VOT, T Vn 1 8 87,1 Entered at Portland Oregon
Wlj. iiA iO,OHl Postofflce s 8cond-Cls Matter.
PORTLAND,' OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 18, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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POLICE KEEP DOCKS
RAPHAEL INVENTED ;
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE
HOVERS NEAR DEATH
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25,000 IN OREGON
WOULD GET BONUS
DEPUTr ASSESSOR DECLARES
13,000 WOULD TAKE LOANS.
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FREE FROM CLASHES
STRAW SAYS PUPIL
DECIDES FOR CUT
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HEAVIXT-ARMED PATROLMEX
LIST OF 50 QUESTIONS GIVEX
PORTLAXD SCHOOLS. .
HOPE FOR SUPREME COURT
MEMBER. IS GIVEX UP.
GUARD ALJj IAXDIXGS..
ABOR BOARD
GAY RED GARTERS
PERPLEX TEACHER
Giddy Little Marys Pro
BORAH WINSPQIN
GEHIUUMS PHEPAR
Dunn
OFFENSIVE
Million Unskilled Em-
' ployes Affected.
AMOUNT TO BE SET JUNE 1
Hearings on Other Classes to
Start June 6.
ACTION NOT EXPECTED
Prevailing Condition Justify Re
adjustment to Extent, Yet to Be
. Determined, Is Finding.
CHICAGO. May 17. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The United States
railroad labor board late today an
nounced its Intention of revising
downward wages of more than one
million unskilled rail workers, effec
tive July 1. The amount of the de
crease will be made public on June 1.
The board also announced that it
would hold hearings June regard
ins proposals by the roads to de
crease the wages of other classes of
employes ajid would also make its
decision In these cases effective on
the same date. A similar decision on
skilled workers would affect ap
proximately two million men.
Decision la I'aexpected.
The announcement, which said "pre
vailing conditions justify to some ex
tent, yet to be determined, a read
justment downward of wages," was
unexpected and came only a few hours
after the close of the hearings whlcn
had been in progress since early in
April.
On July 10. 1320. the board in
creased the pay of all classes of rail
way employes approximately- 21 per
cent or about $600,000,009 a year.
i Several months ago several roads
announced that they could not longer
operate under this wage award and
announced pay 'reductions averaging
about 20 per cent for unskilled em
ployes.. The workers appealed to the
board, which decided that the roads
could not make summary reductions,
but must first hold conferences with
their meg and then, if no agreement
could be reached, submit the case to
the board.
Reads Hold Conferences.
Practically every large road then
held conferences with its unskilled
employes, and when the employes re
fused to accept cuts they carried the
case to the board. About 98 cases
were thus appealed, and the board
decided to hear them as a nit
-The roads pleaded that "they were
being forced to pay more for labor
than they could employ it for in the
open market; that reduction in the
cost of living justified a reduction in
wages; that they were being forced
to operate in many cases at a loss,
and that they wished to reduce their
rates for the benefit of the public,"
but could not do so while forced to
pay a war-time scale to labor.
Mismanagement la Charged.
The employes charged that the
financial embarrassment of the roads
was due to gross mismanagement;!
that increased rentals had practically
nullified decreases in other necessi
ties, and thit the wages were still
below that paid in other lines.
Railway officials expressed them
selves as being pleased " with the
award today, and expressed the
opinion that the same conditions
which it was found applied to un
skilled labor would -also be applied
to skilled workers.
Representatives of the employes re
fused to comment on the board's an
nouncement until they could study it
carefully.
Standardization ot Tried,
The occupational classification
the board said, "Is not considered by
the board as setting un jurisdictional
lines for occupations or as limiting
the kind of work which employes may
perform, or the duties which they
may assume. In preparing the classi
fication the board has not aimed to
standardize for any railroad occupa
tional duties assigned to, or the kinds
of work performed by, its employes,
and nothing In the classification could
be construed In this light.
"Its purpose is to so group positions
that the wage and other data reported
by the railroads to the Interstate
commerce commission and to the rail
road labor board may be used for
administrative and public purposes.
It provides against grouping together
positions of widely different duties
and responsibilities, as well as rates
of compensation.
