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Section One Pages 1 to 24 106 Pages Eight Sections VOI. XXXIX XO. 4 Entered Portland (Oregon) Postof f icr Scanl-Ca58 Matter. POKTIWYXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRII 4, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS ; MICHIGAN TO SHOD MILLION IN HIGHWAY. BO!PS TO BE ISSUED GE WIRED COMMERCE AIR LINES ARE HIT BY WAR TAX INCIPIENT TORNADO WRECKS ODESSA, OR. COOKHOrgE SMASHED AS COOK FLEES TO SAFETT. OUTLAW RAIL UNION OF CHICAGO STRIKES LAU1MDY d RECALL TROOPS ITHORIZED BY STATE RUt-rXG APPLIED TO FREIGHT TIE-rP OF ALL LLNES REFORE MONDAY THREATENED. RD OF COXTROU OR PASSENGER PliAXES. ? LIGHT, NOT HEAT, RULES PLANT LIFE Revolutionary Discovery Is Made by Experts. CONVICTED WAT W Nfl BinillfiU V Eyes of Washington Ar Fixed on Primaries. STATE WILL VOTE TOMORROW Victory Would Place Wood Far Ahead of Field. BORAH CONTINUES FIGHT Success at Tolls "Would Make Boomerang or Charges Senator Makes Against General. 1- OREUONIAN NEWS Washington, April 3. " Washington arc fixed BUREAU. The eyes ot on Michigan, 'where on Monday the republican vot ar-s will go to the polls in what is i regarded as the most significant of P t. .e presidential primaries yet to be ? .sld. ? The chances are that the Michlga voters will point out the man who i I going to be the next president of th f united States, and Washington is l terested In having a president of sortie 1 kind after March 4 next year, confi- i ont at th same time that. win do a republican. He mfey ha no mnrA nnnnlai V. n - . J hf- has served for a term than sojmr o'hers have been, but there is always joy In anticipation. Besides, a brAnl new president would not dare to shtt himself away from the cabinet ar.d from the country for months -while asserting" that there was no phyoi chI reason for not being approach able. Government "ow Headless., , It was in 1912 that former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, speaking before the bull moose convention in Chi cago, gave, form to the phrase, in visible government" that wa-s severe 1 enough as an indictment against any government, but that complaint ha.s .been considerably amended in Wash- Vfngton of late where the charge is that the present government .in, Votli J ll visible and headless. Some will cry I "redition" at the latter remark, but f it is not meant half so severely as J some will wish to construe it. It Vn'eans only that Mr. Wilson, while de fc .ning to see anyone and talk over V.-1B iiccua dl uiu nation. reiUM.a at me etne time to assert the powers he possesses In a way to give confidence that tho government at 'Washington till reigns. ( Open Kleld Is Given. But this is getting a Ions; way from Michigan. The returns from Michi-. gan are watched with the keenest in terest, because the primary machinery there in designed to give every rival for the presidential nomiaation the fullest opportunity to find out what the voters think of him. There is no catch in the law and even Senator Borah, who t'an trail overshadowing political crime tnrough or run ning water, has so iai' 'ought no charges of conspiracy a: t the lcg--tatute. aJ- ifclature which passed t though he has been c; the state for Hiram Jo full days a long tirr. ,,aigning in rson for five not to dls- cover something wron Should General "Wood carry the primaries after all of the bitter fight tV at has been made upon him, chiefly b" Senator Borah and certain demo cratic elements led bvthe New Tori World, political obsefers here quite grncrally agree that-t will put him .much further in tlvr lead in effect than in the figrrcs ttiat will be added 'to his delegate column. It will be significant because all of the fire of 'the opposing forces h,as been centered on him except for a desultory attack directed by Johnson against Hoover tin the last two or three days. U cannot be said.,' of course, that Concluded on rme 2. Column l.i . - --- . . l Itr ! 1 ( . SlETTlNG HOWt ' J) A?VNlUSONtXDNTrA.(N . . w , eTv 1 f OHi ywln Wr ( IJATHtH lt BUT V ' A AH AV. TOO. OOW-VTM.U j H' AYVMT Tm-rXDlN -JH0N.? VWr I Will Be Used to Mat) ,r;fl Aid for Construction of Roads in Oregon. s 'yl Or., April ?. iSpecial.) The aatp board of control at a meet- ing er toaay . autnonzea tne issu ance fa'e f Highway bonds in the jomof $1,000,000 to match federal aid. fjorithe construction of post and load a ir. Ore; on. The state asked for HUghif commission had the-i-ance of $2,500,000 of these bods.l but. informed th board of co t sui trdl that only 91. 