BU Y : THE ; JQURN; 'SFOJSLT -l PpRTLAND,: .OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 119X9. TWENTY-TWO PACES.' .PRICE TTWO CENTS , v llS0 il w.. " ..... vy, rtwtontca, rortund. - Oregon. GREET1S EXTENDED VETERAHS . Tr Major," Hauser and. Oregon Men " Who Built Army Railroads in France Receive Big Reception. Men Are the Guests of Citizens Today and Tonight Will Be Entertained by Dancing Party. - With the handsome shine of ihelr . bronzed faces in the .sunlight only brokenlby a.-broad; expanse -of grrln, those old construction liounds, the boys of Companies U. -K and I'! of the rciyhteenth engrfneers. railway, piled off their special train at the Union station at 12:50. All shaved and spruced up for the day to which they had been looking; forward since they left homein August, 1917, the 43$ numbers of the regiment from the Northwest made one wonder how Germany "eveV" dared "start a flht. : The: boys are home with ' service stripes that indicate a year and a half of steady service abroad, and home with a grand record. From lieutenant -Colonel George M. Rice of 'Seattle, the senior officer on the I ram, aown lo me mosi incenspiuu- i ous buck privater they all have - something to be proud ; of. They didnl see the battle scenes, the rea son being that they were mo wonder fully efficient as, builders, that' they : couldn't be spared; x 4 .. t' . ' With every man of them aching to get to the front, they received orders on three separate occasions to -advance -here tbey- would, have been assigned to dtvifliontt- In each ae, however, the fr'rencH military authorities upecially re-"-nested tfcat . they vbe left where , they Herfteaoserthy were doinK-eeaentiat '..work that no other unit was able ter do; The rejtiment sailed for France in Ansnstt 1917. moat of the western men t leavlrg from. Camp"" lwl. They wefe among the first 50.000 American .troops to -land. They pitched right ' into . the - game and built . marvelous docks at . Bordeaux, and storage and classification yards at St. Sulpice. 'They, put, the lat ; est American docking facilities in at ,MarseiUs and lARocheile. " There was no- hesitation . about their - Avork because a man was -always to be found who bad done the very thing re quired, and had done it well. During all their time overseas, " the "waiting home folk and the boys, too, .. had one big idea in mind- the day they were to come. home. Those who were at the station, where they had to wait an hour for the train to pull in, couldn't (Concluded oa Page Flu, Column Three) MEN OF EIGHTEENTH WHO RETURNED TODAY following "af the names and addresses of the . Orepon personnel of the Kighteenth euslneers : John Hartley, Portland. Kmery B. Iamont Forest Grove. Jo&eph I. McAllister. Salem - harles O. Staley, Forest Orove. William M. Strohmeyer, Oregon City. " Ray O. Yeast. Portland. Reed H. Alexander. The, Dalles. , Henry .Agnes, Lel&nd. - K. J. Austin. Albany. (2lenn L. Betts, The Dalles. James C. Collins, Portland. "Krnest E; ' Ferguson. Marsfifield. . ' - Kenneth Martin, Portland. 'Donald R McMicken. Portland. Roy F. Parker,, Portland., Henry A. Oldenstadt. Sherwood. Mike Salatino, Portland. William Bichan, Portland. Andrew J. Bollons. Ia Grande. Fred S. Cass, Portland. John H. Chatterton. Portland. Clarence H. Coe. Newberg. Mace Delane. Astoria. - Glenn I. Dirrlm. Portland, Alex Donaldson Jr. Portland. Esper K. Kp person. ' Portland. ' Kirril Evaneov, Portland. Charles A. Evans, Newberg. Teonard R. Gower. Newberg. William At. Uner, Portland. Harvey K. Hoffman, PortlancJe Lsiie r. Hornoay. juuuno. Kenneth Honeyman, Portland. Alva R. Hucklns, Portland. Eugene C. Hughes, Forest Grove. Frank B. Huelat. Portland. ; Charles -W. Irvine, Portland. Victor 1. Johnson. Manranita. . Harold V, Judd. Forest Grove. Frank A. Kemp, Portland, Richard H. Knapp, Portland." Clellan W. Kretser,' Portland. Wade V.. Lewis. Portland. Edward 'B. Loken, Harrisburg. Jerry R. Manning, Portland. Edgar R. Itfarkham, Portland. . Thomas L. Monteith. Portland. .David J7 Murdock. Portland, i Earl N, Mumahan, Portland. . Henry Maecaffrey. La Grande. William M. McAlister, Lexington. Arthur R. McConnaughey, Portland. John -ft.