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, - ... ... ... . . . ... ; ' -,. . . "i . .: - - . . - ... - , - . . . . ' .- . - . ".;.. :. , . ?.- - . ; "ITS ALL HERE A v V A " :N rTTllT " fll 7 - ll " 7 . WEATMLIt nd nihcw551 f rrA$li. ( 1C i) I C S Sl Vs Jl -:ifv t V ' FnrhflM Tonight and Frl- . IT-SALLTKLE" J . southerly winds. ; VOL. XVII. , NO. 216 PORTLAND, OREGON, .THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1919. TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS, S7,w?iCDi!VJ no in ROODS DO mam t . . Trains Are Marooned by Slides, ; Fallen Trees and High Water; Willamette Over Flood Stage. Power and Tefegraph Lines Hard s.- nu; vommunicauon is inier rupted With South and East. NE bolt of . lightning ' wis thrown In with. - .Portland's various kinds of weather experi enced this month shortly after i o'clock today. 1 Incidentally . a scare was also. thrown into the officials at the city hall when the bolt traveled, over the fire alarm v system wires into city I hall and blew out all the plugs controlling the system. The noise of the fuses blowing out was beard all through the building. As -far m known, the -bolt did no further ,4amase and the fire alarm system was placed In working order five minutes after the bolt struck. t- - :. " i A storm blowing up from the south rwest passed ever the western heights of . 'the city and through some freak of na ture the flash of light from the light . nlng was seen by most of the people In Portland and shortly after the rumble of thunder was heard ("by the remainder of the population. ..!. Exceedingly heavy, winds Wednesday 'night and copious rainfall caused a Marge amount of minor troubles all .along the, Oregon S3st. t'Powee lines and tele graph ;Wlrer 'connecting Portland with the outside world suffered frdm the storm, telling their own story of high , winds, while the Willamette rose 2.2 feet 'in 24 hours,. reaching .16.1 feet. 1.4 feet ' above the official flood point at Port- land. -. 7; The wmaraette river, is expected, to reaeh a eta ice of IS feef early- Friday . inomingp.' Strong southerly gales were predloted for the coast tonight and Fri day. -, High tension lines of -tha Nortbwest- ern Electric company were torn, down ; : fiomewhere In the mountains i, between : Portland and The Palles. Od account (Cenctadad on Pffa Nineteen. Column Six) GERMAN PRESS IS ; HALTED BY STRIKE Berlin Newspapers .Jail to Issue Because of Disturbances; City in Darkness; Car Men Quit. , 1 The Hague, Jan. 23. (I. X. S.) Xo Berlin papers were published today on .'account of, the strike troubles. , The city was in darkness last night as a result of the walkout of the elec trical workers. The street car employes have quit also. Ebert Has Working Majority Berlin, Jan. 22, via Copenhagen Jan. 23. (I. N. S.) The loyal Socialists (stip- porters of Chancellor Ebert's govern- merit) will have a strong working ma ' Jotity in the. national assembly. 'ihis i was assured today when official count '.of the ballot in Sunday's election 'vas completed. . The lineup follows : 1 Majority Socialists, 169 seats ; Inde pendents, 29; Democrats, 76 r German i Nationals. 34 ; Centrists, 86 ; Liberals. 22 ; miscellaneous. 11. ' A number of women were' elected. . There was no balloting in Alsace and -Lorraine. -The assembly will meet on February 2. i Presidential booms have been started ; for Dr. Naumann, well known German j historian ; Dr. Dernberg and General ' Oroener. Berlin was practically safe today, al though there were a number of daylight , holdups. ... Ex-War Lord Always Ready To Run Either Way; Train Had Engines aX Both Ends ; With the American Army of Occupa tion in Germany, Jan. 22. (By Courier .'to Nancy) (I. N. S.) Inhabitants of : Spa, where German great headquarters ' used to . be, located, consider the ex kaiser irresponsible mentally. Dr. S.JA. Brown of the Bellevue Medi cal school, in ;New: York City, who ac companied, Charles M. Schwab to Cob lens, today told of information he had received from high German officials at Spat who had been watching the former emperor, while . living " here. - The ex-war lord was frequently cm , constructing miniature trenches on the . grounds adjoining headquarters, wh ich he would afterwards' have flooded. . Again he would amuse himself by tss 'lng pbper4 balls over his head. "William