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ii CIRCULATION A r rare tor Quarter Endio December 31, 54 5 8 Member Audit Bureau ot Circulation Associated Pjess Full Leased WUs WEATHER FORECAST -h. and Wednesday fair, except coastl raoderale peris' winK pgfY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 35. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1920. TEN PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. Illlil STICK FAST TO IIEDEMB Threatened Strike to be Called Usiess leiimie munu ! Fortbconung From Hines at Oncelsllaim Wlngton, Feb. 10 -Wage nego tutiens'of the railway employes with Director General Hine reached a critl l .tag today ,and insofar as the Brotherhood ot Railway Trainmen Is .,.,.rf a strike loomed unless pending demands are satisfactorily settled. W G Lee, president of the union, M tsrved notice on Mr. Hines that Ills men are "very Insistent and .must we definite answer soon. To this, Mr Hines replied that no statement of mu d be maae unm ue m again talked with the whole body of labor representatives. Mr. Hines made a tentative ap pointment with Mr. Lee for late today u consider the trainmen's demand .Railroad administration officials un derstand that a strike vote is being taken by the trainmen. It was ad mitted that Mr. Lee had informed the iirortnr general on January 23 of the union's Intention to invalidate Its wage agreement on the prcscriDea au aays notice. On that basis, it was presumed ,1,., h. remilred an answer to the re- Iterated wage grievances by February ii less than a week In advance of the road's return to private control.- It Is undestood that Mr. Lee is not supported in the Strike by the other train operators' unions. Most of those attending the conference here, were silent on this question, but some ot the brotherhood leaders held that they should first receive Mr. Hines full pro posal before determining their future course. . - KING CHARGES BRITISH PARLIAMENT WITH BIG RECONSTRUCTION TASK t ; Seattle, Wash., Feb. 10. Harbor Motorship corporation of Aberdeen, Wash., and three officers of the Seaborn Ship Building company, of Taco- ma, were indicted here today by a federal grand jury which has been investigating alleged frauds in war time shipbulld- tag In the Pacific nnrthwoat E Settle, Wash., Feb. 10. Captain Jf Blaln, Seattle, former-north "a ofie 'district manager of the United States shipping board, was Indicted federal grand )ury here today. ' the third time, on a charge that e accepted secret commissions from " Stewart Davit and Equipment "rporatlon. New York, on sales the Wporatlon made to the board while manager. Blaln will not be ar- tM on the third indictment, it was ;"' he Psted $10,000' cash bail Zl!e, rst two Indictments were "turned January is, tulTf6"" M'etmenti were re tened today by ,he grand Jury which. ZrT" Jnveatln alleged rshlp rjLaUd1 ln connin with the W" tlme Wpbullding &Jthe,Warrant8 w"e given to rt ' Marshal ,oh M.v Boyle ntt "iwl" not be made public milled men are arrested. London, Feb. 10. Serious consider ation of economic conditions through out the country was urged upon the house of commons today by King George ln his speech from the throne, which opened the session of parlia ment. He counselled patience ln the passage of far - reaching reforms, which he said, were necessary to meet abrnomal conditions , ' He urged better educational facili ties, settlement of the Irish question, adjustment of coal mining' controver-' aSes on an enduring basis,- regulation, of the liquor traffic and measures stimulating. the growth of more food-: stuffs ot home. He said bills would, be introduced ln parliament dealing with insurance against unemploy ment,' regulation of working: house, minimum wages and anti-dumping. Referring to the recent conferences In Paris and London he said: Normal Conditions Needed. ' "I earnestly trust that as the result of these meetings a settlement of long continued Adriatic dispute will shortly bo reached. In orders however, to assure the full blessings of peace and prosperity to Europe . it la essential that not only peace but normal condi tions of life should be restored in east ern Europe and In Russia. So long as these vast regions withhold tneir full contribution to the stock of com modities for general consumption, the cost of living can hardly be reduced or general prosperity be restored to the world. "I believe our country and empire is making rapid strides toward stability and prosperity," he said. "The price of foodstuffs and other necessary com modities is causing anxiety to all the' peoples of the world but I am glad prices In these islands are appreciably lower than elsewhere. This fact, and the condtiion of trade with the outside world, especially of . export, trade, serves to show my people are proving no