VOL.XVlL NO. 49.
GITY EDITION
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29, 1920.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NONPARTISAN
LEAGUE PARTY
T
State Taxpayers' League Opposes
New Land and Labor Party as
Menace to Welfare of State.
Plan for Divided Legislative
, Session and 4 Per Cent Road
Bonding Plan Given Backing.
What State Taxpayers' league
Meeting Did.
Indorsed 1.26 mill tax bill for
support and maintenance of Oregon
Agricultural college. University of
Oregon and State Normal school.
Indorsed soldiers', sailors' and ma
rines' mlllage tax educational bill.
Indorsed 4 per cent road bonding
amendment to the constitution.
Indorsed 2 mill tax bill for sup
port of elementary schools of the
state.
Indorsed plan for divided session
of the state legislature.
Adopted resolutions denouncing
Land and Labor party and Non
partisan league, and outlining plans
for opposing them throughout the
state, i
Adopted resolutions opposing at
tempt to repeal the. 8 per cent limi
tation amendment to the constitu
tion. By a narrow squeak the two mill
tax bill for the support of the ele
mentary schools of the state got by
the board of censors of the State
Taxpayers' league and secured elev
enth hour Indorsement In the clos
ing moments of the annual meeting
held Saturday afternoon at the Im
perial hotel. Not that the league
intended to oppose the bill, or go on
record against it, but rather to pass
it by with soothing generalities and
let it go at that.
The resolutions committee, of which
Dr. C. J. Smith was chairman and
Hehators I. L. Patterson, W. T. Vinton
and C. L. Haw ley, and S. E. Morton, M.
S. Woodcock and H B. Van Duser were
members, sent their resolutions, in with
definite Indorsements of the college mlll
nge tax bill, the soldiers and sailors
educations tax bill, the four per cent
bonding amendment and the divided ses
sion. MI M. AGE TAX PASSED
They passed by the mlllage tax bill
for the elementary schools, however, by
saying: "Resolved, that our education
al Institutions be enocuraged in every
way possible by the contribution of good
and sufficient funds for their proper
maintenance to better enable them to
(Concluded on Pm Two, Column Two)
Waterpower Bill Is
To Be Considered
At Monday Session
Washington, Feb. 28. (WASHING
TON BUttEAU OF THE JOURNAL.)
Because of Senator Bankhead's illness.
Senator Fletcher of Florida has been
substituted for him as conferee on
the waterpower bill.
Conferees probably will hold first
meeting Monday. The bill was sent
to conference several weeks ago, but
was delayed because of railroad and
other measures then pending.
A long struggle in conference is fore
oast before the measure again emerges.
President Pardons
Mrs. Anna M.Glenn
Washington. Feb. 28. (WASHING
TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.)
President Wilson today pardoned Mrs.
Anna M. Glenn, former postmaster at
a Willapa, Wash., who was about to be
gin sentence for loss of postofflce
funds. Tho evidence Indicated that she
was careless in handling mingled post-
oirioe lunds with other moneys.
URNED DOWN
Straw Ballot Closes;
Wood Bests Johnson;
McAdoo Leads Hoover
Gerard 34
Harding 23
Hoover 1631
Johnson . 334
Lowden ....... '41
McAdoo .. 2398
Owen 17
Palmer It
Pershing 36
Poindexter 26
Pomerene 97
Sprout I
Wood :.. 977
If General Leonard Wood can hold
his own In the presidential primaries
as he has in the presidential straw
vote In The Journal, a Wood dele
gation will go from Oregon to the
Chicago convention. His total In
The Journal's ' poll, which closes
with this report of the voting, la
ft? against 334 for Hiram Johnson.
His lead over Johnson la 643.
The poll has disclosed a remarkable
disregard of party lines. Thus, 250 Re
publicans .voted for McAdoo while 942
wHo classed themselves as Independents
or without party affiliation threw their
votes to him. Other sources of , his
strength were 1187 Democrats. 5 Pro
gressives. S Prohibitionists, Socialists.
Thoiigh Mr. Hoover in his several puh
lio statements has indicated that he
. . . y .. L; ". ..
Hoover Gives
Warnings on
Food Export
Danger of; Necessity of Import
ing Foodftuffs Supplied in
Future Is Pointed Out.
