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r 78 Pages Section One, SixScctions Pages lto22 VOL. XXXVII NO. 10. . . rOKTLAND, OIEEUOX, SUNDAY 3IORMXG, , MARCH 10, 1918. FltlCE FIVE CEXTS. BOY KILLED WHILE U.S. IS BIG MANY OHIO TOWNS SWEPT BY CYCLONE SIBERIANS RALLY. LEO BY KDLGHAK DANCEHALL DOORS BERBER NDGTEO DOING UN NOT GUILTY, ISM'SMCT , . i State Fails to Prove ..Murder Charge ;PLAYiNGB"URGLAR CLOSED TO PUBLIC FRANCE SALEM LAD OF IS IS SLAIN BY . i HIS PLAYMATE. ! CONTINENTAL IMPED OCT AND OTHEtt CITIES DAMAGED. TACOMA RESORT NO LONGER OPEN TO SOLDIERS. sEomo CHARGED THINGS Political Move, Says Ex-Congressman. 4 OTHER SOCIALISTS NAMED Tucker, Head of Hobo College in Chicago, Accused. U. S. ALLEGES CONSPIRACY fperebr. Article In New pa peri and rmphlrl Cited as El dence That E-plonage Act I Violated. CHICAGO. March Victor L Per g-r. f.rmr Congressman, from Wl- confn: Ado'ph r,.rmr. National secre tary of the Po-lllit party; Irwin ft. Jo:n Turker. a Oi l- ro Socialist: J. Loul Frg'lah and William F. Kruse ere Inflicted by th Federal 'grand Jury tvijy. charged with obstructing reerultlrg. encouraging disloyalty and Interfering with the prosecution of the war. Advices from Milwaukee today quota Mr. Berger aa saying of the Indict men!: "It la a political move, pur and ainiple." Th Indictment, returned February t. but withheld uy lltrict Attorney Clyne. rharce.! : overt acta. It 1 chared tho.e indirted cormplred to via iat the erplonaga act by rpecrhea and article printed In certain publicattona. Km. Is editor of the Young Peo ple Socialist Magaxine. also published tere. Malta llae4 to Ragdahfa Paper. Kug.iahl wa former editor of the American S.K-lalit. official organ of the National So party. whjch waa dis continued Ut September after It had been deprived of Ita aecond-claas mill tng privilege. At prevent he la editor and owner of the Rye-Opener, a to ciaiietlc publication issued In Chicago. Mr. Merger, m ho la a candidate for Bommatloa for I'nitcd States ?naior from Wisconsin on the ocllit picket. In announcing hla platform thla week. atd that. If elected, he would work fr the paaiusv of a resolution by Con gress directing the !reidnt to sum anon warrtng countries to an Imme a.ate armietlce and peace conference. He rare Hiili T reaps Withdrawn. Ills put form also ca!la for with drawal of American troops from Hurope to procure absolute "security for this country." The Wisconsin Senatorial election wilt be held April S. Rev. ftt. John Tucker la head or a so-called hoh college In Chicago. He as been prominently Identified with fcotaltsta here. District Attorney Oyne stated that those Indirted conspired to violate the enpionage art. "through public speech, articles written In certain ewspaper. among others the Milwau kee lador and the American Socialist ftod through certain pamphlets. lie l farteaH Charged. Among the pamphlets named are tSow entitled "Pro- la malign and War Programme." a pamphlet. "! With Wit." a pamphlet The Trice We Pay." a pamphlet "Why Ton Should Fight." and by means of cartoon. Illustrations, pictur.s, etc, to do the following: ' 1. When the I'ntted States la at war wilfully t cauM Insubordination, dis loyalty and I he refusal of duty In mili tary and naval tones to the Injury of ta aerrtce. t- Wllfnlly to obstruct the recruit ing and enlistment service to the In jury cf the service and. of the United states. The Indictment seta forth that the Virgil Bnrrh found Dead at Home of Frank Duttoo Son of Lat ter Admit Shooting. HALEM.' Or, March (Special.) While "playing burglar" today. Virgil Burch. 11 years old. was shot and killed by bia K-year-oid chum. Tillman Put ton, at the home of the Dutton boy's parents, H Turner street. Mr. anj Mrs. Frank Dutton. parents of the Pulton boy. had gone to the country for the day and left their son with the Burch boy'a parents. Mr. and Mr. George Eurch. During a part of the day they played at the Burch home, but later went to the home of the Pulton boy at M Turner street. Missing hla' son after a long absence. Mr. Burch went to the Dutton home an found him lying dead on the floor In pool of blood. ' lie had been sho through the chest by a bu'.Iet from .2:-callber revolver, which passed com pletely through his bo5y. The Dutton boy was missing, but was found Iste In a neighbor" back yard ty Peput Sheriff Bowers and Patrolman Wright, and he admitted shooting his com panlon while