000,000 ot that ika-i necessary at present. t was reported to the board that al)Ut 14,000,000 of federal money is a.ilbIe for road construction in oegon, but the state will not be able t match more than 2. 500, 000 of tr&t amount until such time as the ,)es?nt indebtedness limitation of 5 psr'Eent based on the assesed valua tion of the state is extended. A meas ure providing for extension of this Limtation to 4 per cent will be sub- itcd to the voters of Oregon at tne pial election. May 21. isuance of state highway bonds to TiMch any amount of money appro- prated by the government for road castruction in Oregon was author ed at the special session of the leg ittiture in January. The total bonded jriebtedness of Oregon at present is JO, 665,000, according to a financial satement submitted to the board. Tactically all of this indebtedness epresents road bonds. J. JC. Smith, superintendent of the tate home for the feeble-minded, was rranted a leave of absence by the board, and he left today for Califor nia, where his daughter is said to be very ill. Dr. W. H. Byrd will look after the medical needs of the in mates of the home during the super intendent's absence. UNIQUE CONTRACT FILED Man to Care for Aged AA'oman for Share of Estate. vATni;T,R. "Wash.. April 3. (Special.) -An unusual agreement be tween a man and an aged woman was placed on file here today. The agree ment is between E. J. Condra and Mrs. Pauline Bolton. She was born in Lima. O.. September 27, 1832. . Condra lb to live in the same house with Mrs. Bolton, and take care of her and when she dies she -will leave him 118,000 of her estate. - Recently she deeded him four lots "because of many acts of kindness. He is to see that she is not taken to a hospital in case of illness and as sure her decent burial beside her husband when she dies. Mrs. Bolton's husband died several years ago. LIVING CHEAPER IN WEST Travelers From East Said to Buj Clothing to Ship Home. KLAMATH FALX.S. April 3. Spe cial.l The cost . of living is from 23 to 40 per cent higher in ".he east than on the Tacific coast, says J. F. Mi guire, just returned from a two months' trip. Most of the time was snent in a visit to his old home in Boston. Traveling men from the east, he savs. buy clothing for themselves and J families in the west and ship it home. I nents arc soaring everywhere and so are: bunding-costs, tsaia Maguire. Ac cording to a survey recently com pleted in Boston, that city lacks 30, 000 dwellings, and the same propor tionate shortage exists in other cities. IWEEK GENERALLY FAIR Occasional Rains Are Forecast for North Coast Slates. WASHINGTON, April 3. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: Hocky mountain and plateau re gions, generally fair; cold, with freez ing temperature first half, normal latter half. Pacific states Except for occa sional rain on the north Pacific coast, fair; normal temperature probable. - ---I I i Retirement From Ruhr Is Demanded by France. WAR LEADERS IN CONFERENCE Strict Compliance to Treaty Ordered in Note. REDS ARE BEATEN BACK Rciehswehr I'orces Reported to Be Making General Advance Against Insurgents. PARIS, April 3. After warning the German charge d'affaires tonight in note that the Krench government would admit of no derogation of the treaty of Versailles, Premier Miller and conferred with Marshal Foch. Marshal Foch then had a conference with the minister of war, Andre Le feve, who later was received by the premier. Premier Millerand sent tho note to the German charge d'affaires. Dr. Von Mayer, recalling that he had written him yesterday asking him to insist that his government retire the troops which recently entered the Ruhr basin. Peace Treaty Text Cited. Premier Millerand cited the text of the article of the treaty of Versailles to the effect that any contravention will be considered a hostile act against the signatories of the treaty and added: l will inform you later what de cision the government of the repub lic takes." COBLENZ, April 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Reichswehr cap tured Duisberg. Rhenish Prussia and Ruhrort, the harbor for Duisberg, late this afternoon, after much street fighting, according to advices re ceived tonight. THE HAGUE, April 3 The general advance of