r 1- CITY EDITION 7"Ae Sunday Journal , U cn of the few thins left that nickel wtn br. And tli bett part of It ta that Tba Bandar Journal . to not only a food, bat It J better, and setting more m all tha Ume, the It ww when for a nickel a fallow aoold ride on a atraataaa a everything. trht ' VTV Mrt 41 - Bntand iu Saoond-Chai llattcf PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL f 14,. 1920. TWENTY PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS. K'V, .Y 1 1 ... 'V VU; -V. W. f Pnfir. Partlexl Omm i..iV" I ' ii i. "" " ' i 1 ' ' '' ' i ' '. ? " .' ISSI " '. ' i .i I ! , Discussion Lasts Hour and Half; Conclusion Reached, but Not i Given Out; President in Fine Spirits; Tells Humorous Story. ! "Bjr Ralph F. Conch I Washington, April 14. U. P.) President Wilaon and his cabinet to 'day heard Attorney General Pal mer's report on the railroad strike. cUscussed the strike and reached some conclusions. Palmer said, fol lowing the cabinet meeting. What the conclusions were Palmer would . not say. However, Palmer, It was learned . authoritatively, reported that the de partment of Justice had evidence that the" communist party was behind the strike; and steps to deal with this In fluence were authorized. Arrests may be made before the end of the day. Other cabinet members said the strike situation was practically the sole topic of discussion. " Thej cabinet meeting lasted for an hour jand a half. All the secretaries declared W(lon seemed In the best of health. It was his first cabinet meeting in eight months. "The spirit of the president was fine," ' said Secretary Daniels. "He laughed - frequently and related several humorous torles." -j- 4The president was attired In a cuta way coat and grey troupers,, which he Si wont to wear on ell simitar occasions, members nuld. The study In which the gathering took place was fitted with a long table sim ilar to that of the regular cabinet room In the executive offices and 'the mem- bei'S aat around it. - There were foar new members at to days session Secretaries Colby, Alex- ander, Payne and Meredith, t Soon after the cabinet meeting the ''president telegraphed members of the railroad labor board, appointed, yester . day, to come to Washington at once. prepared to take up tha wage contro-- versyi as soon as their nominations were confirmed by the senate. i At the same. Ume the senate interstate commerce committee announced it had ordered the' nominations reported favor , ably and rhe senate went Into executive session presumably to discuss them. Washlnilari, ApJll U. (Vti. S.) Set tlement Of the nationwide railroad strike now rests with, the railroad labor board, appointed 1y President Wilson under the Cummlns-Rech bill. President Wilson today telegraphed to the members to come to Washington immediately. 3 ! It lis understood that the cabinet pro posed a plan, for an Immediate meeting of the board with Secretary of Labor Wilson and Attorney General Palmer to agree on the temporary wage adjust ments which shall be effected Immedi ately.; . 8uch an adjustment, it is declared. Would allay unrest and would result In many of the strikers returning to their workM . ' The senate met to confirm the nom- (Concluded on ra Fourtern, Column Two) TWo Alleged Chicken ! Thieves Are Taken i ' 1 1 Richard, White and C. C. Beck were arrested early this morning by Motor cyclemen Wiles and Mathews on charges of stealing chickens from a farm house .long; the .Linn ton road. Both men were taken! to the police station, where they are said to have Confessed the larceny Of several chickens. Police believe the men have been implicated in several pcultry escapades In the suburbs during the last few weeks, although they stout ly denied mny previous thefts. Journal Gets t s at New Service Is Beginning Friday, April IS, the news facilities of The Journal Will be aug mented by the complete leased wire re port Of the United News. The leased wlrj system of the United News reaches from ! coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico with experienced corre- . spondents in the Important news cen ters of the country. Among these writers are William Slav ens McNutt, who is specialising on artt clej pertinent to the industrial situation - of the country : Robert J. 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Th Journal offers Its readers the mos comprehensive news service of any ; newspaper. In the Oregon- country. Its "news tesources Include - the complete ily leased wire reports of. theUnited WINS ILLINOIS PRIMARIES jryi OVERNOR FRANK O. LOWDEN, who won first place Ii I in the presidential primaries' in Illinois Tuesday by a large vote. Governor Lowderi jhas long been conceded to be Illinois' favorite son in the Republican race; and is one of the strong contenders for national honors. i - sn bmimi nmmmmmmmBmmmmm , -" , y , "'' ' C' w ' ' !! ' ' , ,' " ' V - ' ! Li ' K - 1 $-m. s ' y I -t ( r J v ' ; v- ; , , y ' ! -; n:V:-i ! 