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Newspaper Page Textm. as m TIIK WEATHERi mm The Statesman receives the leased wlro report of lha AwocUUd Pre, the greatest and BMt reliable preaa association In tb world. a Friday, unsettled; probably thunder storms in mountains; moderate ' westerly winds. SEVENTIETH YKAH kalk.m. oitraox. ritii.v Mouxixt;. ahust a. htjo. Wmim SITUATION" WORRYING OFFICALS Polish Problem Subject of Diplomatic , Exchanges ,. Be tween United States and , Allied Governments -: SILENCE MAINTAINED BY STATE DEPARTMENT White, Charge D'Aff aires in Poland May Leave War saw Immediately, WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. The Pol Ish situation, described at the state department today as one of "confus ion and contention", is understood to hare become the subject of diplo matic exchanges between the at' led owers and the United States. The trend of the exchange was . not disclosed here, and siltrce was "maintained by officials (.eneially as to International aspects of the Pol ish debacle. ' i Official reports woo said to be aa disquieting on ir?s dispatches and authorization was sen; by the stale department today to the American location at Warsaw for its ren.oal with allied diplomatic representative.! from the capital endangered by the llcltthevikt. , . John C. White, cbagj d'affaires r.f the American legation during the absence of Hugh Gibson, the mini Her who is in this country, was infon-itd to use his own discretion In leaving Warsaw. It was raid that if neves eary. as seems aertcln, the foreign diplomatic . .representatives progahly wonld go to Graudenz, about iOJ miles toward Danzig. -, Announcement was made that Min ister Gibson was en route here frora California and -that hn would oo ' leave for. his. post,, lie has been in . the United Sjpates several rnontas on leave. '.";.; ;; k '..t'-. . Official dispatches gfving " various lights on the Polisn situation were received today. One said Krwich mil itary representatives bt Warsaw ra tified Poland last weet that France would be unable to i'u.nlsh a y com bat troops for use against the Bol shevist. Use 6f additional officer. however, was offered. , ., V i GUARDSMEN TO HELP CLEAN OREGON CROPS ALL DRILLS ARE KISPKNDKI 1)1 HINtJ HARVEST SEASON Authority til-ante! by Adjutant fun eral After Coniiuunieatinjc With , Department Hundreds of men who are enlisted in the National Guard of Oregon are at liberty to work in the harvest fields curing the present sea.son and yet not lose their army pay, through arrangements made with the western department of the army. This- was announced yesterday by Adjutant General George A. White. Labor shortage in the state is the reason for the move. The adjutant genera) has notified all organiza tion commanders of the guard that the men may be1 released during the harvest season, the exact ieriod of time to be determined locally. Hun dreds of men already, are taking ad vantage of the opportunity. To make up the army pay an 'in creased number of drills will be held npon the return of the men in Sep tember and October. , Over 1000 men in Ashland. Med ford, , Marxhfleld. Newport, Salem, Independen-e, .41 verton, Woodburn and Portland are affected. - , i NEW HEAD NAMED FOR HOSPITAL Miss Gladys Steele Appointed , Successor to Miss McNary andMcKinley School Serves for Another Year REOPENING DATED FOR MONDAY, AUGUST 16 RADICAL HEAD UNDER'ARREST Man Wanted by Allied Gov 5 - ernments for 5 VYears :t Inventor of Code Nurses' Training School to be Developed in Connection ; With Work ' - OFFICIALS UNEARTH BIG STILLAT NEWBERG LARGEST OXK VET DISCOVERED IX OREGON Hum Ihiildiag Which Mill Wa IxK-aird and Kehte 150 il loon of IJtpior PORTLAND. Or.. Aug. 's'.Fai agents last night found near Ntw berg. Or., the largest Illicit Mtlil yet unearthed in Oregon." according to Johnson S. Smith, state prohibition enforcement director, who dl.-ecr.,t tne rata. A bunaing 40 by 101 ftet. In which the still was "located, was burned by the ofHcers and ail the equipment. . About 800 gallons or corn mash and 150 gallons of whis key were seized. , Today W. L. Halt, son of the owner of tho ranch wl re the still was found, and two other men were arretted charged with Lav ing operated tne still. Smith de clared be was confident he had act ed within the law when he burned the building. , . CAR STRIKE ASSUMING RIOT ASPECT . 