-' McDonald.. Newberg. tCooehtded on Pan Two,' Column Two) American Quarrymen Reported Killed - in E)losion in France Dijon, "France, May 13.- (U. P.) Sev eral American quarrymen were killed , and a dozen injured in a dynamite ex ; plosion at Is-Sur-Tille. it was reported today, r V - - - . Is-Sur-Tille is 10 miles north of Dijon ajid" f mies south of Chaumant. 7 777 f i "' ' 7 '; ' " ' r v ''i- 7?77 REMARKABLE PICTURES OF AMERICAN AIR RACERS AT SEA rriHESE Wonderful photographs were made, of thefgiant naval! seaplane' N C-4; while 60 miles at sea, from . the F-5, a smaller - I airplane, "while the plane were ;n" their way from Rockaway, ncar Ncw York, to Halifax. ; The NC-4 later developed trouble with her oil pump and was forced to descend at Chatham, Mass., whence she will continue her flight to Halifax and across 'th&''fAtianti&tf:y f ;,v , .,-..7771.,- -, ; 7 "lii "-r " 7 ;' , '" ;.7; : ' ; 7 ' " 1 ; , t - - ? - y f (; SSS . 1 v v m ; ". f; , . -rn '' - ,ll I ! '- 7 7 . : 77 ' - z ' ' ' i, t " T , "-s' - Is ' ' '' I ' . H1 I M- ---i; - f,-7 - - --J J , ) -j . , I' I 'M V iT r 7 ri lrrr ' ; U m i n - ?cv;7'77'v IB MILL LEVY AND. If 1: $1,657,000 ASKED I City .Improvements i Needed, Say Commissioners; Vote Tax arid ? Bonds June .3. Ten -mm tax levy. Bond 'Issue totaling" t!,57,OOa: " ' ? Annexation of strip of property the peninsula.' . 4 -7V"" ;rchange in .plan itreet. Thf-se are the measurps for which the people of Portland wl'l be asked to snvm authority at the special municipal elec tion on Jnne 8 as decided at7 a special meeting of the city council Monday afternoon. : - r . Te ten mill tax levy is necessary commissioners 'declare. because of -increased expenses in conducting the city's business and to meet the cost of addi tions to departments now operating rader-manned. MORE ' EMPLOYES HEEDED That the city is now- paying much smaller ' salaries than private corpora tions was the contention of commis sioners who believe that added remuner ation, is essential to assure loyalty and efficiency among employes. Additional employes are necessary In several city departments, commissioners declare v such as the street cleaning, police, and fire bureaus.- - The street cleaning department is operating with a shortage of approxi mately 40 men at present, according to Commissioner Bigelow. and Mayor -Baker asks for a larger police force to combat crime. The tax levy ' in peace times is limited to eight mills, although the city has been allowed an extra milt during the war period and . will have BOND ISSUES SOUGHT Bond issues- for $1.S5?,K8-are. asked, divided, asLfoUows : : Fly, huhdred;. thou sand dollars for playgrounds and parks in the central east aide. Albina, Lents, St. Johns,, Alberta." Irvmgtoh and Rose City Park districts : 27.0W for "com munity houses, comfort stations, and im provements to parks' $80,000 for a new police telephone system ; $100,000 fof a sub-police station j on the east side; $200,000 for eight new fire stations, two f ireboat -piers, - and ; two houses for fire boat crews.. and $250,000 for remodeling of the city halU including two additional wings and Installation of vaults. . Of the total Issue. .Mayor . Baker requires $1. 207,000. Commissioner Perkins $260,000. and Commissioner Bigelow $2C0.OO0. Two measure's are presented by Com missioner , Barbur. "although .no bond issue is., required. One is ; to. authorize the city to annex property, belonging to the Peninsula-Lumber- company, -which is within the corporate limits, but has never . been . included as city' property. The other is to allow the city to-change its present plan of extending itrMti. Vhich is declared to be too complicated. Labor Chiefs Take : Up National Issues New York. May 13. (U. P.) Import ant labor issues faced the executive com mittee of the American Federation -of Labor at its meeting with President Samuel Compere of the federation here today. Compere, recovering from se rious injuries sustained in - 'recent au tomobile accident, expected-, to partici pate in the entire meeting. Labor's stand toward reconstruction, railroads and national and International issues at the coming convention of the federation were to be considered. League Features Held Impossible , By Popular Party Rome, May : 13.