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FORTY-THIRD YEAR.---NO. 13.
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920.1
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SIG REVOLUTION
lection Of Revolutionary Em
ployes Councils Called For
In Communist Manifesto Is
sued Today.
Berlin, Jan. 15. A com-
,unist manifesto issued to
y urges the immediate
ection of revolutionary
nployes councils in all in
lstrial establishments.
p Berlin Quiet Wednesday
London, Jan. 15. Berlin was com
tely quiet Wednesday, according to
wireless dispatch from the German
iltal. The large factories were work
f normally and the railway and
m services were not Interrupted,
jtiong indignation Is expressed In
ry branch of industry at the un
upulousness of the independents,
i dispatch adds, because the lead
, hid behind machine guns while
) masses were driven forward to
e the guns of the soldiers.
,t is announced that the Berlin gov
ment will not permit demonstra-
on the occasion of the burial c
victims of Tuesday's rioting.
Fenr of Spread Felt
mdon, Jan. 15. Fears are ex
sed in diplomatic dispatches re
ad here that the Berlin Imbroglio
' spread throughout Germany and
v to Vienna through the agency
he communists, this element us
the recent Berlin disorders to In
le the masses by representing
ie killed as martyrs to the cause
the people. Thus far no disorders
reported outside of Berlin,
he advices in analyzing the up
val in Berlin, point to its original
se as the dissatisfaction of the in
endent socialists over the failure
he government to provide a meth
for the establishment of the work
s's councils called for by the at
de of the governments towards
iters. This resulted in the organi
sm of the great demonstration In
at of the relchstag building.
Troops Patrol Streets
the violence that followed, howev
ls declared to have been due to
.tniunist agents who took advant
i of the assemblage nnd, working
mob psychology, started the riot
-ten resulted so disastrously.
f!?rman troops were marched to
ipsic on Tuesday where they occu
d the squares and public buildings,
wording to a Berlin dispatch te the
change Telegraph company today,
amine guns were placed In com
nding positions.
1AKER URGES AID FOR
OLES IN BREAKING UP
DVANCE OF BOLSHEVIK
Washington, Jan. 15. Recommen
ions that the United States furn
surplus military supplies to Fo
il to aid it In repelling the west
id advance of the bolshevik! have
a made to the state department
"Secretary Baker.
"A making this announcement to
house ways and means commlt
, Mr. Baker Interrupted General
Her H. Bliss, a former member of
supreme military council and the
?rlcnn peace delegation, who had
i the committee that general re
) of war in Europe was not "im
table" unless Poland could check
Russian bolshevik armies.
lllls Sounds Warning
escribing Poland as "the possl
slorm center" In Europe, General
declared that when "a whole
ale are brought to starvation'"
f may make war on a neighbor
ing food and so "renew the con
ration that we had hoped had
i out."
foland is the only bulwark against
hevlsm," he said.
military experts are of the 'grow-
opiuion' that the Moscow govern-
t will turn toward roland," Gen
llliss said, adding that the Rus-
f outnumbered the Poles, were
trained, well equipped and well
while the Poles were "poorly
iped as to everything." .
Hilt Loan Considered
bolsheviki. General Bliss con
J are regaining coal, oil and
i lands In the old Russian era
mil "will soon be able to care
themselves regardless of any
.ade." "
Student Nurses
Break New York
"Blood" Strike
New York, Jan. 16. Men who sell
their blood for transfusion operations
struck for more money yesterday at
the Flower hospital. They demanded
$55 for a pint of blood, $30 more than
they received two weeks ago, since
which time the price has increased to
$40. Student nurses responded as
strike breakers. Ten minutes after the
strike started one nusse was on the
operating table as a surgeon performed
a transfusion operation and the hos
pital received a point of blood free.
Two hours later the nurse was attend
ing a clinic . '
The strike was broken. Professional
blood donors were on the Job today at
the old wage.
E
Washington, Jan. 15. Harrvy V.
Learned and Harry O. Martin sailors
of the American submarine chaser
Pocomoke, who were arrested at Ma
zatlan, Mexico, on a charge of as
saulting a Mexican citizen and sen
tenced to two months Imprisonment,
were released last Tuesday night, ac
cording to advices to the state de
partment today from the American
consul at Mazatlan. The sailors are
being cared for by the consul who
asked for Instructions as to how to
return them to the United States.
E
BILL FRIENDS NOT
IT
The Rogue river fish bill came up
before the committee on fisheries
Wednesday evening, but despite the
fact that the Bogue : river anglers
maintained an active lobby at the
capltol, the only advocates of the
measure who appeared before the
committee were Kepresentatlves
Westprlund of Jackson and Seidler of
Josephine.
