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n Btat FIRST SECTION 0M TWO SECTIONS 16 Pages . ! . Eight Pages - SlXTV-MXTH Y II A II salem, ohego.n. si mav morning, jixe ', price; HVK rKMTH. mm j GOMPERS IS RE-ELECTED LABOR HEAD President of Federation Is Again Chosen With Only One Dissenting Vote -Salary Raised to $10,000 I CONVENTION TO HOLD OVER TO NEXT WEEK Radical Unions May Be Given ; Disciplinary Treatment I By Main Body i ATLANTIC CITY. June 21. Sam uel Gompers was re-electei president of the American Federation of La Vor today at the organization's con tention here and was voted! a salary of 110,000 a, year.. One radical vot ed against re-election v of Mr.- Coni fers and a handful of delegates sat While the rest staged" a demonstra tion in honor of their leader,, who Said his elections-was organized la bor's answer to its traduces and opponents. ' j Second In importance was the ad option of a resolution directing the executive council to investigate arid act in regard to a joint resolution pow " before j congress providing for establishment of a conference of in dustrial heads in accordance with plans recently announced in Wash ington by Basil M. Manly, joint .chairman of the. national war labor oard. According to information submitted to the. convention, : tha plan would bring together Industrial beads and labor leaders 1'to study problems affecting capital and labor and suggest remedial legislation. ' j ; Walsh Heads TJsfc ' K Ths list of those sugsted to rep reseat labor, as published a few day ago, is beaded by Frank .P.Walsh- ormer Joint chairman of the board. Mr. Gompers name was second. s Mention of - tBe - -proposed plait brought a storm of denunciation from the delegates..-radicals as wen as conservists. '-', i Andrew Fnrusetti. of the Seamen's onion, said that in reality the pro posal. If adopted by both houses of congress, meant inauguration of 8 commission form of government. fnntinnari nn TiAsrft .,21 -Junior Silks at Closing Prices Every Yard a Splendid In vestment That Should Be I j Taken Advantage of Now At Yard . hlaek and browrL These are there are 2 pieoes of 40 in. shades, all at, yard v. . . . . . . TAN - BROADCLOTH, 50 IN. WtlDE. AN EXTRA COOD VALUE fAND WEIGHT EOR CAPES, YD .... L .... Yard $1.65 t . i Another lot of 3G in. SILKS in fancy stripes and plaids of a high- er quality; In the lot are several! pieces of plain Taffetas hi light! , - ' - - . t i shades. Also twenty-two shaded of 40 inch Crepes D Chine and some splendid 40 inch SiJk and Wool Tpplins all at, yd 1 . X$1.G5 See Our Line of ..... Women's Bathing Suits All at Last Year's Prices. All Engineer Grads Of Q AC Employed By Co mmission COK VALLIS, Or., June 2 1 .All graduated of the department ot civil engineering ini college are employed by the state 't highway department. Raymond Archibald of Albany; Mer vyn Stephenson of Condon and Ells worth Gould Ricketts of Portland are i in the bridge division of the state highway department at Salem. u. v. uoDinso ot rorest Grove is lo cating engineer in Eastern Oregon month. Henry Oden of Jersey City, and is receiving a salary of $125 a N. J., has a position in the east. The highway commission even employed freshmen and Sophomores and would have taken more men had the been available. j 4 ''' PLANE TO COME HERE ON FOURTH Salem to See Three Days of Flying 17 Sigh Up for Flight Airplane nights for the three days of Salem's Fourth 'of - July celebra tion and homecoming are- assured as the result of a contract entered into -by the Sfalem Commercial club and; Lieutenant Floyd rown, form erly of Silverton and lately a member 'of the army afiation service. Lieutenant Brown will bring his five! passenger plane from Cali fornia arriving in Salem onJune 29 itiea will .carry passengers at 10c each and J will give a stunt flight over Willson Park each afternoon Last, night 1J men, the first being John H. . Albert., had registered for thej flight?. ( It was learned yesterday morning that the plane . was available for flights in Oregon and R. O. Snelling, who is the head of ail cm r r rkq who is the head of all committees for the! celebration immediately got ia touch with the father or the Lieuten ant, in SHvejrton stud through him the contract was made. The program of stunU will include all the thrilllers anjd dives that have been