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Newspaper Page Texta 1C " - The Statesman receives the leased wire report of the Asso ciated Press; the rea'est and most reliable restf association in the world. in TUB WKATUKll . Thursday fair; gentle northeaster ly wind. . j HlXTY-lvlGHTH YKAll SO. H KAIJvM, OIIKGON, Tlll'llSllAV MOIlMMi. NOYK.MItKIt 21, 118. rnic-K: nVK CKXTH. MSI HIHB LUXEMBURG AID H WILD ILCOI AH VERSAILLES IS PREPARING FOR CONGRESS Probable All Countries That Declared War Against Cen tral Powers Will Be Al lowed Seat at Table. CZECHS AND JUGO-SLAVS ALStJ TO BE ADMITTED Voting Strength Not to Be Dependent on Size of delegations There T A T? TQ Vnv 50 iTriA rltr nf Wr- allies la preparing to receive the del- egaies vo vut iwmci cute. u? Hhr&tlnns are ex Dec ted to be held in the Grand Trianon, part of the! chateau of Versailles, once occupied by Marie Antoinette. The practical details of the con gress, such as the countries to be 'represented, the size of the delega tions and the voting strength of the countries are the subject of much dis cussion in diplomatic quarters. It is the general belief that the countries . represented will include all which de clared war against the. central pow ers - and those states which were formed as a result of the war, the Ciecho-Slovaks and JO go-Slavs. Besides . Japan the eastern coun tries will include Siara and China. The presence of China probably will V . r. Has rlnr nn tho future of KiaO- Chau, which has undergone a change since China declared war on Ger many, thus cancelling the lease wereby Germany held Kiao-Chau be- " fore Japan occupied the port at tue The size of the delegations doubt less will be left to the various coun tries, but rotlng strength will not be dependent upon the size of the delegation. However, the same rot lng strength for all countries is con sidered open to objection as giving Haiti, Montenegro and countries or tat size the same strength as Great Britain. France, the United States aaa other great powers. These are among the practical de tails likely to be adjusted before the session Is opened. After the adjust meat among the allies, it Is probable . that the representatives of the cen tral powers will be called in for the arrangement of preliminaries. It is , expected that all the central powers will be renresented. for while armis tlces were signed separately with Germany. Austria. Bulgaria and Tur key, It is not anticipated that separ ate congresses will be necessary. It Is believed that the final con- . elusions will be embodied In two . treates, the first to be concluded " early, covering the essentials, and the I second covering the larger general questions after a more thorough dis cussion. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. -There were no developments on the surface today In the preparations for Presi dent Wllson'a trip to France and for Socialist Head Suicides; Runs Auto Into River PORTLAND, Nov. 20. Victor J. McCone, former secretary of tha Socialist party in Oregon, drove his automobile into the Wil lamette river and was drowned tonight, following his arrest on a statutory charge. The arresting officer had told McCone he might take his car to a garage before going to jaiL In stead, McCone headed for the river, plunging off the Sellwood ferry slip. The body was recov ered. WILL CHART AIR TO PREPARE FOR FLIERS OF PEACE R. L. STEVENS IS SLATED FOR MURPHY'S JOB Former Multnomah County Sheriff to Assume Duties before January 1 COUNTY OVER IN CAMPAIGN FOR SOLDIERS CLAIM BREYERS WAGE WAR ON GOOD BUSINESS GERMAN PLANTS START TO RUN AT FULL BLAST PLAN IS MADE KNOWN Quota Surpassed With Mar gin of Thirty Per Cent and Fifty Per Cent Excess Is Looked for With Returns. Governor Withholds Com ment, But Source of In formation Reliable Trained Army Pilots to Be Set Upon Delicate and Difficult Task Anti-Liquor Attitude of Firms or Employes Resulted in Attacks DISCLOSURES ARE MADE SUM IS LARGEST THAT COUNTY HAS DONATED Former Sheriff Robert L. Stevens of -Multnomah county will become warden of the Oregon State peniten tiary some time before the first of the year, to succeed Charles