Opposing the restrictive measures
proposed were Colonel B. K. Lawton,
representing cannery interests, and
Judge Johnson, acting representative
from Gurry county, who pleaded the
cause of the lower river fisherman.
The committee decided to report
the bill back without recommenda
tion and let the house pass on Us
merits.
10,000 PRISONER
TAKEN BY SOVIETS
AT
London, Jan. 15. The bolsherv
have captured Rostov-On-Don, accord
ing to a wireless dispatch from Mos
cow. Ten thousand prisoners, 32 guns,
nine tanks and an enormous amount
of baggage were taken, the statement
says.
"Street fighting started in Rostov-On-Don
January 9 and lasted the
whole day," the soviet communication
continues. "The town was cleared on
the tenth and the enemy-driven back
beyond Bataisk Girlo and Aksalshai.
A revolutionary committee has been
formed at Rostov."
MEXICANS FRE
YANKEE
SAILORS
TUESDAY
REPORT
Jury Finds New Guilty Of
Murder In Second Degree
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 15. The
Jury returned a verdict of murder in
the second degree In the case of Har
ry S. New here today. New was charg
ed with the murder of Miss Freda Leu
ser in July.
The verdict was reached at 10:40
but the court declined to receive it
H O ON
Proposal To Change Consti
tutional Amendment Re
quirements Precipitates
Sharp Debate Today.
Joint resolution No. 8, creating a
commission to investigate as to ways
and means for the development of
central, south central and southeast
ern Oregon passed the house Thurs
day. It authorizes a survey and esti
mate for the construction of a high
way grade from Bend to Kirk, which
could be vacated for a railroad to con
nect the Oregon Trunk and Southern
Pacific systems between' Bend and
Klamath Falls and open up the Inter
vening country, providing an outlet to,
the north for south central Oregon.
The resolution provides that a com
mission of three members be appoint
ed, one by the governor, one by the
senate and one by the house, to In
vestigate, and report to the legisla
ture at its next regular session, as to
ways and means by which the' devel
opment so essential to the state be ac
complished, and
Further, the said commission be
particularly directed to ascertain and
report upon the feasibility of estab
lishing railroad connection between
Bend and Klamath Falls; the feasi
bility of the removal of one railroad
from the Deschutes river canyon and
use of the material thereof in said
railroadi extension; the practicability
of the state building a highway be
tween "Bend and Klamath Falls of
such width and grade as to admit a
railroad to be laid thereon; such oth
er development as may be necessary
to effect the purposes of this resolu
tion. The members of the committee to
be allowed the amount of their trav
eling and other expenses necessarily
lncurrd while in the performance of
their" duties, all ef which expenses
Bhall be paid from the legislative ap
propriatlon upon approval by the
chairman of the committee, .as other
legislative expenses are paid.
Proposal embodied in house joint
resolution No. 9 for a constitutional
amendment requiring a majority of
registered voters for passage of con
stitutional amendment brought forth
a brief debate between Smith of Bak
er and Be"an, favoring the resolution
and Smith of Multnomah, Stewart
and Scheubel opposing It. The meas
ure was referred back to the commit
tee on resolutions for amendment and
changed to read "two thirds majority
of votes cast for the amendment" in
stead of a majority of registered vot
ers.
The house adopted memorial No. 6,
favoring pensions for veterans of In
dian wars and their widows. Memor
ial No. 2 asking congress to build the
Roosevelt highway was also unani
mously adopted.
The senate resolution providing for
a Joint committee to investigate sal
aries of county officers and report at
the next session was adopted.
House bill 4, designating a certain
road in Malheur county as part of the
system of state highways passed by
the majority of 64 to 4.
Staples High
On Continent
Says Salemite
"The high cost of living is much
more of a serious problem In France
than in America," says Mrs. I. F. Clark
formerly proprietress of the French
restaurant. State street.
Mrs. Clark has Just returned from
a six months' visit with friends and
relatives in France and says that condi
tions in that country are very unsatis
factory, especially for the poorer class
es, as a natural after-effect of the war.
Eggs sell at $1.50 per dozen for sec
ond quality. . Butter is $1.60 per pound
and meat is sold at a high premium.
One item of diet remains at a reason
able figure, and that is bread, the
prices for which fom pare favorably
with American schedules.
until an hour later, because of the
fact that another case was in pro
gress. It was understood that the Jur
ors did not consider the insanity de
fense seriously, according to one of
their number.
