Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1919)
5000 CIRCULATION (25,000 READERS DAILY) Only Circulation in Salem Guar . anteod by the Audit Bureau of Cirmilfl finm. &1 Weather Report 5 - Oregon: Tonight and Sunday t fair, moderate northeasterly -Jf winds. i : - ; - -..-, . - FULL LEASED WIRE,: DISPATCHES ' SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAIr , LEY NEWS 8SKVICE FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 21. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TBAIN8 AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS E" .'UVW ED FIND SEC CONFERENCE DEVELOPS A MARKED TENDENCY TO ACCEPT PRACTICAL ' APPLICATION OF 14 PRINCIPLES Within Few Days, Delegates Will Have Accomplished Framing Of Constitution For League Of Nations In Conformity With Principle Of No Annexations. Is Opinion Of President After Recent Sessions. By Robert J. Bender (X'uited Press Staff Correspondent.) (Copyright 1919 by the United Press.) Paris, Feb. 1. The peaco conference lias developed so marked a tondoncy to liecept practical application of the 14 principles and to speed up its work, the belief was expressed today that Presi dent Wilson may find a second trip to l'Vanco unnecessary. Whether the president will roturn aft er his departure for the United States two weeks hence, is known to depend not only upon dispositioa of the most important problems in the interim, but .k-Uo upon the trend of the confrees' policy after he has. withdrawn from tho councils and their inclination to work along tho general Hues of the Ameri can program. Just six weeks after Iiis arrival in FrKiice the president felt confident that the pivotal victories had already been won and that future action by tho con ference will bo in strict adherence to the brond principles included in the ar mistice terms. Within c few days the delegates will have accomplished the framing of a constitution for the league of nations in conformity with the prin ciple of no uiiuexatipns, the president believes. This, in his opinion, will be SENATE HESITATES ANDTHENPASSFSON DEFICIENCY STATUTE Senators Did So, Much Against Oneftem Was Slate Police Their Will, However, For It was a bitter pill, but the senate . swallowed it yestefday because it had to. It was tho $550,000 emergency defi ciency bill, covering tho various emer gency appropriations ma-do by the state emergency board. The bill tad been passed in the house and was rushed through the scnato late yesterday aft ernoon, so it could go to the governor for signature and become a law imme diately, thus allowing the payment of the outstanding claims before another month's interest would be charged on them. The bill was bitter because it con tained all item of over $200,000 for the strte military police. "All you can d0 is to let a lump come up in your throat and vote aye," said Senator Wood ,a member of the emergency board which authorized a de ficiency of $250,000 for the state police over his protest. "The money has been spent and we liave to pay it, but if the other mem bers of the emergency board had voted with me there would not be this big deficiency bill now." "I would like to know how many of (these colonels and captains and lieuten ants sre still on the payroll," said Sen ator Pierce. "How much more are we going to have to appropriate for them" "A deficiency of $250,000 was creat ed for the military police after tho emergency board was told that the prop erty and even the lives of the people of Oregon were in danger," explained Senator Moser, who was a member of the board. "We were told by the gov ernor that he had information which could not be divulged but which justi fied an appropriation for a military po lice. "But in view of the use that ht been made of the military police, and the things that have been accomplished I must say that I am sorry that I vot ed for the r.ppropriation." "I nra wondering if there were not too many candidates on the emergency board," Senior Patterson said. "If I were a member of any board that wsa called upon to appropriate public money nnd if anv member told me he bad in- (Continu?d On page seven)' THAT W one of tho most vifnl accomplishments of tho settlement. ' Would Hurry Details. Wilson is advocating systeinatizatioii peaco work to the ptmoBt, in order to hurry tho handling of nil details. The plan for reference