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316TH IS
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Boys of Sanitary Train to Num
ber of-450 Cheered All Way
From Station to Liberty Temple
Men Will Leave for Camp Lewis
at V b'Clock Tomorrow Morn
ing; Are to Be Discharged.
v. They're here! Great scott. they're
here! - Pouring into a grand crush
of friends and relatives with the
real old Wild West whoops, the 450
boys of the 316th sanitary and sup
ply train gushed off the special cars
which pulled into the Union station
it S o'clock on schedule time. t
Returning from France, where
they have been since September,
1318, the boys looked in the pink of
4 condition. Theyare nearly all Port
land boys, who went- overseas with
the Ninety-first division and had
been sunder shellfire on several oc
casions, j The contingent Includes
394 men of the 316th sanitary train
, and 66 men of the 316th . supply
tram., - .
They arrived in New . York , on
v April it on the! transport Virginian
and were sent to Camp Upton. The
contingent was made up there . and
eent out on May 2. Having numer
ous delays along the way, the troops
- had a long, hut pleasant, trip across
the country, all of them declaring
that Oregon surpassed every other
state in the warmth of the' recep
tion. . --, , 1 .
AJQJUJpojjiVRT COM51ANPS 0
, . The troop. laxe An - command of
i Major John W. Colbert. Lieutenant
; Robert L. Sabin Jr. well known
-'- Portland young man, who received
h.U commission at the first off leers'
training camp at the Presidio in San
Francisco, was with the -3 1 6th sup pry
train.? He served with the 364th in
fantry, and is traveling as a casual
officer. -
There was scarcely a man who was
without a large circle of relatives
and friends hanging around him and
drinking In his Words, even to t his
gasps for breath.
It dldn t have to be announced
that .the train was pulling into. the
sheds. Out on the river the fire
. boats were shrieking. Then, by
some mysterious thought transmis
sion, the pulses of the waiting home
folk, held outside the gates for
safety, began to palpitate and miss
on all four eyllndf Vs.
On the train afi boys were violating
all safety regulations by trying to get
their full length out ox the windows. As
' the train's little., popcorn whistle an
nounced that It was stopping, the gates
were opened . to the relatives who bad
tickets. - During the next hour the ef
ficiency of ' the small ' trench caps was
demonstrated because the boys could
lean under the new spring hats with per
.feet ease.
BIO RATS ICO BAB
With Campbell's band pouring out the
, savage-breaat balm with a jui that
seemed : Inspired, and with feminine
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Two Billion Must
Be Obtained in 3
Days for the Loan
Washington. May 8. KO. P.) Victory
loan campaigners start after "big
money" today. A total of $2,000,000,000
must be obtained In three days If the
fifth drive is to be a success.
War' loan directors renewed their ap
peal to the committees which have met
their allotments to continue for a lea rue
surplue. It will be need, officials ex
plained, to balance the deficit in some
sections which will fall short. "
18th Engineers to
Come on U. P. Lines
Erte V. Hauaer. manager of the Mult
nomah - hotel, this morning received a
wire from his ; son. Major Kenneth t.
Mauser, that the northwest battalion of
. the 18th railway engineers is leaving
Camp Mills today for Camp Lewis via
Omaha, : Green - River, to - Portland - by
Union Pacific lines on the way to Camp
Lewis. - : . . -
Eeport Skirmishing
1 Near Salgo-Tar jan
Zurich. May 8. (I. N. S.) "Hun
garian communist .troops (opposing the
Roumanians and other allied forces)
have taken up new positions north of
Salgo-Tarjan," said a dispatch from
Budapest today, quoting an official
statement given out there. Skirmishing
la reported. - . , -
ARGONNE HEROES RECEIVE WIHRLWIND RECEPTION
REPRESENTATIVE scenes in the overwhelming reception tendered Portland's own, 450 men of the 316th sanitary train' and
the 316th supply train of; the 81st Wild West division. Upper, the parade up Victory way; left center, Major Carlton Smith
of Salem,'who commanded the 363d field hospital company,? starting. his army career as a first lieutenant; right center,' Ivan
Donaldson arid his small nephew, who assisted in the demonstration; lower. Miss Tressa Rouscher, whose reception of Ross Ta
treau, standing beside her,ycould not be shown, because of the large number of friends Mister Tatreau has, and Evan Ranes and
his pretty )dfe, who were married just before he left for France, surrounded by other members of his family. -
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WMEltDWANTS
FORR-IT RETURNED
Dock Comnllsion Refers Demand
for $25,0v0' Check to City
Attorney LaRoche.
