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KIN TO
STAY ABROAD
llfcXIKVKI) THAT HE WILL HE.
MAIN AWAY I NTH. AM. I'K.UK
TEHMH AHIUNUEI
FAVORS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Said to Oppose Creation or Recon
struction OimmUMim, Kltlir Ex
etulivc or CVntfiwIoiml
Washington, Nov. 20. Domocra
tlo senators who conferred with
Prealdeut WlUon lout nlitht'for two
tour loft tho White House with the
Imprvealon that the president now
plans to remain In Franco Indefinite
ly, or at UuHt until the major portion
of tho work ot the peace conference
baa ben completed.
The president wan understood to
be especially Interested In tho appli
cation, In the framing of the treaty,
of the principle of the freedom of
the avail, which ha (inundated In his
14 terms, and on which the a! I lee, In
agreeing to discuss peace wlih Ger
many, have reserved tho right of
freedom of action at tho peace con
forence. The plun for a league of natlona
was another aubject to which the
president waa aaid to have given
much study. He wna understood to
regard thin iwiantlal for the main
tenance of the peace of the world.
During Jila absence from the I'nlt
4 RUtes the president plana to con
tlnuo to exercise all the functions of
bla office. He will keep In commu
nication with Washington by wire
lens whllo at sea, and by cable, and
If necessary by dispatch boats while
be Is abroad.
While In France the president
was said to plan transaction of any
necessary executive business In the
Amerl'-an embassy. Technically he
then would be on American soil.
Should be visit 1ondon or any of
tho other allied capitals the embas
sies there would become his execu
tive headquarter.
Besides discussing his plans for
bis trip abroad, the president waa
understood to have taken up with
the senators problems of reconstruc
tion and necessary legislation. It
was, said that he opposes creation of
reconstruction commission, either
executive or congressional, ' prefer
ring that the work be done by exist
ing agencies, such as the war Indus
trleg board, the food administration
and the war trade board. ,
HOW THEY TAKE AUTOS
OVER SNOW IX, ALASKA
Chltlna, Alaska, Oct. 20. (By
Mall) Wheel rims eighteen Inches
wide are ,on two new automobile
trucks brought here recently to be
usod In carrying the mall between
Chltlna and Fairbanks over the win
ter snow trail. With the broad
wheel rims the trucks will not sink
In the snow.
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London, Nov. , 2"0. King George
and Queen Mary with their court
have returned to 'London to a cold,
tireless Buckingham Palace.
Owing to the coal shortage and
to the fact that the country will
con be on its winter's rations, the
king had given orders cutting down
the use of coal In all the royal pal
cos to a strict minimum well with
in legal rationing.
'Almost every fireplace In the pal
ace, In none of which fires had been
lighted, have had bricks placed in
them to reduce the consumption of
coal. Lighting ot passages, corri
dors, anterooms and the - private
apartments of the king and family
Tias been reduced by half.
MANY MONTHS
1ST LOSES RACE
BY 18,164 VOTES
Wlthycoinlm Hiioms Tierce I'mler by
a Vote of lft,000The Normal
Schools Ixwe Out
Official returns ot the recent elec
tion from every county except Mult
nomah, from which the complete un
official figures are used, ahow that
United States Senator McN'ary de
feated Oswald West by 18,164 rotes.
The vote was: MrNary 82,1189, West
64.175. West carried only two of
the 86 counties Deschutes and
Jackson.
The official returns from every
county, Including Multnomah, on the
governorship, show that Governor
Wlthycombe defeated Walter M.
Pierce by a margin of IE, 068. the
vote being Pierce 64.980, Wlthy
combe 80,048. Pierce carried only
five counties. They were Deschutes,
Harney, Tlnn, Marlon and Union.
The same figures confirm the elec
tion of Judge A. S. Rennott, ot The
Dalles, to the supreme court by 408
votes over Circuit Judge Coke, of
Marshfleld. The final figures In this
contest were: Bennett 12,804,
Campbell 6,169, Coke 11.896, Olson
10,608.
The vote on the seven measures
follows:
Two new normal schools, yes 49,
965, no 66,021.