U would amuse himself rm a. small "child making mud pies." said ;Pr. Brown, "His train, I am informed, always had two locomotives attached, ; one headed . towards France " and the other towards the interior of German. WOULD HONOR SOLDIERS WHO LIE IN FRANCE WASHIIf GTOIT, Jaa. tt (I. IT. S.) A" fleM of aoaor," la which all American soldiers who died la France weald be bOrled, weald .'he acq sired by the United Stetet aider. bill latre daced ! the hesse this afternoon by Bepreseataflve Fese of OhW.1 The hill alse calls for te erec tion of sellable mennment and' names a eemmlitioa which wOnld asilit In the teleetlon of the site andln earrylnt est the other de tail. - SYNDICALISM BILL Representatives Smith and Home Call Attention to Defects of Dimick Bifl as Seen by Labdr, By Ralph Watsoa Salem, Jan. 88. The Dimick criminal syndicalism, bill amended by the house judicial commute to meet the sugges tions of Representatives - Smith and Home of Multnomah county, representa tives of organized labor, wfflcome back into the house this morning And take Its place on the calendar for final passage. The action of the committee followed a lengthy meeting held Wednesday night, before which Senator Dimick and Representative Kubll, each of whom has a .bill on the same subject,' both ap peared to urge the enactment of anti syndicalism legislation. , Kubli . con tended that he did not care whether the committee centered upon his measure or upon that of .Senator Dimick. He be lieved that either one or the other of the bills ought to be passed because an emergency existed which had to be faced . in the interest of public safety and industrial peace. Smith and Home appeared before the committee in a threefold role, they said, art representatives interested in the legislation,- as men chosen by the American Federation, of Labor to represent its ideals and principles for high-minded and deaif conduct Of organised labor, and as men who 'were possessed ' of an intimate "- knowledge ef the conditions and underlying causes which were pro-1 ducing the unrest now prevalent among tha laborers, and who, as citisens. wantetf rto .do what .could be dooeto bring about peace. ;V ". Effect of Montana Xaw Both contended that the passage of the bills as they had been introduced would serve to agitate the existing con dition rather than to allay it, that its effect would be to drive the agitators Into secret paths rather than to sup press agitation or minimize its results. Smith pointed out that the Montana law similar to the one proposed in the bills now before the 'Oregon legislature had not stopped' syndicalism but that the I. W. W. were so firmly organized and so deeply- intrenched at the present time in the camps of that 'state that it was unsafe for an American Federation of Labor organizer to go into them without the protection of constituted authority. He pointed out that in Washington, which has a similar law, there were openly 18,000 members of the I. W. W. in Seattle no- longer ago than the date ofthe reconstruction congress recently held in Portland. He said that a Tadical agitator had told him in Portland a few days ago that he should vote for the Kubli bill-, saying that "the more damned fool leg islation they passed the sooner the agi tators would be able to overthrow the outfit." Bins Declared Serious Home said that the Kubli and Dimick bills were the most seriousi measures af- (Concluded on re Two, Column Five) Steamer Fireman Killed Over Wages San Francisco, Jan. 23. (U. P.) Frank H. Pooiey of Tacoma, purser otf the steamer Queen, today shot and killed James Truman, a marine fire man. The shooting occurred in Pooiey 's office on board theQueen. Pooiey and Truman had had trouble before over wages which Truman said were due him. Pooiey asserted when arrested that Truman tried several times to strike him. Either one " could '' be detached in case of emergency." Dr. Brown was told of the solemn on ference at German great headquarters just before the former kaiser fled into Holland. The former emperor had been advised to abdicate. He turned to Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff and declared : I can depend upon my, generals, can I not?" Neither batted an eye but muttered some indistinct reply. ' The then kaiser repeated his question and the generals replied in the negative. The expression of I astonishment ihat spread over the face! of the kaiser was beyond description. He quickly signed the document of abdication and was shortly afterwards whisked over frontier .into Holland,, accompanied by some army officers. J . A second automobile was In waiting, headed toward Germany. The plan was to take the kaiser- to BeM inland s'ir render him to his' fate ha he refiwd to abdicate.