-7L N. a) The pop ular party, which Is . controlled from the Vatican, went on record today with the assertion that compulsory arbitra tion - and -disarmament .are impossible. , Compulsory arbitration and partial disarmament . are , the two leading fea ture of the League of Nations. - - : j.r . 7.'7:7u:7 r -i -I ...;;CV lr I ; I !. .... ;. i a ef Mtending , olty 1 JT L ; 7 t ' li I -.-:r7W1; v : GRAIN LEVATOR ' WPS ARRIVE IN THREATENED. LOSS LA GRANDE TONIGHT ' ? fi . 1 . i i -:.... Workmen Race" With Soft tarthJStop-Over-Granted Men of 117th To Keep $2,000,000 St. Johns .Structure From Sinking. , An investment of nearly-$2,000,000 In public funds' made "by the dock- com mission at the St. Johns terminal; hangs in the"' balancer; while the commission strives to stop the subsidence of ; the 1.000,000-bushel concrete grain elevator built there. ,,.,. . ' . . , "r In urgent race with yielding earth, piling ar being driven at the northwest corner of the .elevator.: the' work being rdone experimentally but with the hope that by" pinching the earth between the building -and "the pilings further settling will be prevented. The first expense .incurred by the dock commission at'the St. Johns terminal was $137,000 for the'153-acre site. ..j The grain . elevator, . tor date, has cost, including- its equipment. $839,163.88. Pier Nol 1 'at'the'St: Johns terroinaK erected for use hi, connection with the grain elevator, represents a bill of. $559, 485.84 for building and equipment. A contract has Just been' let for the extension of this pier at a cost of $66,-226.70.- . Likewise a contract has been let by Lthe dock; commission for the construc tion oi iter iso, s me oi. juuui terminal at-a cost of $263,052.50. The eicivatlort of Slip No. 1 at the St. Johns terminal represented ; an expense of $64,739.01. which amount was paid to the Port of Portland. : The ""shore work necessary - in connec tion with the f tiling! of the site at' the St. Johns terminal cost $63,891.86. The site was , filled ' to an elevation of 36 feet abovfr low water, the- Port of Port land '.commission' having, "furnished' .the material incident to . the dredgi ng bf a basin In-front of the terminal eite . The port commission had not available this morning i figures sbo-wtngilie cost s of areagmg wwrnn,. we amount naving been charged to channel work, but there is " a spaffe -af - about . a thousand feet between the terminal site 'and the chan nel proper which was "deepened to 10 feet7T ii'-i.7?r' if i .$ Work on. the construction of the grain- elevator ; has . been suspended ' awaiting meat., will Jbe . In, .the- party, ' headed, by the resulfof the 'efforts to stop Its sub- i Colonel R. D. -YenTiey. :r s : sidence. but the' dock, commission has J Several of the of ficers Of the unit have decided 'togo-ahead, wtth.thfi piers..- (already,returned to. Portland - ' - .,"7 ' v 4- ' -7 - I Sanitary Train to See Old '. Home Town. - S ',. .' 1' 4 ' Three hundred ' and forty -eight Xorthwestern soldiers, bound ort the last lap of their journey' from overseas to Camp Lewis -to receive their dis cbarges, are-due to arrive In La. Grande tonight at II o'clock, where - two' cars containing a La Grande company of 72 boys from the 117th sanitary, train will be given a stop over' of 24 hours. S: ,, ', ;The remainder of the special train of soldiers 276 men w'lll proceed toPot land, arriving here at 10 a. m. Wednes day. These men are members, of casual company. 468 and were believd"vuntJt today to be a part of the 117th sanitary train. Information ired the O-WJl. & N. this morning pr6ved that th ma jority of the men were from the- casual company. The sanitary train men will not arrive in Portland until Thursday morning., " " ; ' General Passenger Agent William Mc Murray of the'O-W. R. & N. received the information this morning that the 100 men attachment unknown who were to have arrived In Portland Wednesday morning are to -be diverted . over the Great Northern through Spokane. They are expected to arrive at Huntingdon at 6:45 o'clock tonight. It was also learned that they are members of the headquarters troop, of the First army corps. " ' 1 Message Says Base Hospital to Leave Tor West Thursday .... .. .. -,. . ,- .. 