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--.-r. . . THE WEATHER Probably Tain, Cooler east por lion. Moderate southerly winds. The Stats mail reeVveaHbV leased wire report of the Aa oclated Press, the greatest and- most reliable press association- la the world. id fa us be OS 17. he in-ip- gaTSlXTH YEAR SHANTUNG TO BE GIVEN TO CHINA SOON Secretary of Foreign Depart ment Makes Statement As luring Restitution Within One Year DESIRE FOR HARMONY OF NATIONS EXPRESSED I iciai r omis uui 1 emtory Was Taken From Ger man NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Restitu tion of the province of Shantung to Clin by Japan within a year was predicted here today by Yosuke Mat moka, secretary of the foreign de partment of Japan, and a member of the Japanese peace delegation. Mr. Matsuoka has just arrived here from Paris on his way to Japan. "I thoold not be at all surprised. he said, "if onr government opened segotiations with the Chinese i-government with a view to settling the Skaatnag question in a way satis factory to all concerned. Doubt Van ithe. In a statement on the Shantung titoation. Mr.. Matsuoka said: To those of us who have partici pated in the peace conference, there to not th e shadow of a doubt that Japan will withdraw from Shantung at the earliest possible troment. hTe peace treaty requires Germany to hand, over to Japan all the docu ments relative to Shantung within three months after the treaty comes nto forte. When this is done, Japan will Immediately take steps toward the restitution which Japan has pledged to make in favor of China. "The terms on which Japan will restitute Shantung are now fairly nnwn tft the world. Rrleflr stated. Tuie main points of these terms are "First, : Japan to restore Kiau Chow, th German leased territory to China- -v -" p. r ; . :" Free Trade Assert.1 1 i "Second. In returning Klau .Chow t6 China. Janan In the itnehest of all nations asks only one thing, namely, that the territory be open to inter national trade. It is only as a, nat ural corrollary of this proposed meas nre that Japan also desires to-estab-lish an international, not a Japanese settlement in the city of Tslngtao. In the Chlno-Japanese agreement of May 25, 1915, a Japanese settlement tu to have been established m ad dition to an. international one, but Viscount Uclida, our foreign minis. ter. declared, on August 6, last, tnat Japan wonld waive the right to es tablish a Japanese settlement. Troops To Go. "Third. Jaoan will withdraw all ler troops not only from the rall- (Continued on page 4) DMllELS TELLS OAKLAND CLUB; Secretary Has Day Crowded With Speeches and In- M estimations u - ; 3 , OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 3 "I have less fear of Bolshevism than of in trenched privilege," Secretary of the Xavy Daniels said in departing mo mentarily from his set speech at the Greek theatre of the University of California at Berkeley this after noon. "Americans- will fllangle ooisnevism to death but intrencneo Allege with Its tenacious tenta cles about the nations of the: world vould be harder to ferret out and M down. Bolshevism loudly pro ems itself in the open, but in benched privilege hides itself un der many cloaks." Secretary Daniels in his address had referred to many influences that ern at work to defeat ratification the league of nations by the Unit ? States senate. Day Is Crowded , neretary Daniels passed the en r day on the east side of San "ancUco bay; revisited two sites Proposed for naval bases, one at 'araeda and the other at Richmond risited a shipyard where he drove Aflr8t rivet in the keel of a new il.OOft oil tanker, atended a com mercial clnb luncheon and ad Inner. ttd alx addressee during the day n viewed the business and resi- :?ae section. nr nn-inri nrkelev - . - - - - - - - " Alameda from an automobile. ,a an address to Oaklandera at aacheon Secretary Daniels said: f the ipafrilo rf no tinner It nM iried by the senate this country build the largest navy In the ". nd militarism which is of- , "V to Americanism will become rl mor dominant than that of nnanjr. We will be forced to this ' the league faila."