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military exemption.
It is likely that the matter will be
threshed out in the United States dis
trict court at an early date.
ated an official agency for the fair
and equitable adjustment of all griev
ances and of all controversies as to
Charge purchases today, entered on state
ment rendered April 1.
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wages and living conditions, and if.
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in defiance of the conclusions thus
officially reached, the labor organiza
tions unjustly and contrary to public
opinion, interrupt the orderly and
JEST STEP NOT DETERMINED
Kearns Says He Is Glad to Have
Chance to Answer Charges.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27. Jack
Kearns, manager for Jack Dempsey,
world's heavyweight champion, said
tonight neither he nor Dempsey had
made any plans to go to San Fran
cisco because of the indictments re
turned against them there.
"Everything is in the hands of our
continuous movement of interstate
commerce, upon which the welfare of
the whole public depends, they cannot
Only Control Prevented Orgy
of Greed.
Republicans and Democrats
expect to be sustained by the people.
to whose will, at last, they must bow.
Both Declare Gains.
The carriers are on trial because
an effort has been made to extend to
tnem help of a substantial character
in the performance of their Dublin
duties and public opinion will hold
them to a strict accountability for
the fidelity and efficiency with which
these duties are performed.
SMILING DEFENSE MADE
BOURBONS ARE ANXIOUS
DIRIGIBLE LINES PLANNED
Chairman of War Department
Board Parries Thrusts of In
restigatinjr Committee.
Irreconcilables Approached to
Find What Action Will Be
After Party Convention.
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. Bernard
M. Barnch told a house war Investi
gating committee today that except
for government fixing of raw material
price during the war. only the shame
of producers would have limited their
return and that the morale of the
ration would have broken under a
riot of greed.
In the course of a five-hour ex
amination. Sir. Baruch gave a first
hand account of his services as chair
man of the war industries board and
as a member of the council of na
tional defense and the American eco
nomic mission at the peace confer
ence. With Chairman ttraham trying
to fathom his relations with the presi
dent and his association with Wall
street interests. Mr. Baruch never lost
bis temper or his smile.
Price Fall Haruch'a Hope.
Out of his experience with industrial
problems. Mr. Baruch offered the com
forting hope that top production soon
would come, with a resultant fall in
prices.
"When the hoarder and profitee
see great production in sight and
they will be the first to see it they
will get from under." he declared.
In questions about Mr. Baruch's mis
sion to the peace conference, cnair
man Graham failed to show any evid
er.ee of a rupture between the presi
dent and the witness, the latter de
daring that if Mr. Wilson found fault
with his work, "he was kind enougn
not to say so." He added that the
economic policy, as laid down by
him, was approved by the president
and the "big four."
Own Defense Made.
Mr. Baruch smilingly defended him
elf against many "charges,'" includ
ing establishment of wartime censor
ship, daylight saving and prohibition,
Once he was asked who suggested
Herbert Hoover for food administra
tor.
"I could not say any more than
could say who it was that first named
him as a presidential candidate," h
replied, and the inquiry quickly turned
to other subjects.
Long before the United States got
Into the war, Mr. Baruch testified, he
told President Wilson there was no
escape, at the same time urging
mobilization of the nation's resources.
He did not remember, he said, what
opinion the president had expressed
ox that question.
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of Jack Dempsey, pugilist.
REVENUE COLLECTOR OUT
COMMISSIONER ROPER PLANS
TO GO TO PRIVATE LIFE.
Chief of Largest Collection Agency
in World to Give Cp Duties,
Maybe Xext Month.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. (By the
Associated Press.) Daniel C. Roper,
commissioner of internal revenue, has
informed governmental officials of
bis intention to resign shortly. Al
though his formal resignation had not
been received tonight at the White
House, the matter of his successor is
understood to be under consideration.
Beyond the fact that he plans to
return to private lift, no information
us to the future plans of Mr. Roper
was available here tonight, as the
commissioner was absent from the
city. The resignation, however, it was
ascertained, will not become effective
for several weeks, Mr. Roper having
consented to remain at the head of
the revenue bureau until after income
tax returns for the past year have
been filed and the collection of such
taxes, the first installment of which
la due March 15, is well under way.
In returning to private life, Mr.
