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96 Pages Seven Sections Section One Pages lto24 V 7. v T T TT V T ' ' & VOL. XXXVIII NO. DEMOCRATS LOSE -1 TREATY FIGHT Amendment of Pact on Shantung Favored. CGMMITTEE VOTE IS 9 TO 8 Claim of China to Peninsula Wins Recognition.. DATA ASKED OF WILSON President Is Requested to Furnish Senators Information About -t. Agreements Negotiated. WASHINGTON. Auk. 23. After vot ing to amend the peace treaty by strik Inn oat Japan's' title to the German rights in Shantung, the senate foreign relations committee notified President Wilson today that it could not intelli gently proceed with Its work on amendments until he furnished addi tional information. The action on the Shantung provision sras taken in short order. Chairman Lodge proposing the amendment and thas committee adopting It virtually without debate. The' vote was to 8. with all the democratic members and Senator McCumber. republican. North Dakota, voting In the negative. Then the point of adequate informa tion was raised by republican members. Chairman Lodge declaring there were In the president's hands important doc uments m-hich were absolutely essential to the determination of questions in volved in the committee's work. Dur ing its entire consideration of the treaty, the chairman said, the commu te had been hampered by lack of In formation that should have been given it weeks ago. Deaaoerata Ossow latrrrnpt lorn. Democratic members are understood to have expressed general opposition to an interruption of the committee's pinna iwi prumpi acuoa; out xinaijy on morion of Senator Williams, democrat. Mississippi,' and without a record vote, the chairman was instructed to ask the president for the treaty with Poland signed on June 23. two agreements re garding the Khine section to which the L'nlled States was a party, and such In formation as may be available about the treaties now under negotiation with Austria. Hungary. Bulgaria and Turkey. In amending the Shantung provision the committee took the most direct method. Chairman Lodge simply moved to strike out the word "Japan wherever It occurred in the section re lating lo the German Shantung rights and to Insert instead the word "China. fhe effect would be to restore to China all the German holdings in Kaio Chow and vicinity. r'lM Transferor Senate. With the committee's action the fight over the Shantung settlement Is transferred to the seriate floor. Re publican leaders say they have -the totes to uphold the committee amend ment but administration senators ap pear equally certain that it will be beaten. No other 'amendments were taken up at today's meeting, but the committee voted to hear a delegation of Hungarian-Americans and receive also a peti tion from a negro organization regard ing the disposition of Germany's Afri can colonies. Action was deferred on a request that a Scotch delegate be per mitted to present Scotland's clal mto self-determination. Joseph W. Folk '"iVlfcM TWrL L fctME GET iJ MP Y4 ARM THE. Entered at Portland (Oregon) PoftofMce 11 gcopd-C1s Matter. PACIFIC MAIL RENEWS SERVICE TO ATLANTIC LIXE RE-ESTABLISHED BY WAY OF PAXAJIA CAXAL. Four Vessels Purchased From C. S. Shipping Board Resumption to Be Xext Month. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. The re-establishment of its steamship service be tween the Pacific and Atlantic by way of the Panama canal, with Baltimore as the Atlantic terminus of the line, was announced today by the Pacific Mall Steamship company. The service, which was interrupted in 1913 by war conditions, is to begin early next month, the company announcing the purchase for this trade, of the shipping board steamships Point Looos, Point Adams, Point Bonlta and Point Judith. Sailings will take place for Balti more every three weeks, ports of call being Havana. Puerto Colombia, Cristo. bal and Balboa; Corlnto, Nicaragua Acajutla, Salvador; San Jose, Guate mala: San Pedro and San Francisco, with corresponding return sailings. GIBL'S JEWELS BETRAY LAD Portland Boy and Brother Accused of Salem Robbery With the arrest Friday of Kenneth Kenneth and Charles Kavanaugh, brothers, respectively 18 and 20 years old, police and Plnkerton operatives recovered most of the loot stolen Au gust 20 from Hartman & Bros.' Jew elry store in Salem, Or. Police allege that they found Jewels worth 13000 on Charles Kavanaugh's sweetheart, who said the boy bad given them to her. Patrolman Smith got track of the alleged thieves Thursday night, when he stepped them and found In their pocketa a silver toilet set. The boys persuaded the policeman tl at the prop erty belonged to them. He did not doubt the story until he 'read a news paper account of the return of the toilet set by mail. Inspector Ackerman and J. M. Riley, head of the local Pkikerton office, assisted in the arrest. HIGH COST HITS OFFICIALS Three In Law Firm Quit Public Posts Owing to Low Salaries. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23. The high cost of living has prompted two public officials, Frank H. Hall., assistant United .Stales attorney-general in oil lands investigations, and Albert E. Chandler, president of the state water commission, to resign, it was announced here today. Both will enter the law firm of which Juchc Thomas C Haven, former Justice of the district court of appeals, is a member. Judge Haven also resigned from this court because of the high cost of living. As assistant United States attorney In Oregon land fraud cases. Hall gained prominence on the Pacific coast. He has been In the federal service for 1 years. FRANCE NEXT TO AMERICA First Division Leaves Letter of Love .to French People. PARIS. Aug. 23. The officers and soldiers of, the first division of the American expedilonary force, who are on the point of embarking for home, have sent an open letter of farewell to the French soldiers. The letter ex presses admiration for the courage and sacrifices of the French troops and adds: "After America, we love France best of all." FAIR WEEK IS PREDICTED Pacific Slates Temperature to Be Normal, Says Forecast. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Weather predictions for the week beginning August 21 are: Northern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions and Pacific states Nor mal temperature and generally fair. 34. II JS. ' . J ' r-O- J I 11 III II. I II ll I I MAI 1 . - W S nTX - - -M u M6WiSL JkLU'lk r- AVTFft .VVimWft TifcYH COMING!- PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY - " flNG, AUGUST 21, 1919. ' ' PRICE 1-1 VE CENTS. D0UCHB0ySS0FFER,Tte GERMAN INVASION SSSSw KP0H7S TO -FALL. .ipriicf mfu mi n ! .3,, i hi iron ry qpy uifwi n f u a m n f r i ip IUI IIUUU 1 1 1 1-1 I ULUli Planes Lacking, Testifies Veteran of 91st. TIMBER OFFICERS GET MEDALS Defenseless Boys in Trenches Pictured at Inquiry. FACTS ROUSE LEGISLATORS "Food in Northwest Camps Xot Fit for Dog," Soldiers' Statement; Conditions Are Deplored. . BT BEN HUR LAMPMAN. SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 23. (Special.) A glance at the Argonne battle front, with German combat planes raiding the American trenches and pouring ma chine gun fire into American infantry. when never an American plane took wing to defend the doughboys, was af forded the house subcommittee of the spruce production Inquiry today when Captain William O. McKey, late of the 91st division, was called to testify re garding the lack of American planes on the fighting line. ' "The committee would like to know, inquired Representative Magee of New York, "Just what airplane service your division did haver' During the time we were in the battle of the Argonne," replied Captain McKey, "1 saw but one American plane. an observation machine, and very little of that. The German combat planes came over and shot us whenever they felt like it." Lack of Planea Costa Lives. 'How low did they come, those Ger man planes?' Interposed Chairman Frear. representative from Wisconsin. 'Oh, about as low as this roof," speculated the witness. "That low?" pursued the amazed chairman. , - "Sometimes they looked to be closer," was the captain's reflective comment This first element of drama In tho conduct of the spruce problem came when both chairman Frear and Repre sentative Magee sought to demonstrate that something was fundamentally wrong with the American air service, though both admitted that northwest ern lumbermen and the spruoe produc tion division had furnished the raw material. - Captain McKey, not without the bit terness of recollection, told the com mittee that many lives were lost by America in the Argonne because of, an almost utter lack of air protection. He added that he had seen planes which he believed to be American planes turn tail and run when a German combat plane came sailing over the line. V. S. Service Not HfKhl7 Rated. "We didn't think much of he Amer ican air service," commented the cap tain. "I have seen a German airman come over during the Argonne, knock down three balloons and then turn back without anybody taking after him." Questioned as to the losses sustained by his division in the Argonne, the wit ness told the committee that Company L of the 164th infantry, to his knowl edge, went Into combat with 164 men and lost more than one-half that num ber. "What were those men getting paid?" pressed Chairman Frear. "The enlisted men were paid 330 a month, was the reply, elicited to place on record the discrepancy be- NEWS EVENTS OF THE WEEK AS SEEN BY CARTOONIST PERRY, . ART IX THE ORK .A-V SIXDAY Sv TEMBER 7. General Ludendorff, the one compelling figure of the German military machine, has written the story of the great war from the Teutonic viewpoint, and it will be published in The Ore- J gonian daily and Sunday, begin- l"6 U J , .Jt Ill U.-1 I. 1 o a thrilling and startling story of the failure of the mightiest mil itary organization in the world's history to bring other nations under the domination of an auto cratic and heartless regime. Why this plot against the world failed we know in part, but the secret of the great German collapse as revealed by one who directed the mad efforts of the central pow ers from the first of the war has never yet been told. Luden dorff knows, and in his story he has laid bare the internal trou bles of Germany and why the German plans miscarried. The German story of the first battle of the Marne is sure to be a revelation. The German side of Ypres, Arras, the Aisne. Cam brai, Verdan, the Somme, the Argonne, the Russian, Italian and Roumanian campaigns wilt thrill the world as Ludendorff tells it. It is a momentous work and holds the attention from the start, no matter how much the reader may . disagree with the views of this Teutonic militarist. Ludendorff does not attempt to defend Germany's crimes, but ntnn. Cm.4..., I.' . . V T T . I ' writes