1 ' $ V iA& N;W .... -wmmo.". " mTTTlt-'n j WSHasSM j' J :' ' . ' . a - f : r-? hoto t Harris gwiixt; eopyrlsht. ' ' lj " ; 4..'- 1 V.' - . . . . . ! ( By; J. Bart Campbell Washington.' AprUi4. It' N. S.) The -senate foreign relations com mlttecjtefused this afternoon to sus tain the charge of Attorney General A. ; Mltche 11 Pajmer thatr Jjudvig. C. A. 1 K. Martens, American represen tatlve of - the Russian sWriet repub lic, was attempting to overthrow the United States '.government, by force or violence. The committee also declined to accept the report , of Senator Moses, Republican of ; New Hampshire chairman of the sub-committee which Investigated Mar tens' activities In this .country as Moses submitted . it to the committee. The committee rewrote and modified the report before' agreeing to report it favorably to the senate. Senate Confirms Two Nearby-Postmasters Washington. April 14. (WASHING TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL) The senate today confirmed Ernest J. Schneider . as postmaster at Myrtle Point, Or., and Charles P. Robbins at Vaider. Wash. Star Writers e t n ft ft World-Wide Press. International News Service, Uni versal Service, United News, and the Chicago Dally Nrvi fnrtm wa service, The Journal Is the only Port ia no paper to maintain an exclusive Washington Bureau. It also receives the daily David Lawrence news letter from Washington. . OBEOON DISTRICT COTERED And all this is in andltlhn in llik news reports of a mm n news writers In the home office and of more man zau correspondents In the cltlen and towns of the Oregon country. xj. me teuure iieia, too, Tne Journal leads. Every day It carries McManus's Inimitable comic strip, "Bringing Up Father." and other comic features; The Stroller's column of quaint comment, Thornton Burgess' bedtime story for the little folk; Fred Lockley's comment and observations of people and events In the Oregon country, etc. The Sunday Journal includes a maga tln of features and photographs from home and foreign fields, a colored comic section that Includes four of the best fun feature to be had and Ring Lardner's weekly letter. Its many news depart ments contain a wealth of well-selected material, displayed and arranged In the most convenient and attractive fashion. It is a Quality paper and sells for 6 cents. 1 The Journal, too. has exclusive serr bi In Its field from -the two leading Dhotoaraohlc newa niu!.4 in k - a . .. wvwk try, the International Film Service and 1 1 J - ini . V ' m miia v MU w ins ' OCT Vice. ! When It comes to thai make for tha complete newspaper. The Discussion 6f the gigantic $10, 000,000 pbtt Improvement project recently submitted by the Industrial committee of 15 will be held Thurs day morning at 10 o'clock In a pub lic hearing In. the council chamber of the city hall. The plan provides for the acquisition of Swan Island, Mocks bottom and Guilds lake to ward the development of a deep water harbor. This is the first hearing on the project and Mayor Baker Is extremely anxious to have all interested parties present that various features of the plan may be discussed. . Controversy over the appointment of the members of the consolidated dock commission and port of Portland com mission by the legislature looms up- as certain to come before Thursday's hear ing. . The Industrial committee's report pro vides that members of both bodies shall be appointed by the legislature. Commissioner Barbur and others are known to favor the appointment of the consolidated ' commission ' by the gov ernor in order to remove any chance of political log rolling which might come out of legislative selection.. It is understood that amendments to the plan that are necessary will be made by the city council following pub lic hearings. Steps will be taken later to submit the project to the electorate at the November election. The plan already has the approval of the city council, the Port of Portland commission and com mission of public docks. Alien Ban Lifted To Aid Harvesting Of Sugar Beet Crop Wash In a-ton. Anrll 14 it v s i Pendlne action bv conn-Ma nr Kit v. secretary of labor regarding the admis sion oi laborers for agricultural pur poses. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post this aftel-nnnn inBtriKtrf ftiM. mlssfoner general of Immigration to ad mit temporarily during the beet sugar season of 1920 . agricultural- laborers from Mexico and Canada fni th ,slve purpose of cultivating and harvest ing oeet sugar crops in Colorado, Wyo ming, Utah and Nebraska. .At the saml time nrovision wa mari fnr tTia.4unt of 'such laborers at the conclusion of tne narveatmg oi crops. Washington' Veterans Demand Y. M. 0. A. to Return War Profits Yakima, Wash.. April 14. (U. P.)