Chicago, Feb. 28. (U. P.) Her
bert Hoover tonight warns that if
the United States continues to de
velop its, export of industrial com
modities at the present rate we shall
be faced within five years with the
necessity of importing foodstuffs.
Dependence upon overseas supplies of
food would then lead to the question
of dominating the seas, he declared in a
speech before the Western Society of
Kngipeers. Then, he said, "unless the
League of Nations serves the ideal, we
will need to burden ourselves with more
taxation to maintain great military and
naval forces."
FARMS ABE DENUDED
Hoover explained that American in
dustries are drawing workers from the
farms because of more favorable hours
and wages, and added that "If this bal
ance in relative returns continues we
shall face gradual decrease in our
agricultural productivity."
As a solution of the problem he sug
gested :
"Better transportation- facilities for
farm products, both by rail ud water.
"Decrease of the margin of profit be
tween the farmer and the consumer.
MERCHANT MARINE FAVORED
"Substitution of the national mercan
tile marine for railway transportation
wherever possible.
"Removal of all Impediments of com
petition to sale of farmers' products.
"Reduction of the cost of 'marketing
these products.
"Standardization of as many products
as possible.
"Further improvement of the already
superior mechanical equipment of Amer
ican farmers."
"The American farmer receives a less
proportion of the consumer's purchase
for his products than the farmer of most
civilised countries," continued Hoover,
"if we assume the basis of price Is not
to be remedied the line of practical
remedy lies in decreasing the cost of
placing farm products in the hands of
the consumer.
WEAKNESSES ARE. SHOWN
"There are three weaknesses in our
system of distribution transportation,
Manufacture and distribution.
"I believe that the great majority of
our people are opposed to the nationali
sation of transportation. Nevertheless
I doubt if there is any one who is not
completely seized with the necessity
of rigorous regulation. Private owner
ship: of the railroads is now on final
trials
Turner Returns With
Appointments Made
For S. P. & S. Offices
W. F. Turner, who will becoffe vice
president and comptroller of the S. P.
& S., Monday, returned from St. Paul
Saturday morning after attending a
meeting of the board of directors of
the Hill lines, and announced a list of
appointments for the finance and audit
ing departments of the S. P. & S.
N. Barger, employe of the accounting
department of the . SP. & S. for 20
department of the S. P. & S. for 20
lng Paul McKay, who will become pur
chasing agent for the. organization.
Robert Crosbie, present secretary and
assistant comptroller, will become prin
cipal accounting assistant to the vice
president; O. R. Williams, federal aud
itor, will return to his former position
in charge of disbursements; E. C.
Miohelsen will return in charge of traf
fic accounts ; H. H. Brown will return
in charge of freight claims and O. B.
Rldd.e will return in charge of valua
tion and statistical accounts.
Marooned Americans
Planning Air Flight
Paris, Feb. 28. Many Americana, find
ing themselves marooned in France by
the tleup of the railways are trying to
hire airplanes to take them across to
England, or at least to the channel
parts, where they can board ships for
America. H. P. Davison and other delc
gates to the Red Cross convention In
Geneva "have arranged to travel there
by motor car, leaving here tomorrow.
holds no affiliation with any party.
1625 votes were cast for him. as follows;:-
740 Democrats, 618 independents,
336 Republicans, 24 Prohibitionists. 6
Socialists and 8 Progressives. His vote
and that of Mr. McAdoo' Indicate that
party labels are in far less favor than
in former days, and that, in the Novem
ber election there will be such a break
away from party connections aa this
country has never seen, with the possi
ble exception of the Roosevelt bolt to
1912 and the Lincoln break away in
I860
671T VOTES CAST
n the poll, 6760 votes were cast,
which In the short period that the
voting was In progress, shows that there
ia a very wide interest in the political
situation. The totals for scattering
candidates whose names "were sot on
the ballot are as follows i Debs 10,
Llndsey 1. Schwab 1 Lodge J, Daniels
1, Cox 1, Taft 8. Capper 6, Ford 22,
Edwards JO, La Follette 4. President
Wilson 18, Hughes- 2, Tumulty 2,
Bryan 58.
Among many, expressions received.
(Ooaelndad Fa Biz, Onions, Oa)
Ararat
ATTACK IS ALL
IN RED TRIAL
Central ia Case Issue is Whether
Warren Grimm Was Shot Un
justly or Whether He Led Raid.
