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' r '. ' N . j . . . . . ; -v . t . ' ; ' - ' ... . ...... .jj, , J I CITY EDITION j 1 Mrj I ""iTr Behind the Scenes Mile. Amtur, sweetheart of the Rus sian baritone, Baklanoff. tells more back star necreta of grand opera In the Maga sine Section of the Sunday Journal next Sunday. Interesting and true. VOL. XVIII. NO. 292 fSSll 9SStT ISSl PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1820. TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. ON TRAINS ARB MtWt standi rivi can-re PAYNE CHOSEN AS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR Chairman of Shipping Board Is Selected for Vacancy in Cab inet Left by Franklin Lane. Nomination by President Goes to Senate Today; Appointment Will Be Effective on March 1. Washington, Keb. 12. (U. P.) John Barton' Payne today was named secretary of the Interior. Payne, nt present chairman of the shipping board, will succeed Frank lin K. Lane, who leaves the office March 1. The nomination of Payne will be sent lo the senate today by Presi dent Wilson, it was announced at the White House. Payne came to Washington with Ed t a.rrl N. Hurley, formerly chairman of the shipping hoard, and to.k charge of the board' legal department. Later he vent to th railroad administration as rnunwl. When Hurley resigned the sh'ppfnir board chairmanship Payne guci'eeded him. . Payne In a f.'hli'snnan' and has been .active In politics mill the civic affair of that city He was horn in Prunty town, Va., In i .'&. Before Rolug to Chicago he prac ticed In Wept Virginia, where he was special jurtce of (he circuit court of Tucker county and later mayor of King- wood. Pay tie went to Chicago in 1883 and 10 years later became judge of the su perior court of Cook county. 'I shall accept the nomination be cHime it was made by the president,' Piiyne Kald today. "Rut my heart will be with the fhlppitic hoard." Boy McCormick's Science Is Frail Before Kissing Bug Has boxing captured the feminine heart of Portland? Maybe. In addition this Is leap year, men are reputed to bo scarce, and a kiss In the ring may be worth two in fancy. At any rate, a handsome brunette sat at the ringside of the Boy McCor-mlck-Tommy Gibbons mat civ. at Mil waukle last night. With her sat anoth er good-looking dame and her escort. Many other women were sprinkled In the audience. The fight was over. The bout had been declared a draw. McCormlck, his face slightly gory, his fiery red hair waving, his Irlhs eyes smiling, was leaning over the ropes talking to some friends. The brunette, overenthuslastlc. too quick for ring science. Jumped to her feet, sprung -to the ropes and smacked the Roy on his lurid forehead. Abashed, but pleased, the Boy hopped nut of the arena and sought his dress ing room. Today McCormick's mail reminds him this Is leap year. Gaby Deslys Dies At Paris; She Was Friend of Ex-King Parle, Feb. 12 (U. P.) Oaby Teslys. actress and dancer, died In a hospital here late yesterday following an opera tion for an Infection of the throat sev eral weeks ago. Oaby Deslys was widely known to the American theatre-going, public, having appeared in many productions In the United States, both on the legitimate stagt and in motion pictures. She gained notoriety about nine years ago when her name was cot pled with that of Manuel, the deposed boy king: of Portugal. Salem Boy Is Killed Under County Truck Salem. Feb. 12. Clifford Fitts, 14 years old. son of W. S. Fitts of this city, was almost Instantly killed at 0:30 this morning, when he fell be neath the wheels of a county truck to which he was clinging while riding his bicycle. The boy was on his way to the skating rink at the east end of. State street when the accident occurred. fr WILSON, AGAIN ON JOB, DOES DAY'S WORK TV7ASHINGTON, Fteb. 12. (U. "J P.) President Wilson to day showed how far he had gone toward recovery by Taking complete) charge of railroad wage controversy. Deciding to preside at the next cabinet meeting. Appointing John Barton Payne secretary of the interior. Approving the sale of ex German liners. Deciding to accept an offer to become honorary president of the American Olympic associa tion , t NEW SECRETARY OF INTERIOR JUDGE JOHN BARTON PAYNE of Chicago, formerly gen eral counsel for the railroad administration of the govern ment, who has been named by President