-U Posts of the American Legion and Vet erans of Foreign Wars throughout the state have been asked to Join in a cam paign to demand from the Y. M. C. A. a return of 117,000.000 alleged "war profits." t-.'. . The Initial resolution was passed here by Wharton post. V. F. W. It recites that people who donated to the Y. dar ing the war did not expect It to make a profit out of the A. K. F. and states that such profits should be returned, to ttrvlc' organisations. v Etionto CHICAGO SPLIT Remarkable Feature of Primaries in Lowden's Home State Is Big Vote Written in for Johnson, Whose Name Is Not on Ballot. Chicago, April 14. (I. N. S.) Governor Frank O. Lowden today is the winner of the presidential In dorsement of the Republicans of II- J linois, his home state. His plural ity in Tuesday's, preferential prima ries is more than 80,000, according to the latest returns. His victory over General Leonard A. Wood, his nearest competitor. Is not a clean-cut one, however. The latter swept Chicago and the rest of Cook county by a plurality of 27,533 votes, surging into victory In this section of the state in the heat of one of the mot bitterly-fought contests ever staged in Chicago. WRITE ITS JOHNSON'S NAME Despite the number of votes polled by Lowden and Wood, however. Senator Hiram Johnson supplied a sensation. With his name absent from the ballots, no less than 40,000 voters in Cook coun ty's, ten congressional districts wrote It in as their choice for president, a result unparalleled in the history of Illinois politics. In the Democratic primaries latest re turns Indicate that Herbert Hoover will win by a small" margin, with Governor Edwards, Attorney General Palmer, W. G. McAdoo, William Jennings Bryan and James Hamilton Lewis receiving most of the remainder of the votes. In the Republican primaries, the re turns from 5?48 precincts out of a total of 6690 precincts in the entire state show that Governor Lowden polled 222, 982 votes. General Wood 157,868 and Senator Johnson .43.826. . This gives Low den a plurality of S5.ll 4 votes and with this . as a basis it is figured that com plete returns will show him a winner by more than 80,000. The following are complete returns from Cook county's 10 congressional dis tricts, which include Lake county : Men. Wn. Total. Wood . i. 8T.BU 18.866 105,877 Lowden ,i. 84,245 1 4.099 78.144 Johiwcn 33,518 5.365 40,811 Wood's plurality In oook county, 27.583. ' DELEGATION DIVIDED Governor Lowden's victory means that the Illinois delegation of St to the Re publican convention will be divided about as follows, if all the delegates follow the preferential vote cast: i For Lowden, 40 for Wood, 17 ; for Johnson, 1. : ' Eight delegates-at-large remain to be Concluded ob Page Two, Column Four) la. .weeping iavesi.iga.uun oy mayor ! Baker to determine if Portland land lords are collecting exorbitant rents. was authorized this morning in a resolution submitted by the mayor and passed unanimously by the city council. The resolution was drawn by Deputy City Attorney Stanley Myers. Deputy City Attorney Lionel C. Mackay will work directly under Mayor Baker and investigate conditions over the entire city. Numerous complaints have been placed before the mayor dur ing the last few months and he Is-determined to Investigate fully with the idea of punishing offenders. All measures and remedies for the re lief of tenants, will be exercised, ac cording to provisions of the resolution. If necessary headquarters w-ill be pro vided in the city hall where tenants may bring their complaints for investigation. Several city employes will, be placed at Mackay s command If needed. "We are not Jumping at conclusions. said Mayor Baker, "but simply taking It on ourselves to verify numerous com plaints that have come to us. High rents alleged to be charged in various parts of the city are positively crlminaj. The press has called our attention to the matter time after time I say the hour has arrived w-hen we must act." II. S. Army on Rhine Costs $1,200,000 a Day, Asserts Kahn Washington. April 14. (ti N. S.) The American army of occupation along the Rhine, Germany, consisting of 18,000 troops, is costing about $1,200,000 a day. Representative KeJin, chairman of the house military affairs committee, today told the house. "While it was arranged that this ex pense should be borne by the German government I fear that much of it will fall ultimately upon the American taxpayer,"- said Kajpti. Germany has paid 