- PLANE IS BABE'S HEARSE : ' - ? : : : FIRST AIR FUNERAL HELD : : : : : UNDERTAKERS FLY NEAR TORONTO, SeT. 3 What is believed to have been the first air plane funeral eyer held took place here today when a tiny coffin, bearing the body of Leonard Al len, a fime-months old babe, was conveyed to Mount Pleasant ceme tery in a plane piloted by Harry Smith, formerly of the Royal Air forces. The "flying hearse" was closely followed by a second plane bearing assistants of the under taker. FAMED CARDINAL OFF FOR STATES Mercier, Primate of Belgiam, Will Visit in East and Canada BREST, Sept. 3 (Havas) Card inal Mercier, primate or Belgium, sailed today for the United State;) aboard , the transport Northern Pa cific. . . Cardinal Desideratus Mercier, the veteran Belgian prelate whose de fiance of the Germans during the oc cupation of Belgium caused him to become a historic figure in the world war, is expected to arrive in New York Thursday. September 11. Owing to President Wilson's absence from Washington at that time. Car dinal Mercier will make his first visit to Baltimore, where he will be received by Cardinal Gibbons. . Under present plans Cardinal Mer cier during his stay in the United States Will visit many eastern cit ies. If time permits it is understood the cardinal also will make a trio to the Canadian northwest where his uncle. Monsignor Croquet, was a missionary when the country was in habited mostly by Indians. MAN CRUSHED BY L0AD0FL0GS George Prion Receives Fatal ' Injuries in Accident on Train : YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 3. With from other bad injuries, George Prinn, a transient laborer died to night in St. Elizabeth's hospital, af ter being brought from Roza, where he was crushed under a carload" of logs which broke from their fasten ings on a Northern Pacific car. It was reported here tonight that a sec ond man. unidentlf iedw as caught under the falling logs, and that res cuers had been unable to to extri cate him, though they could see his feet projecting from beneath a pile of logs. Prinn leaves .relatives ? Newcastle, Pa. SPECIAL PRIVILEGE MORE TO BlvFEAREDTHAN BOLSHEVISM 26-Passenger Plane Reaches Buffalo on . Inspection Journey BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 3. The 2 6-passenger Lawson aifplane ar rived here today from Cleveland, the flight requiring three hours. Al fred W. Lawson of Milwaukee, own er of the machine, announced the nrosent trin was for the inspection of the landing stages for a route from Chicago to New York. Later he intends flying from New "York to San Francisco. The plane will leave tomorrow for Syracuse. Jewelers Sue Strikers to Prevent Picket of Stores PORTLAND. Or., Sept 3. Asking that members of the jewelry workers union be restrained from posting pickets in front of their stores, eight local jewelers filed suit today in the circuit court against the Central La bor Council. Jewelry Workers' Union No. 41; Edward Becker, president and R. A. . Sutliff. secretary of the union. The complaint alleges that the posting of the pickets In front of the stores Is a distinct detriment to l he business of the firms, and since the deefnd ants are not responsible persons, damaegs cannot . be fought. Eight New Members Added to Republican Committee WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Eight new members were elected -to the Republican congressional committee tonight at a party conference. They included Representative .1 Riddick- Montana, and Miller, Washington DISQUE GOES IN OWN BEHALF General of Spruce Division Denies Charge of Secret Understanding With Gomp ers to Regulate Labor RESPONSIBILITY TAKEN FOR CIVILIAN HOURS Short Day and Bigger Pay Soldiers in Logging Camps Defended PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 3 Briga dier General Brice P. Disque. re tired, former head of the spruce di vision and president of the spruce production corporation, summoned before the congressional committee. or inquiry here today, closed his Tirst chapter or official narrative with the admission that be owes ais present position in New York City to tho interest and introduction of John D. Ryan, former director of aircraft production, official of the Milwaukee railroad and a frequent figure in prior statements made to the house sub-committee. Connection Traced Testimony further adduced was to the effect that Mr. Ryan Is a director of 'the American International com pany, sole owners of the T. Arasinck and company of New York, of which General Disque is president; and that the American International is also a stockholder in the Siems Carey company, parent concern of the Siems-Carey-H. S. Kerbaugb corporation, builders