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THE WEATHER fe00!" Tonight and EDITION'S. Wednesday, fair; i " " Wy;J jCv continued cold; . ulvv easterly winds. VOL. XVII, NO. 202 PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1919. EIGHTEEN" PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND fflWt TANOS FIVC CENTS UTI I M J D)J CU CU UJ Ul PRESIDENT IH PARIS 'FOR MRU Secret Diplomacy Expected to Meet Death Blow With Open ing of Formal Session. American Delegates Not Afraid of Clemenceau's Utterances . and Fear No British Rupture. By Fred S. Frrjiusoii PARIS. Jan. 7. - li. IV--The death knell f secret diplo macy Is expe.cted .to be soutulrd ..when the formal peace dclibcra tions nf the associalird powers open next week. The feeling was growing among officials today that these ses sions, -which will . probably start . -.' at 'Versailles January i:$ or should be open to the press of the world. Since the allied 'nations have agreed that esecret diplomacy must be abolished. It was felt the American attitude that this 19 the time to put the principle iirtb cfefet should receive ready indorsement ty other delegations. The sessions at Versailles are expect . td to be symbolic of the new era of open dtplomacy and abolition of secret treaties. While the Versailles conferences will piark the official opening: of the nego iittations toward neace, the -actual open- Ins, so far a discussion 'is- concerned, f began Willi Prexident Wilson's return to j Pari today. ; iJThe Serbian. Greek, Polish, -Chinessw and other smaller delegations . arc a--.- ready here. Lord Itobert Cecil. assist ant. secretary for, foreign affairs of the British ..empire, was expected to arrive today. and Foreign Minister ' Balfoii. will probably " be -here Saturday. All delegates are expected to be present by Sunday.. The first subject for discussion will, of course, be relative to another exten sion, of tiie armistice. There is a pos sibility that some modification will be (Concluded on l'ass Two. r'olumn Four) FIRE AT MEETING Demand for Withdrawal' of Amer ican Troops From Russia Op - posed at . Labor Session. A number of resolutions - were intro - duced this morning at the sixteenth session of the Oregon Federation of Labor, but the one that drew fire was the so-called "Bolslvevikl resolution' in troduced by 3. T. Hunt of the ship Wrights and supported vigorously on the floor by Floyd Hyde of St. Helens and . others. . It expresses sympathy with the revolutionists of Russia and demands that the- United States with draw its troops from Siberia. In opposition to It, Eugene E. Smith, a member of the legislature and rep . resenting in the Federation of Labor, declared that the I. W. W. of Oregon, liavihg wrecked th'eir own organiza tions were now attempting to wreck the Oregon State Federation of Labor. The motion to print 25.000 copies in pamphlet form was voted down. At 1 O'clock the resolution itself was still telng debated. - One of the milder paragraphs of the , resolution reads: "We as members of the American working class protest in behalf of other members of the working - class ;who are fighting in the ranks of the 'army against their being compelled ' to play jth rpl of international scabs in the schemes of the capitalists of the "world to whose interest it is to suppress the working class revolution." Delegate E. E. Smith glorified the loy alty of the American Federation of Labor and said that President Wilson was now carrying out the true spirit of " Jesus Christ and democracy In Europe. Other speakers opposed m the resolution -- (Concluded on Pace Four, Column Five) Civil Service Board ? Aiinouuces Quizzes .. ' . - Fqjlowing'special examinations are an nounced to be held in the near future by the United States civil service com mission.. Persons desiring to take any . of these examinations may obtain the, necessary blanks and information con cerning them by applying to the secre tary Eleventh U. S. civil service dis- RESOUTON DRAWS -: si Mil. uici.hiv.ioii a iiciiici , ucilarvflieiHal "service (male), $720, any time; shop ap prentice, departmental service (male). . fI20, any time; dragmaster, coast and geodetic survey (male). 