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Cap i t&l M M J a CIRCULATION ' Average for Quarter Ending December II. 1S1 5 4 5 8 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Associated Press Full Leajwd Wire. WEATHER FORECAST erns Oregon: Tonfcht and Sunday fair; 1 - jSTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 39. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1920. TEN PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. LANE SAYS LANSING NOT ALL TO BLAME OAST PHONE MBBfflU OUT ON STRIKE linemen and Maintenance Jen of Pacific Company fleet! Call; California is Hardest Hit . QUIET IS S ALEM Because of an agreement signed between local linemen and the telephone company that terms offered by the com- , pany are acceptlble to the men, the alrlke call will have no ef- , feet In Salem, District Mana ger W. H. Danes', of the Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph company said Saturday after noon. There are eight linemen employed here. San Francisco, Feb. 14. -A strike ot electrical workers In the system of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany in California, Oregon, Washing ton, Nevada and a portion of Idaho went into effect at 8 o'clock today but there were the usual conflicting state. ment as to the number of men actual ly out. D. P. Fullerton, superintend ent of plant here, and the official spokesman for the company, said not more than ten per cent of the work er had struck. T. C. Vlckers of Fres no ,a vice-president of the Brother hood of Electrical Workers, said In Rime places the men were out. 100 per cent and that generally they had i iponded to the strike call, . - , San Francisco, Feb. 14. A strike of electrical workers employed by the hclfic Telephone and Telegraph vtnmpany went into effect-at a. -m. today, It was not possible at that hour t determine how many men went out. ' , T. C. Nickers of Fresno, vice pres ent of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, who Is filing in the, direction of the strike, Mid that despite the formation of orker associations by the company, virtually all of the men could be ex ited to go out. When told of advices from Stockton to the effect that there would be no iWke there Vickers said e had been ' "nmnnlcatlon with the Stockton local at 1 a. m. today and was notl 4 it that time that the workers "ould go out. Company officials said the number me" h would strike would not wd ten percent, as most of their mmnees had been settled or were "s of settlement through the Sacramento Hit Sacramm0 Cul Feb u gwlt(,h ard maintenance men and others ""Ployed by the Pacific Telephone (ox uo ponunuoo) TO LETTER; FIRST IN 35 YEARS cS , . T'6 Jears ,h American na th. . , raI letter their clergy fccThelet,er,rt bed t! cdirJs rihh wa" pieDarea M1 Reco? LG ns 'Cnnel! "S"'- Sha,'an fthC Z cl , ter l8sue(1 t0 the lt'imoI,hhLtl!'rcl Penary council CgS? an one bishops In bl"op, ?nH T CUntinff aux11 r"!inted?onlblshoPs tout a in th 8pecial work ad. ,hs"entyniiT,lpastora' letter more m "n,,0fthelalety. VlWs 111 Proceed t ?wC,n '"""O Principles e, tnelin"0' "Pedleney. It a,1nai a?A "aI CDnd!tion, and im a ' S- " la s stres, on K-ini the k."" of onstruc- man we?farne 'Ute n'" lTlTrm0n ' American the L ed na the tetter STATE WEAVES NET OF I EVIDENCE CLOSER IN ALLEGED RED -CASE MonteSano, Wash., Feb. 14 Eugene Barnett, one of the eleven defendants on trial here for the murder of War ren O. Grimm, Centralia Armistice day ptrade victim, was again positively identified as the man who was shoot ing from a window in the Avalon ho tel at the marching American Legion members. Clarence Watkins, color bearer In the parade, testified today that he wag positive Barnett was the man he saw shooting rrom this hotel. Watkins' testimony was part of the state's corroborative evidence. Intro duced during the week, to indicats that Grimm's death was the result of shooting from a window In the Avalon hotel, and that Barnett was the man who fired the shot. Watkins mounted, was at the head of the Centralia, di vision of the procession. The con tingent had halted, he testified, the men afoot marking time. He heard several shots from behind and sought cover. He ran to the southwest corner of, Second street and Tower avenue, seeking safety behind an automobile. Narrowly Escapes. ' Two shots passed between him and the IT. S. flag he was carrying, as he ran, he testified. Watkins said he looked up at the Avalon as he ran, having heard the two shots come from that direction. As he looked, he said, he saw a man at the window, draw ing back and pulling in a gun. As he reached the automobile, he turnec aun saw Grimm staggering toward the cor ner, he said. Watkins Identified Bar nett at the Lewis county jail as the man he had seen shooting from the Avalon, he testified and again in couri today he picked Barnett from among the prisoners lined along the brench Cross-examination of Miss Elsie Hornbeck,' who yesterday dramatically Identified Barnett as the man she saw in the Avalon window, just before the parade passed, was