Demand for the return of his certified
check for 825,000. which had been de
poeJted with the public dock commission
by, Roberta Wakefield, former 'successful
bidder on terminal construction work at
St. Johns, was made at today's session
of the commission. ; ' ' , - '
The .. commission had -; declared the
check, forfeited ' aa ' stipulated damages,
because of Wakefield's failure to comply
with the terms of the contract. Wake
field had failed to secure the necessary
bondsmen, aa result of which ..the, bids
w ere. readvertieed and the. contract was
awarded to Elliot l'"Scorgin'ot'ri,brt
landvH ; b .t
: The . demand '; for- the "return i of f
check was- referred to f City- Attorney
LaRoche. : "fr:;?
The commission adopted the eatimt
of 120,000 for the InstallaUoit of the new!
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sprinkling device at the municipal term- j
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Sidelights From ''A
Veterans of 316th
Major John . W. - Colbert. Who' went
over with - the 316th - sanitary train - as
commander of. the 364th ' field, hospital
company, and who is In - command of
the tronp special. Mirtd a year with
the French army before Vie - United
States entered the : war, receiving . the
Belgian crolx de : guerre during that
service. ' He- Joined , the United States
army shortly - after - war was declared,
and made another record for himself,
particularly at the time he was wounded
during" the Lys-Scheldt offensive. - See
ing a . soldier lying severely wounded and
in danger.; of .bleeding to death--unless
help was rushed at once, Major Colburt
dashed out .to him and - saved his life.
The shells 'were falling fast around him
and Just as he was finishing. his JoW a
fragment of one lacerated .-his arms
severely. He -v was In - the ; hospital : for
nearly , two r- months : but - is now well
He was met Portland by Airs. Colbert.
i Mrs. i Cart ton "Smith, twlfe . of M&jor
Smith of Salem, was the .official srepre
sentatlve of Governor Olcott. and .car
ried -her credentials' with.' her. .
.T ' want these boys to 'know they're
welcome." ; she said. ?butJ refuse to
keep them any longer by jiving them
a talk.- Mayor Baker can do that for
the state. -X saw, the boys on the train
d .told them then how glad j we were
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WHEAT PROSPECTS
i NEVER SO BRIGHT
Government ' Reports on Winter
Grain Show Above rfiO Per
" Cent in United States. "
Washington, May 8. -(L N. S.) For
the, first time in the history of the bu
reau,, a condition of more than 100 per
cent for' winter wheat on May 1 -was -reported
-ty thm bureau of crop estimates
this afternoon, i The- estimated promise
js now -900,000,000 bushels, - another - new
record.- , .. : . . . . " . -t
Earlier, expectations :f of J a. minimum
acreageabandonment were confirmed by
the May 1 returns "to the bureau, show
ing only 1.1 loss of acreage from win
ter killing., overflows.; etc. This insig
nificant abandonment results In an acreage-
of jWlnter wheat foe harvest of ; i8,
S3J.000.V helns one third, greater than
last year and 62 per "cent above, the. pre
war, five-year average of about; 30.000,
000 acreac;;';'.."-: -- - ? . .-
The indicated increase in forecast pro
duction over the April I promise is about
63.000,000 bushels and the present prom
ise of around 900,000,000 will, if received
T.w,.-...C,,d, IWr"r." Cohnna.SMral
The refusal of Dr. J. Francis Drake,-
chairman of the school - board, to call a
meeting of .the board -to consider the J
B. Kerr- resolutions adopted at the meet
ing -of the Committee of One Hundred
on School - Affairs, leaves the teachers'
salary Increase measure before the vot
ers at Saturday's -school election clear
and unclouded.