"Such distinctions as are made be
tween different types of positions are
founded on functional differences in
duties and responsibilities, to the end
that a uniform language may be ap
plied to similar, kinds -of work and i
-that the railroads may use descrip
tions and classifications of positions
uniform in character, consistent in
outline and specific in terminology."
Aaawaacesnrat la Made.
'The board's announcement follows:
"Whereas, A'nder date of April 6,
1921, the railroad labor board adopted
resolution which recited, among
other things, that in the judgment of
the board It is desirable to hear at
one time and decide in one decision.
o far as may be possible, the ques-
Strikers Who Rioted Monday Night
feliow 'o Disposition to Defy
Blue-Coated Contingent.
With a dozen blue-coated and heavily-armed
policemen guarding all
docks where there was any reason to
anticipate trouble, and' reserves at
police headquarters ready to answer
a riot call, the Portland water front
was quiet yesterday, following clashes
between strikers and non-union men
Monday.
In the only serious affair of Hon
day's encounters, a boarding party of
strikers took possession of the steam
er Swiftscout at the Eastern & West
ern mill and chased her ndn-unlon
crew ashore.
Later in the day, after It was
thought the trouble was all over, Ar
thur Mason, 265 'East Forty-ninth
street, - was attacked by a group of
strikers and cruelly beaten. This In
cldent took place in Front street near
the North Bank dock. Witnesses sum
moned the police and the rioters scat
tered when they heard the patrol
wagon coming.
The third brush was a minor affair
near the Victoria dolphins, where-the
strike-bound steamers , are moored
while awaiting the completion of their
crews. At 8:07 P. M. the captain of one
of 'the Idle steamers telephoned to
the police that a crowd of men bad
gathered and a fight was imminent.
By the time two motorcycles reached
the east end of the Broadway bridge
the crowd was gone. A telephone re
cently was installed on the steamers
In anticipation of just such an emer
gency.
The three steamers held up here by
a shortage of non-union engineers
were all in their same positions yes
terday the Eeibeck and West Nlva
rla at the Victoria dolphins and the
Willamette at St. Helens. A consider,
able quantity of United States mail
for China is in the hold of the West
NIvaria.
FARMERS TO BE-QUERIED
National Referendum on Important
v Questions Called.
ST. PAUL, May 17. A referendum
covering 15 questions of an agricul
tural nature pending in congress w'll
be voted upon by approximately
2,000,000 farmers, it was announced
today. The call, for the national ref
erendum was issued by the American
Farm Bureau federation. -
The call for the' poll also involves
an- attei.Vwt')irrngr "about -voluntary
reductions In freight rates on the part
of railroads by demonstrating that
lower rates would result-in large
traffic, increases that would more
than make up for reduced charges.
vide Problems. ,
'Lusitania Wrote Hungarian Rhap
sodies" Is Another Amusing
Answer In Tests.
EDUCATORS GIVE OPINIONS
Mothers to Blame, Says One
Dean of Girls.
ANOTHER DIFFERS LITTLE
Some Maidens Will Often Listen to
Outsiders More Quickly Than
to Parents, Is Other View.
Gay red garters, worn to school by
giddy little Mary, symbolize perplex
ity for at least one Portland teacher
interested in holding the rising gen
eration to proper standards of citi
zenship.
This particular teacher, dean of
girls in a high school, has declared
the mothers of the little Marys are to
blame for the appearance of the red
garters in public. r
Another dean has asserted that in
matters ot proper dress and conduct
schoolgirls will often listen to an
outsider" more quickly than to their
own mothers.
NEW QUIZ NECESSARY
Rutins Affects Portland, Condon,
Huntington Postmasters.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, D. C, May 17. Postmas
ters who were nominated by President
Wilson after a civil service examina
tion but who failed of confirmation
by the senate, will have to undergo
another test, the postofflce depart
ment ruled today.
This ruling will, affect nominations
made for the postofflce ,at .Portland.
Pendleton, Condon and Huntington in
Oregon.
The examination is not scholastic
however, and will be along the lines
of the tests applied before in the cases
of the postmasters mentioned.
SLAYERS T0PLEAD TODAY
Half-Blood Indian One of Four
Men Accused of Murder. .