of each great prob lem to a special committee is now known to have been adopted largely trt his suggestion. It developed today that ho also is urging that more committees bo created to take care of the lesser questions, leaving tho peaco bureau free to center its attention on only the broad er linos of the settlement and to make decisioiva ou the findings of the com mittees. With all these committees function ing simultaneously, a pace could bo maintained thf.t would bring the sign ing of the treaty several weeks nearer than was believed possible. The policy of his, intensive work for ten hours a day is telling ou the president. The hist few days during which he fought consistently against the policy of spo liation were particularly trying. De spite, the fact he is working longer and harder than at any time since ho assumed office, the prcsidont contin ues to urge oV " hurry up" policy and find means for carrying it out. GERMAN LANGUAGE BILL PASSES SENATE Prohibits Using Of Any But English Toipe la Oregon Schools. By a vote 0f 18 to 11, the senate late yesterday afternoon passed Senator Dimick's bill making it a crime foi anyone to tcEch the German language in tho public schools and colleges 'of this state. The vote was n8 follows: For the bill Baldwin, Banks,' Bell, Dimick, Eberhard, Farrell, Hundley, Hurley, Lachmund, Orton, Patterson, Pierce, Kitncr, Shanks, Smith of Coos Thomas, Wood, President Vinton. Against the bill Gill, Howell, Hus ton, Jones, LaFollett, Moser, Nickelson, Norblad, Porter, Smith of . Josephine, Strayer. Absent Eddy. House bill 40, which, prohibits the teaching of any subject in the public schools, except foreign languages, in any other than the English language, was passed, by the senate. Other byls were passed by the senate as follows: 8. B. ll.By Eberhard. Uniform gales act. r H. B. 116. By Gtllngher. Increas ing tho salary of the county school su perintendent of Harney countv from $1000 to $1500 a year. H. B. 115. By Stewart. Increasing the salary of the county clerk of Wheel er country from $1200 to $1500 a year. H. B. 17. By Bell. Authorizing the E-dministrator of an estate to borrow money oi the property of the e3tate. H. B. 99. By Burdick. Amending the law relating to bail. II. B. 104. By Martin. Vroviding that when employes quit their employ men I without giving three day's notice their wages shall be due within thiee days after they cecse work, and-if em P'ry"s go on strike their wages iuil bo riue not iator than 30 days from the time they weat on strike. II. B. 64. By Sheldon. Authorizing boards of regents to dispose of worn out, obsolete or unsuitable equipment. TROOPS HOLD DOWN STRIKERS Glasgow, Feb. 1. Troop were pa trolling the streets today as the result of clashes between the Clyde shipyard strikers and the police yesterday. Shinwell, who became leader of the strikers after the arrest of Kirkwood, al has .teen taken 'in custody. Astoria, Or., Feb. 1. Falling from a donkey engine to the ground, a dis tance of 15 feet, Charleg Houston, a well knovtn contractor, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon. uieceIary DEMOBILIZATION HAS According To March's State ( ment 152,000 Men Have -Returned Home. Washington, Fob. 1. Demobilization has passed the million mark. There duavo iboein . discharged from American camps and from the over seas forces 952,411 men and 61,237 of ficers, Chief of Staff March announc ed today. Total of men ordered for demobiliza tion is 1,396,000,-including 1,243,000 in the United States. Total returned from overseas now a 152,000. Honorable discharge of 33 general officers so as to keep pace with de mobilization has been ordered by March. The regulars return to their regular rank in tho army establish ment, while tho national guard officers aro sent back to civil life- Officers going into the reserve now total 10,700 from the domestic estab lishment, while 4,293 in this country have applied for transfer into the reg ular army. Nearly 2,500 officers have been ordered from Washington since the armistice. " March disclosed official figures of 4 the 35th division casualties as: killed in action ( 96 dftd of wounds, 217; miss ing in ei-tion, 808; prisoners, 112. Total, 1,733. Fifteen divisions had greater cas ualties than tho 35-h (Kansas-Missouri) twenty seven divisions had more cas ualties than the 92ud