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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. 1918..
USE OF SILVER TO
PAY BALANCE, PLAN
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Pittman of Nevada Introduces
Measure in Senate Providing
2 Melting of Unused Dollars.
: a " Washington, April 10. (I. N. S.) The
eetUefnent of hug trade balances ad-1
; t verse to the United States by payment
. rla Silver bullion Instead of cold wai
proposed Tuesday In. a bill introduced by,
' Senator Plttman of Nevada. The measure
provides for the breaking up and melting
-of approximately 1250,000,000 standard
'Over dollars lying unused In the
'treasury by the retirement of an
. equal number of oustandlng silver cer
, jtlficates and the substitution of a like
j number of federal reserve bank notes
V . In denominations of one and two dol
lars, which are to be secured by de
. . posits of certificates of indebtedness or
one year gold notes placed with the
(treasurer of the United States.
. '. - The adjustment of government pur
chases In silver bullion, especially with
- the countries of the Orient, Is expected
. ' to result In a marked conservation of
'.- the gold supply of the United States, to
' 'Set as a stimulus to decadent sliver pro
, duetlon, to further stabilize the price of
the metal and to provide increased sup
ply of subsidiary coinage for commercial
use.
Senator Plttman would authorize the
secretary of the treasury to repurchase
In silver bullion from time to time, at a
fixed price of II per fine ounce, amounts
equal to the silver melted up, and to re
coln that silver Into standard silver dol
lars, thus in time replacing in the treas
ury the metal withdrawn. In this way
the large mass of 'Silver, which is serv
ing no useful active purpose, could be
mads available for a direct war purpose.
In order to prevent contraction of
the currency, the bill proposes that the
federal reserve board must either per
mit or require the federal reserve banks
to' Issue federal bank notes, in any denomination-.
Including those of one and
two dollars, in an amount not to ex
ceed the amount of standard silver dol
lars melted up and sold as bullion.
The bill has the Indorsement of Sec
retary McAdoo. He points ou,t that the
European war has cAused great de
mands for silver coins among the civil
population and the fighting forces of
the allies ; that Immense purchase of
Jute bagging for trench use, sugar, grain
and fertiliser bags from, China and In
dia has caused those countries to ab
sorb large quantities of silver.
Bolo Pasha Makes
Vital Disclosures
Pars. April 10. Bolo Pasha, con-
joemnra irauor, mi given me govern
ment information of the highest import
ance since his reprieve Monday, ac
cording to the Paris Matin Tuesday. The
disclosures are said to be only the be-
'ginning of a large quantity of valuable
(intelligence which it is claimed Bolo Is
fable to divulge. t
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German Intrigue
To Influence U. S.
Professor Sperry of Byraesse University
Bays Germany ' Approved German
American Alliance.
WaBMngton, "April 10. (U. P. A
amazing story of world-wide German in
trigue, which, sought to dominate the
United States government so that action
f a vorable to' Germany could be depended
upon when a crisis arose, was told to
the senate judiciary sub-committee Tues
day by Karl K. Sperry, professor of his
tory nt Syracuse university. -y-
Sperry appeared before the committee,
now considering the King bill that seels
to annul, the charter of the German
American Alliance. -
William Randolph Hearst suggested
in 1907 that an international German al
liance be organized and offered to pay
the expenses of the American delegates
to a proposed convention in Europe,
Sperry said.'
lie said this fact was published in the
official report of the meeting of the na
tional alliance in that year. No action
was taken, on the suggestion.
"The , establishment of the German
American alliance met with the full ap
proval of the German government, said
the witness.
Taft Appointed Head
Of War Labor Board
Washington, April 10. (I. N. S.) For
mer President William' H. Taft and
Frank P. Walsh were appointed Tuesday
by presidential proclamation to head the
new war . labor council to arbitrate dis
putes between employers and employes
in the war industries.
Others named on the council are:
Luall Z. Osborne, L. F. Loree, W. H.