developed by army airmen. The fancy flights! will it be given in mid af teYaoon directly i over the center of the city S ;'- 'V- : V Those whojhad Registered for the John IL Albert, F. G. Albert, F. G Mvers. Walter A. Denton. Theadore Roth. J. "B. Read, Earl McDonough. DrJ R. E. Lee Steiaer. R. B. Goodin IDavid W. Ttyre, VI11 S. Walton. Gordon .Wallace El F. Smith, R. W. Hattnun and Ov. A. Hartman; W W.! Moore and William McGGIlchrist, A large assortment .of Novelties in hand some plaids and stripes of ex cellent jriuality': The lot also includes soine , ot lieldingfs yard wide satin linings nd two pieces of Skinner! s .Serge lining iu a 1 06 in. Vride. In addition Tussh Silks i in fueia and orange .. ...... $1.35 $2.75 BAREFOOT SANDALS Infants ...... .OOc qiiildren's . . s . .$I.I-",' $1.7.7 Hizes.ll 14 to 2. . . . .i Sl.ftt, $2.on Hizea 2 b to 6 . . ..$1.75, $315 NEW GERMAN CABINET IS MADE' PUBLIC Herr Bauer Premier, Dr. Mu ellerv Socialist, Is Minister of Foreign Affairs Davis Is In List CONDITIONAL SIGNING FAVORED AT WEIMAR Tomaso Tittoni Expected To Succeed Orlando in Peace Conference BERLfX, June 21. (By The As sociated Press) A new German cabinet- has been formed under the premiership of Herr Bauer, formerly minister of labor, with Dr. Herman Mueller, the majority socialist lead er as minister of foreign affairs. The other members of the cabinet are: '.! , 1 CfC Minister of the interior Dr. Ed uard David. Minister of! finance and vice pre mier Mathias Erzberger. Minister of economics Herr Wis- sell. ' Minster of labor Herr Schlicke Meyer. - v . Minister of nosts and telegraphs Herr Giefberts. , Chief of the- colonial office Dr Bell. Minister of national .defense Gustav Noskel 1 Minister of food -Dr.' Schmidt. No appointntent has been made to the ministry of Justice. Herr Meyer the new head of the treasury depart ment is a native of Kaufbeuren, Ba varia. . ' : ' Jlerr Rauer, the new premier, is socialist and held the post of min ister of labor. In the course of his official duties he has had much to do with the striking workmen and recently brought, about h settlement of the settlement of the general strike in Berlin. rir iMnellpr has become one of the leaders of the majority social ists since the revolution. He was pat tr whin in the national assembly. In r recent soeech Dr. Mueller declared that the former German emperor was not wanted in Germany and that he belongs to a. pathological ward David Well Known The name of Ediiard David has been linked with that of EhiHP Scheidemann as one of the .leaders of the German socialist party in tne reichstag since before the war. From 1915 to the time or the .revolution tost icnvomher Mr. David.- m hi speeches in the reichstag opposed war of conquest by uermany. Dr. David was a member of the orleihal German delegation to tiv Conference, but retired in fav or of Herr Tandsberg on' account of ill health. Mathias Erzberger was the head of the, German armistice eommission and is a leader of the centrist, or clerical, party. The famous reichstag peace reso lution adopted in July. li i, ana declaring for peace without annex ation or indemnity" was the work of Erzberger. . . Gustav Noske became a' leaatnP rigurt! in German' politics under the republican government set up in uer many with Frederich Ebert as pres ident Herr Noske was a storm cen ter -early, in the year because of ins drastic measures as minister ot ae- feniHi in putting down the spartacan uprisings. ' , f Noske Policed Xatioi He policed the country effectively- but Incurred the ' criticism f those who objected, to his firm tactics in dealing with all opposition. ' Many summary executions followed an or der issued by him that all person found fighting the government forc es should be shot immediately. He was mentioned as "probably dictator. if it should become necessary to ap point one through the predicted fall of the government some months ago. VOTIXfl AT WKIMAK FAVORS COX D1TIOXA L A X'EPTA X T WEIMAR, Friday, June j 20. Caucuses of the three principal par ties,- voting Thursday, night on the question of the feigning of the peace treaty, resulted as follows: Majority socialist?, to in favqr ol Kicning the treaty and 39 against: democrats, one (Raron von Richthof- en) in favor of signing and , T8 against; cenln.sls, four in favor m unconditional acrepfanee and 