- .-'--, " , - , i CHANGES MADE IN HOOVERS M( IS DEPEIDEO Senator Hitchcock Answers Criti cisms of Borah, Plunging Sen ate. Session Into Hot Debate. Nebraska Solon Says Profits of Packer Would Have Been Far Greater but for Fodd Chief. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (U. P.) Defense of Herbert Hoover against ;the charge of . plotting to aid and protect Amer ican packing interests today plunged the senate ' Into angry debate on the 9100,000,000 famine fund bill. Laying before the senate Hoov er's denial of improper collabora tion with packers, Senator Hitch cock of Nebraska summed up the case in Hoover's behalf thus: Hoover, at President Wilson's direc tion, did get packers and livestock pro ducers together to stimulate hog pro duction. "He did make arrangements with the allied governments to take packers products. "As a result of his stimulation cam paign, the packers had practically been swamped with hogs. "Over the objections of some of the allied governments notably Great Brit ain Hoover had stuck and is sticking by his word to American hog raisers and packers, which was that if they would stimulate production there would be an European market for the product. "If Hoover is aiding or protecting anybody it is the small livestock farm er," satd Hitchcock., , "He has done nothing wrong and yet he Is being (Conolwdtd 'ce ,P Twp" Column Four) TO ASSIST NURSES More Than Half of $20,000 Needed for Two-Year Mainte nance Fund Secured. Twelve thousand six hwndred dollars, more than half the total of $20,000 the Portland Ad club has volunteered to raise for the Visiting Nurse association, was pledged ' at a luncheon of promi nent Portlanders called by A. L. Mills in the "Tyrolean room of the Benson hotel at noon " today. This sum was raised in less than 15 minutes by con tributions of from $100 to $1000 made by private individuals and business es tablishments. . The original somf $20, 000 to be given the association will live ly be exceeded' after a canvass .among prominent business men to be instituted after a meeting of the - committee on finance of 'the Ad club to be held- at 4 o'clock this afternoon. t The effort -o raise the money and donate'" it to the Visiting Nurse asso ciation was pledged at a meeting of the Ad club Wednesday afternoon, fol lowing representations made that the association had expended its resources in fighting the influenza epidemic The money is to be used as a two-year sus taining fund And will allow the association- to continue its work in behalf of Portland's sufferers. . At the conclusion ef the luncheon the club voted , to" sustain the consolidated health .bureau in all its efforts to erad icate the city of the influenza. The contributors and sums pledged at noon follow: Max Hauner $ 1,000 Mrs. A. V. Meier , Mm. S. Frank . '. F. Adamt ......... Jcsrph Simon Drake O Kpilly Mr. and Mrs. A.I L. Mills Flei."-hnfr. Mayeir A o. 500 aoo 501 -50 50O l.OOO 500 ' AOOJPB oue 250 250 500 250 2r. 250 V Thomas Honejrman Blake-McKall Co , Edward Cookinchara Franklin T. tirifhth Ladd KsUte l.OOO Netntadter Bros. 50 Maclry Estate Mrs. Ben SeUine Willamette Iron Steel Works.. AmeayBae Co. Allen at Lewis M. Seller A Co. : . . . Balfour. Guthrie Companj .... Peter Kerr Andrew Porter; 'i H. I Corbett Imperial Hotel ............. Oscar OTerbeck William MacMaster ......... : J. A. Cranston P. A. Nichey C. C. Colt Max Hirsch J. O. Edwards P. A. Spencer Two $100 eoAtribfttions 250 600 250 500 250 250 500 250 500 500 100 100 ioe 100 100 100 100 100 1O0 200 Total .i. a. ....... 