1 -7-. ' That Base Hospital 46 would be leav ing , Camp Werritt - Thursday . for de mobilisation at Camp- Lewtst-was ' the word received today by Mrs. - J. Gold- f smith In a telegram from her son, Ser geant . Herbert Goldsmith, a member' of the unit.. -s - -i-v ..-i., Similar,' messages have been received from other members of the contingent. It-ta understood that the entire comple- ADVERSE WEATHER DELAYS SEAPLANES Both Provided With ' Fuel and -. . j Ready for Jump-Off "When Bad News Comes. . Lisbon, May 13 U. P.) The Portu guese government has authorised land ing of American seaplanes, in the Azores and at Lisbon, it was announced today, following parleys which -have lasted a month. . ' ' - i ' r . Trepassy. K., May- Ifc-H(I.riC-"&.f Receipt of reports of unsettled, weather r. 1 ever the Atlantic made H appear proba- fcThls has been- particularly true of the W7ife?rtW thwii' .eafdtairtait wuntrieg and certaln.Brlt-- can rhat-al seaplauenvould hot .jump off tn 'tfieFiTIBOcifc ViTflHnr'lOdayv-It; tfow appears likely that Commander Towers, "admiral" ?of the filers will await ihe arrival. of the! NCi-4; so thatvfhi -jump off" to the A sores may be made.by'hla complete squadron of three- planes. ' The NC-4 ' IsV reported in' readiness for her hop" from. Chatham, Mass., awaiting favorable weather. " Both planes were provided, with fuel and in readiness for the start when the adverse weather reports, came in today. Local weather- conditions were- ideal at the time the men' retired laattnight and they were -much disappointed 4his morn ing over the poslbUity that they would have to. wait at least another day. . If the. noon reports show an improvement in the mid-Atlantic; the planes may hop off, this afternoon ort just before sunset this evening, taking advantage or tne full moon due" to appear, at midnight. WARSHIPS TO MAKE ROCTE ..Only one man In the group of Ameri can flyers, confessed that he was pot eager to make the start today because the date is the 13th. . . The American warships and destroyers which will help mark the route fosthe seaplanes en route tn the A sores have taken up their stations and are now pending In weather report. This ' In formation front all the way across the ocean Is being augmented by local re ports and Information gained by sending iin test balloons several thousand feet. 1 ' The mitnn t full Werinearfav aft er midnight? -which is significant, for as far back as February the start was scheduled from here at the first full moon of the month, of May.' - Official orders dated April 15 read : ,,. - - lt is desired to start from Trepassy on May 14, but If planes are ready- and the weather is exceptionally favorable, the start may be made any day after May 10, departure at sunset," ' , . The aviators are intensely proud that since the flight was planned the schedule- has been adhered to strictly. Every delay so far recorded has been allowed for and even the ' separation of one or more planes from the air flotilla had been foreseen. TR7rq,FLI.OW pbogbam Commanders Towers and Bellinger and the crews are determined to put the project, through on time in a thoroughly American fashion, with all the ' world. Including St. Johns and visiting " aviat ors,, looking on. Destroyers are all at their, posts flashing information about the weather to the warship group commanders and thence to the steamship Aroostook reg ularly. - The instructions call for a flight to gether at an altitude between 1000 and 2000 feet, but they may climb 5000 feet if the weather make it advisable. The course is direct between Mistaken Point here and Cervo, A sores, in 20 hours (Concluded oa Face 8tm. Cohuna Three) Portland Man Dies " In St. Paul Hotel St. Paul, lrfinn'May 13. U. P.) A man registered as R. EL Cox, Portland, Or died of apoplexy shortly after en tering hie room at a local hotel. A rail road ticket Indicated he had just come from Portland..'."