the -German - government troops along the entire front against the insurgent forces in the Ruhr and neighboring industrial regions which began at 7 o'clock Friday morning has been very successful, according to well-informed Dutch sources. Red Forcrd to Retreat. The troops forced the reds to re treat across the Testerberg and the government forces have already pen etrated Hamborn, the advices stated. At the center of the front the gov ernment troops have taken Reckling hausen, 13 miles northwest of Essen, while the left wing is advancing from Haram westward. Companies of the red army have been named after prominent Russian and other extrem ists, bearing such names as "Company Lcnine," "Company Trotzky" and "Company Karl l.iebknecht." The per sonnel, however, is mostly German. COPENHAGEN, April 3. Decision to call off the general strike in the entire Ruhr industrial region was reached at a plenary session of the executive council of the district yes terday, according to a dispatch from Essen. It will be renewed, however, if the Berlin government fails to fulfill obligations entered into with the workers. CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY 200 Soldiers Reported Killed and - Popnlace Terrified. A MOT, China, April 3. Two hun dred soldiers were killed and many wounded in a mutiny of troops in Anhai province, according to advices received here. The fighting was continuing and the inhabitants fleeing in terror, the dispatch added. PICTORIAL COMMENT Patrons If Riding Most Pay Eight Per Cent Additional on Fares Says Collector. SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. Even the air isn't free any more, at least as far as ' war tax is concerned, ac cording to Justus Wardell, collector of internal revenue, who announced today the receipt of a ruling from Washington that airplanes engaged in commercial passenger, freight and express traffic over established routes in competition with other methods of transportation must pay taxes on their traffic. Passengers carried by airplane un der such conditions must pay 8 per cent additional on their fares, Just as if they had ridden on a train, Wardell said, while airplane freight will be subject to the regular 2 per cent tax. PRINCE ASKED TO OREGON Governor Invites British Heir to Touch at Some Port In State. SALEM. Or.. April 3. (Special.) Governor Olcott today sent an Invi tation to the Prince of Wales to visit at some port in Oregon on his voyage of the Pacific ocean. The letter was addressed to San Diego, where the visitor is expected to arrive within the next few days. "It was the good fortune of the 162d United States infantry, a regi ment whose personnel was entirely made up of Oregon soldiers, to be stationed in England for many months during the world conflict," reads the governor's invitation. "At that time the officers and men from this state -were given every mark of courtesy by the citizens of your na tion. Theee soldiers and the state they represent would deem it a high privi lege if you could change your itiner ary so that you could touch at an Oregon port." LOADED CARS ARE IDLE Freight Handlers Quit Because of Better Pay Elsewhere. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April 3. (Special.) Unload-ed freighted cars are piling up at the Southern Pacific depot as the result ot inability of the company to keep freight handlers. Men refuse to-stay for the wage paid, which they assert is 3.90 at most, and contrast it with the minimum daily wage of $4.76 paid -by box fac tories. Merchants, with stocks in the un loaded, cars, have appealed to the divis ion superintendent to increase wages. Two men are working endeavoring to do the work of six, but they threaten to quit unless wages are increased and a sufficient force maintained to handle the shipments. BOISE'S COOKS ON STRIKE Population Gets Litle to Eat While Restaurants Are Closed. ' BOISE. Idaho, April 3.---(SpecIal.) Boise has been forced to go on. diet. pjven ofth leading restau rants have been closed during the past week because of a strike of waiter cooks and helpers, members otiapthe Cooks' and Waiters' union. Demands for an increase in wage of 50 cents were made by the u..ion, The proprietors of the restaurants refused to comply. A walkout fol lowed. Since then Boise has been go ing hungry. MT. LASSEN IN .ERUPTION California Peak Throws Off Smoke or Steam; First Since February. REDDING, CaL, April 3. Lassen peak was in eruption for a brief period today. White columns of smoke or steam ascended from the south end of the crater for about 30 minutes, then ceased, only 'to be resumed briefly. Today's eruption was the first since February 9. BY CARTOONIST PERRY ON SOME RECENT NEWS EVENTS Freak Storm Tears TTp .Trees, Blocks Roads, Demolishes Homes, Demoralizes Shipping. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. April 3. (Special.) Roads blockaded by hun dreds of fallen trees, several buildings wrecked and other property damaged is the result of a freak storm near Odessa. 30 miles north of here, on upper Klamath lake, yesterday. Tele phone lines are demoralized and the news rerched here late today when Captain H. E. Calkins, motor boat mail carrier, returned from his trip up the lake. No boats were lost, he said, but all that were on the lake had hard work to keep afloat in the gale, the worst recorded in lake shipping history. At Odessa a tree was blown across the postoffice. completely wrecking it. A cook house was smashed to kin dling beneath the weight of two fall ing trees only a moment after the cook had fled to safety. Gus John son's summer home was cut in two by a tree and numerous tents and cabins were wrecked at summer re sorts in the vicinity. The storm lasted from in i o'clock, and in spots approached the violence or a tornado. As far as known, damage was confined to a comparatively ,mall area. having Odessa as a center, with a radius of jo or 3 miles. Weather conditions in Klamath Falls were normal v-- terday. FALLING TREE KILLS LAD Yoothful Logger Riding on Train Victim of Accident Xear Bales. BAKER. Or . Anril .1 Word reached Baker late last night uoocnoing tne tragic death of W. A. Dutton. 19 vem niri -v. -, i. .-1 , . j yesterday noon, when a large tree, uprooted bv the . -,' across a passing logging train on a spur oi me Sumpter Valley railway, four miles below Bates. Toung Dutton and William Coulter, loggers. Were rlr!in a 1... . - --- - - ' " r, HalCHr W II e II the tree fell. The young man was al- ,uu" wmianiiy Killed and Mr. Coulter was thrown from the car Into the river, several yards beyond the edge of the track. Both his legs were frac tured and his right arm also was broken. Th. ria , . . .nan its naia to DC a stranger In the vicinity. Nothing -.- in nm doming gives Informa conpernins his home or relatives. COUPLE RUSHT0 ALTAR Passing of Lenten Season Marked by Increase iu Marriage. NEW YORK, April 3. Passing of the Lenten season and comin At Easter were marked in New York by slash in the price of Easter blos soms and a rush for the altar. More than 224 marriage licenses were Is sued today. Flower markets established by the city proved meccas. Prices ar h. stands were considerably lower than those asked by the dealers, which, however, were little higher than last year. EDITOR QUITS DUTIES Frank P. Glass Sells Interest in Birmingham News. BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 3. Frank P. Glass, for the last two years president of the American Newspaper Publishers" association, and for 10 years vice-president and editor of the Birmingham News, has severed his connection with the News, hie stock having been purchased by Vic tor H. Hanson, majority owner and publisher, and associates. A signed statement by Mr. Glass de clares the severance of relations to be friendly. PORTUGAL RATIFIES PACT Senate and Chamber of Deputies Approve Versailles Treaty. LISBON, Portugal, April 3. The senate and chamber of deputies to day ratified the treaty of Versailles. I00.2v GROWTH CONTROL ABSOLUTE Crops May Be Matured at Any Time of Year. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FACTOR Regulation of Day and Night Pe riods Makes Marvels Possible In Vegetable World. WASHINGTON. April 3. Govern ment agricultural experts have discov ered that plant life seems to depend on light rather than temperature for nourishment and may be controlled by regulating the hours of light and darkness. The principle is revolutionary, but it rests on actual experiments in which it was demonstrated that plants subjected to alternate periods of light and darkness In carefully determined proportions could be brought to ma turity at any time of the year. The discovery may be of the highest importance in the future planning of cropping systems for different re gions, it is declared. Crop Any