Roper will end a long public career
&a the administrator of the greatest
tax collection agency ever organized,
which last year gathered approxi
mately JS.000.000,000 in government
revenues. He became commissioner of
internal revenue in September, 1917,
just as the war emergency caused ab
normal increase in all federal taxes
and necessitated the expansion of the
bureau from a email peace-time af
fair, concerned chiefly with imports
on alcohol and tobacco,- into a tre
mendous machine reaching into the
pockets of million of citizens for
millions of income taxes and into the
records of corporations and partner
ships for excess profit taxes.
The revenue bureau was given the
task of enforcing nation-wide prohibi
tion by the Volstead enforcement act
and he utilized the personnel and ma
chinery formerly devoted to collection
of exciae taxes to establish a pro
hibition enforcement section with
branches in every state.
attorneys In San. Francisco," Kearns
said. "When they advise us to feo
there we will go. It is possible mat
ters wilL be arranged so that we can
surrender to federal authorities here.
"I am glad the indictments have
been filed, because it means Jack and
I will have an opportunity to vindi
cate ourselves and put an end to the
gossip about us which has been in
circulation for the last few weeks.
AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, Mexico,
Feb. 27. Private advices today were
that Jack Johnson has filed a peti
tion with the courts of Mexico City
applying for citizenship.
"LIST SYSTEM" IS KILLED
SEAMEX CXIOX CHIEF LAYS
PLAN TO I. W. W.
Committee Is Informed Radicals
Got Control or Meetings to Put
Proposal in Effect.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The "list
system" under which ship owners are
required to select their crews from
seamen approved by the International
Seamen's union has been eliminated
on the Pacific coast, Andrew furu
seth, president of the union, today
told the commerce committee.
"The list system was put into ef
fect last fall when a few I. W. W.
got hold of union meetings at San
Francisco and Seattle," FurusetJg-told
the committee in answer to questions.
I called it a cancer when we started
to fight against it, and the cancer
was cut out and voted down at San
Francisco just a day or two ago. The
seamen's union is fighting to develop
skilled men who know their rights
and duties, and the list system blocks
that."
It Is the purpose of the I. W. W. "to
f'ght the government," Furuseth ex
plained when questioned as to the in
cidents cited, while the seamen's
union wants to "fight the owners for
better conditions. A temporary sur
plus of men in Seattle and San Fran
cisco, he said, and their inability to
get on ships, allowed the I. W. W. to
outvote the regular members.
"Why do you let in I. W. W. mem
bers?" Senator Nelson, republican.
Minnesota, demanded.
"How can we tell them?" Furuseth
retorted. "We're not priests."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The en
ate talked without acting today In
its consideration of the peace treaty.
Most of the time went to the irre
concilable opponents of ratification.
Senator Norris, one of the irrecon
cilables, making a four-hour speech
in denunciation of the treaty pro
visions affecting Egypt and the
treatment accorded the Egyptian
delegates to Versailles.
Only for a brief period, just before
adjournment, was there any discus
sion of the pending reservation.
which deals with decision of domestic
questions under the league. Adoption
of 'the reservation in its original form
was advocated by Senator Smith,
democrat, Georgia, who argued that
the substitute presented by Senator
Hitchcock would amount to amend
ment of the treaty.
Canvass Is Made.
The leaders on both sides made
separate canvasses of the attitude of
democratic senators towards accept
ance of the crucial article 10 reser
vation In the form it went through
last November, with the result that
both claimed to be gaining strength.
Among the republicans, it was de
clared that only a few more demo
cratic votes would be needed to in
sure ratification, but the adminis
tration senators asserted ratifica
tion would fail by a wide margin un
less the republican article 10 reser
vation were modified.
Democratic leaders also are under
stood to have felt out sentiment
among the irreconcilables, particu
larly with a view to the probable
political consequences if ratification
on the basis of the republican reser
vations again were blocked by demo
cratic votes.
Results Are Feared.
Such a result, it generally Is con
ceded, would throw the whole ques
tion into the campaign, and some
democratic senators are said to be
anxious to learn how far the irre
concilable republicans would go in
their opposition should the republican
national convention declare for rati
fication with reservations.
On this question, it was declared,
divided counsels were found among
the irreconcilables. Senator Borah,
republican, Idaho, has said openly
that he would carry the fight for
rejection to the people after the con
vention. Others of the group are said
to favor accepting the decision of
the convention, while even Mr. Borah
has been indefinite in the sugges
tions he has made with regard to the
possible formation of a third party.
