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. THE WEAIUKK Tonight and Sat- -irS ALL HERB and . ITS ALL THUE" - JJ . vj,r T i - . VOL. XVIII. NO. 59 The Men Who Are Making Transatlantic Flight History for U. S. LINED UP, as they appeared just before starting from the Rockaway air-station for the first leg of their transatlantic air flight, are the , crews of the three American seaplanes which are striving to be first ftb fly across the ocean. From left to right, they are : The crew of the NC-4, Lieut. Commander Albert C. Read, commander and navigator; Lieut. E. F. w ' V " 1 Li Ni vj V- ;' IE,; - ( ' li, J) : P t. .A t, iV J, k ,l J' il 1 " " ' i i i . ii. T . .. ... i . GER1MS IS1G i PARLEY British Labdr. Leader Advises En emy to . Sign, But Offers Criticism of Treaty. Paris, May l'6," Th German peace delegates today received a number of messages from Berlin, di rect In jr them to' insist on the rifirht to confer freeljr with the Austrians ana' afsa pa lh right to carry on oral discunaions with -43ie alliea. - .iipx allies are now framing a reply to, th German "demand for oral dis- cucslon. ';Th text, of the German note and 'the allied -reply probably will be made public early next week. The German counter proposal re garding thf Saar basin agrees to sur render the coal mines, but insists upon retention of political jurisdic tion over the region, it was learned from an Authoritative source today. ABYI8E8 THKM TO 8IGJT "My advice to the Germans-would-be to sign' the treaty," Arthur Henderson, British labor leader, declared in an in terview here today. ' Henderson1 has been aiding in prepar ing t tie report of the "big four" regard ing tfte Germans' labor recommendations and "'recently participated in' a three- . day conference of Socialists of various countries who adopted resolutions partly indorsing and partly condemning, the treaty, "We are- bound to recognize that cer tain injustices, attributable to past wars, have been repaired," he said. "Some peoples long kept in subjection have been liberated. We welcome creation of the League of Nations. In its present form, however, the league is an asso ciation "Of governments and executives rather than peoples and parliaments. WOULB ADMIT GERMANY - "'It .-falls to compel jnembers to re nounce' entirely, recourse to war. In stead of being an organ of International justice, it has the appearance of a victorious coalition dominated by the five: great powers. Failure to . include (Concluded on Ptf Eighteen, Column Two) British Air Raids Kill 100 Afghans - London. May 16. (V. P.) British air raids forced evacuation of Dakka (on the Kabul river in Afghanistan, lust across the Indian frontier), ac cording to an official dispatch dated Sunday' received by the India office today. Several other successful bomb ing raids were carried out. One hundred Afghans were killed and seven runs captured. Grain Men Asking If Elevator Will Be Ready k A .u,c "iuipii gram yy grain 01 iy Xvt This is the question ;hants.' Exchange in the investigation which it has undertaken of conditions at the St. Johns terminal, according to A.-Cohn chair- t.iu v iuc .mciuiduis lyitnante ."It it of the greatest Importance - to know If subsidence of the elevator structures can be stopped in time to complete the work speedily and pre pare to handle the wheat movement of this year up to the elevator's ca pacity.', explained Air. Cohn. Other members of the committee are Peter . - B I , Ji. 1-J I I f I I I I It I I I I 'I I I J I yyywft s,"w uV.N.- I J I rJ I .1 II I I I t : . A I J I I II Entered as Second-ciaa Matter Potofic, I'ortUnd. Oregon . Party Program Of Republicans Is Agreed Upon House Republican Steering Com mittee Takes Up Legislative Plans for Caucus. Washington, May 16, (U. P,) A legislative program of 10 important measures was drawn and agreed upon by the house Republican steer ing committee today for submission to the entire Republican member ship in caucus tomorrow night. The program, if adopted, will be regarded as a promise to the country to see that the 10 measures are car ried through congress with all possi ble speed. They ar: Repeal of the luxury tax. Return of the wires. . ; - A ; . Adoption of a shipping ooiicy. "Settlement of the railroad prob- j lem. Passage of a constitutional suf frage amendment, i ' Enactment of a national budget system. " . ' " Tariff