91200 to $1680, any time; veterinary bacteriologist, de partment of agriculture (male and fe- .male). February 26, 1919, $1500 to $2000. . . . :- r ... . "... . . .... ' ...' ' ' " " '- - V TRIBUTE TO ROOSEVELT IS DECREED 1 A PROCLAMATION Issued from his offlre this morning, .Major Baker asks that all busi ness In the city be suspended for 5 minutes at 9:45 Wednesday, morning- In honor of the late Theodore Roosevelt. This time corresponds with the time when funeral serv. Ices will be, held for the "former president. Seattle. Jan. 7. (!'. r.l Sifent tribal to Theodore Hoosetelt will be paid by Heattle Wednesday, when. In conforming with a proela matlon Issued by the mayor, all citizens are expected to halt what ever they are doing- and stand at silent attention from 9:45 to '9:50 a. in., during- the funeral of the former president. PASTORS ASK THAT BE Ministerial Association Says Duty! to President in Time of j Peace Imperative. ! "Wear abliie ribbon as a s:pn of your loyalty to "the principles of world peace." was the unique nroncal of the General Ministerial association tlirouch a reso lution unanimously adopted Monday at the regular meeting at the Y. M. C. A M. C. A. At a time when the United States Is represented abroad by its president with a -platform of world peace, the minis terial association took the position that now is as important a time to show loy alty as during the war. The resolution, introduced by Dr. Wil liam Wallace Voungson, district super intendent of the? Methodist church, in dorses the- pro ported leagru of nations, and it this -respect sets an example for the. Oregon legislature, w hich is soon to convene. Men Fought for aw World v The statement' and resolution adopted read follows; Never, perhaps, Bince tha fall of Rome, has 'there- been sudi a world shaking process affecting every coantry an au people acr the wrorld war just closing. Immense changes are under- way. Noth ing wiU ever be Quite the sam& again. The old is vanishing before our eyes and the new is being born. So much was wrong and outworn, unjust and Inhu man, that the changes must go very far. In this dynamic period of modern. his tory, that which is to mark permanent progress will come forth, not by the smashing process, but by the emergence of the underlying forces of life and the realization of those human hopes and aspirations that have long been held in and suppressed. It must not be. ft can not be, that millions of men have unavailingly faced death a.nd mutilation, it was not wreck age and chaos they sought in their brave adventure with death. They went out to build a new world and to destroy only that a new recreation might begin. Work TSeeded If Peace Is Won We never can have peace on this earth until, we work for it, and we are never goin to work for it until we love it with all our heart and soul. Which one of the nations of the world has with in the last 50 years spent a million dol lars in cementing international friend ships, or used the energy of even a thousand men in constructing a plan by (Concluded on Page Fourteen, Column Four) Four Saved Fpom Wrecked TJjfl. Tug Baltimore. Jan. .7. (I. N. S.) The Consolidation Coal company's steamship Lake Lida arrived at this port today, having on board four surviving mem bers of the crew of a government tug as yet unidentified which foundered during a terrific gale while bound, it is reported, rrom Aew York to Newport News. Ludendorf Lives Life of a Recluse Stockholm, Jan. 7. (U. P.) General Ludendorff, former chief of the German armies, is living a life of recluse on a farm near Ilesleholm under the name of Ernst Lindstroem. if was officially announced today. He refuses to see visitors and takes long tramps through the forests daily. ROLL OF HONOR In the roll of honor made public today are the names of the following men from the Pacific Northwest : DIED OF DISEASE Oregon PRIVATE VINCENT WINNIFORD. emer gency address John A. Winniford, Wilbur. PRIVATE WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, emer gency addrnta John Johnon, Perdue. PRIVATE FREDERICK KASTEN. emergency address Mias R. Heine, B0 North Fifteenth street, Portland. ' Washington PRIVATE JAMES C. MINTER. emergency address Andrew J. Minter. South Bend. MISSING IN ACTION Oregon PRIVATE JOHN