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CIRCULATION Average for Quarter Ending December SI, 11 WEATHER FORECAST ...iht an! Friday ds mostly easterly Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Associated Fresa Full Leased Wire pRTY.THIRP YEAR.NO. 37, SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1920, CENTS. fnlf . -ntl 1 1 1 It It 11 I 1 T II r. .. ICf, I J ti II II I 1 I w pL I I mr x i . - r i c -a ; -.i rr ivi urn 7 . " - r v - j? jr va r m us f 1 sift xm mm-, BENITO II .irinii nrnonil HUiinraiauN President to Confer With Representatives of Three Brotherhoods Upon Wage : Demands Tomorrow - . Washington, Feb. 12. President Wilson will have a personal confer WPf tomorrow with three representa tive 0( the railroad brotherhoods discuss the wage demands of the ODD 000 railroad employes which are ta be referred to him today by Direc tor General Hines. In making the announcement, Secre tary Tumulty said It had not been ia ck'fcl which of the brotherhood repre nitatives would be Invited to the Unite House. This, he added, will be left to Mr. Hines. Before meeting the brotherhood of ficials the president will study In de tail the report on the wage ngotiatlons riiich Mr. Hines will submit through Secretary Tumulty. The director general was In confer ence with Mr. Tumulty this morning and then returned to his office to corn plot h!s memorandum for the presi dent, who will be asked to make this fi-al decision on the demands present ed by the railroad workers nearly a jar ago. Situation Quiescent. Mr. Hines' memorandum, which was sent to the White House shortly before noon, .was understood to have embod- , led the claims and arguments of me union officials with whom he has con ferring since February 3.. Railroad administration officials ami union representatives apparently ere inclined to regard the situation as (uiescent. White House officials, however, de clare that the general public did .not realise the serious nature of Issues In volved. Union officials, with the exception of maintenance of way employes, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Tratn men, apparently werewllllng to leave the case In the hands of the president. It was evident that the union men felt that another opportunity should be given for adjustment of the flirfornn which have been held In abeyance at the president's rquest since they were Khmlttd last July. Ie's Attitude Worries. W. 0. Lee, president of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, was to Mfer with the director general on his Individual reasons for invalidating the flwnent which his organization has. Notification of Intention to break" the reement was given Mr. Hines Jan rr 23, which, under the thirty day wusewili leave that organisation with U working contract with the ratt HM administration February 23 The action of Mr. Lee admittedly Is administration officials concern Lee contended his organization W reserved the right to press Its wevances for adjust ment separately. d ! ai,d t0 his Statement of Jenterday which iswn ... had waited sufficiently long for fovernment to force down living ;"SStW ". labor W" ards and berry tL,L he munlc'Pal labor 'for , T The comlnS the cr-ated a w 1?,nberr5r bushes has "accepting work in Witt! hgret frut 0 to $90 a There . 3d ni T00m Mr R " fancies In the city rfnn n"a!:sa'd' Until the arrival ' bui I!' and the commence-W-l nosm l"! co"9tction in the e mid &a'Pn will be few. Capital Journal's Straw ,",Oae.ptat.,niXlfter name; ffl HIM PlfAFOIt LABORERS 1 WARDS HADE Capital Journal Off ic. " eRTa.- cox GfARD hoover .. 'OHNsox OWDEN- ... 1 1 WILSON j 1 " w" j I hn' Hation ' K"me Ad'Jrtgg m CRUSHED T IENEATHHEAV Clifford Fitts, 13, Thrown Under Wheels from Bicycle When Motor Swerves, Dies on Way to Hospital Clifford Fitts, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Fitts, 444 Court street, was killed at 10:30 o'clock this morning when the whels of a truck, carrying about rive tone of gravel, passed over his body. The lad was riding a bicycle and hanging on to the side of the truck Just ahead of the back wheels. When the wheel of the bicycle came in contact with a streetcar . track it swerved and carried young Fitts un der the wheel of the truck. He was rushed to the Willamette Sanatarium by a passing motorist and died a few minutes later.. The accident occurred near the skating rink on East State stret. The truck was one. of the county's fleet, and was driven by M. O. Hill. Mr. Hill reported the accident to County Road master Culver and later to police. N ' Frank James, route 3, Salem, was riding a bicycle on the opposite side of the truck. When young Fitts was dragged under the truck he evidently scramed for James yelled to Hill to stop. The driver came to an Imme diate stop and ran back to aid the He assisted in placing him In an auto driven by Henry P. Frankee, 1957 State street Mr. Fitts, father of the boy, is pro prietor of a fish market here. Body Terribly Crushed. The body is at Webb & Clough's un dertaking establishment. It was found that the whel of the truck had passed