revision. ' Aid for men coming from the service. Economy in public expenditures. Passage of essential appropriation bills. REPEAL COMES FIBST The work on -appropriation bills will of necessity be the first matter taken up, but repeal of the luxury taxes and per haps suffrage will be rushed through the house very early in the session, party leaders said. Return of the wires will also come up Tor early consideration. With the exception of the wire return luxury tax and suffrage questions, the committee did not attempt to commit the party to any policy. This will be left wholly in the hands of the various leg islative committees which have charge of the measures. Representative Madden, Illinois, who suggested the outline of a party slate to carry before the caucus, said that more measures might be added in caucus. There are suggestions that immigration restrictions be made a part of the Re publican program. : TO CHAUEXGE BERGER The steering committee also decided to ask the chairman of one of the three house elections committees to challenge Victor Berger, Milwaukee .Socialist con pressman, when he presents himself to be sworn in next week. Minor patronage matters were dis cussed. Troops May Land to Supervise Plebiscite 'Paris, May " lev (I. N. S.lThe for eign ministers are considering the sug gestion for the landing, of American, British and French naval forces in Schleswig during the German . evacua tion and the holding of the plebiscite to determine if the territory,, shall . be returned to Denmark. It is regarded as unlikely that the Polish request for part of the German merchant . fleet will be granted. by 1919 eievator oe read- to receive the of Drime imnortanro f- commiitee on tnnn rv Kerr, D. A. Pattullo. Draper and J. H. Klosterman After It has gathered all the facta available and has reached conclu sions which , the facts warrant the Merchants Exchange committee will . (CcoUnited on Two, UcIiuaa"Tarl PORTLAND, ; OREGON, FRID AY EVENING, Stone, pilot; Lieut. W. Hinton, pilot; Ensign C. Rood, radio operator; Chief Special Mechanic E. Harry Howard, engineer; Lieutenant James L. Breese Jr.," reserve pilot engineer. The crew of the NO-3, Lieutenant Commander J. H. Towers, in charge; Commander H. C. Richardson; Lieutenant Com mander P. N. S. Bellinger, Major B. L. Smith, Lieutenant Commander G. U ILL HERE Work Begun by Max H. Houser on Large Modern Plant on East Side. Announcement, has been made by the Portland Flouring Mills company, con- trolled by Max H. Houser, of the build ing In this city - of : the , most modern cereal plant in the entire country and pereapse biggest: west: of the .Rocky mountains. ;r " , Work ou the structure i now4elR- cartied on at the site ef the company's old warehouse at Washington and.Kast Second streets and every effort will be made to have , the plant completed and in operation Jor 1 the coming season's grain crop. . L v . ' The construction of ' this plant will put Portland In the very front rank of Pacific coast cities as a cereal manu facturing center. . Mr. Houser has se cured the cooperation of Sherman T. Kdwards of the ' Hales-Edwards com pany, noted cereal operators of Chicago, in the management of the new plant. Mr. Kdwards recently arrived in this city and has taken care of initial op erations. POUTIiAND MILL PIOSKEH The Portland Flouring Mills company- was one of the first ,big cereal com panies in the Pacific Northwest. Since Mr. Houser secured control of the cor poration he has decided not only to make the milling plants owned by the company the best along the coast, but he has felt that this city should have the most modern cereal plant that could be constructed. Huge sums of money are being spent on the building and equipment to insure early completion.: Present plans of the company are to make Portland the cereal center of the Pacific coast. as runner indication of the new trend of industrial activities, announce ment was made today by W. H. Craw ford, manager of the department of in dustry of the Chamber of Commerce, that the location of a new flouring mill backed by "VValU Walla district inter ests is assured. Mr. Crawford has now received definite, assurance that the mill will be located here. Selection of the site has practically been made and financial arrangements have been completed. It is planned at first t place the mill on an operating basis