113,600 Help Is Hard to Get Journat-"Want', ads will put you in touch with the best there is to be had. a Phone "j jrour 'H c 1 p Wanted" ads to The Jour naL Phones are 'Main 7173 .nd A-6051. $1 200 PLEDGED No More General Delivery Mail Is Distributed From Old AH Departments of Postal Activ ity With Few Exceptions Now Conducted at New Office. Persons who are In the habit of re ceiving their mail at the general deliv ery window will be disappointed if they try to get it at the old postoffice build ing at Fifth and Morrison streets. The general delivery is how being handled exclusively at the new building at Broad way and Hoyt streets, the transfer hav ing been completed. All departments-ef postal activity will , be handled at the new building, although for the conven ience of. the .public, departments of money orders, registered letters, postal savings. War Savings Stamps and pri vate boxes will be retained at . the old building. The task of moving the other offices to the new headquarters will be com pleted in a day or two. Comparative statements of business transacted in some of the ilargest post offices In the country during ; Decem ber, 1918, shows Portland issued more money ordera than many cities with very much greater population. The increase of the local postoffice was about 25 per cent over that of December, 1917. The volume of busi ness was greater than that of Milwau kee, Denver, ylndianapolls, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Kansas City, Mo. AIRPLANE EXPERT BACK IN PORTLAND Major H. B. Oakleaf Returns After 18 Months in Charge of Products Factory. Major H. B. Oakleaf, who left the for est service IS months ago, after 10 years in charge of products, to take over the management of Uncle Sam's airplane products factory and " who '. la one . of , the leading authorities on the materials that should go into the construction of an airplane, returned to Portland a ci vilian this morning. He went away a captain, but on No vember 6 he became a full fledged major. He was discharged from the service a week ago Monday. At his headquarters In Washington, D. C, Major Oakleaf organized an inspection force of COO men trained in inspecting airplane stock. Last July he was sent to Eu rope, where he spent three months study ing airplanes in England, Scotland and France. While in England he was as signed an airplane to deliver in France and thus - he arrived by aerial route across the English Channel in a two seated fighter and bomber. Allies Taught V. 8. Methods English -made airplanes were deliv ered to certain bases near the French coast and taken from there to points on the front where they were needed. At the American products base in Central France he inspected conditions where parts were being assembled and parts repaired which had been damaged. . Major ' Oakleaf compared foreign methods of airplane construction with our own. He taught the allies how to utilize American lumber in constructing machines, for he found the lumber waj not going so far in making planes in Europe as' in the United States. He learned European fnethods which were an improvement over our own. At the big ' airplane inspection depart ment in Washington' the huge corps of trained workers inspected every bit of wood ' that went into airplane con struction, especially the propellers. Commercial Value is Seen That the airplane is to become com monly used for transportation in the near future, especially for mail and commercial deliveries, is the firm opin ion of Major Oakleaf, who looks on this development as a necessity. They have passed the experimental stage, he said, and England is spotted with landing places, so that if a plane is having dif ficulty in the air there is nearly always a safe landing handy. A great deal of the supervision of the war in England was done by airplane, according to Ma jor Oakleaf, men directing work saving time by going by plane rather than by train. Before the airplane can be commonly used, in the United States, he believes, more safe landing places must be estab lished. These will be effected by form ing actual aerial routes, which must be followed instead of flying at haphazard. . Major Oakleaf is accompanied by Mrs. Oakleaf. They are staying at the Mult nomah. Iron Crosses WitH U. S.. Flag Are Taken . . By Webb Miller American Headquarters in Germany, Jan. , 23. (Delayed.) (U. P.) Coblenz dealers have been discovered selling watch fobs made of iron crosses on which were replicas of American, flags. Army officials ; confiscated all these stocks and are seeking the manufac turers. - One retailer has been arrested. Rider to Military. Bill Is Submitted - , . X - Washington, Jan. a 23. it. P.) Sec retary of War Baker today announced that a rider had been sent to congress for-- attachment to the appropriation bill which will . authorise the president to organise 500,000 standing -army. This is a substitute for - the original bill, sidetracked by- the -committee.