Contracts for Construction of 35
Ships Are Reported to Have
Been Awarded.
NEW TOR.K Feb. 27. Plans for
the operation of three -transcontinental
dirigible airship planes for pas
sengers and smaller middle western
lines were announced yesterday by
Charles Ora, head of the Commercial
Aircraft syndicate, which is supported
by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com
pany of Akron, O. Air. Ora declared
that he has made arrangements for
the construction of 35 ships ten each
of six, 12 and 50-passenger capacity
which will be used on the middle
western lines, and five ships having a
capacity of 200 passengers which will
be used on the transcontinental lines.
The first routes will take in these
cities, he said:
Kansas City, Denver, Tulsa, Okla
homa City, Fort Worth, New Orleans,
Jackson, Memphis and Springfield, IlL
Officials of the syndicate estimated
that the cost of passenger airship
travel wouia not exceed 5 cents
mile.
ALLEGED REDS CONVICTED
30-DAY SEXTEXCE 3IETED OUT
BY SPOKAXE JUDGE.
MINERS' RISE PROTESTED
Coal Operator Says Increase Will
Be Passed to Consumer.
CEXTRALIA. TVash., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) B. H. Johnston, president of
the Mendota Coal A Coke company,
returned this week from Washington,
1 C, where he represented the op
erators of Lewis county at a meet
ing with the committee recently ap
pointed by President Wilson follow
ing the settlement of the coal strike.
At this meeting, which was at
tended by ten other Washington op
erators, representing S5 per cent of
the mines in the state, a protest was
filed against the 14 per cent increase
In wages on the grounds that no mine
In the state can pay it without in
creasing the price of coal.
JACK DEMPSEY INDICTED
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charges both Dempsey and Kearns
with a conspiracy may be two years
imprisonment and a fine of 92000 or
both for each. Under the count
charging Dempsey alone with draft
evasion, the penalty may be one year
or less in jaiL The latter offense is
a misdemeanor, while the former Is a
felony.
The Indictments against Dempsey
and Kearns came as a result of the
declarations of Mrs. Maxine Dempsey,
divorced wife of the fighter, who. it
Is said, charged that Dempsey had
intimidated her into signing an affi
davit to corroborate bis statements
erdlct Reached by Jury After
32 Hours of Deliberation.
One Defendant III.
SPOKAXE, Wash., Feb. 25.--Eight
alleged members of the L W. W. be
gan today serving sentences of 30
days in the city jail, following their
conviction in superior court here to
day of violating the city criminal
lyndicalism ordinance. Their attorney,
John Roche, waived the right of ap
peal to the supreme court.
The eight men are Chester Brown,
William Dirk, Jack Gillis, Stanley
Hovey. Jacob Ketola, Ira Hope. Guy
Powers and Tom V ilson. J. B. Clark,
the 11th defendant, was taken ill with
nfluenza on the second day of the
trial, and will be tried again later.
The verdict, reached by the jury
after 32 hours' deliberation, was re
turned, sealed, at 10:30 o'clock last
night. It was opened at the conven
ing of court this forenoon.
In a former superior court trial of
the 11 defendants to the present ac
tion with 33 others, the jury dis
agreed. Charges against the other 3
were dismissed, the prosecuting at
torney declaring, his belief that the
men. who had already been in jail
for the term to which they were sen
tenced in police court, should be released.
GILL- NETTER ABSOLVED
Washington Supreme Court Rules
Report on Catch Only Accessary.
OL.YMPIA, Wash., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Gill-net fishers are not re
quired to file reports with the state
fish commissioner as to the number
of fish cauht during the preceding
four months where they have not
caught fish during that time, the su
preme court decides in reversing the
conviction of W. M. Hoffman in the
superior court of Wahkiakum county
for failure to rue a repon on marcn
31, 1918.
Hoffman was the owner of a gill
net license for the Columbia river and
owned a fish boat and gill net. He
was prosecuted on the theory that the
law required a report regardless of
results that might attend his fishing
activities. The court holds that there
is nothing in the 1917 laws which re
quires a report merely as a report,
and that the penalty is provided for
failure to report fish caught.
APPROVAL IS LOOKED FOR
(Continued From First Paee.)