division and twenty four moro than tho 93rd. divis ion. - ' V BeportB Good, - Answering storios that conditions at Brest are bad, March said the food is the best and tho health reports are ex traordinarily good, Board walks have been installed, tents floored, but the mud is inevitable from the nature of the climate, ho said. . Casualty totals, about 95 per cent complete, with the Blightly wounded omitted, were presented -by March for thirty combat divisions. With the field signal battalions and trains omitted, the total battle deaths, missing and prisoners woro 66,592, as follows: First' division, 5248; Second, 2350; Third, C17; Fourth, 29S6; Fifth, 2504; Sixth, 122 Seventh, 32(i; Twenty Sixth, 2864; Twonty Seventh, 2194; Twenty Eighth, 3890; Twenty Ninth 1117; Thirtieth, 1772; Thirty Second 3213; Thirty Third. 1171; Thirty Filth, 1733; Thirty Sixth, 869; Thirty Seventh, 1250; Forty Second, 2950; Sevcntv Seventh, 2092; Seventy Eighth, 1825; Seventy Ninth, 2380; Eightieth, 1355; Eightv First, 370; Eighty Second, 1592; Eighty Eighth, 66; Eighty. Ninth, 1525; Nine tieth, 1585; Ninoty First, 1702; Ninetv Second 211; Ninety Third, 489. Div. Killed Died Missing Pris in of in oners Action Wounds Action 1 2303 1050 1789 106 2 1383 696 -813 73 3 1901 589 . 872 354 4 1500 618 i 817 CI 5 . 970 505 . 965 60 6 9 67 3 4 7. 175 98 50 3 26 1388 660 402 354 27 1302 404 330 158 28 1544 553 1714 619 29 597 220 207 33 30 1084 415 251 . 22 32 1694 708 768 43 33 6.12 201 - - 240 29 39 596 217 808 112 36 358 116 393 2 37 658 289 303 42 ' 1702 723 440 85 77 1275 552 529 336 78 915 339 508 63 79 . 880 352 1452 15 80 636 337 286 96 81 203 80 -27 2 82 808 324 271 189 88 20 33 7 6 89 383 87 256 4 90 . 630 327 287 35 91 934 275 470 23 92 109 SO 47- 5 93 372 105 8 Totals 27762 11396 14649 2785 Two regiments of marines not in cluded The statement explains that there will be some changes in the fig ures due maiiily to decreases in miss ing in action and corresponding in c rases in other totals. The total figures for missing are now reduced to about ten thousand. FRISCO UNMASKS San Francisco, Feb. 1. This eity 'took off the influenza maske at noon toddr, '.following a' proclamation toy Mayor Bolph repealing the mask ordi nance. The mayor acted on a recommenda tion from Health Officer Hassler, who said the emergency calling for the masks had passed. HOUSE MEMBERS SORE ON GOVERNOR S STATE MILITARY POLICEMEN Deficiency B01 Is Not Receiv ed Vtry Cheerfully Among Legislators. Just to show how economical it could be, -.the legislature of two years ajjo out down so many appropriations that a number of institutions found it neces sary to go before the state emorgency board and get money for running ex penses, depending on the presont legis lature to loot the Dill, especially ts the money had already been spent. The duty of voting money advanced by tho emergeucy board was not an es pecially cheerful one to many represen tntives and while, they voted in favor of tho appropriation ,they registorod omphatic protests. ; The sore spot of the whole deficiency bill was the state military police. Gal lagher of Harney and Malheur coun ties said if ho had a chance ho would like to say something about the state military bunch that came out his way to run in bootleggers and C. E. Woodson of Heppncr voted yes with all others when ho folt otherwise For when the state emergency board allows money, it is up te the legislature to allow it. " The deficiencies allowed by the emer gency board during tho pnst two years and which was allowed by the house yesterday , are as follows! S. A. T. C. f t tho O, A- C $ 28,653.86 Public scrvico commission .... 2,694.64 Tuborculosis hospital 9,065.80 Industrial school for girls 3,020.05 Inspectors of child labor 986.71 Janitors for state capitol 1,669.23 Oregon nte hospital 100,686.82 Stato board of health 2,080.63 Stato lime board 5,050.74 State twining school for boys 12,236.12 Public 'service commission 5,086.83 Special agents employed by the governor to apprehend criminals :. 2,311.82 Stato military police 222,731.70 Social hygiene socioty ,.r.,... 