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VOL,. LIX NO. 18,52.
::nte-d at Portland (Oregon)
f tcf?c a Second -Olas Matter.
PORTLAND OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 7, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LAND IN WEST FOR
VETERANS FAVORED
AIR PATROL IN WEST
CUT TO 1 SQUADRON
;
ARMY GENERAL- 'r STAFF RE
VERSES ' POSITION AGAIN.
EXPORTS IN QUARTER
REACH $14,561,582
PORTLAND RECORDS KEPT Bt
MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE.
BRUTALITY BLAME
DENIED BY HARTS
American General Dis
AIRMEN DO PICKETING
OF BRITISH EMBASSY
IRISH SYMPATHIZERS IN
PLANES DEFY LAW.
ESSEN CAPTURED;
FRANCE IS DEFIED-
Germans Continue Ruhr
Campaign on Reds.
ffl HTAIHS LEAD
TEXANTS SEEK RELIEF UXDER
ANTI-EVICTlOX LAW.
General Wood Far Behind
in Michigan Race.
EBWABBS AHEAD UF HOGVER
Lowden in Third Place on
Republican Ticket.
DETROIT FOR CALI
formia
Senator Declares He Is Jeirlblj
Oralorul to Veoplc of MW'lilgsm
foi- Rcmarkablf Vlciory.
T..r.Tr:01T. M.ch.. 1 1 i- Returns
f.cm n .'S -ecl.icts oul 01" 2421 in the
state on both republican and demo
cratic candidates showed little change
early tonight in the 'race between
Senator Hiram W. Johnson and Major
General Leonard Wood for the re
publican presidential indorsement of
Michigan voters, while Governor Ed
wards of New Jersey forged ahead
of Herbert Hoover on the democratic
ballot.
The totals for the leaders were: Re
publican Johnson, 117,436; Wood, 73.
222. Democrats lid wards, 54.472;
Hoover, 51,535.
lowd and Hoover Close.
Governor Lowden's total was 38,208
and the republican vote for Hoover,
whose name appeared on both re
publican and democratic tickets, was
37.529. I-ate tabulations were not
available on General Pershing and
Senator Miles Poindexter, who had
received early today 5512 and 894,
respectively.
On the democratic ticket, William
G. McAdoo's total was 34,767, with
William J. Bryan receiving 28,987.
Last reports on Attorney-General
Palmer gave 6950. Few returns were
available from the socialist primary
in which Eugene V. Debs was unop
posed for presidential indorsement.
Detroit Is for Johnson.
While Senator Johnson's great
strength was shown in Wayne county
(Detroit), he had, on the face of the
incomplete returns, carried six of the
13 congressional districts and was
trailing closely behind Wood in the
remaining seven, which comprise for
the most part sections where General
"Wood's supporters were expecting to
show a comfortable margin.
Governor Edwards' support came
chiefly from Wayne county, although
i he polled a comparatively heavy vote
j in Saginaw, Kent, Ingham, Oakland
' and St. Joseph counties, all populous
districts. Hoover's democratic sup
port came proportionately from rural
and city precincts.
Other Results Indicated.
Former Governor Fred M. Warner
Tim leading Oscar Marx, former mayor
of Detroit, for the nomination for re
publican national committeeman 6y
about 6000 votes. "William F. Con-
nelly was unopposed for the demo
cratic nomination.
NEW YORK. April 6. Senator
Hiram Johnson, now in this city, late
today issued the following statement
regarding the outcome of the Michi
gan primaries:
"I am terribly grateful to the peo
ple of Michigan for this remarkable
victory. The fight there was against
organized politics and organized ex.
ploitation of capital, and the result
tmonstrates that an American whose
S-Jfly ' attributes are those God gave
him can meet and whip these forces.
Michigan Flint Biar Test.
"We have done It. Michigan was
the first big popular tesi.. Hereto
fore we have had preferential pri
maries in North Dakota, which I won,
and the preferential primary In South
Dakota, which Wood won. Also a
trick primary in Minnesota, which I,
nevertheless, won.
"Michigan is the first of the big
states which had on the ballots only
the names of the candidates. Of
course, I am pleased at the result."