4 1 1 ' Between 30 and 35 Persons Injured Seriously in Fight ing Between Striking Work , men and Strike Breakers CHICAGO. Aug. 5. .- Alexander Jaunniksa. said to be an Internation al anarchist sought by the allied gov ernments for five years was arretted today and. with him was taken docu mentary evidence said by police to show be was the head of an "under ground" system of : communication between radicals in this country and abroad. Questioning of Jaunuiksaj revealed be had used the name 01 John Alexander. - - - Terming, the arrest "the most Im portant since the war." officials said Jaunuiksa appeared to be the head Of. radicals in America, that he bad Joined the German radical socialists at the age of 18 and fled from En gland to escape conscription and that he was wanted for evading the draft in the United States. . He was born in Russia 2 G years ago. He was the editor of "Der Klass-! en kamps" (Class Struggles), said to be a radical paper which advocated destruction of all government. His secretary, Carl Broekmiller, and Charles Plahan, alleged I. W. W. organizer also were arrested. Jaunniksa. according to the police, was the inventor of a code used by 10.000 radicals in this country and rnurroiea oyr i rejnmciilt possiDle for one to write an ap- . . . lnarently personal letter, wmcn, wnen tKisi. u. t,.. Aug. &. -nai is coded contained secret instructions believed by railroad officials to have i Qd anarchl8tlc teachings. uvea in timnpi in wrec& v.duauiiu Pacific passenger train No. 8. near 'Sentinel, a short distance from the scene of last Monday's holdup of passenger train No. 63, was frustrat ed late tonight when the conductor of a freight, train preceding the' pas senger, saw the rail Obstruction on the tracks and stopped bis train in time to prevent a wreck. Attempt to tFrecfc Train Miss Gladys Steele lias Deen ap pointed by the Salem Hospital board as superintendent of the Salem hos pital to succeed Miss Lillian McNary. resigned. The Salem hospital, which was closed August 1. will reopen August IS in the McKinley school building which will serve another year for hospital purposes. This is the latest development in the Salem hospital situation. In the meantime. It is understood plana will go ahead toward a new hospital building, but the most recent ar- ranemnt wilt vtv vaar'a Itwvi V for completing the fund and doins I other preliminary work. Record N SncreNsful Miss Steele, the new superintend ent, is a registered nurse and is a graduate of the Minneapolis city hos pital. She was superintendent of the Willamette eanitarinra for six yearn. and when- the World war came on went into the service. After leaving I the service she took special work in the- Bellevue hospital of New York City, and institution of 2690 beds, and one of the biggest hospitals in the wor?d. The Salem hospital will again be ready to receive patients as soon as It reopens and reorganizes, and will have the backing of the leading phy sicians of the city, A nurses' train ing school will be developed In con nection with the hospitaL - : Iloa.nl Plans Oiange Until a short lime ago the Salem school board believed It would be necessary to take back the McKin ley school .building tor acnooi pur poses in September, and it was ap parent that the Salem hospital would have to be discontinued until com pletion of the proposed new bnildirr. Several months ago when Miss Mc Nary let it be known that she ex pected to resign the coming fall be cause of arrangements made to goi east it was tentatively planned mac her leaving would mark the tempo rary discontinuance of the hospital until the r.iw home could bi built. 500 FIRES IN WEST; MONTANA Tents and-Other Equipment for. Workers Sent to .. :V Missoula .'