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r DAILY EDITION, EES BSPOJ -IDE HffiliUB: .I mim mum enraiiiiw 011 B CAMPAIGN FOR WILL uAIN: HuLU Hr uim"nu UU'LIUIITILM I FOUMEJl. KMI'KKOU. CHARLES POINTS OUT QIIKAT DANGER. NEED AMKHK'A.V ItElP,' NATIONAL COUNCIL IS' ACTIVE JMoajarclilMUi Trying to IncHo IMs bunt by Pronpect of Allied Occu ' patlon IUoU Are Feared f, t Vienna, Nov. 25. Former Emper or Oharlvs, at Echertsau Castle, told , the Associated Press correspondent that, the danger from Bolshovlklsm In Austria la very groat, and aald there la pre suing need for assistance from America and the allies. Zurich, Nov. 25. The counter revolutionary movoment In Austria ia progressing. The national coun ell baa placarded tho street, -warn Ing tho public against It. The mon erchlnts are resorting to all kinds of methods to Incite d 1st runt of the council, and are trying to frighten the people by the prospect of alllod occupation. PARIS WILL BE PLACE OF GREAT! CONF IE Paris. Nov. 25. Conferences of the preliminaries of peace will nrob bly be held la I'arls, Instead of Ver sailles, owing to the superior accom snodatlona In I'arls. Only the formal concluding sessions will bo held at Versailles. HHII'WOKKIOItH gi IT WHEN , ARMISTICE IS SKi.NKI) Portland, Nov. 25. No- sooner tind the armlstlco tonus been signed 'by Qermany than . scores of shlp workors gave up their Positions In local yards and went back to their omo, often In distant cities, ac cording to shipbuilding companies Jiwe. They formed a very small per flht of the , thousands employed In the yarda. , It Is easier to obtain desirable la bor than it was six months ago, it fa said, and employers can to some xtent choose their help. III HAVE HEARING JAN. 6 Waahl>on,,, Nox,; 25. The bear Ins on appeal, of .Eugene V. Debs nd others for violation -of the es pionage aot . has teen set for Janu ary 6, by the supreme, court. PASS TO ,IS Cottage Grove, . Ore., Nov. 25. S. S. Sohell has completed his contract In Pass Creek canyon, upon which ho was employed all summer, ills 8, COO feet completed the road be tween here and Oomstock, except for a mile this side of Divide, which has been held up because of the uncer tainty of the Divide crossing, which has been before .the county court, tho state highway commission and federal authorities for two years. South of Comstock there remains a mile between the Sohell Job and a Job completed as far" as Leona by another contractor. The entire road has, however, been made passable lor the winter. DEBS AND OTHERS.V TOURISTS , Satom,. Ore., Nov.. 24-"I beg to differ with the executive when he say that hit reason that I was ask ed to resign wa that I was extrav agant," says Charles A. Murphy, who has been asked by Governor Wltbycoinbe to resign the position of warden,- at toe state penitentiary. The real reason." he continues, "is that I have never, been amenable to me control of the parole officer, re fused to play the game his war and therefore he baa demanded my offi cial scalp and secured It." Continuing hla comment about Pa role Officer Keller, Captain Murphy says: He (has assumed an open dictator ship, and, though bis boasted con trol over the executive Insofar aa they pertain to prison matters and the paroling of prisoners, baa caus ed discord in the peaceful operation of the Institution. He has also given direct order to employes of the In stitution. Some measure of weight Is given to his boastings by the tact that bis advice and council appear to be accepted by the governor without Investigation as to the truth of fals ity of bis reprosecutions. "By reason of his boasted control he wields a secret but powerful in fluence over combined fear and ha tred among the inmates of the pris on to such an extent as to approach a dictatorship over the term of their service of eentences. If a man did not how his head and bend the knee to the parole officer he was doomed to serve until he died." MINESWEEPERS WILL CLEAR PASSAGE TO KIEL London, Nov. 