- This Issue, briefly stated, is : "Shall
the school teachers - of the Portland
.schools be given an increase in ; salary
during the .1920 school year totalling In
the aggregate 1531.000 T
The voters, when they go to the polls
on Saturday afternoon, will , have that
question, and that alone, before them for
their consideration. " If they believe that
the salaries' paid Portland school teach
ers are too low and should -be increased
to meet mounting living costs, then they
will v6te "yes." If they believe that the
salaries should, not be. increased, then
they wiu vqte '"no." , , ,
AT -DI8CBETIOX OF BOARD -
' The . apportionment of this ' proposed
Increase of 8531,000.' is a matter for. the
school board ..to determine between, now
and September, next 'when ; the. coming
school year begina When the teachers
asked the board to submit their ; prop
osition for an aggregate ineesase of 30
per cent in the budget ta the voters, it
was written into the request that the ap
portionment of the total sum.' if given by
the electorate, should be made at the dis
cretion of the board. The wording of
the petition' presented; to the. board was
as .follows. . so, far' as the apportionment
Is concerned; . . ,
"It Is also' urged by the committee that
this election be held at the earliest date
possible under the law, end in any event
prior to that of the election for the 83.
OOO.000 bond Issue. . The apportionment of
this increase of salaries Is to be made at
the discretion of the board." - .;
This,, it. is contended bjr the teachers,
disposes of the supposition that a flat
Increase of-SO per cent would be given to
the individual as now paid, thus granting
larger increases to the high paid teachers
and. inadequate increases to those at the
bottom of the salary- list. ' The board, un
der, the conditions of the call fpr the sub
mission, of the increase measure, would
have authority to make any distribution
of the total - that would seem ' equitable
"and JustJi .'i.,:.; .: .
OPF08E COXFROM1SE r "
Leaders of the teachers ''organisation
take the position that they do net desire
the school board to consider the -Kerr
resolution, which would pledge the board
to use no more than 8200,000 of the SS31,
000 which the , teachers are asking, and
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Dramatic Scene at Versailles
When Germans Are Admitted
to Peace Table; Allies Bored.
Long Address by Count Brock
dorff Translated Sentence by
Sentence by Berlin Attache.
By Fred S. Ferguson
Versailles, May 8. Humiliation.
defefrt, tragedy all the darker emo
tions possible to human expression
-then obsequious'admission of their
wrongs, -and finally defiance and
claims "of a place as equals. That
represents -.the range of the Ger
mans' emotions in their first appear
anco at Versailles since 1871.
Deepest silence reigned in the con
ference room' at theTrianon Palace
hotel after the allied delegates had
been seated.
As the doors opened, signalling
the approach of the enemy repre
sentatives, an usher, resplendent in
-a blue uniform, preceded them and
cried:
"Messieurs les plenipotentaires de
rAllgemain."
FACE ASHEN WHITE
Count Brockdorff-Ranttau, his
race ashen-white and his eyes
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Orr WilliamsOTi Testifies in Be-r
half of Defendant, Ruth
Garrison. r
" Seattle, May, 8. (U. P.) Insanity ex
perts lnbehalf of Ruth Garrison, slayer
of Mrs. Grace Storrs, were scheduled to
take the witness stand and resume testi
mony this; morning. The defense fired,
its first broadside late Wednesday after
noon when Dr. W. T. Williamson, alien
ist of Portland. Or.., asserted that Ruth
Garrison was not: "morally responsi
ble" on the afternoon of March 18,
when she stirred the death potion fori
the wife of the man she loved.
One of two other experts, or perhaps
both, will be called this morning Dr.
Frank T. Wilt ot Seattle, and Dr. Wal
ter Vose Gullck of Tacoma, It Is ex
pected that they will emphasise the
conclusions advanced by Dr. William
son Wednesday afternoon. Fitted
against the experts for the defense will
be Dr. - Donald A. Nicholson of Seattle.
He will be the bludgeon with which the
state hopes to shatter the expert testi
mony for the defense. Dr. Nicholson
and Dr. Williamson have appeared as
alienists . In .. many Important - murder
trials on the Pacific coast, sometimes
as witnesses for the same accused crim
inal and sometimes opposed to each
other as In the present trial.
It Is expected that the . experts wilt
bold the stage for all of today and a
part of Friday, although it may happen
that the defense wilt rest late this after
noon. - :.
I. W. W. Lays Plans
For Soviet Councils
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Chicago, May 8.-U. P.) Plans were
being made by the national convention
of the I. W. W. here today to Organize
series of councils similar to the Soviets
of Russia, according to Abner Wood
ruff. JCew York chairman of the con
vention. Woodruff said the soviet sys
tem of representation is basically sound
and truly representative. He pointed
out that each trade and profession,
through its council, can resent its de
mands intelligently through the knowl
edge of the needs of its own particular
class of work. ' " ' ":
Predict Price of
Coffee to Double
Chicago. May 8. (U. P.) After July
1 " the coffee hound ;, will . have to pay
about double for his Java tipple. ' This
prediction was made here today by John
W. Olson, president of the Retail Tea
aV Coffee Dealers association., who said
increased demand . due to prohibition
and frosts to coffee In Brazil will force
the better grade coffees up 100 per cent.
