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TIE-UP OF TRAFFIC
:, 15 FACED BY
PARIS
Sympathetic' Strike ' With
Railwaymen Planned.
intersection of Fourth and Jefferson
James I'olikioniH was run over and
fatally injured at 7:30 last rfight. He
was struck by an auto truck operated
by Antone Schai. who was delivering
milk for the City dairy at 653 Vfe Sec
ond street. The driver was arrested
pending investigation. Jo charges
were filed against him. however. Poll
kionis died a few minutes later In an
ambulance on the way to St. Vincent's
hospital. .
Poli kionis was working with a rali
road section gang and had been sum
moned to repair the switch, near
which a car had gone off the track
earlier ii the day. He was stopping
over on the track and had no light
fat the time the dairy truck came by.
HIGH ORDER IS. AWAITED
Subway, Tramway, Omnibuses and
Taxicab Operators Prepare :
to Join in Walkout.
TARIS, Feb. 29. The subway and
tramway employes and the omnibus,
cab and taxicab drivers' unions held
several meetings today and adopted
in principle a proposal to call a sym
pathetic strike in favor of the rail
way men, provided they are invited
to do so by the general federation of
labor, which has assumed direction of
the present strike movement.
Delegations of the Parisian unions
of railway men have requested Pre'
mier Millcrand to receive their dele
gates. Apparently the dismissal of
the railwayman, Campanaud, for ab
sence from duty to attend a union
meeting has been relegated to the
background and the railwaymen's
'laims are now headed by a demand
for nationalization of the railroads.
The price of bread, which was sched
ulrd to advance from 20 to 30 per
cent tomorrow, will remain station
ary, the. government deciding to post
pone the increase until March 15.
MiniMry Hrada Called.
Premier Millerand this morning
convened the heads of the ministries
affected by the railroad strike and
tho directors of the companies, who
submitted reports of conditions.
. Isolated attempts to damage the
lines had been foiled, the director of
the Orleans system declared.
The conferees were agreed that the
reports of the directors showed the
situation as a whole to be rather
favorable with provisioning assured.
I order to maintain the present
stocks of coal several economies have
been ordered.
Cafes and public establishments
will be closed at 10 P. M. with the ex
ception of theaters and motion pic
ture houses, which are permitted to
remain open .until 11 o'clock. The
subways will stop running at 11:30
J M. Other coal restrictions in ef
fect during the war will be put into
force.
Bulletin to Br tanned.
Premier Millerand said that hence
forth the minister of public works
would issue an official statement
each morning and evening.
"There is no total stoppage on any
system, not even on theJ'aris, Lyons
.and Mediterranean. In fact, a gen
eral strike does not exist." said the
premier. "There was absolutely no
question in the present strike of pro
fessional demands, such demands hav
ing been put forward only after the
event. A special commission is
studying the question of a scale of
wages and a statute for railroad men
whose representatives failed to attend
Yesterday's commission meeting. The
strike has no connection with' the
question of establishing a new
regime for the railroads.
"The government has received nu
merous offers of private initiative in
provisioning. The situation offers no
uneasiness. The Paris reserves are
fully sufficient and an automobile
transport service is ready to operate.
while the postal service continues
normal." ' f
The premier affirmed the govern
ment's intent to repress any incite
ment to violence with the greatest
coolness and firmest resolution.
THEATER SITE LEASED
PROPERTY OX SIXTH XEAR
WASHINGTON TAKEN.
Julius Sax Company Plans to Ke
moclel Building Now Occu
pied by New Grand.
The lease of the two-story building
occupying 100 feet on the west side of
Sixth street, between Washington and
Stark streets, and including the Xew
Crand theater, has been obtained by
the Julius Sax Theater company. The
property will be taken over with the
beginning of th lease September 1.
The lease runs for a period of five
years, it has been announced, and
the rental stipulated in the contract
is said to be in the neighborhood of
J20O.000 for the entire period.
.The execution of the lease will
mean that the Sax company, which
now manages the Princess theater,
will take over the New Grand theater,
located In the leased property,
from the New Grand Amusement com
pany, Fred Langerman, owner. While
September 1 is set as the date, th
property may be secured sooner. The
New Grand will be completely reno
vated and enlarged immediately 'after
the new lessees take possession, it
was announced. Under the new man
agement a new line of pictures is
planned, and the house will remain
open from 9 A. M. one day until i
o'clock the next morning.
