VOL. LIX NO. 18,548
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postofflce as Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
!nDrrnM mam ddhdco 1
SUGAR STOLEN FROM
RESTAURANT FOUND
PORTION OF 2 5-SACK THEFT
LOCATED LV HOME.
I'S LEAD
RAID ON MOONSHINE
DEN BRINGS THRILL
I. W. W. PIN FAITH TO'
MURDER ACQUITTAL
DEFENSE SAYS TWO CANNOT
BE TRIED AGAIN.
REDS. MADE SAFE
uncuuiM mrn rrvuui-o
MONTANA ARSON CASEi
FACING DILEMMA
EXCEEDS 200
ELEMENTS OF SOtTTHERX FO
PROBER WHOSE THROAT WAS
RAY SEEX IX LOCAL; QCEST.
CUT IS REPLACED.
SENATOR
HARDING
JOHNSON
HANSEN WILL LEAD
DASH
NT
RUSSIA
Stand on Senatorship
Must Be Taken Soon.
CAMPAIGN IS HALF-HEARTED
Seat Is Wanted More Than
Presidency Prospects.
LAW CAUSES TROUBLE
Declaration of Candidacy for Toga
Must 'Be Made Before Party
Convention Meets.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
tCopyrisht. 1020. by N. "S. Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.
WASHINGTON, May 6. Senator
Harding now faces a personal dilem
ma which is at the moment the most
dramatic single aspect of the entire
Presidential situation.
The story of how he got into this
dilemma, how his attempt to forestall
It failed, and how because of that
failure he found himself committed to
a course of action which now embar
rasses him greatly, is one of the most
interesting in a human way of the
entire campaign. Now that Senator
Harding has had a chance to show
the best he could do in his home state,
It Is possible to discuss this story In
a way that might have been doubt
ful fairness, or at least ungracious
until he had his chance In his home
state.
Stand Mast be Taken.
Harding's seat as Senator from Ohio
comes to an end with the close of the
present term. The Ohio primaries,
which will determine his successor,
come on August 10 The primary law
provides that every candidate for the
senate must file his name sixty days
before the primary.
Sixty days before August 10 Is June
11. June 11 Is the third day of the
republican convention in Chicago. On
that day or the following day Is apt
to come the climax of ,the balloting.
As midnight of that day approaches
Senator Harding, If he has not previ
ously withdrawn from the preliminary
race, must face a decision.
The portent of that decision for
Senator Harding is obvious. That the
decision may have important, results
on the entire convention and all the
other candidates is less obvious super
ficially but increasingly evident to
any well Informed observer who stud
ies the conditions. Midnight of Thurs
day, June 11, the third day of the con
vention, in the event that Senator
Harding does not withdraw long be
fore, may present the tensest single
situation in the convention.
Sortition Ip to Harding-.
The solution of this situation lies
with Senator Harding personally.
How he is to solve it, either on
June 11 or in the nearer future, de
pends, of course, almost wholly on
how much of a chance he thinks he
has to get the presidency.
The latest returns from Ohio show
that Harding has won apparently five
sixths of the delegates, but in the di-
rect popular vote has received the !
endorsement of considerably less than
nair tne republican voters of his na-
tive state.
Superficial observers mleht i.m
that delegates are what count in the
convention, and that th. ni,. ,,.
is, therefore, less important. The
truth, however, is frequently the re
verse, especially in the case of a can
didate who, like Senator 'Harding,
more or less bases his claim, to the
nomination on the theory that he is
the favorite son of a state that is big
and at the same time doubtful as be
tween the republicans and the demo
crats, and, therefore, a valuable man
to nominate, because of presumable
vote-getting ability In a state that is
important strategically.
Skillful political management can
sometimes get delegates, as it is ob
vious they have been gotten here, by
pushing the fight in some districts,
by adroitly dividing the opposition in
districts where the other candidate is
strong and by other arts and devices.
nearly all of which must have been
used to produce such a surprising con
trast between the popular vote and
i the delegates as came out of Ohio on
Tuesday. But any one able to see be-
jw the surface is confident that, in
ute of the number of delegates he
jt. Senator Harding and his friends
their hearts must be sadly dis
ced when they look upon the Te
as a whole.
