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Section One Pages 1 to 24 96 Pages Six Sections VOL. VVVVIir vn 7J Entered at Portland 0 re iron) , V -V A V 111 Iostofflre as S?cond-ClHF Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUN.j MORNING, JUNE 8, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS. - .- s ' ' ' " ' - ' - 1 -' WEEK OF GAIETIES - UNDER WAY TODAY Victory Rose Festival and Ad Men's Meet Unite. CITY IS LAVISHLY DECORATED Only Serious Problem Left Is Caring for Visitors. PRIVATE HOMES WILL OPEN Mollicr Portland. Has Everything ill Readiness for Company; Mu sic to Signal Morn. IMPOKTAST EVEXTS OF THE Sunday. 7 A. M. Sons reveille, followed by community sins. Laurelhurst park, 9:30 A. M. Reception and chowder luncheon on arrival .of Spokane ad men at Automobile club. Ad men's meeting opens at municipal auditorium. Illumina tion of streets. Monday. Aeroplane flight starts from F.akersfield, Cal.. to Portland. Lane o' Laughter opens in south park blocks. General session dd men's convention. Tuesday. Air squadrons arrive Eastmore land muicipal golf course. Orien tal gardens In north park blocks open. Annual banquet and grand ball of ad men. Wednesday. Victory Rose Festival officially opens. Goddess of victory arrives on cruiser Minneapolis. Victory industrial parade. Thursday. Ship launching Albina Engine works. Military and naval pa rade. Devil Dogs' ball, Multnomah hotel. Friday. Eleventh annual floral parade. Royal Rosarian ball. Cotillion hall. "Listen, children; were going to have coinp'ny." Mother Portland, following a week of preparation for the big. event, stood her youngsters in a row last night and save them final instructions. She had mowed the front lawn, washed all the windows, cleaned the lamp chimneys, placed a fresh bouquet of roses on the mantel, swept and dusted until her own complexion was as radiant as the pctaled blossoms that made her famous, famous. "Yes," she admonished the row of listeners, "we're going to bave com pany, and I'm expecting them at any time. I want you to be nice to them, for they have not seen "us for two years. I want you to remember and not ask for a second piece of cake when you see the supply is getting low; and if you havo to wait and eat at the second table, just smile and look Ilka you enjoy it. I have fixed up extra beds in the garret for you, and I don't want to hear any whimpering about the darkness or the bumpy mat tresses. Smile again, just like you al ways had been accustomed to it, and make them feel that they are not in conveniencing us. "Some of those nice ad men are going to be at our house, and they will be sure to be particular about everything. So I want you to wear your Concluded on I'age IS, Column 1.) Puzzle, WHICH AMERICANS SLAIN BY OUTLAWS IN SONORA MORE THAN" 3 2 CITIZENS OK V. S. AND MEXICO KILLED. Mining Men, Arrive at N'ogales and Report Crimes Texas Governor Wants Larger Border Patrol. NOG ALES. Ariz.. June 7. At least two Americans and Mexicans have been killed by Yaquis and bandits In the La Colorado district of Sonora, Mexico, during the last two weeks, according to the statement of nine American mining men who arrived from that neighborhood tonight. The party of Americans, whose homes are in Arizona. Colorado and California, have sent a statement on conditions in that district to the state department at Washington, with copies to Senators C. S. Thomas, of Colorado; Hiram John son, of California, and Marcus Smith and Henry F. Ashurst, of Arizona. WASHINGTON, June 7. Declaring that the Mexican situation is so crit ical that a larger' force of troops on the border is necessary to protect lives and property of citizens. Governor Hobby of Texas has requested Secretary Ba ker to call into the federal service the first and second brigades of Texas cavalry and to mobilize them at a con venient point. The war department immediately telegraphed - Che commanding general of the .southern depratment, who has charge of the border guard, asking his views on the request and for any in formation bearing upon the situation described by Governor Hobby. Confidential reports reaching the war department within the last week re garding the situation in northern Mex ico contained no information, it was said, that would lead army officers to hold the opinion expressed by Gover nor Hobby. The border guard at pres ent exceeds 20,000 troops including cav alry, infantry, field artillery, air squad rons and engineer units, distributed from Yuma, Ariz., to south of Laredo. The latter is headquarters of the 4th U. S. cavalry. Behind these is an even larger force at the demobilization camps or en route. Major-General De Rosey Cabell, in command of the