- Post Office TIES ,l;;fi!l';L Senator Huston's Amendment to Law Regulating Public Utili ties Subject of Stormy Hearing Proposed Amendment Would Rob Public Service Commission of Rate Making Power, Is Charge By A. t Llndbeek SALEM, Jan. 235-The forces or Oregon's public utilities were marshalled in the state capital Wednesday night In defense of the state public service commis sionand incidentally; in their own defense whose very exis tence, they declared, was threat ened by the provisions, of Sena tor Huston's amendment to the, law providing for the regulation of public utilities. Senator Huston's amendment would take away from the commission the power to "alter, change, modify or bet aside any rate previously fixed by a contract between any public utility cor poration end a municipal corporaUon prior to November 7, 1912.". This, the utilities men contend, would practically rob the commission of its ratemaking jurisdiction over existing utilities, while reserving them the power to regulate the service rendered by these utilities. The ratemaking powers under the provisions of this amendment, they claim, would then be vested in the municipalities. Pictures of chaos, of wretched service and of endless litigation in such an event were vividly painted by the utilities men for the benefit of the members of the joint committee on revision of laws who conducted the hearing, on Senator Huston's bin Wednesday night. -j ttiitn pefcsfls Ameaimeat i ", v Although Senator -.Hirston denied that tW bill -wa r-md'trryrtlaxh3kr utility, mention el the Portland Railway, Light & Power company and the recent 6-eent Xare case were frequent, and the presence-of three attorneys representing the Portland utiUty indicated that the (Conelbded on Page Two. Co Jam n Tan) War Heroes Are Given Heartfelt Home Greeting Seattle, Wash., Jan. 23. (X. N. S ) Through stormy, rainswept streets, 1300 veterans of the world war, men who left their homes in Washington, Oregon, Callfornla, Idaho and Montana to fiht for democracy, marched triumphantly here today, while crowds and $ bandd gave a noisy welcome. It was the first contingent of the famous 91st Cwild west) division, the 346th flejd artillery, to arrive home. The men "are en route to Camp Lewis for demobilization. Troop trains started arriving shortly before 8 a. m. and at 30 minute inter vals sections pulled into the Seattle station. Every train load was a hi larious aggregation bubbling with joy at reaching home. Boy Scouts with megaphones heralded the approach of the warriors as they tramped away from the depot, while flowers were showered upon them along the line of march- "The troops were formally welcomed by prominent men of the city at the Hippodrome auditorium. The men are scheduled to .entrain at 1 o'clock this afternoon for Tacoma where another welcome awaits them. Butter Price to Tumble 6 Cents in - Portland Market A drop of another S cents a pound will be made in the price of creamery butter In the Portland market, effective Friday morning. This makes a net de cline of 10 cents a pound within the period of one week. The new wholesale price will be 58 cents a pound in plain wrappers and 59 cents a pound in car tons. Severe drops are also reported in other markets. - The new retail price of the best grade cf creamery butter, beginning Friday will be 65 cents a pound. ROLL OF HONOR In the roll of honor made public today are the name of the following men from the Pacific Northwest: KILLED IN ACTION,- PREVIOUSLY RE PORTED MIS8INQ Idaho PRIVATE MELVIN T. F IK ST AD. emergency addresa Mis. Fredrick Fikatad. Thornton. I DIED OF WOUNDS Idaho CORPORAL FRED DANIELS. , emergency addresa Mr. Fred iMniels. Fseatello, WOUNDED SEVERELY , ; , ' Washington SeroMOt Nat R. Smith. , emergency address Mre. Emma i. Smith. Kelso. Private Melvtn L. Howla, emergency addr?a Mre. May Howie, 731 Sixteenth arenae. Seattle. Prlval Frank NK Mitch a If. emergency ad dres Mrs. Helen Mitchell, Windsor apartment, Seattle. -.-).