Wilson to succeed Frankjin K. Lane as a cabinet member in charge of the interior department He and Mrs. Payne have transplanted in their Washington home a part of their garden plants which made their Chicago home celebrated among horticulturists. '-'1 4 a ; t "" ',," '"" 'tl 't4 DEATHLESS DAY SPELL IS B.R0KEN Record of 82 Days Without Fatal Traffic Mishap Ends When Truck Kills Man. Portland s long period of deeth tess days from automobile accidents has been broken. Ciro Sepe was! ground to death Wednesday under the heavy wheels of a truck. For eighty-two days life has heen spared In the collisions of the ears, the longest deathless poriofl since traffic records were inaugurated in January, 1917. Since that date only two periods of. a month each had passed, prior to December. 1919, in which no lives were snuffed out In srnashups February. 1917, and August. 1918. Motorcycle of ficers do not hazard a grness when the. record , of 82 deathless days will be equaled in this city. LIFE CRUSHED OIT Reports on Sepe's death Indicate that he was at work, bending over the rail way tracks of the Portland Railway. Light & Power company. The truck approached. Another machine is said to have obscured the view. The lumber laden truck passed over Sepe's body. He was pronounced dead shortly after he reached the hospital. He leaves a wife and three married daughters. Officer Leavens, Btatloned at Broad way and Larrabee street, brought a dozen truck drivers into municipal court the morning of the accident. On the previous days they had all violated traffic regulations, most of them on Broadway bridge. They had jockeyed. They had been speeding. They had done all manner of things that cause col lisions, and mutilations, and deaths. TRAFFIC LAW OT BRAD They were, for the most part, for eigners. Their speech was difficult to understand. Many could not read. Questioned, they Invariably admitted that they had not read the traffic regu lations. ' One did not know what traffic regulations were. He said he knew how to keep out of trouble, and that he usually obeyed the rules. But he did not know what the rules .were. Trucks are heavy vehicles. They are not easily stopped, and In collis ions are comparatively safe against damage. Knowing that, and realizing that their monstrous frames usually preserve right of way for them, truck drivers often become "hogs of the road." CACTIOK 18 CRGED Truck drivers are in charge of dan gerous vehicles. They can wreak tre mendous damage. With such a weapon operators should be even more careful and more conversant with traffic regu lations than the pilot of a lighter car. When they cease to be careful, when they sweep through intersections at high speed regardless of all other traf fic, when they endanger the lives of all others on the street, It is time for the authorities to seriously consider revoca tion of licenses under the recently en acted licensing drivers act.. The coroner's Inquest Into the death of Stepe will be held at 8:30 o'clock to night in room 44S courthouse building. Suffrage Is Turned Down in Maryland Annapolis, Md., Feb. I2.r-(L N. S.) An unfavorable report was made today by the federal relations committee of the Maryland legislature on the Susan 8. Anthony woman suffrage flT'nimtnt. ,"." 4 ,4" , y REMAINS UNSOLVED Police Kept on Jump Running Down Reports of Finding Clues; Descamps Still Missing. Wild goose chases and rumors this morning featured the search for other portions of the body of the murder victim which has been go ing on ;lnce last Saturday. While police Investigated all reports sent in. no more fragments were discov ered and the morning passed with out addition of new facts whereon to base any definite solution of the mystery. CI.I F. BI'5 row What at first appeared o be a most important lead, to the effect that Ernest Descamps, missing Frenchman, had been seen near his Beaverton ranch at noon Thursday was dissipated by the Investigation of Peputy Sheriff Lee Mollenhour. who accompanied a repre sentative of The Journal to Beaverton today. Mrs. Harry McCloud. living near Aloha, was reported to have said she saw Descamps riding in a small car with two strangers one half mile south of Aloha Thursday, some time after he was last seen In Portland at the Yamhill street market. Mrs. McCloud today said it was Wednesday noon, not Thursday, that she had met