Double Purpose Believed.
Here in Washington Senator Hard-
S is very popular and, in addition
his personal popularity, there are
fnty who earnestly believe that the
l-sence of a man of Senator Hard
's equanimity and tolerance in the
jite House would radiate an atmos
jre throughout the country which
Iht soften the unrest and asperity
characteristic of large sections
jblic feeling.
from the point of view of
kington there has always been
ktent wonder whether Senator
ig's candidacy for the presl
i was whole-hearted; whether its
' purpose was a really ardent at
to achieve the presidency, or
leant as a strategic move for
lurposes. At the least Wash
has always considered there
ti&aed, oa Pa& S. ro.iima a. i
Percy Coffey Admits Identity of
Loot, but Refuses to Xante
Others Concerned.
Two of the 25 sacks of sugar stolen
some time Monday night from the
Coffee Cup restaurant were found
late last night at the home of Percy
Coffey, aged 37,of 5022 Forty-first
street. Coffey was taken to the
county jail and held on a charge of
larceny. He was unable to furnish
$2500 bail which was set.
According to Deputy Sheriffs Chris
tofferson and Schirmer. who made the
arrest, they obtained evidence yester
day that the sugar had been taken
out to Coffey's home from the place
where it was stolen Monday night.
They also learned that most of the
sugar had been removed to another
place Tuesday night. ,
After his arrest last night Coffey
admitted to the arresting officers that
the stolen sugar had been taken to
his place and hidden in the garage.
One of the two sacks recovered there
last night was found in the garage.
The deputies say Coffey admitted that
this sack is a part of the stolen su
gar, although he insisted the other
sack, which was found in the house,
had been purchased. A part of the
sugar was missing from each sack.
Coffey refused to give the deputy
sheriffs any information concerning
the others involved in the sugar theft
and likewise refused to disclose
where the sugar had been taken after
It left his garage Tuesday night. He
insisted he did not know.
The information received by the
deputy sheriffs was that Coffey had
taken the sugar to his garage in his
machine the night it was stolenf He
is said to have admitted his part in
the theft last night. Another ma
chine was used to convey it to a sec
ond hiding place, say the deputies.
Sheriff Hurlburt's men were work
ing on strong clews until far in the
night and belief was expressedthat
the others implicated in the sugar
robbery would be in custody within
the next 24 hours.
FLIGHT FROM HAREM VAIN
Armenian Girl's Marriage Plans
Dashed at Ellis Island.
NEW YORK, May 5. Because she
could not read, Anna Sherbetjian, a
young Armenian woman at Ellis
island, today was ordered deported
back to Turkey, where sfce may face
death for her escape from a haram
there to come' to the United States
to an unseen prospective bridegroom,
Hamphirsonn Terekelylan, a wealthy
Philadelphia merchant, appeared at
the island to claim her as his bride,
only to learn that she could not enter
the country. Harri Yazzamajian,
prosperous rug dealer of Cambridge,
Mass.. had arranged to have Anna
come here to marry Terekelylan.
Harri's wife had come from the same
harem from whichAnna had escaped,
he said.
Rich Armenians are planning to ap
peal the case.
TRIO OF MEN INJURED
Xight Accidents in Factories I-evy
Hospital Toll.
Three men were injured in'simi
lar accidents in three different man
ufacturing plants at about the eame
hour last night, and all were taken
to Emanuel hospital at about the
same hour.
At the Inman-Poulson sawmill T.
vannalli got entangled in a machine,
I wltn the result that his left foot was
crusneu.
I Almost at the same time. H. Mur
I Ph". aged ?. got his right hand
' cauht . in a machine at the Fink
i Bros. Cooperage company. It was
badly crushed. y
At the Independent Cracker com
pany. Jack Walker caught his right
foot in a piece of machinery 'and it
was severely crushed.
The men are all expected to re
cover.
SOCIALISTS FOR SOVIET
Recognition of Russian Govern
merit to Be Campaign Issue.
NEW YORK, May 5. A forecast o
the issues that will figure in the
campaign manifesto of the socialist
national convention opening here
next Saturday were made public to
night from socialist headquarters.
