-The Statesman-receives the
leased wire report of the As
sociated Press, the greatest
aad most, reliable press as
sociation in the world. .
w THE AVKATI1FIV . J , .
Friday rain, cooler east' portion;
l;h southerly winds Interior; fresh
southerly rales along the coat.
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KIXTV-N1XTII VKAH , ; , ? 8ALKM, OREGON, FRIDAY MOUMXG. APRIL 4. 1919 " P .-
T?vnrMniTiTnr
FOR YEAR IS
TO BE LARGE
Representative Good Predicts
Passing of Billion Dollar
Congresses of Pre - War
. Days, . -
APPROPRIATIONS WILL
CONTINUE TO INCREASE
I
Departments Not Expecting
to Make Cuts in Budgets
for Year 1920
WASHINGTON. April .The
. passing of the "btltton dollar" con
greases of pre-war days and the com
ing for the peace period of "fpur bll-
- .lion dollar" congresses wa.s predicted
' plght in a statement by Represen
tative Good of Iowa, who will be
chairman of the appropriations com
: mittee in the next house. .
Reviewing the financial problem
of the next congress. Good estimates
that the appropriations necessary for
the various government government
expenditures In the fiscal year end
uing June 30. 1921, would total more
than $3,800,000,000. Strictest
economy would do more to ohld ex-
( Continued on page 2) -X,
Carried Over and
Broken Lines
Black Shoe Soap Kid,, button French heel, plain toe,
A, B, C, size 3 to 6M.
Brown vamp and white top Kid, lace with French
heel and plain toe, also imitation, tip, A and C sizes
4 to 7. . - . .
Brown vamp and white top Kid, button, military
heel', plain toe, welt, C and D Sizes 2Mj to 61-
A Buster Brown Shoe.
Brief descriptions of three exccl- M QC
lent sho&s that sold regularly at Jf,JJ3
$7.00, your choice
Lot of Kid and Gun Metal Button shoes for women.
Good medium -heels and toes 2V2 to 4 and 8 only.
- A Buster Brown Girl's black Kid lace, medium wide
plain toe, 2 to 6VL'. . ;v CO QC '
a Two more j splendid lots that,sold J
at $4.45 to $4.85, your choice- . TT
Another lot of Buster Brown black Kid button shoes
for women and growing girls. Plain toe and low heel,
2 to GVk, reduced from $4.45 to V,i ....$3.45
Broken lot Women's Patent, Kid and vGun Metal,
lace and.button shoes of various types and styles, sizes -2Y
to 5, values up to $4.25, choice. .... .$2.50
Lot of Misses White Canvas button shoes, almost given
away. ' - r .
, Sizes 9 to 11 y2, choice . .95c
Sizes 12 to 2, choice .... ..$1.10
Low Shoes: 1
. -Brokeniots of Woinen's Pumps. and Oxfords in var
ious styles, sizes 2li to 4V not the latest but high
quality footwear choice . . . ....... $1.95
1 Lot of Misses White Canvas button oxfords, sizes ,
12J2 to 2, splendid shoes for .'.$1.00
All our Shoes, although riot vredueedwill be found to
b below the average market price of like footwear
. today.. , - . . -
V-.- .f...i. 1
Grave Diggers Out on
Strike; Corpses Await
Interment in Vaults
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3.-
Interments InTt our of this city's
: largest cemeteries were delayed
today by a walkout of grave
diggers, who demanded a wage
Increase of from $4 to $5 a day.
Seventy-four grave diggers are
striking.
In one cemetery, the Holy
Cross, Interments are being
made, Archbiship Hanna hav
ing granted the men's demands.
J-iBodies are lying in vaults pend
I lng the outcome of the strike.
FRENZIED MAN
MURDERS WIFE
AND ATTORNEY
Shoots Self to. "End Every
thing" Divorce Cause
of7 Trouble
ILL HEALTH IS BLAMED
Triple; Tragedy Occurs in
Lawyer V Office; Woman
in Next Room
HOQUIAM, Wash., April 3. An
gered -b-jcaus his wife refused to
withdraw an application for divorce
due to his ill health, according to
statements of f rends, A. A. Sedg
wick tonight shot and killed Sidacy
Moore Heath, a prominent Hoquiam
(Continued on paee 6)
RAILROADS 1
MEXICO MAY
BE ADDED TO
Larranza Asks Extra Session!
of Congress to Authorize
Federal Construction of
Lines. V'
THREE NEW ROUTES
WILL BE PROPOSED
Troops Can Be Transported
Without Entering the
United States
WASHI.VGTON. April 3. rresl
d.'ti Carranza has n iked the exrra
session of the, Mexican congress,
which has beea called to meet May
1, to authorize the construction by
the federal government of three rail
road lines and the acquisition of
another railway system, it was learn
ed today from official sources. The
fact that these features were In the
call for an extra session was not
sent out from Mexico ' City at the
time the call was made public.