25. A flotilla of .ulito-swccptrs has loft tho Firth of Fourth to clear the passage to Kiel for the British squadron, which is expected to disarm and intern the remnants of the German navy. CHAMIUCKLAIN WOULD CANCEL WAR DlillT -f Portland, Ore., Nov. 25. Senator Chamberlain, In an ar- . tide in the monthly bulletin. "Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen." siiKKests that the 4- United States cancel the war debt of the allies because the money lent vai used to nav for 4 bread and bullets to heln de- . fend our homes. , , t. 18 MFFKHHXT .IIACK8 REGISTER. FOR SERVICE Honolulu, T. H.j Nov, 8. (By mall) Of the more ' than 41,000 men in the, territory who registered for military, service under the. "18 to 4S" manpower act, approximately 75 per cent are aliens, representing 18 different nationalities, according to statistics complied by Major- M. Gooding Field, in charge of the se lective draft In Hawaii. POPJ5 WANTS JOIt AT THE BIG PEACE CONFERENCE Boston, Nov. 25. In the gather ing of the powers of the world about the -peace table. Pone Benedict "Bure- ly will have a rightful place," Cardi nal O'Connell said In an address be fore the League of Cathollo Womon at the Academy of Notre Dame Sat urday. The cardinal said the pope's terms of ipeace "are In reality prac tically Identical with those which were! finally proposed, at least tenta tively, by the allies." "Prosldent Wilson's 14 article show little practical divergence from those which had already been form ulated by . Benedict v XV.'.' he , cor tlnued. . Agree, That, Political. Powers Docialisls, Soldiers .. asd, Workmen-May he Tasla monnt to Orotkow of Ehert-Haase- Role- Copenhagen,. Nov. 25. An azree- mcqt has been reached .between the Gernian soldiers', and , workmen's council and the, government, it Is of ficially announced In (Berlin. The agreement provldee: First, all political power to be in the bands of the Germans socialist republic and soldiers' and workmen's council. Second, their aim is to defend and develop what baa been accomplished by the revolution and suDoress all counter revolutionary activity. Third, the executive council in Berlin to exercise functions pending election of representatives to the executive council of the German re public. Fourth, the central executive council to appoint and dismiss all members of the various legislative bodies of the republic and of Prussia until the constitution Is established. Appreciation of the quality of the work done by Josephine chanter Am-1 rlcan Bed Crow ha. been acknow - JOSEPHINE RED. CROSS' VINTON'S SUPPORTERS; IS ON JONOR ROLLS ; CLAIM THEYHAVE CINCH lodged by the northwest division , "ulun " "nanw in nbj candl hoadquartera and this ehtwr hidac tor the presidency of the sen- been placed on the honor roll for the department of surgical dressings, hospital garments and also for knit- ting. Chairman O. S. Blanchard has Juat received for Josephine chapter three certificates, one for each of the departments, worded as follows "The American Red Cross. Honor Roll of the Northwestern Division This certifies that the work sent In by the surgical dressings department of '.Josephine connty chapter Is of such high character that In the opin ion of the division superintendent of the department and the Inspector of the Division Warehouse you are en titled to a 4)1 ace on. the surgical dressings roll of honor. E. J. Saun derk, Director Chapter Production.' IRON TRADES COUNCIL: , uou nautili, lOV,. ZD. ACUOn by the Iron Trades Council, opposing the strike on behalf of Thomas J. Mooney and the grand Jury investi gation of Federal Investigator Dens more's report that Mooney'a convic tion was Irregular, were expected developments for today. BOY KILLED IN FRANCE ! Portland, Nov. 25 Corporal Don old IB. McKlmens was killed In ac tion in France, October 15, according to an official .telegram, 1 which was received by his elster, Mrs. P. B. Vanclel, of this city yesterday. . ; Corporal McKlmens Is the son of M. and