- v - , . Private Walter W. Radford. N emergency r ad-, dreaa Frank Radford. Bon March, Seattle. - i Private Edward W. Read, emergency address V K Bead. Tekoa. - - ( ,-. - Wsshtnejton '. - '.-- ' Private - ChaHss-HI. Sohular, emergency , ad- aressv. jacoe Bcneier, rnyaiiop. (Conclude os rage' Blxth, -Ooluaia Fire) DEFENSES Italy Looks To Lead Old Of Bewildering Darkness . . , i - i Br John F. Bass Special Cable to The Journal and the Chicago Dally News.- Copyright, 1U1U, by Chicago Daily New Co.) , PARIS, Jan. 231 The league of nations is the subject of the next meeting of. the peace conference. Guglielmo Ferrero, vice president of the Italian committee on the league of nations, gave me the following statement regarding the situ ation in Italy: , . " "The league of nations Is at its beginning in Italy and initiative has been taken by the: young mutilated officers, who wish that their sacri fices shall prove of benefit to the whole of humanity. "We meet with difficulties, especially , in the spirit of imperialism, which, even in Italy, has taken possession of a portion of public opinion. "We are working very energetically and hope to succeed., . "I do not believe that the paroxysm of imperialism can have grave results in Italy or in the other allied countries, provided the ' necessary effort is made to calm public opinion and lead it to a more. exact idea of the situation. "Europe would commit suicide if it did not succeed in getting out of the present situation by a lasting peace. Although the condition of the old world is terrible, I do not yet believe in the suicide of Europe. "Everything that America can do in the pacification of Europe will be of inestimable benefit to the whole of humanity. "GUGLIELMO FERRERO." Northwest to Be Heard on League Of Nations Plans THE issues of world peace will be brought to Portland, Febru ary 16 and 17. In this city will be heard the-voice of the Pacific Northwest as to the project for a league of nations, which President Wilson is supporting at the peace conference, Oregon, 'Washington and Idaho will tend 'delegations to the Portland con ference m-hich has been arranged by the National League to Enforce Peace. This will be ona of nine world peace conven tions held throughout the United States. Other, convention cities are 1ew York, Boston, Chicago. Minneapolis,. San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Mo., and Atlanta. Under a Portland dateline,, the Ijeague to Enforce Peace has released tyday a statement of the convention's purposes to the newspapers of the United States, which in part re ids : . "William H. Taft, president of the league, rw ltf preslds ' and - epsak at-alf nine conventions, ''and wilt take with htm luLhia tour ef the country a group Oti seaksr.w-hteb.Tnil,todud mr? "Ai Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard ; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, formerly xnmtster to the Netherlands; Frank - P. Walsh, formerly Joint chairman of the-war labor board, and JamesW. Gerard, for merly ambassador to uermany. Other speakers for the Individual congresses will bo announced later. Fnrposea Art Set Forth "The purpose of the convention, ac cording to the Invitations issued today, is to 'marshal public opinion behind America's real purpose in the war." which Is defined as the creation at the peace conference of a league of nations to 'Insure the orderly development of the world and preserve peace.' Resolutions along these lines will be adopfed and cabled to Paris and also sent to the senators and representatives of the states represented. The Invitation says: " Will you help in this greatest crisis of history to marshal public opinion be ROYALTIES HIT IN PAVEMENT BILL Fine and Imprisonment Designed for Violation of Lw Against Patented Materials fori Roads. Salem, Jan. 23. A death blow will be dealt to patented 'pavements in this state if the bill Introduced today by Sen ators Thomas and Lachmund becomes a law. These senators .nave stepped Into the shoes of Senator Dimick, who In past session's has' been the introducer of such bills. The bill introduced ! today makes it a felony, punishable by 10 years' impris onment or by $10,000 fine, for any officer, board, commission, council or agent of the" state, county or city, to enter into a contract for the construction or - repair of any street or highway which provides for the use of any material upon