they were "playing bur glar." The body waa taken In charge by Coroner Clough. It Is likely no Inques will be helJ. Colossal War Machine Now Being Built. Two Persons Known Dead and Prop. crtjr Loss Is Grcat Storm Quar- - 'He Wide, 20 Miles Long. WORK WELL ADiTiirilSTERED Officials but Little Hampered With Red Tape. SIX SONS ARE PALLBEARERS Late Hiram Wood, Aged tO, Who Died Recently, Laid to Ilest. ALBA N'T. Or.. March . (Special.) Fix of the eight sons of the late Hiram Wood, who died at bis home here on Wednesday night at the age of 90 years, acted as pallbearers at his fu neral In thla city yesterday afternoon. The same men acted in a similar ca pacity at the funeral of their mother. who died In 110. The pallbearers were A. D. Wood, of Turner; J. A. Wood and Kugene T. Wood, of Albany; S. M. Wood and H Wood, of Corvallls. and George E- Wood, of Eugene. The funeral was conducted by Kee. C. Schneter. pas tor of the Evangelical Church, of which he deceaaed waa a member. The late Illram Wood was an Oregon pioneer of IBS!. Ha spent most of his life In Benton County, where he set tied more than threescore years ago. and had resided In Albany tho past II years. HURCH OF GOD SEES LIGHT Members Abandon Opposition to War and M ill Hack Government OMAHA. March . The Church of Rod in Nebraska has decid-d to aban- on Ita life-long policy of non-resis ance to war and will teach ltw mem ber a tbat organised government Is right and that when war attacks the country the church should assist In Its defense. Leader of the church in Nebraska were before the Federal Department of Justice yesterday explaining Its be lief. n Monday R. Almus Aldsmx, head of tne 10 churches of. the organi sation in this vtate, will start on a pilgrimage to those churches to take the new niessage to them. RIGHT-OF-WAY TO PRODUCE Railroad Company to Promote Thrift Among Gardeners. AMERICAN PRIDE JUSTIFIED 'If German General Staff Could See What They Are Vp Against There Would Be Londer Howls for Peace," Says MocHac. Fo-tr hundred miles of 0.-"W. R. ft X. right-of-way will he available for war gardening thla yar. officials of the company announce. Though such land has been for several years available to employes, special effort will be mad thla seaaon to encourage ita cultivation. Last sesson a great deal of the right- of-way was placed under cultivation In a drive fostered by the company. Of ficials d-clared that, while employes will be given the preference, the-right- of-way will lira be available for all who witl undertake to cultivate It propery. BT WILL O. MacRAE. WITH- THE AMERICAN ARMT IN FRANCE. Feb. 12. The "Quest of the Golden Girl" has nothing on this at tempt of mine to meet up with the sol dier (to pas the censors) of whom I hare followed their doings since they were mustered in In 1917. That I found them at last Is due more to luck than management, for my map of France shows me I have traveled over 1500 miles on tbat quest. But what boot it? I found them at last, and for five day I was their guest, sinking my teeth in good Amer ican white bread and drinking again good Artuy coffee and, best of all, once more enjoying a real man-sized American breakfast. hot cakes. syrup and all. It was worth the many all-night trip and rid ing In the French ..soldier Pullmans marked on the outside In carefully printed white lettering, llonimej. 36 Cheveaux S (meaning 38 men or elph head of horses). There Is plenty of ventilation and plenty of light (in the daytime) and no heat in these cars. have searched in vain and I haven' found a single soldier who complained about riding In these cars, although remember distinctly of hearing hun dreds howling at the Government be cause they were shipped to the Mexican border In day coaches. Even the psy rholugy of this la easy of answor. In 191 the soldier was told to go. and in he same breath told not to go. No ob ectlre point. Nothing to be accom pllshcd. Soldiers t'eadltloa Good. I round the command from my town fully recovered from tho trip across, Ttelr brush with the submarines and the disaster which befell the regiment when It lay at the point of d burka ion had already been relegated to the history of yesterday. Only the high lights of memory of It remained. The general health of the command is good, ithougb there still remains some ill- ess among them. Much of the sick ness Is of the same kind for which tiie men suffered In the