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THE MORNING OREG ONIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919. 3 MARSHALTELLSHOW VERDUN' WAS TAKEN Petain and King Alfonso View Historic Field. FIGHT COURSE DESCRIBED Enemy's Plans Known Long Be fore Great Struggle Began and Outcome Confidently AVaited. VERDUN. France, Oct. 22. (By the Associated Press.) Over the historic battlefield of Verdun King Alfonso of Spain walked today with Marshal retain, the chief defender of the cita del during the tremendous struggle fought in February and March, 1916. Along: roads lined by thousands of white crosses marking the graves, of warriors who . fell and through sub terranean passageways, where the de fenders were marshaled preparatory to counter attacking the foe. the king walked. As' he went he plied his dis tinguished guide with questions. On his arrival at Verdun King Al fonso at once proceeded to the mili tary cemetery, where he deposited a wreath of. orchids tied with ribbons forming the Spanish colors, upon which was painted a tribute from the royal visitor. France was not surprised by -the German offensive afrainst Verdun, Marshal Petain' told the king during their walk . over the field. The latter expressed surprise when given this Information, as it had generally been believed the' Germans attacked almost without warning. Plans of Enemy Known. "W"e knew of the enemy's plan," said the marshal. "Six weeks before we had received our first information from learning of the construction of a formidable system of railroads lead ing to Verdun. "As proof that we were not Bur prised, I may say we sent for the 20th corps, which reached Verdun Febru ary 25. When the battle of Verdun began we had on the right bank of the Meuse only two divisions opposingt five German army corps. These two; divisions held their position for five days. "February 25 was the most critical day of the battle. The enemy, by sac rificing his best troops, had succeeded in capturing Fort Douaumont the day before and the situation was grave. On February 25 the troops which had been occupying the Woevre sector (to the east of Verdun) were ordered to fall back to the heights of the Meuse. The order was criticised then, but its wisdom was later recognized. Final Orders Are Given. 'Since I had received an order from great headquarters to establish con tact with General Castelnau's divi sion, which had been defending Fort Douaumont and now was falling back on Verdun, I met General Castelnau at Souilly. All he said was: 'Take command of the army." Thus on the evening of February 26 1 assumed command. I distributed the commands among Generals Guillaumat, Duchesne and De Balfourier; ordered that(.not another inch of ground be given up and that the defenders should reply to every attack by a counter-movement. "During the eight days that fol lowed the village of Douaumont changed hands ten times, but the Germans held the fort." "I understand now," said King Al fonso, "why during those hours we knew nothing of what was going on here." French Are Found Ready. "At last, on March 4." Marshal re tain resumed, "the village was defi nitely ours, and on March 6, when the Germans attacked on the left jank of the Meuse. I was ready to receive them. It had always appeared strange to me that an attack had not been launched on the left bank of the river, and everything was prepared in view of such an assault. It was because' the enemy deferred that attack too long that we were able to restore the situation. That delay saved us. "Then came the gigantic struggle for hill 304 and Dead Man's hill. It was then that I issued my order of the day. 'Courage. We will get them.' Marshal Petain then told the story of General Mangin's offensive on May 22 by which Douaumont village was stormed, adding that the Germans put five new divisions into the line during the preceding 15 days and from May 22 to June 23 hurled eight other divi sions into the fight, only to gain but COO yards. "The enemy after this fighting was shouting 'Victory,' " said the marshal disdainfully. General Mangin's offensive on Oc tober 26, when Fort Douaumont was recaptured and the Germans forced to evacuate the village and fort of Vaux with the loss of 11,000 prisoners, was then described. "At the end of 1916." the French chieftain concluded. "our situation was favorable on the right bank of the Meuse, but bad on the left. On August 20, 1917, however, our offen sive on both banks of the Meuse brought us back to our original lines of February, 1916, and on that day we gathered In everything we wished." Marshal retain and King Alfonso walked out over what was once no man's land and which now shows no signs of life. The party returned to Verdun shortly before noon. tions