A. Mur phy, Incumbent, who will be asked by Governor Withycombe to resign. This Information became known from a reliable source yesterday, and while the governor himself declined to tonunent upon this cssihllity when it was suggested to him yester day. It came from a source which Is unimpeachable and may be taken as an accepted fact. Vnrmr sheiiff Stevens nas oeen ...Min. in Vow YorK CUV lor inr past few years where he Is connected All AIR I AMCC with a manufacturing concern, i nai " I tin ..til QM.nt 1 ho annointment. how- 1IC 111 v-v tr " ' r ' ever. also became known yesterday from the same source and it is ex- i mi tr nrtrnn mrith- ' . a wm . a I DCt'irU lie ill aill'C 1 " tVery feature Ot ethereal in the next few weeks to prepare to take over tne auues 1 More Than Eighty Per Cent of Contributions to the Cause in Cash Industrial- Germany .Already Coming Back Squarely on Peace Basis IS NO UNEMPLOYMENT METZ, PIVOT OF HUN ARMS NOW FRENCH Marshal Petain at Head of Poilus Makes Entry Into Town at 2 OXIock Yester day Mid Oration. 'Preference to Friends' Seems to Have Been Slogan Adopted Declared Fighting Men Will Rapidly Adapt Selves to Conditions MAP Travel for Peace Time to Be Gone Over in connection of the peniten- (Continued on page six) WASHINGTON Not. 20. In pre paration for the development of aer onautics for peace time purposes, trained air pilots of the United States army will make a series of cross country reconnaissance flights to chart Important air lanes, compile air maps, locate landing: fields and select sites for airdromes. The war department announced tonight that, beginning Friday, army planes from flying fields ki various parts of the county will oegin a se ries of nights between tne principal cities in their districts for the chart ing ot air lanes .that will eventually become a part of a "great cnain ot air Unking every Important comma- nltT in the country." The recon naissance work, it is saia, wouia ix? extended as fast as arrangements can be made.; From a military standpoint, the announcement said, the work will be analogous to that performed In the past by cavalry, now supplanted by airnlanes as the eyes or tne army. Colonel F. M. Davis, head of the training section of the air service, has been placed in charge of the rwork. ' - - QUEEN TO VISIT ENGLAND. MADRID. Nov. 20. A rumor was eirenlated tonight that oueen ic tnrii intended to visit tngiana. Queen Victoria Is a daughter of th late Frince Henry of Dattenburg and Princess Beatrice, a daughter of the late Queen Victoria of Great Britain. with the handling tlarv Warden Murnhy s resignation wh be asked on the ground that the bus iness administration of the prison under his management has not been a success and that the costs at the institution have been mounting an out of oroDortion to the increased costs which have been shown in con nation with the expends of other Institutions during a similar period. This was conceded by the governor In nn Interview tecentlr to be the only basis on which he would seek to oust Murphy from his position. Coupling this with the latest d-vtl opments In prison affairs it is easily deduced that this will be tne reason for the iroDf tive change Governor Withycombe and Ml Stevens have been (low fri-nds for a great many years. The former sheriff came to Oiegon from the east manv vears mko and accepted a pol tion with the Ladd & Tilton bank where he acted as teller for a con siderahle Derimi of his life. He was elected and re-elected sheriff of Mult nomah county, holding that position for three terms. After retiring from the shrievalty he gave consideration to becoming a candidate for governor and let It be known that he would orobablv run. but an advantageous business situation in the east causal him to withdraw his name before he actually got into the gubernatorial race. He then left for New York. where h has since been residing As sheriff Mr. Stevens made an excellent record, and become promi nently known in that connection all over the country. He has been suc cessful in a business way as well as in an official capacity and owns con sidetable . property in Portland Friends