The congress will be asked to ap
propriate 10.000,000 p?sos for the
purchase of all or a majority of the
srocic or the Yucatan railwar sys
tem, owned by the Hejneauen as
sociation. One of the new lines will
link this system with the ter-itorr
or Quintan Roo, which at sresent
nas uo railroads. . The line will run
irom reto, . Yucatan, to Bacalar. in
the southern part of the territory and
to santa C,ru, the chief harbor of
the territory on xhe east coast.
Diaz Planned I,lne.
This line was contemplated by
Porflrto Diaz, and surreys were made
under his orders,
Another line, the ulan for which
also dates back to the Diaz admjn
mrauoa is proposed to run from
Santa Lucrecia. In the state of Vera
C-uz on the Tehuantepec line nur-
cnasea a snort time ago from the
Pearson . interests to -Campeche.
where it will connect with another
branch jot the Yucatan system. This
line
?fV!I!t V.pf1rtIOfcof h
of Chiapas and all of the state
state
to Tabasco
ITha third proposed line will run
from some poi.it on the Southern Pa
cific of Mexico between Magdalena
andHermosillo to Enenada. the
capital of Lower California. This
road will enable Mexico' to transport
troons bv rail form central Mexico
ton lower California- without, entering
tne united states. . 1
' No Xeed to Enter IT. S,
Heretofore when an emergency
arose which 'necessitated the quick
despatch of troops to the western ter
ritory. the Mexican government was
compelled to secure permission from
the United States to end its sol
diers through this country. This per
mission has always been granted, but
it is said the Mexicans always have
disliked to make the request. The
railroad will also open np to Mexico
all the : land of the Colorado delta
which heretofore has been directly
tributary to the United States be
cause of American railway.
-These railroad projects are be
lieved by officials here to Je part
of President Carranza' program to
secure for the .government the en
tire . transportation machinery of
to be made tonight by Lieutenant
Mexico.
Wiest Is Choice for
Deputy GrahdJIaster
rV. A. Wiest was the choice of
. 1 - 9 . . .
unemeaeia loage nuniwr i ai iup
regular meeting weanesaay nigni.
for district deputy grand master, for
the ensuing year. Mr. wiest is dep
uty clerk of the state supreme court.
. The lodge elected as delegates to
the grand lodge' which meets here
May 19 to 23 inclusive, '. L.. Waters,
J. B, Chenoweth, R. G. Henderson.
W., A. Wiest, C. O. Engstrom and
J.' A. Patterson. '
Conclusion of Alliance
. With Russians Desired
BERLIN, via Copenhagen, April
3. The Bavarian government has
begun negotiations for the conclu
sion of an alliance with Russia, ac
cbrrtfag to advices from Munich.
The Bavarian Volks Zeitung ex
plains that the, government's action
Is dne to the fact that the food
mnplles from the entente Is insuf
ficient and Inadeanatly assured,
whereas grain Is obtainable from
Russia.
BELA KTX IX MUNICH
I
BERLIN. April 3. (By Th Asso
ciated Press) The Tares Zeltnnr
renortP that tbe Hunrar!aa dictator,
Bela Knn. trrived In Munich, Ba
varia. Wedisesdav. accomnanted bv
a lair it. "Thin report has not
been confirmed.
Nope, This Lost
Trunk Has Leaves
Instead of Gems
It isn't burled treasure this time
that Is the object of an exploring ex
pedition, which is to set out from
Salem tomorrow. Nay, 'tis but the
lost apen. , ; ;
"M. W., Gorman, curator of the for-
aotri Kti 1 11 1 as 4 Tft"f I i t H 4a si 11 A
to arrive in saiem tomorrow to join
Professor Feck of Oregon Agrlcul-
taral college. Herman Clark and J
C. Nelson of the local high school on
an automobile Crip to the river bot
tom opposite Sidney, where the party
will conduct a search for the rare
tree. The trip is being . made 'in re
sponse to a request from the Arnold
Arboretum, which is a part of Har
vard university. The aepen has been
known to exist in various parts of
the northwest, but few specimens
have been found. Reports that such
a tree Is to. be found near Indepen
dence will be investigated this week
if the weather permits.