TACOMA. Wash., May 17 The four
army deserters who have confessed to
the slaying last week of Earl Timbs,
taxicab driver, have been given until
tomorrow to plead to a charge of first
degree murder in . Judge Askren'a
court. The delay was granted to
await the arrival of an attorney from
Oklahoma, who was on his way her
to defend George W. Sharp, one of the
four defendants.
Sharp, who is said to be a half-blood
Cherokee Indian, served overseas with
the 4th division. His relatives in
Oklahoma have arranged for his de
fense, he said.
Educators' Views Asked.
So there ar . the contrary views
on this question of the day.
The views were just that diverse
when educators were asked yesterday
whether the, youth of today were
lipping from the path of decorum and
rectltude-Mn Portland.
The younger .'generation in Port
land is earnestly trying to do right
nd to become fine citizens," declared
one educator in discussing the atti
tude of high school Boys and girls
here toward life. ' As an opposing
view, there was the statement of a
dean of girls In a local high school
that "there has never been a time
when girls were so hard to reach
when their- manner of dressing and
dancing was so much in need of re
form."
. Artitad la pttmiatlc
'. The majority ot men and women In
terviewed on the tendency of young
persons. to go to excess in their desire
for entertainment, took an optimistic
attitude. They declared that "the
west Is freer from excesses than the
east and that there Is. on the whole, a
most wholesome companionship be
tween boys and girls of . both high
school and college ages."
Opinions "Expressed by local edu
cators paralleled in many cases those
of prominent! men and women
throughout the country, .who have
been discussing the problem. The fact
that Portlanders do not agree, is typ
ical of the discussions which huve
been taking place in many cities of
the United .States.
"I have been much Impressed with
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Pupils in the Portland high schools
and the seventh and eighth grades in
the grammar schools are having an
opportunity this week to show wheth
er they' consider Trotsky, forlnstance,
a seasoning or a boxer. They are an
swering a list of 60 questions, which
were serif to' the' office of the city su
perintendent of schools from a pub
lishing company. . .
: About one-third of the names in the
list are characters of history, some
are people and places prominent dur
ing the world war, a few are geo
graphical names and others are fa
mous persons in literature. . .
In the schools which have had the
test, some strange answers have been
made. The papers have not been cor
rected as yet but a report will be
made soon of the percentages scorod
by the pupils. In the high schools
only those in the history classes re
ceived the list.
One grammar school child thought
"Pasteur was a place where cows eat,"
and "Friday, a negro person who
helped Caruso."
To the question, . "Who was Ra
phael?" another replied, "The man
who invented straw to make baskets."
"Ulysses fought in the war of
1812," declared one boy, and another
wrote. "Mohammed was the leader of
the Mormons."
The effect of the music memory
contest is seen in the following reply."
laughed one principal. "One , pupil
said, 'Lusitania- wrote the Hungarian
Rhapsodies.' "
Satan was characterized as the
"governor of purgatory, manager of
hell, the inventor of satin cloth," and
one chill wrote "Satan was the devil
many, many years ago." .
"Copenhagen Is an extra fine qual
ity of snuff," wrote another, evidently
putting to use information gained In
the family circle.
"Kidd Is the man who Invented kid
shoes." said another, and "Cooper is
a great Jewish general."
uieopatra was a woman Known .
a vamp, ana nun was ino man
who stefl-s ships," were other an
swers. .
The pupils in the seventh and
eighth grades and in the history
classes of the high schools study cur
rent events and are required to make
frequent reports which should give
them an opportunity, to become ac
quainted with many of the names In
the list." said D. A. Grout, city super
intendent of schools. "The list was
sent to the schools as much for the
information of the teachers as the
pupils. We like .to have the teachers
get some idea of what their pupils
really know."
The 60 names In the list follow:
Foch, Salonika, Halg, Kerensky, Jof
fre, Edison, Sahara, Eve, Lusitania,
Dobrudja, Goethals, Cavell, Palestine.
Joan of Arc, Montpelier, Robin Hood,
Franklin, Posteur, Trotsky, Lafay
ette, Ulysses, Morocco, Zeppelin, Cleo
patra, Judas, Mohammed, Captain
Cook, Stephenson, Braddock, T-aft,
Galahad, Gettysburg, Raleigh, Cooper,
Copenhagen, Peronne, Tangtze, Ophe
lia, Satan, Garfield, Putnam, Raphael,
Friday, Merrimac, Twain, Gulliver,
Kidd. Pilate. Costa Rica, Benedict
'Arnold.
