VOL,. LiIX NO. 18.G03 ' Portland (Oregon)
-t-'i-- --I", a pt0mCe as Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920
rmci: FIVE CENTS
OQUHBOM LEADERS
HARBOR MASTERS ACT
TO KEEP OUT PLAGUE
PROGRESSIVES GO
OVER TO HARDING
SCENE OF HARNESSING 1 CAMP LEWIS AGAIN .
LA FQLLETTE
2 IN PLANE FORCED
' TO LAND IN FOREST
ALLIES THREATEN
TO OCCUPY RUHR
PEND OREILLE SHOWN
HAS MARTIAL ASPECT
E
SPLIT
RAT GUARDS ARE ORDERED
FOR COLUMBIA RIVER PORTS.
OREGOX AXD WASHINGTON"
OREGOX SOLDIERS MANEUVER
PILOT AND OBSERVER ESCAPE
WHEN MACHINE TURTLES.
MEX OX EDUCATIONAL TOUR.
OVER RESERVATION.
MAY
ME
PORTLAND
RADICALS
Democrats Stop Over on
Way From Convention.
TRIPS UP HIGHWAY TAKEN
Scenic Beauties of Columbia
Are Praised by All.
MANY WEAR COX BUTTONS
XT-oat of Arms Is Cock With Legend,
"I'll Crow in November,"
but Bryan Is Silent.
Trainloads of democrats from the
convention delegates, alternates, ser-geants-at-arms,
ushers, doorkeepers,
newspaper correspondents, candidates,
managers, boosters and wives
swarmed into Portland yesterday.
Kach and all the correspondents ex
cepted gave emphatic assurance that
they were delighted with the ticket
of Cox and Roosevelt and predicted
a sweeping democratic victory in
November. If there were mental res
ervations they kept them to them
selves. On many coats was sported a Cox
campaign button. It is a rooster
rampant, old John V. Chanticleer
himself giving' vent to his clarion
call, and in a circle around the barn
yard hero is the legend, "I'll crow in
November." It is a neat and nifty
emblem, which was highly popular
when Grover Cleveland ran for pres
ident the first time, but after all
these years it has an aspect of orig
inality and is, at least, a good coat
of arms for the head of the ticket.
Columbia Highway Praised.
Filtering- through the gates of the
Union depot were delegates from
Nebraska, Ohio, Maryland, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
You could identify their state, in
many instances, from their pronun
ciation. The delegate from "Jo-jah"
and the delegate from "New Choisey"
were easily distinguished from the
delegate from "Noo Yoik" and the
delegate from "Loovee, Kalntuck,
eah."
All day, while in Portland, when
not scraping up every adjective they
could find to praise . the Columbia
highway, the delegates, alternates,
etc., were still holding a post-mortem
n the convention. ,
"If was always the starting point.
"It the McAdoo crowd hadn't been
fighting Palmer, the attorney-general
would have won. If Palmer
hadn't released his delegates. It would
have been a dark horse." "If Cox had
not had so many boosters ." "If "
Ana it was also the consensus of
opinion that there was no "inside
nope.- Everyone was at sea. There
was no boss. The most disappointed
men in the convention were the dark
norses, which have retired to their
Btables. Almost anything could have
Happened or anyone nominated the
last night, because the delegates
Were fagged out and hysterical.
Bryan Arrive First.
iaKewise there is a wide variety
of opinion regarding the wetness or
dryness of Governor Cox. Some del
egates say he is moist, others make
denial and others apparently fear
that he is wet and they don't like it
But, as one delegate pointed out
wnson is not a prohi," and a presi
dent cannot make the country wet,
lor mat is up to congress.
i ne aemocratic invasion started
V. . . t K . T 1 -
. m., uen v imam Jennings
Bryan, far from cheerful over the
ticket, hove into the depot. He break
fasted at the Portland . hotel, shook
hands with a few of the faithful and
leu ior eastern Oregon, giving the
impression that the crime of '73 h
been paralleled by the San Francisco
tuiiteiiuuii. uiner Trains came; many
of them, each freighted with the col
lectors of customs, internal revenue
officers. United States commissioners
and other federal office holders, with
an occasional United States senator
or governor sprinkled in the lot
irooaoiy auu from the convention
flowed into town and most of them
made a day of it.