LINCOLN", Neb., April 6. United
States Senator Hiram W. Johnson of
California will open his Nebraska
campaign at Omaha next Monday,
Frank A. Harrison, his state cam
paign manager, announced today. He
-will remain in Nebraska about
week.
GAINESVILLE, Ga., April 6. Open
ing his campaign to obtain the sup
port of Georgia's delegation to the
democratic national convention, At
torney-General Palmer, in an address
here today, attacked the candidacy
of Senator Hoke Smith for the dem
ocratic presidential nomination, as
sailed the record of the republican
majority In congress and upheld the
position of President Wilson in the
treat- controversy.
THs attorney-general said he had
ent'red the Georgia primary because
"qflain enemies of the administra
tion" proposed to enter a candidate
"with the intention only to secure a
delegation to the San Francisco c6n
vention which might be controlled by
the critics of the administration.
"As I read the candidacy of Senator
Smith, he is not a real candidate for
president," said Mr. Palmer. "His
candidacy is intended only to embar
rass the president and the party
-bicU he lends."
Audience Applauds Court While
Applicants Get Farther Time in
Which to Find Quarters.
NEW TORK. April 6. Baby car
riages tcay blocked traffic in front
of a Brooklyn courthouse, so great
was (lie throng of evicted tenantB
seeking relief under new laws de
signed to curb profiteering in rent.
Whole iamrlies went to court, the
babies being lefts outside. W'hen the
parenls emerged, having obtained
time ;o hunt other apartments, their
Joy was not unmixed with concern at
the task of sorting out their children,
many of whom had exchanged car
riages by crawling from one to the
other. Most of the landlords agreed
to postpone evictions till July.
s,In Manhattan court more than 400
men. women and children engaged in
on enthusiastic demonstration when
the first 150 rent complainants were
(riven a she months' stay of eviction.
Tenants whose cases wefe awaiting
hearing applauded Justice Prince and
shouted their approval. Some stood
on benches and waved their hats in
joy.
Everv tinant found his appeal to
t:.e court successful, the landlords be
ing ordered to postpone evictions from
one to six months.
A street car conductor, who was in
court with his five children and had
already been allowed three months to
find a home, was given an additional
month. He offered his landlord a
month's rent, but Justice Prince told
him to keep his money.
MARY'S DIVORCE ROILS
Xevada Governor .Besieged With
Protests Against "Judiciary Joke."
SACRAMENTO! Cal.. April 6. Gov
ernor Boyle of Nevada, who . was in
Sacramento today, said his office was
being "deluged with telegrams from
influential persons in all parts of the
United States," asking him to stop
the investigation of circumstances
surrounding the divorce granted in
Nevada to Mary Pickford from Owen
Moore.
There was a feeling in Nevada, he
said, that "a joke had been made of
the judiciary."
Governor Boyle is en route to Seat
tle, where he will attend the north
western mining congress and seek aid
for the gold mining industry, which,
he said, was in decline.
NEW SUGAR PROBE BEGUN
Attorney General's Action Held
Costly One to Nation.
WASHINGTON', Apri 6. Investiga
tion was started today by the house
judiciary sub-committee of Attorney
General Palmer's action in fixing a
17 to 18-cent price for Louisiana cane
sugar as figures that would govern
federal action against profiteers.
Representative Tinkham, republic
an, Massachusetts, author of the reso-
lution directing the inquiry, told the
sub-committee that he would present
evidence to show that the attorney
general's action cost the American,
people 1900,000,000 in increased sugar
prices.
SOLDIER DEAD DUE TODAY
Bodies of 8 7 Americans Coming to
New York on Transport.
NEW YORK. April 6. The bodies
of 87 American soldiers, who died at
base hospitals and camps in England,
will arrive here tomorrow afternoon
on board the army transport Man
semond, it was announced today.
The arrival of the Mansemond will
bring to Ama:!c'a the first of her sol
dier dead from either France or Eng
land.
BREST, April 6. The L"nited
States transport Mercury will leave
here Friday for the United States
with thd bodies of ?15 American sol
diers who died in France.
PLANE-DIVER IS VISI0NED
Airship That Will Fly, Float and
Submerge Predicted.