Relapse Is Suffered Following
Operation; Pulse Is Reported to
Be Veak and Heart Bad.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 17
Chief Justice White of the United
States supreme court was not ex
pected to live through the night, bis
physicians said late tonight.
"His pulse Is weak and his heart is
bad," Dr. Francis R. Hagner said after
a visit to the bedside- at Garfield bos
pital. "He probably will not survive
the night"
-The chief justice submitted to an
operation for bladder trouble Friday
and had improved steadily until late
today, when he suffered a relapse.
Dr. Hagner said that the patient's
temperature was normal until
o'clock this afternoon, when he suf
fered a chill and then declined rnp-
iaiy. iate tonight he lapsed Into un
consciousness.. For four months he
bad been ill, 'the doctor said, but
refused to leave his work, saying It
was important and if necessary he
would die rather than stop for treat
ment , . "'
WHITMAN TO GET $75,000
Weyerhaeuser Gift to Washington
College Announced.
SPOKANE, Wash.. May 17. A con
tribution of $75,000 to Whitman col
lege by the children of the late Fred
erick Weyerhaeuser for the estab
lishment of a department of biblical
Instruction was announced today by
Dr. S. B. L. Penrose, president of the
college. j
The gift, to be paid in installments
of $25,000 each on June 1, September
1 and December 1, is made in memory
of Frederick Weyerhaeuser and wife.
A western school was selected, Dr.
Penrose said, because Mr. Weyer
haeuser, who' was a wealthy lumber
man of St. Paul, Minn., had made
much of his money in the west.
CENSUS TOTAL IS RAISED
Continental United States Has
105,710,620 Inhabitants.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 17.
Final statistics placing the total pop
ulation of continental United States
at 105,710,620, or 27,517 more than
was announced last ' October, when
preliminary figures were given out,
were submitted today to Speaker GI1-
lett of the house of representatives
for apportionment purposes by the
census bureau.
Final figures place the total popu
lation of the Outlying possessions of
the United States at 12.143,738, which
brings the population for the- entire
country and its possessions to 117.-859,358.
BULLET 0U1VJRAIN 0. K.
Convict Returned to Prison' Cured
of His Insanity.
OSSINING, N. T., May 17. Roman
Leondowski, the Sing Sing prisoner
from whose brain Dr. William L.
Chapman, invalid physician of Brook
lyn, removed a bullet several weeks
ago, was yesterday taken to the
Dannemora hospital "for the criminal
insane to be recommitted to prison
as cured of his Insanity.
Conference Request Ap
pears Certain. v
NAVY BILL AMENDMENT UP
Administration Leaders Sud
denly Switch Support.
ADOPTION IS PREDICTED
King and La FoIIette Criticise Ap
propriation Programme; Bill
Slakes Little Progress.
AND THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER.
PRESIDENT STARTS SHOW
California Festival
Is Formally
Opened by Executive.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May, 17.
From his desk in the White House
President Harding today opened 'by
telephone the first annual California
Orange show at Anaheim, Cal. The
president spoke a few words of greet
ing to the show officials at the other
end of the wire and wished the' en
terprise success.
After he had greeted exposition of
ficials, the president chatted a lew
minutes with bis sister, Mrs. E. E.
Remsberg, wjo lives in Santa Ana,
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CATTLE LOAN BILL UP
Measure for Federal Aid Intro
duced by Stanfield. ...
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C. May 17. Senator
Stanfield of Oregon introduced a bill
today authorising the war finance
corporation to lend to western cattle
men through banks and cattle loan
companies $100,000 to be .made on 75
per cent of the value of securities.
The bill was understood to ave
the approval of Governor Harding
of the federal reserve board and of
D. K. -Crlssinger. controller of . the
currency, - - - - - .
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WASHINGTON, D. C, May 17.
Senator Borah of Jdaho and those as
sociated with him in the senate on
questions of naval policy, virtually
won their fight today for Incorpora;
tion in the $500,000,000 naval appro
priatlon bill of tne Borah amendment
requesting the president to call
naval disarmament conference cf the
United States, Great Britain and
Japan.