camp of their last land in America. In the Army, like In private life, everything goes by com parison. Naturally the aoldiers com pare that camp with their ramps over Rest assured, not even in the mud of Flanders do the two places compare, for there Is nothing in earth like that camp. In spite of the fact that certain gentlemen, trucklers all. upon visiting tbat camp almost frose to death and returned home only to tell what they knew not to be the truth. Without preliminary or without asking by your leave, here is the general tenor of the soldier opinion: "Some camp this; not like the one we left over on that wind-swept Island. Even when we have to clean out slablea and bil lets are with the raws and chickens, it's dry and we can build a fire with real, hunest-to-God wood that burns without fear of the rain or snow putting out the fire" The regiment. like all of the regl-j m-nts that come over here at first, are LIMA. March . First reports over crippled wires late tonight Indi cated that at least tea persona loot their lire tonight la a tornado which swept over Kerthweatera Ohio, center ing la Via Wert Couaty on tho Ohio Indiana state line. COLUMBUS, O., March . Two per sons are known to be dead, many are reported injured and thousands of dol lars of property damage was done to night by a cyclone which cut a swath through Northwestern Ohio. The center of the cyclone seemed to have been in Van Wert County, al though serious damage has been report ed between Lime and Flndlay. Continental Ohio Is reported .to have been almost wiped out by the high wind, and the towns of Van Wert. De flianace, Middiepoint, Convoy- and Lima are reported to have suffered heavily. Jantoria, Bluffton. Ottawa and other towns between Lima and Flndlay are reporetd to have been hit hard. Telephone and telegraph lines are down and railroad and interurban traf fic has been so Interfered with that in dications are that the loss of life prob ably will not become known before to morrow. . The cyclone, a quarter of a mile wide, and more than 20 miles long, struck Harrison, Union. Hoaglln and Waahlng ton townships In Van Wert County. Several houses were demolished. The known dead are: Mrs. James Geyer, Harrison township. Van Wert County, and Rex Ley, aged 12, Middle- point, Van Wert County. Severely injured persons have been tken to hospitals in Van Wert County. Conditions west of Van Wert are said to be critical, farmers are reported to have started out to hunt victims in the ruins of houses-which were blown down. It Is reported that the towns of Hol- gate and Halmer. O., west of Lelpsic, have been practically destroyed by tornado. Appeals for immediate help have gone out to adjacent cttieis. Regime of People to Be Established. v MILITARY BLOW IS PLANNED Army to Support Semenoff Be ing Recruited. JAPAN MAY LEND ITS AID Fighting Reported In Progress Along Railway- West of Town of Manchuria Trains Held lp There. PARIS. AGAIN IS BOMBED Berlin Declares Airplane Attuck Is in Nature of Reprisal. PARIS, March 9. German aviators raided Paris last night. Early reports show that bombs were dropped, with some loss of life and property. Signals that all was clear were glvn at 12:20 A. M. BERLIN. March 9. via London.. "I'arls was again attacked with bombs last night," the War Office announce, "as a reprisal for the throwing of enemy bomb on the open towns of Treves, Mannheim and Pirmasens on Jebruary 19. The attack was very iffective." 1870 AURORA IS EQUALED Bishop iv ma n Recalls Phenome non When Huns Besieged Paris. PRINCE- ALBERT, Sask.. March 9. Bishop Newman, of this city, an au thority on the aurora boreaiis, said the display of Northern Lights visible Thursday night was one of the most striking he had ever teen. The only time I have ever seen anything like it was in 1870, during the Frsnco-Prusslan ;ar, when Paris was besieged by the Germans, he raid. "I saw the lights from London. Many people believed Paris was burn ing." SPORT TAKES UP WAR Hand-Grenade Throwing to Become Intercollegiate Contest. " PETROCRAD. March 9. The Pravda, organ of the Bolsheviki, prints a dis patch from Irkustk which says: "The ex-president of the Council of Ministers of revolutionary Russia, Prince Lvoff, has constituted in the Far East a new Russian government, which at present has its seat at Pekin and which is awaiting the landing of Japanese troops at Vladivostok in or der to enter Siberian