Trial Promises to Be Long, Drawn
Out; Vanderveer Says All De
fendants Will Testify on Stand.
By Fred H. McNeil
Orer The Journal's Special Leased Wire.
Montesano, Wash., Feb. 28. En
tering now on its sixth week and
with testimony for the defense
scarcely begun, the trial of the 10
men accused of murdering ex-soldiers
in the shooting at Centralia
on Armistice day, promises to be the
longest drawn out criminal case ever
tried on the Pacific coast.
With the exception of possibly half
a dozen, the 42 witnesses who have been
heard to date for the defense have given
testimony only in proof of an alibi for
one of the alleged gunmen and to sub
stantiate an insanity defense for an
other. ,
The sociological aspects of the trial
far outshadow the real cause that is
being tried.
SOLDIEBS A If I) OVSS
Soldiers of the regular army are here
from Camp Lewis. They are camped
near the jail, but by court orders are
forbidden entrance to the courtroom or
even the courthouse. Old time army men
who have seen much service make up
ihe contingent for the most part, and
with the hundred men are eight ma
chine guns.
Unlike most of the Instances of taking
soldiers into a civilian community, noth
ing openly occurred demanding their
presence. They were brought at the
request of the prosecution, to forestall
demonstrations which persistent rumors
maintain wiH occur when the Jury re
turns a verdict. '
From the logging camps that surround
this city, for Montesano is in the heart
(Concluded ob Pace Eight, Column One)
Cabinet MpibemJa
Meet Informally
Wash kip ton, Feb. 28. (U. P.) Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels tonight an
nounced he had asked several cabiaet
members to meet informally at his of
fice Monday 'Ho discuss the serious con
dition with regard to oil for ships." This
will be the first meeting of cabinet of
ficials since President Wilson forced the
resignation of Secretary of State Lan
sing for calling unofficial cabinet meet
ings during Wilson's illness.
News Index
Today's Sunday Journal 1 complete in 8 yartt:
Editorial
Section 2, Pace 4.
Foraion ,
Crnditicna in Moscow Section 2, Pag 8.
Map of A. E. F. Cemeteries Section 2, Paa 8.
Children Victims of War Section 2, Pace 8.
National
President Stra Railroad Bill Section 1, Pate 1.
HooTer Gires Warning Section 1, Page 1
Ilisher Rates Prophesied Section 1, Pace 1.
No Action on Colby Selection Section 1, Pace 1.
Bonus Issues to Come Up Section 1, Pace 1.
Demastlo
Oil Operator Defends Mexico Section 1 . Pace 2.
Arts on a Deportations Discussed Section 1,
Pace 7.
Northwest
Montesano Murder Trial Section 1, Pace 1.
Great Irrigation Suit Promised Section 1,
Pace 12.
Astoria Officers Clash Section 1, Pace 4.
Oil Deposits Held Unlikely Section 1. Pace 10.
Water-Right Seekers' Must Make Showing Sec
tion 1, Pace 10.
Women Disagree in Red Cue Section 1.
Pace 8.
Cooperation Cuts Li Tine Cost Section 1, Page 7.
New War Romance Bared Section 1, Pace 7.
Portland
Nonpartisan League Turned Down Section. 1,
Pace 1.
Women Win in Contest Section 1, Pace 6.
limit on Court House Annex Section 1, pace 4.
Terminal N earing Completion Section 1, Pace 8.
Great BtraleTard Suggested Section 1, Pace 7.
Teach Women to Think Section 1, Pace 12.
Income Tax Questions Answered Section 1,
Pace 12.
Straw Ballot Closes Section 1, Pas 1.
Business New
Real Estate and Building Section 8, Pace 1.
Vtarseb Section 8, Pace 18.
Finance Section S. Pace 14.
Ma line. Section 8, Pace 14.
porta
Section 2, Paces 6-7-8.
Automotive
Beetlon 6, Pases 1-6.
On the rum Side
The Week in Society Section 4, Pacta 2, 8, 4
Women's Club Attain Section 4, Pace .
Fraternal Section 4. Pac 6.
Drama and Photoplay Section 5, Pages 1-4.
The Realm of Music Section S. Pac 5.
Feature
Ring Lardner's Letter Section 6. Pat t.