R. PEAR8E, emergency ad dress. Mrs. Maude Bell. Enterprise. WOUNDED. DEGREE UNDETERMINED. PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING. Idaho Private Fletcher Oullen, emersenc; address. Thoman J. Jones, Bois-. Prhrata Thomas Martin, emergency address, William Smith. Sand Paint. RETURNED TO DUTY. PREVIOUSLY RE PORTED MISSING Washington WUIIam M. Shaw, emergency address. Arthur Shaw. Olympia. Priuta Harold F.. Wanner, emergency ad dress, Mrs. Olive Wenner, Okanogan. Washington, Jan. i 7. Tha But of casualties m the American expeditionary forces abroad, (Concluded on Page lire. Column One) COLORS SHOWN COLONEL'S FIHL IS III BE Ml Captain Archie Roosevelt Issues Statement in Explanation; Congress to Be Represented. Episcopal Ritual Without Music and Without Flowers Will Be Used at Young's Cemetery. Rv William BasKcriilc OYSTKH BAY. N." Y.. Jan. 7. I. N. S.) The funeral oT former President Thoodnre Iloosiv velt lotiPTrow will ho private aii'J simple anil there will he . neither eulogies ivr military honors. All doubt on lhi quostion was set aside at,- noon today when Captain Archibald Roosevelt, son of Colonel and Mrs. Rposevcit, issued the following formal state ment on behalf of all tha mem bers of the family: '"I wish to explain how greatly we appreciate the effort to do honor to the ex-president and to show sympathy for his family. It had been Mr. Roose velt's wish and his wish coincided with that of his family, that he be buried with as simple a ceremony as possible in- OyBter Bay the place -where be had so long and happily, lived. It . tas .his wish that the services at the c"uurch be attended, by only intimate friends and relatives, , : Tfhejphu rch. .at. Oyster Bay, .a .wkic the services wUl be held has a seating capacity of only about 350 persons, so it is impossible . to 'invite all of ' those ith whom he had been associated, in past yars. - But aa congress had rali? ready ' appointed i its committee before the .restricted seating capacity was known, provision has been made for it, but beyond this It will not bs practicable, as much as, the family regrets it, to provide for the attendance of pommit tees from other bodies., "Some intimation has been made that the country will demand a joint memo- I Concluded on Page fourteen. Column Three) CAMP LEWIS BANK BANDITS CAPTURED Three Persons Hold Up Army In stitution, Taking $500; One Believed Woman. Tacoma, Wash.. Jan.' 7. (U. P.) Three unknown bandits, who held up and robbed the Camp Lewis army bank at 11 o'clock this forenoon, were caught by the military police after a chase through the cantonment. One of the robbers Is believed to be a woman. Kntering the . bank, they covered the cashier, a clerk and a lieutenant, who was making a de posit, then went back of the cage and secured $500 in cash and fled. - The holdups are thought to be colored. James Creehan, president, and three clerks were in the bank when the rob bers entered. The trio dre revolvers and commanded all present to hold up their hands. The army officer at the cashiers window and the clerks reached for their guns and a lively fusillade fol lowed. Jaiines. Henry, military police man, who was attracted by the shots, rushed into the bank and was shot by one of the robbers and seriously wound ed. During the shooting the smaller of the robbery slipped behind the' cage and grabbed $500 In gold lying loose on the desk. All three then made a dash from the building. Military police gave chase and soon overhauled two of the bandits. The third man escaped but was later surrounded in.' the woods. He Is said to be wounded and his capture is cer tain. A fourth member of the gang, driving an automobile, which was waiting on the others, was also arrested. r : Transport Brings 127th F, A.-115th T. M. B. and Casual Newport News. Va.. Jan. 7. (U. P.) The transport Powhatan arrived here this morning fron Europe with the 127th Field artillery. 