Home for delinquents, yes 43,237,
no 65.291.
Prohibiting fishing In Rogue
river, yes 45,511, no 50,227.
Hoeing Willamette river to fish
ing, yes 55,659, no 40,898.
Delinquent tax bill, yes 66,652, no
41,595. . ... -
Fixing rates for legal advertising,
yes 50.171, no 41,826.
Increasing stale tax levy, yes 41,
36G, no 56,974.
STATE ENGINEER LEWIS
QUITS AFTER -14 YEARS
Salem, Ore., Nov. 20. John H.
Lewis, stato- engineer, today submit
ted his resignation to Governor
Wlthycombe to become effective im
mediately. He has held the office
for nearly 14 'years.
Governor Wlthycombe announced
that he will at once appoint Percy A.
Cupper, assistant state engineer, to
succeed Mr. (Lewis. Mr. Cupper was
recently elected superintendent ot
water division No. 1. As a result
ot his appointment today Governor
Wlthycombe will recommend to the
next legislature ithat the office or
the water division superintendent
In the western district be merged
with the office of state engineer.
This move will lop $2,400 off the
state payroll.
INCREASE IN RATES
Washington, Nov. 20. A general
Increase in express rates has been
announced by Director McAdoo, on
all express west of the Mississippi
river. The merchandise rate will be
Increased about 10 to 12 cents per
hundred pounds over the present
soale, and the Increase on food rates
will be about 75 per cent as much
With the American Army of Oc
cupation, Nov. 20. The American
forces have shoved their line across
the German frontier today, at points
opposite Drley and Audun-iLe-Ro-man.
To the northward the Ameri
cans have entered the Duchy ot Lux
em berg. '
GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINK COUlfTT, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1018
BOLSHEVIKI DEALT HARD
Ukrainians Overthrown and Yictors Establish Government
Washington Elated, As More Helps Clear Rnssion Sit
uation With Cossacks in Charge Black Sea Open
Copenhagen, Nor. 20. The Uk
rainian government has been over
turned and Kler captured by troops
from Astrakhan, apparently com
manded by General Deniklne, an
antl-Bolshevlk leader, according- to
Swedish newspapers.
The Ukrainian national assembly
fled and a provisional government
waa established by the captors.
Washington, Nov. 20. Report ot
the overturning ot the Ukrainian
government by Denlklnes troops was
received with great satisfaction. Of
ficials here state that this move
ment -will make the allies' work in
handling the Russian problem much
simpler, with Cossacks in charge.
many of whom are Ukrainians them
selves.
It will be easier to reach European
Portland, Ore., Nor. 20. Two-
tbousand dollars reward bas been
offered for the capture of the mur
derer who shot Deputy Sheriff Frank
Twombley to death last night, after
robbing C. G. Henin, bridge tender,
at the Oregon end of the interstate
bridge to Vancouver.
The county commissioners have
offered $1,000 and the bridge com
mission a like amount.
The robbers escaped in an automo
bile with a woman companion.
LELAND WOMAN VOICES INDIGNATION
AT GERMANS-HAS
Mrs. Adah M. Morrison, of Ice
land, Oregon, who has three sons
and a daughter in the service, voices
her indignation at tbe effrontery ot
the Germans in asking Immediate
cargoes of food from the allies. Mrs.
Morrison's letter follows:
"Can ad old woman from the
backwoods section ot Josephine
county ask a tew questions without
being considered Insane or idiotic?
I would like to ask in the name ot
the mothers, wives, sisters and
sweethearts ot the thousands of our
boys who lie on "Flanders Field,"
deaf to the heart breaking calls ot
dear ones ot the thousands ot pris
oners that have been mutilated,
beaten and tortured, of the bun'
dreds that have been bombed while
In hospitals, sick or wounded, or
sunk without a moment's warning by
U-boats, then ehot at while strug
gling in the waters; these are the
men we mothers, sisters, wives and
sweethearts have given to make this
world sate place to live in until
we tall heir to the new earth, and
I consider we have the right to ask
Why 1s the president anxious and so
hasty to feed and oare for the brutal
murderers of our loved onesT
Are we to be aslfed to conserve
food to feed the filthy "hell hounds ot
the .German goverlment? We who
would have been in the pitiful plight
of the French 'and Belgian women
If our sons, husbands, brothers and
lovers had not laid down their lives
to aave us and now Mr. Wilson Is
going to make sjmmediate arrange
ments to feed them Is it at our ex
pense? What matter If the women
of Germany asked Mrs. Wilson to
Intercede In their behalf bare we
American women any feeling
W AP ID
Russia with supplies and munitions
via the Black sea.