The issue includes demands fo
"recognition of soviet Russia, the in
dependence of Ireland and self-deter
minatioa for small nationalities
whose will is now being defeated by
imperialistic powers."
EAST ,0RANGE HAS GAIN
Census Figures Show 47.2 Per Cent
increase for Period. .
WASHINGTON, May 5. Census
figures issued today show:
Marion, Ind., 23,747; increase 4388,
or 22.7 per, cent.
Ironwood, Mich., 15,739; increase
2918, or 22.8 per cent.
Brenham, Tex., 5600; increase 348,
or 7.4 per cent.
East Orange, N. J., 50,587; increase
16,216, or 47.2 per cent.
Punxsutawney, Pa., 10,314; increase
1253, or 13.8 per cent.
STATE SENATE RATIFIES
Suffrage Amendment Gets Through
Vpper House of Delaware.
DOVER, Del., May 5. The state
senate today passed a bill ratiryihg
the Federal suffrage amendment.
The vote stood 11 to 6.
Returns Received From
All but One County.
MANY BALLOTS MAY BE VOID
Electors in Some Districts
Fail to Obey Instructions.
VOTE SURPRISES HOOVER
California Declared to Have An
'.. swered Questions Raised by
Johnson's Foes in East."
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. Belated
returns from yesterday's presidential
preference primary continued to add
tonight to the majority given tne
group of delegates pledged to sup
port Senator Hiram W. Johnson for
the presidential nomination at the
Chicago convention over the group
pledged to Herbert C. Hoover.
At midnight tonight returns had
been received from 503S of the rfotal
of 5724 precincts in the state. iney
gave the following results: For John-
on group, 405,353; for Hoover group,
193,625.
The returns were from all but one
of the 58 counties in the state, and
the figures on this remaining county
ere expected to be received some
time today, though with the meagre
means of communication this was by
no means certain.
With the republican contest set
tled, interest turned to the strength
of the democratic and prohibition
votes in yesterday's presidential pri
marv. The fate of the ' independent
candidacy of Henry H. Childers of
Los Aneeles, on the democratic ballot.
still was in doubt late tonight ana it
will require an official canvass be
fore the result is definitely known.
Childers announced hiiself as op
posed to drastic enforcement of the
national prohibition laws. Incom
plete returns showed that Gavin' Mc-Nab-of
San. Francisco was polling the
heaviest vdts of the democratic
croup.
.. Hundreds of democratic Danots un
doubtedly were invalidated in Ala.
meda county by voters who. marked
a cross after each one of the 27 can
didates on the ballot. Only 26 were
to be elected.
From scattered returns it was ap
parent that tne proniDition group
pledged to the candidacy or Henry
Clay Needham of los Angeles,, re
ceived.a light vote.
180,000 Lead Asserted.
H. L Carnahan, western manager
f Senator Hiram W. Johnson's presi
dential campaign, tonight issued the
following statement:
"The election was California's an
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.)
THE
t - -
Cleverly Concealed Tent Found
Along Sandy River Guarded
"by Armed Occupant.
Elements of a moonshine raid -of
the mountains of the south attach to
the foray of Deputy Sheriff Squire,
who yesterday seized liquor-making
apparatus in operation In a secluded
Sandy river canyon and came away
with a perfectly good . automobile
besides.
One of the raiders accompanying
tile deputy sheriff was held up at the
point of a Winchester rifle Just as in
the movies or the mountains of Ten
nessee, by the sole occupant of the
outdoor distillery. " However, the man
-with the rifle fled as Deputy Squire
approached and was lost in the sur
rounding woods.
A tip that for two nights an auto
mobile had stood In the open at a
lenely spot about four miles above
Gresham, beside the Sandy river, was
sufficient ' to arouse suspicions. Ac
companied by Ed Hamilton and an
other rancher friend of the commu
nity. Deputy Squire started the in
vestigation yesterday. So cleverly
was the still concealed beneath a tent
covered with brush that Hamilton had
walked within a few paces of It -without
seeing the place and was sud
denly startled to find himself looking
Into- the barrel of a rifle l.cld by a
man who emerged from the shelter
and quickly disappeared. Inside the
tent was found a still and six barrels
of raisin mash.
