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BIER WITS
REGULAR ARMY
OF 500,000
WOIIJ) I't'lM'HAHK ARMY CAN.
TONMKNTH AND HOLD Til KM
FOR TRAINING Of ARTKIW
ENLISTMENT TO BE VOLUNTARY
ltenlt'U Una Akid for lix-rawe In
Navy IVmonnet of tt.1,0OO Men
for Oiio Year
Wellington, Jan. 3. Secretary
Baker say a bill authorizing a regu
lar army of 500,000 men to be ralaod
by voluntary enlistment would be
submitted to congress. Tho eecre
tary believes that the army canton
ment ahould be purchased and held
for training renters of the nation's
army.
Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary
Daniels has asked the house naval
committee to provide for a tempor
ary Increase In the naval personnel
of 260.000 men for the year begin
ning next July, leaving the question
of a permanent peace-time person
nel to be determined later. He also
ought authority to transfer 1,000
officers among the reserve force to
the permanent naval establishment.
Mr. Daniels also asked a provision
making Permanent the war time pay
Increases for enlisted men. This
would sjvw Inrnmaea of $8 to 913
month over the pre-war scale, mak
ing the pay range from $38 to 151
v month.
MONTANAsfETHAS
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Dillon, Mont., Jan. 2. That the
disappearance of the range and the
encroachments of the small farmer
have not entirety wiped out the
(Teat estates of the plonoer cattle
kings wss made plain here when the
great ranch of the Diamond O, an
outfit operating In Beaverhead coun
ty, was sold for $225,000. The es
tate comprises In all 11,000 acres
under fence.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallls, Jan. 3. Results of rodonl
campaigns conducted In 16 Oregon
. counties under tho direction of the
agricultural agents hnvo been com
piled and show that 7,083 formers
cooperated In placing poison for
equlrrcls on 709,600 acres of private
land and public domain, .using ap
proximately 30 tons of poison and
saving crops estimated at $646,550.
Right counties engaged in mole ex
termination campaigns. The annual
v report of Paul V. Marls, county agont
loader, shows that the number of
pelts pooled by agents was 11,450
Those brought $3,073 and saved
$10,965 In crops.
4 GOVERNOR DOlllTS IIIIVKH' 4
-f TO lOHTPONE HUSSION 4
Salem, Ore., Jan. 8. Discus- 4
.
4 sing the rumors that the loglB- 4
flature may be postponed due to 4
4 Influenza, Governor Withy- 4
4- combe said that' If the board of 4
4 health ordered It he would back -4'
4 up the board, hut stated that he 4
4 believes the postponement will 4
-4 be unnecessary. He doubts his 4
4- authority to postpone the ses- 4
4 Ion. 'The legislature might 4
4 have to meet and then adjourn. 4
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ftOO Officers and 10,000 Mm From
Oregon, Washington, Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming
Washington, Jan. 3. Practically
the entire 4 1st division, the "Sun
set," Is Included In the list of units
announced by the war department
for early convoy home. '
Tbero will be more than 500 of
ficers and 16,000 men of the Sunset
division, comprising troops from
Montana, Oregon, Washington, Ida
ho and Wyoming ordered home
The 162nd infantry, "Third Ore
gon." loss the second battalion, la In
cluded. '
HTfMKXT IM.N FIND AIDS
MANY AT THK O. A. C.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallls, Jan. 3. That hundreds of
men and women 568 have been
aided by the student loan fund of
the collage is shown by W. M. At-
wood, chairman and treasurer, In a
report Just completed. Loans In the
sum of $20,939.65 have been made
since the establishment of the fund
In 1911, or an average of $36.86
per student. Seventy-five men and
30 women now hold loana amount
ing to $3,735.03.
18.000 SOLDIERS ARE
SAVED FROMTRANSPORT
Fire Island. Jan. 3. 2:06 n. m
Eighteen hundred soldiers have been
removed from the transport North
ern Pacific.
New York, Jan. 3. Information
that approximately 1,000 troops, in
cluding some of the wounded, have
been removed from the transport
Northern Pacific was received by
navy officials here today. Lees than
1,500 are loft on board. The work
of removing them by small boats and
breeches buoy is progressing favor
ably.