-. Allied Control ih etrograd Imminent ' i ' " ' s , ti j-y - Stockholm, Way 13. (I. N. S.) Petro grad - Is expected to fall to the allied forces - within a ' few days, - said - a die patch . from Helslngfore today. ( , PRESIDED ACTS FOR SHIPYARDS Ban of Acceptance of Foreign Contracts PartiaHy Lifted to - Take Effect Immediately. Western Yards Will Especially Benefit Under Order of Ex- ectitive, Is View of Hurley. Washington. May 13. (U. P.) President AVilson has partially, lifted the ban against American shipyards accepting foreign contracts. This was announced today by Sec retary Tumulty5, who said: "Upon. the suggestion of Chair man Hurley, of the United States 'shipping board; the president has taken action thaf will permit Amer ican shipyards to accept foreign contracts so far as that can be done without interfering with th'e build ing program for American registry." MORE WORK I3T YARDS Lifting of the order ' against accept ance of foreign contracts will mean more work for American shipyards, it was pointed out, with improvement of the unemployment situation reported in some yards. i Pacific coast ' shipbuilders In particu lar have been insistent that' they be allowed to accept foreign . contract.' The president's order lifting the em bargo on foreign ship orders is effective immediately. , , " The shipping board within the ' last few months - has many ' requests - from foreign countries' for permission to let contracts, with American shipbuilders.-' trixniiiiip4npn . . iah Interests. kindly- toward the- Scandinavians, who chartered, their ships to - lite, .shipping board when the United mates, waft hard pressed for totmag during- the.war.". i , -Shipping board-officials felt also that the removal of the ' ban against foreign trade would ; considerably diminish agi tation -in the . shipyards which eventu ally would have led to labor i unrest. It - was pointed out .that thousands - of men. drqwn to the . shipyards by the high war: wages would soon have been thrown 'out of work unless additional contracts , were made available. WAITIJT-C1 OS CONGRESS 7 The, shipping board's building pro. ; gram is not yet definitely decided upon. nor will it be until congress acts. Now, that the yards, can, upon rec ommendation of Chairman Hurley, ac cept foreign orders, the whole situation will be smoothed out generally, offi cials believed. - Hurley . will have the final decision as to when and where foreign contracts may be placed. ; Announcement by Secretary- Tumulty to the effect that President Wilson had taken., action to permit American ship yards to V'lild steel vessels for foreign account, wiif be of great Interest to the steel yards ' t Portland, officials Kay. " It has been evefal months since Port land yards ob.oined offers of contracts 'with foreign builders, however, and as ' nothing could be -.done in the matter at that time, it wl 5 nor be -necessary to enter new negotia." vj. it Is said.- - The builders claim that it will re quire three or four months to assemble materials and prepare plans. In the meantime, the work of building ships for the government 4s rapidly ap proaching the end in the Or egor dis trict, -several ways are already vacant. : and by. October the entire program will bave been finished. ... . . ' Building for foreign account would, however; yard owners Bay,-enable the Industries to continue and, what Is more important. It is- hoped that these con tracts tan be started before the- yards lose their Industrial organization after the present program is finished. BUTTERFAT GOES UP 4C; BUTTER 2C Orders From Europe For Ten Cars of Butter From Coast : ' .Send Prices Upward. Europe is so short of butter that her buyers are Invading the Pacific coast for supplies.' ' f Direct offers' for at least 10 carloads of Pacific coast creamery butter have been received by the trade and this has caused intense excitement in all ' mar kets of Oregon.. Washington and Cali fornia, r . . , r- ; While, some supplies of Pacific coast butter have been indirectly sold to Eng land, this is the first time within 'the history of the trade here that direct orders have been offered.; ? ., So excited was the .local trade ' that an advance of 2 cents a $oun4 has been quoted in the price of 1utter here for l Wednesday morning. Further advances are likely and expected In view of the fact that butterfat has . become so eagerly f sought that it has advanced 4 cents a . Pound within 24 hours and butter as yet has advanced only half that sum. . Edith Cavell Is Carried Home by English; Funeral