave.
F. A. Talbot today won a supreme
court decision over the Industrial In
surance commission. He was injured
in 1916 at Port Angeles and granted
$20 a month pension under the perma
nent total disability provision. An
amendment in 1917 added an additional
$20 a month to disability pensions of
this character where the victim re
quired an attendant, but this was de
nied Talbot because he was injured be
fore the act was amended.
He sued and the case was carried up,
in the course of which litigation Tal
bot died. Today the supreme court
held him entitled to the extra allow
ance from the date the act as amended
became effective.
STRIKERS NOW BOURGEOIS
Genoa Longshoremen Sublet $6.;
Jobs for 52; Profit' 1.50.
GENOA, July 28. (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) Genoa long
shoremen recently converted them
selves in 24 hours from striking work
men to employers of labor.
They obtained through the success a
day wage rate of $6.50 and the follow
ing day hired other men for their jobs
at 'Z a day, thereafter living easy lives
on the remaining $4.50.
MINERS ASKED TO RESUME
Union Council of Yorkshire Urges
200,000 Men to Return.
LONDON, Aug. 12. The Yorkshire
miners council recommended today that
work be resumed by the more than
200,000 men who have been on strike in
that district.
The men have been out for several
weeks, refusing to accept the settle
ment reached by the government and!
miners representatives.
WORKERS INCREASE HOURS!
I
Italian Railway Employes Act to I
Augment Production.
ROME. Aug. 12. (Havas.) Premier
Nitti has received a telegram from
several groups of railway employes I
who volunteer to Increase the num
ber of their working hours in order to
increase national production.
The situation with regard to both
food and fuel in Italy is serious.
SOLDIERS OUT BY OCTOBER
Demobilization to Be Ended Then,
Says Secretary Baker.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Dmobiliza
tion of the army "so far as combatant
troops are concerned." will be com
pleted the last of October.
Announcement to this effect was
made today by Secretary Baker.
Unified Aviation Policy
Asked by Mission.
SECRETARY BAKER DISAGREES
Loss of Effectiveness Feared
Under New Plan.
PLANE INDUSTRY IN PERIL
Conservation Requested Aids to
Private Flying: Crged as Basis
for Military Needs.
WASHINGTON". Aug. 12. Concentra
tion of the air activities of the United
States, civilian, .naval and military,
within the direction of a 'single gov
ernmental agency with an official hold
ing a place in the president's cabinet
at the h'ad is recommended by the
special American aviation . mission,
headed by Assistant Secretary of War
Crowell, which has been studying air
craft developments in Europe.
In making public the report today
Secretary Baker disapproved the rec
ommendation for a department of avia
tion. holding that "the mission has, in
my judgment, gone too far in suggest
ing a single centralized air service."
The proposed department of aviation,
the mission- asserted in its .report.
should be charged with full responsi
bility for "placing and maintaining our
country in the front rank among na
tions in the development and utiliza
tion of aircraft for the national security
and in the advancement of civil aerial
transportation and communication arts.
War Secretary Take Issue.
In disagreeing with this feature of
the report, Mr. Baker said:
"Army and navy aviators are special
ists in the art. Both the airplanes and
the pilots needed "are of a different
type from those needed in civilian un
dertakings. A separation of the air
service from the army or the navy-
would require co-ordination of their
activities in time of war, whereas ef
fectiveneas in military operation rests
upon the concentration and singleness
of authority, command and purpose.'
The report of the mission, which is
divided into three parts dealing with
general organization, commercial de
velopment and technical development,
is based on studies made in England,
France and Italy. The members of
the mission include besides Assistant
Secretary Crowell, Howard C. Coffin
chairman of the former aircraft pro-
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an Held at Olympla Not Guilty of
Slaying Wife; Homicide Is
Still Deep Sljstery.
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Aug. 12. (Spe
cial.) Roy E. Taylor of South Bend
was released by Olympia authorities
today on telephoned information from
Mrs. C. B. Reynolds. 104 North Four
teenth street. Portland, that Mrs. Tay
lor had worked for her in June and
was there to her knowledge aslate as
June ze under the name of Vivian Gil
roy.
As the local authorities are convinced
that the woman whose body was found
near Plum Station was murdered not
later than June 9, and were already
practically convinced that no grounds
remained for holding Taylor, they ex
onerated and released him. Taylor left
immediately with his children and Mrs.