Auto Trlpa Taken.
Under the auspices of the chambe
vl commerce, ou automobiles were
Volunteered and these took 360 visit
ors over the highway. Fully a score
of other cars left' from various hotels
for the highway. The highway trip
consumed the entire afternoon and
last night the horde departed, mos
of them going into the Puget Sound
country, and not a few headed fo
isritisn Columbia, which is not arid
Local democrats were run ragged
looking after their fellow democrats
swaia est, lilton Watkins and
John IX Mann constituted themselve
a reception committee and, like tax
drivers, met all trains, and saw t
the dispatching of the visitors ove
the highway. State Chairman Smit
and County Chairman Hedlund an
sundry and various federal retainers
lent atmosphere.
Wntrh Left on Table.
The main event came at noon whe
the train with A. Mitchell Palmer,
attorney-general of the United States,
chugged into the railroad yards. With
him was Vance McCormick. George
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Portland and Astoria Take Steps
to Pre-ent Infected Rodents
From Coming Asliore.
ASTORIA, Or., July 8. (Special.)
In order to guard against the possible
invasion of Columbia river ports by
the bubonic plague, which has be
come a serious menace at several
ports in the United States, strict regu
lations of shipping were put into
force today, both in Astoria and
Portland. This decision was the re
sult of a conference here this morn
ing between Harbormasters Spier of
Portland and Sweet of the port of
Astoria.
Under these regulations every ves
sel docking at a wharf within the
confines of the two ports will be re
quired to place rat guards, at least
three feet in diameter, on their lines
to prevent the rats from coming
ashore.
lhe bubonic plague has become so
prevalent recently in the Gulf ports
that some of them have been closed
by the government and nb vessels effn
either enter or depart from them.
Rats, or rather the fleas which in
fest the rodents, are everywhere
recognized as the. principal means by
which this epidemic Is spread, and
the harbormasters say it is for this
reason that they are taking precau
tions in advance to prevent rats com
ingashore from the various vessels
which visit these ports, particularly
those from the orient and from points
in the gulf and the Atlantic coasts.
AUSTIN, Tex., July 8. Enght cases
of bubonic plague have developed
and three of the victims have died
to date at Beaumont, Tex., the state
health officer announced here today.
At Galveston there have been three
cases of plague with two deaths re
sulting so far, he added. The health
director declared 20 per cent of all
rats killed at Beaumont are infected
with bubonic plague. Which he con
siders a "decidedly heavy rate."
Considerable progress is being made
in rat extermination campaigns at
the Texas ports, the health director
id. but added that 15,000 more traps
re needed at Beaumont, where state
and federal health forces- are being
ncreased daily.
SUFFRAGISTS LOSE AGAIN
Effort to Get Action in Louisiana
Legislature Fails.
BATON KOUGE, La., July 8. Ef
forts to suspend the rules of the
ouse of representatives of the Louis-
ana legislature so as to act on the
uffrage amendment before adjourn
ment of the session tonight failed
today.
The motion was voted down, 52
to 46.
All possibility of Louisiana en-
iranchising the women of the nation
through ratification of the suffrage
amendment was removed tonight
when the ' legislature adjourned sine
die.
OUR MORE CITIES GAIN
Augusta, Me., With Population of
14,114, Has 903 Increase.
WASHINGTON, July 8. Census fig
ures announced today were:
Augusta, Me., 14,114; increase 903
or 6.8 per cent.
Miles City, Mont., 7937;
40, or 69 per cent.
Montgomery, Ala., 43,464;
increase
increase
5328, or 14 per cent.
i
McKeesport, Pa., 45,975;
2S1, or 7.7 per cent.
Revised figures for Springfield,
Mass., show that city to have a pop
ulation of 129,562, or 225 more per
sons than accounted for in the. pre
vious announcement.
POLES IN U. S. TO ENLIST
Call for Immediutc Service Against
Bolslieviki Is Heard.
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 8. More than
1000 Polish veterans of Buffalo, it has
been estimated, will answer the call
of President Pilsudski of the Polish
republic for volunteers for immediate
service against the advancing armies
of Bolshevik Russia.
Officers of the Polish army who
belong to the Buffalo Polish Vet
erans' association planned to meet
tomorrow night to consider a possible
call of all Polish reservists in Amer
ica for service in Europe.