over the full length of the body on the right side ripping the right leg for about two feet, crushing all the rs on the right side, breaking his right hip and he was cut-across the mouth and nose and under the right arm. E CONVENTION ARE LAIN Chicago, Feb. 12. Conferences pre liminary to the fifty first annual con vention of the National Woman Suf frage association began today and will continue Until the convention ends l ext Wednesday. Prospects were that the association would be abandoned to give place to a new organization un der the name of the League of Women Voters. This, suffrage leaders said, probably would be contingent upon ratification of the National Woman Suffrage amendment by thirty-six state, expected before the convention adjourns, which would bring to a suc cessful conclusion the half century labors of the organization. In connection with the suffrage as sociation's meeting there will be a na tional convention of woman lawyers, the first ever held. A reconciliation with the woman's party, the radical wing of the move ment, was declared by members of the sutfrage association to be "hardly pos sible." Whether the new League of Women Voters will be held to a strictly non partisan course was a question In which political observers of the two, n.ajor political parties were displaying considerable interest. Search for Lost Corvallis Woman Fruitless Thus Far Corvalis, Or., Feb. 12. Efforts were continued today to find Mrs. Buol, who disappeared from her home here Sat utday. Wrord has come to Corvallis to the effect that a strange woman wag seen on the road north of the city Saturday and that she asked at' one house to use the telephone. ' She did not get the parties she wanted so continued on her way. The countryside has been notified to be on watch. Seach, however, Is si ill being made in the river. Vote for President then cnt out and mail or bring to OWEN PALMER PERSHING POINDEXTER POMERENE TAFT Peret Named President of Chamber of Lepudes Paris, Feb. 12. Raoul Per et was today elected presi dent of the chamber of dep uties by 372 of the 425 votes ' cast. M. Peret succeeds Paul Deschannel, who was recent ly elected president of the re public' FIVE CAMPAIGNS FOR MONEY BEING CONDUCTED IN CITY At least five campaigns for funds are now being waged in Salem. They are the Y. W. C. A., Commercial club, Boy Scouts, Salem hospital, Salem Dea coness hospital and the Salem Home- builders association Is open for sub scriptions. Because of the burden of drives so licitors for the various causes are not meeting with the same success and re ception that marked the various cam paigns during the war. Eaoh oranlza. tion, however, Thursday reported some progress toward their goals. Carrying out the galalntry the or ganization is noted for leaders tn te Boy Scout campaign Thursday morn ing announced that .their drive for funds will not be pressed until the Y. W. C. A. campaign is ended. Scout Commissioner Walter Denton said that the campaign would be continued, however, until the $500 for which they have started is raised. Thursday slightly more than $1000 had been brought into scout headquarters by the solicitors. Only a few were canvass ing the city Thursday for contributions to the scout fund. The addition of the name of Rod gers Paper company for J1000 was made Thursday to the Homebuilders association stock sales. A special meeting of the board of directors of the Commercial club was caled Thursday morning when plans for pushing that organization's cam paign for a publicity fund to a suc cessful and speedy end were laid. "Fly. ing squadrons" were combing the bus! ness district again throughout the day, and it was expected that by night fall would find only $4000 yet to be raised to reach their goal of $10,000. No active campaign, for money lor the two hospitals was being waged Thursday, although subscriptions to these causes are being accepted. Their kickoff in the effort to raise funds is expected soon. Y. W. C. A. headquarters in the Commercial club Thursday was a bedlam of activity. Throughout the day enthusiastic solicitors came and went, bringing in subscriptions and be ing as signed to new districts. Teacher Pleads For Vaccination of All Children Realizing the need of vaccination as a preparedness measure against small pox, a Salem teacher, who is at pres ent convalescing from the disease has submitted ithe following article, ad di esse to the parents and teachers of the city: "Only a couple of days before I ctme down with the smallpox I heard a nurse say it was only chickenpox and very light. I want to say right now it was smallpox. Some may have it light but what i have gone through during the last ten days cannot be described. It is terrible beyond worrrs. "I intended to be vaccinated, but thought I would wait for convenience until the week-end, which found me too ill to think of vaccination. "If you can imagine being covered wth boils, all through the hair, and the face a solid fester, the body, and even the soles of the feet covered, so one can't stand on them and burning like fire, then you have a picture of the horr.ors of the. disease. "I know it must be in the schools. Three chidlren in my grade and my self came down with it the same week. "I beg of you, parents and teachers, to be vaccinated and to see that all children under your care are vacci nated. Besides the suffering and iso lation from friends, think of the ex npn to those afflicted, and to the city ifrom three to five weeks." IMOXEER MIXER DEAD Seattle, Wash., Feb. 1!. James W. Morrison, pioneer miner, who was one 1 of the first men to reach tne Kionaine gold fields in the rush of 189?, dfed tn ' Los Angeles, Cal., yesterday, according to word received here. At one time Morrison was mayor of Goldfield, Ne-.