STRIKE ON BAY
BROUGHT TO END
BY ACCEPTANCE
San Francisco Machinists Ac
cept Offer Submitted by
- Employers
BACK AT WORK TODAY
Bonus Substituted for Retro
active WagesrHalf Holi-"
day Promised
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3. A
strike which has involved approxi
mately 10.000 machinists in the San
Francisco bay region since early in
February ended today when the lo
cal machinists agreed to accept an
offer submitted by their employers
and return to work tomorrow.
Acceptance of the offer to be final
W Continued on Page 6)
WAREHOUSE IS
! TO COST:$8000
HoiePl Baumgartner Builder
.. -X . nl
oi BricK structure on rian
r ing Mill Site
Construction of a brick warehouse
to cost $8000 and to be 93 by 165
feet in dimension one story high
and to. be located on the ground
new occupied by the Brown plauer
mill building, is to be comtaenced
as Boon as the mill structure Is ra
ed. The builder is Joseph Baum-
gartner who secured his ; building
permit yesterday. . The work Is to
be ,done by day labor and no con
tract will be let.
Wrecking of the mill building has
already commenced and the work
on the 'aew structure Is to be rush
ed. The building is already rented
to Clifford W. Brown for a mohair
and wool warehouse.
The warehouse is to be construct
ed of brick tile with a foundation of
concrete as high as the floor level.
The site As an excellent one for
shipping a It is accessible to both
the Sduthern Pacific and Oregon
Electric railway.
HIDDEN WIRES
ARE DEMANDED
I Aenratinn far IInrlerTonnd
I O O
Cables Starts If Phone
Rates Increase -
If the Oregon public service com
mission finds In favor of the Pa
cific Telephone ft Telegraph company
in the rate Increase case, and If the
city of Salem does not find It feast
ble to begin a campaign for the es
tablishment of a municipal -telephone
system, a move will be Inaugurated
it is said, to cause the Pacific com
pany to remove the unsightly tele
phone poles with which the city
Is
studded and place all wires unaer
ground. This is the system used In
the east, it Is argued, in cities of the
size of Salem as well as in the larg
er places. -
Vigorous Cleaning of
' Silk Causes Explosion
PORTLAND, Or.. April 3.
Friction caused by rubbing silk'
vigorously with gasoline caused
an explosion and fire today in
the home of Mrs. C B.i Baker,
which resulted in her being se
verely burned about the face,
and hands. The fire was ex
tinguished with little damage to
the dwelling. "
SHORTAGE OF
FOOD BRINGS
ON REVOLTS
Potatoes in Germany. Nearly
Exhausted Rationing Ma
chinery Largely Broken
Down. .
DAY'S WAGES WONT
BUY POUND, OF MEAT
Recent Quiet Only Surface
Camouflage for Impend
ing Strife .
PARIS, April 3. The latest ad
vices concerning the fighting at
Frankfort aad the renewal of the
trike in Berlin confirms the Im
pression prevailing In Germany when
tne former Berlin correspondent of l
the Associated Press icTt . there a
week ago that the then comparative
lull In the manifestations of Indus
trial disorder and revolutionary vio
lence and pillage by the rabble was
only temporary.
Germany was at that tlm fairly
Cuiet, the only Important exception
being a strike In the surrounding
rcgloj. The March Insurrection in
llerfin and the disturbance in cen
tral Germany, and In east Russia had
been suppressed: the flame of dis
order 'was only flickering In the Si
lesia coal fields, while order was
being maintained in Breme'a. Essen
find other cities, formerly scenes of
Spartacan uprisings, and the social
ist proletariat of Bavaria, although
rcnnlng affairs In that state with
out regard to the central govern
ment, were oot seeking any occasion
to conflict with the central authori
ties.' Men Want Work.
Beneath the surface there were
abundant possibilities of trouble.
The majority of the German working
men, particularly the married men.
wish to work, although higher wag
es are being constantly, demanded.
to meet the rising cost of food. -An
energetic spartacan minority ana the
youneer Irrepressibles, however, are
constantly causing trouble and
preaching Bolshevist doctrine of
reiterated political strikes to dis
possess factory owners and over
throw the present eovernmenl.