Cos the Gardener Section 4. Pas 8.
In Early Oregon Section 8. Pac 8.
For Boys and Glrla Sec Hon 6, Pac S.
Magazine
la sa Ore con Forest Section 7, Pac 1.
Behind the Scenes in Grand Opera Section T,
'Pac "2-
Why Former Kins Tried to Upset Wedding
Section T. Pac t.
Facta About Our Brains Section T, Pac 4.
Lore Will Find a Way Section 7, Pace S.
Mystery of Chorus Girl Murder Section 7,
Pace'6.
Health. Beauty and the Bom Section T,
Pa 7.
The New Feather Dresses flection T. Pac 8.
feomt
t Section 8. Paces 1-4.
Fifth Sunday
In February
Seldom Comes
It Is Forty Years Since This Last
Occurred and What a Differ
ence in Its Observance.
Today is Sunday, February 29, the
fifth Sunday in the month and the
extra 'day in the year.
Five Sundays don't come with
every February. It is 40 years since
last a Sunday, February 29, paid a
visit.
And oh, boy, what a change!
And what inconveniences!
The Portlanders of 1880 didn't
mutter much when they learned
that Sunday, February 29, was com
ing around.
But today an extra Sunday means
Another day at home tweedling thumbs
or spinning the wife's aunt's cousin's rel
atives around the Columbia River high
way with gasoline 24 cents a gallon,
plus tax. a
MORE CHANCE TO GROAW
Another day to groan because five
Sundays mean more money out; five
Saturdays or five Mondays would mean
an extra day's pay in the kick.
Another day to go to church or view
motion picture drama.
Another day to think up mean things
about the Republicans and Democrats,
the income tax, motion picture censor
ship, street improvement assessments,
and the high price of clothes.
Another Sunday to go thirsty.-
Isn't it awful?
. Now if ft were February 29, 1880
why, that would be different.
THINGS DIFFERENT NOW
The extra dinner Friend Wife prepared
would cost only a dollar and six bits
say a dollar and eighty cents if turkey
graced the board.
And the "amusement cost would be a
trifle. Say a nickle for a dozen lolly
pops. Or the gang could play croquet
And if you were a harassed traveler,
any of the 29 local hotels would have a
room. And now ye gods!
The boys would run over to the liv
ery stable and take the girls out for a
ride.
The butcher would throw in a chunk
of liver for .the cat when he delivered
your Sunday meat order.
The grocer would put a spud on tne
spout of the can of kerosene that he de
livered for the Sunday night seance
around the parlor lamp.
The clothier would throw in a pair or.
suspenderswith every suit.
Nobooy wouia nstenraiBfcne tele
phone.
Nobody would wear wrist watches.
Nobody would swat flies.
Nobody would seek relief for the har
assed Hindus.
The Chamber ot Commerce would
point with pride to the growing com
merce and picture a great city to come.
The city directory man would call the
federal census supervisor impolite names
because he credited Portland with only
17,578 residents when it should be 21,600.
But this extra day has its compen
sations in 1920 as in 1880, at least for
the maid who would avail herself of her
leap year privileges.
Protests Against Granting Any
Money to Soldiers Beginning
to Reach Committee, However.
Washington, Feb. 28. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL.) Hearings on the proposed
bonus to soldiers are expected to
begin during the coming week in
the house committee on- ways and
means. Unusual interest centers on
the attitude of that committee.
Representative Hawley of the com
mittee today stated he has reached no
conclusion as to what should be done,
though he believes that something will
be done. If his belief that sentiment
has not developed enough to forecast
what form legislation .will take- The
poll reported to have been made by one
of the committee's leading members was
said to show that the bonus will be
coupled with new consumption taxes on
such articles as sugar, coffee and tea,
and that .bond Isstje will not be favored.
Representative Alkerman of New
Jersey introduced bills for 1 cent tax
on each 100 matches sold, and 25 cents
on every $100 worth of merchandise sold.
While the American Legion has de
clared through its officers for a $50
bond bonus for each month served, pro
tests of individual posts against any
bonus are beginning to be received, on
the ground that the soldiers do not wish
to take a position which would add
billions to the public debt.
"If It be true that the soldiers them
selves are not for it, that will put a
different face on it," said Hawley.
