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THE OREGON- SUNDAY, - JOURNAlC : PORTL AND. SUNDAY 1 MORNING,- MARCH. C7, 1520. 2 HEADQUARTERS JO SOON BE OPENED BY Presidential .Aspirants Show Lit tle Activity? Republican Organ ; f izationst Welf Built Up. Chicago March t7. pi) 1 t Dtmoeratlfti presidential , candidates I J will . establish headquarters here pon, according to reports tn pollti- ! . Cal .. ctrele - tonigfit. ! "i The Democratic Candidates' ac 1 tlvitlss" bsre have been restricted, ! while practically alt Republicans In 'T ? the field have built up large organ- ' I.- i Izatlons. J James W. Gerard, former ambassador ( i U Germany, Is practically the only i ", Democrat whose candidacy la formallvJ announced, to conduct an active oarn- tpafgn in the Middle West Attorney i S General . A. Mitchell Palmer haa made Several trips to the Middle West, said sot to be on campaign business. The - j trips were made before he formally an- nounced his candidacy. . Headquarters will be opened here to I back Palmer, William (J. McAdoo and other 'leading Democratic aspirants be fore April 1. it was freely predicted. Ths candidacy of Edward L. Edwards j' haa already received backing- tn Chl : f eago from the "wet" DemocraU. who "I $ad his name placed on the Illinois pH ' mary ballot Political observers de- dared this action would be without definite result, as Roger Sullivan was practically certain to control the Illinois delegation to the San Francisco con wtntloiuw 1 WOOD BACKEES jrBHAJTT i- ' Backers of General Leonard Wood here ' j ' were jubilant tonight over the announce- tnent that Frank H. Hltchoock would ' ; loin their forcea Hitchcock was In Chi eago a week ago and conferred with H leading Republicans, including backers i of Oovernor Frank O. Lowden. tx ' . The Lowden headquarters believed the " fight for delegates in Illinois was prac J.1 -. tically ended today when the Republican !!.; state central committee adopted a reso ' !ution Indorsing the governor's candidacy t and calling upon party organisations in 1 other states to take similar action. : - Work of the organizations here will be concentrated during the next few weeks on the primary elections. The South Dakota primary will be held J March 23. Lowden, Wood, Hiram John son and Miles Folodexter will contest for the Republican delegates, Ambaa " sador Oerard and James O. Monroe, of - Illinois are the -only Democratic candl- - date. Another contest wll be decided by the t Michigan primaries on April 6. BOOVEB OS . BOTH r Herbert Hoover's name will go on both the Democratic and Republican tickets. . :i ' Other Republicans entered Include : Wood, Lowden, Johnson. Polndexter and Tershlng. - r On the Democratic ticket will be , Brvan, Edwards, Palmer and McAdoo. ' The: Indiana primaries will , be held ' Way 4 with Wood Lowden, Johnson and Senator . Harding certain to contest Deri the Republican delegates and Edwards and Vice-President Marsbr'l on the ; Democratic side. Other names may be . entered later. r The North Dakota primary on March 18 will see only , two contestants Low .) den for' the Republican delegates and -Bryan for the Democratic. . Wood and Johnson are the only ones entered In the Nebraska primary set for .April 20. The filing season has not yet i, closed. l Minnesota's Republican convention to choose delegates will beh4d March 20 i. and the Democratic April 6. The Colo-i'.- redo state Democratic convention will 4 ; be held May S and the Republican a day later. 4 The Illinois Republican convention will meet at Springfield May if. Other convention dates will be set - later by state central committees. FREAR REPORT IS JUST mnnrnr t r uu OR CAMPAIGN (Continued From Pit One) nority member of the Freer sub-committee, thus opened his address appealing to sober Judgment of the house In de bate upon the inflammatory report sub .mttted by the two majority members, Frear and Magee. - Warming up as he proceeded. Lea scored the majority report and declared the progress of the . Frear committee across the continent was trailed by flaming speeches, from Chicago to Seat tle and Portland. He ridiculed the re port framed after this tour of declama tion, asserting that diligent search will LEARN ALL POPULAR DANCES AND NEW STEPS AS DANCED IN THE BALLROOMS TODAY : gram professional dancers at Dclloney'i beautiful Academy, 23d and W ashing - - iuu. aii uanccs guaranteed. Ladies 4 lessoxs sue . i XES80S8 " GEHTLF.VKS 4 LESS058 IM (' New classes for beginners start Moi cay ana xnursasy evenings. Advanced class, Tuesday evening. S to 11 :S0. Pri- . vn