6! . for conditional acceptance. SKMHXO OF TFA'TKIST XOTF. DKMKH AT WKIMAK, KF.ItlKT COPENHAGEN, June 21 Reports regarding the sending of a note to the peace - conference inquiring as tOj its attitude toward the centrist's party's proposed modification f cer tain clauses in the; treaty and also requesting tho extension of the titne limit for signing the treaty, ac- (Continued on page 3). SUB CHASER TO QUELL NATIVES flnvrnnr nf Alaska Uses Craft Against Reds in Village Riot JUNEAU, Alaska, une 21. Sub chaser No. 310 was ordered by Gov ernor Thomas Riggs to the vicinity of Yukutat village to quell a reorted native uprising there today. The governor .also ordered the gunboat Vjckpburg to'Kodiak and Tort Al- throp where cannerymen are strik- hg and where reports, of alleged bol- hevik activities had been received. The governor, in the first instance. aqted: upon the urgent appeal of white residents of Yukutat who re ported the natives had the village terrorized. The trouble was said to have started at the conneries. The governor stated that a full in vestigation would be made of the rouble' at Kodiak and Port Althrop o see if the canneries are comply- ng wim tne territorial regulations ff they are, he intimated quick act tion would be taken to end trouble caused by the radical element. Rea sons for the strike of cannerymen and details of the trouble were not available here late today. Reports to the governor, were sent by wire less. ; T COTTON MILLS HIT BY STRIKE 500,000 'English Spinners ' I w w . - Leave Looms uwners ' Make No Move MANCHESTER. England; June 21 All cotton mills in Lancashire closed at noon today and It is ex pected by Monday that the 5.000,000 spindles and thousands of looms will be stopped through the strike of 500.000 workers. The mill owners say. they will make no attempt to operate." ' LONDON. June 21. The minister of labor Today suggested to the par ties to the dispute In the Lancashire cotton industry that the whole ques tion be submitted to arbitration. Th ministry pointed out that the differ ences between Uw employers and tne employes hav been reduced to small proportions. COAST STRIKE IS AUTHORIZED All of Pacific States Are In cluded in Order of Head 1 . of Union SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 21. Authority to call a strike of union telephone operators and linemen em ployed in the Pacific coast district I has been given to L . C. Crasser vice president of the district, accord ing to Secretary Charles P. Ford of the . International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. . who said today that if differences between the com naiifcps ahrl th union men wprw not settled -4oon, he expected the strike wquld become general throughout the district. Five states are included in. the district. They are Arizona. 'Call fornia, Nevada, Washington and Oregon. ' Parents of Brave Corporal Receive Medal of Honor Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Auer who live on rural route No. 4, father and mother of Corporal Charles. Auer of the 20th company. Fifth regiment. Third battalion who lost his life in the great marine drive at Chateau Thierry, have lately -received from the government a Distinguished Ser vice Cross. The medal was a post umous award, as the young man was killed June 7. 1918. when the great onrush of the Huns toward Paris was stepped. On the croos are an eagle and a design, which make it resemble a Celtic cross, while on the reverse are the' words, ''For Valor." Accompanying the cross was a parch ment in brown and white, classical in design, setting forth the battles in which the younc men had fought and stating that he had shown special val or under most trying circumstances, jThe parchment was signed by Gener al John J. rersmng. Seattle-St. Loais Train , Is Wrecked in Nebraska i LINCOLN. Neb , June 21. The through SniMp-St. Iouis pas.