483,000,000 marks on account; he s&id. He expressed the view also that the United States would get little by way of repar ation from Germany. ' Paper Consumption Exceeds Production New York. April 14. (U. P.) Amer ica's production of paper of all kinds during 1919 was 35,543 tons under "the total consumption, President George W. Sisson of the American Pulp and Paper association declared today in addressing the Technical Paper Manufacturing as sociation,' meeting here today. . . LANDLORDS WILL REINVESTIGATED 25th Wife of Reputed Bigamist, Murderer and Bunko Operator Said to Be Katheriqe Kruse; 9 of His Wives Are Missing. Los Angeles, April 14. The twenty-fifth wife of Andrew Watson, al leged "modern Bluebeard," appeared today. A telegram from J. P. Welch, chief of police of Nelson, B. C, said Wat son married Miss Katherine Kruse there in 1913. An accurate descrip tion of the prisoner now being held here on a charge of bigamy, was contained in the telegram. The latest Mrs. Watson, whose home is at Salem, Or., is said to be on her way to Los Angeles and is expected to arrive here Friday. Sheriff John C. Cllne declares that evidence which will corroborate his murder theory in the mysterious dis appearance of at least nirte of Watson's wives was uncovered in . a Santa Monica hotel today. ETIDENCE ACCUMULATES With the discovery of the additional wives" came also today a mass of evi dence regarded as the most important since investigation was started of the sinister case. A woman's blood-stained fur collar and Bilk shirt were found among "Bluebeard's" effects in a newly discovered rendervous where he was reg istered as "James Lawrence, Oakland, Jan. 21. 1920l" - The articles showed at tempts had been made to remove the spots. Photographs of a number of his "wives" and pictures of several children were aiso among items regaraea as im portant evidence. Also found in Watson's trunk was a stained silk handkerchief marked with the embroidered initial, "B." This was believed to have belonged to Bertha Goodnlck, one of the missing, women. MAT BE ORIGINAL WIFE The first and original wife was be lieved to have been disclosed, by this (Concluded am Pass Fonrtaen; Colama One) AT STREET CURB C. B. Smith, aged 77, was almost Instantly killed at 9 o'clock Tues day n4ght at Sandy road and Cast Sixtieth street, when he was struck by an automobile driven "by L. W. Thompson, 63 Eighteenth street north. The body was dragged sev eral feet by the automobile. Smith, who was the father of O. M. Smith, 777 East Salmon street, also manager of Nlcoll'a tailor shop, was stepping out from the curb to board a Rose City Park car. The automobile was traveling just ahead of the car, and the driver failed to see Smith, according to his report. INQUEST IS PLANNED Patrolmen Russell and Smythe inves tigated the accident and took Thompson and his wife, who was In the automo bile with him when the accident oc curred, to the police station, where they were released pending the coroner's in vestigation. An inquest probably will be held tonight. Smith's right leg was broken, his right cheek torn and there were body bruises. The coroner ascribes death due to shock. The body was first taken to the residence of R. H. Tucker, 1564 Sandy boulevard, by the car crew and L. C. Nero. r. W. R. Laldlaw, 1614 Sandy boulevard, responded at once but was unable to do anything for Smith. BRAKES FOUND PERFECT Investigation of the , patrolmen showed that the automobile was travel ing west on Sandy road, and there were no skid marks In the street. Smith ap parently was about four and a half feet from the curb when he was struck and the automobile proceeded about 30 feet before It was stopped. The patrol men tested the brakes and found them in good working order, 'i Thompson claims he was not traveling faster than 10 miles an hour. Mrs. F. M. Conway, residing at the Cornelius hotel, told traffic officials that she saw the automobile before and after the accident. She denies wit nessing the accident. Mrs. Conway es timated the speed of the automobile at 10 miles per hour. Thompson said in his report that he has driven automobiles for 10 years and this Darticular machine for eitrht j months. He carries no Insurance, has ' . m , n a , J A M t .. , r never ru me roivino iramc oral nance and says he has never had an accident before. Smith had been visiting A- L. Strom berg, 1584 Sandy boulevard, and was returning to his apartment at 422 Sec ond street when the fatal accident hap pened. He was carrying a cane and umbrella. Blossom Day Put Off for Week Due To Bloom Shortage Salem, April 14. Because of the backward season and the lack of sun shine and warm weather necessary to bring out the blossoms in the prune