In Westminster Body of Murdered Nurse Is Re- ; moved From Brussels; War 1 ; ship In Waiting. V 7 4 - Brussels, May " 13: (U.. P.) Escorted by honor guards of British and Belgian troops, the remains of Edith Cavell,, the heroic English nurse murdered by the Germans, were removed today from the city where she" faced "a firing : squM in 1915. . - . . . - , , The heavy casket containing the body recovered from the graveyard where the Germans had rudely Interred . H, was placed on a gun carriage, draped in the Union Jack of Great Britain. The troops both preceded and followed the cortege. There were many bands and thousands of silent spectators uncovered as the first notes of the dirge sounded through the streets that had seen the Germans strut as conquerors in 1914. rule as con querora four years and .slink away de feated in 1918- .... The procession passed slowly through the boulevards, the way being lined by thousands of people, ' Including many soldiers in uniform. Flags new at half mast. At the railway station the .funeral service of - the -Church of England was read by the Rev. Mr. Hlgahan, who (Concluded on Tub Seventeen Column Thre SWITCHING CHARGE 10 BE DISCUSSED ; . ,- . - Dock Commission Asks Federal Authorities to Remove It as Aid to Port Development. Fortifying their claim that $4,000,000 will have been - spent on terminal im provements -now "under -way. : the public dock commisstonr whB . Chalrrpaff' Br Moorea. as spoksmah.7 today , tookthe initiative In presenting to' the' federal r if road authorities a Veauest f oh the re moval of fxtra switching charges now made -applicable to the municipal termi nal at St..-Johns.; 4a '.fct?--'; i:,. ;7'v-j The- s future of - Industrial - confcerns whlcli " are ' desirous of : locating in the terminal.. vicinity are declared to be at stake and Portland's maritime status is said to be seriously affected -by any dis crimination which might work a handi cap against; the terminal where export and Import cargoes are now . being re ceived. - 7.-. . - The commission was requested to grant the Portland rate to the St. Johns terminal. At the present, time there is an extra charge made for switching the cars on the St. Johns terminal, a charge which for, print paper shipments amounts to 25 cents a ton.- and about $12.60 a ton for grain in carload lots originating' on the short hauls in the Willamette valley, The question also, concerns other manu facturing and producing concerns, such as small sawmills of the Willamette val ley. -'.; ; The Portland rate now applies to com modities coming from, the districts east, the railroad administration, having an arrangement whereby the extra charges are absorbed. ; ; , Vrom the standpoint of Chairman C. B. . Moorea of the public dock commis sion and," in fact, other representative citizens of Portland,' It is necessary that there be no discrimination' whatever in (Concluded on Pif Three. Column OrimX - Congressmen Plan ; To Keep Espionage: Violator From Seat Washington. May 1$. II, N. S.) A plan to prevent Victor Berger. Socialist, convicted in the federal courts of Illi nois for violation of the espionage act; from taking his seat In congress wel-e put under , way by house leaders today; Jt is expected that he will appear Mon day, when congress goes into extraordi nary session, and attempt to qualify. ' His case will be referred to a special committee, which was expected to re port against Berger as soon as they se cure the court records. These, house leaders said, would, make out a prima facie case, against Berger1 s fitness to take his seat, Berger Is now on the payroll of the house, drawing his $625 , month.. . - , Long Overdue Ship1 Is1 Safe in Pacific San Francisco, May 13. The schooner Virginia, which arrived, here today,- rei ported to the San Francisco marine exchange that the schooner Edward It West was spoken 500 miles from Sa Francisco. The Virgtnla put provisions aboard . the . West, which reported all well. The West sailed : from Sydney January 11 and was long overdue. Astoria Mill Goes to Seattle, Contractor ' : ' ' - - '! 'Astoria.- May U. William- Wills of Seattle was awarded the contract at the meeting of the Astoria port commission this morning for the construction of the new flouring mill . to be erected on the port property. The Seattle bid was $76. 