George Seaband of Hullt. Or., who was
actively Instrumental in clearing him
of suspicion.
Mr. Taylor was brought from South
Bcna last Thursday on information as
to trouble with his wife and her sub
sequent disappearance from Portland.
Difficulty in locating Mrs. Taylor re
suited In his being detained here until
today, to which he assented in order
to aid in clearing his name of sus
picion. With this final development
the Plum Station murWr becomes as
much of a mystery as when the body
was first discovered in July.
SHIP JOBS MAY BE RELET
Reinstatement of Portland Deals
Seems Probable.
OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug. 12. (Special. ) Prospects
for the reinstatement of several ship
contracts at Portland within the nex
few days are fairly bright, although
representatives of the Pacifio coas
shipbuilders learned long ago not to
count any deal closed with the shipping
board until the last signature had been
attached.
While authority was given by the
board some time ago to consider rein
statements, there have been severa
points of difference to settle before
final agreement can be reached. Rep
resentatlves or the shipbuilders ap
peared hopeful today.
WILSON REVIEWS MARINES
.
Heroes Who Stopped German Thrus
Honored at Capital.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. First he
roes of the world war to be reviewed
in America by President Wilson, th
marine brigade of the 2d division,
marched today over Pennsylvania ave
nue from the capitol to the White
House.
Thousands lined the historic thor
oughfare to greet the men who won
undying fame by helping stop the Ger
man thrust toward Paris in the darkest
hours of the great conflict. Congress
paid tribute by adjourning for two
'hours while the veterans marched.
"WATCH OUR SMOKE!"
. IT -
Final Award of War Labor
Board Is Announced.
PORTLAND SYSTEM INCLUDED
Local Employes Gain 56-Cent
Hourly Rate; Want More.
MEN GET 12 PER CENT RISE
Franklin T. Griffith Says Case Will
Be Put Before State Board
for Action.
NEW YORK. Aug. 12. The war
labor board, at its final session here
today, granted an increase of 12 per
cent in wages to employes of ten trac
tion companies centering in Boston,
Pittsburg and Cleveland. Other com
panies to whose employes wage in
creases were granted include the Port
land Railway, Light & Power company.
With an increase of 12 per cent au
thorized by the war labor board to
Dlatform and other employes of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power com
pany, local citizens are confronted with
the certainty of higher fares, according
to Franklin T. Griffith, president of
the company.
The increase granted is only three
fifths of the advance asked by the men,
and it is announced by union officials
that negotiations will be immediately
opened with the company for further
increase. The application to the board
was made for hisrher wanes dating
from April, but the decision grants
retroactive pay only from June 25.
Approximately 1800 employes are af
fected by the order, 1400 of whom are
platform men, 100 in the shops. 25 in
the freight department and the re
mainder track, bridge and repair men.
The previous scale of wages ranged
from 60 cents an hour for the platform
men and thOBe in ordinary labor to
more than H an hour for work of an
expert character in connection with
the street railways.
April 1, 1917, the minimum for plat
form men was 26 cents and the maxi
mum 31 cents an hour. June 1, 1917,
this was increased to 29 and 34 cents,
respectively, which was supplanted
October 1 of that year with the agree
ment as to wages and working condi
tions which expired June 30, 1918, with
a scale of 38, 40 and 45 cents per hour,
according to length of service.
Application was made to the War
Labor Board for a new scale of wages
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Column I.)
11,200 Prisoners Taken in Capture
of Kanishin Riga Reported
Fallen to Radical.
LONDON. Aug. 12. (By the Associ
ated Press.) General Denikine's ad
vance is continuing along the greater
part of the southern Russian front
against considerable bolshevik resist
ance the war office announced tonight.
Kamishin. which was taken on July
28. yielded 11.000 prisoners, 60 guns. 150
machine guns and an immense amount
of war material, it was added.
COPENHAGEN. Aug. 12. According
to a Russian newspaper published in
Berlin, the bolshevikl have recaptured
Riga.
General Vatatis, former commander-in-chief
of the bolshevik forces, and
his chief of staff have been arrested
by order of the bolshevik government.
according to a report from Petrograd
They were charged with organizing a
counter resolution.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. Invasion by
tbe bolsheviki of all legations and
consulates in Petrograd and Moscow
and the wholesale arrests of foreigners
regardless of nationality early in June
was reported to the state department
today from Danish sources.