less successful In dealing with the bills war left behind than they were In enduring war itself. If, however, wo are to Insure lasting pregress, pros perlty and social peace, all classes must continue to throw themselves Into the work of reconstruction with good will for others, and with energy and pati ence. In addition, legislation provid ing for large and far reaching meas ures of reform must be passed into law. ' ' - - ... . . "The condition of Ireland causes me grave concern, but a bill will be im mediately laid before you to give ef ffec proposals for a better govern ment of that country, which was but lined at the end of the last session of parliament. A bill to make further provision for education for a consid erable part of the child population of certain districts makes the' question one pf urgency but care will be taken to make the measure compatible with the home rule bill. ! "Despite increased agricultural "pro duction during the war, the popula tions of these Islands are still dant ' ous dependent upon supplies of food from overseas and the financial bur den of purchasing such supplies in foreign markets against the adverse rates of exchange is very great. V ,. ''Uneasiness is also being1 caused by the unprecedented sale of the landed property since the war. A measure will .accordingly be proposed to miti gate any hardship which this opera tion may cause those who occupy the soil and to stimulate and develop pro duction of essential foodstuffs within the United Kingdom." Jaae 21-22 Selected as Dates cf Rose Festival Portland. Or., .Feb. 10. Monday and Tuesday. June 21 and t2, were selected today as the dates for the 1020 annual Rose show of the Portland Rose society. This will be an out-doer affair and different in " many respect from any rose . show held here, in the past. -. The first two days of the. Shrine-Rose .. Festival were chosen as the date for the din- v Play. ! '. SIMS DOilESHE ELITTLED PART OFIiAVY III WAR Washington, Feb. 10. Rear Admir al William H. Sims denied today be fora the senate committee lnveatigat ing naval awards that in conversations with Representative Byrnes, democrat, South Carolina, and other members or congress, he had sought to belittle Americas efforts m the war. ,v .-'.'. The admiral said Mr. Byrne' ''must either hare misunderstood me or con fused the remarks made to him by the people he talked to In Europe;' He adedd that he did attempt to correct the idea In. the minds of Amerioan vis itors that the United States forces were "winning the war because this attitude1 was hurting .us with our allies.?.-, v. "They knew it was not true arid they knew we knew It was not true. Ad miral Sims declared. V "I am surprised that I should' be quoted as saying the merchant marine should be left to Great Britain and J;he United States should not deevlop a mer chant marine." he continued, "because 1 never held any opinion on that subject." Oregon Or! Back After Six Years Among Bengals , ,San Francisco, . Feb. 10. Miss Leoda M. flrebe arrived here yester- dla en route to her home in Oregon. For the last six years Miss Grebe has day on the Steamer Colusa from In been stationed in eastern Bengal as a missionary for the American Naz arene Board of Missouri. --- PRESIDENT ASKED r TO PARDON DR. EQUI BY PORTLAND FOLK Portland. Or. Feb. 10. A petition said to be numerously signed by citi zens of Portland, Oregon, has been I conveyed to the president through Senator Phelan of California, asking a pardon for Dr. Marie Equi, accord ing to a Washington dispatch receiv ed here today. ' v Dr. Equl who was conyicted under the espionage act at Portland, now faces a threo year term In prison as a result of .the recent action of the United States supreme court ln re fusing to review the case. The Oregon senators were not ask ed to Intercede in her behalf. Just what representations have been made to the president are not known, but friends of the convicted woman have i been pleading that she should be re j leased because ot relief work said to have been performed ln . the San Francisco earthquake. " ' No traces of the settlements estab lished ln 088 in Greenland have ever been discovered. CKlPRIilCE LDB'l OWNERSOFGUNSUSED IN CENTRALIA CRIME IDENTIFIED IN COURT FORUMII Frederick YZia Offers to Surre":r Self in Place ef Hundreds cf Germans Nam ed 03 AIIIsJ List Washington, Feb. 10. The former German crown prince has cabled Pres ident Wilson offering to surrender himself for trial it the allied govern ments insist. The message 'was in President Wilson's hands today, Amsterdam, Feb. - 10. Former Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany' has offered to give himself up to the' allies' n place of the hun dreds of Germans demanded for extra dition on the list recently submitted to Berlin according to a telegram