According to Squire, the car taken
from its parking- place beside the can
yon still, carries Oregon license No.
52032. which stands registered on the
state list as the prcperty of C. Edel
man, 4301 Seventy-third street South
east, Portland. c
PROTEST IS UNDELIVERED
Illness of Lloyd Geors-e Wwl
-Transaction of State Business.
LONDON, May '5. The cablegram
to Mr. Lloyd George yesterday, signed
by- 88 members of the United States
house of representatives protesting
against the Imprisonment without ar
raignment of trial of persons arrest
ed for' political offenses in Ireland,
has not yet been presented to the pre
mler because of his illness, which
will preclude him from transactin
state business for a day or two
longer.
Other officials at No. 10 Downing
street said today that they were un
willing to suggest what, if any, ac
tion the premier might take with re
gard to the message.
BIG GUN EXPERTS IN U. S.
French Artillerymen Are to Inspect
Large American Plants.
WASHINGTON, May S. Secretary
Daniels today received the official
mission of French naval ordnance ex
perts which will make a three weeks'
inspection tour of the principal Amer
lean plants producing ordnance for the
army and navy.
The mission Is headed by Engineer
General Charbonnier. inspector-gen
eral of naval artillery and leading
ordnance officer of France. Six oraef
officers accompany him.
HEIGHT OF THE FISHLNG SEASON.
Bail Is Fixed at $5000 for Men Ac
cused of Killing One of March
ers at Cenlralia.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. May 5. Plea
of former acquittal in the case of
Elmer Smith and Mike Sheehan, al
leged Industrial Workers of the
World, charged with the murder of
Arthur McElfresh. Centralia armis
tice day parade victim, was entered
by defense counsel, Ralph S. Pierce
when the two men were arraigned in
Lewis county superior court at Che-
halis. Wash., today.
Pierce contended that acquittal of
Smith and Sheehan by a jury at
Montesano recently on a charge of
having murdered Warren O. Grimm.
another parade victim, absolved his
clients of connection with the Cen
tralia shootings.
Pierce also filed motions for a
second change of judge and a change
of venue. Judge R. H. Back of
Clarke county, who heard the mo
tions, denied the request for a change
of judge, and set May 20 as the date
of hearing arguments on the other
motion anJ the plea. - On application
of Prosecuting Attorney Herman
Allen of Lewis county. Smith and
Sheehan were admitted to bail, their
bonds being fixed at 85000 each.
Seven other alleged I. W. W., found
guilty of second degree murder In
connection with Grimm's death at
Montesano recently, are held in the
Grays Harbor county jail awaiting
trial for the murder of McElfresh.
CHILD FATALLY BURNED
Six-Year-Old W'auna Girl Victim
of Fire Built in Play.
ASTORIA, Or., May 5. (Special.)
Dorothy Cooper, the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cooper
of Wauna, about 25 miles east of here.
was fatally burned at the family home
last evening. The ' girl, with a boy
companion two years younger, was
playing in the woodshed and finding
tome matches set fire to a pile of
excelsior.
The boy escaped, but th girl was
caught and, so badly burned that she
died a few hours later.
TEACHERS TAKE .VACATION
300 Increase Denied, so Force
Stages Walkout.
.NEWPORT, Ky., May 5". The entire
iea-cMng force ol the public gradjf and
high schools or Newport went on in
definite vacation" this morning be
cause their demand for a salary in
crease of 8300 was refused by the
board of education.
The 2963 pupils rushed from the
buildings, paraded the streets and
shouted "more pay for the teachers."
PLANS TO AID POLE DASH
12 to 14 Machines to Be Used in
Southern Expedition.
LONDON, May 6. From 12 to 14
airplanes will be taken on the Terra
Nova,
This Is the ship John L.' Cope will
fit out for his expedition to the south
pole.
BK WILSON EDICT
Deportation Law Held All
but Nullified.
COMMUNIST PARTY REFUGE
Membership Declared Not to
Warrant Expulsion.
1600 ALREADY RELEASED
Ruling of Labor Secretary Frankly
Deplored by Attorney-General
Garvan and Others.
WASHINGTON, May E, Secretary
of Labor Wilson ruled today that
membership in -the communist labor
party does not of itself constitute
sufficient ground for deportation of
aliens.