Instructions free with each class lesson. . i Plant of desirable partners and prao- anuuTusnient, oeparate step room and extra teachers for backward pupils. My latest book describing aU dances free for pupils. Our Classes are , large and select and the social feature alone - Is worth double ths nria w - cater to teaching alone and conduct our classes the entire evening. No doubt one lesson from us Is worth six la the average school. Private lessons after - noon and evening. Learn tn a real school where they guarantee to make a daiycer . Phone Main 76B Ady. mmm r" ivrrra i W l IH Mil not reveal more absurd contention and groundless conclusions. . ; ,;t x'. -r-A' cartoonist takes a normal man, exaggerate facial defects, places one ear half an inch too low and the other half an Inch too high," he aald. "The result Is a monstrosity. The report la the aircraft ease resembles a - cartoonist's work." He resumed; PERSHnrO rEBFOKJKED XIBACLE . TThe report asserts that the expendi ture of $1,000,000,000 produced tlS Amer ican planes and (27 purchased from the allies, which ' were used on the . front This repressats leas than one sixtieth part of the purposes for which aircraft funds were 'spent. The 213 machines equalled only one seventy-ninth part of the number of machines owned by Amer lea. ' "The report declares that 1000 of these American built machines were scrapped In France. Six hundred and , twelve were returned to America from 'France. Thus, according to the report. General Pershing performed a more wonderful miracle than that of the loaves and the flshea Out of 111 machines, he burned up 1000 and returned f 12. "America had over S200 planes In. Eu rope, over 3300 of which were service planes. America had 213 American built planes on ths front oa the day- of the armistice, but they were only part of Bit American built planes available. She had 1C20 service planes available for use at the front. Four hundred and Seventeen -American built planes vent over the German battle lines. . - , "Full reports of casualties show per eentage from American made machines less than from foreign built machines. America lost 390 planes' lri combat. Thirty-three were American made. Bight of these went down in flames that rep resented the total loss ef American planes from flames. "Members of this committee have made many flaming speeches about 'flaming coffins.' In the war 7,000,000 men per lshed and 100,000 sons of America sleep In France. After the investigation this committee finds the principal topic for discussion to be "Eight Flaming Coffins." Out of 16,000 planes operated by. Amer icans, their speeches and reports are confined principally to 213 American built machines that happened to be at the front the day of the armistice. CAVADIA3T OUTPUT STATED ' "In the report sent Secretary Baker, the majority of this committee suggest ed the possibility that $5,000,000 could be recovered from John D. Ryan and others connected with the aircraft- board tor money spent In building a railroad In Washington. There Is no more rea son why we should recover money from Ryan than for suing John Pershing for Powder fired at the enemy. "The report .tries to discredit American production by - comparison with Cana dian.' In one year the United Btates produced 143,000,000 feet and In 10 months Canada produced 26,500,000. Canadian lumber represented only 50 per cent of usable material as conu-aeiea witn American specifications. In wing beam stock, ths most important, Canadian quality equaled only one-fifth of Ameri can cut up plant production. Canadian production prior to the armistice was 18,000,000 feet, less than one-tenth of the American production in the same period. The attempt of the majority to pick out a few heads of aircraft and hold them responsible for the disappointments in the American program, Is unwar ranted by facta and an absurd injustice. Insofar as we failed to accomplish all we could intelligently expect, the reason is as plain as the sun in the sky. It was inexperience and lack of preparation. "FOOLISH AND ABSURD" 'To try to visit the result of Inexperi ence and Inefficiency on those who hap pened to be-Alied to share responsibili ties and difficulties of aviation and who patriotically a,nd aealously devoted them setves to. the "feervlce, is both foolish and absurd. Let the nation draw an intelli gent, conservative conclusion from the facts, in which -ft may learn a lesson or Importance. To try to distort facts to serve personal animus or partisan ends is art offense against our country." Magee, in a speech