VanderVoort, Z. E. Michael and B. L.
Warden, representing employers, and
Frank J. Saves, William L. Hutcheson,
William H. Johnston, Victor A. Olander,
T. A. Klckard, representing employes.
Messrs. Taft and Walsh will repre
sent the general public.
Lenine Says Russia
May War Upon J apan
Moscow, April 10. Russia, may have to
declare war on Japan as a result of the
landing of Japanese troops at Vladivos
tok, Premier Lenine I of the Bolshevik
government declared in a speech here
Tuesday,
Germany to Secure
Warships in Finland
London, April 9. Germany and Fin
land have entered into an agreement
whereby Germany is to take all war
ships in Finnish ports, according to a
press dispatch here Tuesday. ,
President to Address D. A. R.
Washington. April 10. (I. X. S.)
President Wilson will address the open
ing of the annual convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
here April 15. It was announced Tuesday.
UPON
DEPOSIT OF $15,000
BY LEiSSEE OF LAKES
Secretary Asserts He Will De
mand Cancellation Unless
Contract Lived Up to.
Salem. Or., April IO.t-D. J. Maher of
Portland, connected with a cement com
pany in that city, and Sidney Smith of
Heppner appeared before the state land
board at a meeting held Tuesday after
noon and urged the board to grant a
six months extension to the old' Jason
Moore lease on Summer . and Albert
lakes.- in Lake county, without requir
ing a deposit of $15,000 for which the
lease provides. .
They represented that they' had the
backing of ttie Crocker National bank of
San Francisco and were ready to begin
extracting the nitrates of soda and
other minerals in the lakes on a com
mercial scale, but they did not want to
put up the $15,000 additional guarantee
fund which was agreed when the 'Jason
Moore lease was signed.
Secretary of State Olcott halted fur
ther consideration of the matter at this
meeting when he declared that he would
insist on the $15,000 deposit or else pro
ceed with the cancellation of the lease
and give others, who are now seeking a
lease on the lakes, a chance to be heard
at the same time.
At the request of Smith and Maher
the board will meet again Wednesday
afternoon, when Jason Moore is ex
pected to be present. Moore was given
a lease on the lakes in 1914.. He failed
to live up to the provisions of the lease
and on numerous occasions he was
given extensions of time. .He, deposited
$10,000, which the state now has, and
was to deposit $15,000 additional as a
guarantee fund.
, About six weeks ago W. Lair Thomp
son of Portland, ' representing Chicago
people, asked the board for a lease on
the lakes. - At that time the board
served 60 days' notice on Moore that his
I lease was to be canceled for failure to
comply with its provisions.
One Dies When Cycle
Crashes Against Car
Christian Stertzt one of the victims of
a crash between a motorcycle and an
Irvington street car early yesterday
morning, died last night at. the St.
Vincent's hospital. .
Stertz, who lives at 660 E. Thirteenth
street, and who operated the motorcycle,
sustained a fractured skull and broken
army and legs. He died without regain
ing consciousness. '
Henry Glanz, of 854 E. Tenth street,
other occupant of the motorcycle. Is at
the hospital in a serious condition with
a fractured jaw and shoulder. It is be
lieved he will recover.
The collision occurred at East Seventh
and Multnomah streets. According to
witnesses. Stertz did not see the car
until too late to avoid -hitting it.
I Alien Arrested For
Hun Smuggling Plot
New Tork, "April " 10. (I. N. . S.)
Charged with smuggling goods from
Germany Into this country, selling them
and returning the money to Germany
Through a United States vice consul
in Switzerland, who was Innocent of
the conspiracy. Gustav Kuhlmann. reg
istered alien enemy, was arrested and
lodged in - the Tombs Tuesday.
Kuhlmann, as general manager of
Grayden & Co., a German owned im
port and export - firm, which posed as
.Swiss, had shipments of tungsten wire
and salvarsan sent here from Ger
many, through Switzerland, it was
charged. .