That the theater may be consider
ably enlarged or a new theater con
structed was considered possible, al
though Mr. Sax stated that he had no
statement, to make in this regard. The
rest of the building will be re-leased
along the same lines as at present.
The lease was obtained from S.
Morton Cohn, owner of the property,
Metzger, Parker, Ferguson and Wilder
brothers acting as agents.
IITEC1,11,1D
AS WFE OF CHINESE
Mother Bares Plot of Orien
tals in Underworld.
GRIM STORY IS RELATED
Woman Victim Exhibits Kcnra n.wl
Says Clilnuiiiun Persecuted Her
for Past Ten Years. -
they'd kiU.me if I betrayed them,
know they will now. But I'm through.
I d rather die, anyway.
French Extremist Arrested.
PARIS, Feb. 29. (Havas.) The po
lice today arrested an extreme social
ist named Loreal. who is alleged to
have been the author of an article in
Le Libertalre. tending to incite young
soldiers to disobedience of orders de
signed to keep the railroads open.
E SEEN
YREKA MAY BUY ROAD
California Town .Faces Problem
Through Junking of Branch Line.
YREKA. Cal.. Feb. 29. (Special)
Strenuous efforts are being made here
by a committee of citizens to raise
$25,00 by March 1 for the purchase of
the railroad line which connects this
own with the soutnern pacmc anasta
route at Montague. The committee is
composed of R. H. JJcWitt. S. H. Wil-
ims, C. J. Luttell and' J. JS. Turner.
The citizens, of Yreka have been no
tified that unless the road is pur
chased by March 1 1t will be aban
doned and junked. The town of Yreka
formerly owned the line, but later sold
It to San Francisco capitalists, who
now assert that it is unprofitable.
Jt is estimated that it will require
an expenditure of $10,000 to place the
line in condition for traffic.
SATURNALIAS REVELS LAID TO
LACK OF LIQUOR.
Detroit Prelate in Lenten Serinon
Attributes Ulterior Motives to
Anti-Liquor Forces.
DETROIT. Mich., Feb. 29. (Spe
cial.) Prohibition is "the cause of
voluptuousness.' according to the
Rev. John A. McClorey, University of
Detroit, who denounced saturnallan
revels of indecorous dancing and de
i. moralizing drinking in a Lenten lec
ture today.
Moderation coming from enlight
enment is tne only way to curb exces
sive drinking, the speaker said; that
' alcoholic drinks are only the sweet
er and more desirable from being for
bidden. He declared already habit
forming drugs have replaced strong
. drink to a great extent, and the devil,
grvnning. - siys: "King alcohol is
dead: Ions live king dope."
"Christ never preached, either by
example or words, against feasting,
dancing, music, singing and socia
bility," declared Father McClorey.
"nor ,-israinst wine, tobacco or beer
against nice manners, nice garments
; and winsomness. There is no blue
law in his code, no long faces among
his followers: no blue-nosed dispens
ers of vinegar, who after ail are just
, as bad as are the red-nosed imbibers
'ofwhisky and wine, but he said
some fierce things against hypocrites
who called him a wine-bibber.
"Prohibition is largely resixmsihle
for the present day voluptuaries'; stol-
en fruit is tne sweetest and forbidden
"- liquor is the most appealing1. The
. ' law was saddled or. the nation by the
political macninery. it is the work
Dce Pf a powerfully financed majority
no -who hope hy means of the law to get
the nore worn out or tne day laborers.'
OIL ENTHUSIASTS BUSY
New Product Evidenced in Medford
I-'ollouing "Prospects."
MEDFORD, Or., Feb. 29. (Special.)
The latest product in Medford is oil
enthusiasts. They are here on every
street corner and roaming in ail parts
of the surrounding country. Their
latest feat has been to secure an op
tion on the top of Roxy Anne, Med
ford's mountain, which rises 1000 feet
from the level of the city and is
mass of rock and scrub oak. There
are several coal mines at the base of
the mountain.
In fact there isn't a square foot in
the vicinity -of Medford that hasn't
had its oil rights tied up 'by either
one of the four companies, or by some
of the oil enthusiasts' brigade. The
first actual drilling starts Monday.
