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Men still held In the spruce produc
tion division at Vancouver barracks
will practically all bo discharged by
February 10.
The Presbyterian church In the Uni
ted States has provided In Its 1919
budget for a fund of a million dollars
to Increaso salaries of pastors not
considered adequately paid.
The Nebraska stato senate, by un
animous vote, adopts a joint resolu
tion momorallzlng tho United States
senate to submit tho question of na
tional equal suffrage to the states for
approval.
Secretary Baker bus submitted to
Chairman Dent of tho house military
committee a bill to authorize purchase
of land In France for a military ceme
tery, to bo designated "The American
Field of Honor."
Orders directing MaJorGeneral
Leonard "Wood, now commanding
Camp Funston, Kansas, to proceed to
Chicago and take command of the cen
tral department, were Issued by the
JWar department.
Princess Charlotte, sister of Grand
Duchess Marie, of Luxemburg, has
been chosen as the Iatter's successor
by the chamber of deputies, which
met Immediately after tho abdication
of the grand duchess was announced.
Bob Griffith, veteran Alaska "mush
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er," with a heavily armed guard and liquor as hundreds of millions of dol
two dog teams, arrived lu Seward, lars derived from internal revenue will
Alaska, Thursday with $400,000 worth i have to be obtained from other
of gold dust from the Idltarod for ship
ment to Seattle on the steamer Ala
meda. Crews of the German mine sweep
ers, according to the Cologne Volks
Zeitung, are refusing to servo unless
they receive Increased pay and newiures adopted since the war began al
schedules calling for sums as high as
100 marks dally, exclusive of the In
surance guarantee.
Despite the ending of tho war, there
will be no letup in the movement to
have women take more Interest in
farming, according to speakers before
the Women's Land Army of America,
which concluded Its first annual con
vention in Philadelphia Thursday.
A violent peasant uprising in the
interior of Russia against the Imposi-
tlon of excessive taxes by tho Bol-
shevlkl and against the "committee
for fighting poverty," which exercise
a tyrannical dictatorship in the vll- i
lages, is reported in a Petrograd dis-1
patch.
vw nn. ,r vvn t Jmvn I
been killed and about 50 injured by
the explosion of a huge tank of mo
lasses on the Boston waterfront off
near Kcany '
Commercial street,
Square, Wednesday. Eight bodies
were removed from the wreckage and
one man died at tho relief hospital.
Most of those Injured suffered only
from bruises.
Congress has been asKed by Secre
tary Daniels to appropriate $270,400,
000 to meet a deficit in tho navy's
expenses for the current fiscal year.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
will deliver tho eulogy at the Joint
Congressional memorial services for
Theodore Roosevelt to bo held In the
house chamber on February p.
Two aviators of Carruthera Field,
Forth Worth, Tex., wero killed Mon
day morning when their piano drop
ped into a tall spin and fell 5000 feet.
They aro Lloutcnaiit John U. Garbut,
of Sheridan, Wyo., and Mechanic R. L.
Qulmi, of Pittsburg, Pa.
American ChrlstinaH mall for Hwo
deiueatlmated to bo tho most valuable
of tho year, has not yet arrived In
Stockholm, It Is bollovod that tlio
mull was lost on tlio missing British
gtomiior Gltuno, wlilch loft Hull, Eng
land, on December 20 for Sweden.
U. S. TO BE 'DRY'
JANUARY, 1920
Washington, D. C Ratification last
Thursday of tho federal constitutional
prohibition amendment mado tho
United States tho first great power to
take legislative action to permanently
stop tho liquor traffic.
Nebraska's voto gavo tho necessary
affirmative threo-fourths majority of
tho states to mako cffcctlvo tho amend
ment submitted by congress hi Do
comber, 1917. It was followed by simi
lar action In tho legislatures of Mis
souri and Wyoming, making 38 states
In all which havo approved n "dry"
America.
Afflrmatlvo action by somo of tho
10 state legislatures yet to act Is pre
dicted by prohibition advocates.
Under the terms of tho amendment,
the manufacture, salo and Importation
of Intoxicating liquors must ceaso ono
year after ratification, but prohibition
will bo a fact In every stato much
earlier because of the war measure for
bidding the manufacture and salo of al
coholic beverages after Juno 30 until
the demobilization of tho military
forces Is completed. Under tho war
time measure exportation of liquor Is
permitted, but tho great stocks now
held in bonded warehouses will have
to bo disposed of beforo tho federal
amendment becomes effective.