The information was brought out of
Russia by a Danish Red Cross mission
On June 2 and 3 bolshevik policemen
entered all foreign consulates and
legations, sealing them when they
withdrew. Branches of the Red Cross
in Petrograd, Moscow, Samara and
Homel also were invaded. Nearly all
of the foreigners arrested during the
police campaign were said to have
been interned in camps at Moscow.
Many foreigners of various national
ities still remained prisoners, it was
said.
Identical appeals for continued mili
tary and financial support have been
sent to the United States and the allied
governments by the provisional gov-
ment of the northern region of Russia
at Archangel. The appeal received in
Washington said inevitable disaster
would follow withdrawal of allied aid.
THIEF NABS SUNDAY SUIT
But Coroner Smith Will Go With
Elks, Even if in Bathing Togs.
Dr. Earl Smith, coroner,- has been
robbed of his best suit of clothing,
which he had sent to the Model Clean
ers & Dyers shop. 929 union avenue
North,' to be pressed for his participa
tion in the Elks' excursion to Klamath
Falls Wednesday. The shop was robbed
of 11 suits Friday night. .
Dr. Smith decided to visit Klamath
Falls in lieu of his annual vacation,
and since the high cost of dressing pre
cluded the purchase of new clothes for
the occasion, he sent the best of his
Sunday wardrobe to be brushed up.
Now he says he may have to wear his
bathing suit on the trip, but vows he
will go anyway.
ELECTION COSTS UP ALSO
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Even Pencils for Marking Bailots
Xow Are Expensive.
SALEM. Or..' Aug. 12. (Special.)
Sam Kozer, assistant secretary of state,
and R. H. Goodin, secretary of the
state board of control, conferred today
preparatory to placing orders for sup
plies for the next primary and general
elections. Lead pencils, which before
the war cost in the neighborhood of
$3.50 a gross, now are held at $6.
About 30,000 pencils are required for
the two elections, in addition to. other
supplies.
INDEX 'OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tbe Weather.
YESTERDAY S Maximum temperature, 68
acgrtes; minimum. ..4 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; gentle westerly
winds.
Foreign.
Australians and New Zealanders make re
markable record in Egypt. Page 6.
Roumanian ireneral stair decides to move
further into Hungary. Page 2.
KoisneviKi forced ack by Dcnikine on
southern front. Page 1.
National.
Railroads declared to be paying dividends on
f450.O0O.O0O ol bonuses. Page 1.
Senate decorum upset in spirited debate on
league or nations. Page 3.
Department of aviation in cabinet urged
Page l.
Federal trade board may be asked to in
vestigate cost of living. Page 3.
Domestic.
I Sixty-three French brides land at New Tork.
Page .
I Arguments ended in. Ford libel case. Page 3.
Daniels starts for Honolulu today on battle
ship New York. Page 4.
Street-railway employes receive 12 per. cent
Increase in wages. Page 1. ,
. Pacific Northwest.
Message from Portland woman frees suspect
of murder charge. Page 1.
Summer school for rural pastors opens at
Salem. Page 7.
Visting editors find Crater lake Indescrib
able. Page l.
Taktma bees are victims of poisoned nectar.
Page 1.
& ports.
Pacific Coast League results: San Francisco
2, Sacramento 0: Los Angeles u. Salt 1-ake
S. No other games scheduled. Page
I Britton will fight O Dowd August
Page 13.
"Birr Scheller. Seattle outfielder, is pur
chased by Beaver club. Page 12.
Frank M. Troeh wins amateur trap event at
Chicago. Page 12.
Commercial and Marine. ,
Oregon hop crop estimates are reduced, ow
ing to dry weatner. fage i.
Agitation against high costs weakens Chicago
corn market, fage -i.
I Wall-street stocks dull and irregular.
Page 21.
s.teel ships to load lumber for China. PageO.
Portland and Vicinity.
District attorney answers for county in gas
oline warrant injunction case. Page 10-
E Plans disclosed here for 10,000.000 Roose
velt memorial. Page to.
Night shift for elevator girls requested at
welfare Rearing. page v.
I Check on food stored in city is begun.
Page 14.
Weather report, data ajid IvkmL jlm ju.
Scribes Find Oregon Won
der Indescribable.