-ia. For several years he owned a big Seattle cafe. 0 DEATH YTRUCK Schleswig Votes To Go n:-' .; Usder Ride of Danes Copenhagen, Feb. 12. Den-' mark won an overwhelming victory in the plebiscite held in the province et Schleswig by which the future status of that if: district was determined, ac- cording to official figures Is- sued here this morning. These - figures show that Danish ad- herents cast T5.023 votes while the Germans polled but 28,087. HAN HEME FOR TAKINGIOIHER'S . Charged in a warrant held by Sher iff Thomas N. Morris of Pierce coun ty, Washington, with grand larceny by a check J. A. Elrod, 38, was being held in the city Jail here Thursday. His return to Wasnington to answer for Bhje3i crime was iexpected, Thuifsday night when It Is believed by police here that extradition proceedings will have been completed and the officers will arrive. S- Elrod was arrested while he worked at the White Houfee restaurant Wed nesday by Chlet of) Police Welsh, act ing upon evidence iubmltted by an op erative of the Burns detective agency. Mrs. Elrod Is also ' employed at the restaurant. ....... According to information police here have obtained Elrod deposited $171.69 in a Tacoma bank. Another man by the name of Elrod also made a deposit in the same bank fbr $1700. By error of a bank clerk loth deposits were made in the same ijame. When Elrod who Is held here bw that this deposit had thus swelled ti $1871.69 he drew the money and bought $1800 In travel era checks. With, Mrs. Elrod he then went to Everett, an cashed the checks for cash. He then came to Salem and deposited the whole In the Salem Bank of Commerce. Elrod will not discuss the case, and only says that he "believes he has made1 a mistake." When questioned at police headquarters he said that it was none of the officers' business where he got the $1700. igs or CABINET IN FUTURE I Washington, Feb. 12. The next meeting of the cabinet probably will be called and presided over by President Wilson. Secretary Lansing said today he had written cabinet officers that there would be no more regular sessions of the president's official family for the present. He would offer no explana tion Dut u was understood tnat nis let ter was written by direction of Mr. I Wilson. Throughout the president's Illness the cabinet has met regularly au when the coal strike situation became acute the meetings were incrased from one to two weekly. There was no meeting yesterday and none will be held tomorrow. For several weeks now the president has been taking more and more of a hand in the conduct of official business.- Secretary Tumulty said today he had never seen Mr. Wilson looking better. West Says Democrats Will Run Hooyer for President Portland, Or., Feb. 12. if The name of Herbert Hoover will be submitted for the ap- proval of Oregon voters as the next president of the United States, Oswald West, democrat, former governor of this state, announced yesterday. Petitions will be circulated Immediately, West said. Replying to a suggestion that Mr. Hoover has not an- nounced whether he will be a t. democrat or a republican, West remarked: "That doesn't make any difference. We're deciding for him. He Is going to be a democrat." American Destroyer In Distress in Black Sea Constantinople. Feb. 10 The Amer ican df.nl rover Talbot was reported - ' day In distress near Serpent's Island. in the Black sea. It is thought, how lever, that the report may refer to the 'Talbot's standing by the British cruls !er Ceres, which is towing a tanker and two tugs loaded with refugees from Odessa toward Constanza. Rumania, under bad weather conditions. in iins ABE LIIICOLirS IIEhl, TODAY Gathering Throughout Coun try Observe Birthday of Great War President; Lans ing Pays High Tribute Washington, Feb. 12. The Ameri can people were urged today by Sec retary Lansing to find in the life of Abraham Lincoln the inspiration to forget self in devotion to country and to the fundamental national princi ples of liberty and Justice. "The memory of Lincoln," said the secretary of state, "of his humble or igin, of his attainment to the highest honor in the gift of his fellow coun trymen, of his unsurpassed service to the republic, and of his character as a man and as t public servant is one of the great spiritual assets of this nation. Personified Americanism "It is In turning our thoughts to the career of this great American that we