Discussion as to whether Uic now
amendment becomes a part of tho con
stitution, now that 36 states have rati
fied it, or whether it becomes a part of
the basic law only when each state has
certified its action to tho secretary of
state, led to a search for precedent,
which showed that tho only two
amendments ratified in the last half
century providing for Income taxes and
direct election of senators, wero con
sidered effectlvo Immediately tho
3Cth state had taken affirmative
action.
Senator Sheppard, author of tho pro
hibition amendment, held that national
prohibition becomes a permanent fact
January 16, 1920. Only 14 of tho
states have certified their action to
the State department.
New problems of government nro
raised by prospective stoppage of tho
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
sources. Laws for enforcement of the
amendment nlso will have to bo passed
by congress.
Only a minimum of unemployment Is
expected to result, as tho cumulative
severity of successive restrictive meas-
ready has caused many distillers and
brewers to seek other uses for their
plants.
More than half the territory of the
United States already Is dry through
state action or local option elections.
Western and southern states took the
lead in prohibition. In the west only
California and Wyoming still licenso
the sale of Intoxicants, and in the
south only Louisiana.
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ARMY IS POSTPONED
Washington, D. C. Tho house mill-
tary committee practically reached an
agreement Friday In conference with
Secretary Baker and General March,
chief of staff, to postpone the War de
partment reorganization bill until the
next session of congress and with It a
large pari oi uic pruspucuvu ueumu
over the future military policy of tho
country.
A suggestion by Chairman Dent that
a legislative rider on the army appro
priation bill continuing tho existing
war organization of tho department
and the regular army for another year,
be substituted for tho reorganization
measure, met with the approval of Mr.
aker an'1 apparently with that of a
majority oi wo commute
Tho proposal grew out of a confer
ence at which Secretary Baker and tho
chief of staff explained to tho com
mltteo tho reorganization measure
framed by tho department, providing
for a regular army of 500,000 men to
bo raised by voluntary cnllfltmont on
a flat threo-year basis.
India Favors Autonomy
London, via Montreal. At tho Na
tionalist Congress, being hold at Dulhl,
India, nay reports, n resolution wuu
adopted fuvorlng full provincial auto
nomy and against special olootoratoH
for Europeans, Tlio congress pussed
formal runolntlonH of loyalty to tlio
orown, "
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STATE NEWS
A. II, Lea was unanimously re-elect
od secretary of tin; State Fair board
at lta annual meeting last week. It Is
understood the salary will contlnuo to
bo $3000 n year. Mr. Lea will accept.
Through an agreement reached be
tween tho Coos Hay Shipbuilding com
pany officers and tho carpenters' and
Joiners' union, tho strike In progress
In Marshflcld since January 7 was sot
tied and tho 052 workmen returned
to work Friday morning.
Tho Mutual Drilling company la tho
namo of n now Incorporated body,
composed of farmers who aro drilling
for nrtoslan water In Swan lake, Poo
valley and tho dairy district In east
cm Klamath county.
Tho first complaint that soldiers re
turning to Bend have been uuablo to
securo work, was filed Saturday with
T. II. Foley, chairman of tho Common
lty Labor board, and tho question was
Immediately taken up with tho local
commercial club for action.
A belief of Oregonlnns that warmer
weather Instead of tho recent cold,
unusual In tho Willamette valley,
would bo tho best possible preveutlvo
of tho "flu" appears to be justified In
tho rapid Improvement of conditions
In Albany Bliko freezing weather van
I shed.
Tho post of Astoria dredgo Natoma
Is engaged in drudging tho Sklpanon
river and at tho present rate will soon
have the channel completed up to tho
turning basin. It is planned to mako
this basin largo enough to nccommo
date all vessels which will be able to
get up tho river.
Deportation of all alien slackers
who cancelled their cltlzoushlp papers
rather than bo Inducted into the army
under tho draft law Is to be demanded
In n joint resolution being prepared
by Senator Walter B. Dlmlck, of
Clackamas county, and which ho In
troduccd In the senate early this week.
Portland school children Interested
In the goat club project met for an
educational rally In tho Lincoln high
school auditorium Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock. Tho goat clubs are to
give training In a practical Industry
for the city child; education In bus!
iicss methods, and to help the children
of dovastated France.
Fnvorablo reports wero authorized
by the senato lands committee through
Senator Chmaberlaln recently on the
Coos Bay wagon road land grant bill,
tho bill extending tlmo for tho com
plotlon of tho Tumalo Irrigation proj
ect, nnd tho bill permitting residents
of Jordan valley, Malheur county, to
transport fuel wood from Idaho.