in April, but did not start until July. Mr. Eden, president of the Superior company, capitalized at l, 500, 000. testified to the big fight prior to the middle of 1914. He said he had fre quently attended conferences, with Washington and California cement people, sometimes in Seattle - but mostly in the Palace hofel, San Fran cisco. Clark M. Moore, one of the defendants in the present suit, did not attend these conferences, said Mr. Fderr. but on at least two occasions Mr. Moore was in .the Palace hotel while conferences were on. Mr. Eden denied that the conferences fixed prices; he said the conferences merely announced policies. C. H. Bacon, of Galbreath-Bacon Company, of Seattle, testified that the prices of cement fluctuated prior to July, 1914, at which time they be came stabilized, that competition ceased then and never has been re sumed. Mr. Bacon identified a tele gram he sent to Clark M. Moore ask ing' him quotations on cement in Seattle. , - Mr. Nickerson, on the stand.' testi fied that Mr. Moore came to him and inquired the price of cement in Seat- tie, and that Mr. Nickerson suggested the best way to discover was to tele phone; that Mr. Moore telephoned to Mr. Coates' office and was informed that the price- was J2.30. The next day Mr. Moore telegraphed to Mr. Bacon that his price for' the' Oregon product in Seattle was $2.65. Price fluctuations Stop. F. T. Crowe, of Crowe & Co., Seat tle, informed the court that prices suddenly ceased fluctuating in July, 1914. and that California companies refused to take orders for Washing ton delivery after January 1. W. E. Hacker, of Crowe & Co.. testified that a similar situation obtained in Ta coma. F. W.' Farrington. manager for Crowe & Co., in Portland, declared that President Muhs, of the California Cement company, informed him that matters were adjusted by conference and 'that the California companies were to get out of Washington by 1915 and the Washington companies were to keep out of Oregon south of Salem. J. G. Bennett of Vancouver, Wash., testified that when he tried to buy California cement he was told there was none for sale. The trial probably will consume the remainder of the week, if not longer. SUGAR FAME NEED BE FEARED Housewives Must Exercise Economy in Use, However. FAIR DIVISION TO BE MADE an indictment for non-support if the government case falls thtough. District Attorney Evans refuses to tend for. Mahoney, however, in any event unless the cost of extradition, amounting to several hundred dollars. is repaid the state. In too many cases of non-support the wife refuses to prosecute, once the husband is forced to return to her, forgiving Mm and living happily, with him until he runs away again, explains the dis trict attorney. Mahoney left Portland September 9 and is supposed to have met Mrs. Haygarth in California. She lef t a husband and two children in Portland when she fled. CAILLAUX TRIAL IS SET EX-FREXCH PREMIER FACES COCRT JASCARV 14. Former Official Declares Con science Is Clear Regarding Acts of Which He Is Accused. PARIS. Oct. 23. The high court this afternoon set January 14 next as the date for the commencement of the trial of former Premier Caillaux. Joseph Caillaux, former premier of France, appeared before the high court this afternoon to answer the charge of intriguing to bring about a premature and dishonorable peace with Germany. Antonin Duboet, the president of the senate, who also pre sides over the high court when the senate sits as such a body, entered the senate chamber shortly after 2 o'clock and at 2:20 P. M. summoned Caillaux to the bar. The ex-premier has grown thin during his long period under deten tion of prison and sanitarium, but he walked into the court today with a steady gait and without any display of emotion. The public seats in the chamber were occupied by an expec tant crowd. After.preliminaries Senator Dobost called upon the procureur-general, M. Lescouve, who asked that the trial of the case should be deferred until the second half of November. M. Lescouve based this upon the time required for witnesses from America to arrive. M. Caillaux arose and declared him self ready for immediate trial. Dur ing 20 years of political lire, he went on to say, he had sought only the welfare of his country, and in view if his conception of worldpolitics, his conscience was nowise uneasy for what he had done. He denounced the prosecution. His attorney then asked that M. Caillaux be released provisionally, pending the date set for trial, and the court retired to deliberate. Equalization . Board . Takes . Over Output of Refineries and Will Distribute 13,000 Bags Dally. R, ALLEGED RED, FREE AMERICAN CARTOONIST IS RE LEASED IX FRANCE. Evidence of Bolshevik Activity Held Insufficient, Though