Mexican border dis trict, has standing orders to dispose of the American troops as he thinks best to protect lives and property. General Candido Aguilar, governor of the state of Vera Cruz, and son-in-law of President Carranza, reached here today from Mexico on a mission the nature of which was not explained. MEDALS CAUSE PROTEST Astoria Veterans Objeet to Order Recommended by IMsque. ASTORIA, Or., June 7. (Special.) The 1'nited War Veterans of this city do not take kindly to the recommenda tion made by Colonel Disque that dis tinguished service medals be awarded to certain officers of the spruce pro duction division. At a meeting last evening the vet erans adopted a resolution condemning the recommendation and saying the value of these medals will be cheapened if they are to be given to men who "stayed at home to fill business posi tions at high salaries." DESTROYER SETS RECORD Hale Makes 3S Knots on Trial Trip in Eastern Waters. BATH,, Maine, June 7. All speed rec ords of the Rockland trial course have been broken by the new torpedo boat destroyer Hale, according: to an an nouncement by officials of the Bath Iron works today. A mean speed of 37.63 knots was made during .builders preliminary trials, while the fastest mile, with wind and tide favoring the ship, was made at the rate of 38.38 knots an hour. DETROIT CAR MEN STRIKE Traffic Comes to Standstill When Employes Walk Out. DETROIT, June 7. Street car serv ice in Detroit came to a sudden halt at 10 o'clock tonight when motormen and conductors of the Detroit United Rail ways company struck to enforce their demands for increased pay. picture. wwvhch? E AND SENATE TALKS Three Weeks of Present Session History. TOTAL ACHIEVEMENT SMALL Upper Chamber Torn Over In ternational Questions. DISTRESS STEADILY GROWS Oriental Problems Rising and Seri ous Complications Possible. Important Probes Ordered. ORKGOMAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, June 7. Congress ends its third week with the house earnestly grind ing out the much-needed legislation at unprecedented speed, while the senate is swept by a storm that looks more threatening than the eventful days at the capitol in April. 1917, when an extra session was convened and almost unit edly declared war on Germany. The difference between then and now is that the senate today is split over a great International question, with one side declaring war on the other. One side is criticising the peace negotia tions, hurling bricks at the league of nations and for pastime "twisting the lion's tail," while the other side, coun tering with a fairly stiff defense, is weakened by the disposition to concede a pointor two on some most embar rassing questions, such as the Irish resolution. Senate's Irritation Grows. This irritation on the part of the sen ate is growing steadily worse, if that be possible, because it has reached the point where senators can quarrel with each other while voting in harmony, just as they did on the passage of the demand that the American delegates seek a hearing for the Iiish at the peace conference. The storm which broke first oer th question of Monroe Doctrine recognition in the treaty is leading: to no one knows where. It was this question which made it possible to inject the Irish resolution, the league opponents taking the po sition that the ' other nations at the peace conference had tampered with the affairs of the United States in re lation to the Monroe Doctrine and that therefore it was perfectly justifiable to mix in England's Irish question. A dis cussion of that point probably would bring no common agreement, but there is no gainsaying that these develop ments have thrown uwn the bars to interminable and serious international complications which threaten to make peace-time enemies of war-time friends, j Oriental Problem Klnlnp. It is almost certain now that within 1 the next two or three days a resolution will be offered in the senate demanding a hearing for Corea before the peace conference, exactly as was asked for the Irish. This means that the United States will be placed in the same atti tude toward Japan that this country now occupies, in Uie eyes of Great Brit ain by reason of the Irish resolution. The Corean resolution, if the Corean delegates have their way, will come from Senator Johnson of California, whose opposition to the league of na tions has grown as violent as that of Borah. The adoption of the resolution is almost as sure as anything that could happen; then, what next? Shantung Question Next. This brings up the question of Shantung, with its further menace to prompt ratification and Its trouble making possibilities. It means, one senator said today, that never will the treaty be ratified by the senate with out the reservation that this country does not consent to stand behind Presi dent Wilson in handing over 40,000,000 c i Concluded on Page 20, Column 1.) IT HOUS SAWS wood ROS. cSTrUl ADMLNS CONVENTION? .. INDEX CDAY'S NEWS I Weather. Jaxlmum tetaperatare. 