BANKS READY TO CONSERVE
Contlnued From First Page.)
was a tendency to resist the advance
in prices and that greater care was
being exercised in purchasing, all of
which were regarded as favorable
symptoms.
eneral manufacturing was re
ported; very active all over the coun
try. Wholesale trade conditions were
said' to be prosperous almost through
out the country. In reporting individ
ual lines the statement remarked that
the demand for good grades of shoe$
regardless of price, seems to continue
and shoe price lists for the new. sea-J
sun are uiguer. man ever.
Improvement was noted in federal
labor conditions. There- waa'an "un
favorable aspect," however, a tendency
reported from various districts to
ward a restriction of output. . Even
in thos cases, it was shown, the
opinion was occasionally expressed
that the effect of the restrictive pol
icy is begipning to be understood by
those practicing it as injuring them
as much as any other class.
Tho mnct nrinut aitnallnn i U n
labor field is that of farm workers.
A genuine scarcity is noted which,
the board feared, might result on a
reduction in farm1 acreage. '
BUMiWAMTON, N. Y.. Feb. 29.
(Special.) "I give UD. They have
hounded me from London to Hong
kong. They have taken 10 years of
my life and they'll kill me for this,
but they deserted-me when I needed
them and I'm going to tell every
thing."
iirs. Marie Chin Wore, the Greek
wife of a Chinese, who was arrested
yesterday, accused of selling an' il
v ear-old girl into marriage, clutched
nervously the bars of her cell here
this afternoon, and then revealed a
plot that rivals the most lurid crimes
of the Italian Mafia.
In her confession made before two
newspapermen and the police matron,
she made these statements: -
1. That she was forced by the se
cret Chinese organization to turn over
her adopted child, Anna Michaelson,
to David Lee Nong, a local restaurant
proprietor, and that she had no alter
native but death fn compelling the
child to become the wife of the Chi
nese in this city in September.
Opium SmDKglinK Chanted.
2. That David Lee Nong of this
city ad Jim Lee are the chief conspir
ators here in a g;vng which has smug
gled opium -acroELi the Canadian bor
der and has tentacles Stretched across
the country.. ,
3. That for several years she had
been a tool in the hands of the gang,
shadowed night and day, and forced
to smuggle opium into this country
and to assist . in bringing Chinese
across tne Dorder.
i.- That twice she tried t n PKca ne
tne clutches of the secret society
and each tloio.was nearly killed. Once
she was sfiot in the neck and once
she was stabbed . in the right arm
(the scars are plainly discernible).
Girl Wife Get Dolt '
While Mrs. Wore was making the
strange confession in jail this after
noon, the 11-year-old girl wife, who
is alleged to have been sold by the
woman to David Nong, was in a de
tention ward nearby laughing her
heart out over a new doll which the
matron gave her.
The marriage took nlace in .Sen-
wore tnen-went with
TRANSFER CONTROL PLAN
Movement .on Foot to "Change
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River Jurisdiction.
NEW YORK, Feb. 29. Transfer of
the control of river and harbor im
provements given army engineer
corps, whose work along civil lines
is termed "costly and obsolete, to
proposed national department of pub
lie works, is urged in a statement to
night by the National Department of
Public Works association.
The new department would take
over public works of the nation now
supervised by numerous federal de
partments and bureaus.
"Many engineer officers, the state
ment said, "have been frank enough
to admit that the bone and sinew of
their engineering work on the rivers
and harbors is the civilian engineer
so-called 'assistant engineer who re
mains on the job year after year,
knows it from end to end and carries
it through, while his commissioned
superiors come and reign and go.
. A national move to further the
movement for a new department, in
dorsed, the statement said, by Her
bert Hoover, Governors Lowden (Illi
nois) and Coolidge (Massachusetts)
and General W. W. Atterbury, will be
begun this week.
BID FOR U. S. AID IS MADE
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temtxr. Airs. Wors th i n
tne cnild and the man who is al
leged to have bought her. to the city
judge. He refused to perform the
marriage, although they had a mar
riage license. The same nigtit Rev.
T. Valentine Parker, a Baptist min
ister, pertormcd the ceremonv.