completed today. Three Shots Fired. Watkins was positive that three shots were fired from the Avalon, he. testified, two of them going past him. He described the man he saw shooting from the window as having brownish half, Jlkht com plexioued and witrnrfuir forehead. This description, generally, fit Barnett. Oa.cro6s-examination Watkins told Attorney Vanderveer, defense coun sel, that he had not heard anyone say "come on boys, let get 'em." He said he saw none of the marchers run towards the I. W. W. hall before or after the shooting began. Questioned about meeitngs of the American Le gion at the Elks' hall in Centralia, he testified that he had never heard the word raid mentioned at any such meetings he had attended. Court was compelled to caution At torneys Vanderveer, for the defense, and W. H. Abel, for the state, about engaging in personalities, informing them that he would tolerate It no longer. William S. McKenzie, owner of an automobile which was parked in Sec ond street, Just off Tower avenue, testified he saw the Centralia contin gent halt at the Intersection of those streets; that the column was mark ing time and that they did not break rank until after the first shots were fired. They scattered, he said, in di rections leading away from the I. W. W. hall. The shooting sounded like fire-crackers at first, he testified, but he realized guns were being used when he saw one man fall. It devel oped that jthe man he saw fall was Ben Casagranda, one of the four vic tims. He took Grimm and Casagranda to the hospital in his car, he testified. Grimm's Words Told. "For God's sake hurry up boys get me in quick," were the only words spoken by Grimm, he said. At least one shot came from the direction of the Avalon hotel, he testified, ex plaining that this one shot passed over his car and penetrated another ma chine which was parked alongside. This was the car of A. R. Frisbie, who testified the first part of the week. Clyde TIsdale, brother-in-law of McKenzie, who was in the machine with the latter, corroborated McKen zie's testimony, adding thereto the statement that he saw Casagranda lying wounded, and that he saw an other man fall, struck in the leg by a bullet. He also saw a man run out from behind the I. W, W. hall, run across a vacant lot to Second street, turn west to an alley and then run north through the alley. This man was carrying a large revolver, he said, and was not in uniform. Barnett Identified.. Reminded that the life of at least one man depended upon, her' state ment, and that she was under oath to tell the truth. Miss Elsie Hornbeck, bookkeeper of Centralia, dramtically identified Eugene Barnett, one of th? eleven alleged I. W. W., as the man w ho, in Jier opinion, she had seen standing In a window of the Avalon hotel shortly before Grimm fell, mor tally wounded. Miss Hornbeck had been preceded on the witness stand by her employer, A. H. Carpenter, who conducts a garage directly across the street from the Avalon. Carpenter had testified that he, hii partner, W. II. McDowell, Miss Horn beck and. one or two others, watched the Armistice day parade from the garage window. They had heard shoot ing, he said, when suddenly McDowei! exclaimed: "Look, look, for God's sake Al, look. (Continued on Page Four.) Washington's Birtbday ' Designated as Legion Sunday Thruout Nation Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14. American Legion Sunday will be observed In thousands of churches throughout the TJnl- 4! ted States as Washington's (- brithday under program map- ped out by officials of the or- ganization at national head- quarters. ' . A feature of the exercises will be the presentation to the next of kin of fallen Amerl- can soldiers of certificates con- veyfng the appreciation of France for the heroic sacrifice of America's dead. Ministers will be requested by the eight thousand posts of the Legion to explain the work , of the organization from their pulpits at their Sundav morn- ale lng services. BY GOVERNMENT Washington,' Feb. 14. An agree ment with the American Internation al Shipbuilding company was reached today by the United States Shipping Board by which the board takes title to the land of the Hog Island ship yard at Philadelphia. Approximately $4,000,000 is involv ed, Chairman Payne said. The board exercised an option to purchase the land for $1,700,000, and in addition allowed the shipbuilding company $2,000,000 for the cancellation of con tracts for 58 ships. In addition an allowance of $79,000 each was given for the completion of 12 vessels now being constructed, 11 for the army and one for the navy. Under the agreement, the Itnerna- tional Shipbuilding company is to continue operation of the yard until the twelve ships are finished, Chair man Payne said. By taking title to the land, the chairman declared the board now is in a position to dispose of Hog Island and negotiations for the sale prob ably will be opened soon. Shipbuilding materials for seven big ships now at the yard will be turned over to the navy. Modifications mm Washington, Feb. 