LONDON, April 6. "The airship
which will fly, and. in fact, float and
submerge." is. in the judgment of Sir
Fortescue Flannery, M. P., "no im
possible dream of the future." This
statement is quoted from a speech
made at a banquet held recently by
the Society of Consulting Marine En
gineerB and ship surveyors, of which
Sir Fortescue is president.
He added that some present might
live to see this materialize.
PEACHES NET $10,000,000
California Growers Get Final Pay
ment for 19 19 Crop.
FRESNO, Cal., April 6. The Cali
fornia Peach Growers. Inc., will to
morrow mall checks amounting to
$2,500,000, representing final payment
for the 1919 crop, which brings the
total to approximately $10,000,000.
This is the highest amount ever
realized by growers for a single crop
of peaches.
SIREN RANGE 12 MILES
The Dalles' City Councils Order
' New Alarm Equipment.
THE DALLES. Or, April 6. (Spe
cial.) With a view to making the
fire alarm system of this city mod
ern, a siren whistle was ordered
bought by the city council today.
This siren can be heard 12 miles
asainst the wind, whereas the bell,
which has done duty heretofore, wai
icalletUYs cluiias heavy wifltU.
$250,000,000 for Recla
mation Seems Likely.
SUB-COMMITTEE LAYS PLANS
Opposition to Legislation Ap
pears to Be Waning.
OTHER PLANS PROPOSED
Six Ways of Making Adjustments
for ex-Service Men Under
Consideration in House.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, April 6. Prospects for
enlarged reclamation developments in
the west became unexpectedly bright
today in the consideration of soldiers
relief legislation by a subcommittee
of the ways and means committee of
which Representative Hawley of Ore
gon is chairman.
The funds which were sought re
cently by western governors in a con
certed mission to Washington appear
likely now to be obtained without
opposition through the plan to aid
soldiers. It is thought more than
probable that the recommendation of
the Hawley subcommittee will call for
J250.000.000 for reclamation by Irri
gation and drainage.
This differs from the plan worked
out at the last meeting of the west
ern states reclamation association at
Salt Lake, Utah., in that it would in
clude reclamation by drainage, thus
letting the southern states and other
states having marsh lands into thu
general project. Any recommendation
made by this subcommittee, it is an
ticipated, will be approved by the full
ways and means committee, thereby
assuring its passage by the house.
Six Plans Open.
It was learned today that six dif
ferent plans for aiding the soldiers
are under consideration by the house
committee to be placed at the option
of the former soldier, sailor or ma
rine. If the plan Is worked out on
the general committee outline, vet
erans, will be permitted to select any
one of the following proposals:
Homes on lands reclaimed by irri
gation or drainage.
Homes on lands other than those
named in plan No. 1.
Homes in city or town.
Vocational education.
Paid-up insurance.
Bonus in cash.
The theory of the committee is that
the first four proposals are in the
nature of development of the coun
try and permanent benefit to the vet
eran and for this reason an effort will
be put forth to make them excep
tionally attractive. In providing
homes under the first three plans.
the ' veteran would be given credit
on the purchase price at the probable
rate of $1.50 for each day of military
service.
The veterans also would have the
preference right of employment in
the course of construction work nec
essary to preparing the land for set
tlement. Lou May Be Made.
He could draw his wages in cash
or have it apply as further credit on
purchase price of land or on improve
ments. In addition to a credit of so
much per day for service on the pur
chase price of the land, one proposal
receiving serious consideration in
working out the details of soldier
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Enlistment of Officers Needed for
Six Squadrons Held Impossible.
Under Present Orders.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, April 6. After with
drawing its objection to the Arnold
project for an air- patrol of all the
forests of the Pacific coast and north
west states, the general staff of the
army appears to have changed its at
titude once more.
The excuse for the reversal of its
position was that the air service is
short almost 200 officers in its enlist
ed personnel. For this reason it was
sard that there must be a vast cur
tailment of the Arnold project, which
called for six squadrons of 18 planes,
each squadron manned by 192 officers
and 792 enlisted men.
The general staff has accordingly
issued an order providing for only
one squadron of 21 planes, or enough
to patrol only the forests of California
and Oregon, with the. main base at
Mather field. Sacramento.