Commission Named
To Kegulate Export
Of Coal Until Apr. 30
Washington, Feb. 28. (U. P.) By an
executive order effective at 12 :01 a. m.,
March 1, President Wilson has vested
In four commissioners the authority now
possessed by Rail Director HTnea rela
tive to export of coal 'from the United
States. The order, made public late
today, also revives an order of the
United States fuel administration of
November 8, 1917, relative to tidewater
trans-shipment of coal at Hampton
Roads, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York. The four commissioners are J.
W. Howe, Rembrandt Peal', T. M.
Whitaker and J. F. Fisher. . Their au
thority terminates midnight, April SO.
BONUS ISSUE ON
MONDAYSCHEDULE
WILSON FIRM
UPON CHANGE
IN ARTICLE X
Democratic Senators Receive
Word President Will Not Ac
cept the Lodge Reservations.
Administration Senator of Ten
nessee Says Wilson Will Yet
Yield to Gain Adriatic Point.
By -It. O. Martin
Washington, Feb. 28. (U. P.)
Democratic senators here have again
been notified that President Wilson
will refuse to accept treaty ratifica
tion with the Lodge reservation on
Article 10, they said tonight
This is the reason, it developed, .that
the movement of the Democrats toward
acceptance of the Lodge program was
halted when it was 9 or 10 votes short
of a number necessary to ratlfyf
PRESIDENT REMAIKS FIBM
The notification was conveyed to cer
tain Democrats this week, they said.
So far as could be learned. It was not
In written form. Senator Hitchcock, the
Democratic leader, said he had not re
ceived any late communication from the
president on the subject.
According ;to one Democratic senator,
he was informed that the presidents
message said Democrats would be wast
ing time in voting for ratification with
the Lodge reservation on Article X, as
he would refuse to deposit such a rat
ification. The president's warning was taken
into consideration by certain Demo
cratic senators in arranging "pairs"
with Republican senators on future
treaty votes. One Democrat, In
arranging a pair, told a Repub
lican that he would vote for all the
Lodge reservations except that on Arti
cle X, and that he could not support
that because he had received word from
the president.
DEM OCR ATS TO 8TASD OUT
This development was taken as mak
ing it beyond question that enough Dem
ocrats will stand out against the Lodge
reservation to prevent ratification. A
poll taken by Democratic leaders showed
that 24 Democrats would stand against
the JajsSKxalloj on Article X, while
23 were willing to support It. This, would
leave a shortage of nine to 12 votes on
ratification, depending cm how many
Republicans remained "bitter enders."
Believing that ratification is out of the
question. Democratic leaders apparently
are working to get the treaty shelved
without much more delay. This may oc
cur within a week, a well Informed sena
tor said tonight.
PLAN 18 SOUGHT FOR
Senator Borah and Senator Hitchcock
are working together on some plan which
they declined to divulge. Borah is to
see Senator Lodge Sunday. This con
ference, taken with others, may result
in quick disposition of the treaty.
An agreement was reached late today
that the senate vote at 2 p. m. Monday
on the reservation on domestic ques
tions. Adoption of the original Lodge
reservation is considered likejy.
Borah and Hitchcock laughed when
questioned about the charge made In
the senate debate today by Senator Kel
logg of Minnesota that they have .formed
an alliance.
Kellogg and Hitchcock wanted to
beat the treaty, wanted the help of
Republican votes "If he can, but with
Democratic votes if he can't."
ADRIATIC PROBLEM FACTOR
Senators Brandegee, Reed, Thomas
and Shields referred to ihf Adriatic con
troversy as showing what they said the
United States would be involved In if
It joined the league. Thomas said Amer
ican membership In the league would
bring upon, this country the enmity of
every European nation the United States
opposed In a controversy before the
league.
"It Is a good thing we have not rati
fied the treaty," said Reed. "Now the
president has a chance to withdraw."
Senator Shields, Tennessee, a Demo
crat, said the president "now is willing
to give up all the benefits he told us
we would get out of the Jeague, merely
to coerce Italy." '
Southern Pacific
Ticket Office Is to
Have New Quarters
1
The ticket office of the Southern Pa
cific electric lines will be opened Mon
day in new quarters in the ground
floor space of the Title e Trust build
ing, formerly occupied by 'the Lawyers
Title & Trust company. The Southern
Pacific was obliged to move from the
Bushong building, 131 Fourth street, at
the termination of their lease by the
transfer of the building to George L.