of the Olympic Peninsula spruce line to Lake Pleas ant, Charge Refuted General Disque who hastened from New York to defend his poli cies as spruce production chief, and who requested permission to appear before the congressional committee in this city, had spent the'day telllnsr of the formation of the spruce or ganization, detailing its methods and refuting charges, made . against the character of its output and the man ner in which the work had proceed ed. The session, almost to a close, had been comparatively uneventful, though touched here and there with flashes of feeling. PORTLAND, Sept. 3. Brigadier GeneraFTirice P. Disque, head of the spruce production division of the war department during the war, tes tified today before the congression al sub-committee investigating air plane spruce activities here, that he had a secret understanding with Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation or utoor regarding the eight hour day for log ging camps and mills in the north west. It had been charged that such understanding existed between Gen eral Disque and Gompers. Responsible for Hours The general assumed full respon sibility today for Installing the eight-hour day. He declared that lumber operators were divided as to the wisdom of cutting the ten hour day to eight hours and that they left H to him to decide. He stated his belief that the lumber bus iness would have been wrecked and disorganized for months of the eight hour day had not been granted. Pay 1isrgo Auml Full responsibility also was as sumed by General Disque in his tes timony for putting the soldiers of the spruce division on civilian pay instead of army pay. When Congressman Frear. chair man of the Investigating committee reminded him that 40 per cent of the airplane lumber produced was fir. rather than spruce. General Disque replied 'that not enough spruce' was available and that only for this rea son fir was turned out. rORTLAVD FIRM SUES TO RECOVER RIGHT OK WAV PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 3. Suit was filed here today In the federal ffcurt ly he Portland and West Coast Railroad and Navigation com pany for $75,000 judgment against the Warren Spruce company and the United States spruce production cor poration for withholding the right of way on property owned by the rail road company. The same company also filed another suit for the con demnation of the railroad richt of way; owned by Sara Craan, United Slates Fpruffe production jopora tion. Henrietta Beatrice Hayes and the Warren Spruce company. The property involved in the last named suit is in Lincoln county. Five Million Pounds of Meats to be Re-Sold by U. S. .WASHINGTON. Sept. 3 Five mil lion ponnds of frozen meats, now in cold storace in. New York and Chi cago was offered by the war depart ment oMay o municipalities for re sale. The offer will remain in effect until Septemer 25. ON STAND SALEM. OREGON, THURSDAY .MOItM.Vg. ' KKlTKMUKIt, 4, lOIO RIVER TAKES EUGENE BOY i i i FRIEND TRIES RESCUE i i i BODY SECURED QUICKLY EUGENE. Or., Sept. 3. Mar vin Thatcher, age 15 years, resid ing near Deehorn, was drowned in the McKenzie River while risbing late yesterday. The loy walked out on the approach of an ' old bridge and slipped, lie was un able to swim. Walter Easton aged 14. plunged in to save him but he was almost drowned beforo being able to get out. The body of the Thatcher boy was taken from the water 20 minutes after the drown ing. HOUSE PASSES LEASE MEASURE Bill Pro Tiding Leasing of Public Lands Over Without Record Vote WASHINGTON, SepL 3. Without a record vote the senate tonight af ter a 12-Bour session, passed the bill to make possible the leasing or public lands having deposits of oil. coal. gas. phosphate and sodium. In passing the measure the senate approved amendments offered by Senator Harris, Democrat, Georgia, which would provde that under the Clayton anti-trust act. oil compan ies may not charge different prices In various parts of the country. (XUBUMTO BE HELD MONDAY Marshall Dana of Portland to Be Speaker at Opening Meeting The first Commercial club lunch of the fall season will be held at the Hotel Marion at noon Monday, Sep tember 8. according to announce ment made yesterday. The speak er will be Marshall Dana, president of the Portland Press club and member of the editorial staff of the Oregon Journal-.,-He is- considered one of the best informed