Descamps on the Aloha road and he had spoken to her. She had no idea with whom Descamps was riding. County Judge J. W. Good in of Wash ington county has appointed J. W. Day of Beaverton caretaker to take charge of the Descamps property near there until the mystery of the Frenchman's disappearance Is cleareo. or an adminis trator for his estate has been named by the court. The last time Descamps was seen in Portland, as far as has been learned, was at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning, when he left the Yamhill mar ket with a black mesh-bag full of pro visions for tiis ranch at Beaverton. The little ranch house of Descamps, (Concluded on P Tiro. Column Four) Andrew McGuire and Ida Cleveland Are Run Down by Autos Andrew McGuire. 17. 1039 Fifty-ninth avenue, a delivery boy for the Model dairy, was struck by an automobile driven by William J. Young at Vaughan street between East Twentieth and Twenty-first streets Wednesday after noon. McGuire ran around the back of the. delivery truck into the path of the machine,' according to the report made to the traffic department. He was taken to th emergency hospital where It la reported he suffered cuts to his head and hand. ' A machine driven by J. M. Erb. 8826 East Seventy-third - avenue southeast, knocked down Iva Cleveland. (716 East Eighty-fifth street at the intersection of Foster road and. Bast Eighty-second street Wednesday afternoon. The child was playing by the side of the street with other children, and ran into the rear fender of the machine. She was only sfightly Injured, mad, ;wu - takes Immm by Krb,. r. .. .. y yj2 " ' ;vw MURDER MYSTERY LONDON BASE IN AFTER WAR ADJUSTMENTS Conference Activities, Shifted From Paris to British Center, Tackles Weighty Problems. "Big Three" Premiers to First Consider Germany's Refusal to Give Up War Guilt Leaders. By Kd L. Keen London, Feb. 12. (U. P.) Lon don today has replaced Paris as the seat of deliberations to settle prob lems growing out of the world war. With the "big three" conference of premiers in session to decide fu ture allied attitude toward Russia, settlement of the Adriatic dispute between Italy and Jugo-Slavia, dis position of Constantinople and meas ures to force Germany to live up to Article 228 of the treaty of Ver sailles and the council of the League of Nations meeting to bring about organization of the world society, London had become for the moment virtually the capital of Europe. WKIGHTT PROBLEMS LOOM The "h' 1'ee" Premiers Lloyd George. Millerand and Nltti was con fronted with some of the most difficult questions that have come up since the closing of the main peace conference in Paris. The matters Included many that have been sidetracked time after time because of their delicacy. One of the first questions to come be fore the premiers. It was believed, will be Germany's virtual refusal to deliver the list of war guilty whose surrender for trial by allied tribunals is demand ed, and her delinquency in delivering coal to FfRnow, as provided by the treaty. Germany already is far behind in these deliveries, French officials have complained. VIEWS AT VARIANCE Great Britain, it is said, is reluctant to allow the demand for surrender of German war guilty to be made a test case as to Germany's intentions toward the peace treaty, while France takes the position that drastic measures must be used. If necessary, to force Germany to live up to article 228. The presence of Marshal Foch. who arrived late yesterday with Premier Millerand, was taken to Indicate the French determination to discuss mili tary measures if necessary to enforce surrender of the accused Teutons. Marshal Foch and General Weygand were called Into the premier's confer ence today. A wide split in plans for disposition of Constantinople also was Indicated. TTRKISH I8HCF. TTNSITTLED Before leaving Paris. Millerand and the French foreign affairs committee he favored permitting the Turks to remain In Constantinople with possible interna tional control of the city and port. Lloyd George, on the other hand, re cently told parliament that the Turk cannot be allowed to remain in Europe, In this controversy, it was said. Pre mier Nittl will side with France. Conflicting interests In the Near East also were expected to cause trouble. France, it was said, will insist upon her full rights under . the treaty