territory with them. "Telegraphic communication between Vladivostok and Irkutsk is inter rupted. lied Army Rallies. "The soviet of Vladivostok Is mob ilizing its forces for resistance and is forming a red army." PEKIN. March 9. Plans for the res toration of popular government in Si beria under Admiral Kolchak, former commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, through the organization of an army to co-operate. with General Se menoff. the leader of the anti-Bolshevik government in Siberia are now in preparation, it is learned here. Already a newly formed organization of Russians has begun enlisting men for the support of General Semenoff and yesterday four field guns and 15 machine guns were forwarded to him on the Manchurian Kail way. Prominent Slavs In Control. The new organization is under the Owners of Black Cat Comply With Wishes of Camp Commander. Others Expected to . Follow. . TACOMA, Wash.. March 9. 7(Special.) oluntarily complying with a per sonal request from Major-General H. A, Greene. Camp Lewis commander, made through Colonel M. E. Saville head of the military police, the Black Cat dancehall in Tacoma closed its doors to the public at midnight to night, and it Is expected that the Lib erty and the National Pavilion at American Lake will take similar action. Following a consultation with Colo nel Saville, the proprietors of the Black Cat said they had declared two months ago that when the military au thorities made the request they would close up. Ail or the dancehall owners were called into consultation by Colonel Sa ville, who explained to them that Major-General Greene had urged that they- close the halls. It was further explained that the Fosdick commission and special Federal investigators had inspected the halls and concluded that if they were closed it would aid the Government in its programme of build ing up an Array of high moral stan dard. The dancehall proprietors In formed Colonel Saville that the wishes of General Greene would be carried out. DENVER. March 9. Hand .grenade throwing will be taken up as an in tercollegiate, sport this Spring by the schools of the Rocky Mountain Conference. This was the decision of a conference meeting held today In Denver. leadership of Prince Nicholas Kouda- cheff, Russian Minister to China; Lieu tenant-General Horvath, Russian mil tary commander at Harbin and former chief of the Russian railway adminis tration there; M. Rusanoff. provisional commissioner for the Province of Amur, and M. Lavoroff, provisional commissioner for the Province of Ir kutsk. Admiral Kolchak. who is a veteran of the RuMso-Japaftcse War and was he head of the Ru'ssian naval commis sion that visited the United States last year, is now at Shanghai. Move on Irkutwk Humored. It is proposed that General Semenoff shall advance from the town of Man- huria, on the Manchurian-Trans-Bia- kal border, where he is now fighting. an far east as Irkutsk, some 800 miles distant on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. There he is to await Japanese as sistance in money and men. which ft Is declared have already been promised him. (From Irkutsk Ural Mountains border of European Russia is a dis tance of aboux 1800amiles). - Fighting Reported in Progress. The latest telegrams from General Semenoff show that he is fighting along the railway west of the town of Manchuria. All west-bound trains, he reports, are being held at that point. LONDON, March 8. Details of an alleged landing of Japanese troops at Vladivostok In January are given in the Petrosrad newspaper Novaia Zhlzn JOSEPH KELLER ACCUSED Abduction Charge Made for Arrest of Pa cole Violator. SAN FRANCISCO. March 9. A war rant charging abduction was issued today for the arrest of Joseph Keller, state parole officer of Oregon, who it is alleged "forcefully and illegally" took possession - of C. B. Smith, just discharged from San Quentin prison with the intention of returning Smith to Oregon, where it was said he was wanted for breaking parole. Through habeas corpus proceedings Smith was taken from Keller'- custody at Oakland, Cal., but was immediately ! arrested on - a warrant from Orejron and now is fighting extradition. Smith had just completed a-three-year sen tence for forgery. The Oregon authorities asserted Smith's parole ended automaticaliy when he was convicted in California. SALEM. Or., March 9. State Parole Officer Keller left for San