Mrs. George R. McKlmens. of Mohler, Ore. He enlisted when war was declared as a member of Company B, 162d Infantry. In Mav he was transferred- to Company G, of the 104th United States Infantry. : Corporal McKlmens was a Grants Pass boy, having been born In this city, living here until his Barents removed to Nehalem county about 5 years ago. TO ACT INMOONEY CASE Shall, Remaia WitE Cercan , Fifth, the council tnaet be- con sulted before the cabinet aoDointa as sistant minister. , Sixth, the convention of deputies drawn from the soldiers' and work men's councils to be summoned as oon as possible. Lon Ion, Nor, 25. Newenaners here regard the German agreement as a development of the greatest im portance tantamount to the over throw of the Ebert-Haase combina tion and the adoption of at least theoretically of the existing (Russian system of councils, not dominated by the Bolshevlkl element at present, however. Some of the papers think the step Is a "big blur to Persuade the alllea that the old Germany is defunct Others think the menace is exagger ated to impress the allies with diffi culties. Salem, Nov. 25. Senator A. W. W. " rUaDa' W Senat0r ! ate- declared here yesterday that Vinton now bas 14 republican votes Pledged , and enough . democratic votes. In addition, to assure his elec tlon. "We expect to obtain enough re publican votes to put. him over and will make no authorized announce ment of the names until that time," Senator Orton said. However, with the democrats we now have in camp there are enough, but -we do not wish to depend upon the' organiza tion without a republican majority." Benjamin Sheldon, who was here, from southern Oregon, asserted tht the speakership fight had not been semea yet and stated that ha would he heard from before the vote finally -counted. : El PasoTex., Nov.. 25. Eighty Villa followers set fire to Villa Abu- mada, 8Q miles south of Juarex, af ter having wrecked a railway train by explosives, according to informa tion received here..- tPROH HITS CALIFORNIA HARD San Francisco, Nov. 25. Califor nia Industries representing Invest ments aggregating more than 1224,- oqo.ooo will be wiped out when the national . - prohibition measure be comes effective June 80, 1919. San Francisco alone, will lose more than $1,000,000 annually In revenue In liquor licenses. The Industries af fected include: Wine grape produotlbn, $85,000.- 000; wine making. S65.000.000: brewing and malt industry, $50,000,- 000i-distilling, $400,000; hops, $7, 000,000; saloons, $10,000,000; co operage, $5,000,000; bottles. $2.- 000,000. 1 Five thousand restaurants in the state also will lose liquor selling privileges. SSllage NATIONA ON 1 Mayor of St. Mihlel Says Hons Are Barbarlnns Thanks Americans and Red Cross for Deliverance Jean Jialard, mayor of SL-MihleL France, said recently: "Tell the Am erican people that all of us thank them for delivering us ana feeding us through-, their Red Cross. We thank your men and. your country for delivering us. We will never par don the Germans for what they have done. No German can ever return to Salnt-Mtblel. They are barbarians unfit to meet civilized' people. Our food was obtained entirely through the Spanish asd American Red Cross, otherwise we would have starved, for the Germans supplied none, and would not let tie produce it." . . 4. 4 . U. 8. CASUALTY' LIST xne following casualties are re ported by the commanding general off the American expeditionary forces reported for publication to day: Killed In action Died of wound . Died of accident , 336 141 1 572 Died of disease Wounded severely,. Wounded degree undetermined 95 623 Wounded slightly 1 301 Missing in action Prisoners . . 1T1 21 Total .2,180 Killed In action Frank M. Ogen son, Eugene. Died of disease Frank Mitchell. Garibaldi; Raymond J. Cross. Elgin: George D. Lange, Portland. . - Missing In act!on--TTuxton- H. Beck, Salem. Wounded severely Benjamin W. Heartly, Tualatin. Wounded, degree undetermined George L. Albln, Philomath. 