men on civ ic' affairs in the state and is widely known. The meetings were discontinued during the hot weather but durinz the season were largely attended and the speakers included many of the best known men of the north west. FIRE BLACKENS SOUND FORESTS Ten Square Miles Laid Waste by Blaze Started From Locomotive Spark PORT TOWNSEND. Wash., Sept 3. An area ten square miles of val uable timber on then orth, banlr of the Dnckabush river, near Brlnnon has been laid waste by a forest fire still raging, according to reports brought here tonight. It also was reported that the fire has crossed the river and is making headway toward tb?? national reserve. Sev eral hundred men are fighting' the flames. Sixty men surrounded by the fire last night, escaped today- many having their shoes burned and clothing scorched. Homes of everal farmers are reported de stroyed. L . The fire is believed to have beep started by a spark from a locomo tive. SOLDIER BONUS BILL IS PASSED Wisconsin Overwhelmingly in Favor of Giving Aid to Service Men MILWAUKEE. Sept. 3. With only a few counties complete and returns from only 44 counties, irr the Btate. the vote on the soldiers' bonus tak en Tuesday night showed a majority of 70,000 in favor. Shawano county is the only one to report a majority against the bill. The total vote for the state Is expected to show a ma jority of 100.000 for the bill.' SERVICEMEN AFTER SCALPS OF PROFITEERS ST. PAUL, Sept. 3. Resolutions demanding punishment or profiteer ing as a felony and barring of alien slackers and conscientious objectors from the homestead right wero adop ted today by the Minnesota conven tion of the American Legion. MR. WILSON BEGINS LONG TREATYTOUR President Confident of Ulti mate Approval of Instru ment by People and Sen ate's Ratification PARTY GIVEN OVATION AS SPECIAL LEAVES Schedule Calls for 30 Ad dresses and Many Infor mal Speeches HARRISBURG. Pa..- Sept. 3. President Wilson definitely decided tonight that his review of the Pacific fleet at Seattle, about which some uncertainty has arisen, would take Place at 3 o'clock on Saturday. Sep tember 13. This arrangement will give him two days at San Francisco. September 17 and 18 as originally planned. As finally agreed on the plan is the same as in the president's itin erary as originally announced. Un certainty regarding -eal arrange ments on the Pacific coast, led the president to consider postponing the review until Monday. September 15. and catting a day from the stop in San Francisco. That suggestion was abandoned aftr receipt of ad ditional information by the president tonight. PRESIDENT XXFIIEXT OF ULTIMATE RATIFICATION WASHINGTON, Sept 3. President Wilson left tonight on his western speaking tour in behalf of the peace treaty confident of ultimate ratifica tion of the instrument by the senate without amendments or "destruc tive" reservations which wonld re quire re-negotiation. The president and his party reached the station at 6:45 o'clock and were given an ovation by tbe crowd. After escorting Mrs. Wilson to the private car. the president re turned to Ih-j platform where he chatted with friends until the time for his train to leave. Party Large Accompanying the president In ad dition to Mrs. Wilson, were Joseph P. Tumulty, his secretary and Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his per sonal physician. Nearly 30 news paper correspondents also were aboard the train in addition to the force of official stenographers and secret service men. The trip, perhaps the most ardu ous ever undertaken by a president, will carry Mr. Wilson and his party as far weft as the Pacific coast, al most to the Canadian border on the north and almost to Mexico on the south. He will speak in every state west of the Mississippi except four, and will make up for the ommlsslon f the speeches in Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky and Tennessee. Schedule Not Announced Although the detailed schedule was held in confidence In the Inter est of safety to the presidential train, it is understood that most of the stops will be onlv for three or four hours. In Des Moines. Seattle Los An tele and Louisville, however. wher Sunday stops are made, the president will have oepportunity for brief respite. In Seattle be will re view the Taclflc fleet. The speech making schedule Is vigorous one from the start. After his address at Columbus tomorrow. Mr. Wilson