of ZOO .barrels a day an embryo of the development the backers of the Industry are confident they will develop in a rew years. ; r NAMES OF OWEBS WITHHELD Announcement of the owners ' of the mill is withheld because all arrange ments, for the site have not been com pleted. . The proposition outlined is to raise the- grain in Eastern Oregon and Washington' and ship it to Portland to bef ground. Here the flour can be shipped Out byiwater and the by-prod ucts shipped to the Willamette valley ror use as. catue teed. "Portland "is on the verge of being t second Minneapolis," says Mr Craw ford, "and there Is no reason why it could not overshadow that famous city as a milling eenter in a few years. The country back of Portland is particularly suited1 to raising grain and the condi tions here all make possible a wonder ful development of the flouring indus try." "By-products, one of the principal problems of the miller, can be : admir ably handled here." declares Mr. Craw ford. "Cattle raisers in the Willamette valley could enlarge their herds if enough grain by-products were available for them The -establishment of a great milling Industry would thus tend to make Oregon a greater cattle country. Rear Admiral Doyle To Ask - Retirement 10 BIG BUILD " Los : Angeles. May lt.(U. P.) Rear Admiral Robert. M. Doyle. V. S. N com manding the North Pacific fleet, is en route from Hawaii to San Francisco and from there will go to New Tork and Washington to ask retirement, according to a letter - received by his son, H. H. IKiJfle of Los Angeles. - . . y , - Ship Contracts to Be Based on Flat Price, Lower Rate Word in Washington Is That Congress Will Agree in Main With Announced Policy as Outline d by Shipping Board West ern Yards Must Meet New Conditions. WASHINGTON, May 16. (Washington Bureau of The Journal.) There !s good , reason to believe that' congress will agree with the main features of the announced policy of the shipping board as to future construction of ships for the gov ernment. These are: The cancellation of steel contracts aggregating in the vicinity of 2.000,00 tons and the substitution of larger, speedier types. The award of new contracts on a flat price basis, probably. not exceeding $140 "tp $150 a . ton, without assumption" by the govern ment of any increased, costs of labor. or material. . v ' ' . . V Teperiing of iyards to- contracts on foreign: account, under permjiby Jthe hippini; , board,vtq government program. The situation the Pacific North west yards will face will be the al ternative of taking large contracts on the basis suggested, involving, it is believed, a considerable capital outlay, or ability to secure contracts on foreign account for ships of a size that will not require extensive plant alterations. It will be seen that there is no con flict between this statement and the Statement recently sent to Mayor Baker of Portland by Chairman Hurley, whei Mr. Hurley said : a "You may say to the workers and EQUAL RAIL RATE EIS E Committee Exacts Statement That Diversion of Pacific Traffic Must Not Result Equal rates for foreign trade for Atlantic and. Pacific coast ports . ; Use of barges as freight carriers on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Great expansion of foreign trade by the United States, including meth ods of stimulating commerce through changes in marine iasur-; ance general policy Crisis faced by Portland' as a port, calling for activity along commercial and manufacturing lines In this" city. These "are " suggestions and reports brought to Portland by City Attorney W-vP. LaRoche'on his return today from an' eastern ' trip during which he at tended conferences in Chicago and St. Louis f the , foreign trade convention and United States Chamber ;of 'Com merce in behalf of the dock commission. Mr. LaRoche declares that after a dif ferential of 80 cents on Iron and steel goods in favor of Atlantic ports on com merce to the Orient had beeri. granted by the railroad administration; a com mittee, of " which he was chairman, of representatives from western States, ex acted a promise from the administra tion that the rates would be changed if a diversion of traffic to the eastern seaboard resulted. 