CONVICTION IS UPHELD
Labor Organizers Held Guilty of
Trying to Meet Without Permit.
PITTSBURG, July 8. Judge Ken
nedy In common pleas court here
today upheld the conviction, of six
organizers of the American Federa
tion of Labor for attempting to hold
a street meeting in Duquesne, Pa.,
without a permit last May, but re
duced the fine of $100 imposed by
the magistrate In each case t6 $25.
An appeal, it was announced, would
be taken to United States supreme
court.
QUEBEC PREMIER QUITS
Successor to Sir Lomer Gouln Like
ly to Be L. A. Taschereau.
QUEBEC, Que., July 8. Sir Lomer
Gouin, at a meeting of the provin
cial cabinet today, resigned as pre
mier of Quebec.
While no official announcement
has been made, it is understood the
lieutenant-governor, Sir Charles Fitz
patrlck, will call on L. A. Taschereau,
minister of public work;, to succeed
Sir Lomer.
United Support in Cam
- paign Promised.
PLANS LAID AT CONFERENCE
Old
Roosevelt Leaders
Without Exception.
Aid
SENATOR WRITES SPEECH
Republican Xominee Is Busy on
Address or Acceptance Body
guard Eluded for Walk.
MARION, O., July 8. Assurances
that the national republican ticket
would have the united support of
progressive leaders in the 1920 cam
paign were given to Senator Harding,
the republican presidential nominee,
today by Walter F. Brown of Toledo.
O., progressive. In a conference of
nearly an hour, the senator and Mr.
Brown discussed plans for the cam
paign and the part the progressives
would take.
"Without exception the old Roose
velt leaders are supporting Senator
Harding and Governor Coolidge." Mr.
Brown told newspaper correspondents.
I might interject the remark that
that is what Mr. Brown came to tell
me about," said Senator Harding.
Private Dinner Related.
Mr. Brown said he told the senator
of a private dinner given in New York
last Thursday and attended by prom
inent progressives, during which i
resolution was adopted indorsing the
Harding-Coolidge ticket.
Senator Harding arrived at his of
fice earlier than usual again today
in order to accomplish as much as
possible on hi3 speech, now under
preparation, accepting the republican
presidential nomination. Instead of
dictating it to a stenographer, how
ever, the senator, following a habit
acquired during 30 years of news
paper work, is writing it out in long
hand with a pencil. According to
members of his office force, the sen
ator makes clean copy" and few
changes are required in his manu
scripts. Senator Eludes Bodyguard.
After visiting his office this morn
ing. Senator Harding called at the
home of his cousin, Frank Marshman,
a locomotive engineer, to express h
condolences over the death of Mr.
Marshman s daughter. Later he re
turned to his office.
Accompanied by his brother. Dr.
George T.-Harding, Jr., of Columbus
the senator late last night eluded
James Sloane, his bodyguard, and
quietly left his home for a short stroll
through the streets of Marion. This
was the first time he had 'been away
from the vicinity of his residence
since his return. While out he visited
the Marion club, where he was greeted
by a number of old friends.
Today was the senator's and Mrs.
Harding's 29th wedding anniversary,
but they planned to observe it quietly.
Senator Visits Newspaper.
While 'away from his office today,
Senator 'Harding also stopped at the
Marion Star, of which he is publisher,
to shake banffs with "the boys."
Among those to greet him was Lew
Miller, aged 75, a printer who has
been employed in the Star's compos-
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Scheme Proposes to Put "Idle'
AVaters to Irrigation of 10,
000,000 Acres of Land.
BY R. G. CALLVERT.
SPOKANE, Wasn.. July 8. (Staff
Correspondence.) To the idle waters
of the Fend Oreille river representa
tives of Washington and Oregon
newspapers and commercial bodies to
the number of forty were escorted by
the Spokane chamber of commerce
today.
"Idle Waters" is a term used In a
special sense. At the point visited.
the waters of the river are anything
but Idle. They tumble tumultuously
through three narrow gorges forming
what is known as Albany falls. But
there their Industry ceases. It is
proposed to put them to real work
for mankind, to the irrigation of
3,000,000 acres of land as fertile and
as well served by all the forces of
nature and by the transportation
forces of man as the famed Takima
valley. This area, the Columbia Basin
project, is a solid block in south cen
tral Washington lying mainly be
tween the Snake and Columbia rivers
but extending south of their conflu
ence with possibilities for irrigating
land even on the Oregon side of the
border. It is described as the most
ambitious irrigation scheme ever pro
posed in America.