-senger train on tlc Riirnncton railroad, due at Lincoln 12:15 Sunday morning, was wrecked late tonight a shoit dis tance east of Aurora. "f miles west of, Lincoln. A dispatch from Aurora says four coaches lert the track but so far as known no one was Injured. The cause; of the accident and amount ot damage is unknown. , MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN WINNIPEG Strike Tor n Canadian City MSees Wildest Scenes in His Mtory One Man Killed in Battle With Soldiers GENERAL KETCHEN IN CHARGE OF SITUATION Northwest Mounted Police Suffer Battering At Hands of Mob WINNIPEG. June 21 Winnipeg. strike torn since May 15, is under martial law tonight. After fighting- thi3 afternoon' between thousands of strikers and the city and provincial police, in which one man was killed. another injured probably fatally and more than a score hurt. Mayor Charles F. Gray formally turned the city over to the possession of the military forces. oeneral II. D. H. Ketchen an- nounrel parlv lonirht that ho has taken full charge of the situation. I At 7 o'clock rioting had ceased and J me viriini! 01 me iiKOiiim were id hospitals. Scores of alleged rioters are in custody. Scenrtt Turbulent Three incidents In quick succes sion . in mid-afternoon, precipitated the most turbulent femes in the his tory of Winnipeg. Several thousand strikers and strike sympathizers. In cluding some returned soldiers, were participating in a "silent" parade. A street car attempted to' get through the crowd on Main street. Some of the paraders became openly hostile and when mounted ' police came down the street toclear the thoroughfare, the parade was quick Ip turned into a rioting mob. ' Scarlet Ridem Fight For nearly two hours the scarlet riders, reinforced by returned .sol dler constables and policemen. fought the rioters. The mounted po lice fired at the men who attacked them, and sought to pull them from their horses. Mike Sokolwoki. a registered alien, fell dead with a bul let in his heart; Men in the crowd attacking the (Continued on page 3) TED" HOWARD DIES t FOLLOWING YESTERDAY EVENING Theodore It. Howard, famil iarly known as Tcd" Howard, one of the nwt widely kmma and popular boys In Kulem, died at 1 o'clorlc thin morning at the Salem' hospital following a collision in wMch a motorcycle, an automobile bu and a trolley car figured at State and Waver ly streets late yesterday after noon. The lad w tmH yet 15 years old, but had a wide repu tation us a public fneaker and reader. He wa em loyed at the Salem o4office a a secia delivery mewenser and at the Postal Telegraph office as a pre messenger. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Howard, 1:17 Marlon street, mail col lector for the postoffice. When the hoy was examined at the hospital It waa found that his left hip and right shoulder were badly crushed ami bis head seriously bruised. He was par t tally conscious, however, and arter an peration which was hastened hy the attendine phy-sh-fan there was strong' liote that he would recover although the wounds about his head could not be determined defi nitely at that time. Eye witness say that the lad was traveling on his motorcycle south on Waveriy street be tween the state cpitn and tlie Supreme court ba I Id ing. The motor bus of th e Marion hotel was, traveling west on State and the street car east on State. In some, manner the nv lorry( 1 and tlte bus. came together at' the intersection. It Is said ltr cycle was carried a dKlawe of about HO feet by the auto bus and Howard was thrown untier I be stnx l ear. He was picked np by C. W. Nlemeyer. wh sawr the aeeiilent. ami taken to tlte hospital in an automobile lie longing to J. II. Itrotrman. a stranger In Salem, who atrv accomaniel him to the hospital. (Continued on page 3) Lieutenant Loses Both Parents Whtte Serving in France PORTLAND. June 21 When Lieutenant George D. Goraam sailed for France with a regi ment of engineers more than a year ago. he left both a mother and a father. When he arrives he will find neither, for his mother. Mrs. L. II. Gorbam. d'ed yesterday at the family hm.ie at Canby, and his father who was for many years head of the Portland Commercial of fice of the Rock Island rail road, died In November jut before the armistice was Mgned. Lieutenant Oorham was an on ly child. He has not yet been assigned to come home. Workmen to Receive Part of $50,000 Flight Prize LON'XJN. June 21. Captal.i John Alcock. o'kt of the Vic kcrs-Vi.ry a", pl.me. ubich made tho first ton stop fliiiit from Not meiira to Ireland, announced todav .'