Greenfield.
Offices of the Lawyers Title & Trast
company have been transferred to the
ground floor of the new Gordon build
ing, at Fourth, and Stark. This build
ing is rapidly nearing completion and
will be finished this week, according
to Herbert Gordon, owner. The corner
room on the ground floor has been
leased to the newly organized Peo
ple's bank, who will take possession
March 15. and the upper floor will be
occupied by the Northwest Trust com
pany. Notorious Italian
Anarchist Arrested
m"-;:".':
London, Feb. (SundayV-r(t7 P.)
The Italian anarchist Ulplero, has been
arrested, according to a -dispatch from
Barcelona. Documents and dynamite in
his possession were confiscated. Span
ish police, the dlsmateh. said, regarded
the arrest as on of greatest import-
V
Higher Rates
On Railroads
Prophesied
J. N. Teal Points to Pressure of
Traffic Without Corresponding
Increase in Facilities.
Higher rates, diminished effi
ciency in freight -and passenger
movement and an increase in the
use of water transportation will re
sult from the return of railroad op
eration to private ownership, said
Joseph N. Teal, one of the leading
rate authorities in the country, Sat
urday evening before a representa
tive audience of the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce. He held as re
sponsible not the railroads but the
pressure of traffic without corres
ponding increase in facilities.
Teal suggested that control of car
supply, one of the greatest of the prob
lems and irritants among the shippers
of the nation, should be vested in the
interstate commerce commission.
But the climax of his address was
conveyed In a two-word recommendation,
"Don't scold. An attitude of fairness
and patience by business toward the
railroads and by the railroads toward
business will hasten the solution of irk
some transportation problems," he said.
TRIAL 18 IWSUTFICIEHT
"In the opinion of many persons, of
whom I am one, it would have sheen
better from every standpoint to have
continued federal control for such a
length of .time as would have enabled
a fair study to be made in order to de
termine the best possible ultimate solu
tion of a question that affects the public
so directly and greatly as does that
of transportation," commented Teal, who
spoke under the auspices of the Port
land Traffic & Transportation associa
tion.
"With the aristocrats of railroad
bonds and stock on a 6 per cent basis
and higher, with cars, locomotives and
supplies of all kinds costing from twice
to three times what they did formerly,
and which if purchased now at present
prices and with borrowed money on
high rates of interest will constitute a
permanent charge against the public, I
think it is not a matter for surprise that
there are those who felt that continued
federul control was the better course to
follow."
CONTROL 18 UTfCHASOED
To critics of railroad administration
operation. Teal suggested that the same
men, the pick of the field, who helped
handle the roads for the government,
will be f the posts of authority under
private operation.
He denied, and cited authorities to es-
(Conrtodsd on Page Twelre, Column Six)
COLBY SELECTION
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Passes Buck on Lan
sing's Probable Successor.
Washington, Feb. 28. Prospect of
early action by the senate in con
firming the appointment of Bain
bridge Colby as secretary : of state
was discounted today by announce
ment from the foreign relations
committee that It will proceed "very
lelsurelV" in passing upon the nom
ination. Senator .Lodge states it had been ar
ranged to have the committee meet
next Monday to take up the nomination
but this meeting has been cancelled
and no time has been set for consider
ing the appointment It is the inten
tion of the committee, according to the
announcement, to allow a considerable
period Of time to elapse before the
nomination will be discussed and acted
upon.
It was also announced by 'Senator
Ixdge that a decision has been reached
by the commltte to report the nomlnar
tion to the senate without recommenda
tion. This action will serve to transfer
4 V. I, I.I
iv mo Dcjtsi; Atocti Any uyptjoiuoil
there may be among senators of either
party to the appointment.
Similar action will be taken by the
committee in the matter of the appoint
ment of Charles R. Crane of Illinois to
be minister to China.
Two of President Wilson's other re
cent appointments to the diplomatic
service are engaging the attention of the
foreign relations committee and there Is
much gossip concerning them. , One is
the nomination of Former Governor
George W. P. Hunt of Arizona to be
I minister to Slam, and the other con
cerns Richard Crane, son of the newly
appointed minister to China, now serv
lng as United State minister to the new
republic of Czecho-Slovakia.