14 Two modified draftB of the article ten reservation to the peace treaty were laid before re publican senators Friday by Senator Hitchcock, with a promise that about forty democrats would support which ever of the proposals the republicans found preferable. Both of the propositions, however, had been rejected by republican lead ers In the course of the disrupted bi partisan compromise negotiations anil it was indicated last night that there was little hope that either would be accepted now. The republicans with held a formal reply, however, pending a canvass of the situation. One of the revisions offered by Sen ator Hitchcock, was that worked out but not finally agreed to by the bi partisan conference and which Presi dent Wilson characterized later as "very unfortunate" in form. The other was the draft formulated by former President Taft and rejected by Senator Lodge when it was offered to the bi partisan conference by the democrats. WOMEN TO CELEBRATE II Chicago, Feb. 14. Victory In wo ihrii'm battle for an eaual vaice In gov ernmentfought for fifcy-one years- will be proclaimed tonight by loo wemen suffragists and with their pro clumation the National American Wo man Suffrage association will to all in tents and purposes, pass from sight. Victory Is celebrated tonight al though five states must ratify the nineteenth amendment before It will become law. The suffragists are con fident that the necessary ratifications will be forthcoming within a few days. This afternoon the new League of Women Voters, which has already held several preliminary conferences, will l9 called together by Mrs. Charles II. Brooks to elect permanent officials and receive the report of Its credentials committee. HOG ISLAND SITE TO BE PURCHASED RAILROAD ME!1 SEtlDAHSVER T0PRES1DENT Reply of Brotherhoods to j Wilson's Wage Decision DeliTC Tt Maintenance Strike Call Stands Washington, Feb. 14. The rail- road employes representative have agreed to accept the recom mendation ot President Wilson to hold their wage demands In abey ance temporarily, it was an nounced today. President Wilson informed the men of his intention to appoint a commission of wage experts to go thoroughly into their claims. On this basis, the union leaders agreed to dclnr further demands for Increased wages and called a convention of their general com mitteemen to be held in Washing ton February Si Washington, Feb. 14. The reply o the railroad brotherhoods to President Wilson's decision in the wage contro versy was presented to the president today. Immediately afterwards the union officials sent telegrams to their locals over the country, wnlch B. M. Jewell, president of the railroad de partment of the American Federation of Labor said would serve to "s'.eaor our men" until they receive the full correspondence covering the negotia tions. M'J Mr. Jewell would not say Just what had been the result of the negotiations but it seemed certain that the presi dent had refused to meet the demands of the 2,000,000 workers for a general wage increase and that his decision had been ttccepe-Jiy the unjo'n offir cials, at least for the present. It was announced by the union men lhat the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Jiad joined in the .decision submitted to the president, but that the Brotherhood ot Maintenance of Way Employes had not become a party to it. The maintenance of way men have been ordered to strike Tuesday. Strike Call Stands. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14. President Wilson's proposal yesterday to repre sentatives of the various railroad un ions contained nothing that would war rant withdrawal of the strike order Is sued tp members of the United Brother hood of Maintenance of Way Employ es and Railway Shop Laborers, Allen E Barker, head of that organization said this morning. Mr. Barker said he had this morning received a copy of the president's pro posal. "I found nothing in It," he said, "to warrant changing the strike order." It was reiterated at brotherhood headquarters here that unless an agree ment of some kind were reached be fore tonight the strike set for February 17 could not be stayed. Two or three days. It was said, would be required to get further instructions to the more than 300,000 members of the brother hood. COMMENT ON SPLIT London, Feb. 14. This afternoon's London papers print the news of Sec retary Lansing's resignation under a variety of Prominent captions, such as "United States political bombshell." "Washington Sensation," "Great Unit ed States Sensation." The Pail Mall Gazette says: "President Wilson's return to polit ical aotivity has been announced by a sensational stroke." During his ill ness, the newspaper adds, all kinds of reports were current as to where the real seat of authority lay in the conduct of the American administra tion. "The curtain now has been thrust aside," the article continues, "and we have the lively spectacle of the president not only using his pre rogative but employing it to dis charge of his chief legal adviser." The newspaper considers