Senator Polndcxter, republican
Washington, in charge of the bill, and
other administration leaders suddenly
came to the support of the amend
ment and leaders generally Joined"ln
predictions of its adoption.
Although Senator Poindexter and
other republican leaders said they
had not heard further from President
Harding, there were reports that he
had been In communication with
republican leaders.
Change Caases Surprise.
Doia in senate debate and In a
statement to the press. Senator Poin
dexter announced his Intention to
vote ,for the Borah amendment and
also to withhold a parliamentary
point of order against It, which would
have required a two-thirds vote for
Its adoption. Senator Lodge, the re
publican, leader, said he would vote
for the amendment and that he ex
pected general republican support for
It.
The change occasioned considerable
surprise. After a conference with the
president. Senator Polndejcter an
nounced recently that the president
preferred not to have the ' Borah
amendment adopted.
Ko Progress Made la Day.
No progress was made today on the
bill. Senators King, democrat. Utah,
and La Follette, republican, Wiscon
sin, again spoke In criticism of the
appropriation programme, but tomor
row it was expected that the senate
would get down to disposition of
many amendments.
Senator Poindexter, acting chair
man of the naval committee, said op
ponents of the bill were "using fig
ures recklessly," In estimating naval
costs.
"On my own responsibility," he
said, "I can state that the cost of
completing the 1916 construction pro
gramme will not exceed $500,000,000."
Poindexter Gives Challenge.
"And I say," said Senator King,
"that when this fleet has been com
pleted, equipped and manned, when
the new docks and the new yards to
care for it have been provided It will
cost a billion and a half dollars and
the ships will be obsolescent, if not
obsolete when completed."
"I cannot let that go unchallenged,"
said Senator Poindexter. "The models
of the ships we have laid down were
fixed in the light of the experiences
of the world war."
Atout 10,000 to Apply for Cash if
Measure Is Approved by
Voters, Is Declaration!
SALEM. Or., May 17 (Special.)
Approximately 25,000 men and women
In Oregon will be eligible to benefits
under the so-called soldiers' bonus
law. In case the measure If approved
by the voters at the special election
to be held on June 7, according to fig
ures compiled today by James Craw
ford, deputy state treasurer.
The number of Dersons Who will
seek a cash bonus was estimated at
10,003, while the number of person
who will prefer loans under the act
was estimated at 15,000. To meet
these loans It has been proposed to
Issue bonds equivalent to i per cent
of the assessed valuation of the state.
which would raise a total of $31.
225,117.47. This sum will be repaid t
the state, according to Mr. Crawford.
The cash bonus payments, estimate
at $1,200,000, will not be repaid to th
state, but will be taken care of br
1-mill levy. This levy, based on th
nreiipnt valuations of the State, will
raise $1,040,839.04 annually.
Mr. Crawford's statement said tha
while in some cases these loans may
run for a period of 28 years, being
amortized at 2 per cent annually and
4 per cent being paid In interest, it Is
fair to assame hat a great majority
of the borrowers would repay the'
obligations In 20 years.
Based on these figures, Mr. Craw
ford estimated that the aggregite
cost to the state for paying a cash
bonus or loaning its funds to 25,000
men and women will in all probabil
lty not exceed $15,000,000 during the
next 20 years.
Against this expense Mr. Crawford
estimated that the additional value
accruing to the state on account o
home building and farm developmen
would aggregate many thousands o
dollars.
New War Machine May
Take Week to Perfect.
QUICK, EFFECTIVE BLOW AIM
ELLENSBURG FEARS FLOOD
Yakima River Up Four Feet and
Water Plant Threatened.
ELLENSBURG, Wash., May 17,
The Takima river, fed by heavy rains
In the Cascade mountains, has risen
four feet in the last "three days and
at noon today flood waters wtre with
in three feet of the dyke protecting
the Ellensburg municipal water plant,
according to a telephone message. The
river was reported steadily rising and
serious flood conditions were feared.
Creek waters above Ellensburg
broke over their banks this morning,
flooding a number of city streets
Considerable damage has been dor.e
on farm lands at Thorp, near here.
BANKER'S ARREST ASKED
Head of Washing-ton Institution
Charged With Larceny.