The jury had been out since four
o'clock Tuesday, with two intermis
sions for rest
Commerical Club Asks
of$18,000For Year's Program
WORK
OF DEVELOPMENT
TOLD AT IMG
;
Crying Need For More Funds
Is Voiced At! Mass Meeting
In Opera House; Slacker
Merchants Are Scored.
Warning that unless the citizens of
Salem get behlnof tn Commercial
club with financial; assistance that it
will have to be discontinued was
sounded at the regular open forum
meeting .held lni ,the Grand opera
house Wednesday night. Although the
meeting was widely advertised only
about two hundred men were pres
ent, most of them members.
Called primarily to rouse Interest
In the club's welfare- the meeting, af
ter stirring speeches by several mem
bers, resolved Itself into a revival
assembly, during which many mem
bers and firms doubled and tripled.
,,01 IIIVIIIUCIOIII
Budget Shan's Slump
First general intimation of the
critical condition the club Is in be
came known at this meeting. Where,
in 1917 the budget for the club was
$17,000, it now stands at less than
$10,000. The budget required to car
ry on the extensive development pro
gram designed luMeff lcials . of the
club would have to be $18,000, It was
announced.
Talks, sounding the danger that
confronts the club, were made by
"Walter S. Winslow, local attorney;
Frank Deckabach of the Marlon
County Creamery company; Thomas
B. Kay, of the Kay woolen mills;
Robert C. Paulus, president of the
club and Manager T. E. McCroskey:
Mr. McCroskey said that unless
more money is provided to further
the work of the club that it will fall,
and he made an eloquent plea for ad
ditional membership. Following the
talks by these men cards were circu
lated in the audience and many new
members three from Portland
were enrolled. Several rose In the
crowd and charged their fellow mem
bers, and the business men present,
with support to the club.
Winslow Ask9 Publicity
Mr. Wlnslow's talk centered on a
delineation of the possibilities in the
city and county, and of the things al
ready accomplished here. He asked:
"Do you know that this county is
(Continued of Pago Seven.)
DEMOCATS IN
DEADLOCK OVER
SENATE TEADER
Washington, Jan. 15. Democratic
senators in caucus today failed to elect
a leader. A deadlock on a tie vote de
veloped between Senators Hitchcock of
Nebraska and Underwood of Alabama
and the caucus adjourned subject to
the call of the two candidates.
Two ,ballots were taken and the
count on each was 19 to 19, with Sena
tor Smith of Georgia withholding bis
vote.
The next caucus will be held after
Secretary Glass, appointed senator
from Virginia, takes his seat. He Is un
derstood to favor Underwood. The
caucus voted by a majority of one to
invite Mr. Glass to today's meeting or
allow his vote to be cast, but Senator
Underwood decided not to press the
matter.
Senator Underwood In a statement
said that Senator Hitchcock's leader
ship of the minority in the peace treaty
controversy was not involved and thai
the Nebraska senator would continue
to have his loyal support on treaty
questions.
The vote of Senator Smith would
have broken the deadlock today, but
the agreement to postpone final action
until Secretary Glass was seated was
said to have been reached without ob
jection. .
Forty-three senators were present.
the absentees being Senators Swanson,
Virginia, and Smith of Arizona, who
were paired, and Senator Johnson of
South Dakota, Senators Hitchcock and
Underwood refrained from voting.
A new Methodist church is being
built at Falrview to replace the one re
cently torn down.
LEAGUE OF NA TIONS TO
BECOME ES TABLISHED
FACT IN PARIS FRIDAY
" Paris, Jan. 15. The league of na
tions will come into being tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock at a public cere
mony in the clock room of the French
foreign office. Leon Bourgeois, the
French representative, will . preside
and make the opening address. Earl
Curzon, British secretary of state for
foreign affairs also will speak. Hugh
C. Wallace, American ambassador to
Erance and American representative at
the peace conference, will not attend.
Besides M. Bourgeois and Earl Cur
zon, the meeting will be attended by
Vlttorlo Scialola, Italian foreign min
ister; Premier Venizelos of Greece;
Paul Hymans, Belgian foreign minis
ter; Count Quinones De Leon, Spanish
Two men, suspected as having
been connected with the hold np
and shooting Wednesday night of
John Frolunuder, were arrested
on Liberty street, near the rear
of the Bank of Commerce, at
noon Thursday by Officer Thomp
son. They gave their names us
being L. Gavlgun age 23, and
Jim Grace, 21.
Their arrest followed information
given by Frank DeWltt .employed at I
Schei's, that he 'had seen them run
ning east on Oak street, a block and
a half 'from the scene of the shooting,
about the same time the shooting is
reported as having occurred. A' third
man, whom he said was also running
with the others, has not yet been ar
rested. Police believe the pair have
connection ,wlth thd holdup and
were cross examining them Thursday
afternoon.