of the governor express With the completion of the United war fund campaign, authenticated reports made by Robert C. Paulus, auditor for the campaign. Indicate that Marlon county's contribution to the merger fund reached the grand total of $48,660.88 last night with many reports in the county incom plete. This sum is $11,010 in excess of the quota $37,650 and represents 130 per cent. Auditor Paulus says that when all reports are In he feels confident that Marlon county will hive raised sojnewhere between 140 and 160 per cnt. Salem has contributed IZ6.117.88. The city's qudta was $25,000. The county was asked for an oversub scription of BO per cent. Notwithstanding the fact that the total for the united campaign will In all probability reach $55,000 or more the sum already raised is the largest sum which Marion county has yet contributed to any war activity. In excess of 80 per cent of the money subscribed In Marlon county was in cash. The several war campaigns con ducted In Salem resulted as follows: United war fund campaign: quota. 37.650 (Incomplete); subscribed. $48,660.88. First Red Cross campaign: quota. $35,000; subscribed, $47,000. Army Y. M. C. A.: Quota, $!,- 000; subscribed. $15,650. Second Red Cross campaign: Quo ta, $30,000; subscribed. $42,232.74. 4 CT D LI r French Front, is in Fn'jco Hospital Now :1N FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. Twenty-five young veterans of the battles of Soissons. Cha teau Thierry, and the Somme. all cVwed as casualties arrived here today for treatment in the letterman Kneral hopltal at the Presidio. Amone them were Corporals John S.- Dickson and Roger O'Mera. Portland. Or.: Private Ficd Schmidt, Salem. Ore. WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Evi dence relating to political activities 1 of brewers and their alleged efforts to boycott firms and Individuals an tagonistic to the liquor business was adduced today before the senate committee Investigating brewers' propaganda and the purchase ot the Washington Times by Arthur Brisbane. Major E. Jowry Humes, who Is conducting the. inquiry for the com mittee, also undertook to show froi.i documents produced by officers of the I'nlted States Brewers' associa tion, a connection between that or ganization and the German-American Alliance. The charter of the alliance was revoked recently by congress after a senate committee had Inves tigated Its activities. Major Humes put Into the record lists of candidates for public offices which, he said, were to be supported bv the brewers association and the alliance, and also a statement which he asserted was prepared for C. J. Hexamer, Philadelphia, former presi dent of the alliance, at the office of the brewers' association. The state ment. Major Humes declared, was German propaganda. Only two witnesses Hogh F. Fox of New York, iwcretary of the brew ers' national organization, and John Gardiner. Philadelphia, former chair man of the organization committee, were examined today. Fox was questioned at length re- jjardin the war said to have been waged by brewers on antagonistic firms and Individuals. Pome flm named were the John Wanamaker company, the t adiuac, raraara, .-Na tional and Reo automobile compa nies, the H. J. Helm company. Good rich Tire company. American Rolling Mills. Mlddleton. Ohio Fox Type writer company, Maryland ft Balti more ;auaitr company, rrorior CONSECRATES VICTORY OF ALLIES IN STRUGGLE (B Te A$x-latfd Pret) RERUN. Sunday. Nov. 17. via Am sterdam. Nov. 20. Most of the large industrial plants in and about Betlin alreadv are working. No unemplay- nient Is reoorted as a result of the cessation of war Industries. SlKi3iuiind Bcrgmaan. who t sad to once have been connected wua Thomas A. Edison and to have been one of tne founders or me ufnrni Electric company in th t'nlted States, but who Is now one of the leading industrialists In Germany. said today: "On the second day of the revolu tion we started in to work on peace older or which we have enough hooked to keep our 60.000 employes buy for two years. If the 5.000.000 or more men now returning frcm th front are given three square meals a day and steady work thre will be no Bolshevism in Germany. Th German working: man will not think of mischief so long as he has a com fortable fireside and something to keep him busy. ' The fighting men. too. are well disciplined. 