the pres ident's self assertion "emerges all the stronger for his enforced rest and he Is evidently going to take up the reins of government again in a spirit that will not parley with opposition' The Westminster Gazette says: 'The dismissal of Secretary' Lan sing by the president Is a dramatic Illustration of the peculiar power as signed to the head of the government by the American constitution. What It is, exactly, that Secretary Lansing has done, is not very clear, but he would appear to have applied on his own ac count what has been described as the American principle of one man man agement, while President Wilson In sists on a monopoly of the idea." Secretary of Interior Says Responsibility Is Divided CABINET OFFICERS ALL CONSULTED REGARDING EACH SPECIAL SESSION Washington, Feb. 14. Secretary Lane declared today that he considered himself "just as much sing for the calling of tabinet meetings during the president s ill ness. He said Mr. Lansing called him on the telephone and ob tained his approval of the idea before calling the first meeting and "presumably secured the approval of other cabinet members also." "We all thought the meetings were a good thing," said Secretary Lane who retires aa secretary of the iilterlor March 1. "They were often attended by Dr. Grayson and messages were transmitted to the president on ques tions discussed. The critical situation precipitated by the coal strike cam. up for consideration as well as mat ters pertaining to the first Industrial conference and other Important ques tions. I feel that I attended the meet ings on a full level or responsiomiy with Secretary Lansing inasmuch as I had agreed to the advisability of their beinsr held. Other members 01 me cabinet apparently took the same posi tion." .. - Asked whether the question or the constitutionality of the meetings ever had been raised among the cabinet members. Secretary Lane replied: "No; not; at all. The question was never discussed in any way." Washington, Feb. 14. Rebuked by President Wilson for calling cabinet meetings during his illness, Becretar Lansing has resigned. The president has accepted me rea is.mtion "with appreciation" and Mr. Lunslng becomes the seoond secretary ot state to leave the administiatlon nier a disagreement with his chief. ,. Although the corrcsponaence tween Mr. Lansing and the president makes the calling of the cabinet meet ings the Incident which lead directly to the secretary's resignation, persons on the inside" of the administration who Unow what has been going on say that, was only an incident and that the real reasons for the break go back over a period of many-months and come from fundamental differences or opinion In policy. '.'.'' Differences Old. ,The disagreements bstween . the nri.ident and the head of the slate department even antedate the entry of the United States into tha war. The relations between the two men "almost reached the breaking point caily In 1917 when Mr. I-ansing issued his cele brated statement saying the United States was dally being drawn nearer and nearer the war. By some it was taken to forecast the entry of the Uni ted States. The president made every effort to overtake the statement after it had been given out at the stale de rartment but It was Impossible. When Mr. Lansing went as a mem ber of the American peace delegation to Paris more differences developed With other members of the American j mission he was not in accord with the (.resident's idea of making the treaty of peace and the covenant of the Hague of nations one and the same in separable document. It was Mr. Lins Ii.g'e idea that such a, plan would dela;' the ratification of a peace treaty and in this he was supported by Henry White and E. M. House. Disagreed In Puris. It may be said with a reat d-al of nuthority that while the president and Mr. Lansing were together In Paris other differences of more than minor nature developed and this Is confirmed by the reference which tho prts'.der.l makes to it in one of his letters. When President Wilson went back to Paris last March and found that d.nlnar his brief absence in the United States Mr. Lansing and the others oflquarantine proclamation. the American mission had agreed, ten. tatively at least, to have the peace terms and the league of nntlons cove nant separated, the situation cam" I very near a breaking point and prob I ably was avoided only because the j president thought it was more import jant not to let European statesmen see I a split In the American peace delega tion. While Mr. Lansing pwbahly saw land conferred with the president in Paris as much as any other members of the American minion, It was a mat ter of remark that he saw him very lit tle. , However, the Incident which cam nearer causing a break than any other, was the sensational testimony of Wil liam C. Bullitt, one of the experts at tached to the American peace mission, before the senate foreign relations com n'lttee. Bullitt, as will be recalled, (Continued on Page Eight.) Eight Men Injured in Explosion at Seattle Seattle, Wash., Feb. 