3 FACTS PRESENTED if "Mr. Chambers of the railroad ad ministration promulgated a i westbound export tariff called 29-C, under which all iron and .steel goods for Oriental (Concluded oa Face Five. Column Three) Oakland Chief Quits ; Under Bribe Charge Oakland. Cal., May IS. (I. N. k) Chief of N Police J." H. Nedderman s re signed today. Captain J. F. Lynch has been recommended -as his successor. Nedderman's resignation was demanded by Commissioner of Public Health and Safety F. F. . Morse following the chiefs indictment for bribery ,in connection Tith a lottery. The council, in session today, has been asked toT approve Lynch's ap pointment PROMS MAD MAY 16, 1919. TWENTY present -interference - with the; shipbuilders of Oregon that - in the report- the ' board makes to. congress in connection with any cancellation of types that are not required, we will recommend substitution jof a" contract for the type that is required." The shipping board, through Mr. Hur ley and In of-HctA! statements, has al ready sufficiently indicated what will be regarded as "types that are not re quired." The 8800-ton ship will not be required;. Vessels of 12,000 tons and up ward, with a speed approaching 14 knots, are of the type desired. Mr. Hur ley in his St. Louis speech said. . . "In connection - with -the cancellation ( C-oncIudf d on Page Eighteen, Column Virt NATIONAL BUDGET CURB ON EXPENSE Lack of System in Governmental Expenditures Is Said to. Cause Much Waste. By Carl Smith - Washington. D. C, May 1. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR NAL) The purpose of a budget system ir. government Is the prevention of waste through centralised responsibility for a fiscal program, substituting a policy for chaos in expenditure. Most government officials who have studied the matter at all, either as ad ministrators or lawmakers, agree that there should bea definite plan in federal expenditures. They are not agreed as to how it should be brought about.' Many members of congress are too fond of ap propriations, which they may be able -to secure, to indorse the plan, of executive responsibility. . That is the plan pursued in nearly all the civilised countries of the world. The late Senator Aldrich ' had the budget system in mind as a means of reform when he. told the country a few years before his death that the govern ment could be conducted, for $300,000,000 a year less than It then cost. It is the remedy usually In the mind of public men who discuss the question. Here is the existing situation: Estimates of the needs of departments fer the approaching fiscal year, except for the army and navy, are sent to con gress through the secretary ff the treas ury, but he acts merely as a forwarding officer. He would be interfering with another department if he cut: down or altered the estimate of any other de partment than his own. . Experience has shown that while in some instances these estimates are carefully drawn, they usually are loosely drawn, and almost always on the side of liberality, for bu reau chiefs are inclined to expansion and salary increases.' In the house, where appropriation bills originate, the' estimates go to various (Concluded on Pmc Fourteen." Column One1) Italy Plans Trieste As Cotton Exchange Vienna. May il. (Delayed.) (U. P.) A dispatch from Trieste today report ed the Italian government is planning to make 'that, city a cotton exchange for .Middle Kuropt. . . - .- - . - FOUR PAGES. Navy in American Planes de C. Chevalier, Lieutenant Commander Byrd and Lieutenant Barrat. The crew of the NC-1, Lieutenant Commander Bellinger, in charge; M. A. Mitscher, pilot; L. F. Barin (of Portland), pilot; Lieutenant H. Saden water, radio operator; Chief Machinist; Engineer C. I. Kessler, and Reserve Pilot Engineer R. Christensen. ' - , 162D BOYS Second Battalion, Including 135 Men of Old Third Oregon, Welcomed to Home State. s, After months of waiting, 135 of Oregon's sons of the Second battalion of the One 'Hundre4 Sixty-secOnd iri- l f antry. the oloL Third Oregon haye returned from. France and arrived at... tie. SXfo&oni Btation .shortly - after noon today.' With 10 hours t6 spend in the city, these boys, whej for a year and a half dd necessary work even . if lacking . thrills.