The war department contended that
it ,is impossible to enlist the needed
officers to make a complete air patrol
possible because of a regulation which
bars the reinstatement of discharged
officers, except in case of an emer
gency. Senator Nugent of Idaho took the
position that the situation due to the
heavy forest losses in Idaho and Mon
tana last year is sufficiently grave
for the secretary of war to declare
an emergency and open the way for
the reinstatement of many discharged
officers who are eager to return to the
air service. He will urge such a
course upon the war department to
morrow as the means of carrying out
the Arnold project in all its details.
EUGENE, Or., April 6. (Special.)
A "flying circus" will visit Eugene,
Portland and other cities of the Wil
lamette valley some time in May, ac
cording to a letter received by the
Eugene chamber of commerce today
from Colonel H. H. Arnold, commander
of the air service of the army on the
Pacific coast.
'The letter stated that every air
plane that can be spared from its
duties with the western department
will be sent north to amuse and In
struct the people of this valley. This
is in response to a request of E. C.
Simmons, chairman of the airplane
committee of the local chamber. It is
stated that all kinds of planes will be
sent, including- De Havilands. Spads,
Sopwlths, Curtissand perhaps other
makes.
Governor Ben Olcott will be 'Invtted
to speak in Eugene during the circus,
and representatives of Portland air
plane companies are looked for. Avi
ators of the forest service who will
be here by May 1 will drop literature
all over the western part of the state,
advertising the event.
MILLIONS LOST BY FROST
Oklahoma Fruit Crops Damaged
by Recent Blizzard.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 6.
Damage to the Oklahoma fruit crop
resulting from the freezing tempera
tures of the unprecedented blizzard ot
Saturday and Sunday will be in ex
cess of 5,000,000.
This estimate was made public' to
day by John A. Whitehurst, president
of the state board of agriculture.
IRISH SPEECH PROTESTED
Birmingham, Ala., Legion Averse
to De Valera Address.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. April 6. The
local post of the American Legion
presented resolutions to the city com
missioners today protesting against
a. proposed, address here by Kamonn
De Valera, president of the 'Irish re
public. The address is scheduled to be de
livered on the night of April 21.
SEEMS THAT THERE WAS A BIG
Shipments of Flour to Off-Shore
' Points Amount to $7,139,779.
Lumber Valued at $883,142.
. Exports from Portland to off-shore
points during the first quarter of 19-0
reached the grand total of 114,561,532
in value, according to records kept
by the Merchants' Exchange. Of this
total. J7.139.779 represented the value
of flour exported. Miscellaneous gen
eral cargo, shipped principally to the
orient, accounted for JS, 443,084. Lum
ber shipments during the three months'
period were valued at $884,142, and
ties shipped to the United Kingdom
were responsible for the balance of
J95.577.
As compared with last year, when
exports for the first three months of
the - year totaled - $9,753,288. export
business for the first quarter of the
present year show an '.increase of
roughly 55 per cent.- The figures compiled-
by the Merchants' Exchange
gave ample evidence that Portland's
commerce had fully recovered from
the disastrous effects of the war, and
is in fact now several times greater
than It was before the conflict. As
compared with the first three months
of. 1913 the exports for the quarter
just completed show an increase of
366 per cent, and a still greater per
centage of increase over the exports
for the first three months of 1914.
Exports for the period from Janu
ary 1 to March 31 in 1913 amounted
to J3. 696,397, in 1914 to $2,985,635. and
in 1919 to $9,753,288. These figures
are from the files of the customs
house.
A classification by ports of desti
nation ot the exports in all commodi
ties for the first three months ,of 1920
shows "New York for orders" leading
the list, with a total of J7, 118, 360. The
next place in order is taken by the
orient, with a total of $6,854,637. Eu
rope rank's next, with a total of $271.
364. Exports to South America dur
ing this period amounted to $134,433.
Other destinations in the order of
their value were Australia. $83,328;
South Africa. $50,800. and Egypt,
$48,460.
To make up the total value of all
exports to all destinations as noted
above, 713.802 barrels of flour were
exported, 23,751,292 board feet of
lumber, 3,961.496 feet of ties, and
29,173 tons of general cargo.