Quentin prison several days ago to take into custody C. B. Smith, when California authorities informed Oreyon author! ties that Smith was to be released. Smith was to be returned to the Ore gon prison for breaking his parole. He was committed to the Oregon Peniten tiary for forgery. Acting tipon the cus tom, usually followed between sstates in the return of parole breakers. Gov ernor Withycom'je did not furnish Keller with requisition papers, ' but these were sent when he was held up by habeas corpus proceedings in California. ONE BALLOT DECIDES CASE Acquittal Throughout Trial Confidently Expected. , ALIBI FULLY ESTABLISHED Case Never Should IIutc Been) Brought to Trial, Declares Coun sel for Defense District At- torncy Rebuked for Action. BEERMAKERS MAY BE USED Yakima Meeting Asks That Brew eries Be Closed to Aid Farmer. YAKIMA, Wash.. March 9. That President Wilson close the breweries of the United States in order that the men now employed in making beer may work on the farms was' asked in a resolution adopted at a meeting or farmers, business men and others this afternoon for discussion of food pro duction. There was no opposition to the reso lution. PIGS CAUSE DOWNFALL Diarmld Lynch, Sinn Fein "Food .. Controller," Is Arrested. LONDON, March 9. Diarmld Lynch. Sinn Fein "food controller," was ar rested Thursday in connection with the recent commandeering of pigs in Ire land, according to an Exchange Tele graph dinpafch. ' CHEHALIS, Wash., March 9. (Spe cial.) Not guilty was the verdict of the Jury at S o'clock tonight in the case of Oscar Main, Napavine business man. University of Washington graduate and' brother of Supreme Court Justice Main, charged with the murder of his closest; friend and neighbor, Fred Swayne, at Napavine, January 6. The jury took but one ballot and there was not a dissenting voice against the verdict of not guilty. While the Jury. was out three hours, Jurymen said an hour of this time was consumed at supper and two hours of discussion of the case. When the ballot was taken the verdict was unanimous. - Main Receives Verdict Calmly. Oscar Main retained the cool com posure which has been his throughout the trial. He received the verdict calmly and then shook hands with the jurymen and women. "May God bless you," said one of thai men on the Jury. lou should never have been accused." The verdict marked the close of a murder case which has been full of sensations. Murder Left Deep Mystery. The exoneration of Mr. Main leaves as a deep, grewsome mystery the mur. der of Mr. Swayne. That Mr. Main) could, not possibly have had anything to do with tho crime was the conviotioi) -of everyone who heard the case. The case closed with a bitter f-eliug existing in the town of Chchalia and vicinity against Pncecutkig Attorney Allen and Sheriff Berry, of Lewis County, for ever having arrested Mr. Main and for having failed to dismiss the case when they saw that they had no evidence whatever to show that Main was the murderer. Cane Waa Sensational. The case was sensational at the time Main was arrested because cf the prominence of the Main family, the fact of the cold-bloodedness of the crime, the positive refusal of the Sheriff or Prosecuting Attorney to make public any information against Main and the fact that a love affair was mixed up in the tragedy. (t it became sensational when the trial was started because of the utter fail ure of the stale to prove any material fact connecting Main with the crime or showing any motive whatever that might have prompted him to commit the crime. Many of tho things Prose cuting Attorney Allen said at the open ing of the trial he would prove wero not even touched upon in any testi mony introduced by the state. Colossal Blander Made. When Main first was arrested a week after the crime the statement was made that the prosecutor and the Sheriff either had some information which they refused to disclose or they had made a colossal blunder. It proved the latter, for the testi mony proved that the reason the offi cials refused to disclose any informa- I 1M mn . Column X propery. Conclu!-l on Tate 2, Column l. meeting held today In Denver. . Conclu1l on Pss- 2. Column 2.) 1 graph dispatch. I Conclud-d on Pa? rt. Column 1.) ; , 1 t PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS ON S03IE RECENT NEWS EVENTS AS CARTOONIST REYNOLDS- SEES THEM. ! P - 1 m ....,. ........................ CU 102.2