Time Possible. Greenhouse experiments." says the announcement by the department of agriculture, "prove that the flowering and fruiting period of practically any plant can be made to take place at any time of the year by darkening the greenhouse in the morning and evening If the day is too long, or by lengthening the day by artificial light if the day is too short. "Spring flowers and spring crops hannen to be spring flowers and spring crops because the days of the season of their flowering and fruit ing have the proper number of hours of daylight." Animals Altt Tlepontve. Eventually it may be found, accord ing to W. W. Garner and HA. Allard. scientists in the bureau of plant In dustry, who conducted exhaustive ex periments, that the animal organism also is capable of responding to the stimulous of certain day lengths. They believe that the migration of birds may be an illustration on the ground that direct response to such a stimulus would be more in line with modern biological teachings than theories which assume that birds "go south" s a matter of instinct. Experiments were conducted with a large variety of plajits. It has shown conclusively that too little "sleep" or in other words, too many hours of daylight, would prevent many plants from ever reaching the flowering and fruiting stage. Reproduction la Studied. It was found also that plants would not reproduce except when exposed to a favorable length of day, although too much daylight for flowering and fruiting might stimulate profuse vegetative growth. A length of day favorable both to reproduction and growth results In the "ever-bearing' type of fruits. By employing dark chambers the scientists shortened- or lengthened the life cycle of plants and caused some of them to complete two cycles in one season. Temperature appeared to exert no influence in the tests. A striking il lustration of the relative unimport ance of temperature was given in the fact that plants kept in the dark for a part of the day, underwent in mid summer the changes that in nature come in the fall and that heretofore have been attributed to lower tem peratures. This was true, even when the dark houses registered a higher Concluded on Fapf 2. Column '2 3 000 Cars Stock Diverted to Other Cities Stockliandlers Warned Against Possible Embargo. CHICAGO, April 3. Railroads in the Chisago area tonight faced the possibility of a general tie-up of ter minal operations before Monday as a result of 700 switchmen on the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, declared illegal by Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen officers, and the walkout of 350 switchmen employed by the Chicago Junction railroad, a belt line serving the stock yards. All switchmen in the Chicago rail road district would walk out unless demands of the strikers for a wage increase were granted, according to John Grauna. president of the Chi cago Yardmen's association, declared an outlaw union by brotherhood of ficers. Such a walkout would involve !.- 500 men. As a result of the strikes the Chicago livestock exchange warned stockhandlers against ship ping livestock to Chicago before con sulting railroad agents concerning a possible embargo. Three thousand cars of stock en route to Chicago were diverted to other cities, it was said. Officers of the yardmen's union said the strikers demanded the re instatement of President Grauna. $1 an hour for foremen, 95 cents for switchmen, time and a half 'for over time and double time after eight hours overtime. Foremen now receive J5.33 a day and switchmen J5, accord ing to the union. B. B. Greer, vice-president of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul rail road, said today that the company would not recognize the strikers of negotiate with them. WATER RATE IS ATTACKED Exorbitant Rates at Vancouver Charge diti Complaint. VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 3 (Special.) Complaint that the North Coast Power company, which owns the water works of this city, is charg ing exorbitant rates has been filed with the public service commission at Oljmpia. An investigation will be made and a hearing Drobablv rrmt The complaint was filed by Henry Crass, attorney, acting for the Pit-tofk-Leadbetter company, sf. Joseph's hospital, the U. S. National bank and tne winner Abstract company. It is charged that each of the rnnr.,.. named maintains a water