1 have implicit faith in their ability and willingness to ad J.ist themselves to normal life after four years of war. All that Is need ed Is to keep tbcRwhealthy and well clothed. "We arc In urgent need of .copper. leather and cotton: but the 'fall din ner pjIP Is the first consideration Germany has the money to pay for th" food and everything else she will b compelled to Lvy abroad." COPENHAGEN. Nov. 20 Accord ing to Rf-itin advices enormous stores or foont!ifrs were found In the cas tle of the fonr German emperor in iurlin. A number of th soldier and workmen's council I authority Ktatement that the value of German Language Replaced for the Language Loved and Lost Long Ago 11 ( rkmu,l IT th" I l'"mu,fr .' Z (!. f'-d normallr would be several conijirtiiy ui i--iihi, .-Mill-- -'.-. diary companies of the Standard Oil h.i i'li 1 thousand marks. t CARS DERAILED IN BAD WRECK FIFTY WOUNDED YANK PRISONERS RELEASED BY ENTRANCE TO METZ Tired Troops Are Returning From the Field as Fresh; Americans Making Progress Toward the Hun Frontier company, i nlted states meei cor poration. S. Kresge company. K"i Raven Water company. American Sheet and Tin Plate company and Republic Rubber companv. nd tho Delaware. Lack a wan a & Wer.ttrn railroad. Fox denied that any of the firms named had been blacklisted, saym-j the association's purpose merely was to give "preference to those who n-oro friends." Tester he toM tne ... . . . . u . 1 1 1 1 committee tnai ne won in im . ..n, that all h riof nr.'ent IU H"Uliir i relating m nv uhh u -..-J-. : Humes put Into tile record, were taken from the files of the associa tion. Major Humes told tne commute the firms were listed by tne Brew ers' association because of their at titude against the use of liquor by COPENHAGEN. Nov. 20. A dl patch signed by the German premier, Ebeit. and Foreign Minister Haas received bv the Strasrh'ijg soldiers and workmen'? council. sas; "The occupation by the allied pon ers of AIc-!.nrTitine will not pre judico a solution of the question, ac cording to the principles of Interna tlonal right and peoples' self-deter mination. themselves as nemg connuem hmi i n .,.-. . t . IL" ,1 kV.,. of -etlrltr Mr. Stevens will make an excellent lw0 Southern TaCIIlC rreigntp' -l "w. f the fir,,,;. II III II 1 I UUfll nn"""'" vi i m mi ak mm m i - - - - - - Traini Col lde at Halsev. and. In some Instances, or employes PARIS, Nov. 20.- It was General ,U Conte who headed the Tenth army a the occasion of the entry into . Met. It is probable there will be no oc "ion tor a solemn sntry into Strass next. Sunday. "tfty American wounded prisoners found In Metx. The Y. M. C. A. took eharge of them. Wlllard Williams of New York, nd Dr. Dunning of Portland. Me.. M. C. A. workers, were the first Americans to enter Mett, Felina Som rviHe and Tracy I'Enegele of New Jork. and J. K. Hill of Iowa, women . . M. C. A. workers, arrived later, i Twelve walking cases were trans Ported to Nancy. Supplies of choco late and other things were rushed to Mcti for the American wounded, who .td received little attention. ( Two of the walking csrcs are Harry Tuck- erman of New York, and I. Fierrlera Of Hayward. Cal. Five hundred Americans entered et with the French. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE. Tiiesdav. Nov. 19. While the Third American army is piaKlng Us way toward the German frontier other units slowly are going back to their old training areas but many detachments hve reached the camps estaonsnea iasi year, wun there are ample cantonments anu hospitals and where large supplies of food are available. Here the men will be made os com fortable as possible in well heated huts. These camps ae located along lines of railways which simpmies the transport and supply problems. After their hardships In the Argonne the troops will be happy in their new surroundings and will have plenty of frrA General March s announcement re garding the demobilization oi some units and the return oi coni- ' .i.k wmmdMl Is caurlna: quiet r.J'.a. 9" - . "... . . r...nlailnn-. It S thOUgnt Proliant , ... i . . A fcnmA that the men win ue inmu .i, now making arrangements for Thanksgiving day and Christmas celebrations. imrgSEIS, Sunday. Nov- 17.