This scheme is only a part, but the
largest single part, of reclamation
plans fostered by the recent north
west conference of commercial bodies
held in Portland and. embracing in all
10,000,000 acres of lands in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho.
This is an educational" tour. Today
the abundance of water for the Col
umbia Basin project was shown to
the visitors. The Pend Oreille river
flows an average total of 19,000,000
acre feet but only 5,000,000 acre feet
are required for Irrigation. Clearly
the water is available.
Following inspection of the falls
and river, and site for the proposed
intake, the visitors were entertained
at luncheon by the Newport commer
cial club.
Tonight, following a dinner given
by the Spokane chamber of com
merce, A. F. Turner, chief engineer
of the project, described the engineer
ing details. Tomorrow the thirsty
land will be visited. The next day
the Yakima valley will be toured
and the results of Irrigation wit
nessed. MONEY SPENT "FRANKLY'5
Probe Body Told $1000 Used on
Campaign Expenditures.
CHICAGO, July 8. D. W. Huck
relde of Warrenton. Mo., yesterday
testified before the senate committee
investigating campaign expenditures
that he received $1000 from E. L.
Morse of Excelsior Springs and that
he spent $500 of it "openly and frank
ly" to further the interests of Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois.
The other $500 was returned, he
said. The money was used chiefly for
traveling expenses, Huckrelde de
clared. FALL ON SPIKE IS FATAL
Little Girl at Aberdeen Is Killed
When Xail Penetrates Temple.
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 8. (Spe
cial.) Elizabeth, Turk, three-yeaf-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick
Turk. 521 Rogers street, died thi3
morning as the result of an accident
while playing near her home.
The little girl fell from a bank
about five feet high and in falling
struck a spike, which pierced her
temple. The plank containing the
spike had been left on the street with
the spike point up.
COURTING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Artillerymen to Have Target Prac
tice Today New Fifth Regi
ment Band .Makes Good.
CAMP LEWIS, Wash., July 8.
(Special.) This old cantonment, all
but deserted since the busy days of
the war, took on a martial appear
ance again today with 700 Oregon
soldiers maneuvering over the mili
tary reservation. The Oregon men
arrived here Tuesday, spent yester
day in physical exercises and prelim
inary drills and today were being
trained in company and battalions.
The Oregon artillerymen, from Ash
land, Marshfield and Newport, are
going to open fire with field guns to
morrow, when they will have theit
first target practice with three-inch
cannon. Later they will fire the big
six-inch rifles from France with
which it is intended to equip them
later. Many of the veteran guards
men now in the 5th Oregon after long
service overseas with the old 3d Ore
gon are enthusiastic over the camp
attendance and the showing made
at camp by the new regiment.
The new 5th regiment band of 30
pieces Is making rapid progress and
it is planned to increase the band
to 60 or 80 pieces after returning to
Oregon. Few men have been on sick
report and there are no cases oi
serious sickness in camp.
MILLIONAIRE CREW SAILS
Wealthy Denmark Strikebreakers
Go Back to Stoking.
NEW YORK, July 8. "The million
aire crew" which brought the Scandinavian-American
liner Frederick
VIII here two week? ago, rolled up to
her Hoboken pier in taxicabs and
limousines today, went back to stoke
hole and forecastle and started back
home with the vessel the first to
sail for Copenhagen in five months.
The crew, members of some of the
oldest and wealthiest families in Den
mark, enlisted for service during the
Copenhagen harbor strike, and al
though the walk-out ended shortly
before the vessel sailed for America,
they stuck to their jobs.
They asserted they enjoyed their
two weeks' vacation ashore, two go
ing as far as San Francisco.
SOLDIER RECOVERS VOICE
Trooper
Dumb 3 Years as Result
of Shell Shock.
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario,
July 8. Dumb for three years as the
result of shell shock. Trooper W.
Hart suddenly recovered his speech
here yesterday in the excitement of
a bowling match. He was playing
with the Davisville' Military hospital
team.
JAPANESE SUGAR ARRIVES
2 4 00 Tons Shipped by Way of
Suez Reachfs New York.