. m'TTK. MonU 'Aug. i. Tenia. mesa equipment and. other ncesai ties were rushed to Missoula tt is evening to be dispatched in turn to fire patrol crews working despeiate- ly to check 500 blazes which have started in the woods of wsstjn .Montana and northern Idaho. Tie equipment was sent in re sponse to a plea for aid received by the officials of Deer IxMlge forest from Mioula headquarters. Calls for 2 additional men to act as pa trols were also received, and 15 men were sent at once, Nearly SO men have been sent sine the first appeal was received last Thursday, accord ng to J. C. Kelt ridge, forest exam iner In charge of patrol recruit lag. MISSOULA. Mont.. Aug. -5. Two new Tires were reported In the Kan iksn forest In northern Idaho. One in Leclere Creek country, is in a dis- 5 STREET CARS WRECKED POST PLANT DAMAGED OS'! Mob Opens Fire on Crowds, -Killing Several Persons CaU Troops, , DENVER, Colo, Aue. 6. Fol lowing a lengthy conference with Corernor Hhotip, Mayor Dailey early today Usueil a prwelamation calling for 2,000 civilian volnn teera to assirt the police in main taining order during the strike. It waa htated no call would tie made for troops at present. . "Rank and File" Will Support Christensen ROBERTS LEADS OVER CRABTREE Tejmessean Estimates Gover nor's Lead at 5,000 Votes , in Primary WASHINGTON. Aug. , 5. was given tonight by the Rank and File Veterans' association, a nation al organization Of service men. 'with headquarters here, . that it had en dorsed Parley P. Christensen and Max Hayes, presidential and vice presidential candidates, respectively. of the farmer-labor party for elec tion this fall. vaHVILLE. Tenn.. Aug. 5.In- Nptls I complete and scattering returns from DENVER. Colo. Aug. 6. Between 30 and Zi person. Including Chief of Police Hamilton Armstrong and eight or ten other policemen. ere Injure,!, several seriously. la rioting between striking street car men. their sympathizers and strlkn break ers tonight. Five street caa were wrecked and the plant of the Denver Post was damaged by the crowd. '. The mob al 10:30 p. ni. gathered in front or the Tramway bnllding where the strike breakers ar housed but had attempted no vKlcrce. The rioting started this at'ernoon when two cars manned by. strike breakers -were forced to stop by a mo tor truck on the track. While the cars were halted, a parade of strik ers and sympathizers who bad been conducting a demonstration at the OREGON AUTOMOBILES WOULD TAKE EVERYONE uiioi.k unruLATiox ctirfj rk .CCXMMOnATKO OX TRIP nn Flamfr and Motor VrKlrlo Regitratiuu Sri Mr. t orh rmm A-FlggwHac With Just a little crow din a Orecon has enough automobiles to carry the entire population of the state on an excursion trip over the Columbia River highway, or aay other highway provided there were room for the cars to travel. Dispatches from Washington yes terday gave the population of Oregon as 73.285. John W. Cochran, dep uty secretary of state, figures that there is one automobile in the state for every eight persons, for the pres ent registration of cars now is about j.000 to be exact, it was 94.770 on July 31. Mr. Cochran's figures further show that if during the remalng five months of the year the same ratio of increase over last year Is main tained as Is shows for the first sev en months of the year as Is compared with the first seven months of 191. the registration of motor vehicles by the end of this year will be in the neighborhood of lOi.lMJO. The reg istration on July 31. last year, was 75.044. During the entire 13 months of the year the number was 83.333. The registration of motor vehicles for July, this year, was 6597. Last year it was 2198. While the total registration for 1919 was 83.332. for 191 a it was 43.325. The total In fees collected for the whole of 1919 was $(02,239. .For this year. p to July 31. the total Is 81.9C0.404.50. The fee are for reg istration of motor vehicles, motor cycles, dealers and chauffeurs. SOVIET WILL NOT ACCEPT .,,.. - r NOTE TERMS London Times Says Reply to Great Britain's Call for Hilt of Red Advance Into' Po land Is Refusal WILL CEASE FIGHTING ON SIGNING ARMISTICE ISERVICEHEU) FORNEILHART Herald Says North Sea Suad- ron Was Ordered to Bat tic Blockade LONDON. AaavT. The Raaslaa Soviet's reply to Great Rrftala'a call for a halt or the Bolshevik advance . ia Poland la a refasaL according; to the London Times. The .newspaper