--.. -Am rtmnrod the streets ot 1 "f; .hi. morninK. the last de- tachment of German troop, having warden, both as to the policies and general management of the prison and from a business point of view Thev state that they see a possibility of rectifying number of alleged bits of extravagance which has resulted in the mounting costs at the prison. The discovery that the change will be made, following npon the state ment of the governor recently that he had been conducting an Investi gation to detetmlne whether Warn en Murphy was responsible ror tne mounting costs by extravagance In administration, or whether such costs were due to circumstances over which he has no control, lead to the belief that the governor's Investiga tion has convinced him the former Is the case. It has been hinted that the com missarv department has reen con ducted on a wasteful plan and tnat other leakages due to wasteful man- a cement coiild be stopped up undei a atronrer disciplinarian hand. It is iii thin kind of a hand which tne B-overnor's friends say will be applied 1th Stevens on the jo, annougn thev assert that he will not overlook the humanitarian end or me prison management Tli. real ana ton of Warden M"r- nhv is not expected to take etrect before the Marion county grand jury files, its report on the prison Investi gation now under way It mav also be said, and at th same time be entitled to the fulle degree of credence, that the change In the ward?nhip will not necessar ily inocr a. sweeping; change in the AMSTERDAM. Nov, 20 The elec in Germany lor a rflnstltueni assembly have been fixed for Feb ruary 20 patch. according to a Peri'.n dis- ABMY OF AMERICAN OCCU PATION, Not. 20. (Bj The As socUted Press.) Swinging north ward from Metx the American fint diviiion crossed Into Luxesi bnrr just before noon today, en taring 'sch, & njning ton of 20.000 inhabitants. The cvriliam expected the Americana Thursday but when the vanguard appeared he news roread anicJuy. Tne whistles at the mines were blown. btlh were rung, children were ex cused from echo!, stores were closed and the afternoon wax pro claimed a holiday. In the store windows and pub lic buildingi along the principal streets there were pictures cf President Wilson, drawn by an artist of Escb, who had worked night and day to complete by hand as many drawings aj pos sible. Pictures of President Pom- care, Marshal Foch and King Al bert also were prominently displayed. To the first diviOon fell the honor of first crossing the Ixr rainc line, the advance guard cn- teiinr Aumetz noon after V . I I .!! o cIim-k. lor inrce iay tue civil ians of Auniclz hal ln-cn looking for the Americans t'Xpcctiiijs them tvery minntc There ltal !m-cii no school nil week and the- thihiren had Jccn drilled in Kinir- injr ami flag waving to receive the advancing arrar. Two hundred pupil, attjred in fancy dress, those of the girls le ing of the colors of France ami Ihvs carrying the red and yellow color of Lorraine, a home-tnade American flag and tri-eolored hunting of France, met the troop at the archway over the road en tering the town from Audun-lo Koman. I Sy the time the marching troop reached Eeh the civilians (Continued on rage 2). Linn County t, Continued on page 4). (Continied on page six) A serious train wreck occurred about 3 o'clock yesterday morning at Halsey. between Albany and allrris burir. when two Southern Tacific rreieht trains collided head-on. A large number of rars left tjie tracks and a member of one or tne train crews lost a leg, according to reports reaching Salem. Traffic mas delayed several hours until a siding could be laid around the wreck. It Is pre sumed the collision was caused by fog. Japanese Yards Tarn Vessel Over to U. 5. SKATTl.K. Nov. 20. The steel freighter ast Wind. S00 tons. which arrived at Vancouver. I, t . rrom the Orient, will be the sixth ves sel turned