.hat be autl A. W. Iirown, th navl.rat;f. in tended to divide equally S.O0O of ',nrr 2M;;is go to th- machine. workmen who built the LUMBER MILLS MY SHUT DOWN Huge Volume of Business Makes Tie-up for Repairs Necessary PORTLAND. Jun 21. Production in the lumber industry has been so heavy during the past few months that many mills face the necessity of closing down for repairs durinr July and August, although have or ders awaiting them This unusual condition Is set forth today in the Robert H. Allen, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's as sociation. In. part ft ,fays: "" ' " . "Producers of weft roast lumber are oversold. Mill stocks are deplet ed. Physical conditions of manufae extensive repairs during July and August that heavily restricted Im mediate production is certain. "These conditorns have forced the industry, during the past week, to an intensified policy of selective or wtthout precedent." SI ACCIDENT - 5 TED- HOWARD I it i 4 -v SCUTTLE CRUISERS Most of Han Fleet Interned at Scapa Flow, 'Scotland, Is Sent to Bottom in Darin? Coup of Enemy Officers and Men Held by British , MEN OF WAR GO DOWN WITH j ENSIGN FLYING crcw Tk to bou and a Made Prisoners Some Shot When Escape Is At temptedPuhUc Amazed LONDON. June 21. Ry the Associated Press) The German of ficers an! sailors forming th? com plements of the German ships In-, their neet today, ah the big ships. tow uaiuesnip ana battle c:tilscrs. excepting the badej and numerous smaller craft were sunk, whil? others went ashore In a half ranken con dition, j - ' . Eghteen destroyers were beached by tugs; four still are afloat, while the remainder went under. The wholesale sinklnc of the German shops. which we:? surrend ered under th tenae-cr the armNtlce was carefully arranger br officers ajd crews. All explosives had been removed and therefore the only means ol oestroymg the fleet wai ty opening' the ' peacocks. ' The ships went down slowly, -with the German flag, which the crew had boisied. showing at toe mastheads Few -Casualties Result The crews ' composed entlrHrT of Germans, tinder the terms of the I armistice which dod aot permit of British guards aboard, took to the boats when the vessels began to set tle. While" making for the shore the boats were challenged and called upon the rurrendered. Some of them Ignored the summons and were fired upon, a few casaslties resulting. This stroke apparently was an en tire surprise and the first 'sews . I -reached jSxmdon phrourh a corre spondent wBo was Informed by farmers In the : neibhhorhood that Ihey had . reen the German ships sinking with' their flags aloft. The admiralty at first denied the report, but later confirmed it and inued Mi official .statement The German officers and crews have been made prisoners. None of the officials tonight wDuld offer an opinion as to be dealt with. - HOISTING OF RED VI ACS IS SIGNAL mil SINKING THURSO.: Scotland. June 21. The hoisting j of . a red fug at nuon was the signal for the crews to shut tle the Gerrna warships 1a Scapa Flow. The erews took to the boats and rowed toward the shire. Th guardianships fired at the Germans. who Jumped, overboard and swam ashore, wherf -they were rounded up. t :- - OPINIONS VARY OX F.FFS4T .. AND JIEASOX FOR SCITTI ING IjONDON. Sunday. June 22. With regard to the sinking of the Ger man Warship id the Scapa Flow the Sunday Obrrer says that while navaFbpinion at Portsmouth holds its would hate been better have had ritish wards on the German ships, ihelr sinking may be con side ted as removing a difficulty which mlfcht have led to heartburning sreong tha allies conceralng their disposition. The German skeleton crewa acre re lieved monthly and returned to Ger many. They wee only snrh pro visions aa thvy would have obtained - tn their. j v IVcrlia: flan I p4," Admiral Sir'Cypria" Rridg. re tired. fori.ir director of th Inte'li gence depsdeeejt, Interriewd by the the sinking said: . "It is a breach of the armlf t'e and there. almort tantamount tn a new war. but at nis Juncture It ai-pear to mean that then Germans intend to l.slgn th peace treaty. It looks l'ko a plan agreed upon In lUrlln. Cotnwinaer Keawortny, M. I'.. told the Dispatch he did not think the sinrlnrs were carried out by order of the 'GG-mtan govrnmnt. bat were engineered by a few h li nearis sick .f existence "at Fcaua Flow. . "The admiralty or the admiral In charge. h said, "cannot ! MamM. Rath-r, the jrmi-ie conn.ilAjsioa l being celsured for not putting p.rilii.h crews aboard, but we a:r well til The political correspondent of th '(Continued on page 3) r