will grv to Indianapolis In time for an evening mass tneetinjt Then he will continue westward reaching Des Moines Saturday for the week-end. Portland on List The following week will take him far into the west by the northern route, with speeches at Omafia, Sioux Falls. St. Paul. Minneapolis Btsmark. Billings. Helena, Couer d Alene. Spokane, Tacoma and SeatfT After that will come Portland. San Francisco. San D'ero. Los Angeles Reno. Salt Lake City, Cheyenne. Denver. Pueblo. Wichita. Oklahoma Citv. Littlfj Rock. Memphis and Louisville. The return to Washing ton will be on September 30. In addition to these scheduled ad dresses, Mr. Wilson Is expected to make some shorter speeches from his train at intermediate stops. Although It Is expected that the president will devote most of his at tention to the peace treaty, he pro bably will also touch on the high cost of living and other domestic problems. It has been pointed out that much of his itinerary lies through the northwest where lalr and social unrest - has been pro nounced. Thousands Greet Prince in Journey Through Ontario ALGOMA. Ont.. Sept. 3. Fnthns lastic demonstrations greeted the Prince or Wales as he progressed through western Ontario today. Thou rands or people were gathered at all the stations along the railway. "CANNED" SERMONS PLAN PHONOGRAPHS PROPOSED 3000 "PULPITS VACANT LAKE GENVA, Wis.. Sept. 3. "Canned sermons" are a possibil ity in pastorless Presbyterian churches as a result of action tak en today at the Presbyterian New Era conference. It was disclosed that 3,000 of the 10.000 Presby terian pulpits are vacant. Dr. W. II. Marquis of Chicago, associate secretary, endorsed the recommendation that phonograph records of approved sermons by ordained ministers be provided for use in vacant pulpits. 2 BADLY HURT IN PLANE FALL Machine Built4 at Walla Walla Goes Into Tail Spin at 1000 Feet WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Sept. 3. W. C. Buell. pilot or a locally built airplane and Whiting Hend ricks, a passenger, were badly in jured today when the plane in which they were flying went Into a tall spin at a height or 1000 feet and came to tbe ground Just over tbe Oregc.n line sonth or Walla Walla . Buell succeeded in righting the machine before It reached tbe ground but not soon enough for a sare landing. Roth men were In their eeats when found : Hend ricks had a fractured skull, a broken leg and a bad scalp wound while Both are In St. Marys"hospllal here. The plane was built here two or three years ago and was completed and put into com mission a few days ago and had made several success ful nights. W. C. Buell. the pilot was formerly in the army aviation service and has been acting county agricultural agent for several months, when he resigned August 1 to go into the commercial flying business. MOB THREATENS CAR.M0T0Rf.3AN Man Who Ran Down and Killed Young Girl Hurried Away From Jail SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 3. George Miller, a tsreet car motor man, was hurried rrom the jail at Daly City, a suburb south of here, today when a mcb became threaten ing after Miller's car had run down and killed six-year-old Virginia Mer le. Officers took Miller through a rear door of the jail and brought to this city where he was placed in prison. He told the police the girl ,ran in front of the car before he could stop it. Botn trucks or tne car passed over her body. SOCIALISTS, UNDAUNTED BY FAST -SHRINKING RANKS, HAVE.PLANS FOR OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT Nurse Gives Pint of Blood to Save life of Prineville Man PORTLAND. Or., Sept. 3 To save the life of E. L. Ashby of Prineville. Ore,, who has been seriously ill for several months from endocarditis Miss Emily L. Loveridge, superinten dent ot the Good Samaritan hospi tal, last night submitted to the transruslon or a pint or blood, as a result or which Ashbys physicians, who made the announcement today, said they had hopes of his recovery. Ashby was brought to Portland re cently and despite the fact that his physicians have several times ad vertised for men to submit to the transfusion operation, no volunteers appeared. Late last night his con dition became serious and Miss Lov eridge Insisted that she be allowed to donate the necesrary pint or blood. Community Meetings Are Scheduled by Association Organization through the commun ity meeting flan Is to be taken up