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' (WlUflfflffi JIXBfi ; fll ill II - P Jii'ir-l 1J J : Jj? , WHOMS StlTS liM' LIME BOARD WILL IJAPS ASK FOR ALLUWo m m OFFICE OPENS GETTING INTO i FREE LABOR o. irease HIGHER HATKH TO XXHlMERH GOES INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 1 FOR 200 FEET MINIMUM Ini-mmo In Oil Price and Freight lti Imler Fcd-ntl Order Given ItoikMiii fur Advance Cruuti ruiw will pay more for lt gus as a result of tho dclnlon of the publio service eomiulmtlon acting on the recent application of the Oregon Gas ji Eloi trie company for an In crease In rut on. The Increase Is nude elToi'tlve After April 1, 1919. In April, 191 H, tho company ap plied for an incrcaiwd rntu and from July 1 the eoiniiilnalon allowed un Incrwuo of 50 conU por 1,000 foet, a 33 13 incroase over the prevloui rate. The present Increased rate varies from 0 por cent on 5,000 cubic foe to about 10 por cunt to the conmimur of only 260 feet. The schedule of monthly rate as prescribed by the commitmlon's order taking effect July 1, 1918, waa: First 6.000 foet at $3.10 per 1,000 Noxt 7,500 feet at $1.70 for 1,000 Next 32,500 foot at $1.40 per 1,000 Excess of 45,000 tt $1.35, per 1,000 Minimum charge, $1. Discount of 10c per 1,000 feet If paid on of before 10th of month. ' . The schedule for monthly rates as prescrliwd by the commission's order taking effect April 1, 1919. Is as fol lows: First 200 feet or less. $1.05. Next 4,800 feet at $2.10 per 1.000. A11 over 5.000 root, $1.75 pur 1,000. Discount of 5 per rent allowed on bills paid within 10 days from date. The new rate allows an Increase of about U per cent to the constimor of 5,000 feet of gas. Under the pre vious rato.the minimum was 250 cu bic foot for $1 not. The new rate minimum Is 200 feet for $1. The showing of tho gas company at the hearing before the commis sion was considered sufficient cause for an Increase Inasmuch ns the price of oil has greatly Incroused, as well ns the freight rntus, and tho fart that the company has not paid operating expenses. Tho company asked for an Increase or the privi lege of shutting down the plant. The fact, however, remains that; whon the first IncreaHe In rate was made the number of consumers drop ped and the average amount con sumed dropped to such an extend that the total Income of the company so far as the Grunts Tass plant Is concerned, was reduced. It Is prob able that the present Increase In rates will hove the some effect. Ait the hearing the opinion was freely expressed that If the company would apply ordinary business prin ciples and make an attempt to In crease their business here it could be done easily. Instances were re lated where application for gas had been made but no service could be secured, and that absolutely no ef fort whatever bad been made to In crease the number of consumers. During the past month, In view of the possible Increase' In rates, the company bas lost customers, and It Is probable that others will dlscon . tlnue as the prince in or en bps. - It seems reasonable to predict that the company' will have to ask for a tl'l further Increase In rates unless they exert some effort to secure ad ditional customers. . The same rates will apply to the plant at Medford which supplies both Medford and Ashland and interme diate territory. , 1 Salem, Ore.. Mar. 27. The nuhll- service commission has "granted aiil 'increase in gas rates to tho Oregon Gas A Electric company .which Is (Continued on page S.) Whole of i:j.t In Hlnlc of Inxurrw Hon mid Troops Oiled I'imhi to Save Cunriil- From Muuncre London, Mar. 27. Defending tho military service bill In the house of lords Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary of war, declared that the whole of Egypt was In virtual stat of Insurrection. The position was so dangerous, ho added, that the government had to appeal to men on the point of demobilization to return and save tholr comrades from being murdered. This declaration by the war secre tary was (brought about by remarks of Blr Donald MacLoan, who had said that Croat Britain was grossly 6ver-lnsured with respoct to the strength of tho army. Mr. Churchill askod It he followed what was taking place In almost every country at the present time and It so, bow could he say that there was over-Insurance In keeping 900,000 men for every luriHto, including 10 divisions on the Rhine and four divisions tn the home country, less thsn the number kept here In the peaceful dsys before the war. Only three days ago, continued the secretary, a situation developed In Egypt whieh was of very far reaching danger and which made It