In ordering cancellation of a war
rant under which Carl Miller, a Ger
man, was held because of such mem
bership, the secretary declared that
while extracts from the organization's
platform indicated an extremely radi
cal objective there wa3 no evidence
of Intention to use force or violence
toward organized government.
The department of justice frankly
deplored tho labor secretary's deci
sion, Assistant Attorney-General Gar
van asserting that because of it all
undesirable aliens cId enter the
fold of tha communist party and be
free from government interference.
Rnriiraliim Is Almi ttl.
- "Excerpts from the- commnuist
labor party platform and programme
indicate an extremely radical objec
tive," said Secretary Wilson, "but
there is nothing in them that discloses
an intention to use force or violence,
or that Is incompatible with the use
of the parliamentary machinery to
attain the radical view that is ex
pressed.
. "The belief in, teaching and advo
cacy of the class struggle, mass action
the conquest of political power, the
dictatorship of the proletariat, social
Ism, communism, tho one big union.
shop committees, shop stewards and
other social, industrial, economic and
political changes mentioned in the
communist labor, platform and pro
gramme, however repulsive they may
be to the minds of any or all of our
people, do not bring the organization
within the purview of the act as long
as it does not propose to use force or
violence to accomplish the purpose."
Law Declared Defeated.
Chairman Johnson of the house im
migration committee declared in a
statement tonight that congress, in
passing the law to deport undesir
ables, intended to reach the very ele
ment which Secretary Wilson held did
not come within its scope.
"If the senate will pass the alien
deportation bill which the house
passed without a dissenting vote De
cember 20 last," Mr. Johnson said,
"we will be able to reach those aliens
here who talk about revolution by
ballot when they cannot vote and who,
when they say ballot, mean bullet."
Assistant Secretary Wilson's ruling,
Attorney-General Garvan said, means
tat "all aliens can enter the fold of
the communist labor party and the
government cannot touch them."
1SOO Already Release.
He added that' they could "advocate
a revolution and keep on advocating
violence with perfect impunity unless
congress changes the law."
The dtpartment of justice raids of
last January disclosed membership
of the communist labor party to be
between 50,000 and 60,000, Mr. Garvan
said.
Mr. Garvan declared the department
of labor already had released about
1600 members of the communist labor
party who were taken in the January
raids and that warrants in the cases
of about 200 others would be canceled
as a result of the ruling.
16 HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT
Crowded Vcliicle Turns Over on
Fifth Avenue, Xew York.
NEW YORK, May 5. Twenty-three
persons were injured, 16 of them so
severely they were taken to a hospi
tal, when a crowded Fifth avenue bus
overturned on the upper west side
late today.
The driver of the bus, according to
the police, in trying to avoid a col
lision with a heavy motor truck,
swerved toward the curb, striking the
truck a glancing blow. The bus then
toppled over on the sidewalk. The
majority of those injured were
women.
WHISKY CARRIED IN COAL
624 Quart Bottles, Worth About
$15,000, Found in Bottom of Car.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., May B. Col
lector of Customs A. J. King of Great
Falls today is custodian for 52 cases,
or 624 quart bottles cf old - style
Canadian rye and Scotch, valued at
between 810,000 and 815,000. The
shipment was. seized at Gateway and
had been carried across the line In a
carload of coal from Fernie, B. C.
Tho customs officers found the
nfri lament in the bottom of the c-C
H. H. Pomeroy Continues Inquiry
at Malta, Mont. Injured In-
Tcstigator Attacked in Cafe.
HELENA, Mont., May 5. A Malta,
Mont., dispatch says:
"Frank J. Parker, believed to be a
representative of the Pacific Coast
Fire Prevention Bureau of San Fran
cisco, whose throat was cut when he
was attacked last night while he
was in a cafe here. Is yet in the hos
pital. Sam Denlff is in jail ih connec
tion with the affair.
"From all that can be learned of the
story, Mr Parker was here for the
purpose of looking into arson cases
that are supposed to have occurred in
the county.
"The night Parker was attacked he
was in company with Deniff and to
gether they went to the City cafe for
a lunch, where tho cutting took place.