or chards of this section of the Willamette valley. It has been found necessary to postpone BIossom day" until April 25. Just one week from the date originally set. A Yew days of sunshine, it is ex plained, would be sufficient to bring out the petals in their uii glory, v a. , AUTO KILLS MAN Potato Boycott Launched; local Housewives Join In Cost Campaign Boycott on potatoes until prices become reasonable today became ef fective in several hundred Portland households, following action taken Tuesday afternoon by the Portland Housewives' Council at a meeting In the Central library. Dr. Nina Wood, named to handle the campaign, will appear before civic organisations all over the city and ask housewives to quit using potatoes. The housewives asserted that they believed gouging is responsible for abnormal quotations. CALIFORNIA BOYCOTT ON Mrs. J. C. Stewart, recently returned from Los Angeles, sponsored the boy cott move. She declared that an abso lute boycott is effective In the Southern California metropolis. A Japanese, she maintained, is holding the return on his 6000 acres to raise prices artificially. Rather than submit, consumers are sub stituting macaroni, rice and other dishes for the potato. Sugar Is one of the cheapest commodi ties produced, declared John Campbell, Java sugar grower, in a speech to the housewives. American syndicates, he maintained, cause high sugar prices be cause of the big margins they absorb. JAVA MAS BIO STOCK Java has sugar aplenty. Why Amer ica doesn't get It, he said, must be ac counted for by shippers.. Refining. is In expensive, de declared, and he expressed a wish to see American cities establish refineries for local use. The cost of refining sugar Is cent a pound. Campbell said, contradicting popular belief that It is refining which causes prices to aviate. SUPPLY Iff VALLEY Interior Oregon communities, par ticularly the cities and towns In the southern part of the Willamette val ley were beginning to feel the full stress of the Portland switchmen's strike this morning, "with only a few pcal freight trains moving to supply their needA, Although the "rebel" walkout has been directed primarily against Port land, little affect has been felt here because of the vast supplies of food at hand and river steamer service, but It is being felt In the Willamette valley. Practically all the Southern Oregon towns are running out of perishable goods and meat, according to reports received in Portland. Strike clouds permit a glint of light locally, but for the general situation the clouds are lowering. Reports were received by the local offices of the Southern Pacific this morning that the entire force of switchmen at Ashland walked out Tuesday evening. The walkout at Ashland brings addi tional difficulties, as It ties up all emergency local shipments either north or south at that point. Shipments of local freight, except perishables, are being received subject to Indefinite de lay by the S. P., and several stub local trains were dispatched to Willamette valley points Tuesday, but not suffi cient for entire relief. One carload of l'vestock and one of meat was shipped today for the first time since Saturday. (Concluded on Pace Two, Column Bix) Sir Oliver Lodge Is Here; Is Certain the Dead Live and Speak Sir Oliver Lodge, noted English scient ist and one of the foremost believers In spiritualism, arrived shortly after noon today from San Francisco. Thursday night he will lecture at The Auditorium on "The Evidences for Survival." With Sir Oliver Is Lady Lodge and their business manager. They are regis tered from London. Latest developments in psychical re search are dealt with by Sir Oliver. He is lecturing In almost every important city in the United States and Canada during his American tour. Mere Clocks? Bunk! Set Your Watches By Noon Airplane Mere clocks? Bunk ! Set your watch by airplane. Every noon, hereafter, an airplane from the Oregon. Washington at Idaho Airplane Co.'s airdrome will soar. over Portland's downtown district. The pilots will try to be directly over Broad way and Washington- streets at 12 noon. Pilot F. S. McClurg. former captain in the British air force, set the time today. He was up 15 minutes, the lowest altitude being 600 feet and his highest. 