5,674.50 State council of defenso ci... : 18,679.13 Ponitoutiary 71,152.04 Pumping plant at ponitontiary . , 750.41 The law provides that in case any institution is in nocd of funds or there is any special emorgency that requires monoy, tho stato emergency bourd may bo culled and this omorgency board may appropriate funds and the money advanced. Then the next legislature is morally bound to ratify the action of tho board. Representatives were will ing to vote the money excopting ths-t of $222, 731.70 for tho governor's state military police. Of course, as the mon oy had already been spent, thcro was nothing to voto but ratify tho action of tho emergency board. iii&H CASTE CHINESE IS FOUND MQRDERED IN 01SE-R0 CLE? FOUND Three Men Belonged To Elu cational Mission. Killed Wednesday Is Belief. Washington, Feb. 1. Diplomatic cir clos as well as the capital police were aroused today over the mysterious mur der of throe high caste Chinese belong ing to the Chinese educational mission.' The men, who were found des-d in their home were: Dr. Theodoro T. Wong, director of the mission and framer of the new educa tional schemo for China. Ben Sen Wu and C. H. Hsie, both as- sistant to Dr. Wong and students at all laws pertaining to children. George Washington university. j S. B. 118. By Bitner and Portor. Whether robbery was the motive or Providing for annual levy to aid Pacif whether the slsyings were tho outcome ie International Livestock exposition, of some strange oriental feud has not! 8. B. 119. By Bitner. Giving cities been determined. land towns jurisdiction over roads and The three had been dead probably 'streets within corporate limits, since Wednesday. ! 8. B. 120. By Norblad. To provide 8ignj of a struggle wore-found. A'for a non-partisan Judiciary, revolver lay near one body. Dr. Wong! S. B. 121. By Handley. Giving to ii i . . a ' . i. - v t . . ., ..nnn irus J.UUUU lu luv iivtug ruum oc uu quarters, which are in a select north west Washington locality, and the oth er two bodies were found in the base ment. ' O ie police theory was that Wong was murdered by a robber or a representa tive of some opposing faction in Chink, and that his assistants, entering im mediately after Wong was murdered, pursued the murderer to the basement, where they met their death. Some considered the fact that the three represented the educational mis - sion as significant. Representatives of the educational missiong arc always enosen irom Aorta China, it is understood, jo'orth and South China are now at wfr and the educational plan, of which Wong Is the father, is one of the issues at stake. Diplomats were exercised over the fact that three representatives of l foreign government eould be murdered in the capital eity and that the raur- ders should have remained unknown for so long a period. ' DIG THREE WEEKS 323 BILLS HAVE BEEN RQDUCED IN iiOOSE Consolidation Bills Arc Now Resting Peacefully h Com- mittee Rem At the close of the third week of tho legislature, in the house there has been introduced 323 bills. After next Monday, no bill may bo introduced un less it is referred first to a special committee and this committee recom mends its introduction. All bills referring to tho building of roads and highways have been side tracked or referred again to the roads and highway committee of which Den nis of Yamhill is chairman. Thi hap pened yesterday to the bill introduc ed by Sheldon of Medford providing that tho state should not require a maintenance bond of more than one year. Although . Mr. Sheldon stated that the bill was satisfactory to Com missioner Thompson. Mr. Dennis suc ceeded in having the bill held up and referred to his committee. It will come up again Monday. While practically all of the consoli dation bills have been introduced, they are resting peacefully in the com mittee room. Those consolidation bills practically abolish two thirds of the stato houso jobs and gives tho govern or the right to appoint officials for about everything in 'sight. According to goneral gossip, no office holder is losing sleep over tho proposed consol idations. The house has passed the bill pro viding that the surviving husband and children shall be entitled to possession of tho homestead nnd household furni ture until administration wf the es tate has been filed. As the law now reads, the law gives the widow and children this right. Now it is proposed to extend th'o same right to the surviv ing husband. ". .. Another bill that was passed Friday by the house-and' wJiich had been, in troduced by Mrs. Alexander Thompson, provides that oven if a woman