Senator Lodge has received a telerram
frolh a "prominent citizen" of Arizona
stating that Governor Hunt is, or has
been a member of the I. W. W. and
protesting against confirmation of the
appointment on that sro-"
The story concerning Richard Crane
has to do with the reoe.i Kiciu y
him of an expensive chateau in the re
public to which he is accredited and his
effort to resell the chateau to the Unit
ed States as a home for the legation.
It is stated that Crane purchased the
property shortly after arriving in the
Czecho-Slovaklan nation and shortly
thereafter recommended to the state de
partment that the United States take
it off his hands.
McAdoo Qualifies in
Michigan Primaries
Lansing, Mich., Feb. 21. (U. P.)
William a. McAdoo qualified as a can
didate in the Michigan Democratic pres
idential primary vote today. Petitions
for McAdoo containing the required
number of signatures were tiled with
the secretary of state.
NO ACTION YET ON
RAILROAD MEASURE IS
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT.
LINES BACK TO OWNERS
Five Big Railroads Serving Port
land to Pass Quietly From Fed
eral Back to Private Control.
No Radical Changes in Train
Schedules Will Follow Formal
TransTer of Road Management,
Five major railway systems serv
ing Portland will return to the hands
of their private owners at midnight
tonight, when ' government operation
of -the railroads In the United States
terminates.
Transition of the roads in this dis
trict, including the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific, Spokane, Portland
& Seattle, Northern Pacific and
Great Northern, will be unmarked
by special occasions and the turn
ing over will be as lmpreceptlble
as when the railroads were taken
over bythe government 26 months
ago as a war time emergency
measure.
Officials of all the railroads entering
Oregon and the Northwestern region
are prepared to take over the manage
ment of their respective properties. In
some cases these organisations have new
officers, but in a major number of in
stances former executives will be found
in their former oosltions.
FEW CHANGES MADE
No radical train schedule changes or
new rates are to become effective with
the turn-over.
To the general public there will be
practically no noticeable change Mon
day ; a few familiar faces about ticket
offices and on the railways will disap
pear as some employes move into new
positions and those who call at railroad
offices Monday morning will .see the
last visible Identification of government
operation disappearing as the words
"United States Railroad administration"
are erased and scraped from office doors
and windows and the names of the pri
vate roads are surplanted.
Midnight will mark the passing of
federal managers, district . directors,
regional directors and : governing' rail
road officials. It will see the closing of
such organizations as the Portland dis
trict freight traffic committee and con
solidated car service bureaus.
JOIKT OFFICE REMAINS
But some of the features initiated dur
ing government operation will remain.
The consolidated ticket office at Third
and Washington streets will be undis
turbed except for the removal of the
railroad administration Insignia from
the office windows. The present force
will remain on duty, but will be changed
from time to time as individual roads
require the service of present employes.
Consolidated ticket offices In Eastern
cities are breaking up, but local rail
road officials express the opinion that
Portland and most of the Pacific Coast
cities will maintain these bureaus In
definitely. Monday morning will find practically
all of the Southern Pacific offices moved
to their new quarters in the Yeon build
ing. During federal control they were
consolidated with the O-W. general
offices In the Wells Fargo building.
FOREIGN OFFICES TO OFEX
Installation of "foreign line" agencies
will also be started this week, when the
Chicago, Burlington A Quincy and pos
sibly the Santa Fe, Denver at Rio
Grande. New York Central, Illinois Cen
tral, Chicago & Northwestern and other
railroads open up offices here. It is
understood that R. W. Foster Is to re
turn for the Burlington and Henry H.
Francisco for the Santa Fe, as general
agents. .
During the next few months local
changes effective on the various rail
roads may include a broader passenger
and freight service and possible divis
ional . point changes on the Southern
Pacific. No new construction work Is
under consideration for the time being
because of lack of finance.