learn the true meaning of pa triotism and gain a true conception of the opportunities which America of fers to those who inspired by lofty Ideals press onward along the path of unselfish public service.' "In commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln, we do honor to the American spirit of which he 1b the personification, He la the typical Am erican for future generations, the In spiration to us all to forget self In our devotion to our country and to the eternal principles of liberty and of Justice which are the lite blood of the nation." Lincoln Conference Opens Clevelund. O., Feb. 12. Closer co operation between employer and em ployes and elimination of their mis understandings Is the aim of the re ronstructlon conference of the Lin coln American Alliance here today. About 300 business, labor,' political and university leaders of the country are attending. "We are trying to spread the gos pel of Lincoln, who stood tor concil iation and cooperation in all lines of American endeavor," Dr. John Wesley Hill, chancellor of the Lincoln Me morial university at Cumberland, Mr. declared. "Today's conference Is the first of a series to be held In all sections of the cohntry for which we have adopt ed the slogan, Llncolnize America." Senate Pays Respects. Washington, Feb. 12. The original longhand manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg address was read In the senate-today by Senator Keyes, repub lican, New Hampshire. Senator Smott, republican, Utah, of the senate printing committee an nounced thata photostat of the address would be printed In the congressional record. The senate then adjourned as a fur ther mark of respect. POLICE SEARCH FOR With only a description of the lad to work upon police here ThUMday were conducting a diligent search for Robert Jackson, 15, whose disappear ance from home Wednesday was re ported by his mother. The boy Is de scribed as being 5 feet and 10 Inches tall, fair complexion, wore corduroy pants, plaid macklnaw coat, green cap and high top shoes. According to Mrs. Jackson Robert attempted to leave the city Tuesday night. When he boarded a south bound train he was thrown off by trainmen, and he returned home. Wednesday the fever of a wanderlust gripped him again, with the result that he had not been reported seen up to noon Thursday. An elaborate corsage pin formed of white enameled . doves and olive branches to represent the peaceful mission of the presidential party has bten presentd to Mrs. Wilson by the people of Paris. SECOND ANNUAL AUTO SHOW WILL FEA TURE EXTENSIVE DISPLA YS ' Elaborate preparations for the Ma rion County Automobile show to be held here, February 18, 19 and 20, are under way. Marlon county auto mobile dealers and automobile men of Polk county have Joined hands In making this second annual event the greatest auto exhibit ever held In the Willamette valley. The decoration committee appoint ed by the Marion and Polk county dealers association has been given In structions to "go the limit" in dress ing up the Salem armory in antici pation of the splendid showing of cars which Is promised. To date, more than 60 cars and 20 trucks, repre sentative of all late models, have been entered. , '.' suffrage: defeated 'r " Richmond. Va., Feb. 1J. Woman suffrage was defeat ed in Virginia today when the house of delegates adopted, 82 to 22, the Leedy resolu tion rejecting the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the federal constitution. The sen ate, by a vote of 24 to 10, pre viously had adopted the res olution. ' . Married Yanks Poor Soldiers; Are Sent Home American Headquarters, Coblenz, Feb. 1. Two hundred and fifty sol diers of the American forces in Ger many . who have married European girls have been instructed to start soon for America with their wives, in accordance with a recent order of Major General Henry T. Allen, in command. Army authorities announced they would not consent in future to mar riages of American soldiers on duty in the occupied area, contending that men without wives in Germany are better soldiers. About 200 soldiers have married German girls since the American forces reached the Rhine, the others have married principally French or Belgian girls. RAIL IINTENAKCE HEN PERFECT PLANS Detroit. Mich.. Feb. 12. Strlne headquarters were opened in lb clt los today by divisional officers of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes and Railway Shop Labor ers, from which the nation wide strike called for February 17 will be direct ed. ,s Final plans for the strike have been made, union officials here declared and only an agreement between rep resentatives of the men in Washing ton and President Wilson, they said, will avert, the walkout. If such agree ment is reached, it was said, it must come before Saturday night or the strike order cannot be rescinded be fore it becomes effeotivn. VLADIVOSTOK LEAVE London, Feb. 12. A wireless dis patch from Moscow today says; "The American troops 'guarding the Siberian railway are being withdrawn from Vladivostok. The American mis sion has left Chita for