The surf Is breaking higher over
the transport than it was yesterday,
despite oil put on the water. There
Is a heavy rain falling.
Fire Island, Jan. 8. A pontoon
bridge may be constructed to the
transport Northern Pacific.
lOIilSII ARMY OF 30,000
IS MARCHING ON BERLIN
Copenhagen. Jan. 3. A Polish
army of 30,000 men la marching on
Berlin, according to dispatches re
ceived here quoting rumors at the
German capital.
Gustave Noske, member of the
Ebort cabinet, in charge of military
affaire, Is said to have ordered tho
fifth German division to meet the
Poles.
MUST ALL TALK NICE
10 AN AMERICAN GIRL
Helona, Mont., Jan. 3. When the
poace conforence opens and Pros!
dont Wilson, or David Lloyd George
or.iPremlor Clemeiueau or the Ak
ound of Swat or tho grand vlaslor ot
Guam doslres to call somebody about
something on the house telephone In
tho palace of Versailles, ho or
they will have to be very polite to
a pretty llttlo girl from Helona, Mon
tana, IT. S. A.
For the head central at the Ver
sallies palace, during the conference
will be MIbs Merle Bgan of this city.
, Miss Egan volunteered early as
n oxchnnge export. She was a tele
phone girl here. Her knowledge of
French stood her In good stead and
she has been for some weeks in the
central headquarters In Paris, at
tending to the calls of the peace
conferees. Word now comes that
she lias been appointed chief opera
tor at Versailles during the meetings
there,
DIVSI
ILL RETURN HOME
OHANT8 PAHS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919.
STRIKE TIES
NKW YORK, BOSTON AMI PHILA
DELPHIA EM II A HOOKS FOOD
STIFFS OIT-UOIND
PIERS CROWDED WITH GOODS
Chief Cause Are Spreading Strike
of Freight Handlers and Placing
of ShlMi In Dry Dock
New York, Jan. 8. Shipment of
all classes of freight, particularly
foodstuffs intended for the American
troops abroad and Europe's starving
people, were embargoed from other
parts of the country through the
ports of Boston, Philadelphia and
New York for export by order of the
federal food administration. Accu
mulations on the piers is so great
that It Is impossible to handle any
more stuff.
The chief cause are the strike of
the freight handlers, which Is
spreading, and the disposition of
owners to put vessels In dry dock
when the war strain relapsed, and
the decrease of labor due to the hol
iday. Washington, Jan. 3. Railroad ad
ministration officials said that the
embargo was. caused by local con
gested ' condition which might be
remedied within a week and ought
not to Interfere with the overseas
movement of supplies tor the Ameri
can troops and civlalian relief.
The embargo was declared by the
freight traffic ' committee of the
North Atlantic ports on the sugges
tion of the food administration that
supplies for abroad be routed
through ports outside the congested
sone.
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Paris, Jan. 8. Four million idle
soldiers have been super-Imposed
upon a labor problem that already
had been deeply distressing Ger
many. The kaiser and his crowd left
a fine industrial and financial mess
for "My People."
Famine's shadow falls upon a
third of the population, while the
great plants recently engaged in
making the devices of trlghtfulness
now are contemplating throwing out
thousands of workmen.
The people who have contributed
many millions to the war loans are
wondering where the government
will get the money to make good.
The wealthier classes and those con
scienceless members of the old mili
taristic crowd are standing sullenly
aloof watching the workers, soldiers
and socialists sotting up an amateur
government in the seats of the
mighty.
The Bolshevlkl encourage strikes
and stand ready to supply arms to
the strikers at the same timo preach'
Ing the gospel of property contlaca
tiou, on the theory that what a man
wants is his, and therefore why not
break Into anyfconvenlont store and
help himself.
AMERICAN SOLDI Kits ARE
INSURED FOR 9:18,000,000,000
Washington, Juh. 3. Twenty-six
tons of insurance records from the
American Expeditionary Force were
rocelved today by the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance.
They represent $1,600,000,000 of
government insurance written on
American soldiers overseas and will
bring the total insurance written by
the bureau to more than $38,000,
000,000. . .