74 num. 4 ie reem. . pen tie northwesterly winds, l-'or-rljcn. lcd by Yaquis. Section 1. TESTERD degree 5" TODAY'S- . American- pace 1. Locr1s at Wlnnf pic hav charters forfeited by union officials. Section 1, page Cpypt Ian revolt almost forgotten In world turmoil. Section 1, pace 4. Hoi i wop convict self in war book. Section 1. page '2. Some revision of German treaty reported assured. Section 1, pace 3. Rantzau tnfl prexldent of new republic con fer. Section 1. pace 17. National. Tclecraphors set nation-wide strike for W odneiay. Section 1, pugs 1. IIouhc grinds out legislation while senate talk?. Section 1, pace 1. 1 President "Wilson believed to be Bending out . feelers to American people before he re- turns. taction 1, page 7. , Domestic. Plot to bilk Undo Sam of million charged. Section 1, page 1. i Financiers and public may Join In plan to restore economic normality. Section 1. page :2. "Portland in lft'JO' is ' slogan of Mystic Shrincrs. Section 1, page 14. Farifle Northwest. Storr's offer to wed Ruth Garrison blocked by Judge. Section 1, page 9. Better rail rates for Portland asked. Section 2, page 6. O. A. C. will honor 131 with diplomas. S- tlon lt page Suffrage victory ends fight in Idaho. Section 1, pago 10. WaHhington state democratic officeholders rest easier. Section 1, page 11. K ports. Pacific Coapt league results: Portland C, Sacramento 3; Lob Angeles 4, San Fran elsco 2: Vernon 7, Oakland 2; Salt Lake 6. Seattle 4. Section U. page 1. Corn Tasel wins suburban classic. Section . pago 1. Curioutf fight fans fall to get glimpse of WHIard and Dempwy In action. Section page 3. Michigan wins Western conference track meet. Section II, page 2. . Graduate Manager Walker to retire at Ore gon. Section 2 page 1. Everything act for golf championships. Section 2, page 5. "Bill" llayward, veteran trainer, takes charge of Winged M athletics. Section -. page 2. Festival visitors to see many lines of sport. Section 2, page 5. . Three teams are tied for school honors. Section 2, pace 4. Dog owners prepare for victory trials. Sec tion page 5. Water regatta Wednesday event of promise. Section 2. page 3. Aggies to have strong team. Section 2, page 4. Commercial and Marine. First of Portland European fleet expected to sail from coast In July. Section 2, page 24. Flurry in hop market due to English buying. Section 2, page 23. Liquidation d? presses com futures at Chi cago. Section 2, page 22. Shippings lead sharp advance in Wall-street market. Secion 2, page 23. Captain accused of murder shown to have had record on coast. Section 2. page 24. Shipping Information furnished free by navy department. Section 2. page G. Portland and Vicinity. Everything In readrnte8 for gala week with Ad Men and Koi Festival. Section 1. - page 1. Wife sues huioand for damages but asks no divorce. Section 1, page 1. State highway today faces busy session. Section 3, page 16. Big Portland bank celebrates sixtieth anni versary. Section 1, page 12. Big supply of fish and game revealed at hearing. Section 1, page 19. Salary rise granted by Commissioner Mann gives hope to all city employes. Section 1, page IK. PORTLAND GETS 1920 MEET Northwestern Commercial Travelers Conclude Session. VICTORIA. B. C. June 7. Portland, Or., was chosen for the 1920 meeting of the Washington, Oregon and British Columbia Council of the United Com mercial Travelers . association, which completed its 1919 session, here today. The meeting will be held during the week of the Rose Festival. General officers were chosen as follows: A. R. Macfarlane, Vancouver, past counsellor; Percy Martin, Vancouver, counsellor; V. E. Arlett, Portland, junior counsellor; H. W. Thompson, Tacoma, secretary; G. R. Kerr, Seattle, treasurer; E. M. McConnan, Tacoma, conductor; C. W. Moore. Spokane, page; W. H. Rice, Seattle, sentinel. GERMANY GATHERING ARMY Reports in Switzerland Say Recruit ing Is Being Rushed. BERNE, Switzerland, Friday. June 6. (French wireless service.) Great ac tivity is being displayed in (Germany in recruiting men for the arn y and in gathering ammunition, the Independent Socialist Die Frciheit, of Berlin, says. According to the socialist Abendl of Vienna, German recruiting agents are busily at work in Austria. WILL BE A BIG WEEK. f PLOT TO GRAB U. S. MILLIONS CHARGED Huge Conspiracy Against Government Alleged. CLEYER FRAMEUP REPORTED Rakeoff on $30,000,000 Sales Declared Object. HIGH