Of the three months' business in
cluded in the Merchants' Exchange
report, the heaviest was February,
with a total of $6,705,380. Exports for
January amounted to $4,630,500. and
the total for Marchwas $5,977,449.
An analysis of the commerce of
March alone showed the exportation
of $7,139,779 worth of flour. $6,443,084
of general cargo, $883,142 of lumber
and no ties.
Classified by ports of destination,
the export business for March showed:
To the orient, $3,133,483; to New York
for orders, $7,118,560; to Europe, $9464
and to South America, $113,214.
During the period from January 1
to March 31, 1920, 29 vessels cleared
from Portland for off-shore ports as
follows: Nine to New York for orders,
seven for the orient, six for Europe,
three for . South America, two for
Australia, one for South Africa and
one for Egypt.
HORSES POISONED BY HAY
Spray In Orchards Results in Death
of Many Animals.
HOOD RIVER, Or., April 6. (Spe
cial.) Lead poisoning from spray
applications on clover crops has been
fatal to a. number of Hood river
valley horses recently. The horses
had been eating hay cured in or
chards. Growers have been warned to use
care in spraying orchards from which
they expect to harvest hay. Victor
Beauregard, cast side rancher, has
lost two valuable horses from
poisoned hay.
MIXUP IN THEIR PROGRAMMES.
claims Responsibility.
OWN RECORD SATISFACTORY
Commander of Troops in
Paris Pleased With Himself.
IGNORANCE IS ADMITTED
'Confession' Before House War
Investigating Committee Brings
'Sharp Reply From Solon.
WASHINGTON, April 6. Respon
sibility for prison brutalities alleged
to have taken place in the Paris dis
trict while under his jurisdiction were
disclaimed by Brigadier-General W.
W. Harts, former commander of
American troops in the French cap
ital, who declared today before a
house war investigating committee
that he was .entirely satisfied with
his record at that post.
General Harts said that, while no
cases showing the military police had
used "strong-arm" methods in mak
ing arrests were reported to him.
about 100 cases of brutalities were
reported among the 10.000 arrests
made during the four months he was
in command.
Chairman Johnson of the committee
expressed the opinion that the com
mittee room could be filled with sol
diers anxious to testify to specific
brutalities. General March, chief of
staff, and other high army officers
the chairman said, had admitted there
was basis for the charges.
Conditions W ere likioni.
To General Harts' statement that
if the alleged conditions had existed
he did not know them, Mr. Johnson
replied: "That's Just it." If you didn't
know, you ought to have known, and
if you didn't acquaint yourself with
conditions you were derelict to your
duty."
General Harts, who was ordered
home from Germany, where he is
chief of staff of theAmerican forces,
to testify, also denied that prisoners
were "put through a third degree to
obtain confessions of crime." or that
they were "beaten, threatened and
inhumanly treated."
Representative Bland, republican,
Indiana, who questioned the witness,
read reports of specific cases in which
officers were said to have assaulted
soldiers, and asked whether General
Harts took action in those cases.
-Third Drarree" AIIrKrd.
General Harts said he -always fol
lowed recommendations of inspectors.
"That's the trouble." Mr. Bland re
turned; "hard-boiled, strong-arm
practices were used constantly and no
one was punished."
"I object to the words strong
armed," said General Harts.
Representative Bland declared that
soldiers were put through the "third
degree," but General Harts said he
had not been informed of such con
ditions. "That's why you are before this
committee," Bland replied. "I have
always contended you didn't know
conditions, but you will be in
formed." Ten thousand men passed through
the prison in Paris in four months.
General Harts said. Some were held
overnight and others for long pe
riods. "I knew that the four rooms of
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Office Is Bombarded With Leaf
lets Expounding Cause Arrests
by Police Challenged.
WASHINGTON. April 6. (By the
Associated Press.) Earred from the
streets surrounding the British em
bassy, the Irish pickets today took
to the air.
From a flying machine, they rained
down packages of leaflets expound
ing the Irish cause, and challenged
the police to come up and stop them.
There being no sky police in the na
tional capital, no arrests were made.
