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PRICE TWO CENTS, S7,w?iCDi!VJ
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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-
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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. .-;:
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