1 Wounded slightly Milton Foster, Harbor. T; KNOCKS EDITOR DOWN San Francisco, Nov. 25. Follow ing an assault upon Editor Fremont Older, of the Sah Francisco Call, by District Attorney Fickert, who knocked Older down, two detectives have be en-assigned :by the chief of police to guard Older, who was prom inent in helping Densmore nt data. , Older issued a atatement-dalming that Judge Henshaw resigned from the eupreme court if-Older , would hot publish stories of the bribery;' - 5 AMERICA? CROSS INTO RHEIXISH PRUSSIA ' TODAY American Army . of : Oconpatlon, Nov: 25. The German frontier -was crossed at several places today .by American signal corps units and am bulance workers. Short trips4 were made into' Rhein- lsh Prhsela.i where the .; inhabitants are reported to' hare shown the Am ericans every, consideration... ALL RA1UO 'STATIONS' MAY i UK CONTROLLED BY NAVY Washington; Nov. 25. Permanent government control of all radio com munication through acquisition and operation by the navy department of all shore wireless- stations in ,the United States used tor commercial purposes Is planned by the adminis tration under a bill now before con gress. ALASKA INDIANS ARE HARD HIT BY THE "FLU" Juneau, Nov. 25. With , natives reported to be dying by the hundreds In various parte of the Alaska coast, arrival 1 of a . corps: of doctors and nurses from Seattle . to fight the Spanish influenza epidemic has been hailed with relief by the territory. The mission is In charge of Dr. Emll Krullsh, of the publlo health service. GEN. PMIi'lG SOX OF Bt'CKEYE STATE START "PERSHTXQ REPUBLICAN CLCB" r i FOR THE 1BS0CAMPAIGX KEWS HQ SUEPBiSE TO MASY Pershing Is West Point'' Gradaate and Ha Brilliant Military Career. , McAdoo Possible Opponent I Columbus, Ohio, Nor. 25. A' campaign for the election of General John J.. Pershing , to the presidency la 1920 -was formally launched today by application to the secretary of state for Incorporation of a -"Per shing 'Republican League." The launching of the Pershing campaign was not a surprise to ' many. Pershing has never been a 'grand-etander," in any sense of the word. He -was born In Missouri and is 58 years of age, having graduated1 from West Point In 1888 and iwas through the Apache camoain , wltlw General Miles. General Pershing . won most of his early fame dnrlng his eight years in the Philippines. and -Mlfl In PVanliA K. It. . . himself an able marshal, second to none, and la Idolized by the Amerl- ' can expeditionary forces under him. From present indications it ap pears that fte- 1920 DresideiitlaJ campaign, -will-be a Prshtng-MAdoe SHIP CONTRACTS ARE Iff Seattle,- Nor.1 25. Several Pueet - Sound shipyard have received tele grams from, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, cancelling contracts for wooaen vessels on which work had not yet begun. Between 20 and 30 vessels have been cancelled. - Portland,' NoV. 25. The wooden shipbuilding yards In" the Portland district have received orders cancel ling contracts by the government oa ships not yet begun. About 25 ships., in the district are believed to be af fected.'- KfttS- Parish Nov. 25. The Bosnhorua. has been" cleared of mines. Allied ' warshipe hare entered the' Black' sea and have -visited various' ports.'1 I,... 1 TAXPAYERS-LEAGUE. I' ' The, Taxpayers' league of -1 Jose-- ' phine county met at the courthouse . Saturday afternoon to talk over the matter of the fixing of the tax' ratio by the state tax commission. This ' county's ratio last year-was placed at 70 per cent, but only 60 per cent for 1918. The taxpayers feel that -an injustice has' been done Jose phine county and'1 at' the"' league meeting Saturday Judge C. G. Gil-" lette and -Eclns Pollock, county as' sessor, were appointed as a commit tee to appear before the state tax commission at Salem to get the mat ter' more satisfactorily adiuated ' They will leave-for Salem' this even-' Ing.'. Saturday's meeting 1 was well represented by many of the leading taxpayers of the county. CANCELLED '