of 1916. STATE OF KANSAS Walkout Being a Felony, Rail Troubles Can't Reach State, Governor Declares. Chicago, Feb. 12. (I. N. S.) The entire country can be held In the grip of a railroad strike, but not a man in the state of Kansas will go on strike, according to Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas, in dis cussing the new Kansas law which makes It a felony to strike or create a labor lockout in that state. Gov ernor Allen is In the city to address the Chicago Bar association. "When I ordered the attorney gen eral, to proceed under the new law against the miners who walked out Several days, they saw that business was meant and called the strike off immediately." said Governor Allen. "Strike chairmen of the threatened railroad walkout next Tuesday have notified us they have asked the broth erhood officials not to call any strike so far as Kansas is concerned." Hays Comes Out In Opposition to Women's League St. Louis, Mo-. Feb. 12. I. N. a) Will H. Hays, chairman of the Repub lican national committee, came out in opposition to the league of women vot ers, planned to supersede the Women's Suffrage league, speaking at a luncheon before the Republican women's city committee at the Hotel Statler this af ternoon as part of the Missouri G. O. P. Lincoln day' activities. . "A woman belonging to the league of women voters would be like a pea in a silo". Hays declared. "She would be rattling aronpd with no objective. Wom en should affiliate) with one of the' po litical parties mud work- for some defi nite aim." 1 Public Library Comes to Aid of Citizens Whose Memories Lapse Method Found to Issue Books to Persons Who Leave Their Cards at Home. To facilitate the issuance of books when one may have l-;ft his library card at home, a new circulation sys tem was adopted by the library board Wednesday night, involving the substitution of a smaller identi fication card for a regular library card. This identification card will bear the individual's name and number. When a book is checked out it will be stamped In the back as is done under the pres ent system, but the other stamp will be placed on a card kept in the library files, bearing a number corresponding to that of the individual's identification card. The individual card will never be stamped. Should a person forget his card, he can nevertheless check out a book, the matter being quickly adjusted by the librarians. The new Identification cards will be about one third the size of the present library cards. The method of charging books will remain the same. Overdue notices will be sent and collections made Just as at present If a person returning an over due book leaves it on the table the fines will run on until the book is found by one of the librarians. The system is the latest in library methods and is meeting with pro nounced success in Detroit, where it is being tried c,. It will take several weeks to Inaugurate it in the Portland library. LOCAL RESIDENTS Rich Aunt in Illinois Leaves Hand some Bequests to Stratton Family in Portland. Momencf, 111., fob. 12. The late Cecelia Wikstroms' will divides sev eral hundred thousand dollars among heirs. Thomas H. Stratton of Port land, Or., gets $20,000; Laura Strat ton Hewitt and Gladys Stratton Toung, also of Portland, Or., both daughters of Thomas Stratton, are bequeathed $5000 each. All three also share In the estate's residue. Mrs. Laura Stratton Hewitt this morn ing had received no word of the con tents of the will of her late aunt. Mrs. Cedelia Wikstrom, although i"he had word from her father, Thomas H. Strat ton. Wednesday night that her aunt had died. Stratton had been with his sister in Momence since last May. when she first became ill. He owned a ranch near Portland which he traded for property In the Mount Tabor district before going East. Theodore Hewitt, husband of Laura Stratton Hewitt, is chief proba tion officer of, Portland. Mrs. Gladys Stratton Young, the other niece who re ceived' JR000. resides also In Portland. Her husband is connected with the Pa cific Asbestos company. Fined, Sentenced To Jail for Driving Car While Drunk J. C. Peters, 679 Multnomah street,, re ceived the heaviest penalty for viola tion or tramc law metea out Dy juage TJossman since the famous Sorensen and Mielke cases when he was fined $200 and sentenced to 20 days in Jail In municipal court Monday