EXCURSION MEMORABLE ORE
Masterpiece Seen at Its Best
by Visitors.
GEOLOGIST TELLS STORIES
Marvelous Formation Described
Scientist in Moonlight by
Campfire Near Brink.
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BY H. W. LTMAX.
ASHLAND, Or.. Aug. 12. (Special.)
Kditors of "the United States in the Na
tional Editorial association party have
penetrated to the "sea of silence." They
have beheld the matchless blue of its
water; they have eeen the lake by
moonlight and they have seen the sun
rise over "the eastern rim.
Tonight the editors were speeding:
back to Portland in their special train,
having; visited Crater lake, one of the
scenic wonders of America and the
only lake of its kind in the world.
After spending- an afternoon, night and
morning at the lake as guests of the
Medford. Ashland and Grants Pass
commercial organizations, the editors
returned to Ashland this afternoon,
where they had dinner as guests of the
Ashland people at beautiful Lithia.
park. The visitors left at 8 P. M. n
their special train.
Editors Trsie Sportanaem.
The trip to Crater lake proved a
success from every standpoint, and re
flected great credit upon the committee
of the three towns that had the enter
tainment in charge and upon southern
Oregon folk generally. The editors
made up the largest single party that
has ever been entertained at the park
and the trip was one of the most care
fully planned and complete of the kind
that southern Oregon people have ever
carried through.
vV'hile there were some hardships in
connection with the trip and while a
certain degree of "roughing if was
required of the editors, they all showed
themselves, to- be true sportsmen and
enjoyed the trip to the full. The trip
to Crater Lake proved the most inter
esting and inspiring portion of an
eventful excursion, many of the edi
tors said tonight.
birarnlon Jointly Arrasged.
The Crater Lake outing was a fea
ture of the northwest excursion that
was definitiely planned at Little Rock,
Ark., last year, when the editors de
cided to come to the northwest for their
1919 convention. The newspaper men
desired to behold this wonder of na
ture, so little-known, and their desires
were gratified yesterday and today.
The excursion was arranged Jointly by
Portland and southern Oregon people,
the Portland Chamber of Commerce
and business men supplying the spe
cial train and the southern Oregon
people having complete charge of the
entertainment here and taking the edi
tors to Crater Lake by automobile.
Through a delightful coincidence
Stephen. T. Mather of Washington, TJ.
C, director of the National park serv
ice, was a visitor at the lake today and
met the editors informally. Director
Mather is making a tour of the na
tional parks by automobile and arrived
at Crater lake lodge late Monday eve
ning from Yosemite. He spent this
morning meeting the editors and this
afternoon he conferred with Supervisor
Sparrow and Commissioner Steel of
Crater Lake National park relative to
the work there. He expected to leave
this, evening for Bend for an automo
bile trip through eastern Oregon to The
Dalles.
Road Possibility Viewed.
'I wan,t to take a look at Repre
sentative Slnnott's country, he said
this morning, "and to look over the
possibilities of an alternate route of
the park-to-park highway system, go
ing via Eastern Oregon. The proposed
route would be from California to Med
ford, thence to Crater lake, thence .to
Bend and up central Oregon to The
Dalles, then over the Columbia high
way to Portland."
Mr. Mather expects to go over "the
Columbia highway, arrivirug in Pert-
land August 15, and proceed at once to
Rainier national park. He is accom
panied by Charles P. Puncrnwd Jr.,
landscape engineer for the national
park service, and Madison Grant. hcri
of the New York Zoological society.
Gathered at Crater lake from ail
parts of the United States, the editors
yesterday endeavored to find worcLs
adequate to picture Crater lake, scejii"
wonder of Oregon. Since the discov
ery of this masterpiece of nature and
its magnificent setting, like others who
have come and gone, the editors krft
this morning with the lake tadmived
but still undescribed.
Lake Sera at Its Best.
When the members of the party,
composed of 216 members of the na
tional association and their wives, 50
northwest newspaper men and Port
land business men and their wives and
about 100 citizens of southern Oregon,
arrived at Crater lake early Monday
afternoon, the sun was still high
onough in the sky to show the lake in
all its fi.med blueness. A slight breeze
tuffled the waters and prevented re
flections being visible, but heightened
if possible the depth of coloring. A
few fluffy clouds were in the sky and
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ui4 oa Fas 4.