necessary to aipcal to the men who were collected at various jtorts for demobilisation to go bock and belp their comrades and save them from being murdered. The whole of Egypt was virtually In a state of Insurrection. SAN FRANCISCO PLANS San Francisco,, Mar. 27. To re lieve unemployment caused by ' the dlsqharge of returning soldiers and sailors, the city of San Francisco has ordored that these men be -given the preference In employment on the $14,000,000 projects that the city has on Us program for this year, and If there Is a ready market for bonds, 4,000 men will be given work on one undertaking alone and 2,000 or more on the others. The outstanding Improvement w'ill be tbe construction of Important units of tho'llotch-lletchy water sys tem, which, Is being built to bring water from the high Sierras to the bay region. This calls for the em ployment of 4,000 men this year and the expenditure of $10,000,000. In addition the building of $3,000,000 worth of schools and $1,000,000 in street work has been called for. The great Hetch-Hetchy project calls for the construction of a $4, 0Q0.000 dam, a $1,000 power house, 86 miles of tunneling and a 68-mlle pipe line. It will require five years and the expenditure of $40,000,000 more to .complete the enterprise. The city Is striving hard tor a market for its bonds In the hope that the 4,000 men will be put to -work In the next few months. ' UTAH'S SOLONS STOP Salt Lake City, Mar. 27. Utah's 13th biennial legislature, due to adjourn Thursday, March 13, the doth day, did not complete Hs .work until March 17 four days after the speakers in both houses had stopped the clocks. In the last few days of the session virtually every Important measure Introduced was either pass ed or "killed" and on the final day actually 84 days, but due to ' the "WBMft.of the clocRs only one day - .a mas,' b'H were acted -upon, the budget measure making appro priations tor the next blennlam not being acted upon until the final hour. . N NCTYTIlPAV THF FIRHTINR BANNER CXFl'HLEI) CAMJXG FOK RECItl'ITS FOR THE CNIT El) STATES ARMY ONE TO 3 YEAH ENLISTMENTS DiKcluu-grd Soldiers Who Hare Ji'ot Received $00 llonus Should Make Application Immediately , Two large flags were unfurled to day by Paul J. Bauer at the recruit ing office on Sixth street. One was Old Glory and the other Ibore the words: "Men wanted for the United States Army." Recruiting Officer nauer will be In charge or the of fice and he states that he Is now ready to receive recruits. Enlist- menta are open tor all branches of the service of tho army. Men of previous service In eatber the army, navy or marine corps can enlist for one year or three years, as they de sire. There will be no more army reserve. Soldiers who have not received meir sou oonus irom the govern ment must take the matter up -with the local recruiting office which dis trict consists of six counties, Jose phine, Douglas, Curry, Jackson. Lake and Klamath. Discharge turners must be shown so the blank forms can be properly filled out and sworn to. Soldiers who have returned should get In touch with the recruit ing office at once In order to get tholr claims Immediately attended to. Montreal, Mar. 27. Fifty per cent of the inhabitants of northern Lab rador perished during the winter from an epldemlo of influenza, small pox and measles, according to dis patches to the Montreal Star sent by mall to Battle Harbor and by -wire less to St. John, N. F. ,1TAN in HAVING MANY STATE BILLS PASSED Holona, Mont.; Ma:-. 27. "What was women's work In the 16th legis lative aHeoniWy?" Mrs.. Maggie Smith Hathaway, representative in the lower house, was asked by the Asso ciated Press. Mrs. Hathaway and Representative Emma In galls, of Flathead, county were the only wom en In the assembly. ' Mrs. Hathaway won laurels as a parliamentarian and presided several times over the committee ' of the whole bouse. . . " ' "Women's work was . two-fold," she replied. "We prevented passage of bad blllB, . as well as repeal of good bills, and we put some good bills over. , ... "I began to feel like a detective, before the session ended,, for Mrs. Ingalls and I were ever on the alert tnr 1 4vlr ara' In InnnnAnt 1w1r li lair. ror. joKers' in innocent looking leg- tslation. . . uniforms, met due response from the "For Instance, I dls-vored an act national body, to repeal the age-of-consent law. I: The women also secured more killed it, quickly. There was an-Jfunds for the state school for de other vicious measure deatlng with ' fectlves at Boulder. Juvenlle delinquency, that. ould Mrs. Hathaway announced her in have consigned Juveniles to common