afternoon. He was -convicted of driving while intoxi cated. Peters was speeding 43 miles an hour on Llnnton road. Motorcycle Officer An derson testified, and the officer, with other witnesses declared that Pelers was Intoxicated. No notice of appeal, was served. Wood Favors Lodge Plan for League of Nations Settlement Chicago. .Feb. 12. (I. N. S.) Reply ing to Senator Borah's request for com ment on the League of Nations, Gen eral Leonard A. Wood said today: "We should accept the League of Na tions as modified and safeguarded by the Lodge reservations. "I believe that America should be left absolutely free and untrammeled to follow the will of her people in all questions of foreign and domestic poli cies." Prominent Astoria Sportsman Is Dead Astoria, Feb. 12- Bob Evans, well known sportsman and proprietor of Bob's restaurant and pool room, died this morning. He was taken suddenly ill four days ago. Mexican Ambassador To Leave for Home Washington, Feb. 12. (L N. 8.) Mexican Ambassador Bonillaa will leave Washington for xteo with the nxt iw weeks, it wa learned today. ... HE RS TO FORTUNE Suspect into custody Arrest in Portland Bares Trail of Alleged Nation-Wide Gang of Railroad Pass Fakers. Capture Effected Because of Queer Conduct of Passenger as He Stepped Off Streetcar. Had not Theodore W. Powell, alias S. R. Powell, alias S. R. Weath erby. given a quick, all-surveying glance when he alighted from a streetcar at Union avenue and KU lingsworth avenue late Wednesday afternoon, department of justice agents today might not have been holding a man alleged to -have en gineered wholesale bogus railroad pass frauds over the United States. His arrest bared an, alleged scheme that employed scores of persons from the Atlantic to the Pacific. PRETTY W0.VA5 CONCERNED ' Included is a beautiful young Chicago girl. Miss Esther pield. who is declared to have fled from Los Angeles when Powell did. The glance Powell gave as he got off the car, the agehts declare1, told them he feared arrest nd was "looking around" before walking to his rooms at the Reldt apartments, 1162 Union avenue north. v How are you. Weatherby?" affably .asked Inspector Price, as he grasped the hand of the astonished Powell and shook it in token of friendship, the while "frisking'" his man for possible weapons. Special Agent William Bryon and Agent Russell Bryon of the department of justice closed In from sheltering store fronts and telephone poles and took Powell to their office. For hours Wednesday the operatives sought Koweii without Knowing who he was or what he was wanted for. Their only clew was a telegram from govern ment agents in Los Angeles asking the arrest of "T. J. Del Mae Jo Hotel Port land." Through error in telegraphic trans mission or some other mistake, the man's correct name, Thomas W. Powell, alias S. R. Powell, alias S. R. Weatherby, -was (Concluded on Page Two. Column Ffte) MYERS LIKELY TO BE GIVEN HEARING Oregon Senators TeH Committee They Have No Objection to Airing Matter. Washington. Feb. 12. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OK THE JOUR NAL) Senators Chamberlain and McNary today joined In a letter to Senator Townsond, chairman of the senate committee on postofflces and post roads, stating that they under stand that requests have been pre sented asking for a hearing in be half of Frank S. Myers, recently re moved as postmaster at Portland, so that charges made against Jiim may be brought out and both sides heard. 'We have no objection to such a hearing and are entirely willing that It shall be given, says the letter. Belief Is expressed that the postof fice department will be willing to sub mit all charges and reports of in spectors to the committee If an in quiry Is ordered. This action was taken after con sultation between the two Oregon sen ators regarding telegrams and letters they have received complaining that Myera is not being fairly treated. Chamberlain has declared that while he knows of no precedent for a hear ing in such a cae. he is' entirely ready to have the entire matter gone into. The letter to Townsend was milled this afternoon and will be In Ms hands before tomorrow. Whether the committee will investigate the matter cannot yet be told, Townsend having indicated that he would hesitate to enter upon such an Inquiry, but in view of the unusual circumstances and the