The 8. P. & S. will reopen passenger
and freight handling stations which have
(Concluded on Pact Twelra, Column Sire)
Public Ownership Has
Big Appeal to Car Riders
As Relief From Burdens
"What the car-riders want Is for
the state commission to keep its
hands off and let the people of Port
land at an early election provide for
remitting -to the car company bridge
tolls and certain paving charges In
lieu of increased fares. Then it may
be that some workable scheme can
be formulated to make Che business
houses on the west side, which are
the chief beneficiaries of the street
car system, bear a fair percentage
of the burden." , '
This Is the statement of "a ear rider"
relative to the suggested . Increase in
fares for the Portland Railway, Light A
Power company. He :1s one of those
who helped pay 14,523,000 into the coffers
of the company last year, and one whs
is asked to help pay $5,752,000 in 1920.
lie is one of the car riders who paid the
entire operating expense of the company
last year with the exception of $40,000
collected by the company for carrying
mall and newspapers, for car rental, car
advertising, and la receipts horn
Director General and Attorney
General Say Law Constitutional
and Call It Wholly Workable.
President Attaches Signature in
Face of Bitter Opposition From
Labor Unions and Farmers.
Washington. Feb. 28. (U. P.)
President Wilson tonight signed the
Each-Cummins railroad bill provid
ing for regulation of the lines after'
their return to their owners on
March 1.
The measure sends the lines back
to private ownership on Monday. It
assures the roads a guaranteed fi
nancial return of 6 per cent and
sets up tribunals for adjustment ot
wage and other disputes.
The law as signed is a compromise
between the Each bill, passed by
the house, and the Cummins bill,
passed by the senate.
REQUEST REJECTED
In signing the measure, the president
rejected the request of railroad unton
men that he veto it, because of its
clauses dealing with labor. To the men
the president addressed a letter declar
ing he could not share "their apprehen
sions" over the labor provisions and
urging them to proceed with their de
mands for better wages and working
conditions In accordance with the new
law.
Wilson proposed to the men that they
at once appoint representatives to meet
with railroad executives thus setting up
a bi-partisan board to discuss wage
problems, as provided in section 301 of
the Esch-Cummtn bill.
"In accordance with the assurance I
gave last August and repealed In nub
stance in my letter of the 13th instant,
I shall at once request the carriers and
employes to Join In this action," the pres
ident wrote, pointing out that the rail
road men had suggested such a board
to him two weeks ago.
WILHV CLARIFY SUBJECT
' "I believe that such a step will go
far toward clarifying and maturing the
subject (wages) for final disposition,"
Wilson wrote. "In fact, the sort of a
board thus contemplated by section 301
appears to be an appropriate substitute
for the committee of experts which I
have hitherto suggested, and, indeed,
(Concluded on Para Tsrle, Column One)
f
0. & 0. Land Grant Is
Thrown Open to Entry
Washington, Feb. 28. Secretary of the
Interior Lane today ordered the opening
of the land which was formerly em
braced In the O. & C. railroad grant.
The territory Is mostly within the Rose
burg district 'Opening of the land was
deferred pending the enactment of legis
lation by congress granting a prefer
ence right of entry to soldiers, sailors
and marines of the late war. The world
war veterans will have preference right
of 60 days, within which fo make home
stead entry. The period of the prefer
ence right begins May 10 and ends
July 8.
Tragedy Stalks in
Midst of Comedy
New York, Feb. 28. An audience of
8000 persons maintained an unflagging
interest In George M. Cohan's "A Royal
Vagabond," at the Colonial theatre to
day, unaware that tragedy had stalked
across the stage at the end of the sec
ond act. Charles Wane, a leading
comedian, who had complained of feeling
111 before the play, started but Insisted
upon carrying on his part, dropped dead
of heart failure after the second aot.
An understudy was compelled to play
his character, that of Chef Check, the
Inn keeper.
parcel room. He is also one of the car
riders who is asked to pay thousand
of dollars to the company In tolls and
other fixed charges which are Immedi
ately turned over to the city to be used
in defraying expenses of municipal gov
ernment expenses that should be borne
by the whole public rather ' than by
class.
MASS MEETI0 URGED
-"It is painfully noticeable that west
side business has not raised even one
small voice in protest against increased
fares," continues the writer. "On the
contrary, it Is reported that one big
business man enthusiastically told the
state commission that car riders would
gladly pay a 10-cent fare. ' This Is the
kind of friendship for car- riders Joa .
had lor Amusa. -
The peofil ot Portland will give tb
car company a square deal; In whatever
relief is required Just as soon as the
matter can be put to a vote. A mass
meeting will doubtless soon be called t
formulate plan to that end if the pub
(Ooaatndsd as Pas Tar. Onftisas