NEW YORK, July 8. A shipment
of 2400 tons of refined granulated
sugar shipped from Japan by way of
the Suez canal and trans-shipped at
Gibraltar, arrived here today.
The sugar is consigned to Ameri
can importers.
MR. ROCKEFELLER NOW 81
Birthday Anniversary Quietly Cel
ebrated at Pocantico.
TARRY TOWN, N. Y., July 8. John
D. Rockefeller celebrated his 81st
Jjirthday anniversary quietly at his
Pocantico Hills estate today.
Many friends called in person or
sent messages congratulating lilm.
Single Taxers Object to
Wisconsin Senator.
CONVENTION OPENS SATURDAY
Many Organizations to Send
Delegates to Session.
THOMPSON FACTION QUITS
Members of Committee of 4 8 See
Chance to Break Up Solid
South This Year.
CHICAGO. July 8. Plans of a group
of liberal radical organizations for
one untted third party, with candi
dates for president and vice-president
In the field, received a setback today
when single-tax party members an
nounced they would not support Sena
tor Robert M. La Follette. who Is ex
pected to be the choice of the other
groups.
The single-taxers, who arrived to
day to prepare for their convention,
which opens Saturday, declared they
would bolt the combine .and nominate J
a separate ticket if the majority chose
La Follette.
While the single-taxers were threat
ening to present their own ticket,
Amos Pinchot and George L. Record,
of the committee of 48, were In Madi
son, Wis., today conferring with La
Follette, who has received a majority
of a mail straw vote of the party.
Labor Party Meets Sunday.
The committee of 48 and rinle-fax
conventions open Saturday and on
Sunday the labor party of the United
States, another prospective member of
the proposed third party combination,
meets here. The National Non-partisan
league. Triple Alliance of the North
west, National People's league of
Minnesota, World War Veterans and
National Public Ownership league
have been Invited to send fraternal
delegates to the conventions and later
indorse the platform and candidates.
J. C. Reis, singles-tax committeeman
from Pennsylvania, announced today
that the single-taxers would accept
the invitation of the committee of 48
to attend the third party convention,
but would leave If they were unable
to prevent La Follcttc's selection as
standard-bearer.
Sinsle-Taxers Against La Follette.
"The committee of 48 has a most
wonderful opportunity to create the
long-looked-for new political party in
America," he said, "but La Follette
i&m will certainly be the wrong one
to follow. I do not believe there Is one
delegates to tne single-tax party cm
ventlon who could stomach La Fol
lette and I am sure those from my
own state are against him to a man.
La Follette's entire political history is
replete with paternalistic or even so
cialistic legislation which the single
tax party unalterably opposes."
Announcement was made today that
Mayor William Hale Thompson's re
publican faction had abandoned the
idea of joining third party move
ment in Illinois.
Plans for the committee of 48 con
vention went ahead, unaffected ' ap
parently by the threat of the single
taxers. J. A. H. Hopkins, national
chairman, opened headquarters in a
downtown hotel where the convention
will be held and several scores of
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Patrol Has Engine Trouble One
Hour After Leaving MedTord,
6 0 Miles East Roseburg.
ROSEBURG. Or., July 8. (Special.)
Pilot Heyet and Observer Davis, in
a forest patrol plane, were compelled
to make a forced landing 60 miles
east of Roseburg yesterday afternoon
near what Is known as Throne Flat,
in the Black Rock lookout district,
according to information received
here tonight. Forest Supervisor Rams-dcll,-
since early this morning, has
been making an effort to locate the
lost plane and its occupants.
Neither the pilot nor observer was
Injured. The plane reached the ground,
turned completely over and buried it
self in the thick underbrush.
The plane left Medford yesterday
afternoon at 1:30 o'cloek and one hour
later the pilot, having engine trouble,
made a hasty descent, landing in one
of the most isolated and thickly
timbered districts of the county.
He Had little time to choose a land
ing place, but managed to clear the
timber and dropped in a small clear
ing, the heavy underbrush stopping
the momentum of the machine sud
denly and, while not wrecking the
plane to any great extent, there was
considerable damage to the frame
work.
EUGENE, Or., July 8. (Special.)