letter of the Oregon senators It is thought the inquiry may be ordered. They Declare It Is Actually and Truly Bound for Bottom Chicago, Feb. 12. (L N. 8 ) The high cost of living is actually on the downward trend. Prices of eggs butter and potatoes are going lower weekly, price compari sons secured today by the International News Service show. And flour Is also coming down so marked It that the return of ths 10 cent loaf of bread In the not too distant future was predicted today, A 50-cent drop on a barrel of flour was recorded today In the wholesale market, carload lots selling for $12.60 Instead of $12. Eggs that retalaled today at from 59 to C2 cents a dozen were selling a few weeks ago at $1 or over. Butter, which last December sold at 75 cents a. pound, is today quoted at 6 to 74 cents,-while the wholesale price of spuds per 100 pounds is now $4.65 to $4.85 as against S5.2F to 15.71 two weeks ago.. The-bottom has not been reached on those commodities, dealers declared to day. Fifty -cent , butter ' Is predicted wltbla two weeks Holland Sends Representative To Market Dutch Butter in Oregon Local Merchant Opposes Plan as Being Ruinous for Both Seller and Buyer. Holland wants to sell butter to Portland as well as other Pacific Coast states. Instead of being compelled to de pend upon this country for its own requirements, the Dutch govern ment ha sent a special representa tive to this city in an effort to in terest the trade in its offerings. This representative visited K. J. Dixon of the Estes-Dixon company in an effort to have hini act in the matter to bring these supplies to Portland. "there Is no need at all for Dutch butter in Portland or on tho Taclflc coast," said Dixon, " and so I told the representative of the Holland govern ment. We have a surplus here during the period of greatest production and the bringing in of this foreign stock would ruin the trade here. "The Dutch government claims to be able to land this butter here, even after paying the high freight rate, at lower prices than the American markets, and likewise claims that Its average quality Is better than ours. "The reason why Holland would be able to do this is, because foreign ex change is so low and our money is Worth much more than theirs. "I dont believe it good policy for anyone to bring in these foreign offer ings, because our dairymen have had enough troubles heretofore. If addi tional supplies are brought forward this would mean still lower prices that would not only hurt the Holland shippers, but would likely ruin our own Industry." , ONLY TWO VOTES Palmer Has Received Slight Sup port So Far in Presidential Straw Vote. In response to requestsv t -:tra bal lots for the presidential poll are printed on the editorial page. Some in order to obviate the scarcity of ballots, have been making type writ ten copies of the coupon, placing a cross next the name voted for and sending them in. A feature of the voting Is the poor showing made by Polndexter. Palmer and Sproul. Palmer received his first vote yesterday, but-added more today. The very small support of Polndexter Indicates that he will not be In the run ning In Oregon. He has received only two votes all told. In the count this morning. Johnson and Wood received the same number of votes, though their combined strength is stjll short of the Republican votes cast for Hoover. The ballots counted today were distributed as follows: Oerard, 3; Harding, 0; Hoover, 166; Johnson. 9, Lowden, 0; McAdoo, 71; Owen. 0; Pal mer. 3 ; Pershing. 3 ; Polndexter, 0 ; Pom erene, 18; Sproul. 0; Wood, 9; Bryan, 1. A Hlllsboro Democrat writes: "Know ing that men like Governor Edwards will make the fight of their lives for liquor, I feel like that Issue tops all others and I vote for a tried man and true fighter, the commonest great commoner of them all. W. J. Bryan. My wife votes for Mr. McAdoo. A Portland Republican writes: "My choice for president is Hiram Johnson of California. He Is a Pacific coast man and 100 per cent American. "One of the main reasons for casting my vote for Hoover is that he has not made politics his main object In life," says a Portland Independent. "A thing that makes me sick Is a party cureall for political Ills. I am so disgusted with the whole mess that I am going to vote against every obe In office at the present . time, simply on general prin