- in -the camps in England, .will, be free to enjoy themselves in the metropolis of their own stated ' ; p ' t The United Auxiliaries reception committee is taking a leading part in the reception, with the help of Frank H. Hilton of the Portland re ception committee and T. Truxton Strain of the War Camp Community service. Luncheon is to be. served them at the Portland hotel, when Mayor Baker will welcome them home formally. During the afternoon there ; will " be theatre tickets in profusion and every thing provided that the boys can .wish if they will report to the Liberty temple when they run out of amusement. To night -the Daddies club will be host -to them at the Jazs Canyon at The Audi torium, where 'the boys will be pro vided With" fake cash ' to use' in the "gambling Joints" there. Flfty-slx n idlers In a casual .detach ment from Camp Upton, L. L,; will ar rive in the cli.-r at 9:30 and leave at 4 for Camp Lewi.i.;, Another . detachment of SI Is due to arrive in the city at 12 :30 Saturday on the O-W. R. Scr N. and to leave at "'clock for Camp Lewis. , The units vii.ch these men rep resent is not known. NEW FIRM GIVEN TWO Wooden Vessels Will Load Here With Ties for Eastern Coast And for Europe.; v .i Two additional wooden steamers have been assigned to the- Columbia- Pacific Shipping company, the Portland ship ping firm recently, organized Under -the management, of A, C Stubbe, former manager of Sudden Christenson. The additional ships announced today by, C. D. Kennedy, chief of the division of oper atlons of the shipping board are : ' Birch leaf, a product of the Supple St. BaUin yard, and the Fort Stevens, a Ferris' type vessel, built by the Grant Smith-Porter company. r i s i The Birchleaf will start to i load rail road ties at the Peninsula Lumber com pany mill Monday, and the destination of the steamer will probably . be Philadel phia, The ties are destined for recon struction work for the railroad adminis tration. . , i ' . - 'Assignment of the Fort Stevens to load ties for Europe) ia in line with the re cently announced program which will put into service 15 wooden steamers built on the Pacific coast, j The Fort Stevens will be allowed to carry 200,000 feet of lumber on' deck. i Oroatians and Serbs I :.- J ' Fight; Scores Dead -. . t ' - . t : ' Geneva, May -16. (I. N. g.) Scores have been killed in a sanguinary' battle between ' Seblans and Croat lahs at A pram. In ' Croatia, according to In ferraatlon ; from Vienna today. MORE SH PS PRICE TWO Speed Limit for County Roads Is 30 an Misunderstanding - as to New Law Which Applies to Co- -lumbia River Highway. - From the many Inquiries coming to The Journal it would appear that it is not yet generally understood that the limit of speed on county roads has been raised from 25 to 30 miles per hour. . ' The change in the law vat made by the last legislature in the enactment of the bill relating' to the licensing and operation of vehicles.. This measure had the emergency clause attached and the law went Into effect last March. Local authorities can require a re duction - of speed on city streets . and sharp ; turns and : other places where it would be dangerous . to maintain the maximum speed, provided the limit ?! not reduced beyond 10 miles ao 'hour. or one. miie -an six m mutes, : ; . ''Readable signs "must be set up to de note where theselocal rest Mcttons are to apply. : . : - The new law does not give immunity to soeeders on the Columbia river hlah way and' other ' roads improved by the su.te as, some, would . .uke to think. Neither does it render . inoperative the instructions posted along the highway to "keep to- the rlghC. onf turns and ;to maintain ta certain speed -around curves. The 30-mlle law applies on the highway, however,, excepting on curves, , where limit of 15 miles is fixed. The only effect of the new law Is to make the . maximum speed on county roads 30 miles an, hour instead of 25 as under the old law. One of the objects of the new lav was to secure uniformity with the laws of California and Wash ington. 600,000 Workers Want Higher Pay Fall River, Mass.. May (I. N. S.) A demand for an Increase of 15 per cent in wages was made today on all textile manufacturers in the country by the 600,000 operatives in the ranks of the United Textile Workers of America. Announcement of the demand was made by President John Golden. The textile workers demand, he said, that the In crease take effect May 26 and that it be binding until, 'April' 1. 1920. Big Prices Brought By Exchange Seats ' New York. May !. (V. P.) The Stock ' Exchange seat . of Russell .Base V sold yesterday for-$79,00p. - a few- mo ments later a seat sold for 0,000, the highest price to be paid for a seat In two years. ; ' . ' F6rt:Htin$IJ-Boat Arrives at Halifax Halifax. N. S, May !