Ac- cused Is Believed Guilty. CEMENT DEALS SHOWN UP Continued Vrom first Page.) agreed they would not cut this price. When the interstate bridge was be ing built, Mr. Coates testified, the companies in the combine bid $1.90, the agreed price. The Independent Cement company of Spokane bid J1.65 and this caused a sensation in the combine. Mr. Coates testified that he came to Portland to see Mr. Gilman to find out what rate the Spokane in truder was receiving from the rail road. Receiving little satisfaction from Mr. Gilman, Mr. Coates went to St. Paul to the head office of the railroad company while John Eden, president of the Superior Cement company, went to Del Monte, Cal., to meet Louis Hill to see what could be done to curb the independent man ufacturer of Spokane. It was learned, said Mr. Coates. that Mr. Skinner, for the railroad, had made a rate of 13 cents. Influence was brought to bear and the railroad com pany cancelled the rate made by Mr. Skinner and raised it to 25 cents, which made it prohibitive for the in dependent operator at Spokane to go through with his bid of $1.65 for the interstate bridge. The contract was assigned to the Washington company, which split the job with the Superior and the Olympic companies. In Portland Mr. Coates' agent was O. C. Nickerson and Mr. Coates or dered Nickerson to close the office January 1, 1916, but it was not closed until summer. The reason for. this action, testified Mr. Coates. was that the agreement was about to be modi fied as the cement company at Os wego was expected to begin opera- WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Robert Minor. American newspaper cartoon ist, who was detained by American military authorities in France, on charges of being connected with plans of German Spartacists to circulate bolshevik literature among American troops, was released becau3e of in sufficient evidence to warrant his trial, the senate' was informed today by Secretary Baker. - While recommending the release, the judge advocate of the American expeditionary forces, Mr. Baker said expressed the opinion that Minor was guilty. Since Minor s release, th secretary added, evidence has been obtained connecting him with prepara tlon of bOOO pamphlets to be cir culated among American soldiers on the Rhine. Minor acted. Mr. Baker said, at the request of Meta Fillp,. a German Spartacist leader. Charges against Minor were based, Mr. Baker said, on information ob tained by a non-commissioned offi cer of the military intelligence serv ice. who was sent to Dusseldorf to investigate plans to circulate bolshe vik literature among the American troops. Lpon being arrested. Minor .made a general denial of the charges. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.- 23. (Spe cialsAlthough press reports said today that sugar was offered for sale in New York at 18 cents, the local sugar men say the housewives of San Francisco and the Pacific coast need fear no sugar famine, but that they must exercise economy in its use .and accustom themselves to paying 11 cents a pound at least until January 10. In the distribution daily of 15,000 bag's of sugar' through the office of Ralph Merritt, representative of the equalization board. ' normal requirements-can be cared for during the period of stress, they pointed out. The sugar supplies for the Pacific coast come from two refineries in San Francisco and numerous beet- facto ries in a number of the western states. The refineries in San Fran cisco are the Western sugar and the California and Hawaiian. These turn out refined sugar produced from raw sugar supplied by the Hawaiian islands and the Philippines. All the sugar refineries in the United States have been operating for 1919 under government contracts, these contracts having been made with the equaliza tion board, a corporation entirely un der government, control. Beet Sugar Fills Gap. The equalization board allotted to each refinery in the country a certain percentage of all the raw sugar ar riving in the United States. Speaking of the withdrawal of the California and Hawaiian plant in August, because that refinery had no more sugar to sell, H. W. Hannam, managing director for the Western sugar refinery, said: "In August the California and Ha waiian plant withdrew from the lo cal market, having no more sugar to sell. This has thrown the entire bur den of supplying the western terri tory on the Western sugar refinery and also on the beet plants. In order to provide for every section receiving a certain quantity of sugar to take care of its local demand, the Western sugar refinery withdrew from every section where local beet sugar was available. At the present time prac ucany all the beet plants are in op eration and for that reason the