system in its building for use in case of fire.. The company charges the ' re.miis.r meter rate and In addition J2 for each hose cpnnection. SECRET PACT PROTESTED Sportsmen and Business Organisa tions or Grants Pass Heard From. GRANTS PASS. Or.. April 3. (Spe cial.) Grants 1'asa sportsmen and business organizations protest the alleged secret agreement between certain Mexlford t-itizens and Roderick Macleay in regard, to Rogue river fishing, as not satisfactory to the majority and favor closing "the river to commercial fishing for a definite period. Telegrams to this effect have been cent out by the Josephine sports men's league. W'ilford Allen, presi dent, and by the Grants Pass Cham ber of Commerce. K. S. Bramwcll, president. OPEN SHOP MAY RESULT I nion Carpenters and Master Builders Cnable to Agree. SPOKANE. Wash., April 3. (Spe cial.) Adoption of an open-shop pol icy by the master builders of Spo kane in the near future may result from the refusal of the carpenters' union late last night to meet a com promise offer of the builders In an effort to settle the present building trades strike. Although members of the Master Builders' association would not dis cuss the matter today, it is believed by those conversant with the situa tion that the failure of the builders and the carpenters to agree may pre c i p i t ate an open-whop movement. FOR SYNDICALISM Jury, Out 18 Hours, Ad vises Clemency. YANDERYEER'S AIR DEJECTED I. W. W. Attorney Leaves, Muttering About Centrafia. SENTENCE TO BE APRIL 19 Ten Days in Wliicli to Make Motion for New Trial Allowed Convic tion Second Under Law. "I find it hard to get accustomed to this sort of verdict, I never used to get it before Centralis:" His natural stoop accentuated. George F. Vanderveer, premier at torney of the Industrial Workers of the World, walked from tho court room with the air of a beaten man. muttering these words, half to him self, when the jury yesterday after noon found Joe Laundy, I. W. W. or ganizer, guilty of espousing the causa of an organization preaching violence and destruction. Though there a.re 25 more indict ments against I. W. W. in the hands of Walter II. Evans, district attorney. Vanderveer does not expect to return to defend the cases. Ralph S. Pierce. Seattle L W. W. counsel, or J. F. Emigh of Butte, are expected to rep resent the defendants. Vanderveer Goes to Seattle. Vanderveer left last night for Se attle, but will return to Montcsano tomorrow to argue a motion for a new trial in the case of L W. W. there found guilty of mudering American Legion men in Centralia OB armistice day. Deliberations of the Laundy ju-v began at 9:10 Friday night. The ver dict was returned at 3:30 yester-i.iv afternoon, after IS hours and 20 min utes in the jury rooms. The ballot in the jury room stood hi Cor conviction, five for acquittal ai.i oro not voting, it was reported. ;.in i mcrable ballots followed. A r.-.wcr-ful plea for clemency a d.ni-a ued but was not included in t ie roiurt. Sentence will be passed Aj r'J II4 by Judge H. H. Belt of McMinn.iile. uo presided in the Portland trial. Time t. ranted to Defense. Ten days were granted Vanderveer in which to file a motion for a new trial. It would not be based on mis conduct of the jury, he announced, though ho had received a report, ho said, that one of the jurors had ex pressed an opinion in the course of the trial highly prejudicial to the de fense. The Laundy case opened on Mon day. March 22. Exhibits numbered several hundred, chiefly literatura distributed by the I. V. W. District Attorney Evans and Earl F. Bernard, deputy, conducted the prosecution of Laundy, tn the hardest fought trial of the year. The para mount issue in the case was the teach ings of the I. W. W. No specific act of violence or sabotage was charged against Laundy, nor was he actually accused of personally advocating such. He was charged with activity in an organization which accepted these things. Clemency Plea la Made. The clemency plea of the jurors follows : - "To the Honorable H. H. Belt, cir cuit judge: We, the undersigned jurors in the case of the defendant. Joe Laundy. unanimously and of one mind beg of you to use all the power invested in you as judge for leniency In your sentence of the defendant." It was signed by E. W. Endicott. foreman: A. Rosenstein. George E. Mianer, William Wenny, H. Hayden.. f Concluded on rage 2. Column 2.) t t t l i