The child was kept under close sur
veillance for several days. Finally
sne supped away to New York and
was round wandering on the Bowery
ih.-x. weex. miss Mary E. Banta, i
Chinese missionary and welfare work
luuua ner ano tne autnoritles ar
ranged tor her return here.
Abdm-tlon Charges Made.
ine iormal charge against Mrs.
Wore is abduction. She does not deny
that the child was forced to mnrrv th.
t- iiiuese, uui sne declares tnat the pur-
puce, iiuu as named by the
child, was not given to her. If any
one' got it, she said, it was the' lead
ers ot tne secret organization.
airs, wore Is a woman of hieh edu
cation and apparent culture.
I fell in with the Chinese in Lon
don," she said this afternoon. "Onfum
caused it all. f couldn't resist it.
They took me to Hongkong. I couldn't
get out of their sight. They brought
e back- to San Francisco. Alwnvs
mere was one to nound
tences quoted at the start of this
article, which were the keynote of all
his utterances. ,
"We require peace," he -went on
"for the re-establishment of economic
stabilization. During these 18 months
in which all the powers of the im
peralislic capitalism the world over
could bring to bear against us were
striving to encompass our destruction
we have had to concentrate all our
efforts on military measures. We
have had to sacrifice the welfare of
our people and the health of future
generations to the desperate needs of
the hour To tear from our throat
hands that were seeking to strangle
us, we were forced to transform a
peace-loving population of workers
and peasants into an armed camp in
those 18 months. By dint of stupen
dous endeavor we have organized a
really strong army, and with it we
have beaten off every attempt which
the criminals of the entente and czar-
ism have made to murder the revolution.
'No other state in the world could
have done what Russia, bankrupt,
bleeding and starved as she was by
four years of imperialistic massacres,
has done in the past two years. In
France, in England, even in America,
the peoples were sick of slaughter
that the capitalists had engineered".
Hopeless of better things to come,
they had refused to follow iheir
rulers further along the bloody road
to ruin. Ask Clemenceau. ask Lloyd
George, whether they can get together
an army today of the strength and
spirit of ours.
Peace Moves Reported.
"They" cannot do it because the
workers of their countries have be- j
gun to realize, dimly as yet but daily,
the villainous tasks to which the sol-j
diers of bourgeois governments are
put. Powerless to further conscript
inejr own subjects, ine enxente ana f
the helpless subjects of the entente
and America bribe and .bully czarist
reactionaries and neipiess little na
tions to wage war against us. The
defeats our proletarian fighting men
have inflicted on their mercenary an
tagonists, however," are bound to have
a salutary effect. Already all the Bal
tic states are conferring with our
emissaries with a view to peace. Peace
is merely a matter of time, and I re
peat that whichever nation is first to
resume friendly relations with Rus
sia will be the first to reap the com
mercial harvest sown by- such a step.'
"DOLLAR BOND" ADOPTED
me.v Then tn
New York. My work was to smuggle
opium for them and to help smuggle 1 through the sale of about
across inff DOffler. 1 know In anph
Plan 'to Raise Republican Cam-
. paign Fund Approved. '!
TRENTON, N. J Feb. 29. Repub
lican' state headquarters here-Saturday
announced that the republican
national committee has adopted the
New Jersey "dollar bond plan" to.be
used in raisAg funds for the national
campaign.
This plan, inaugurated by- the re
publican state committee, is expected
j to realize from $100,000 to $50,000-j
me etie ui auuDi au oonos
of more than 2000 election
TO THE PUBLIC:
Today the railroad lines of the Southern Pacific Company are returned to their
owners for operation. As a war measure they have been in charge of the govern
ment during the last two years arid two months. The stockholders in that period
had nothing to do with the management
In taking over the management of this property, the policy of the owners will be to give as satisfactory
service as lies in their power in return for the patronage given us; to seek the co-operation of shippers and
passengers and of the whole people in having our service reasonably responsive to the public needs. -
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We have to ask the patient forbearance of the public during the readjustment period of the next six
months. It is true during these six months the government continues the standard return allowed tho. lines
while under its control, based on the pre-war earnings. But this return is subject to certain legislative
directions by congress that will affect operations during this period, which ends August 31 next. We expect,
however, within this six months to mature plans for the future. These plans had to be held in abeyance thus
far because of uncertainty as to the legislative conditions to accompany the return of the roads to their owners
for operation, and these conditions have been determined by congress only within the last few days. We now
have to study what is before us in law and in fact and get our bearings anew.