STOLEN CAR RECOVERED
Auto Taken From Astoria Year Ago
Found on Grays Harbor.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 27.
(Special.) An automobile, practically
new when stolen a year ago from
Astoria, Or., has been recovered by
the sheriff s office here and prob
ably will be turned over to the es
tate of John Coren. to which it be
longed.
R. C. Julian Is alleged to have sold
the car to Harry Druxman, here on
representation that he owned it
Druxman sold it to the Poulson Bros.
company and the Poulson company
sold it to T. M. Smith, a logger at
Carlisle. A warrant is now out for
the arrest of Julian, whase where
abouts are not known. It is stated
Druxman will be the loser unless he
can find Julian and compel him to
give up the amount paid.
RULING ON CHURCH PENDS
Christian
Taken
Science Litigation
Under Advisement.
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BOSTOX. Feb. 27. Judge Crosby of
the supreme court, after hearing ar
guments by counsel in the Christian
Science church litigation today took
under advisement a motion by coun
sel for the directors of the church
that Frederick Dodge, as master in
the suits, be directed to hear further
evidence before filing his report. The
evidence which the directors wish to
introduce is in connection with the
suit of John V. Dittemore against the
directors to compel them to recognize
him as a member of their board.
No action was taken by Judge
Crosby on a motion by counsel for
the directors that the time for filing
of the master's report which expires
on March 1 be extended to March 15.
He remarked, however, that there
was some question about the legality
of granting such an extension unless
requested by the master himself.
e-in the task of overcoming that deft
cit. It was estimated that the roads
are three years behind in passenger
ram two vears behind In locomotives,
one year behind in freight cars and
two vears behind in Pullman cars.
With the resumption of private con
trol and under the- provisions ot tne
bill every agency connected with the
operation or railways la upon n
the statement said.
The statement continued:
"The legislation marks a new de
parture on the part of congress in
its policies with respect to regulat
ing the Instrumentalities of interstate
commerce. Whatever differences of
opinion may exist as to the adequacy,
the desirability or the validity of
some-of the provisions, there must be
universal recognition of the high and
patriotic purpose of those in congress
chiefly responsible for the legisla
tion. "The government policy of the fu
ture will, no doubt, depend upon the
success of the experiment now made.
"The act itself is about to enter
upon its "test period.' If under the
system which it establishes the credit
of the carriers is made sufficient to
enable them to perform their public
duties, the legislation will, by uni
versal concession, be a success. If,
on the other hand, such credit is not
established, the legislation will be a
failure.
"In addition to the act, the Inter
state commerce commission, the sev
eral state commissions, the labor
unions and the carriers themselves
are all on trial.
"The interstate commerce commis
sion is on trial because the powers
conferred upon that body by this bill
are so enormous and so far-reaching
that it will become largely responsi
ble for the success or failure of the
system of regulation.
"The state commissions are on trial,
because, if they hold back and refuse
to co-operate with the interstate com
merce commission in establishing a
harmonious system of rates to apply
to both state and interstate commerce
of the same carrier, they wlil inter
Dose an obstacle in the way of sue- j
cess of the system for which public
opinion will hold them responsible.
"The labor unions are on trial be-
SYRUP FRAUD; FINES PAID
Cafes and Restaurants at Spokane
Admit Guilt.
SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Proprietors of ien cafes, res
taurants and cafeterias, among the
best in the city, including the Daven
port hotel, the Pacific hotel and the
Culbertson, Grote-Rankin company,
each paid fines of 525 and costs after
pleading guilty today before Justice
Stocker to charges of selling imitation
maple syrup under tffo name of the
original.
Various reasons were given for in
ability to serve the genuine. Carl
Siegle, who paid the fine for 'the
Davenport, stated that it was impos
sible to obtain pure maple syrup.
ROAD CLOSING OPPOSED
Shutting Up of Highway During
Paving Causes Protest.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Feb. 27. (Spe
cial.) Announcement by contractors
that the Columbia river highway
would be closed throughout the 24
hours of the day between here and
Wyeth when two shifts of paving
crews are put to work the latter part
of April has aroused a volume of
protest, and local citizens are con
sidering an appeal to the state high
way commission. Portland traveling
salesmen, who make their frequent
calls on patrons by automobile are
joining the local folk in a protest
against totally closing the road.
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view of entering into the specifica
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state highway engineer, following a
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