ciples." A Marshfleld Democrat votes for John son. He says : "I am a Democrat and have been for 62 years ; but at this time, Johnson of California Is my choice above all others." "I have been a staunch advocate of preparedness ever since General Wood inaugurated the Plattaburg camp," says a Baker Republican. "Therefore I am voting for him as my first choice. But f Wood should fall to get the Republican nomination and Hoover should be nom inated by either party or run as an in dependent. I would vote for him In the belief that the nation would be sate in his hands." Oerard , 19j Palmer 4 Harding 9 Pershing 14 Hooverr 69i Polndexter 2 Johnson Pomerene 77 Lowden ISSproul 3 McAdoo 4221 Wood 49 Owen 21 Senators Confirm Postmasters for Offices in Oregon Washington, Feb. 12. (WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) The following postmasters In Oregon were confirmed ,by the senate Wednes day Bend Wilbur H, Hudson. Boring William Morand. Dufur David 8. Toting. Freewater William D. Hardest. Harrisbnrg Jason T. Anderson." Hood River Thomas A. Reavia. Merrill Leona C, Ady. : Myrtle Creek Orrln A. Klrby. ' Oregon City John J. Cooke. Redmond William I. Smith. .Sheridan Andrew . Flynn. . Silverton John H. Brooks. Wajdorf Aria Head. . Prossar, Waatw Hortea . Hunting' POINDEXTER GETS PRESIDENT TO -1 Meanwhile," Brotherhood , Leadci Asserts Conference Will Nol Cancel Strike Call Issued Says 300,000 Men Will Walk 0u. Tuesday According to Ordetj Unless Demands Are Granted By Ralph F. Couch : Washington. Feb. 12. U. r.) President Wilson will meet a del4 ' gation of three ratlroad union ottU '. clals at 10;30 r. m. tomorrow, h was announced at the White Housed Secretary Tumulty conferred witbj Rail Director Hlnes In Hlncs' offlc early today. Tumulty obtained Hlnes statement of the railroad wage controversy to lay It before thej president. President W. O. Lee of the Brother hood of RHilroad Trainmen telephoned Director General Hlnes" office ear If today and asked for a conference. Iee has given Hines formal notice that nil union wishes to terminate Its present contract February 28. Tutting the wage question, up to WU4 son will not cause cancellation of ths" strike order effective Tuesday, already sent to 300,000 members of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of WaJ Employes. Vice President Malloy aalil today. 'The only thing that will avert out strike is the granting of our demands," said Malloy. "Mr. I lines' decision ta confer with the president will not caus us to cancel or defer the beginning of the strike. A cash wage advance la what our men want." Malloy this morning sought a con ferenrc with Hlncs to deliver lettfr framed yesterday by the strike com mlttee of his union. The letter is ln tended to give Hines one more chanc to meet the demands of the union, Uala loy said. ; Bert M. Jewell, head o the Amerl ran Federation of Labor railway dw partment. today was named chairman of the committee pf three to meet PresW dent Wilson." Other members are J. IS. Manion of (CooHudod oa far Two, Column Bis) Forest Patrol Flyer Leaves California on Trip Via Portland Riverside. Cal., Feb. 12. 1V. J.)- Major Allxrt Smith of Marshfleld left, the flying field shortly after MO a, n today for a flight from Riverside to Puget Hound by way of Portland. Its will remain in Han Francisco overnight leaving tomorrow for the North. Major Smith Is flying north to begin arrangement for a forest patrol wtaleU will work in the states of Oregon, Call fornia. Washington, Montana, Wyo mtng and Idaho. Smith will have charge of one corps of the patrol whlCB It Is said may consist of 90 De lUvl lands. Rose Pastor Stokes Must Be Extradited Albany. N. T.. Feb. 12. I. N. &-. Governor Smith granted the request of Chicago authorities for the ei tradition of Rose Pastor Ktokes. millionaire So r.lalist, who Is wanted to face an Indict ment charging her with advocating "reformation or overthrow of govern ment by force or other unlawful means." The Journal Presidential Straw Ballot Vote for one, placing X before name. orr n a li nn nn - ULL liniLliUnv UNION HEADS! GERARD HARDING HOOVER JOHNSON LOWDEN McADOO OWEN PALMER PERSHING POINDEXTER POMERENE SPROUL ; WOOD My party aHUUOea to Kasts ' '.;W:iJ.r' - - i ''--"2:2 -;V;; ;r5 AMrtsa . . , , -f -2221 y22:lS ((M eaC sa'stab er brtas to The ieenst banns - ettlaa . Mai tsloi