says' the ground taken Is that the armies would not obey an 'order to halt and-will ony be content wbea they reach Warsaw, which has beea promised to them for loot. The T fines say the not was re- reived by M. Kamenefr. a BolshWik delegate here. Thursday wight and will be banded Premier Lloyd George this morning. . According' to 'the Times the note says the Uolahevik are entitled by military and international law to continue their advance until an arm istice Is concluded. They are. how- ' ever, prepared to alga ah armistice and cease hostilities immediately the Polish delegates return to the j f C C I rouna unrgaies return to tne Leader Days men deem oo j appointed . puce with power to ar- trict where the Diamond Match andcitr hall while the committee from trie Pannandle Lumber companies the trades and labor assembly con have big !neresti. and these eorpbr- ferred with the mayor, reached the atlons are helping combat the flames corner. There were 1.000 In the pa which have spread over 300 acres, rade. Fighting Immediately become The other new fire ia on Fish river, I general .and continued almost rtead ont 10 miles below Priest creek. Contrary Jo rtports the 'XX abont Deer Lodge forest has no fires. No re ports were received at the district office of developments in the St. Joe. Itlackfoot or Kootenai forests, o it is assumed that the fires la those districts are under control, or at least are no worse than on Wednes day. SENATOR GORE ; ADMITS DEFEAT Curtis Has Big Majority Over Others in Kansas , Primary . is counties tabulated tonight by the Nashville Tennessean and Memphic Commercial Appeal show Governor Roberts to have a lead of approxi mately &000 votes over W. B. Crab- i,i man d tree tor tne emcr. .c continue to sleep In for governor in me w.u v- Sore4nej wh,cb s on ary. . i , - - - The Tennesson estimatea mat Governor Roberts "bad carried 13 middle Tennessee counties by ma jorities of from 25 to 400, while the Commercial Appeal placed the governor's lead in three,, west Ten nessee counties at more than 1000. A commanding lead was reported by the, Tennessean for Jesse Little ton, candidate Tor the Republican gubernatorial nomination over his two opponents. Judge C. R. Evans and Alfred Taylor. Compilations by the Jackson Sun rive Cantain tGordnn Browning a lead of 1500 votes over Representa tive Sims lor the Democratic hom- OKLAHOMA f!ITY- Okla.. Ana-' S. With the exception of the contest! inatnoi for representative from the for the Democratic nomination for I elgtuh concessional district. JL'nited States senator, in which Rep resentative Scott Ferris defeated Senator Thomas P. Gore for ronom ination, none of the more important races In Tuesday's primary had been t oeflnitely, decided tonight. The Ferris-Gore contest was de cided late today when, after returns : gave Ferris a lead of 24,679, Senator yore conceded his defeat. - TOPEKA. Kan.. Aug. 5. The only change in the scattering returns from A few returns were received on elections to fill the 13 vacancies in the state legislature. Much .interest : was displayed in the outcome, as suffrage and anti-suffrase leaders tad stated 4hat on the elections de pended the result of the fight to be launched at a special session of the legislature next week .to obtain ratlt ficaticn by Tennessee of the federal suffrage amendment. American Cemetairy in France It Preserved PARIS. Aug. S.In order to pre Tent . any commercial encroachment upon Romagne cemetery, where 23. 000 American soldiers are hurried, the French ' government has been asked by the American Army Graves Registration Service authorities to purchase the gentle slope facing the front of the cemetery, and the entire crest of the hill occupied in part by the cemetery, as well as plots at both sides. The Romagne. Suresnes. and Bel leau Woods cemeteries have been ap proved by the secretary of war as the permanent restinr nlaces of more 'than 30.000 soldier dead who will French soil, the slope of Mont Valerien. one of the forts built to defend Paris, is already protected against encroachment of any .sort, and the same is nearly true of Bel leau Voods.