UP FOODSTUFFS
FOR STARVING
MILLION MORE
MEN RELEASED
IN FEW WEEKS
SECRETARY IIAKEH SAYS 700,000
HAVE ISEEN DISCHARGED
SINCE ARMISTICE
EUROPEAN STATUS UNCERTAIN
Senate .Military Committee Reject
Baker IlecomhiendiUion Would
Take Power From War Board
Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary of
War Baker told the house military
committee that no decision ha been
reached by the war department on
the. question of universal military
service.
When asked whether it would be
necessary ,to keep a large force of
soldiers in Europe for at least two
years, Secretary Baker aald: "We
hope that Is not true, although we
were planning on It."
Seven hundred thousand have
been discharged since the armistice
was signed, and a million more will
be discharged within five weeks
more
Washington, Jan. 3. The senate
military committee unanimously re
jected Secretary Baker' recommen
dation for legislation to validate In
formal war contracts. . The commit
tee would legalize the contracts, but
place the adjustment In the hands of
non-interested a commission Instead'
of the war department
THE IMPERIAL PALACE
SUFFERS GREAT LOSS
Berlin, Jan. 3. The damage to
the Imperial palace in Berlin during
the recent excesses, by theft or van
dalism, Is estimated to exceed $1,-
500,000. Five hundred person im
plicated In the plundering which is
said to have been going on for the
past six weeks, have been apprehend
ed and much of the stolen property
recovered.
The former emperor's warden
succeeded In getting the bulk of the
Imperial art treasures to a place of
safety after the flight of the emper
or. The wardrobes of the former
emperor and his wife were almost en
tirely denuded of their contents. In
one of the former imperial dressing
rooms the old uniform of a soldier
was found. Its owner had exchanged
nis untrorm for imperial raiment and
disappeared.
GERMANY IS NOW OUT
OF THE AIR F
London, Jan, 3. For the allies to
take 2,000 airplanes from Germany,
in accordance with the terms of the
armlBtlce, means militarily crippling
Germany lu the air beyond hope of
early recovery, while immensely ad
ding to the aerial strength of the al
lies, says an aviation expert. This
Is emphasized, '.he says, by the fact
that In five months of tho heaviest
air righting of the war, Germany lost
In aerial combat with the British
alone something like 2,700 machines.
To this total must be added the des
truction wrought by the French and
American air services.
The expert asserts that for several
months before the armistice, Ger
many's capacity for producing air
planes was unequal to the task of re
placing her Immense losses. This,
he adds, was strikingly Illustrated by
the almost complete failure ot her
air arm during the final and most
critical phase of the war. '
HINGING THE MEN
U PROBLEM
Hurley Say It Will Be Six Month
Before France and England Will
Need Raw Material
London, Dec. 5. (Correspondence
ot the Associated Press.) There
will be no shortage of cargo tonnage
for supplying world need during the
first halt of It IS In the opinion of
Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the
United State Shipping Board. It Is
passenger apace for transporting
troop home that la occupying atten
tion of the allied shipping control
lers. No nation can have as much
of that a It want now.
After conferring with industrial
and ahipping heads in England and
France and viewing a large part of
the battle area ot France and Bel
gium, Mr. Hurley stated that It
would take at least six months, pos
sibly more, for France and England
to rehabilitate their Industrie to
the point where large amount ot
raw material would be needed.
It is pointed out that it would be
useless to send Industrial machinery
and raw materials to France until
her destroyed factory buildings are
made ready to receive them..
Almost the entire British indus
trial system now Is a huge munitions
production machine virtually Idle.
Until It Is transformed to its pre
war state raw materials would be a
burden. It will be necessary to im
port some machinery for the trans
formation but not enough seriously
to tax cargo space for the next seven
months, Mr. Hurley believes.
. The 32 German passenger vessels
in German ports have been the cen
ter ot most ot the allied shipping
discussions on this side for weeks.
Americans want all ot them they can
get to send home roughly 1,700,000
men as soon as possible. England
must send home to Canada about
300,000, to Australia about 200,000,
to New Zealand 75,000 or more and
bringing to England thousands from
Mesopotamia, Palestine, and other
places. Obviously the American
problem is the greatest and it Is un
derstood, that, In pressing for ships.