He went under the name of Cole
man, selling the goods at high prices,
it is said.
Railway Time Tables
To Be Standardized
Washington. April 10. (I. X. S.)
The appointment of a committee to
standardise time tables, eliminate all
possible- waste in printing and to gov
ern the advertising of railways under
federal control, was announced Tuesday
afternoon by the railway administra
tion. The committee, of which A. L. Craig
of the Great Western is chairman, con
sists of L, F. Vosburg. J. P. Anderson
and O. M. Burton for the eastern lines ;
P. S. Eustis, C. A. Cairns and W. J.
Black for the western lines and W. H.
Taylor and W. A. Russell and S. J.
Robinson for the southern roads.
- Roads will not be permitted to do
any " advertising except to an extent
that is necessary for the information
of the public.
Threaten to Lynch
Attacker of Patriot
Rockport, Ind.. April 10. (I. N. S.)
Joe Zenfrich, alleged pro-German, was
spirited away to Evansvllle Tuesday
afternoon to . save him from lynching
at the hands of a mob here following
an attack on Othal Wallace, a Liberty
loan speaker. Sheriff Floyd Chapman
took Zenfrich away after Deputy
United States Marshal F. S. Bauman
and other federal agents had been
rushed here to save him. The attack
occurred at Dale, Ind., and Zenfrich
was brought here for safekeeping. He
was said to have attacked Wallace
with a hatchet.
Congress of Kazan
Declares Republic
London. April 10. The congress of
peasants of Kazan province, European
Russia, has proclaimed that province an-l
Independent republic and has sent notice
to that effect to the council of pec pie's
commissioners, according to a message
received here Tuesday. Kazan has a pop
ulation of 2.000,000, of which- more than
half are Russians and one-quarter Tar
tars. It covers 24,600 square miles.
YANKEEENGNE
ERS
HELP CHECK HUNS
Small Force, Working With Ca
nadians, Met First Onslaught
Of German Hordes.
With the American Army in France,
April 10. Armed only , with rifles and a
limited number of machine guns, and
with no artlllerv suDDort. American rail
way engineers fought side by side with
Canadian engineers in the first stages
of the German offensive, and created
havoc among the onruahing German
masses.
Details of the Americans' valiant
participation in the defense, how they
retired slowly to prepared positions and
charged the Huns an exorbitant toll of
lives for every step forward they came,
were made public here Tuesday for the
first time.
The Americans continued In the fight
ing for several days, although they
were unused to such service and un
prepared; They were doing enegineer
work with the Canadians at the rear
of the British line when the attack
started and, throwing down their picks
and shovels, just as their brothers had
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The stronger the physic, as eld people soon learn; the
greater the contraction of the bowels thereafter; end so the
wise purposely avoid ealt waters, pills and other harsh pur
gatives. Many hare learned to place absolute reliance on
the gentle but positive action el e combination of simple
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of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin.
It produces an agreeable mcrresnent as nearly natural and
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done a few months before at Cambrat.
they rushed into the breach and with
deadly fire mowed the Germans down
until their . guns became so hot that
they could fire no more.
The Yankees recalled the strategy of
another famous battle In American his
tory by waiting almost until they could
"see the whites of the Germans' eyes."
The number of Americans that par
ticipated in the encounter was not made
public, but it was understood to have
been comparatively small.
Lenroot Receives
Ovation in House
Washington. April 10. (I. N. SV A
noisy demonstration was staged in the
house Tuesday afternoon when Senator
elect Irvine L- Lenrbot took his old
seat on the floor for the first time
since nls election to the upper house.
All of the Republicans and half .the
Democrats stood and cheered. After
the demonstration had subsided Lenroot
was surrounded by a group of Repub
lican leaders bent on shaking his hand.
'The business of the house must not
be interrupted," Speaker Clark shouted.
"The senator from Wisconsin will
please retire to the cloakroom."
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