115th trench mor tar battery and a casual company, which included 15 aviation officers. The 127th is commanded by Captain E. M. English and the 115th by Cap tain Drake. ... Most of the men are from the west, although some are from New York and other' eastern states. In the contingent ar men who fought at -Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood and Verdun..: ' I 1 1 ' ' " U. S. TRANSPORT NORTHERN PACIFIC ASHORE ON FIRE ISLAND WRECKING tugs are pulling on the stranded U. S. transport Northern Pacific, formerly; the well known Hill liner thai oper ated between the" mouth of the Columbia river and S art Francisco, and it is reported that prospects of getting the speedy craft back into deep water are good. The tugs moved the hull 70 feet Monday. The transport piled up on a sand bar last Wednesday morning, when within a few hours of New York to land nearly 3000 American soldiers returning from France, many of them wounded. All were saved, but not without great difficulty and heroic work on the part of the lifesavers. Photo shows the fietft lifeboat launched, pullingback to the ship not more than 25. feet from the shore. Insert shows several of the officers' of the ship Lieutenant Commander Hunter, Lieutenant Commander Culbert, Paymaster Lossell, Lieutenant Bull and Commander Denny. , 3 tkHk v : : M sMMHMawllfrJIini :-::-'i;.:- 1 ' -i- ii ? ! " ' Si V.. -y, .ViyAVWVAV.-A'v,'.'.V,vv-,v.v.' P.J. MELON E LIFE IN BAY CITY Former Chief Special Agent of Southern Pacific Well Known in Portland. San Francisco, Jan. 7. (I. N. S.) P. J. Kindelon, one of the best known railroad men on the Pacific coast, was found dead in. Golden Gate park here today. His body was found propped up against a tree. The revolver with which he ended his life was tightly gripped in his hand. Kindelon had .been chief special agent for the Southern Pacific railroad since 1892 and formerly lived in Portland, Or. A son. James Kindelon, is a resident of L.os Angeles. P. J. Kindelon. who was found dead In Golden Gate park in San FranciscoT is well known among the officials of the Southern Pacific company's local of-, fice. . Prior to taking over of the rail road by the government he had charge, of the special agents in this division." Although he spent some time in, Port land fie never established a residence here. Rose Festival As Reception to Men In Service Favored A "Victory Celebration" in June as a new form of IJose Festival adapted to express Portland's Joy over the re turn of Oregon's soldiers was consid ered by the organization committee -of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines' rer ceptlon committee appointed' iy the mayor at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Monday evening. ' " "Royal Rosarians. meeting at ,- tha same hour, appeared before the Com mittee with a resolution favoring a Rose Festival in such form as would be consistent with home coming year. The Rosarlans. headed by C. C. Celt, Julius L. Meier and Ira Ij. Riggs de clared their readiness to help pre pare a festival but added that : unless It is favored by the soldiers'" and sail ors' reception committee, they -will not undertake to organize it. Bolsheviki Hold Riga, Says Soviet Wireless Report London, Jan. 7. (I. N. S.) Riga, the great Russian port on the Baltic, . was captured by Bolshevik troops on Janu ary 4, said a Russian wireless dispatch picked up here today. - The Bolshevik , reglne , In. Russia . com trol the Russian wireless. ; , , NDS : ' : -.v.-. v.-. v. '....-...-.:-: ...jc- "-:-.:: . :... j-:-:-:- .::-:.y,-.w.i Action by State Necessary to Get School Land B ack So'-Long as Oregon, Authorities Stand . iMutely By and Make ITo Effort to Undo Fraud, Government -May Not Ques tion the Validity! of the Land Titles MORI-: than .100,000 acres of state school land have been sold upon applications to purchase aruk subsequent assignment . or quit claim, the fraud of which should have been then, anT7s "now, patent to the naked eye. , Grand jury investigations, both state' and federal, criminal prosecutions,-both state and federal, and convictions in both juris dictions, not to speak of successfully prosecuted ciyi suits, have pubjicly demonstrated the far-reaching extent of these frauds. And they have done more, for th-ey have clearly shown that tjtle to'these lands, so secured try fraud and collusion, is not secure, but can be attacked successfully in the courts1 and restitution forced for the wrong that has been perpetrated by unscrupulous men upon the irreducible school fund and the