Senate Members -.
To Confer May 17
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, Washington, May- 8 (I.. N. 8.) Sen
ate members were today summoned for
an organisation conference Saturday,
May 17. two days before opening of the
special session of congress. - The call
was sent out by Senator Martin of Vir
ginia, the minority leader. ,
FflTFRS
SAYS GIRL SLAYER
BULLETINSl
TREATY IS BEING TRANSIiATED
Berlin, via London, May 8. (I. N.
S.) Translation of the peace treaty
terms Into German will begin at the
foreign office tomorrow under , Dr.
von. Svenson. i
Fifteen translators will be em
ployed to speed up the work. . . ..4 .
The. peace committee of the na
tional assembly met last night, when
President Ebert informed the mem
bers that the treaty had been turned
over to the Germans at Versailles.
German commissioners will be ap
pointed to raise funds for payments
which the government will be called
upon to make. ; ;
"AS INTOrEKABIiE OUTIlAGl!:'
Paris, May 8. (1, N. &)-r'Count
von Brockdorff-Rantrau's reply to
Premier , Clemenceau at the plenary
session of the peace conference at
Versailles was an amazing piece Of
effrontery and was delivered with
studied insolence and contemptuous
ness," said the Paris edition of the
London Daily "Mail today, in com
menting upon it. "The German for
eign minister remained seated while
speaking, and it was stated he was
in ill-health, but the allied delegates
upon leaving the hall called his ac
tion an intolerable outrage."
KOIiCHAK GOVERNMENT GAINS
, Washington. May 8. (I. N. 8.)
The provisional government at Arch
angel haj acknowledged the Kolchak
government at Omsk as the pro
visional national government of Rus
sia, the state department announced
today; Formal consolidation of the
two governments will follow. The
recognition of the Kolchak-government
by Archangel makes the Omsk
all-Russian government practically
supreme in Siberia, it was explained.
PARIS BECOMES PESSIMISTIC
Paris, May 8. -"The Germans will
never sign," was the expression heard
from many lips in Paris today, fol
lowing publication of the treaty draft
and . Brockdorf f -Rantzau's speech at
Versailles.. The- reason for the in
creased pessimism Is believed to' be!
the culminating, effect f ssWg' all
parts of the treaty together, whereas
earlier-opinion-- were- based on- par-'
ticular sections of which various
men had personal knowledge; -
AUSTRIAN DELEGATION ON WAV
Pariik-tMay',.- I.N, ;&)The
Austrian peace delegation, number
ing 30, is expected to arrive here from
Vienna tomorrow. t; The French for
eign office was' Informed ? that the
foreign envoys left Vienna on a spe
cial train."
BELGIUM MAKES . OBJECTIONS
.London, May 8. (I. ,N, 8.) Bel
gium strongly protests against, the
decision of the big three : to make
German East Africa a British man
datory, said Paris dispatches to the
London papers today..
DEMONSTRATIONS EXPECTED
London. May 8. (L N. S.) Dem
onstrations of hostility-against - the
American commission in Berlin are
feared when the terms of the' peace
treaty are made public, said a dis
patch from Berlin today, filed before
the treaty- summary had been pub
lished there.
Mrs. Housewife Is,
Offered Chance to
Throttle H. C. L.
t Here's a tip for Mrs. Housewife-to
down the high cost of living for a while,
at least"! The market is loaded with
liberal stocks of fancy quality fish such
as red cod or red snappers, llngcod and
perch and there is a growing supply of
Columbia river shad. ' These are i be
ing offered to the retail trade to enable
it to sell to the consumer around 10c a
pound. . . f
i Fish men say the public does not
really . want to buy low priced food
products because It Is centering its de
mand upon halibut and salmon, thereby
causing a shortage and high prices in
those lines while the cheaper priced fish
of Just as good quality can hardly - be
sold at any price.