Airplane No. 4 of the forest fire patrol
piloted by Cadet Heyer and carrying
Don Davis, observer, and which had
been missing since Wednesday at 1:30
P. M. when it left Medford for the
home station at Eugene was located
this afternoon at the Mountain Mead
ows on the upper north Umpqua river
in Douglas county.
No details of trouble with the plane
were received from the men, but it
was ascertained that neither one was
injured. The news of their safety was
telephoned to headquarters here from
the office of the Umpqua national
forest at Roseburg.
HEAT DROPS 12 NOTCHES
Nice 8 5 -Degree Day Brings Good
Humor to City.
Fortlanders' good opinion of Port
land weather was re-es-t-Ablished yes
terday when the temperature dropped
from a maximam of 97 on Wednesday,
the hottest day of the season, to 85
tcgrees. as yesterday's high murk.
Four hours of cloudiness in the morn
ing, together with cooling winds, was
the causa for the relief from the pre
dicted hot spell, according to Meteor
ologist E. L. Wells of the weather
bureau.
The hot weather of the last two
days will not return for at least a few
days, srj"S the weather bureau man.
and fair and cooler, today's prediction,
seems to promise relief at least for
today. Yesterday's high mark of So
degrees was reached at 4 o'clock.
PENDLETON. Or., July 8. (Spe
cial.) Official maximum temperature
for Pendleton today is 100. This is
the first time the century mark has
been reached this year. The Dar
ometer is falling and a thunder storm
is predicted for this evening.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tbe Weather.
TESTERDAfS Maximum temperature, S5
degrees; minimum. 09 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and cooler; southwesterly
winds.
Foreign.
Allies threaten to invade the Ruhr if dis
armament plan is not accepted at noon
today by German cabinet. Pace 1.
France rebuilding war-torn provinces, over
coming all difficulties with energy of
187 1. Pane 2.
Taxation of all Jews to- promote Zion
public works proposed. Page ti.
Doinefttic.
Palmer's expenses next to be probed.
Page 2.
Single tax advocates announce they will
not support third party with La Fol
lette as candidate. Page 1.
Support of progressives promised Harding.
Page 1.
Governor Cox spends afternoon amid fa
miliar childhood scenes. Page 2.
Danger of coal shortage scouted by man
ager of wholesale association. Page 4.
National Educational association to paas on
"delegate plan." Page 3. i
North Dakota Non-partisans put up wheat
elevator. Page 5.
Northwest.
Scene of harnessing Pend Oreille for big
project is shown Oregon and Washing
ton men. Page 1.
Harbor masters of Portland and Astoria
lay down regulations to keep out
plague-infected rats. Page 1.
Oregon soldiers revive martial aspect of
old Camp Lewis- Page 1.
Two in forest patrol plane escape death
when machine turns over after forced
landing. Page 1.
Sport
Coast League results: Portland .1. Vernon
C; Seattle 7. Oakland 2; Los Angeles
0. Salt Lake ft: San Francisco 4. Sac
ramento 3. Page 14.
O'Dowd and Ortega all set for bout at Mil
waukee tonight. Page It.
Dempsey-Carpentier fight seems to have
little chance. Page l..
Waverley club team w-ir.s Davis trophy in
golf tournament. Page 14. :
Commercial sod Marine.
Public docks commissioner invites confer
ence in attempt to standardize elevator
charges in Portland. Seattle and As
toria. Page --.
Port to offer J100.000 bonds for sale.
Page 22.
Northwestern storages short of usual but
ter supply. Page 22.
Gains in Wall-street stocks are extended.
Page 23.
Chicago corn traders se'l. fearing bearish
crop report today. Page 23.
Portland and Vicinity.
Democratic notables invade Portland.
Page I.
Bryan refuses to say whether or not he
will support Cox. Page to.
Long-drawn-out fight between dairymen
and distributers on ettort to increase
milk price threatens. Page 15.
Shriners sre greeted by Alaskan smiles.
Page 10.
Ed Dusterhoff. second of "Dusterhoff
Twins." pleads guilty to bootlegging
charge. Page 10.
Mies Betty Gram. sufTrag- worker, shows
proof of legality of West Virginia's
vote. Page 11.
Ticket strong one and platform sound,
says Attorney-General Paimer. Page 8.
"Women not cheapened," Portland suf
fragists reply to Miss Bock. Pake 4.