is mar ried and under the age of IS she shall bo regarded as a minor and subject to the laws regarding hiinor children. As the law now stamlB a girl under the age of 18 who marries is presumed to bo of legal age. Voters Qualifications , Qualifications for voters at school elections aro provided in a bill intro duced in tho house. The bill provides that electors must be 21 years old nnd have resided in tho school district 30 days. It also provides that tho chair man of a district board may chaW lenge any voter. The privilege of paying a poll tax is staring the voters in the face, pro vided of course should tho .bill Intro duced yesterday eventually become a law. It was introduced by rtichards of Portland and provides that beginning with 3!21 thero shall be a poll tax of $5 paid by every person over the age of 21. And if this tax is not paid, one cannot voto or oven register. If the bill proposed by Mr. Sheldon of Medford becomes a law, the con vict who escapes or attempts to es cape will be looking for more trouble. Also the con who may be found guilty of aiding others to csinpe. The bill providos that it shall be a felony to escape from the pon,to attempt to or to aid others and that upon conviction the sentence shall begin when the con vict has served his time or is pardon ed. SENATE BILLS. S. B. 117. By Ftrrell. Creating child welfare revision commission to codify wuatioi i,ue rigm. iu pprupriuio fovvv for memorials to returned soldiers and ssilors. 8. B. 122. By Eberhard. Giving Cir cuit Judge right to eontinuo grand jury through several monthly terms of court. 8. B. 123. By Eberhard. Giving tc cities the right to prosecute violations of prohibition law. 8. B. 124. By Eberhard. Giving to ' judges the right to eall special ynry j panels at any time and for any person, within his discretion, 1 8. B. 125. By Eberhard. Author! ing municipal judges to Issue ecarch warrants for purpose of searching foi uquor. 8. B. 126. By Moser. Regulating the practice of chiropractors. 8. B. 127. By Moser. Empowering municipalities to establish set-back lines for purpose of regulating construc- tion of buildings. j 8. B. 128. By Huston. Requiring ad ministrators to record certified copies of order decreeing that all eluimt against estate have been satisfied. Move Made In Conformity With Unofficial Information That Premier Lenine Will Accept Proposal For Joint Conference On Prince Islands, Providing Allied For ces Are First Withdrawn. By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Paris, Feb. 1. The United States, supported by Great Britain, ha-s submit ted to Franco a proposal for immediate withdrawal of all troops from Russia! it was lenrnod from authoritative soure es today. This move was. made in accordance with unofficial information obtained by American agents that Premior Lenine and Foreign Minister Tchitchcrin will accept the proposal for a joint confer ence at Prinkipos, providing thnt the allied forces are first withdrawn. The British, in fact, are undorstood to be planning recall of their owj troops by Mnrch, whothor the United States and Franco take similar action or not. British military officials are expect ed to hold that withdrawal is urgent, as Archangel soon will be ice-locked and exit will then be impossible. The French aro considering the proposal, but have not yet given any intimation of thoir intentions. Pheasant Northwest Products Company Opens New Preserving Factory One of tho cpoch-mBking ovonts in the current history of Salem-occuwed today in tho opening of tho now pre serving plant of the Pheasant North west Products company, adjoining th Southern Pacific depot. For weeks past a gang of workmont have boen busy remodeling nnd finishing tho interior of the huge structure, installing an im: mouse amount of machinery, and storing thousands of cases of bottled fruit jmtcs. - Tho plant is now practicolly rcnay for operation, s-nd to properly mark the event the company issued invitations to several hundred fruit growers, deal irs n"d prominent citizens of Salem to gather at the plnnt at 12 o'clock today for luncheon and an inspection of the works.' About 150 people responded. representing not only tho loganborry in dustry but allied industries, from the city and tho valley. Luncheon was sorved to the visitors cafeteria stylo, including the variom fruit viices by