Tho Oregon dairy and food commis
sioner's offlco has been Indorsed by
tho 27th annual convention of tho Ore
gon Dairymen's association and a reso
lution was sent to the legislature ask
ing that tho offlco ho retained as a
separate department of stato govern
ment and that tho commissioner be
given a sufficient sum to carry on his
work.
Tho 27th annual meeting of tho Ore
gon State Dairymen's association op
ened In Hlllsboro last Wednesday with
a large attendance, which Included
representatives from practically nil
dairy sections of tho stato. Delegates
were welcomed by William Schul
merich, president of tho County Farm
bureau, and tho response was by Pres
ident Frank Lynn, of Pcrrydalo.
A full survey of tho damago dono
tho Intnan Mines company, on Sixes
river, In Coos county, Novembor 14,
when lightning struck several portions
of the company's structures, has beou
sot at $20,000, Instead of $10,000,
which at flrsL-wns bollovod to havo
been a liberal estimate. Tho loss to
tho company camo at a tlmo following
sovoral yoars of oxponslvo construc
tion and successful dofensc of several
lawsuits.
An ordor will bo Issued at onco by
tho Coos county court, prohibiting
stock running ut largo any pluco on
tlio county's Improvod highways. Es
tluiutus of damago havo been mado
und submitted to tho court which In
dicate stock climbing on tho now
graded work In various sections of
tlio county havo torn down tho grades
and (iroaliid dumago It would ihicohhI.
tutu lliu uxpgndltiiro of $1000 lo rojiulr.
OREGON
LEG SLATUR
Stato CapltoLOrganlzatlon plans
In both house and senate Monday went
off with woll-lubrlcutod proclsldn, W.
T. Vinton, of Yamhill, botng elected
president of tho somite, nnd Seymour
Jones, of Marlon, speaker ot the house,
without opposition. Vinton cast a com
plimentary voto for Senator Farroll,
and Jones for Burdlck. Otherwise,
with tho exception of a few absentees,
tho elections wero unanimous. Con
tests for minor places In both houses
wero few.
Except for ono Unexpected clerkship
fight, the caucus plans for tho senate
organization wore curried out this
morning without Interruption. Robert
Ruhl, ot Medford, who had received
16 pledged votes for calendar clerk,
gave way to Paul Burrls, a returned
soldier, after Senator Huston, of Mult'
nomah, led a heated fight on the floor
of tho sennto In behalf of tho lad lu
tho uniform.
Senator Vinton, ot Yamhill, was
elected president without opposition.
He received all votes except his own.
House organization was perfected
beforo noon. Representative Haines
was mado temporary chairman; Rep
resontntlves Sheldon, Richardson,
Dennis, Mrs. Thompson nnd Hughes,
temporary committee on organization,
nnd Representatives RIchnrdH, GrlggH
and Gordon on credentials. Roproson
tatlves Bean, Burdlck and Kuhll es
cortcd Chief Justice McBrldu to give
tho oath.
Death to Bolshevism and the I. W.
In all their forms in Oregon Is tho
purposo of two measures which reach
ed tho cloaks In both the house nnd
tho senate at tho opening dny of tho
Oregon legislature.
They camo from Mr. Kubll In tho
house nnd Mr. Dlmlck In tho senate.
Representative Kubll succeeded lu
getting his nutl-BolshovIk and I. W,
W. bill as No. 1 on tho house calendar,
and If It passes tho two houses It will
contain ample dynamite to blow those
forms of terrorism nnd syndicalism
from tho stato forover.
Application of business methods,
elimination of non-essentials and pout
poucment of unnecessary improve
incuts until a moro auspicious tlmo
will enable Orogou to be financed
without Indebtedness. A survey of
tho budget which has been prepared
for tho consideration of tho legislature
shows a total estimate to bo provided
from tho public treasury of $9,167,-
795.81. As estimated, visible rovcuues
amount to $7,870,580.07, It appears that
$1,297,214.84 will bo needed.
Every essential in tho budget can
bo provided with $200,000 remaining,
although drastic economics nro necos
sary.
Apparently there Is a shortago of
$1,297,214.84. By tho exercise of tho
pruning knlfo, It Is posslblo to trim
from tho budget $1,322,520 without
damago to tho running machinery of
tho stall'. Tho legislature will proba
bly devise reconstruction schemes
which must bo heavily financed, In
which event tho tentative budget
Items will havo lo suffer.