OFFICERS INVOLVED Elimination of Bidders for Purchase or Munitions Supplies Held to Bo Scheme Adopted. DETROIT, June 7 With the arrest here today of four men. one of them an array officer, department of justice agents disclosed an alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in the sale of $30,000,000 worth of army supplies to be salvaged here. The United States grand Jury has re turned indictments, it was announced, against Captain Soterios Nicholson of Washington, chief finarce officer of the ordnance department for this dis trict; an unnamed army officer recently sent to France In connection with the disposal of excess supplies; (5 rant Hugh Browne, a millionaire sportsman and racatrack owner of Detroit, and Fred C. Collins, vice-consul for Greece and president of a local realty company. Arrests follow Investigation. All but the officer in France, together with Bert Harris, a junk dealer of New York, are held at Fort Wayne, an army post here, for trial. Harris, who, it is alleged, was to dispose of the material, will be arraigned before the grand jury Tuesday. The arrests followed an Investigation extending over two months and came, department of justice officials said, after the first deal in the alleged plot was put through at Rochester, N. Y.. Thursday. The transaction, it is air leged, involved 21,000 tons of materia) valued at $300,000. According to Arthur L. Barkey, chief of the bureau of In vestigation here, Collins, Browne and Harris are charged with conspiracy to eliminate other bidders for the material, the bids being held so low that the highest of the three would be far below the value of the supplies disposed of. Prober. U.e Dictaphone. By means of a dictaphone installed in Captain Nicholson's room at a hotel the federal officers declare, they fol lowed the alleged conspiracy since its inception early In April. The matter was placed in their hands by another officer of the ordnance department, whose name they withheld. WASHINGTON", June 7. Indictment of army officers and business men at Detroit was the first step by the de partment of justice and army Intelli gence service. It was said here today, in a campaign against alleged authors of fraudulent plots against the gov ernment In connection with the sale of munitions supplies. Chicago, Pittsburg and Boston were among the cities mentioned here as be ing other centers of the investigation. NEW YORK. June 7. Grant Hugh Browne, who waa indicted in Detroit today on a charge of conspiring to de fraud the government, has been identi fied with New York and London finan cial affairs for many years. He is president of Steel & Radiation, Ltd., of Toronto, a director In the Page Helser Iron Tube & Lead Company, of Toronto, and president of the United Cobalt Exploration company. He formed a syndicate in London in August, 1014, which purchased the Brit ish steamer Viking to bring home Americans stranded in Europe when the war broke out. WIFE SEEKS $2000 DAMAGES, NO DIVORCE HUSBAND ACCUSED OP BREAK ING MARRIAGE CONTRACT. Unique Suit Filed Againt William B. W arson for Alleged Elope ment With Wife's Sifter. Marriage as a civil contract, in which both parties agree to certain term? the wife to perform household duties, bear children, and love her spouse; the hUSband tO Rlmimrt nnri Maintain 1.1, family and also contribute love and af- lecuon is the view taken by Mrs. Erma V. Watson, who does not ask di vorce. In a uninue euit filed in the cir cuit court yesterdav. but demands $2000 damages for breach of contract for the alleged r!mvm.nt nr i tm. band, William B. Watson, with her sis ter. Arrest or the pair in San Fran cisco Was rennvteH TTVih-,-.. wKa I. . - - said they were accused of violating the ..i i u ii a 1 1. Mrs. Watson's action was filed by At torney Henry S. Westbrook and is the first of its kind Multnomah county courts have known. The Watsons were married Septem ber 28, 1909, or, to use the words of the complaint filed by the wife, "for lovo and affection and a lawful consid eration entered Into the contract of marriage." This was a civil contract, recites the wife. In which Mrs. Watson performed her part. She lived with her husband and bore him two children. Wilma Watson, aged 8, and Dorothy Watson, aged 3, she avers. The husband's duty was to support and maintain his wife and children, contends the wife. Instead of so doing. Watson eloped with his wife's sister on May 19, 1519. going to San Fran cisco by automobile, charges Mrs. Wat son He left a note saying that he was going away, never to return, and that there would be no satisfaction in look ing for him. Mrs. Watson declares that for this breach of the marriace contract a rea sonable sum should