On earlier occasions, as at Berlin
and in the Ruhr region, these min
orities had been able to Inveigle or
nerfuade others Into joining the
strike movement, producing hlghe
wages In case of snccess. .and hold
ing out the bait vf abundant food
shipments from Russia if the govern
ment were overthrown and an alli
ance concluded wth' Bolshevist Rus
sia:
The factory owners feared that
the radical mlnortty might agarn
dominate their fellows If a new
strike was called under propitious
circumstances, particularly a there
were a number of big establishments,
known colloquially as -Llenanecnt
plants." where the workmen were
lareelv spartacan. who could be
counted on to give a most satisfac
itorr Impetus to a general strise
by going out In a body at a given
signal.
Reasonable PHcee Aeetiea.
Factory owners and others in close
tonch with industrial conditions r
gard the distribution of American
food supplies at reasonable prices
as the only possibility of mastering
the strike movement, re-establishing
industrial order and stimulating pro
duction. With the workmen able to
buy with their. wages the necessary
food, they may be able to naice oit
the Influence of the radicals. Win
ont this nossibility all must Inev
itably drift completely Into the dom
ination of the extremist.
The Industrial situation Is compli
cated by a shortage of coal and raw
materials. Factories are running on
ly five days a week on a shcrt sched
ule of hours. Should the coal pro
duction be increased and transporta
tion Improved, there would be a far-
better outlook for industry-
- Leading German manufacturers.
particularly in the electrical and ma
chinery lines, assured the corres
pondent that .they would nave .no
difficulty In dbing a profitable busi
ness even under the present wage
scale. If the food and fuel difficulty
was solved. , The food situation was
rapidly becoming critical when the
food and shipping agreement was
sicned. But the speedy arrival of
American food ships with' food on
board, had already had an imposing
effect on general sentiment, though
distribution had not begun a week
so. ,
Potatoes Nearly Goa.
The exhaustion . of the potatoe
stocks was in sight, the food admin
istrators hoping to continue to re
duced ration until Into May. Some
stocks of grain could last at best
only Into the third week of May. The
emaciated herds of Germany were no
longer ible to supply even the reduc
ed meat ration of from four to sev
en 'Ounces per week. The govern-
J Continued on page 2)
Jiank Looted of Thrift
Stamps by Bandits Now
Being Sought by PoUce
A j'
' HUNTINGTON. W V.. AprI
S. Robbers dynamited the
safe of the First National .
Hank of Ansted, 70 miles eaift I
of here, and escaped with
$50,000 in cash and war savj
ing (-tamps early Wednesday, i
accord in r to a message receive
ed today by Huntington im
lice, arkljg that a lookout be
kept for the bandlU. who ir
belivei to have come to this
city. The robbers. the me.i
, sage raid, secured the, loot af
ter t lowing the locks off tt
doom of the vault but failed
to pent:lrae the Inner cham
ber .t the safe in wnich ru
$150,00 In currency.
BOARD'S POLICY
WILL BE GIVEN
MORE HEARINGS
Public May Be Asked to Make
Purchases on Government
Price Scale ;
CONFLICT CONTINUES
Conferences on Steel Are to
Be Resumed Today by .
Two Factions
i
WASHINGTON. April 3. Conflict
between the Industrial board of the
department of commerce atad the
railroad administration over steel
prices has developed a new question
of whether the board shall attempt
to arrange prices .with basic Indus
tries at which the public will be
asked to-make purchases.
Reconsideration of the entire pol
icy .of the board, with .possible con
sequent withdrawal or revision of
the steel prices already announced
has been decided upon. Conferences
will start tomorrow representatives
of the board and the railroad ad-.
(Continued on page C)
SALEM DEALERS
GIVE UP BOORS
School Texts Not to Be
Handled vby Stationery
Firms in This City j
m "
Salem book dealers, end It is said
those In Eugene also, ut decided
tha they will not carry school ooks
In Stock! because of the narrow, mar
gin of profit possible unaer arrange
ments with publishers. and distrib
utors. At a recent meeting of the
Willamette "valley stationers held In
Salem the dealers decided to demand
a 20 per cent margin, out present
Information is that this Is 'in possible
to get. Local merchants who have
been handling school bouks say they
will give np the fight for a larger
profit and simply decline to carry the
books in stock. '
KAY AfiD LAZARUS ARE
KEPT FROM BLOWS BY
OIXOTT; AND STE1ER
f
Only Intervention by Governor Olcott
and Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner. superin
tendent of the sUte hospital for the
Insane, prevented Edgar M.' Lazarus,
architect of Portland, and Tortner
SUte Treasurer T. B. Kay from com
ing to blows In the chamber of : the
state board of control yesterday. As
It. was Mr. Kay got close enough to
Lazarus to grab him by the clothing
and pull a button from his coat as
the foil. .41 lrrjnrer tr!d to drag
Lazarus across an Intervening table
so he could work on him by the fisti
cuff process. "
The trouble arose over a revival
of Lazarus grievance against the
board for refusing to allow him all
fees he claimed as architect for the
receiving ward at the state hospital.