way of bovernge, Foi- lowiiijr tho lunch there wore brief ad dressfj from Manage H. 8. Giln, Mayor Albin, Robert Paulus and others, and in thoic talks the immensity and value of the fruit Industry in this section were mudo plain by actual figures. The greatest interest was shown by the visitors In the equipment of the building whose entire extent of 85 by 5'H) is fillod with the finest modnrn machinery and with stored juices. Tho Interior has beon transformed with white paint, tho floors oiled ,and every moans used to mako tho establishment sanitary and convenient. The hnge vats were put into operation for the bentiit of the visitors, giving them an d.a of the daily capacity of tho plant which will be started upon the work of bottling and packing in tho near fu ture. It is not known just how many hands will be employed but needless to say it will add vastly to the buBinoss and the payrolls of Salem. Moroovci it is a monumental evidonce of the con fidence of tho comptny as to tho fu ture of the Industry in thU valley, and it stands as a guarantee to hundreds of people in this region that there will be employment a-id a market for their pro ducts. It means likewiso for assurancf that tho name of Salem will be adver tised more thoroughly over the civiliz ed world, for as another evidence of their confidence In the future the North west Products company has contracted full pago advertising in one pnriodlccl alone tho Saturday Evening Post 1 amount to $08,000 during the present year. .. NUMBER OF YANKS IN RUSSIA Washington, Feb. 1. - The United Slates has a little more than 5000 men in the Arch- angel region and between 7000 and 10,000 in Siberia. Negotiations concerning Bus sia are being conducted entire- ly at Paris. War department officials have been increasingly in fav or of American withdrawal from Archangel. ' While no official response has bcei received to the wireless invitution oi the associated powers, American agents conferring with Lenine 's representa tives, have informed the American dei- cgii'uon mui Dom -uemno ana icuucner in are amenable to the plan for holding " a joint conference, their only stipula tion being withdrawal of allied troops from Russian soil before the meeting is held. A complicating fcaturo, however, is the fact thnt War.Minister Trotsky and some of bis supporters oppose asy. pro posal for withdrawal of the allied for-, ces, holding that their presonco in Bus-" sia serves to increase revolutionary spi rit, not only in Russia, but in othor countries. , Unofficial reports have boon rocoivod , that tho proposal has boen discussed i a conference of tho Soviets i;i Moscow. The Amoricnn dolegation has beon ad vised' by its agents that Lenine 'a po litical strength is sufficient to dotni- ' nato this meeting and carry out his plans, rather than Trotsky's. FRAMEWORK OF LEAGUE BEING ACTED0N TODAY Usual Plenary Session Post poned To Hasten Details By Fred S. Feiguaca . "United PrpR. Stwff finrrnHiinnHnTitl . Paris, Feb 1. The usual plenary session was postponed today to permit tho peaco bureau to speed up action on, , the frame work for the league of na- . tions. The belief was expressed in cer tain quarters that demonstration of the practicability of the league, as evinced 1 in several recent decisions by the bur eau, would hasten agreement on tho do tails of its makeup. Tho German colon ial question wbb virtunlly settled in ns cordanco with principles of the league. Previously the bureau had acted in thj , capacity of an association of nations in warning central and eastern Kuro- . pean countries to cease warring over disputed territories. Tho bureau as sumed a similar capacity yesterday when it decided to send delegates to , straighten out tho argument botweea the Czechs and Poles over possession of that rich industrial district. President Wilson conferred with Lord Cecil and General Smuts un:il late last night, comparing tho Amorican plan s for the league of nations with their respective outlines, that the whole prop osition may be put in shape for presen tation to tho peace congress next week. ; Queer Angle Develops. A queer angle has developed in the. ... (Continued on pego three) ABE MARTIN - - - Th' Colonial Whist Club offers seven bales o' khaki yarn fer siilo. Between those who toady after em an' those who hate 'em th' rich have a purty herd time.