1500 feet Efficiency Records Are to Be Destroyed Disposal of efficiency records estab lished in 1914 by the New York bureau of municipal research at a cost of $4000 was authorised this morning by vote of the city council. Commissioners Barbur and Bigelow. appointed some time ago to investigate the reports, urged the council to do away with the records. They were installed to stimu late efficiency' among employes and have rested in the office of the civil service board for the last -few years unused. The board recommended some ttma ago. that they be destroy td, STRIKE CUTS FOOD AS A 1ES Refineries Boost Prices Again, Forcing Portland to Pay 19 and 20 Cents Retail to "Dis courage Consumption." Portland consumers must pay from 19 cents to 20 cents a pound for sugar as a result of new boosts In price by "refineries. Frankly ad mitting that 10 cents a pound gives them reasonable returns, the refin ers have raised prices In what they claim is an attempt to decrease con sumption and conserve sugar sup plies. Taking the ! figures bf the refiners themselves, at! the present rate of con sumption the American people will pay 11,000,000,000 a year in excess profits to the refiners for the privilege of re ducing consumption. Portland wholesalers said today a re tail price of 25 cents a pound is not an improbability. One big refinery, the Western Sugar Refining company, has notified the Portland trade from its California head quarters of art advance of $1.25 per 100 pounds. This; places the refinery price at $17 per 100 pounds, the highest figure eyer known on . the Pacific coast. While only one refinery had notified the trade of the advance, others are ex pected to follow with still greater rises. In order to ! tteep down the price of sugar here as long as possible, Port land wholesale grocers have been sell ing their product 20 cents per 100 pounds below the price asked at other points where the freight rate from the refineries Is th same as that to Port land. Seattle and Tacoma consumers have paid that much more than Port land. Portland consumers have been getting their sugar at the same, price as 'those in San Francisco where no freight tate is Dara. Now It is declared by wholesalers (hat because of the higher price they must pay for sugar, they are unable to sell supplies and pay the freight by adding only 1 cent to the refinery price. They propose that they be given the extra 20 cents per 100 ; pounds as charged by other cities. Pacific coast refiners have seemingly been able to sifiure -all- the eugar4hey neeaea. xney got raw mock irom tne (Concluded on ue Eight, Column Tire) REAL MAN'S MAN "Herbert Hoover is a mere roan, but he is a man's man," Ralph C. Ely told his audience at the Central library hall Tuesday night when he gave the first public address in be half of the Hoover candidacy for president in Multnomah county. "The women of the United States are Interested In his candidacy," he con tinued, "because they helped him feed the world." In his address Ely discussed the his tory of our country, and Its relation to world affairs, showing the continual march of progress forward and the par ttclpatlon of this country In that march. WASHINGTON 18 lAUDED "I nave often wondered, he said, "that George Washington seemed to "have just happened to be there' in the early days of this nation. He was the one man, by training and by tempera ment, needed to guide the infant nation upward. I have had the same thought about Lincoln, and of how be stood ready to take his place In world history when the great need lor him and his genius confronted us. We have con tended that these great men belonged to us, but it seems to me that they be long to the world. They are not our leaders alone but are ' world leaders raised by providence to help worjc out the destiny of the world." The speaker then traced world condi tions prior to and during the great war, the overthrow of ancient dynasties and governments and the establishment of new ones. "What," he said, "are the problems of the future? It is a bold man who will tell them or who will predict the future. It is a new world, and its problems are new," he contended. NEW HEADS NEEDED "The men who are to solve them must be new men, trained to the new prob lems and the new thought. The old problems are behind us. We need now, (Concluded on Pace Two. Column Three) American Navy to Be Supreme in 1923, House Members Tald Washington, April 14. The American navy will be supreme on the seas by the end of 1923. Representative Brltton of Illinois, ranking Republican on the house naval affairs committee, made this prediction today and backed it up with .charts which he exhibited to members of the house In the t peakers lobby. Comparisons ihown on the chart were : Total weight (Of broad sAe projectiles from American fleet, 688.C2S pounds as against 414,080; pounds for the British first line ships, a superiority of 22 per cent. i v ' r 1000 Switchmen Out , San Franclscj, April .14. (U. , P.) Approximately 1000 railway .'switchmen were reported to be on strike in the San JTxaacisce district . today. ' SON II! CONSUMER IIS ARE RELEASED FROM PRISON Great Demonstration Is Staged, at