school system of the state. . But there is a more important and more beneficial goal in sight, should the, state authorities wish to reach It, than the simple recovery of the thou sands of acres of school lands wrong fully taken from the state school fund and system. State Mnst Open Proceedings . These school lands, in the majority of cases probably, were secured for, and used as, "base" or "script" in the acquisition of immensely valuable tracts of timber land then In the ownership of the general government. i the Unlted states as weli be remedied It follows as a matter of law, so and t wronffs rlghtei. given by it to those lands secured upon M But the Possibilities to the school fraudulent and unlawful applications. I fund, n school system of Oregon such procedure would leave the "lieu I would not be concluded by the cancet lands" acquired in exchange up tn the ' i Concluded on Pa,, Two. Column Two British Decide to .'Demobilize Men fn Army at Rapid Rate London, Jan. 7. The BriUsh authori ties have decided to concentrate on the demobilization of the men in the armies, the , Daily Express announces on the basis of authoritative Information. To expedlate this process, the decision has lso been reached ,ta stop leaves., De rpite these measures the soldier demon strations have been conttouedCTV " ... air, unsupported by valid base, and, therefore, subject to recovery by the United States government. In other wrods, the lawyers, explain, so long as the state authorities stand mutely by and make no effort to undo the fraud that. was practiced upon the state, the government .may not quesUon the title given by the state or go -beyond it to force reparation for the wrong done the United States. Should the state act, however, the government could follow so that not only would the ; rrud ,lnon m .too h.. thn Wire Control Bill Placed in Senate Washington, Jan. 7. (I. S.) A bill providing supervision and control of telephone, telegraph, cable and radio systems by the interstate commerce com mission was introduced in the senate this afternoon by Senator Kellogg of Minnesota,' The measure .would give the commission - power to permit con solidation of telephone 4 and telegraph companies and authority, to control serv ice and fix . minimum &nd maximum rates. .-' ' ' - - '..rf.-.'.:.'..-.y..-.vjL-..y:w;-. -3 . a y :i-v.:;-.v.'. .-.v.--m ' f Xft I ft! 4. f OPPOSE REQUEST President's Appeal for $100, 000,000 to Feed Starving . People Disliked. Washington, Jan.- 7. (I. N. .3.) Be lief by. many house -members tha,t Presi dent Wilson's request for 1100,000,000 to feed - starving peoples In Europe entails-permission for Herbert C Hoover, food administrator, to spend the money as he sees fit, and that its expenditure will help keep pork and grain, prices high, was expected to.be the cause of a bitter .wraDgle when the house re-i convened today. . Members, opposed to the plan alsoj asserted that the investment of ' so large a sum in American foodstuffs; might have a strong tendency, to keep up the high cost of living in the United States. -. Representative. Gillett, of Massachu setts, Republican whip of the house, announced his fntehtlon of opposing the - appropriation untilk "congress v Is shown just how Hoover ' proposed " to' expend' It- and just what Hoover pro posed to expend It .for," and pointed out that when William A. Glasgow, counsel for the food administration, appeared before the house appropriation's com mittee to urge the immediate liecesslty Ijfor the appropriation, he wan unable to state . just how much money' Great Britain and France - proposed to . pro- viae ior tne same purpose. . "The assurance we get Is that Enc land and France will pay ' their proper-1 tlon." he said. . Gillett was one of the members of the bouse appropriations committee who nearly succeeded in killing the appro priation in committee. There were 1 of the 21 members of the committee pres ent when Chairman Sherley brought up' the bill providing for the appropriation.; The vote against stood (besides Gil lett). Cox. Indiana ; Galllvan Massa chusetts, and ; Sisson. Mississippi, all' Democrats, ana Good of Iowa and Woodi of Indiana, Republicans. The" vote for the appropriation was : i Byrriea, South