over to the I'nlted States hipping boarl lv Japanese vanl. The Ea?t Wind will be delivered upon hr arrival here this week by the Trans-Oceanic company. TO IIAVi: hKRVK K OWKKFAt K SAN FRANVISC:0' Nov. 20. Mm- l ors or th war camn commnniiy -t-r- vice on the Pacific oast and in New York no'-nod a flv-lay conference here today to ontlleo plans ror nn continuance of th oruanlratlon's ac tivities during the after the war con struction period. acalnt the liouor business. The Inquiry Into political acuvnT began when John Gardiner mas call ed to the stand. The mltness said he might have seen lists of candi dates at dirrerent time from 1911 to 1914 which the brewers associa tion endorsed In some states. Includ ing. Iowa. Texas. Pennsylvania. In diana, and one candidate for congre--from Illinois, but he could not re call the details. He admlttM the aosociation's organliation commlt'ee was active in "wet" and "dry" fights in several states In those years ani said that In that time It spent be tween $40.000 and $500,000 "do ing all It legitimately could to arouse public sentiment In our favor." riarrilnpr declared the bremers STORY OF SURRENDER OF U-BOATS READS LIKE ROMANCE OF THE SEA With Cans Fore and Aft, Crews at Attention and on Decks, Pirates of Sea Feel Han Masters for Last Time LONDON. Nov. 20 (British Wire- i Almost every one on board donned less service) The following account lire blli and just aa the red sun a or the surrender of the first batch of peared above the horizon the firt 20 German submarines this morning German submarine appared In tithU at s- is given by an eye mltn. ! Soon atter 7 o'clock 20 submarines More than 80 other German subnar-1 were seen In line accompanied by ine are to be handed over to the two German destroyers, the Tiran a allied naval command before the end 'and the Sierra Ventana. which were of the week. l take the submarine crews bark After steaming 20 miles across the i to Germany after the transfer. North sea the Harwich forces which j All the submarine were on the consisted or five light crui-ers and 'surface wnn ineir nairnes orn ana destroyers, were sighted. The . i- - AAH.ihniiAni . n luiniirii i a' inane n.i .n ......i.". . -- (jii..i t,.v.i. th. 1 . - mt firm d. t U1K8U1U UI Jl'liUII.I II irrn a u i ni ' " - i ' - - ramnaign-comm nled it had endorsed any set of can didates. "Haven't you seen these lists or candidates to be supported by the i,rmir' asoiatlon and German commander, was the Coracao. lllgn above the squadron hum; a big ob servation balloon. The squadron, headed Ly the flag ship, then steamed toward the Dutrn American allaince that were sent out , o"---. -J. - , '"A,:'': " each veai ?" a'ed Malor Iiumea. "Well, mav be I have neen them." assmered the mltness. "but I do not recall them." Records or the brewers asoc!a tion read by Major Humes shomed that In 1914 the Pennsylvania state -nHation colleeted $294,114 for political activity In that state and ti.t ihi rollowlng year $1.754 I collected for the same purp"". or ' . i r a at ikl.L tm diner said ne wn )ni w'n. the (Continued on page 5). followed in line with their navigation lights showing. The picture was a noble owe. as thi great vessels, with the moc.n still shining. plouKhed their way to take part In the surrender of the German U-boats. Boon after the British squadron tar ted the -paravanes" were drop ped overboard. Thee devices are shared like tops and divert any mine which may be encountered, for the vessels were entering a mine field. the crewa standing on deck. The ves-m-1 were flying no- flags and their guns were trained fore and aft In ac cordance with the terms of surrcij der. A bugle sounded on th Curacao and all the gun erewa took th Ir stations, ready for any positle treachery. Th leading destroyer. In te?or.j to a signal from the admiral. turnM and led the way towards nr.Tard and the submarine were ordered to follow. They immediately d.d s The surrender had been aecomp'.lh!. Kach c miner tamed, and. k- !-"' a careful lookout, steamed toward Harwich. On one f the largest sub marines, which carried two i.'J rm. 22 officer and men were counted. (Continued cn pat 4).