West ern sugar refinery is confining its sales to central and northern, Califor nia, Oregon. Washington, northern Idaho and Nevada, leaving all the re mainder of the. western states to be supplied by the local beet plants. whlcii are now operating." Distribution System In Force. Ralph Merritt. for the equalization board, has secured a certain tonnage from the Alameda Sugar company and the Union Sugar company." On behalf of . the equalization board, Mer ritt and the Western sugar refinery are distributing the available sud- plies under a definite system so as to apportion to each community in the territory a certain percentage of the weekly output. the sugars available between now and January 10, on which date the new crop of refined sugars should be on the market, will come from th Western Sugar company, Spreckels Sugar company. Union Sugar com pany, Alameda Sugar company and the beet sugar plants in the Yakima valley Washington. These are the only sources of supply for central and northern California, Oregon, Wash ington. Northern Idaho and Nevada. Merritt has compiled figures fro all these sources of supply and the total supplies available, divided by the number of business days between now and January 10, will mean the daily distribution of thousands of bags which are being apportioned to the different territories, in accordance with the population. Normal Requirements Met. "Working along conservative lines of consumption," said Hannam, "this quantity of sugar distributed daily will keep this section supplied with normal requirements during the period of stress. It will mean, however, that the same system of distribution that has been In vogue for the last 30 days and the same amount of economy practiced by the confectioners and the manufacturers' trade will have to be exercised, but the public can, be as sured that the supplies are available and are being distributed in accord ance with the schedule mentioned: and unless unforeseen circumstances develop the same system will be fol lowed until the new refined sugars are available on or about January lo. CHARGE HERE ALSO FACED E. J. Mahoney May Be Indicted for Non-Support. Edward J. Mahoney, who left Port land September 9-with $6000. most of which was from a joint savings ac count he shared with his wife, and was arrested in New Orleans in com pany with Mrs. H. H. Haygarth, wife of a Portland mail clerk, by federal authorities on a white slavery charge, may be returned to this city to face To Prevent Influenza Colds cause Grip and Influenza LAXA TIVE BROSIO QUININE Tablets remove the cause. There is only one iiromo Quinine. B. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 3Uc. Adv. NIPPON DELEGATES HERE MANY ADVBSERS ACCOMPANY TRIO TO LABOR CONFERENCE. Representative Says Japanese Workers Are Forced to Unionize to Raise Living Standard. VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 23. Japan's three delegates to the world labor conference at Washington, D. C, ar rived here today from Yokohama. aboard the liner Fushiml Maru. More than two-score advisers and clerks accompanied them. The three, Ukei Masumoto, repre senting the employes; Y. Muto; a dele gate of the capitalists, and E. Ka mada, the government representative, plan to go direct to Washington. They left late today for Seattle. Masumoto today declared there was absolutely no truth in the report that he was a representative of the gov ernment. "I am the labor man's dele gate and I will do everything in my power to further their aims and ob jectives." he said. The labor delegate, who is a naval architect, declared he represented 3.000,000 workingmen. He asserted that a hostile delegation at the Yoko hama dock was from a Tokio labor clique and represented only 3000. The Tokio delegates previously had with drawn from the conference that se lected Masumoto. "Japanese workingmen have found it imperative to organize labor unions in order to raise their standard of living," Masumoto said. "At present there are no unions in Japan and workingmen are forced to accept whatever pay their employers may give. The Japanese government has indorsed the worklngmen's move to organize. "At the present time Japanese ship workers make an average of $1.50 a day. .A short time ago all worked 11 hours. Now some have eight-hour days. The price of foodstuffs has soared, but wages have not Increased." SEATTLE,' Oct. 23. Two Japanese professors of California. K. S. Innul of the University of Southern Cali fornia, and Y. Tchihashl of Leland Stanford Jr. university, arrived here today to join the Japanese delegation to the labor conference and to pro ceed with it to Washington, D. C, where they will serve In an' advisory capacity. TOKIO, Sept. 29. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Four wom en advisers will accompnay the Jap anese delegation to the international labor congress in Washington, two of them as advisers to the official dele gates and two as advisers to the dele gates representing the interests of capitalists and laborers, respectively. Owing to the scarcity of women well acquainted with labor problems and versed in foreign languages the number of women advisers has been fixed at four instead of eight, re quired in the provisions of the league of nations covenant. Mrs. Ko-Ko Tanaka, wife of Odo Tanaka, has ac cepted the offer made to her to be come one of tire advisers to the gov ernmental delegates. As a suitable candidate for another female adviser to the official dele gate. Dr. Tomoko Inouye has been nominated. Miss Inouye, who now is in the United States attending the sessions of the' international female physi cians' congress, is a graduate of the University of Ohio and is the only Japanese ' female physician who has studied medicine in America. She is on the staff of the Peerless School of Tokio and also is connected with sev eral girls' schools in Tokio in the capacity of medical adviser. "E Church Vrges Ratification. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. Oct. 23. Resolutions urging ratification of the league of nations covenant, "without amendments and with only such reservations as shall strengthen the moral Influence of the United . f 1(1 GENUINE SACRIFICE Hisdi-Gradle SALE OF oits Business Hours 9:30 to 6 TODAY AND SATURDAY : VALUES TRULY PHENOMENAL : 177 Fashionable Suits of Wonderful Style and Material, not selected lots, but our entire stock of better suits, with out exception. 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They are wonderfully good value, good-looking and attrac tive. The wise woman will lay in a supply of them for wear with the simple tailored suit or separate skirt. 45 Silk Dresses $25 ! I Original prices were far more than this sale price. Safin dresses attractive in mode and trimming ; straight-lined, bloused, draped, tunic, offset iith embroidery, braiding, fancy veslees and collars; black, navy, taupe and brotn. 124 to 128 SIXTH STJUST OFF WASHINGTON I Statts," were sent to Washington to dry by the national council of the Congregational church in convention here. PHILIPPINE RICE SEIZED Government Takes Over Stocks and Regulates Distribution. MANILA. Sept. 24. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) So acute has become the rice situation in the Philippine islands during the past four weeks that the government has placed an embargo on all stocks of the cereal in the archipelago, and is attempting to import 30CO tons of rice from French Saigon at high prices to reduce the shortage. The government has fixed retail prices for rice and has taken over the stocks on the basis of those prices. The government is also handling the matter of distribution. Ia Grande to Have Stock Sale. LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 23. (Spe cial.) The first annual fall Short horn consignment sale will be held here Saturday. Much splendid stock Is here awaiting the first hammer. The first spring sale held in June was a successful event, and the fall attempt to start new herds is ex pected to bring even greater results. JAPANESE PAY BIG WAGE Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Lauds Countrymen. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 23. Baron S. Goto, former Japanese minister of foreign affairs, rested today in Sacra mento after a visit yesterday to the rice fields of the Sacramento valley, where many Japanese reside. "T find In the rice fields Japanese employers are hiring American help and paying the highest wages." Baron Goto said. "They seem to be on the best of terms with each other. "The Japanese." the baron contin ued, "have played an important part in the development of California dur ing the last decade. When an immi grant arrives, no matter whether he is of Japanese or any other national ity, he is compelled to work harder and live more economically than the American in order to get a start." Persia has never nad any distil leries, breweries or public drinking places. Wine making is a home industry. OPEN NOSTRILS! END A COLD OR CATARRH How To Get Relief When Head and Nose are Stuffed Up. Count fifty! Your cold In head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos trils will open, the air passages of your -head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling, hawking, mucous discharge, dryness or headache; no struggling for breath at night. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply a little of this fragrant antiseptic cream in your nostrils. 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