again by the Oregon Growers' Co operative association after a lull dur ing the harvest season, and a num ber of meetings have bt-en scheduled at which Robert" C. Pautns. Pror. C. I. Lewis and other speakers will ex plain to g:owers the purpoecs of the association. The series or meetings will open it Crosaell. lane rouniy. tomorrow nlcht. oMnday niiht or nest wf-ek a meeting will he hld at the Guthrie school house, and Tuesday night th- rgower In the Salt rnk dMirit will gather at the Salt rreek school hous. Wednesday night there will be a gathering at the Orrhard Viw school nous- and Tursday nght at (th Mountain Vew school bouse. The association- has arranged for a booth at the state fair FIUCB! FIVK CEXTa. INVASION OF Admission of Fault by Au thorities' of Southern Neigh bor Removes Chance of Re taliatory Action SHOf FIRED T TO SAVE ' STAMPEDE OF HORSES Two Planes, Said to be Amer ican, Over CHhuahua ' Rouse Ire TJX RE DO. Tex.. Sept. . Possi bility of an immediate retaliatory action by the United Slates military forces in connection with tbe at tack yesterday oa aa American army airplane has been eliminated it was indicated here tonight, by the admis sion of Mexican authorities today that tne attack was made by Carran xa soldiers. While official information was lacking the Impression was gained la army circles that this admfaaios has removed the sltaation from the hands of the military so rar as em ergency action Is concerned and It placed It directly up to Washington . tor proper diplomatic action. CiaUti to be PvaUbed Mexican Consul Garcia said a complete report had beea' made to Mexico City, with a request for In structions as to the punishment ror those guilty. One point in difference tonight be tween Mexican aad American report was the location of. the airplane when the attacker fired the open ing velley Into It. , Consul Garcia declared an Investigation shows. It was one kilometer inside the Mex ican border, while aaoflclal Amer ican reports insist the plane war 1 United States territory at the time. The Mexicans fired at the aviators Consul Garcia said, merely to cause them to fly higher as their airplane was , frightening their horses r raz ing nearby. The consul said they did not intend to hit the aviators or their plane. CVpOUn's Wound Heal The wound sustained by Captain D. W. McNabh. one of the flyers Is healing rapidly. It was said to-' night and no complications are ex pected. HI companion. Lieutenant Von De B. Johnson was trnwonnded though several bullets pierced the plane's wings. . I AIRPLANES OVER CThnUAtiuA HOUSE IRE OF MEXICANS CHIHUAHUA CITY. Mex.. Sept 3. Two airplanes, bearing the nam. (Continued cn page 4) Decrease from 117,000 to 42,000 Declared Due to War Witlrfirawals CHICAGO. ot. 3. War an withdrawn! or ralL-al elemrnte ttn reduced the total membership or the national Socialist party In this coun try to 42.217. according to a report cead today at the convention of the organization. Before the war tbe the Socialist party claimed a mem bership of 117.900. ; A summary of the' more important busines transacted br the convention '.follows: Urged political freedom for Ireland and India. . , . Criticised congress for declining to seat Victor Berger. Socialist of Mil waukee, pending an investigation of his claims to tbe office. GeweraJ Strike Planned, i Endorsed the plan for a genera! Industrial strike October to com pel the release or Tom Jlooney, Lu gene V. Debs and other prisoners. Endorsed the co-operative store plan to reduce the aikh cost or living, Sent telegrams or fraternal greet ing to Kcgene v. Debs and other radical leaders Imprisoned daring the war. fJoldsnaa Release Cheered. . The delegates applauded ror sever al minutes when a report was read that Emma Goldman had been re leased rrom prison two weeks ago. The new communist labor party of America adopted a platform declar ing the party In tall harmony with the revolutionary working class par ties. tr all countries and standing by th principles stated by (he third In ternational program adopted at Mow row. Raul a. Other planks fa the platform read: - "We fully ' recognize the coin oed for an Immediate cbaor la the social system. The lime ror par leying and compromise has passed and now it Is only a Question wheth er the full power remains In the (Continued on page 4) MEXICO NOT LIK&YKOU t sis so-. 11. ir lal Ids nd rr- i ins m r? in E4 t ' A 'tZ3