Harbin. "The whites are hurriedly evaouat lnr Yekaterlnodar, which Is about to fail." Orders for the withdrawal of the American forces from 'Siberia were given last month and the movement of the troops to Vladivostok has been In progress for several weeks. Yekaterlnodar Is In Ciscaucasia, about 76 miles from the Black sea. Street Car Falls From Viaduct to Moving Train St. Louis. Mo Feb. 12. A street car fell from the Four teenth street viaduct here late today on top of a moving train passing op the tracks beneath the viaduct. It is known that there were a number of people In the street car, but the extent of thoir injuries, If any, hus not yet been determined. Tampa, Fla., Feb. 12. There will be no presidential preference primary l i Florida this yenr, the democratic Ht'ile commltte having made no pro vision and the republicans having al ready named delegates to the Chicago convention. The republicans are not Instructed. The ' registration committee has tears that the exhibit will overflow the armory, but If this occurs, suit able auxiliary quarters for the ex hibit will be secured. Cars and dealers participating In the exhibit will represent some of the leading American models In Seduns, sedanettes, roadsters, touring car- and limousines, C. B. Clancey Is in' charge of the decoration of the armory and has announced that a special decorative Scheme will be carried out In appoint ment and effect. The main purpose of the are effect is to raise the dec oration above the level of the cars on exhibition, in this manner obviat ing the clash between the exhibits and surrounding decorations. HOLIDAY HALTS TRIAL OF REDS ATlilTESAIIO - ; . .v - -.-!; -: l Prosecution to Resume Case Aainst Aliened Slavers d Legion Men dim Anris tice Day Parade, Friday , Montesano, Wash., Feb. 12. Court took a holiday today in the trial of eleven alleged I. W. W, charged with, the murder of Warren O. Grimm, Cen tralia Armistice day parade victim. The holulday came Just as the state was In the midst of presenting some of tt most Important testimony. Yesterday two Important statements alleged to be a confession and supple court record as evident, and two im porant witnesses offered testimony tending to establish the chain of evi dence the prosecutors are weaving tn an endeavor to convince the Jury that the killing of Grimm and three other ex-soldiers was the result of a pre-arranged plot. Case Resumes Friday. Further testimony intended to strengthen the state's case u to be offered tomorrow, including, possibly, : that of T. C. Morgan, who the prose cution expects will tell of the alleged meetings in the I. W. W. hall at which the purported conspiracy was planned. 1 lit) Bialu uua pi Ul t7BffCU OU 14I KM case, It Is said, that all of Its evidence may be completed by the end of next week. The defense then will present ite case, alleging, according to counsel that the shootings were In self-defense and that the men fired from the I. W. glon members only after their hall was attacked. PAYNE SELECTED Washington, Feb. 12. John Barton Payne of Illinois ha been selected by President Wilson to be secretary of the interior to succeed Franklin K. Lane. Mr. Payne is now chairman ot the United States shipping board. Mr. Payne will take over bis dutiee March 1, when Mr. Lane retires at hi own request. Mr. Payne's successor as chairman of the shipping board ha not yet ben announced. Before becoming chairman of tho shipping board on Atigust 1, 11, Mr. Payne was general counsel of the rail road administration and before that he was general counsel of the emer gency fleet corporation. He Is a native of Virginia and ! fig years old. His home Is In Chicago. STANF1ELD WOULD RIDE REPUBLICAN Portland, Or., Feb. 12. Robert N. Stanfield former speuker of the Ore gon legislature, today announced his candidacy for the republican nomina tion for United Stutes senator. If nom inated at the primary on May 21, Stanfield; will be the candidate of the republican party against Senator Geo. E. Chamberlain in the general election next November. Stanflcld's name will appear on the ballot as a resident of Multnomah oona ty, as his home Is In Portland and he is registered here as a voter. In the last senatorial contest In Ore gon, Stanfield, who Is a wool grower with large interests in eastern Oregon, w rif:intiri for the nomination by United States Senator Charles L. Mc- Nary. Exhibition Ideas and novelties not ed by George E, Halvorsen, secretary treasurer of the association, during' his recent attendance at the mld-wln-ter show at Chicago, will be utilized in general plans for arrangement and presentation of curs. During the three (lays of the show, special entertainment will be provid ed. The plans of this committee have not yet been fully perfected but it i known that Rteelhammer's orchestra has been secured for performance at all afternoon and evening session of the show. Lew A. Cates, of the B. and C. Auto company, Is In charge of the publlct- .. .4 A ,v Bttiiu, unit Mnirta A varv vnaA resnonse fro mdeatem and the general public. . jS SUCCESSOR TO SECRETARY LAKE