tentlon of carrying the fight on pro Jails, perhaps long terms r while ( hlbltlon into the state and will read, awaiting law. We also had that axed, in her speech, she eays the names "My great task." Mrs. Hathaway of all members of the assembly who continued, "was-to prevent pernt- voted for the Lewis bill. dous amendment of the mother's MrB. Hathaway has been mention pension act, which I wrote four.ed as: the democratic candidate for years ago. Amendments as offered , congress in 1920 but has not form would practically have nullified the ally entered the Weld. She Is law. We won this fight, too." wealthy in her own right, a widow, Mrs. Hathaway spoke of the prohl-.and manages a large ranch on which bUion act passed by this assembly. wnen the measure was introduced , In the upper house by Senator Lewis," she said, "it was all right. But the senate extracted some of ws i lllb I IUIIIIMUI FRENCH GENERAL HECAIXED TO CXDERTAKE MISSION IXItp GAUD TO Ill'XGAItY 'RED" PROPAGANDA WINK lUwuarnbla proclaims Republic and Ik-Kin 0XTatlim Aguliuit Itou-, mains, W ho Fall Hack London, Mar. 27. Italian troops have occupied the town of Pressburg, 35 miles southeast of Vienna on the Hungarian side of the border, ac cording to a Budapest dispatch. Paris.'Mar. 27. General Magnun one or the leading officers of the French army, ylll be recalled from his command at Meyence, news pa pers announce, to undertake a mis sion, the character and scope of which "Is Indicated plainly by events In Hungary." , London. Mar. 27. A republic has been proclaimed in Bessarabia and military operation have been order ed against the Roumanian army, part of -which has been forced to fall back, it is reported here. The movement Is evidently being engineered by the Bolsbevlkl. BROWN SATS CANNOT INVOKE REFEREXDVM Salem, Ore., Mar. 27. Attorney General Brown holds that the refer endum cannot be Invoked in Oregon on . the Joint resolution of the last legislature ratifying the national prohibition amendment and declined to prepare a title for the ballot. He declared the referendum can be ap plied only to the law-making power of the legislature and that bills act may be referred, but not resolutions. WINSFAHE BY its teeth and by the time the house got through with the law, it ceased to be a prohibition measure. "As passed, K is purely and simply a liquor man's protective act. It repeals the best feature of the An nln prohibition act passed two years ago, and even in a measure repeals the prohibition amendment, as sanc tioned by the people, on referen dum." . Mrs. Ingalls' vocational school bill was passed with an appropriation. Mrs. Hathaway put through her bill for Americanization of the schools and her measure tor equal pay tor women in men's work. xThe latter is said to be the first law of the sort put on statute (books in America. ' Mrs. Hathaway's memorial to con- gross, asking that the returned de-l0f J . A.. ti j a- a fenders be allowed to keep their ,it Is bere boast that not a man is employed. She comes from the same section of the state that sent Miss Jeanette Rankin to congress In 1917, as a republican. Too Many Convicts Escape 1iax. Ilowurd, Who Made Getaway Veiir Ago, Taken in California Salem, Ore., Mar. 27. The lime board has decided to resume opera tions with free labor until orders are cleared up. Chairman Cordley and Benton Bowers, mining experts of the board, are to run the Gold Hill plant. Salem, Ore., Mar. 27. Chas. How ard, alias Ed. Barrett, convict, who escaped from the train on tbe way from Gold HI1 lto Salem a year ago, has been captured In Auburn, Cal. 119 was serving a term at the state penitentiary of from two to 20 years for forgery in Lane county. Washington, Mar. 27, The Cze- cno-siovak mission has received "an official denial of the report that President Maaaryk has resigned. SERVICE MEDAL GIVEN TO LfEUTENANT UEE Tacoma, Wash., Mar. 27. Major General Leitcb presented the first distinguished service cross awarded at Camp Lewis to Lieutenant Arthur T. Lee, of Newberg, Ore., who was wounded by a machine gun bullet in the knee while with the 364th in fan try of the 91st division. Lee was sent home ahead of his regiment due to his wounds. He Joined the divi ston from Walla Walla, tout bis fath er, who Is a minister, moved to Ore gon since that time. OF WILSON'S TERMS Paris, Mar. - 27. Germany is de termined to stick close to the Wilson program In making peace with the allies, Count von Bernstoff, former German ambassador to the United States, declared In an interview giv en the Berlin correspondent of the Temp. . "The armistice of November II," said County von Bernstorff, "was