which a royalty may be exacted. Another highway bill introduced to day, coming from the senate committee on roads and highways, regulates the exercise of the right of eminent domain by the state through the state highway commission through the county court. The bill authorizes the commission or court to take. possession of the land within the boundaries of any located highway at any time after proceedings have been commenced to acquire title to the land. It also provides that it Is not necessary for an effort to be made to agree with the owner as to the value of the land before condem nation proceedings may be brought in (Concluded on Pas Four. Column Three) Anti-Bolsheviki in Russia Are Gaining Copenhagen. Jan. 23. (I. N. S.) -The anti-Bolshevik movement in Russia is growin. according to Information from Fetrograd and Moscow today. Bolshevikt Take Orenjuirg . Copenhagen, Jan. 23- iL N. ii) Bol shevik forces have capture Orenburg and are ' hampering communication : be tween the. Siberian government and Gen eral'' Denekinos anti-Bolshevik forces. Thirty thousand Ruthenians are besleg- lnr a Polish army" In Lemburg. Light and water have been cut' off from the city- v.- . ' .. , to America World hind America's real purpose in the war? " 'Agreements mads at the peace con ference will for generations to corns vitally affect for good or 111 the eco nomic, political and moral well being of mankind. The creation there of a league of free nations can alone insure the orderly development of the world and preserve peace. To get such a league. President Wilson wisely decided by personal attendance to throw his great Influence on the side of an un selfish and righteous - peace, with a league of nations to safeguard it per petually. " Effect May Be Far Reach la g , "The series, of nins congresses for a league of.naUons will give opportunity for those who won the war, both on and behind the fighting line, to speak their wishes. .Agreement at Paris and- ratifr catlon by the senate may depend on the size and temper of these congresses and carrying out in each stats of the plan of action they adopts VH '" "The eowmittee on - organisation for the northern congress follows : f "Oregon Dr. John H. Boyd, Leslie Butler, Charles H. Carey, Henry I Cor bett. J. A. Churchill. C. S. Jackson, Richard W-. Montague, Porter J. Neff. E. B. Piper.-Ben Selling, Oswald West, James Withycombe,- F. OJ Young. "Washington N. B. Coffmah. N. C. Cowles, Ji J. Donavan, N. C. Durham, William Haworth, J. L. Hughes, Richard Saxe Jones, Bishop Frederick Kestor, Ernest Lister," Dr. S. B; L. Fenfosee, Vr. Henry Sussalo. "Northern Idaho Mark A. Bates, J. V. Buck, Dr. Alexander Cairns, George E. Crum, Harry L. Day, Francis Jenk ins, Frank R. McGrane. Frank L. Moore, Delos Needham, Captain Louis IX Schattner, E. A. Van Slcklln." Lucky Ammunition Train, Which 'Lost One Man, Returns New York, Jan. 23. U. P.) The Fifty-second ammunition train, ''luckiest ammunition train on the fighting front," arrived here today on board the trans port Orizaba. The Fifty-second is made up of Pacific coast men and was trained at Fort McArthur. , "The &2d was the luckiest ammunition train on the fighting front," declared Sergeant Harold Hanson of Los An geles. "Although there was some fierce fighting, we lost only one man. He was a dispatch rider who has been re ported missing." t Among the members of the 6 2d were Dave Dorfma, Portland, Or. ; Major J. Bertolero, Lead City. , S. D. ; John P. Pappadopoulos, San Francisco, and Ser geant Fred Burnworth, Los Angeles. Af.ter two months' training the train went into action and saw fighting at the Argonne and on the Meuse. 90 Per Cent of Employers Willing to Take Soldiers Back -Into Former places More than 90 per cent of the question naires returned by Oregon and Portland employers td Captain J. O. Convill, who is directing the soldiers' and sailors' divi sion of the federal -employment service in this state, declare 'Unqualified readi ness to reemploy an men who enlisted for military service from ' their firms. Without an exception, those who , say they will take back all their former employes who have been fighting! for Uncle Sam, add that the scale of wages or salary will be the same as before they left, or more if the scale, has rises In their absence. f Many of the employers add