-U. P.) On the way to the Great Lakes,-the former German submarine UC-97 arrived to day, escorted by the U. S. S. Busbnell. Miles Hour Coolness Detected Between French and Yankees in France ' - By Junius B. Wo-d x gpaeial Cable to Tb Joornal end Cbicaso Daily Nm. - - (Unytiht, 1V1. by TIM Cbtoso Uaiiy ttn Co. ) B REST, France, May 13. for the American people to they played in." win nine- the Kahn of California in a remarkable interview on his arrival today atlBrcst. preparatory to sailingon the Leviathan on Thursday for home. . : ' , ' ' "America can , be ; proud of what she has done, bat she has not heard all. ,. Military necessities made it in advisable to tell ' many things, and European Jealousies made1 it Impos sible to tell any more. Both restric tions are now removed. . We should have .every American soldier out of Fnithdv - urday EDITNN, bhowers; urda y probably souther- CENTS ON TRAINS AND KIWI STANDS, riVK CINT1 m p. t n Aviators Lighten Cargoes and Get Machines in Shape for 1200 Mile Flight to Azores. Balloon Car, Which Escaped Yesterday, Drifts From Sight and May Be Lost Entirely. Trepassay, N. F., May 16. (UP. P.)The NC-4 left the water at 7:08 p. m. (local time). Trepaasy. N. F stay. 13. I. N. S.) The seaplane NC-3, command ed by Commander John II. Towers. began taxiclng across the Iiarbor for a start In the transatlantic flight at 6:06 (New Foundland time), (4:36 New York time) or 6:41 . Greenwich time, this evening. Commander Towers , Is admiral of the squadron of three seaplanes and the crowd gathered on shore took the NC-3's start from her an chorage as a signal that the trip to the Azores was about to begin. The NC-3 sent the spray flying as she sped away In the direction of the mouth of the harbor, ; A few . minutes before the NC-3 got under way Commander Towers saiAg the seaplanes might spend two hours in trials after leaving the har bor before actually getting away fur the. Azores. , . . F-aeh sea plane, lie said, would re date Its load by 60O pounds In gas oline, .but would take its full crew of rtx men. ' - v Kach machine now carries 28,200 pounds. -; " r . , ' Trepasay, N, F., May 16. (I. N. S.) AH three American seaplanes probably will hop off for the Azores at 6 o'clock New York time today on the attempt to ; cross the At lantic. Weather conditions early this afternoon were favorable for the attempt. St. Johns." K. F May 18. (U. P.) The v United States destroyer Edwards arrivedhere this afternoon and reported that its search for the dirigible C-5 had been fruitless. A' wireless message from the Brit ish steamer .Clan pavidsoh stated that It had failed in Its attempts to salvage the "Blimp" and was no longer able to stand by. The David son is proceeding on its voyage. . St. Johns,' N. F., May 16. (I. N. S.) The American dirigible C-5. which broke from its moorings late Thursday and drifted seaward was still mysteriously missing early this afternoon. . Lieutenant Little, chief aviation expert, aboard the cruiser Chicago, denied that the Chicago had re ceived a message saying the "Blimp had been found by the de stroyer Kdwards and was' being towed to this port. ' lie ' said ' that the British steamer War Nlgor, which left SU Johns for Liverpool yesterday morning-; reported she ' had sighted the ; airship on the water 15 miles east of St. Johns lat night, but .that . the Edwards, which was sent to the scene, had made no report. - The destroyer " apparently Is still searching for the ' missing dlriKl ble and the report from some of the naval officers that the C-5 was being towed here Is apparently a hoax. Little said Jie believed there was lit tle hope that - the "Blimp" would be rescued and that even if she was towed In she probably would be uneless for flying purposes for a long time. The Chicago, he said. Is now - embarking (Cone lad d on Phi EWrhtMn. Column Tlir) (Delayed.) "The time has come be told the truth about the part war," said Coneressman Julius Europe before October 1. The amount of, the German indemnity will not be determined for many months, but as our country gets none of the money, it should not be turned-Into a collection agency for other countries. Let them collect OM TAKES TO AIR AT (Co Deluded on l'g Two. Co turn a Fimr)