The operating organization as it existed under Southern Pacific management has been to some extent
disarranged during the period of federal control and operating practices have been changed, but the benefit
of any new practices that may have proved efficient in the public service during the government control
period, will, of course, be retained. .
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We could not purchase equipment after we entered the war because the government took control Ind war
financing occupied the fields-while during the rest of the time the question of adequate credit had to wait for
answer in congressional action. On the other hand, the locomotives and cars in service have been subjected to
the most active use and new rolling stock has not been renewed throughout the country in normal numbers
for the increase of normal traffic. The burden of extraordinary war movements fell heavily upon all kinds of
rolling stock,, making it impossible to shop the equipment at the proper time, and repair work was further
delayed by shortage' during the larger part of the war period in both men and material.
The problem before us at once, therefore, is how to put to the best use the passenger train cars and the
freight cars that are in service, and how to put into good condition for service every piece of equipment to be
had. This problem is before every railroad. Abreast of this is the larger question whether the earnings under
the new law, the "Transportation Act of 1920," will be enough to establish the credit of the railroads at a point
where they can provide themselves with the facilities of all kinds that they need to give the public proper
service. We have the will if only we can find the ways and means. These are not easy to find, for an
assumed earning of even 6 pencent, and no assurance of that, is not attractive to anyone having money to
invest when money is worth 7 or 8 per cent in the open market.
Hence, the effect of the new act of congress upon earnings and upon the credit of the railroads cannot be
immediately determined. This act provides for a rate-making structure, under which, during the next two
years the railroads will be permitted to earn up to 5 per cent annually on the value of the railroads as
may be determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission has power at its discretion to
increase these possible earnings to 6 per cent, the added one-half of 1 per cent to be used only for improvc
: ments' to-the property. -
No guarantee of any kind is given to any railroad, but half of any earnings over 6 per cent are to be taken
by the government to make loans to railroads that may need them for improvements or to care for obligations
falling due, or to obtain and lease equipment to the carriers that cannot afford to buy it.
Obviously these elements in the situation will have to be considered in making our plans. The Interstate
Commerce Commission is the deciding body with respect to value of the properties, as well as the rates which
are to, yield the 5jper cent return thereon, and much will depend upon the vision and promptness of action
with which that body accepts its great responsibilities.
In the meantime, it is particularly desirable, in view of the shortage of equipment, that every effort bo
made by shippers and the railway forces to continue heavy car loading and train loading, and to loso no time
in loading and unloading cajs.
Believing that we will have the full co-operation of the people served by our lines in dealing with the
problems presented, it is due them that in thus aiding us they should know what problems we huve to meet
You can rest assured we are not idle with respect to them.
YM. SPKOULE, President.
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districts in the tate "to be payable
in the election of a republican presi
dent." In-reality, the bond is a cam
paign contribution.
60, a veteran actor, who with Joseph
Hart, formed one of the most famous
of variety "teams" 30 years ago, dfed
here Saturday.
Kelso Lifts "Flu" Ran..
KKT,SO. Wash., Feb. 29. Special.
The Kelso healtn authorities lifted
the ban against public gatherings,
which was put into effect bv the Cow
lit county health ooard last week.
The Influenza situation Is greatly Im
proved here and the number of cases
has been materially decreaned.
School will resume tomorrow nnd the
churches held services today as usual.
There was only one death locally on
account of influenza. '
Records show Hint dwarfs liavn
been known to live tn the ptrlarchl
uuc of 9? years, whrrean Blunts uru
Hlly die white cotupH rn 1 1 velv votinv.
The movement of drifting ice in the
far north is about two miles a day:
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TURKS MAKE ADVANCES
Roporj Indicates French Are in Re-
treat Refore Enemy.
LONDON, Feb. 29. An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch fnom Cairo an
nounces that Turks and Arabs have
occupied Alexandretta, in southeastern
Asio Minor.
This, it .is believed, may indicate
the French forces In this region are
steadily retreating before enemy con
centrations on the Aintab-Afarasb
line.
MAN KILLED BY TRUCK
Section Hand Fatally Injured
While Working on Switch.
While he was on his hands and
knees in the street repairing a switch
on the Southern Pacific line at the
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