opening the debate. declared 143,000,000 feet of airplane lum ber was produced in the Northwest at cost of more than $48,000,000. Four cost-plus contractors received $19,900,000, of which the Slems-Carey-Kerbaugh cor poration got nearly one-half. These con tractors, he said, produced a little over 7 per cent and the rest came from in dependent loggers who, "If they had been organized and concentrated under ex perienced lumbermen, would have pro duced at moderate cost within reasonable time all the aircraft lumber required by the allies and ourselves." Flood of Virginia and Lankford of Georgia next spoke for the minority. MAGEE ASSAILS DISQUE "Those placed in authority by the war department not only had no experience In the lumber business," he said, "but were arrogant, autocratic and operated regardless of law and authority. Those who had no authority to do so ordered construction of railroads In Oregon through cost-plus contractors at large governmental expense and not In the public Interest." , Magee assailed Brice P. Disquegen- eral commanding, for using soldiers at civilian wages, with the approval of John L. Ryan, and expending in wis way over $4,000,000 more than regular army pay when Kerbaugh protested soldier labor was not needed, but was forced by Disque. "Those responsible for this unlawful expenditure should be held strictly ac countable," said Magee.. The New York member said he would be willing to consider It water "gone over the wheel," "except that there ex ist organised, unpatriotic propaganda to discredit Krear'8 committee and make people believe the aircraft program was a success." "Material facts are Undisputed." he said. "1 do not present my personal views or try to influence you. It takes some degree of courage to give the coun try the facts and any member who does so makes himself a target of abuse. but I would be an arrant coward if I shirked the public duty." FB.EAB. CLOSES DEBATE Chairman Frear, In closing debate. termed the record In aviation, "ghastly." showing inefficiency and waste without parallel in annals of war. He ' had not proceeded two minutes before a personal conflict was threat ened between him and Garrett of Tennessee, because Frear said a Btate- ment made yesterday by Garrett was untrue. Garrett made his way down the aisle and faced Frear. with the confusion too gseat to distinguish what was being said. Garrett demanded Frears words be taken down and tense moments finally passed after statements by Gar rett and Frear, Garrett saying he would not stand for having his word chal lenged tn the manner pursued by Frear and later explaining he meant no re flection.. Much of Freafs speech-dealt with war tn the air la France, He aald Amer ica had 213 detective and dangerous air planes on battle . lines when the war closed, and the observation machines be ing turned out were alt of the same usetow type.-, DeHavlland . fours were death traps, be declared, v;-" V-' y Secretary 'Baker wan denounced tot appointing Deeds. Potter and Ryan suo, oeaatv-tlr.aa head of the alrplaa produo , Uoa, because- none toad previous expert ance In aircraft, and charges were re peated oescerntng plaque's conduct of spruce operations tn the Northwest, wJta alleged waste of f83.00O.00O. FBEAB SATS SICOBD PITIABLE DANES DECLARES NAVY SHOULD BE LARGESTIN WORLD SBSSSSBBI . Failure to'Join League Will Ne cessitate Increased Armament, House Committee Is Informed. Washington. March -CU, P.) -Secretary Daniels said It would take four years at least to make thei United - States navy 'Incomparably the biggest In the world," In his tes timony before the house committee today. "You say the United States should have the largest navy If we do not go Into the league? How do you explain our program before the war, when we did not aim to have the largest navy in the world V Representative Hicks,, New Tork, asked. .-"I-ha v-learned a lot during the war, X hope," Daniels replied. "Before the war I thought the people of the larger nations would not permit another great war. I was- mistaken." "How do you reconcile the tact that before the war Great Britain's navy was larger than ours, yet we paid no attention to Itr asked Hicks. "We were not then trying to outstrip Great Britain. Why Bhould we do ao now?" "We should not be influenced by any particular nation." replied Daniels, "but If we are going back to the old con-, dltions in the world, then our country must have a navy unsurpassed by any navy In the world." Representative Butler, Pennsylvania, pointed out that the new British am bassador to the United