Mount JoyJail'When Order- Is Received; Bonar Law Urges More Ameliorative Treatment Dublin. April 14. All the Sinn " : Fein prisoners In Mount Joy Jail ... whose imprisonment caused a gen- ; eral strike to be declared through-" out. Ireland, were released from prison today by the Brltsh govern- ment. The Kreenrnan's Journal announced this afternoon that the Irish general strike Is officially ended, "as a result -of the surrender of the British govern ' ment." - There was a great demonstration at Dublin today with' thousands of per sons parading through the streets. There were fears of a collision between the " - crowds end troops. Crowds gathered outside of the Mount Joy Jail, but were urged by Archbishop Walsh to return home. t; A. Bonar Law announced In common " that tha lord lieutenant of Ireland has , -directed the prison board that all per sons arrested under the defense of the realm act should "receive ameliorative " treatment from the state untn they are . , -convinced of the charges against them." This means that the government will not treat political prisoners as criminals. It ' -was such treatment that the Sinn Fein era protested against. A hunger strike -was begun by the Sinn Fein prisoners to compel the govenment to treat them as political offenders. A number of jthe hunger strikers may ( die. It was reported this afternoon. Four ' of them were said to have collapsed en tirely and others were In the last stages of exhaustion. The first Irish soviet has been formed at Oalway. The workers who joined the Irish general strike formed a local coun- .' ell and announced they would control the city for the duration of the strike. According to the fDslly Herald, the official organ of the Labor party, the Council of the Federation of Railway men had demanded that a meeting of the "triple alliance" be held to support the Irish general strike. - - The "triple alliance" Js the most ' powerfal -taber ' ci gsmletlenr n 'lf set ; Britain. It is composed of the railway ... M et kers the coal miners and the trans . ! port workers, t , - A report was circulated here that the ; Irish strikers. had cut the telephone end telegraph wire -connecting Northern and Southern Ireland, but this was de- , nled by the postofflce department The (Concluded on'Ptse Three,' Column Two) GILL COJ TO ERECT 10-STORY BUILDING The J. K. GQ1 company proposes to erect a 10 story building costing In ex- , j cess of $300,000 on the . quarter block at the southeast earner of Stark and Fifth streets. Negotiations for a long term lease of the property are being closed today and it Is understood that building . operations- will begin immediately. . -V- The property being leased belongs to the King estate and has a frontage of 100 feet on Stark and 100 feet on Fifth street. The ground Is occupied by a Vi threo story brick building. The owners are understood to have placed a vslue of f 400,000 on the property a few months ago during tentative negotiations for its purchase by outside capital. Rec ords of the county assessor show an as sessed value of. $201,000 on the ground and $16,660 on the building, heing on a basis of 76 per cent of the actual value of the ground and 60 per cent of the actual value of the building. The Seeley-Dresser store occupies half . of the ground floor of the building with a frontage on Stark street and also a portion of the i second and sll of the third floor. Clark, Kendall & Co. has a three year lease on a 25 by 60 foot room at the corner and other tenants are Leonard's cigar store, the Smith McCoy Electric company, the Foley VanDyke company and the Fred A. Jacobs company. The QUI company proposes to occupy the major portion of the new building. Passing Bad Checks Admitted by Youths, Detectives Declare - Said to have donfeesed 60 illegal check passings since January, Lawrence War ren, 11, and LeBoy Crohn, 13. today are In police custody while detectives check up their activities. . The boys, according to their alleged confession, "worked" grocers and small merchants all over Portland. One boy would enter a store and purchase about $1 worth of groceries, In payment ten dering a $S or $6.60 check. The second boy would enter the store while the first V was making his purchase, and identity the customer aa a new neighbor. Warren's father Is William Warren, ??S2 Foster road; Le Roy's father Is S. & Crohn of 1084 East Alder street. Salesmen Indorse State Millage Tax- Salem. April The measure on the May primary ballot involving Increased tax levies for the Support of elementary schools, the three (State schools and the Increase of stata indebtedness for road purposes were indorsed , by the 8alem Salesmen's club, Monday nig oV -, -i . . ;' i- . , . rIS,