Four land pickets, however, who ven
tured out earlier in the day, were ar
rested and held in the house of de
tention. The "bombing" expedition attracted
plenty of attention but it registered
no hits. A low visibility and squally
winds scattered the "bombs" every
where except on the embassy.
The propaganda leaflets whirled
in a tiny snowstorm about the win
dows of Dolly Madison's house, half
a mile off; circled Andrew Jackson's
rockinghorse in Lafayette square,
were almost wafted into the White
House grounds by the gusty squalls
of early April and showered down on
groups of romping children in Dupont
circle.
Evidently somebody in the embassy
thought the pickets deserving of some
reward for the nervy effort, for late
in the afternoon, as official Washing
ton was streaming homeward and the
diplomatic corps was out for promen
ade on Connecticut avenue, there ap
peared in a frtjnt window of the em
bassy one of the banners previously
captured from the militants.
"Down with British militarism"
was "the legion it blazoned lrom the
old mid-Victorian mansion all eve
ning. It furnished the capital with a
topic for discussion of British humor.
But quite behind the curtain of
good-natured banter which has ac
companied the exploits of the pickets
so lar, is something more serious to
which the government is giving care
ful consideration. The international
tinge of the affair, officials feel, makes
it of more moment than the .demon
strations of the militant suffragists
which were considered quite impor
tant a year ago. The resumption of
the picketing was marked early to
day by the arrest of four women
pickets on charges of violating the
federal stature making it a felony to
offer an insult to diplomatic repre
sentatives of a foreign government.
The women, who were ..rrested.
gave their names as Mrs. Honor
Walsh, Germantown, Pa.; Miss Elaine
Barrie. Philadelphia; Miss Helen
O'Brien, St. Louis, and Miss Kathleen
O'Brien, Philadelphia.
FLIERS START MAN HUNT
Travelers Believed to Be I-ot in
Death Valley Desert.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 6. An
airplane carrying a trained observe
left here today for Death Valley,
where it will search for Milton K.
Moore, camera man, and M. K. Wil
ton. government geologist, who ars
believed to be lost in the desert.
Moore and Wilson left two weeks
ago to make some pictures for the
government. They were to be home
Hst Wednesday.
INDEX ' OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTKRDAY'S Maximum temperature,
40 degrees; minimum, degrees.
TODAY'S; Showers; moderate southerly
winds.
lometic.
Johnson maintain lead for republican
presidential indorsement in Michigan.
Page 1.
Brotherhood sends men to end Chicago
switching strike. Page 3.
Baby carriages block traffic in New York
while tenants obtain court orders to
prevent eviction.) Page 1.
Hardin leads all republicans in Ohio, ac
cording to New York poll. Page o.
.Foreign.
Vladivostok now in the hands of Japan
ese. Page 2.
Irish opposition reaches highest pitch.
Page 2.
Germans capture Essen In defiance of
advance of French occupation lines.
Page 1.
National.
Gompen pleads for minimum wage.
Page 7.
Irish sympathisers picket British em
bassy by airplanes. Page 1.
Blame for war brutality dodged by Gen
eral Harts. Page 1.
Air patrol for western forests reduced to
one squadron again. Page 1.
Bitter fight over adoption of peace reso
lution promised in house tomorrow.
Page 3.
Veterans' aid fund to be help to reclama
tion schemes. Page 1.
Allies consider dispatch of French tdoopa
to Ruhr district unw ise. Page 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Flour millers object to government buying
policy. Page 2iJ. 9
Corn investigation at Chicago causes drop
in market. Page 23.
Stock market stronger with decline In
inofley rates. . Page 23.
Ship sinks and crew adrift five days, re
lates captain. Page 22.
Senate committee concurs in vote for As
toria submarine base. Page 22.
Sports.
Beavers drop first game to Salt Lake,
10 to 6. Page 14.
Fred Fulton on test when he meets Gun
boat Smith tonight. Page H.
Multnomah club to get coast Olympic
wrestling trials. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland exports for quarter reach 14,
561.582. Page 1.
Two tickets proposing caneicates for leg
islature reported made xp. Page 16.
Senator Jones violates breach of trust.
Page 8.