- , The extra ground to be purchased at Romagne will not only safeguard the cemetery against any encroach mentbut will provide areas which will be used by American horticul tural experts to surround the hal lowed spot with trees and shrubbery. At the present time the cemetery Is surrounded only with a long wau. and there is no available space for planting. . The beautification ot tne cemetery will not begin for some months as most of the bodief in the cemetery now are to be removed to America. and this work - will not start until mid-September and cannot be fin ished until sometime next year. After this work is finished bodies from other cemeteries will be moved in. ily ever since in varto'is portions of the city: .:r"..t" The first two" cam flopped were badly damaged, windows broken, in teriors wrecked and holes torn ' in roors but they were a bis to proceed to the barns under their own power. A third car waa attacked near the down town barns and two others were turned on their tides In front of the cathedral of Immaculate Conception. Strike breakers who manned toe last two cars took refuge inside the cathedral and remained there urtil rescued by the police, . The mnb gathered In front of the Post building just after attacking the first cars. ; It was dispersed that time without having done more than take copies of the afternoon edition of the paper away from newsboys and litter the streets with them. The Post has opposed the strike. At 8 o'clock tonight the crowd again gathered In front of the Post. Nearly all the windows in the pres ent plant and fn a new one being built next door wee broken. When the Post employes hoisted an Am erican flag over the building, the rioting subsided slightly but was re newed a few minutes later with greater vigor. The mob then entered the build ing. Hammers and npikes were thrown Into the linotype machines. paper rools were moved into the was pourej on the COX WANTS TAFT HELP ON LEAGUE Hopes Ex-President Will Use Influence With Republicans DAYTON. O.. Aug. 3'. Hope that former. President Taft wen Id aid to ward electing a senate favoring the league of. nations was expressed to day by Governor Cox. "We have every expectation." he said in a statement, "that Judge Tatt will, urge republicans to sup port the man or men who favor the league of nations. Dy so doing, he can consistently remain a republican In the face of his statement that the! streets, water position of his presidential candidate I Presses and the presses were dam- on this question is wrong." isgea oy naramers. Covernnr Cox's statement wasl uoi were urea several urrvs ana nromnted bv Tenorts of success In the number of persons were wounded Hardened That She Doubts , Its Value PENDLETON. Or.. Aug. . With a cigaret in one hand and a service book In the other. Nell Hart, mur derer of Sheriff Til Taylor. Jim range an armistice and Dcsce. im answer saya It V ren tals ac tion la necessary becaase the Uol shevikl fear that without such an undertaking .armistice negotiations might be proioaged merely to en- ble Poland to receive reinforce ments. . a V1U Offer Good Trrwts The answer further points out. Owens. Jack Rathle. Richard Pat terson. Louis Anderson and Albert I Ts the Times., that the. soviet gov Lindcrea. bandits who- led almost I ernraent Is prepared to offer Poland the entire male population of Pen dleton tipo? a man hant for six days and nights, listened to services held j 'for them by the local Salvation Army in Jail tonight. Captain Jennie Conrad stated that after the services that tho men seem to hardened ' that she doubted whether they will take the effort of the Salvationists seriously. An other service will be . held Sunday. It was said. - - - All but Llndgren were confined to individual tells, wearing the Oregon boot, even through the services. ERE Missouri and Oklahoma democratic senatorial" primaries -of pro-league democratic victory in New Hamp-1 of i inj"! Z shire. Others were injured on account ft being struck by' flying brick " aid other missiles. No accurate account There was no abatement Ic tbj rioting at 10:30 p. m. MAIL PLANE IX RKXO. "auge in toe scattering iciui. , r f Iv Tuesday's primary reaching Topeka flJoflQn 10 Reject MSll today was to increase sUght'y fuel M W.H ri-li-J trmie oiu ueieuieu lead held bv E. T Thompson of Bel lalre for state treasurer and to add to the majority of the othor Repub lican candidates known to have been aominated. ' Little change is shown in tha Dem ocratic contest for nomination Jor pvernor, few of the returns show ln the Democratic ' vote. Litest vIlable figures show: .vis 4,967: Wood 3963; Fotts Hyatt 1867. -figures on United States senator ana governor,. all Republican are: ; , Cortiss 64,822; Edwards 30,i23; AHea 67.725; JSnqw. 