pur porting to have come from him pub lished in the Handelsblad of this ctty. The telegram, addressed to the kings of England. Belgium and Italy, the presidents of France and the United States and the emperor of Japan says: "As the ex-orown prince, I wish to take the place of my countrymen. If the allied and associated governments desire a victim let them take me In stead of the nine hundred Germans Who committed; no other crimes than to serve their cointry ln war." , ... ;,f .. . Decision Not Altered. Berlin, Monday, (Feb; S. Decision was reached by the, committee on for eign relations ot h national assembly today to support the- government's stand ln declaring 't'he ethical and pa triotic Indignation of the German peo ple at the allied demand for extradi tion measures haVe been made physi cally impossible and would produce in ternal insurrection." Independent socialist members re fused to subscribe to this declaration. The government has decided to sub mit the official evtradltlon list to the first attorney general at Leipzig with instructions to investigate the offenses listed and determine whether the charges made by the allies can be pun ished urtdetthe ewman criminal or civil codes. He will also be asked to determine to what extent these charges trespass upon the rules of warfare. -- Charges Must Be Specific Only cases where specific charges have been filed in the allies' list will be considered by the government. For instance, members of the cabinet are convinced a trial of Dr. Theobald Von Bethmann-Holhveg, for the violation ot Belgian sovereignty and the depor tation of her cilvlians would be wholly infesible because these were military measures for which he was not respon sible. Wholesale blanket Indictments such as were filed by Poland, It Is stated, also fall to afford a tangible basis of procedure. Fi The first votes received ln the Capital Journal's straw ballot for president show Hoover a favorite with Wood second. The first count Is as ' follows: ..Hoover ........... Wood ..,..,. Bryan - , Capper ,.....-,.i.: Taft ... 14 T 2 I t Capital Journal Installs Latest Typesetting Machines, : m ml' Lm0type PPeared,.fi,st. hefl ';nc?'. ,ha( v it victory C?' ,eUer at t''"- A" the ' P?Sed Lihoiyp- h.ts .... , . 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The peace treaty, referred to the senate foreign relations com- mlttee' yesterday to technically t- rid it of cloture, was reported back today by the committee without debate and without a . record vote. Republican and democratic .' leaders agreed, however, not to take tt up in the senate until next week. . HEAVY GUARD OF TROOPS IK LEXINGTON CALM Lexington, Ky Feb. 10. Dawn to day found Lexington an armed cum p. Squads of armed soldiers who saw Service at Chateau Thierry were pa trolling the struts or guarding all ap proaches to the city to prevent a recur rence of yesterday's mob violence that cost the lives of five , persons- and caused Injury to a score of others. : William Lockett, negro slayer of ten-year-old Geneva Hardman, a school glr), was confined In a steel cage In the Fayette county court house here, awaiting removal, either to the state reformatory at Frankfort or to the prison at, Eddysvllle. Reports last night that 1500 moun taineers were en route to Lexington to lynch Lockett caused the command ing officer to throw cordons of troops across every road leading Into the city and at every strategic point within the city. At 10 o'clock last night the brig adier general announced that the situ ation was under control and that no further troublswas expected. ..., LIFE OF GIRL TOLD AT SMITH HEARING l lie i Journal M.Hni u m-..... .. . Hep . odel 14 Linotype, the perfection of typesetting' machln w!!"ia! ournal 14 Linotype, the perfection of typesett C. . ,urnal Modei 14 Linotype, the perfection of typesett VaD', ,0Urna, Model 14 Linotype, perfection of type ett TheC a ( , rno' Model Linotype, perfection of type telt K rr P!U1 Journal Model 14 Linctvoe. the oerfection of iv pltaI Journal Model 14 .Linotvoe. the uerfect tW -a r, V! .1 How home-made liquor, an auto, the encouragement of an older girl and the lust of young men combined in wrecking the life of Florence Kephart, IS, was revealed ln testimony taken in Judge Unruh's court Tuesday mow ir.g during the hearing of Alice Smith, 19, n a charge of contributing! to the delinquency of a minor.' Miss Smith was bound over to the grand jury and was returned to the county jail ln de fault of $500 bond. Little Florence Kephart was taken to the state tuber culosis hospital. Romeo Lais and Joseph Llchte, the ycung men mentioned in the testimony as having been parties to the crime. are confined In the county Jail also held to answer to the grand jury on cnarges of rape. . ... According to Florence, who at that time was but 14 years old, she met Lais and Llchte through Miss Smith. Encouraged by the older girl and chid- ed by the young men she was mlstreu.