Taft clubs quietly organized in Oregon.
Page 8.
Naming of Auditorium claims committee
to go before council today. Page 7.
I.ee ion does $t09,OOO insurance business in
21 days. Page 13.
Council awaits engineers report be'ore
deciding whether to submit traction
problem lo voters. Fa&d
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NEW OCCUPATION IS IGNORED
French Promise to Leave i
Demands Are Met.
ADVANCE IS PEACEFUL
V
Reception at Darmstadt Is Almost
Cordial Frankfort Inclined
to Be Friendly.
ESSEX. April 6. (By the Associated
Fress.) Reichswehr forces marched
into Essen from two sides of the towa
this morning.
Essen is in the heart of the Ruhr
district and was "held by the revolu
tionary workmen. With the fear that
the campaign of the German govern
ment for the overthrow of the radicals
in the territory was merely camou
flage for an Inimical move on the
French, France early yesterday morn
ing advanced her occupation troops
into the neutral zone prescribed under
the treaty of Versailles, and seized
the cities of Frankfort and Darm
stadt as a precautionary measure.
Berlin -Notified of Plaa.
The move was made onl after the
Ebert regime had been notified that
such a step was impending and after
a demand had been forwarded to Ber
lin for the recall of the armed expedi
tion from the district.
The German government, evidently
in defiance of the warning, is con
tinuing its campaign in the Ruhr.
The protests by France have been
ignored and the German government
in a note issued last night to all
embassies in Berlin requested allied
approval of the Ruhr campaign, a
now in progress.
MAYEXCE. April 6. The only inci
dent in the occuoation of North
F. -inkfort by the French consisted of
a few shots fired. According to re
ports by aviators, German gun de
tachments fired two or three shells on
a French cavalry patrol before which
detachments of he " reichswehr and
the security police were retiring. -The
latter, although knowing yesterday
that occupation had been decided on.
refused to believe that It would be
carried out, one of the officers say
ing that the British would not let the
French come in.
DirnMidt Almoat Cordial.
At Darmstadt tne reception of the
French troops was almost cordial and
the population at Frankfort was in
clined to be friendly with the French.
The occupation took the form of an
extension of the French lines around
the bridgehead of Maycnce, a distance
of about 18 miles. The extreme lim
its of the advance form a semi-circle
similar to but larger than that of
ihe original zone of occupation.
The French occupying force is esti
mated to number from 15,000 to 18,000
men. It is composed largely of cav
alry, with detachments of infantry for
occupation of the various centers, and
artillery merely as a precautionary
measure.
General De Goutte has issued a
proclamat.on to the cities and towns
within the area to be occupied, de
claring French troops have crossed
the Rhine to compel the Berlin gov
ernment to respect its agreement
with the allies and asserting there
is no hostile Intent toward the people
of that region.
Withdrawal la Promliwd.
The proclamation says the French
troops will withdraw as soon as the
German government forces have evac
uated the neutral zone, and. declares
no one will be affected by the pres
ence of the French as long as order is
maintained. The proclamation makes
the following provisions for publio
order:
Frankfort, Darmstadt. Offenbach.
Hochstadt, Koenigstein. and Rieburg.
as well as all towns and districts
within the circle of Gross Gerau, Lang
Schwalbach and Wiesbaden, with the
exception of Biebrich. are declared
under a state of siege.
German authorities and public serv-
! ices will continue to function under
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will not be tolerated.
People are temporarily forbidden to
circulate in the various communities
1
i from 9 o'clock at night until 5 in the
morning.
Coaencaliou Are Porblddea.
More than five persons must not
collect In streets or in private or pub
lic meetings without authorization.
Newspapers are temporarily sus
pended and permission must be given
to use the telephone and telegraph,
postal censorship is temporarily es
tablished, wireless installations must
be dismantled and the use of carrier
pigeons is forbidden.
All arms and grenades must be de
posited In city halls within six hours
after the posting of the proclama
tion, but regular police will be al
lowed to retain Babers and revolvers.
Safety guards must disarm.
Any infraction of these rules will
result In court-martial.
"The general commanding the army
of the Rhine." the proclamation con
eludes, "counts on the public powers
land the population to understand the
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