Auditorium claims committee hears Con
tractor Pederson. Page 6.
Freight rate increase of 24 per cent for
western shippers is predicted by J. K.
Teal. F&se -
Disarmament Plan to Be
Forced on Germany.
ARMY OF 150,000 DEMANDED
Teuton Cabinet Has Until
Noon Today to Accept.
iREATY HELD VIOLATED
Berlin Conferees Maintain ProTis
lons of Pact Ignored and Pro
test Aggressive Stand.
SPA. Belgium. July S. (By the As
sociated Press.) The joint allied-German
conference on the terms of the
peace treaty reached another critical
point today. The Germans have until
noon tomorrow to say whether they
will accept the Franco-British plan
of disarmament. The alternative is
contained in the specific threat that
the allies will occupy the Ruhr or
other territory if Germany cannot or
docs not accept.
The German cabinet, of which seven
of the nine members are here, held a
meeting which continued three hours.
No decision was reached and the
council adjourned until tomorrow.
The prevailing view among the
Germans was that the allies had car
ried their demands, particularly the
menace of occupying further German
territory, much beyond any provision
of the Versailles treaty, and also that
the allies are taking up an aggres
sive position not contemplated by any,
clause of the treaty.
Derision Up To Cabinet.
The allied disarmament note waa
communicated to Berlin early In the
day at Chancellor Fehrcnbach's re
quest with the direction that it be
submitted to the reichstag and to the
leaders of ail the parties, whether
supporters of the government or the
opposition. Herr Fehrenbach asked
for the view of the reichstag and the
party leaders, but sAid that the de
cision would rct.t with the cabinet
now at Spa.
rrivate negotiations are reported
going on tonight between Premiers
Lloyd George and Millerand on the
one hand and Dr. Simons of the Ger
mans, but this could not be clearly
established. The final decision of the
allies sets forth that Germany must:
First Immediately disarm certain
of its forces. Including the security
police.
ClTllinnsi to Re Disarmed.
Second Publish a proclamation
asking for the immediate surrender
of all weapons and firearms in the
hands of the civilian population.
Third Abolish immediately compul
sory service.
Fourth Surrender to the allies all
arms, guns and cannon above the
.1 fixed by the treaty of Versailles.
The allied decision concerning dis
armament reads:
"If on October 1 the.' German army
is not reduced to 150,000 the allies
will proceed to occupy German terri
tory in the Ruhr or any other part of
German territory and will not evacu
ate it until all- the conditions of the
present agreement have been- ful
fileld." Cabinet
I'nnic.
Chancellor Fehrenbach, Dr. Simons,
foreign ministers, and Herr Gessler,
minister of defense, left the confer
ence in an agitated state. The chan
cellor immediately called a meeting
of the German cabinet, the members
of which have been arriving at Spa
one by one until only two now re
main in Berlin Herr Koch, interior,
and Herr Raumer. treasurer.
Those who eat in the cabinet coun
cil besides Fehrenbach. Simons and
Gessler. were Vice-Chancellor Heinze.
minister of justice; Herr Wirth, fi
nance; Hermes, food, and Scholz. eco
nomics. General von Seecht. chief of
staff, with some of the under secre
taries, took part in the conference.
Telephonic communication was
opened with Berlin and the substance
of the allied decision communicated
to the foreign office with instructions
to have Ministers Koch and Raumer
call together some of the leading
German men in public life and con
sider the allies' demands, and later
inform the German cabinet here of
their point of view.
Lloyd Gesrge Mnken I bnrcea.
Premier Lloyd George said that
after the three days of discussion on
the question must be closed imme
diately. The treaty had not been exe
cuted, he said, and Instead of 100,000
rifles there were 3,000,000 in Gtrmany
and six times as many machine guns
as the treaty allowed.
The allies had not Insisted on strict
execution of this clause of the treaty,
Mr. Lloyd George continued, because
they recognized the difficulties Ger
many was encountering. The discov
ery of hidden airplanes and aircraft
material, however, had caused suspi
cion. Dr. Walter Simons, German minis
ter of foreign affairs, replied that the
proposal was really a modification of
the one-sided treaty. It did not rep
resent an agreement arrived at as a.
result of a "round-the-table" discus-
I sion, he said.
I Dr. Simons declared the Germans
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