SEATTLE, Wash.. May 17. War
rant was Issued here today for the
arrest on a charge of grand larceny
of Thomas P. Fournler, president of
the State bank of Black Diamond at
Black Diamond. Wash. The bank was
closed by the state bank commissioner
last Friday, when the commissioner
was notified that Fournler had dlsap
neared a week ago, leaving only a
girl In charge.
Assets of the bank were removed to
Seattle for examination.
INDEX OF TODAY'S -NEWS
ACID THROWER DEFENDED
Husband Stands by Woman Who
Assaulted School Teacher.
PRESCOTT. Ariz., May 17. Clar
ence V. Hopkins, husband of Mrs.
Anna Irene Hopkins, today took the
stand in defense of his wife, who is
on trial here charged with having
thrown acid into' the face of Miss
Lucille Gallagher, a school teacher
of Jerome. Ariz., March 31.
Mr. Hopkins spent most of his time
on the stand telling of his wife's
visit to a, fortune teller and of the
effects of the prophecies of the for
tune teller on Mrsv Hopkins.
ELOPER TO BE RETURNED
California Governor Orders Extra
dition of Seattle Man. .
SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 17. Re
quest for the extradition ot William
J. Sheehan, who while a Seattle po
lice officer was alleged to have eloped
with Mamie Watson, wife of C. K.
Watson of Seattle, Wash., was grant
ed today by Governor Stephens of
California. , ''
Sheehan. who is held at Redding,
Is charged with a statutory crime, as
is the woman, who, it was stated, has
returned to the state of Washington.
TAX EXEMPTION ISSKED
Relief of Incomes From Certain
Trust Funds Desired. '
WASHINGTON, D. C, Mayl7. The
senate finance committee was asked
today by James B. Garfield of Cleve
land to exempt from federal taxation
incomes from scientific, charitable,
religious and educational trust funds.
He also asked legislation which
would free bequests to such founda
tions from estate taxes.
Tbe Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
07 degree.; minimum, 80 dmreel.
TODAY S Showers; southwesterly winds.
I'orelin.
China-Japan pact appears likely In near
ea.t. Pass 3.
Qermana prepare quick and effective blow
in upper Silesia, rage i.
National.
United States departments down for shake-
up. Page s.
Bbliclror-general declared bar anflOCiatioD
Piea In AlDers casa auront. rage
Imuran wins point on naval disarmament.
Page I
Chief Justice White hovers near death.
Page 1.
Borah now looms large In Washington.
Page 2.
Pcftnmtic. .
Kail lab-.r board dec d- s to cut pay of un
skilled la Dor. ri i
000.000 coal mine workers get together.
Page 6.
Mrs. Bergdoll sentenced to pay S7000 fine
or serve year in prison, page .
Foreign exchange held key to trade.
Fage 20.
Paelfle Northwest.
About S5.0O0 In Orrjn would get veterans'
bonus, u declaration, rage .
Injunction asked against marine strikers.
Page a.
K. -J. Nolan elected grand patriarch.
Page .
Sports.
Stanford tennis team to play In exhibition
today. Pag- 12.
Pacific Coast I,.pun results: At Salt Lako
&, Vernon b, at Fan Francisco 1, Kac
r.mento 4. 0iitr teams traveling.
1-i.ge VI.
Return go between Cross and Gorman as
sured. Page 1
Final grammer school track test slsted for
today. Page 13.
Commeicial and Marine.
Continued improvement in domestlo bide
markets. Page 21.
Early advance in Chicago wheat reduced
by profit-taking sales. Page 21.
Traction Issues a-teady stock market at
close. Pag 21.
Terminal No. 1 has freight rush ahead.
Pago 20.
Heavily-armed police keep Portland docks
free from striKe aisoraerai rag i.
Portland and Vicinity.
Bishops conclude srssion with tribute of
appreciation lor roruana. rage i.
Council In favor of one-way traffic. Page 10.
New Hedderiy damage a lui is in Jur
bands. Page ii.
Stanfield unlikely to hand out many pluma
Page 10.
Pupils give amusing answers to questional
Page. l.
Sound amplifer to be used during Sou
Festival, page w.
Two boys after Paul Revera ride capturs
check torger. rage js.
Pay cut accepted by roar Jv loggers.
page 14.
Three-mill levy and 11.000.000 bond Issue
for schools suggested. Page 4.
Oay red garters, worn by giddy little
Marys, perplex teachers. Page 1.