General Denikene formerly was
commander of the Russian armies
on the southwestern front.
London, Nor. 20. The solution
in the east is causing anxiety In Ger
many. The Berlin Loka Anzelger
says the great German army 'is
marching eastward.
London, Nor. ' 20. Sir George
Cave, spaklig in the house of lords,
said the enemy's activities bare not
ceased. He said:
"Germany has already begun to
try to destroy the nnity of the allies
and our unity at Jtome. It is be
lieved that, there Is a close alliance
between Bolsherlktsm and Germany,
and we have had evidence of this
during the past week.'
MUSIC AS A CURE FOR
SEVERE SHELL SHOCK
London. Nov. 20 Muslo has been
found to be beneficial in the treat
ment of soldiers suffering from shell
shock and now singing is to be tried
on a systematic scale with the ap
proval of the army authorities.
It has been found that singing bas
both directly and indirectly a won
derful curative effect, and there are
a number ot cases on record in which
a man wbo bas been unable to speak.
suddenly Joined In with the elnging
and so recovered his speech. An
effort Is being made to organize reg
ular singing training in all hospitals
where there are shell shock cases.
SONS III SERVICE
ot sympathy tor the German women?
How did they treat our dearly loved
boys in their prison pens Spitting
in their food and drink, feeding dogs
out side the prison pens ot poisoned
barbed wire to torture our starving
boys and other contemptible ways
to annoy and IntUot mental and
physical pain. And women ot Am
erica these are the women that are
calling to Mrs. Wilson by wireless
for American help, "when they have
done their bit towards helping tbe
bestial murderous and soulless mon
strosities ot German kultur to slay
thousands of innocent babies; muti
late thousands of men and boys for
the pure love ot torture; to rape the
womanhood ot nations, and make
them bear children that the whole
world hates because ot their fath
ers.
Women ot America do you feel
like we ought to be asked to deny
ourselves to feed a people that has
caused so much desolation on earth
and caused so many million tons of
food to be destroyed that others
mlgh,t starve? Is It justice that we
have to feed them? We have made
every sacrifice that we have been
asked to do and done it willingly to
feed and clothe nations made home
less and hungry by the German men
and -women. We hav gone without
flour, done without meat and sugar,
given our dollars in billions, to crush
the tyrants of militarism.
Now that -we have drawn their
fangs they 'come crouching to our
feet whining for help. Again I ask
Can we women of America in Jus
tice to our American manhood that
bas been tortured and slain to sat-
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VILLRETURNVHEN
TREATY IS SIGHED
Sinnott Secures Information About
Oregon IJoys Now at Camp Meade
Seasoned Soldiers
Washington, Nov. 20. Congress
man Sinnott this morning, on his re
turn from New York, called at tbe
war department to secure definite
information as to plans for 'the re
turn of tbe Oregon troops now at
Camp Meade, near Washington, to
their homes In the west. The gen
eral staff officers advised him that
steps were being taken to arrange
for their demobilization, but that
the actual departure for their
homes would probably not be order
ed until after the peace trea.tr bad
actually been signed by all the par
ties thereto.
Oregon troops are now scattered
through several . units at Camp
Meade. The men are well and, like
all the troops, are disappointed that
they did not get a chance to "lick
the kaiser" on German soil, but thev
are taking the matter philosophical
ly while watting for the welcome or
der to resume the tasks of peace In
the various sections of Oregon.