26.482, LONDON. Aug., 5,- After.a debate which" developed heat 'and a per sonal scene. between Premier Lloyd George and Herbert H. Asnulfli, the government tonight defeated the mo tion of John Robert Clynea tlabor ite) for rejection of the. new Irish crimes bill, and the measure passed second reading. 2S9 to 71. The vot ing was carried out under a motion made In the house today by Andrew Bonar Law," providing for passage of the bill by 6 p. m- tomorrow. - RENO. Nev.. Aug.. 5. The aerial mail plane, piloted by B. Acosta. reached the Reno municipal aviation field at 5:45 p. m.. having taken two hours and 52 minutes to fly from, Elko. Ner.. the only stop made between Salt Lake City and Reno. According to Acosta the plane will remain here, until Saturday morn ing and then will make a non-stop -flight to San Francisco. r ROBBERS LOOT BANK. CALEDONIA. Mo.. Aug. 5. Two armed men held up the Bank of Caledonia today, escaping with about S3 100 in cash, after locking L. B. Coghill. the cashier., in the vault. . CoghJH was alone when the hold up occurred. .... n , KIDNAPPER IS APPREHENDED Authorities Convinced ' That Man Held Abducted Baby for Ransom PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 5. Pos tal Inspectors and police tonight ex pressed conviction that 'The Crank hMUe a paper from their own plant At 9:25 troops were com In to Dehver from Fort Ioran. Ai that hour a mob was marching tor-aid the city hall. There were cries of Wreck the ball. One man was killed and three oth ers seriously wounded at the aontn side car barns at 11:15 p. m. The dead man has not been identified. The trrjnred are A. G. Smith and Ralph W. Darling, both of Denver. boh shot through lung. Russell Wrtllshan or Salida. Olo . shot through the neck. The publishers of the Denver Post after examining their plant follow ing the mob's attaek. announced they believed they wonld be able to D'OLIER WILL BE GUEST H National Commander ' of American Legion .Visits . Salem Next Monday . (Franklin D'Oiier.' national com mander of the American legion, will be In Oregon Satarday, Sunday and Monday. August 7. 8 and 9. .His party will -leave Portland by auto for a visit to Salem and -will be en tertalned while In Salem by Capital post No. 9. American legion. The committee In charge has ar ranged for a luncheon tn be served at the Marion hotel to the national commander and his party. Guests representing the state, city and the county. aUo fraternal aad civic or- terms. including independence, anl wider boundaries than provided la me treaty or versainea. , The sotUL. government- declares. that its delegates la London are cm- powered to sign a peace treaty wit Great Britain or aay other entente power, but that a separate .peace with roiand la insisted npon. The soviet government repeats Its Ulingness to ioin the nmoosad Tmv. 'don conference, but refuses to agree to the admission to It of any of Oea eral Wrangel'a . representatives or other Russians fighting the soviet. Tn Blockade Baltic LONDON. Aug. 5. Tho Herald. the laborite organs says today that' the British North Sea squadron has been ordered to the Baltic sea and that lastraetleaa bars been Issued to reimpose the blockada against Rus sia. ' . - A statement oa the Russo-Pollih situation made In the house of com mons today by Premier Lloyd George - showed that the report that Great . Britain had sent an oltimatam to th soviet government la Moscow waa n- rounded. It showed tiro that tb real situation la that the - British government ia still pi-wlnr the so viet government to eonelade aa arm istice with Poland oa fair terms and agree to