frankly confessing the 4 colossal failure of might against f right. I FLEET MAY VISIT ORIENT Chinese and Japanese Invitations Acceptable, Say Officials. HONOLULU, Aug. 23. The Pacific fleet will visit Japan, China and the Philippines if invitations are officially extended by the oriental governments, it was authoritatively stated by naval officials here today when shown the cablegrams that a Japanese daily news paper in Tokio had announced the fleet was expected to visit Japan. The trip to the orient would be made In the fall after the visits along the I'aciiic coast oi tne united states are completed, the navy officers said. Chinese and Japanese consular of ficials called on Secretary Daniels this afternoon and extended cordial greet lngs. . STILL TAKEN FROM JAIL Shelton Prisoner's Friends Later Take Him From Lockup. OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) After breaking into the sheriff's office at Shelton Thursday night and removing a moonshine still held as evi dence, friends of Jim Carney came back Friday night and took Carney out of Jail by bending window bars. Ralph Potts, sheriff, lives with his family Id a house adjoining the Jail. Carney and the still were captured in a recent raid at Union City. Nothing more has been seen of the prisoner and his rescuers. ROUMANIAN EXPORT HEAVY 100,000 Carloads of Cereals Is Es timate From This Harvest. BERNE, Aug. 23. The Roumanian bureau here announces that Roumania will export more than 100,000 carloads of cereals from the present harvest. MADRID. Aug. 22. Spain's wheat crop for the present year will aggro gate 36,000,000 metric hundredweight, according to an official estimate made public today. Consumption amounts to 40.000.p00 metric hundredweight. Pole Tells of Plot Tipped to United States. 45,000 TO ENTER FROM MEXICO Hun Terrorist-Agent Handed Over to Americans. TRADE WARNING IS ISSUED Economic, Political and Military Control of Republics to South by Teutons Is Planned. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Revelation of extensive German plots in Mexico dur ing the war, which included a proposed invasion of the United States by a Ger man-Mexican army of 45,000 men, at the same time that the Germans launched their last drive on the west ern front in July, 1918, was made here tonight by the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico, which gave out a statement by Dr. P. B. Altendorf, formerly of the United States military intelligence de partment, reciting his experience as an American secret service agent in that country. Dr. Altendorf, son of a Polish banker in Cracow, Austrian Poland, abandoned a medical course in the University of Vienna at the outbreak of the war and fled to Mexico, where he was offered position as a German spy to operate against the United States, by Kurt Jahnke, head of the German secret service in Mexico. Job Tnken With Secret Joy. "With pretended reluctance, but with secret Joy I accepted." he said, "and at once found myself in a position to ren der valuable service to the allies In general and to the United States in particular." He opened comtr-unlcatlon . with the border as a volunteer worker to the military intelligence department, he claims, and later was sworn in as a special agent of the military intelli gence department. Dr. Altendorf" warns the people of the United States against a proposed German commercial conquest of Mex ico. "Within six months after the United States ratifies the treaty," he says, "Germany will have ' complete eco nomic control of - Mexico'. Within a very few years, if they are permitted to carry out the plans they have for mulated and are now executing as fast as : they can, the Germans will have: absolute economic, political and military control of Latin-America with headquarters in Mexico." German Reervtt Trained. Referring to the proposed invasion of the United States, Dr. Altendorf sets forth that in his dual capacity as cap tain in the German and colonel In t,he Mexican army he helped to train 900 German reservists in Sonora, who were to form the nucleus of the proposed German-Mexican army, and that in his true character as an- American secret service agent he prevented the raid from being carried out. "This ambitious scheme," he said, "was financed by Von Eckhardt, Ger man ambassador to Mexico, and was undertaken with the co-operation of Carranza." Dr. Altendorf, enumerating his 7.) 200 IN GAMBLING DEN ATTACK PATROLMAN SEATTLE MOB -CLUBS COP FREE RAID CAPTIVES. Star and Handcuffs Are Taken Away and Severe Injuries Inflicted By, Lawbreakers. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 23. (Spe ciai.) Riot calls were turned into po lice headquarters shortly before 2 P. M today after a mob of more than 200 men attacked Police Officer A. G. Ford and liberated four men' arrested for gambling at Western avenue and Unio street. Officer Ford was taken to th city hospital, blood streaming from nu merous cuts about the head. Six al leged ringleaders -vere arrested by special detail of police, which was rushed to the scene in two patrol au tomoblles. Ford was stripped of hi gun, star and handcuffs by the mob. The fight started after Officer Ford and Officer I. T. Harstad had been de tailed to round up a crowd of alleged pamblers. Disguised in plain clothes the two policemen were admitted th? scene of the gambling. They placed four men under arrest. Harstad went to a