HUN INSURANCE AGENCIES
IN U. S. ARE TAKEN OVER
New York. Nor. 20. Treasurr li
censes) permitting German-controlled
Insurance companies to continue In
operation trader their original man
agements for the purposes of liqui
dation bare been revoked and the
companies bare been taken over for
liquidation by A. .Mitchell Farmer.
alien property custodian, Mr. Pal
mer announced here today. Taking
over of the companies was authoriz
ed by President Wilson in an order
dated November 12.
NETS $1,000,000
New York, Nov. 20. The Ameri
can public had given iioro than
$150 000,000 to the. United War
Work fund when overnight returns
were checked up at na3or.nl head
quarters here last night This rep
resented almost 80 tier cent of the
drive's original goal $170,500,000
and prompted managers of the
campaign to predict that the $200,-
000,000 mark would be passed be
fore the closing hour at midnight to
night.
London, Nov. 20 In any question
of provisioning Germany, England
will be obliged to take into account
the conditions under which British
prisoners in Germany are being re
leased.' and unless the cruel treat
ment they are receiving Is discon
tinned, England, in a wireless mes
sage, warns Germany of the conse
quences. CLAIM THE DUTCH ARE
Paris, Nov. 20. It appears to be
a tact, says the TempB, that Ger
man troops returning to Germany
from Belgium crossed ' the Dutch
province of Llmburg and that they
Daased the frontier with rhn aaniv.
tloi of the Holland authorities.
This free passage ot Dutch terri
tory granted to one of the bellfger-1
ents, the newspaper contends, con
stitutes a precedent ot which the
other belligerent powers would be
I justified in taking advantage.
WHOLE NUMBER 2820. -
ALLIED I ; LI L E R S
ML IE! FOR
GREAT PARADE
IXCLIDE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
ITALY, BELGIUM, SERBIA,'
PRES. WILSON, JAP PRINCE
TO BE GREATEST IN HiSTOBY
The President and Delegates Will Be
CoBroyed to Europe by Dread
naughts and Destroyers
Paris, Nor. 20. When allied
troops march under the arch of tri
umph at the close of the war, allied
sovereigns and chief magistrates
will be present, says the Matin.
It is understood that the kings of
England, Italy, Belgium and Serbia,
Prince Alexander of Greece, Presi
dent Wilson of the United States, a
Japanese royal prince, representing
the mikado, and official representa
tive ot China, Portugal, Roumairla
and the South American republics
will be present. ' . v ' .'
It Is said that each ally will be
represented by a crack regiment
which bas fought In tbe most notable
battles ot the war.
London, Nov.. 20. Plana tor the
approaching peace conference were
discussed prominently by some of
the morning newspapers, and accord
ing to the Dally Express, arrange
ments are nearing completion. '
Washington, Nor. 20. President
Wilson and the American delegation
will go to Europe on a big army
transport,, convoyed by a dread
naught and a flotilla of destroyers.
SUBSCRIPTION OP FOURTH
LOAN NEAR 97,000,000,000
Washington, Nor. 20. Total sub
scription to the Fourth Liberty loan
was $6,989,047,000, the treasury de
partment announced today after fi
nal tabulations bad been completed.
The over subscription of $989,047,
000 was 16.48 per cent.
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New York, Nor. 20. Roy How
ard, president ot the United Press
news service, who has returned
from Washington after conferring
with Secretary Daniels, ' issued a
lengthy statement in which he '
blames Admiral Wilson tor the fake
report that the armistice had been
signed. He says: "Were the same
identical proposition presented- to
morrow, we would act exactly as on
November 7," and adds that all the
army and navy bases- on the French
coast celebrated the same report.
Wasblngton, Nov. 20. Secretary
Daniels read Howard's explanation'
blaming Admiral Wilson, then said:
"I authorized no statement of How
ard's conference with me. . In fact
I didnt understand that he Intend
ed to make any."
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ASKED AS A PROTEST
Seattle, Wash., Nor. 20. Tbe
Metal Trades council has telegraph
ed the 'American Federation of La
bor, asking for a nation-wide strike
as a protest against the execution ot
Thomas J. Mooney. The Metal
Trades council will also ask the
British labor leaders to call a strike
in England and Canada.