signed when all the powers interest ed had accepted the program of peace proposed by President Wilson. Germany is determined to keep to this agreement, which history will regard, in a way, as the conclusion of a preliminary peace. . She herself Is ready to submit to the conditions arising from It and she expects all the interested powers to do the same. If these essential conditions of tbe Wilson program should be violated or neglected,-and apparently 4f con ditions are imposed which go be yond the program, the German dele gates, unfortunately find themselves tn a position of say. non-possumus." "Germanv'a attitude on indemni ties," continued the former a'mbassa don "Is fixed by her acceptance of the note of November 6, 1918, where by reparation Is accorded for all damage done to the civil populations France and Belgium by German I . aggression. This note admits of the payment of no other indemni ties." - Asked what the consequences would be of the failure to sign a peace, Count von Bernstorff replied: "I am no prophet, but bolshevlsm would" gain immensely. The liberal world which has seen salvation for humanity In President Wllson.'s prin ciples, would be terribly disappoint ed If peace were not made. Even the higher classes would be driven to despair. Remember that since the middle ages no idea has aroused the world's enthusiasm like a league of nations based on peace and Justice, and who will dare to cause the Idea to miscarry at the first testT I bope that a league of all the nations of the world will make common cause against the spectre of bolshevlsm and triumph over it." EQUALITY OF ALL THE RACES AISTRALLAXS OBJECT AXD IT IS TICKLISH JOB FOR WTLSOX AND PREMIERS TAFT'S ADVICE IS SOUGH1" ' ' , , Tumulty Asserts That Any Sugges tion From Former President ' WIH Be Welcomed by Wilson r Pari, Mar. 27. The Japanese delegation continues to press for an amendment favoring the principle of equality of races. The original Jap anese proposal was modified several ' times until It now calls for "recog aition for equality of nations and Just treatment of all their nationals." It is believed that the Americans think the amendment will not be ob jectionable but tbe Australians ob ject, 1 r Paris, Mar. 27. President Wil son's study is again the center of in tense Interest as he and the premier have resumed their efforts to settle questions standlngin the. way of peace. No event of the peace con ference has excited so much interest and discussion as this taking of af fairs into their own bands by the president and premiers. Criticism and sarcasm is still evi dent in some quarters (but the pre-, vailing view In conference circles is that the time has arrived for a strong policy. The league of nations commission completed their consideration of the covenant last night and it has been referred to the drafting committee. St. Louis, Mar. 27. The following message from President Wilson at Paris was read at a session of the national American women's suffrage association here today: "Best wishes for the convention. I earnestly hone tho suffrage amendment will be adopted." Washington, Mar. 27. The text to the proposed amendment to the league of nations covenant suggest ed by William Howard Taft, whieh was considered yesterday by Presi dent Wilson and the premiers, was Bent from the White House a few days ago after Mr. Taft had been as sured by Secretary Tumulty that any suggestion from him would be wel comed by the president. Taft made several suggestions, one dealing with the Monroe Doctrine. . TRIES TO STARTLE THE PUBLIC Chicago, Mar. 27. Declaring that there is only one league of nations constitution before the world and that people must accept this or nothing. Senator G. M. Hitchcock ot Nebraska, formerly chairman of the committee on foreign relations, paus ed a moment In his speech to the As sociation of Commerce today and added: -. "I am for It." "It the league is not formed the peace signed at Paris will be only a truce." said Senator Hitchcock. and every nation will resume war preparations on a bigger scale than ever. Taxes in the United States to cover these preparations would run into hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Most of this burden would be in the form of taxes on Incomes and business profits. "PubUo sentiment probably will never again submit to the old prac tice of raising the bulk of the reve nue by taxes on the consumer, no matter bow they are levied. This may be a 'bold blooded way of looking at the question but I wish to make it 'plain that the Paris conference Is not entirely academic but affects us all tremendously." - ,