States, Sir Auckland Geddes, was "quoted as say ing that Great" Britain would not try to outstrip the United States." Daniels replied he did not believe it was official, but Intimated that Great Britain was encouraging her colonies to build naval vessels. With the construction program previ ously authorised in 1918 the additional program recommended by Daniels today would mean an expenditure of $515,000, 000 during the next few yeara Daniels, under questioning, said that with or without the league, the United' States should-have a navy as large as Great Britain, but that If this nation is not In the league It must have a navy in excess of that of any other country. East Is ; Recovering From Havbo Wrought By : Disastrous JJale New Tork, March s. U. P.) The East was slowly recovering tonight from the effects of a gale which swept this region last night and today. , " Ths center, of the : storm, which cre ated havoc In Its march across the eon tinent. had passed out to sea and was menacing shipping off the New England coast as tar eastward as the Grand Banks. ;. At least three deaths resulted from the ' storm, scores were Injured, hun dreds of families were driven from their homes by floods and property damage was estimated at more than a million dollars. Three steamers were driven ashore, but -two were later refloated. The Ori ent, aground near Hampton Roads, Va., bad not been heard from tonight. ' ' Members of House Join in Tribute to Ex-Speaker Clark Washington, March 6. The house to day paid tribute to former Speaker -Champ Clark, who will celebrate his seventieth birthday anniversary tomor row. At the conclusion of a brief speech of congratulation by former Republican Leader James R. Mann of Ilia, members on both sides rose and applauded. Mr. Mann said: "Tomorrow a very honored member of this house reaches the age of three score yeas and ten, an age which is often re ferred to in both scriptural and other writings. I am sure we all felicitate the country on his arrival at that age in Vigorous health physically and a mental alterness never excelled. I refer to the former speaker of this house, the Hon orable Champ Clark." they should have cost, said Frear, and Independent loggers who could have sup plied the lumber needed were set aside in favor of cost-plus contractors. "Pitiable records show that Secretary Baker appointed Deeds, Potter, Ryan and Disque," said Frear, "none of whom knew anything about the business for which they were appointed, and that three of the four cost-plus contractors were completely Ignorant of lumbering. Nothing but failure could have resulted, and a riot of waste during the "expendi ture of over $1,000,000,000 in 700 con tracts was. certain. All the waste could be forgotten, but the people will never forget nor forgive responsible officials who spent a billion dollars and yet failed to supply any American-built fighting planes with which to, protect American flyers arid troops." ' Frear assured tha house thai the In vestigation had been conducted on non partisan lines. Sinnott Reenters Land Settlement Bill for Soldiers Washington. March 6. (WASHING TON NEWS BUREAU OF JOURNAL.) Representative Sinnott today reintro duced the Mendell bill for land settle- i ment for soldiers, ..planning by this means to get It before the house ways j and means committee, where the com mittee of the American Legion desires to appear in its favor. Ths same bill la on the house calendar, where it haa remained ever since it was reported by the public lands committee several months ago. A new breath of life may be given If the bill is now presented before the ways and means committee, where all. soldier aid legislation was lately' referred. Howard Estate $38,070 Papers In the estate of George W. Howard, who died February 7. were filed in probate Saturday afternoon by' Mfs. Minnie Howard, bis widow, who requests appointment as administratrix. The estate is valued at $38,070. Yankees in Turkey Are Reported Safej Washington. March 3.-(1. N. S.) AH Americans ' at Marasch, Turkey, have been safely accounted for, following ihe evacuation of the City by the French, aooordlna- to a dispatch to- the state department today. ; Gerard Is Hi Watertown, S. Dv March 6. (TJ. P.) James w. Gerard.! former ambassador to Germany, and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was taken suddenly ill at Aberdeen and : left for New York today, cancelling fur- i ther speaking engagements. T J a? tn If Good Sight Within Your Reach J mini T ' ' ' ' 'i Z I !.. 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