negotiate for pescv at the conference proposed by the allies to be he I a here. Win Art If Xecessarj Mr. Lloyd George was closely pressed by questioners with a View to obtaining assurance that Crest Britain will not become Involved in ' war with Russia without consent ot parliament, but be could be drowa no farther than to promls a foil statement Monday. He added the hope that It would not be necessary to act. hat said that identified as Augusto PascoL and known to the authorities as Fas quale. .Is not only the man who se cured the $12,000 from George H Coughlin. father of the kidnaped Norristown baby, but is the abductor of the 13-monthS old child A development today was the Iden tification of Pascol as Augusto Pes ouale '.with' a police reYcord. police asserting that . fingerprints of Pas- quale and those ot the , kidnaper found in the Coughlin home agree sufficiently to convince them that they were made by the aame man According to George A. Leonard, chief postal inspector. Pascol said he did not know anything about the kid napping but that he was hired by a man to hang the white sheet along the railroad as a signal for Coughlin ito throw a box containing . 812.000 out of a train window. tomorrow, afternoon. Tbe engraving room was demolished. - ganlzations will be present. Due to the fact that the officers I the government certalilv wowld take or Capital post o. 9 were not aa-1 action if found necessary. vised or coramanaer DTJiiers inner- tiary nntil late Wednesday afternoon the matter was not "presented for Consideration of the post until after the regular monthly meeting Tu day. It was necessary to appoint a special committee on rhojt notice In order that arracements might be made. A luncheon will be served at the Marion hotel at 12:30 Monday, and AntboriftVa Riiv 10 Men the committee urges every ex-service A"m0nUC 1U rlca Arrested Were Attending I. W. W. HELD IN SPOKANE MDL-W DjL U:m 9fliL. t ... Home Run of Season DETROIT. Aug. 5.-r"Babe" Ruth bits his 39tb home run of the season In the second inning of tbe New York-Detroit American leagna same oday. . , Reichstag Passes . . Disarmament Bui ' LONDON. Aug. . The German telahstag today passed ihe disarm ament bill and adjourned until tho middle of October, says a wireless dispatch tonight from Berlin. man In the city to be present and take advantage of the opportunity to mee the national commander and hear him speak on questions that are vital to the service man at the present time. Reservations should be made not later than 6 p. m. Sunday evening August 9. with Robert McM array. post adjutant, phone 1427 or 1&28. Contention Japs Deny Existence of "Underground Channel" PORTLAND. Or.. Aug. 5. Denial of knowledge of existence of an un derground channel" by which Japan-1 leglng violation of b ese are unlawfully brought into the United States as chargeJ by Con gressman Albert Johnson of Wash ington at the hoase committee immi gration Investigation, at Ta !. Wash., recently made ia a statement issued today by I. Oyama. secretary, and T. Abe. an official of tbe Japan ese association of Oregon. Tbe Jap anese declared that .tn Its IS years existence In Oregon their organiza tion had done nothing In violation ct the immigration laws of the country. SPOKANE. Aug. i. Tea alleged members of the I. W. W arrested eail of the city by federal, county and city officials and lodged in the county jail, are to btf a. r signed to morrow morning on charges ot vio lating an injunction issued List win ter in superior court here, forbidding I. W. W. organization activities. A charge of violating tbe state riinrnal syndicalism law upon which the tr.t-n -were booked for Jalt was withdrawn this afternoon and bench war4iit from tin- superior court. aU Injnnctlep. were served upoa be prisoners. Membership cards la the I. V. W. wer-t found in the possesion of ail the ten men. who were arrestM near the hfhway dsrins; lb progress of wbat officials hel'evel was a con vention of I. W. W. Tprcm:atlva from Oregon. Washington and Idaho loca is of tbe organisation. - Officials aanonncsd tbefr deter mination to continue arrests ef any members of the organization apprehend-! here. - I