The officers and Parker had been
working on the arson cases for some
time and officers said that they were
at a loss to knowthe motive in trying
to do away with Parker."
This is the case in which, the state
of Oregon was said to have takes
action, a fire company representative
having been sent to Montana early
this week. A representative of the
office of the Montana fire marshal
left for Malta last night. The fire
had not been reported to Helena and
authorities here had no knowledge of
the cutting affair.
SALEM. Or., May 5. H. H. Pom
eroy, an investigator for the Oregon
fire marshal's department, left here
Monday under direction of the Pacific
Coast Fire Prevention bureau of San
Francisco to investigate an arson case
in a Montana town, the name of which
was not known here.
Mr. Pomeroy was credited with
being the only man on the coast to
volunteer to continue the investiga
tion after the attack on Parker.
The Oregon investigator is not af
filiated withthe Pacific Coast Fire
Prevention bureau except through the
pojicy of co-operation between state
departments and the coast bureau.
TEACHERS J5ET INCREASE
List of $3 00 Each Voted by Seattle
Board Held Inadequate.
SEATTLE. Wash., May 5 (Spe
ciaL) Increases in pay approximat
tng 8300 each for every public school
teacher in Seattle, beginning Septem
ber 1. were authorized by the. school
board today, but the same officers
announced that in order to raise the
money a special election must be
called to vote on the question of an
increase In the tax levy. Teachers
and principals expressed dissatisfac
tion regarding the size of the in
crease voted.
"I never faced a group of teachers
in the temper they are today," said
Stephen Dwan, president of the High
School Teachers' league. "Heretofore
the teachers have always hoped they
would obtain needed salary increases.
The situation is serious."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tbfl Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature,
degrees; minimum. 42 decrees.
TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds.
X-ray said to detect art frauds on old
maatera. Page 1.
National.
Mr. McArthur locks horns with Plumb
plan league and Invites its advocates
to eo to work. 'Page 3.
Senator Harding faces dilemma. Page 1.
Senator Knox attacks Wilaon stand on
peace resolution. Page "2.
Xansen to lead dash into Russia to save
prisoners. Page 1.
Power of Carmnza rapidly waning.
Page 2."
Alien deportation law held defeated by
ruling of Secretary Wiison. Page 1.
Domestic.
Divorced wife of millionaire hatter in love
with her chauffeur, wife of latter tes
tifies. Page 3.
BUhop Cooke, formerly of Portland, asks
aeneral conference for permission to
retire. Page 8.
Worker government coming, say I. W. W,
at inquest. Page 2.
Gasoline scarcity may mean motorless Sun
day's on coast this summer. Page Jo.
Wife hears rival talk to, husband, then
hurls stone. Page ..
Michigan convention pledges delegates to
Johnson. Page 4.
Johnson's lead may reach 175,000. Page 1.
Decline of textile prices predicted. Page S.
Pacific Northwest.
Commissioner urges compulsory grain in
spection. Page 7.
t W W. at Centralia plead that they are
exempt from murder trial on account of
acquittal at Montesano trial. Pago X.
R port s.
Coast league result? : Seattle 4r Portland
7; Salt I-ake 6. Sacramento 9; Vernon
3, Oakland 6; San Francisco lLoi An
geles 7. Psge 14.
Four of five bouts on Milwaukie fight
card are signed. Page 13.
Turfmen puzzled in favorite for Kentucky
derby. Page J4.
Commercial and Marine.
Coal supplies ample for Portland ship
ping. Page 10.
Schooner, which has been working as
barge for ten years, has own t masts
again. Page 22.
Early spring wheat doing well in Oregon.
Page 22.
May only firm delivery in Chicago corn
market. Page 23.
Further demand for rail stocks in New
York market. Page 23.
Portland and Vicinity.
Heavy fines levied on automobile drivers
for violating speed law. Page 0.
Carl Lacy and Mrs. Neva Wlckhara air
row in court and are told to keep away
from each other. Page 13.
Albipa district residents object to par
chase of Spencer tract as playground
and advocate Dutara tract. Page 12.
Atkinson grammar school principal sued
for divorce. Page 9.
Ralph E. Williams goes to Chicago to help
make preliminary arrangements for
convention. Page 4.