Chinese Students in
J apan Display, Anger
Tokio. Iay 8. U- F. Angered at
the award of Shantung, peninsula to
Japan, hundreds of Chinese students
rioted In the Chinese 1 legation, which
they threatened to burn. : They visited
the American embassy and other foreign
diplomatic , buildings. Calls for Amer
ican Ambassador Morris to address the
students were unheeded. Several ar
rests were made. - r-.--' v "
Grievances Taken ;:
Up at donference
i 8L Louis. May 8-Charges that West
Point officers have attmntd . i. itimiw.
ate other officers was one of the sub
jects expected , to .break Its way into
the first caucus of the American Lesion
here late today. It was also expected to
take up J the charges of hurtful condi
tions In 'American cantonments over
seas, particularly at Ereat, rrs ce.
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Three Big Planes Leave Reck
away on First Leg of Journey
to Take Them Over Atlantic.
Aunt of Lieutenant Barin i
Starting Point to Wish Her
Nephew Goodbye; Fly
Hi-h.
Bar Harbor, Maine, May 8. (I. N.
S.) NC-4, one of threetnaval sea
planes in the transatlantic flight, has
overcome her oil trouble and will
not have to abandon the air voyage
from Rockaway Beach, L. I., to Hal
ifax. ' From a point 40 miles south
of Cape Race the NC-4 reported by
radio at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon
that she could proceed with three
motors, which . were running per
fectly. Washington. May 8. I. N. S.)
The " NC-4,. one of the three navy
planes which today started the first
leg of a transatlantic flight, may
have to land because of oil trouble,
tho navy department announced thU
afternoon. This message from the
plane was picked up at Bar Harbor:
"Got a bearing of 66, but don't
know our compass course. Running
on three motors. Oil trouble on one.
May have to land."
The . message was rlgned, "Read,
NC-4.'; ' ' , ', .
Newport, R. I., May 8.-(I. N. S.)
lnited f States V naval seaplane
NC-4 . was leading her sister plane,
the NC-t and the NC:4. at 1
O'clocltthl afternoon on the first
leg of " the transatlantic air race
from .Rockaway Beach. L. I., to
Halifax.. N. 8. The NC-4 was the
second plane to leave Rockaway.
The NC-8. which "hopped- off"
Long Island first, was second in line
at 1 p. m. She Was closely followed
by the NC-1. At 1 o'clock the
three planes were .reported over
Block Island Sound.
' Radio messages from the planes to
the United States destroyers follow-
ing. the .overseas flyers were inter
cepted at the government radio sta
tion' here. ; One message said the
three planes had risen to a height
of approximately 2000 feet over the
water. Radio operators aboard t"ia
aircraft reported the planes were
baking good progress through the
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LEWIS IS WANTED
BY CLARKE COlii!'
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Sheriff Goes to The , pallcs In
' Effort to Have Elder Bandit
Brother Returned. ;
Vancouver, Wash., May 8, To mak
an effort to get Adolph Lewis, the eldrr
brother of the two involved in the Clarke
County bank holdup at Washougal, for
trial In Clarke county on a cherce f
hank robbery. Sheriff George M. John
son left this morning for- The Dallas.
Hope of having Edward Primrose, tho
third robber, returned Is slight as it is
expected he will be held to answer to
a-murder charge in-The Dalles for t
killing of Chief of Police Gibons Wed
nesday, f ; ,
A Vancouver posse, under Deputy
Sheriff Lawn, is seeking Max Le Is.
the younger of the brothers. In - the
woods near Cape Horn. No word hss
been ' received this morning 'from the
posse. No definite news of Max Lewis
has been gained since he was last seen
on Tuesday 'night, when it. Is thoueht
he was shot In the hip by J. A. Mc-
Cullough of Camas.
BAWB1T TO FACK CHARGES OF
MCBDER FOB KILLING OFFICKTJ
The Dalles, May I. Chief of Police
Ralph Gibons of this city was shot and
killed at about 11 o'clock Wednesday
morning by Edward Primrose, leader of
the trio of bandits who robbed the bank
at Washougal Monday.- Primrose - an1
his partner, Dolph Lewis, were after
ward captured In this city, and lodged in
Jail on a charge of murder. They hav
(Continued oa Psc Tvntr-fi. Cotama ri")
Wilson Guest of
' French at Race
Paris. May 8-(L K. S.) President
Wilson was the guest of the French re
public, at the Loncchamps race tl s
afternoon." In tendering- the tnvitat.
President Polncare exrU-lned that all t?
the officials of the French goverr-.t t
we;'! fce there.-
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