Carolina; Buchanan. Texas i. Egan, New Jersey, and Evans of Montana, Democrats, and Cannon. Illinois, and Mondell of Wyoming, Re publicans. - - 'i : The vpte thus stood to 6, a deadlock,: when Chairman Sherley cast his vote for the appropriation and the bill was reported favorably by a majority of one.; , " ' " .. Baker Reiterates ' Nedd of Training Washington; Jan. 7. (I. N.? S.) The necessity for the permanent mainte nance in peace times of the' huge ar tillery, machine - gua and rtfle train ing : schools at Fayettevlle, N. C.,- Co-j 111 HOUSE MEMBERS himbus, Ga,, and . West Pointy Ky was reiterated before the senate" military, sffairs committee today by Secretary of -War Baker.!' :jv;' - ..;..:.'";-;'. ' - ' ' BATTLE 1 1 STREETS Pi Spartacides . (Bolshevik!) Ar rayed Against Loyal1 .Troops, Supporting Government. Move Believed to Be Supreme Effort of Liebknecht Group to ; Gain Control? Women n Fight. COPENHAGEN, J.n. 7. (V. N. ; , S.) Civil war has broken -out in Berlin. . AMolcnt -(itrcct fighting is raging: between the"-; Sparlacijjcs (Bolshcvlki) and the loyal troops supporting the So cialit government. The banks Iiavc all been tbar- . rieaded and thc Spartacides have occupied smany public buildings, from , which they are sweeping the streets wilh machine gun fire. - ; .: i . .- " ':' The . telegraph office was .occu pied by the Spartar ides, but was laler captured by the government troops in a fctorm attack. ' y"- Oovernmeht troops f attacked police headquarters" which" had been converted by the .Spartacides into an arsenal. ' This is regarded as the final and su preme effort of Karl Liebknecht and his radical aides to secure .control of the government anjd - swine ,th , Bolshevist into power, j - " - - f ' Hundreds at persons are fleclna' from Berlin, r- ' :.' ..Thousands of -armed men are swarm Uitf the streets of the capital and a rcigit Of terror and complete anarchy - exists, s Karl Radek and Jaffe, representatives' of the Russian Bolsheviki, are at Berlin helping Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem burg organise their armed forces. 1 Independent ; Socialists : Joined, - the ' Spartacides In issuing ' a proclamation calling -for "a final fight for the red revolution." There were some casualties In th (Concluded on Psfs fourteen. Column KJ1 BRITAIN MAY HALT N London Paper Makes Assertion? News Agency Says No More British Are to Be Sent. London. Jan. 7 (U. P. The British government has decided to abandon the war against - Russia, the Evening Star declared today. . - Great Britain has hot the slightest in tention' of sending any more troops to Russia, the Exchange Telegraph com pany stated. t-At present, according to the news - agency, there are not more than 20,000 British soldiers in Russia. If the Star Is correctly Informed, It lo probable that the government has made this , response to the rapidly In creasing popular demand In Great Brit ain for a showdown on the Russian sit uation. Many liberal leaders and news papers have .demanded that the govern ment declare its attitude toward the Bolsheviki. Among the people there has been a' growing sentiment against continuation of the Russian, campaign at least so far as Great Britain is con cerned. : ';',".' .'''.: Return of Monarchy With' Hohenzollerns . In Powfer Impossible London, Jan., 7. (J. . S. 8.)"Well.' where In hell'are ,we to send him?" ', angrily" shouted Count von Bernstorff former German ambassador, to the United States, In response to a question from the Berlin correspondent of the Pally Express as to whether- the near presence of jthe former kaiser to Ger many did not contain an element of danger. i ' ' ''- .- - t The "interview was received from Ber lin today. - Count - Bernstorff declared that the possibility of reestablishing a monarchy in Germany with a member of . the. : Hoheniollern family f on 'the, throne was "unthinkable. Hungary Refuses to Join Against Italy ' - :'--. . .. i Flume. Jan. 6. (Delayed.) .(U. P.) The Jugo-Slavi government proposed' to Hungary a military convention against Italy, it was officially announced today, Hungary refused and the Jugo-Slavs re taliated by expelling all Hungarian railway men frormCroatia. RUSSIAN CAIVlPAIG 4 - ........ - -