Wood management in Oregon plans fight
against Senator Johnson. Page 4.
Candidates assure medical men that slight
est wisn is law. rage o.
Third Oregon Infantry passes when desig-
-. nation is changed. 'Pago 6.
d on sLiii Juts Uurilla. 1.
Explorer to Attempt to
Rescue War Prisoners.
200,000 ARE IN CAPTIVITK
Reports Say Men Are in Des
perate Plight.
LEAGUE BACK OF M1SS10K
:VIlics to Cnderlakc Rcpatiiatioi
Viitler Article in Fcaco
Treaty Pact.
TVASHrXGTON-. May ' 5. (By thfc
Associated Press.) Dr. Fridtjof Nan
sen, the Norwegian explorer, probably
will head the organization to be set
up by the league of nations for the
purpose of repatriating 200,000 Ger
man, Austrian and other war pris
oners held in Russia.
Reports to be submitted to tha
league council at Rome this month
say that unless tnese men are res
cued from their prison camp in Si
beria before next winter, few aro
likely to survive. .They have been in
captivity for five years.
Dr. Nansen was mentioned during
discussions at Paris last year of steps
toward sending food relief to tha
captives. Word has reached Wash
ington that he already has been
asked if he would be willing to serv
as the agent 'of the league in at
tempting the repatriation. He had
considerable experience with food
questions during the war, having
headed the Norwegian mission sent
to the United States in 1917 to nego
tiate for needed supplies for his own
country.
Plight Is Desperate.
The question of aiding the war
prisoners in Russia was referred to
the league by tho supreme economic
council last February on the theory
that under article 25 of the league
covenant members already had
pledged themselves to take interest
in the "mitigation of suffering
throughout the world." Some Jugo
slav and Czecho-Slovakia troops art
among the prisoners.
While every effort to aid the pris
oners has been made by the Ameri
can and Scandinavian Red Cross or
ganizations, the reports to be laid
before the council will show that their
plight remains desperate and that an
unestimated number already have
euccuinbed to disease or starvation.
It was for this reason and because it
was realized, it was said that only an
organized international effort could
overcome the difficulties in the way
of repatriation that the supreme coun
cil referred the matter to the league.
Complete Ord.nir.ation eeded.
To meet this situation the leagua
council will consider a proposal to
appoint Dr. Nansen as a man of inter
national standing to co-ordinate all
efforts toward relief of the war pris
oners and to take supreme charge of
efforts to get them back to heir
homes. The task would require con
centration under such a man, it has
been suggested, of all volunteer
agency efforts, as well as the more
formal steps by league machinery and
by nations which are league members.
The problem of finding means of
transportation, of setting adequate
rest camps and of seeing to it that
adequate facilities for protecting com
munities to which the prisoners
would be returned from maladies
with which the men might be suffer
ing would require a substantial or
ganization. AIR FIELD DAY PLANNED
5 6 Aviators to Meet at Mineola,
X. V., Tomorrow.
MINEOLA, X. T.. May 5. Kif ty-six
aviators representing 12 eastern col
leges will participate Friday in the
first annual field day to be held at
Mitchel field under the joint auspices
of the Intercollegiate FIjing associa
tion, American Flying club and th'
United Startes army air service. All
the contestants were in the air serv
ice during the war and now are it
the reserve officers' corps.
The contests include 20-minute al
titude tests, a 100-mile race, four lap
of 23 miles each, trials at landing on
a T mark, maneuvering tests, alerl
tests and exhibition flights. Regulai
army planes of standard type will bi
used.
CYCLONE HITS COLORADO
Farmhouses Wrecked and Live
stock Hilled but Xo Lives Lost.
GREELEY, Colo., May 3. A cy- ,
clone which struck the vicinity of
Severance. 16 miles northwest of
Greeley, today razed farm houses,
killed livestock and wrecked tele
phone and telegraph lines.
No loss of life has been reported.
Postal Service Held in Danger.
WASHINGTON, May 5. Represen
tative Davey, democrat, Ohio, urging
increased pay for postal employes,
declared today in the house that the
postal service would collapse soon
after July 1 unless congress provided
.inriai relief, .