Americans generally have Insisted
that the United State, with less than
two years of war, is in a better posi
tion to assimilate its returning men
than la England whose Industrial
conditions have been more disrupted.
With the rapid Increase in Amer
ican tonnage It is expected that more
than 40 per cent ot the American
forces will go home In American
ships. It is the desire ot American
army officers and shipping Interests
that aa many as possible ot the bal
ance be carried home in German pas
senger vessels, thus releasing a large
number ot British bottoms.
It the demands ot Americans,
heard there, that the troops be sent
home as rapidly as they were brought
over becomes insistent it will take
more ships to send them back than
to bring them over. They, were
brought over under the stress' ot ne
cessity and in some instances ships
were loaded to the extent ot dis
comfort. Loss of tonnage caused by
lighter loading however will par
tially be made up by greater speed.
Fast vessels will not be compelled
to conform to convoy speed and the
elimination of ztg-sagglng will save
much time.
'WMJo a sreat many men are be
ing sent home now and the number
will constantly increase It Is not be
lieved the real homeward movement
will be Inaugurated before February
1. Whether then It will be on the
suggested basis of 300,000 a month
depends almost entirely upen dec!
slons of the allied shipping confer
ences which began soon after the
armistice was signed.
V. OF O. TO HAVE R. O. T. C.
Eugene, Ore., Jan. 3. A reserve
officers' training corps will be es
tablished at the University ot Oregon
at the beginning of the next semes
ter, January 6, according to word
received by Colonel Bowen, commandant.
WHOLE Nl'.UIJER 2.V55.
SENATORS IN
WRANGLE OVER
PRES. WILSON
SENATOR LEWIS SAYS PRESI
DENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGA
TION'S TO THE SENATE
Lodge Denies ' Charge and Says
Peace Should Be Made Quickly
to Avoid Difficulties
Washington, Jan. 1. Senator
Lewis, of Illinois, democrat. In a
speech charging tne republicans with
trying to discredit President Wilson
while the latter is abroad, said:
"I Inform the European negotia
tors and the world," he said, "that
there is no law In America, by consti
tution, statute or custom by which
the president is under any obligation
to submit what he Is now doing to
the senate or to any other branch of
the legislative or executive body.
"I Inform the negotiators as I do
all those Interested, that the pres
ent undertakings of the president of
the United (States are aa commander
In chief of the armies. That ha' re
mains such with full power as com
mander in chief until tho roll treaty
or compact of peace has been finally
accepted and peace declared and tho
armies withdrawn as a result of that
acceptance." ,;.y
, Washington, Jan. 5 3. Senator'
Lodge, republlan, ' denied Senator
Lewis' charge that the republicans
were attempting to embaraas the
president and prevent a unity In tho
senate, and said the peace negotia
tions should be completed as quickly
as possible, for the reason that every
day's delay made it more difficult to
make peace with Germany.
OF
Rome, Jan. 3. President Wilson
arrived In Rome today. He was re
ceived by the king and queen and
representatives ot the Italian gov
ernment. An Immense crowd wel
comed him with the greatest ot en
thusiasm. Rome, Jan. 3. From the fron
tier to Rome the Journey of Presi
dent Wilson was like a triumphal
procession. Mountaineers and vll-,
lagers swarmed from the hills and
valleys to the railroad over which
the presidential train passed, to pay
homage to America.
FIVE YEAR CONTROL
Washington, Jan, 3 Director Mc
Adoo, testifying before the senate
Interstate commerce committee, re
cited accomplishments ot the rail
roads under government control and
argued for a five year continuance
ot government operation to provide
a fair test.
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PENITENTIARY PROBE ' 4
4 SATO TO BE ENDED
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4 Salem, Ore.,' Jan. 3. Judge 4
4 Kelly; of the circuit court, held 4
that the Marlon county grand 4
4 Jury's presentments against two
4 penitentiary guards for consplr- 4
4 Ing with a convict for securing
4 his release for remuneration 4
4 did not state the facts constltut-
4- Ing the crime. This end the
4 Investigation, according to the 4
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