be awarded her for future support and maintenance. She reeks to attach property her husband left behind. The complaint does not mention divorce, only, demanding judg ment for JL-Ooo, "and such other relief as the court may deem proper." HUNS OWE U. S. BILLION American Citizens Were Damaged $600,000,000 by U-ltoats. WASHINGTON. June 7. Claims of American citizens against Germany be cause of submarine warfare and the action of the German government against American property in that country, aggregate nearly $1,000,000,000, congress was informed today ly Act ing Secretary Polk. The claims growing out of submarine warfare alone aggregate $600,000,000, Mr. Polk said. PAPERS ARE DENIED TEUTON Citizenship Withhold From Man Who Flouted United States. MARSHFIELD. Or.. June 7 (Spc cial.) Herman Reichter, & German, for many years resident of Coos county, was denied naturalization papers by Judge John S. Coke, when government Justice . operatives presented evidence that Reichter had advertised in an As toria revolutionary paper, flouting the United States. AIR SERVICE IS SWAMPED Government Calls Halt on July 4 Plane Exhibitions. WASHINGTON. June 7. Major-General Menoher, director of the air serv ice, announced today that requests from over the country for aeronautical exhibits on July 4 had so taxed the air service that it would be impossible to give consideration to new applications. FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED Nearly Normal Temperatures to Pre vail In Paciric States. WASHINGTON. June 7. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday, June 9, issued by the weather bureau today are: Pacific states Generally fair, with nearly normal temperature. TELEGRAPHERS SET NATIONAL WALKOUT Union Strike Called for 8 A. M. Wednesday. THOUSANDS TO BE AFFECTED Orders Issued by International President. CANADIANS TO CO-OPERATE Western Union, American Telegraph) and Postal System Targets; De cision Declared Final. CHICAGO. Juno 7. A nation wide, strike of telegraph and telephone opcr. ators who are members- of the Com mercial Telegraphers" Union of Ameri ca was ordered today to take effect next Wednesday morning at 8 A. M. standard time. The order was issued at general headquarters of the union here on telegraphic Instructions from S. J. Konenkamp, international presi dent, who was in Pittsburg-on his way to Chicago. The strike order is declared effec tive against the Western Union Tele graph company, and American Tele phone and Telegraph company, and the Postal Telegraph and Cable company with its associated institutions. Decision Declared Final. It was estimated at the headquar ters here that the strike would affect between 60.000 and 100.000 Individuals of whom nearly 25,000 were said to be members of the union. Outside of the union ranks it was said, many wire workers had pledged themselves to support a strike. The decision to call a nation-wide strike was reached by President Konen kamp after spending several days in Washington where he had directed a strike of union employes in ten south eastern states. That strike followed a strike of telephone workers iu At lanta, where telephone employes were said to have been discharged because of union affiliations, although the Southern Bell Telephone company de nied that union membership had beeu the basis of any discharges. Konenkamp Inanea Orders. A strike vote was taken recently concurrently with the InternationaV Electrical Workers union. The strike order was as follows: "All telegraph and telephone em ployes: "A strike Is hereby declared to take effect Wednesday, June 11. 1919, at 8 A- M., standard time, against the West ern Union Telegraph company, the American Telephone & Telegraph com pany, the Postal Telegraph & Cable company with its associated institu tions including the Mackay and North American companies and against tele phone companies where our members are employed. "S. J. KONENKAMP. "International President." Canadians to Co-operate. Accompanying the strike order were lengthy instructions to members in which members employed by concerns not affected by the order were instruct ed to aid in making the strike effective. This, it was explained, meant that aucb employes of other concerns would re fuse to handle telegraph and telephone messages classed as commercial busi ness. Canadian members of the union, it was said, would refuse to handle any commercial business originating in the United States or directed to any point within this country. Railway telegraphers also would re fuse to handle commercial business, it was declared, as a result of the passage of a resolution at the recent conven tion of the Order of Railway Teles -(Com-luded on Fuse 6, Column 1.)