0O0. and the structure is to be completed by October. The mill will be leased to the Astoria Flouring Mills company. " "I ofBSffll fS-DOI Enemy Envoys Realize They Can Not Obtain . Modification of t i; Peace Terras Offered by Allies. Presideqt Wilson Has Conference With Ambassador Page; Big Four Postpones Its Session. By John Fxlwlii Ncvln Paris. May IS. (I. N. rS.) The German peace envoys. having agreed among themselves that they cannot secure a modification ' f terths. wilt sign the peace treaty, ac cording to confidential information reaching President. Wilson -jtoday. Kerr Lansberc and Herr Oelsberg. two members of the Teutonic peace mission, have left Versailles for Ber lin to inform the government of the decisions reached by. th plcnlpo tentlarles. -i ; The final conclusions and a definite course of action will be decided upon by the Germans before Sunday, -;The meeting of the Big Four, which was scheduled for this morning, wss called off just as some of the secre taries began arriving. " .( . The German delegation sent word that further communications j which il will address to the allies were not yet ready. The committee which Is drafting the Austrian treaty was not ready with Its documents and 'there was i therefore no business on the slats for the Big Four. . : . .-. . ..,'.. s '-The members then . turned their indi vidual attention to a multitude of mat ters with the' Italian question uppermost in the minds Of the Amerlcarf d'elegatev '"TcoaUnuwl. on. F Two, Column Three) DISTRIBUTE'! OF ET Additional Salaries' to Teachers 7, Given on Basis That living , 7, 1 Costs Hits All Equally. ' 1 ' ;'-7.7 Distribution of the $SSl,000 recently voted by the taxpayers to Increase th pay of Portland - teachers during 190 has been finally arranged in a retort of the school board's finance and judt-' clary committee, composed of j Director, Ortonand Plummer, and concurred in by Director Thomas. It has been placed In the hands of, the school sdmlnlstrs tlon. j , i ; , livery teacher ..on full , time . in the public schools, both' grade t and high school.-will receive $400. N'lghfe school teachefs will receive proportionate In crease. ..on the basis that three .nltfht sessions equal one day session.' Substi tutes . .will receive in proportion to the days they actually teach. i .This , distribution has been made on the basis that the high cost of living has struck all classes of teachers with equal force and the money should be divided pro rata. ; i ! . -The $400 given equally to atrthe full time .teachers will make an j Increased wage of 60 per cent for the lowest paid teachers.- decreasing with - the - rising wage scale.. - - . . : Payment of the bonus- will ot begin until January, 1920, and Will continue through the calendar year,' separate and distinct from the regular salary. It will be paid on the Berkeley plan, that In, one-twelfth,' or $33.33. will be paid for the first six months of -the year, and in addition to the June check one-tenth of the total, or $40, will be given for the summer vacation. In the fall. $33.33 will be paid and Just before Christmas a check of $26.66 will be given for shop ping uses. . -: .; . , The Berkeley: plan - of distribution, while adopted for the bonuses, may or may not be applied tto the regular sal aries,, depending upon the action of the school board next fall. - i .. . i . . Italian Papers Say Italy Is Crushed by Treaty Like Enemy - Borne., May'-13. U. PThe Italian press continued to comment bitterly on the terms of the German treaty.1 : "Besides crushing Germany.! the treaty crushes the Italian victory," said - the Idea .Nazionale. The - Stampa referred to ; tHe confer- , ence as Italy's "second Caporetto." - (Italy's defeat at Caporetto permitted the Austrian to advance from behind their own frontier to the Piave). Italian; Compromise ; Plan Given by Page Paris, May 1$. (U. P. Thomas Kel- son Page, American - ambassador to' Italy, this afternoon submitted to Presi dent Wilson a ' compromise plan by which Page believes the president's principles will be maintained and Italy be entirely satisfied. . i INCREASE IS S