telephone to call for a patrol wagon, while Ford re mained in charge of the arrested men Ford says he was suddenly struck over the head from behind by one of 'a mo of 200 or more men that assembled A free-for-all fight developed, while the men in custody escaped. The alleged ringleaders held at po lice headquarters were, booked as fol lows: George Edwards, 20; C. Rosen berg. 41: J. P. Madren, 28; F. Radue and J. G. Kelly. M0LALLA WANTS ROADS Meetlnjr Is Held and Plans Under Way to Get Action. OREGON CITY. Or., Aug. 23. (Spe ciai.) At a meeting held by some of the prominent residents of Molalla Fri day evening plans were made for hold ing a good roads meeting September 6. This will be an all-day affair, with many attractions to entertain the peo pie. Among these will be a band from Portland, dancing and airplane flights, as well as addresses. A committee was appointed to make further plans for the celebration. The executive committee is composed of the following: W. J. Vick, Liberal; Rev. C. H. Renhard and Oscar Hult of Colton Herman Chindgren of Meadowbrook D. L. Trullinger, Union Mills, and Gor don J. Taylor, Dr. E. R. Todd and W. W. Everhart of MolaSla. Mr, Taylor i chairman of the executive committee. EX-SOLDIER THOUGHT SAFE Walter Beesley, 3l"fT ng From Bend, Deranged by Wounds. BEND. Or., Aug. 23. (Special.) That Walter Beesley, ex-soldier, who disappeared from his home here three weeks ago, is undoubtedly safe, al though, his exact whereabouts are un known, is the information conveyed in a letter received here from his wife in Portland. The young man's trail was followed through the. mountains by his father. After reaching the more thickly settled country west of the Cascades all trace of Beesley was lost When Beesley left Bend he carried no equipment or food and was thought to have been suffering from mental derangement as the result of wounds received in France. NEW COMET IS DISCOVERED Massachusetts Clergyman Picks Up Wanderer in Eastern Sky. - CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 23. Dis covery of a new comet-by the Rev. Joel H. Metcalf of Winchester, while on a vacation at South Hero, Vermont, was announced today by. the Harvard ob servatory. It was the first new comet to be discovered this year, observatory officials said, and the fifth which Mr. Metcalf has to his credit. The comet is visible through a small telescope in the eastern sky -during the early even ing and is moving rapidly and fairly I Distinguished Financier Portland Visitor. BRIGHT BUSINESS FUTURE SEEN Need of Extending Credits to Europe Emphasized. PLUMB PLAN IS SCORNED Union Pacific Director and Family Stop 50 Minutes in City on Way to California. Frank A. Vanderlip, financier, econo mist, author, and one of the foremost authorities in America on commercial adn industrial conditions of the world, was a Portland visitor for 60 minutes last night, accompanied by Mrs. Vander lip and four- of their children. The party, which numbered 10, included several friends. The director of the Union Pacific system railroad corporations, chairman ofthe board of the American Interna tional corporation, and director of numerous transportation and industrial companies and civic organizations,. trav els in an ordinary Pullman. The former president of the National City bank, one of the greatest financial houses in America, wants no private car when on a leisurely vacation trip "with out any date at the end of it, and to get acquanited with my family," ac cording to his own statement. He re signed from the National City bank June 3 and soon thereafter started on the western trip, which has Included . visits to Glacier, Yellowstone and Rain- ler national parks. He will spend some time in California. World Situation rhanKed. "What Happened to Europe," a book for which the world Is indebted to Mr. Vanderlip, and which is being printed serially in The Oregonian, was dictated during the five days spent on the steamship "Olympic," returning from Europe. It Is being printed in England and Australia, and is now translated to appear in Swedish, Italian and Jap anees.. The situation throughout the whole world has undergone a tremendous change since the beginning of the war in 1914," said Mr. Vanderlip. "The rest of the world is now paying us,$600,000.- ou interest every year, and" with pros pects of a- considerable Increase in .' credits extended to the people of other countries before It Is reduced. The transformation from a debtor to a cred itor country has brought responsibili ties of tremendous magnitude to the United States. Few persons realize the plight that Europe is in," said Mr. Vanderlip, while getting a glimpse of Portland from . the streets in the vicinity of the new postoffice. "That situation is closely related to the foreign trade conditions that confront this country. There is only one way for the people of many lands to buy from us, and that is by the extension of credits. So long as those - countries are . not producing goods for export and have not the gold ' with which to pay for goods needed, . there is no other way by which they can obtain that which they need. 'It is to be anticipated that export trade will decline somewhat from the high levels in our favor to which it as grown. Trade, after all, is a simple problem. It consists of an exchange ffOH all fishhooks. JIMMIE, SE-E WHrVTS COMING! " j Jf&v "Jrm j j ' Ml II ' i iwv " i J-i . T" I j