It Ib estimated $500,000 can bo lop
ped off lu tho Industrial accident com
mission by abolishing the ono-sovonjh
which the state contributes to tho
compensation fund. Tho estimate lu
tho budgot Is for $680,000. Tho com
mission Itself recommends that tho
legislature mako an appropriation for
administration expenses of $296,870.16,
Instead of tho estimated $680,000,
which tho stato's one-seventh for two
years will amount to; tho stato adding
to tho money which comes from em
ployers nnd employes for compensa
tion. A good get-nway lu legislative prog
ress was made tho first day with tho
Introduction of four hills In the senato
and 11 In the house.
Compulsory omploymout of return
ed soldiers and sailors by the state,
county, city nnd other municipal cor
porations within tho stnto la provldod
lu a hill Introduced In tho somite by
Senator Farroll, of Multnomah.
Tho hill, which Is tho first of a flood
of reconstruction measures to bo
ground through tho legislative mill
this year, provide that noldlers und
sailors who havo been honorably dis
charged must bo glvon preference In
employment by slate, county, city or
other municipal corporations, It ap
plies to veterans of tho Civil War,
HpunlHh War und tho war with (Jur
PEAGE CONFEHENCE
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League of Nations to Be First
Subject Discussed.
CLEMENCEAU IN CHAIR
Seventy-Two Scats Aro Provided for
In First Session of World's
Historic Conference,
Paris. Tho peace conference, des
tined to bo historic, anil on which tho
eyes of tho world aro now contored,
was opened Saturday afternoon In tho
great Sollo do la Palx.
Tho proceedings, which wero con
fined to the election of Georges Clem
onceau, tho French premier, as perma
nent chairman of tho conference, an
nddrcHH of welcome by the president
of the French republic. Raymond Polu
care, nnd speeches by President Wil
son. Premier Lloyd George and Baron
Sounluo, wero characterized by ex
pressions of lasting friendship nnd tho
apparent determination of tho repre
sentatives of the various notions to
come to an amlcablo understanding
with respect to tho problems to be de
cided by the conference.
When President Poincnro spoke tho
entire assembly stood, and the fact
that, according to custom, no npplauso
greeted his utterance, gave greater
solemnity to tho scone.
M. Cleiuenceau'H acceptance of tho
presidency of tho congress was both a
feeling expression of personal grati
tude and a doflnlte outline of the great
questions Immediately ahead. Three
of these larger general subjects ho de
fined as responsibility for the war.
responsibility for crimes during tho
war nnd International labor legisla
tion. Tho league of nations, ho de
clared, was at tho head of tho program
for the next full bcbcIoii.
"Our ambition Is n great and noble
one," said M. Clomonceau. "We wish
to avoid n repetition of tho cntaHtro
pho which bathed tho world lu blood.
If the league of nations Is to ho prac
ticable we must nil remain united. Let
us carry out our progrnm quickly nnd
In an effective manner."
Referring to nuthors of tho war, ho
said ho had consulted two eminent
Jurists on tho penal responsibility of
tho former Oermnn emperor and each
delegate would receive a copy of tho
report.
In nil 72 seats wero provided for tho
opoulng session of tho pence confer
ence. On tho outor side of tho great
horscshoo wero arranged the Japan
ese nnd British and colonial delegates
and the scat of tho fifth British dele
gate. A chair for tho fifth American
delegato also was reserved Immediate
ly to tho right of tho tnblo of honor.
Tho Italian, Belgian, Brazilian, Cu
ban, llnltien, Peruvian, Portuguese,
Serbian, Kzecho-Slovaklun anil Uru
guayan delogntes sat In the order
nnmoil. Across at tho left wing of tho
table sat tho Siamese, Itoumnnlan,
Polish, Llberinn, I led Jus, Guatemalan,
Ecuadoran, Chinese nnd Bolivian dele
gations. As tho delegates arrived they wore
niot by fanfares of trumpets nnd ac
corded military honors by tho troops.
Tho Jnpancso woro among tho earlier
arrivals and' woro followed by tho SI
nmcso and East Indians In pictur
esque turbans.
PRINCE JOHN, SON OF
KING GEORGE, IS DEAD
London Prlnco John, tho youngest
son of King (Joorgo, died at Sandrlng
hum Suturday night. Ho had been HI
for somo tlmo,
The prlnco was possessed of oxu-
hornnt spirits, Ho wns tho prlmo fa-
vorlto of all classes and the Idol of
tho servants and touantH at Windsor,
It Is said that ho wan tho favorlto
brother of Princess Mary, who loved
to romp with him. Tho prlnco was
born at Suudrlnghnm July 12, 1905.
An official bulletin Issued this oven-
lug says:
"Prlnco John, who since Infancy has
suffered epileptic fits which lately
had becoino moro frequent and more,
passed away In his sleep following an
atlagk ut 5 .'10 P, M, Saturday."
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