World is pictured as growing better.
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Speedy Defeat of Korfanty
Is Predicted.
FRENCH HELD POWERLESS
Arno DoscliVleurot Ili-licyes Gen
eral Le Rond Will Do Nothing.
Easy Victory Is Foreseen.
BY ARNO DOSCH FL.EUUOT.
(Copyright by the New York World. Tub
W'htd by Arrangement.)
BERLIN, May 17. (Special cable)
The military machine of the Ger
mans In upper Silesia may take per
haps another week to construct, but
the Job wilt bo workmanlike. It Is
In charge of men who built the old
war machine.
When rcsdy. It will strike effec
tively. Its foundation is the motor
truck transport, such as was used In
the Invasion of Belgium. Suddenly
someone will Jump the Oder and have
Beuthen and Kattowlti surrounded
in two hours.
Meanwhile. Germans In these two
centers will see that there. are suf
ficient obstacles In tho way of any
move by tho small French garrisons.
It has been confidently expected that
the main body of advancing Germans
will have the country under control In
a day.
Qalrk Wow Is riaanrd.
This is typical of German military
tactics. Not a blow will We strurk
until all Is ready, delays until then
counting as gains.
Korfanty is having Increasing dif
ficulty In holding together his Polish
bands. Owing to shortage of both
food and money he cannot carry out
his promises to his bands or to others
who relied on him. On Saturday he
was able to pay only 20 per cent of
the wages in the mines.
German bankers In the mining re
gions destroyed 60.000.000 marks In
Kelchstag notes, which ordinarily .
would have been available for wages.
Such payments as were poesioie in
the Industries were made by borrow
ing cash from small tradesmen.
Committee la Powerful.
Today the German political exec
utive committee Is more powerful In
Oppeln than the Interallied commis
sion. It Is led by Josef Cyrus, a re
markable socialist orator, formerly a
mine mechanic, whose growing power
and Influence amount already almost
to a dictatorship.
General LeRond, the French Com
mander, Is so much concerned over
what Cyrus may do that he has weak
ened, by withdrawal of his French
forces In Beuthen and Kattowltx, In
order to strengthen those In Oppcln.
This course, will facilitate a capturo
of Beuthen and Kattowlls whenever
the Germans may be ready to move
forward.
Pleas Made la Leaflets.
The correspondent has an advance
copy of leaflets which Cyrus will
begin to circulate tomorrow on be
half of German political and labor
organizations. In districts of the ln-
urrcotlon. "Helmattreu (Loyal to the
home soil) organlzatlona of Krouse-
burg, Oppeln, Itatlbor, Coscl. Neuslalt
and Loebschuetts have organized," the
circular reads, "to free the remainder
of upper Silesia from the control
of the greatest swindler of the cen
tury (meaning Korfanty). Organise
for co-operation. Break through the
ring ot bandits about you and unite
with us when the signal hour strikes."
Cyrus has advised the German town
dwellers within the Korfanty line to
suffer patiently privations, or eve&
hunger, for. he promises that shortly
they will be freed.
Nothing Done to lalerfrre.
British and Italian commissioners
In Oppeln know of the activities' of
Cyrus and are doing nojihlng to In
terfere with him. Among the Ger
mans recently arrived who will carry
out Cyrus" orders are 3000 Bavarians,
a. ho wear Heimattreu baduea. They
are Irregular portions of the Bavarian
Klnwehenwchr and have volunteered
for SUeslan service.
Aside from professional soldiers and
adventurers now in the district ex
pecting to fight, most of the German
recruits In the forces of the Upper
Silesians are men who have lived In
Germany and returned to their native
Sileslan district in time for the pleb
iscite. Recruits are organizing dally
and are organizing In the rear of the
main bodes. The German side of th
Oder is held by local volunteers.
150,000,000 MARKS READY
Reparations Commission Say Ger
many Has Tut Vp Gold.'
PARIS, May 17. The reparations
commission officially announced to
day Germany had placed at Its dis
posal 160.000.000 marks, partly In gold
and partiy In foreign currency. It
was added that the reparations mi
mission was making arrangements to
accept delivery.
The commission In Its reply to Ger
many accepting the payment made it
iCuuuluded, oa Pan 2, Coiuiua S.)