With only a blood-stained bullet, ex
tracted from the breast of Jack Froh
mader, 30, as a clue, police here Thurs
day were endeavoring to locate the two
men, who at 9:30 Wednesday night,
held up and shot Mr. Frohmader as
he was en route home on South Com
mercial street, near Leslie. Thursday
noon Mr. Frohmader's condition was
reported as not being serious, and Dr.
J. H. Garnjobst, who is attending him,
said that he will recover soon unless
complications arise. He Is confined at
the Willamette Sanatorium.
Although Chief of Police Varney,
Officers Victor and W. J. White, as
sited by Special Agent H. F. Shockley
of the Southern Pacific company,
scoured the vicinity near the shooting
for seyeral hours after It occurred no
clues were discovered and no trace of
the pair of "stick up" men could be
found.
Forty-five minutes after the hold up
Officer Victor and Special Agent
Shockley arrested P. M. Menane, 19,
and his brother, C. J. Menane, 25, near
the Sbuthern Pacific depot. C. J. Me
nace was carrying a 32-calibre revol
ver. Rigid examination convinced po
lice that they had no connection with
the hold up and shooting, and after
the older brother was fined $5 for car
rying the gun, the pair was released
Thursday morning.
Although severely wounded Mr.
Frohmader described the men who
held him up while he was being oper
ated upon at the hospital. He said
that he was encountered by the pair
on the street, and In spite of the fact
that he Insisted that he carried no val
uables, they ordered him Into the
brush nearby. Whn he remonstrated
one of the pair wtih the gun got be
hind him and began to push him to
ward the eppse, when he began to run..
He had gone about 15 feet when the
bullet hit him. Only one shot was
fired.
The bullet entered his back under
the right shoulder blade, pierced the
upper lobe of his right lung, and lodged
under the right collar bone. Mr. Froh
mader made his way to an aparimcnt
house at the corner of Leslie and Com
mercial streets and Dr. Roy Pomeroy
was summoned.
John Dougall, from Portland, who
claimed that he was within a block of
the hold up and saw the fire from the
revolver, told police that one of the
men ran west toward the slough. W.
R. Thompson, 1705 South Commercial
st ret. also said that he saw the pair
running and that the other went east
on Leslie street.
Descripion of only one of the hold
up men was told by Mr. Frohmader.
He said he was a youth, about 18, five
feet eight inches tall, slender and wore
TWO SUSPECTS IN
SHOOTING NABBED
HERE THIS NOON
la hat
BudgetMM
ambassador to France; Viscount Chin
da, Japanese ambassador to Great Bri
tain; Dr. Alfonso Costa, Portuguese
peace delegate, and Dr. Gastoa Da
Cunha, Brazilian ambassador to
France.
- Press comment on the meeting
dwells principally upon the absence of
the United States from this entry into
the realization of President Wilson's
chief aim In the peace conference.
Most of the newspapers of Paris pre
dict this absence will not be of long
duration and Bay:
'The league of nations cannot be
complete until America is represent
ed." .
New York, Nov. 15. The army
transport Powhatan, sailing today for
Antwerp, Belgium, has on board a par
ty of 75 former service men and offi
cers who will visit the battlefields to
begin the work of returning the hodles
of American soldier dead to this Coun
try. '
The expedition Is in charge of Her
bert S. Foreman, a former artillery of
ficer of the Rainbow division.
Washington, Jan. 15. Bishop Chas.
H. Brent, senior chaplain with the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France, has addressed an open letter
to Secretary Baker and the next of kin
of the American dead in France re
garding the return of the bodies of
American soldiers who fell overseas.
The letter was made public today by
the American Field of Honor associa
tion, which Is opposing the movement
for the wholesale return of the bodies
and follows charges presented In the
senate and house that the movement is
being fostered by undertakers for their
personal profit' '
"America," wrote Bishop Brent,
"has left to the decision of the near
est of kin in each case what the final
resting place of our dead Is to be
whether In France or in this country.
It Is conceivable that there are
those who, after learning the plan to
establish and maintain In France an
American field of honor for those are
'forever overseas' may consider this
the more excellent way.
"There will be an American central
field of honor with as many depart
ments as may be necessary. Here each
year on an appointed day commemora
tion of dead will be observed. Over
all the sheltering folds of the Stars
and Stripes will forever wave.
"Those of use who have given for
more than a year careful consideration
to the American field of honor are
moved by a Blngle minded purpose."