Lazarus according to claims of the
board and Superintendent Stelner,
drew plans for the ventilating sys
tem which were la excess of the
state appropriation and which ' the
board would not accept or for which
It would not allow fees. Lazarus to
tal fee1 at S per cent of the cost of
the building, according to the board's
figures, was $2534.27 and he had
been paid $1500. He still claimed
S114 4.9S. but the board claimed
$$34.2? was all that was due him.
Governor Olcott asked SUte Treas
urer Kay to appear before the board
tor the reason that ne was a mem
ber at the time the building was con
QWWt 10
uimiiL iu
CHECKED
BVARKIY
Prompt Use of 'Troops, Mar
tial Law and Other Emerg
ency Means Effective in
Stuttgart and Ruhr Dis
trict .
EXTENSIVE MOVEMENT
INCLUDES KRUPP PLANT
Flooding of Mines Mast Be
' Reckoned With If Walk-out
in Germany Continues
After April 10. 1
BERLIN. Wednesday. April 2.
(By The Associated Press) The '
strikes at Stuttgart and In fhe Ruhr
district seew to have been checked
by the energetic action of the gov
ernment by the ftrompt use of troops,
martial Jaw and other salutary
means. . -
Ofilfial reports from Stuttgart
summarizing the situation there say
that serious violence Is reported only
from a EssIIngen. where the r-parta-cans
"seised weapons and .automo
biles, but surrendered ttma after ne
gotiation. The large' number of
non-residents among the strikers "
was one of the features of the upris
ing, going to prove that the move
ment was, is claimed, purely a po
litical effort of tbey radicals and in
denandants to overthrow the govern
ment. -
The strikers at Stuttgart assem- .
bled frequently yesterday despite,
the martial law regulations, but were ,
dispersed. The leaders-were arreft
ed by She troops and the government
was master of the situation by night
fall'. The troops behaved splendid-
ly,- though some of them received
rough treatment. -
. Mines Still CIokJ
In the Ruhr district for a time the .
strike was extended by several thous- .
and. ' by the . danger of a general
strike subsided. The mines where
the spartacans prevail are still closed
but in those sections where the un
ion niners and .the majority social
ists are in control the men refused
to close down. Many decided to
await developments, in the meantime
continuing their work.
The situation at Frankfort is quiet
again. The number 6f victims of
the riot has reached sixteen, but this
1 . 111 V.. VI W . v. m .n tail
as some of the wqunded cannot hope
to live. The funeral of the four wo
men who were killed took place (his
(Continued on page 2) .
structed and .was acquainted with
the previous relations with Lazarus.
During. the argument a paid ad
vertisement was mentioned which
Lazarus bad.' printed in a Port
land , newspaper and In which
it is said. Lazarus claimed Kay
had called him a grafter. When-
Kay made some comment relative to
the article yesterday Lazarus called
him a liar. Kay attempted to let
the short and ugly word pats unno
ticed until Lazarus repeated "You're
a damn liar, and again with a
stronger adjective before the word.
Kay lunged across the table and
grabbed the architect by the veil.
and a button snapped off. Governor
Olcott closed on Lazarus and backed
him against the wall, while on the
other side of the table Dr. Stelner
was holding Kay In eab.
Lazarus brought with him to ba-
lem Judge Martin L. Pipes or Tort-
land as his attorney. When Mr.
Pipes was apprised that former Gov
ernor5 Withycombe. Secretary of
State Olcott and Stae Treasurer Kay.
the former board of control, bad
unanimously refused to allow Laz
arus' claim In 1918 when final act
Ion was taken, he Informed his clienj
that he apparently had no cafe before
the board. After the serslon had
been broken bp by the clash between
Kay and Lazarus the layer decided
to accept the state's figures and the
amount was paid.
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