- ed by them the first night they went ridingNew Years eve. The second night, the following Sunday, when Florence remonstrated when Improp er advances were made to her, liquor was produced and she was Induced to drink until she became intoxicated. After tha( sh told the court, she c uld not remember what happened, only that, ashamed to face her moth er, she fled to Eugene with Miss Smith. Phillip Kuntz, attorney for Miss Smith, ake the compratnt nitnm her dismissed. "I firmly believe that the guilty per sons are not in this court room," he declared. "When young men will get so lowdown, dirty and mean as to do what these men did ,and when they fail go so far as to make the girl In toxicated that they do not know what they are doing, they should not be per- mitted to run at large. Why should these girls be Imprisoned for a crime the men have done?"' Miss Kephart testified that Lais and Llchte had asked her to never "bawl them out" if she got Into trouble. Montesano, Wash., Feb, 18. Stipu lations admitting ownership by six of the eleven defendants, of rifles, piston and revolvers taken after the shoot ings at Centralis, last Armistice day, were read into the record today at the trial of the eleven defendants, all al leged members of the L W. W. for the murder of Warren O. Grimm, one of four victims of the shootings. The only weapon about which there is a dispute as to ownership is a JS-65 rifle, vrhtch the state alleges was owned by Eugene Barnett. This rifle, according to the state's evidence, was found In the Avalon ho tel ,and it is alleged that the bullet which caused the death of Grimm was fired from this hotel, and from this rifle. The stipulation admitted owner ship ot weapons by Britt Smith, Bert Bland, O. C. Bland, Loren Roberts, Ray Becker and Elmer Smith. A. C. Hughes, chief of police of Cen- tiT-lia, resumed the stand today for cross examination. He told of receiv ing the prisoners at the city prison and Identified the guns taken from them, which h later turned over to the sheriff at Chehalls. Defense Plea Loses. Efforts of the defense to introduce evidence that had not been touched up on In direct examination, were futile, the court sustaining the state's objec tions. . ' T. A. Slmard, American Legion member,' of Chehalls, who assisted in rounding up the men in the L W. W. hall after the shootings, told of the capture of Mike Sheehan, Ray Becker, James Mclnerney and T. C. Morgan in an Ice box In the rear of the I. W. W. hall.', He also Identified a revolver he had found In the ice box at the time. Morgan, who was found in the tot- box, Is not one of the defendants. Other Witnesses were to be called by the state today to further Identify guns t'iken after the shooting, and lay the foundation for more Important evi dence. ' Found Behind BUI Board 8. J. Llndley, Centralia bill poster, told ot finding the disputed . 38-53 rifle behind a bill board he was painting, together with three boxes of shells. He turned It over to the sher iff, he said, explaining that he had met C. V. Cunningham, one ot the at torneys for the state, on the. day he had found the rifle and that Cun ningham had said that he had been looking for suoh a high, powered ri fie. The rifle was admitted an an ex hlblt, providing the state can later connect it with the shooting of Grimm The state declared that it will make such proof, The defense has re sisted the identification and claims that it cannot be established. Sheriff John Berry of Lewi county was re called and identified the suit case filled with wearing apparel found ln a room in the Avalon hotel, as that belonging to Bert Bland, one of the defendants. The defense admitted the Identifications. Attorneys Clash. ' C. A. Btudebaker, attorney of Che- j halls, clashed rather sharply with At iiorney vanacrveer, tor tne aerense ' during cross examination, over the ' method of questioning. Studebaker was called to identify articles he had Li-sui THfTlACUm IIIUrlKOlLi! u.s.itwi ifl mam OiJ RciuuCii Dctvt ccn C. . and Silfer AdrccatcJ p ..Remedy for WC : Chaos" .Now Exis&' b World found in rooms In the Arnold and Avalon hotels and bullets he had ex tracted from the Prince residence, across the street from the I. W. W. hall. Vanderveer asked Studebaker if he was not one of the attorneys in Lewis county who had agreed not to render legal service to the defendants 1 Studebaker replying that he had ' reached such a conclusion, but did not know what other lawyers had done. On cross examination, Studebaker said he had met no man in room No. 0 in the Avalon hotel, adjoining room 10, which he inspected. Vanderveer had intimated such a person had made a statement to the effect that there had been no shooting done from room No. 10. THIRTY FIRES ! MONTH Thirty fires with damages aggregat ing $54,460 Is the record for Oregon outside of Portland for the month of January according to the monthly re port of A. C. Barber, state fire mar shal. Private dwellings head I he list of classifications both In number of flies and aggregate losses with a total of 20 fires and losses of $27,880, Washington, Feb. 10. Declaring that foreign exchange had become the "sinister International problem" ' Within the last six months and unless adjusted soon "commercial chaos would overwhelm international trade-. Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, urged in a speech today the reestab lishment of the old ratio between gold and silver and the creation of inter national bl-metalism. ' "The time has come," he said, "when Americans should take the ini tiative and renew its proposal of 18T for the establishment of parity be tween the ancient monetary metals, whole relative Values now oeciliats between 15 V4 and 15 to 1." ! Europe Is Favorable ! Europe, Senator Thomas declared, faces the problem of reestablishing -and reconstructing her foreign trade and would welcome any system ot International stabilization of silver and gold values that could be accom plished without endangering the fi nancial stiucture ' of - international commerce or' credit. The slow but' steady rise In the value of silver dor ing the war in spite of efforts to pre vent 1 more than restored the old , equilibrium between gold and silver, he said, until today gold Is the cheap er metal and it, rather than sliver, needs the steadying influence of aa International agreement. The United States cannot coin sli ver dollars today except at a loss. Senator Thomas said, and the condl- tion will soon apply as well to frae-! tlonal currency. On such a basis, hs declared, the coins will go to the melt Ing pot as fast as they are made and Inevitably precipitate throughout the wtirld a famine In fractional mirren unless the rat(6"'be; 'adjusted by in ternational agreement; - 1 Too Much Paper Money The volume of paper money In th world Is out of all proportion to ths value of specie, he said, and In this condition lies the seat of the Interna tional exchange crisis, -At the begin ning of the world war the total paper' money of the thirty principal na tions of the world amounted to about seven billion dollars, he declared, and in December, 191, It had in creased to more than forty billion dollars, while the gold reserves of ths same countries hart remained practic ally stationary at around seven bil lion dollars. "We may, Indeed, we must," Sena-. tor Thomas adder, "lend our credit to those whose trade we need but we cannot, save by mutual agreement for the fixity of exchanges, remov the gambling element from interna tlonril trade, stimulate International confidence In modern currency sys tems, make the problem of dsflution comparatively easy and re-establish the regime of a saner and more de pendable money medium." Commercial Club Men Comb City for Emergency Fed In an attempt to raise the $10,000 emergency fund for the Commercial club's activities this year during week, the business district was being' combed Tuesday by committees solic iting $100 from members of ths club, ",1'p to noon no other subscrib ers than those published Monday has been reported. The practice of Manager T. E. Mc Croskey of holding luncheons at Hotel Marlon at which business men wore ir.vlted to hear the condition the club was In and a plea for financial aid. was discontinued Tuesday, Many of the men Invited to the luncheons were not present. !bn "uwraai Model 14 Linotype, the perfection 01 c-mmiu'ua! moaei 11 .Linotype, ine pent "ft amtoi t . . .. "l'ai.JOUma MnHo 11 T .innvnp flip nPTtPC -m. wtav-A -A. i M-.-i.J .J 1 X ft m Jocrral Model 14 Lisciype, U perfection cf ty vj,v'JSannn p-aaa tr.nnn twnnrx firAnfi Our New Model Fourteen Linotyps Fire Drives 75 Patients From Roseburg Hospital. Roseburg, Feb. 10. Fire broke out In the roof of Mercy hospital late Monday afternoon, and before brought! urder control the upper part of thej luildiiig, a three-story frame structure' was destroyed. Citizens aided ln removing 75 pa- , -..., ih, hulMlnfi, liitmea npre thrown open to the patients and ln this way none was exposed to any great hardship. ' Narcotics and stimulants produce more than half the customs and exer cise receipts of Australia, Capital Journal's Straw Vote for President Vote for One, placing X after name; then cat oat and mull or bring to CsplUil Journal Office. BRYAN ; " " " '" I OWEN .. COX . . ! PALMER ..- .. GERARD PERSHING ... J ..- HARDING . POINDEXTER HOOVER , POMERENE 1 I JOHNSON ; .. TAFT . 1 LOWDEN !f WILSON ........... McADOO WOOD . , '. I I Party Affiliation Name .. . Address