that Bhey have held themselves in( readiness to) re instate soldiers, and tha't when they em ploy additional men they will give pref erence to returned soldiers and sailors. . The list of such employer is already called the "Honor Roll", at Liberty Temple headquarters - of ' -soldiers' and sailors employment. In a big substan tial pile of returned questionnaires' en Captain Convill'sf desk - this , morning there were but a few - who qualified their readiness to reinstate soldiers and sailors. The ' United States Rubber company Is - ready fo "tajte back three or four of the nine men' that enlisted from the Portland branch of th com- HOOT villi rnp P Success in Winning Point as to Polish Question Forecasts Adoption pf League Program. Decision to Send Mission Fol lows Recommendation of Rus sian Anti-Bolshevik Leader. . .. By John Edwin Kevin PjARIS, Jan. 23. (I. N. ;SJ Re sponsibility of the authors of 4he war and. penalties will bo amory? the first questions consld- ; ered when the plenary session of the peace conference meets again Saturday. 'it" was revealed by arr official communique Issued today. 1 The text of the official com muniques follows: "At today's meeting the members of the supreme council consid- ered ' the agenda of Saturday's plenary session of the conference contemplating the following qucs- ; tions; . . ',' : , "(l)-International labor legis lation ; - j 2) Responsibilities for the war and penalties; (3) Rep aration and damages ; (4) Inter national regimes of ports and ' control of waterways and rail roads.' "The meeting will also study the ma'tter of procedure in set-', tling territorial questions. Mar shal .Foch (the allied 1 generalis- ' simo) and General Diaz (the Ital ian '. bomman'dcr In : chief) and 4 ; Field' Marshal Haig. will attend . ' a metlng of "the Versailles war v council Jtprnorrow." 1, There ls.no hiding the fact that the resolution adopted at the conference re gfyrMlng RushIh will causs a painful Im pression in France, said the Journal today--. '.. - ' "President .Wilson's idea Is grand and I (Concluded ea Paa Kita, Column Four; PROFITEERING BY NORSES ALLEGED Health' Authorities Assert High Fees' Are Being demanded of Many 'Flu' Victims. New influent m reported until iwxrn today SI New influensa, caaaa reported Wednesday. . . ,11" Death reported until noon today. R IcUj reported Wednesday 21 Profiteering by traveling and "prac tical" nurses In connection with the in fluenza wave in Portland is running rampant, according to reports at thn consolidated health bureau of the Red Cross today. Foe a high as $20 a day are charged In. some Instances bv nurses partially or wholly untrained, health authorities assort, and in severs 1 instances nurses have left sever cases of influenza because of refusal of pa tients to pay exorbitant fees. The practice, it was pointed out, is not general, ' but has developed In aggravated forms In many Instances that have reached the knowledge of the health - authorities. In one case a practical. nurse sent to -The DaUes charged $20 a day, health officials declared. The patient refused to pay the high ,f and a compromise at $12 a day was effected. The same nuros returned to Portland, it is related, and I Concluded on pace Fourteen. Column Twol pany. The Peninsula . Iron Works promised to take back as many of their ., 12 enlisted men as they can use. The George Lawrence company stated they would reemploy three or four .men en listing from that company. "What we can . use" was the report of the North Bend Mill it Lumber company as to , reemployment of their 25 enlisted men. The Peerless Tire It Rubber company -reported they had a place for one of the two men who enlisted from their employ. ' In. the list of returned soldiers apply ing for worK Wednesday were: S machinists 1 stenographer s 4 farmers 1 shipping clerk 1 carpenter 1 chauffeur 2 draughtsmen 4 office olrka 1 saw filer 1 talking machine expert. IfloriBt. 3 laborers 1 hotel clerk 1 garage- man . 1 engineer 1 salesman 1 watchman 3 truck drivers 1 driller 1 sheet metal worker1 Captain J. O. Convill before the Fa cial Workers' club Wednesday evening said that returned soldiers do not view In friendly manner the men nho de clined opportunity to fight for ther country and In the absence of enlisted men worked Into better Jobs at better wages. .-;: EDI