14' Eight men were reported Injured here today in an explosion which partially wreckel the interior of a Puget Sound Traction Light & Power company substation. responsible" as Secretary Lan Packer Regulation Bill Is Favorably Reported Washington, Feb. 14. Fa vorable report was ordered unanimously today by the sen ate agrloulture committee of the revised Kenyon-Kendrlck bill providing for federal regu lation of the meat Industry. HEAD INFORMATION BUREAU FOR POLES Portland, Or., Feb. 14. Major Aus tin B. Richeson of Portland, until rs cently a member of the editorial staff ot the Oregonlan, who served overseas (with the. 81st division has been ap pointed assistant director of the Amer- lean bureau of Information of the re public of Poland, a Washington, D. C, dispatch announced today. He'will take up his residence In Washington. The bureau is a branch of the Polish legation. Major Richeson will be in charge of the press section. His staff will Include several Polish journalists, economists ,and other technical ex perts, An elaborate service of Infor mation will be made available for the use of the American public major mcneson, aunougn still a young man, is a veteran of the regular army, with which he served in tne Philippines and of the American Ex peditionary Forces In the late worm war. Upon the entry of the United States in the recent war he entered the first officers' training camp at the i'resldlo and emerged with a captain's commission. After he reached the front in France he served with ruch aisunction tnat he was promoted to a major. He was seriously wounded, being shot through one lung. Cattle Imported Into Tillamook Must be Passed Under a quarantine proclamation issued by the state livestock sanitary board, Frlduy, the first of Its kind since the enactment of the law in 1913, no dairy or breeding cattle will oe admitted Into Tillamook county hereafter unless accompanied by a certificate showing them to be free from bovine tuberculosis. Tillamook county, according to the proclamation has conducted a general campaign for the eradication of tuberculin In fected cattle and the county Is now practically free from the disease. It is understood here that Coos county which has also been conducting a similar campaign will soon ask for a Capital Journal's Straw Vote for President Vote for One, placing X after name; then cut out and mall or bring to Capital Journal Office. BRYAN COX CERARD HARDING HOOVER JOHNSON LOWDEN , McADOO Party Affiliation Name Address DinTTnDI APF 1 LUI IV I LMUL riinrnnnhR'Arr r i pr it! ill ki ii i-iiv it yuuii III POWER DIES Conspiracy to Keturn uaries to Throne ot rtegary Is Revealed; Placed Trust ia Popular Support Budapest, Feb. 14. Circumstantial details have been revealod of plot bv which it is alleged former Emperor Charles made futile attempt to enter Hungary under a false passport and re-establish himself on the throne. Documentary evidence said to be In the hands of the government indicates! that it has been planned for the ex emperor to cross the Auntrlan frontier under the "name of Kaspar Kovacs, ac companled by three other person whose Identity has not been definitely established. Then he was to proclaim his return with the expectation that his former subjects would support him it is declared, i , It is alleged that the plot was ar ranged by Colonel Lehar, who has Just been named governor of West Hun ary and by Minister Benltcky, the lat ter having attempted, it Is asserted, to have the passports vised. The Swlsa consul to whom application was made, however, recognized the photograph of the ex-emperor, U is suld, and reported the matter to the authorities. MYERS ENTITLED TO HEARING BUT I1T ACCEPT DISCHARGE Portland, Or., Feb. 14. It Is up to Frank 8. Myers, ex-postmaster of Port land, to suggest when he would like t bo heard before the senate poetotflce commission relative 4o the removal. Senator Townsend of Michigan, the chairman said, according to a Wash ington dispatch received here. Bucti a hearing cannot have any bearing one way or another on the action of the postmaster general in removing Myers, the chairman said, as the right tat remove cannot .'be disputed. In other words, there Is no authority In low for such a hearing, but It will be granted If Mers Insists, the two Ore gon senators having asked that he be heard. Senator Chamberlain said today that there are abundant precedents In de cisions of the highest court supporting the president's right to remove an ap pointive official summarily at any time he wishes without giving any reasons. CTRL A CANDIDATE V. S. Curl of Pendleton Friday, In a letter to the secretary of state's of fice Indicated his desire to become a candidate for the nomination a a delegate from the second congress ional district to the national republl- 8i:i:ks ixt rkaskd rate Increased telephone rates are re quested by the Scholia Telephone own pany of Scholia, Washington county. In an application filed with the pub lic service commission Friday. OWEN PALMER - PERSHING POINDEXTER POMERENE TAFT WILSON . WOOD