Of the 1559 students registered at
the University of Oregon 391 are from
Multnomah county. Thirty-four coun
ties1 of the state are represented and
156 studentB are from other states.
FORMER SERVICE
MEN TO SUPERVISE
REMOVAL OF DEAD
Norblad-Bean Bill
Opens Senate Fight
With a total of forty one bills on
the 'calendar, sixteen of which were
Introduced Wednesday, the program
of fireworks in the senate opened at
two o'clock this afternoon when the
house resolution providing for a leg
islative investigation of the state fish
and game commission and the Nor-blad-Handley-Bean
bill creating a
new fish and game commission of
nine members came up for consider
ation on a special order of business.
The investigation resolution was
the center of a warm wordy contro
versy in the senate Wednesday morn
ing which was only terminated by
tabling th document for future con
sideration. Two attempts to resur
rect the measure during the afternoon
for immediate action were squelched
by the senators who insisted upon
perusing the Roberts report on the
commission, filed with Governor Ol-
cott Saturday, before giving consider
BATTLE
OF WORDS PUTS
LIFE IN FIGHT
Fear Of Killing Road Program
In State Held Reason For
Decision Favorable To War
ren Construction. '
Senator Lachmund's attempt to pro
hibit the payment of royalties on pat
ented pavement laid In Oregon went
down to deefat at the hands of the
senate this morning after a bitter word
battle which extended well into the
noon hour. ' Not even visions of "pav
ing trusts" and hoary "octopuses"
were sufficient to Bave the measure.
Nor were references to "combinations
and "corrupt influences" sufficiently
menacing to change the votes of those)
who saw in the measure not so much
an attempt to drive the Warren Con
struction company out of the state as
an attemp o kll lhe road program ot
he state. Roll call found 20 senators
opposed to the measure with only sup
porting the bill as follows:
For the bill Eberhard, Eddy, Far-
rell, Lachmund, LaFollett, Pierce,
Strayer, Thomas and Vinton.
Against the bill Baldwin, Banks,
Bell, Handley, Howell, Huston, Hur
ley, Moser, Nlckelsen, Norblad, Orton,
Porter, Ritner, Smith of Coos and Cur
ry, Smith of Josephine and Wood.
Engineers Run Department. '
Intimations that the "engineering
department runs the road game of the
state of Oregon" with retired million
aires upon the. state highway commis
sion who could not be expeted to give
detailed attention to the affairs of the
department and an open hope that the
Warren Construcion company wourd
be driven out of the state were hurled
at the members of the senate by Sena
tor Pierce In a defense of the Lacn
mund bill prohibiting the payment of
royalties on patent pavements. ; '
"It has been said," Pierce declared,
"that this state is pretty well divided
up for road construction purposes and
that competition is no as keen as it
might seem when it comes to bidding
on road construction Jobs. We can
not expect the member of the commis
sion, selected as they are, to give de
tailed attention to the affairs of he
highway department and it is pretty
freely rumored that the engineering
department runs the road game of the
state."
"We have gone wild ,are crazy, we
have forgotten all sense of the econ
omy of the old days," he continued In
pointing to the lavish hand with which
Oregon was doling out state funds for
highway construction.
Time for Settlement
Senator Lachmund In Insisting upon
favorable consideration for his meas
ure declared that it was time for a final
determination of the pavement royalty
problem which had been injected Into
every legislature for years past. He
admitted that his bill was aimed pri
marily at the "paving trust" which he
declared should be driven out of the
state of Oregon as he had driven it out
of Salem.
Senator Handley, who admitted that
he was "smeared with bitulithic," de
clared that the fight represented by
the Lachmund bill was not so much an
attempt to put the Warren Construc
tion company out of business as It was
an attempt to kill the road program of
the. state.
"The owners of the Evening Tele
gram," he declared, "are heavily in
terested In the timber Interests of the
state and consequently are not Inter
ested In any move that will tend to the
deevlopment of the state with Its at-
( Continued on page eight)
ation to any further Investigations of
the commission. There is also consid
erable sentiment In the upper house
against the move which Is character
ized as an attempt to "whitewash'
the commission preliminary to their
reinstatement as members of the pro
posed new commission.
Passage Is Forecast
The Norblad-Handley-Bean bill
which passed In the house yesterday
by a safe margin is said to be sched
uled for similar action in the senate
where the skids have been well greas
ed for speedy action. However the go
ing will not be all smooth by any
means as Senator Thomas has a pock
etful of counter proposals with which
to meet the onslaught of the commer
cial fishing Interests aided and abet
ted by those members of the sporting
fraternity who do not exactly agree
with the enemies of the present eon
mission. i