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t 5000 CIRCULATION (25,000 READERS DAILY) Only Circulation in Salem Guar- anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations : FULL LEASED WIRE 5 DISPATCHES SPECIAL 'WILLAMETTE VALr . LET NEWS SEBVICB ' -A Weatkr Repcrt r LL 'H 4- . A k . Oregon: Tonight anil Sunday rain, west portion; rain or snow east portion. . Warmer tonight cast portion, moderate south easter! v winds. FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 27. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEW STANDS KTVV . fvts 1 I I 1 1 All HI va n ill viia. fi hi iu 0, it ei rff t i t- it II 11 i ii r ill u ii II 11 fi it ii . ..- - i jr i mm r -r e r ha ss e 9 r.i.h , I VL! I v,! V. tVJiJVlJl. '.. tfl. - - - - - - j A YORHANSEN TELLS RQLSHEVIK ELffiEIW SEMblK TO CLT OUT ID BE OUIClv M IT Declares That Seat Of Municipal Government Is In City Hall And Is There To Stay.- E. B. Ault, Spokesman For Labor Unions, Took Issue With Mayor's Statement That Strike Was Broken, Saying That City Activities Were By No Means Normal Seattle, Wash., Feb. 8.--As business was resuming in Seattle today and general conditions settling toward nor mal, Mayor Ole Hanson issued the following statement: "Two years ago 15,000 workmen were employed in the. industries of Seattle. There are now 65,000. The unions have admitted to their ranks under the stress of Far conditions every Bolshevik and I. W. W. who desired to join. These men have secured control of many labor ; organizations, l ne conservative members have shown their yellow streak by allowing the foes of organized gov ernment to run their unions and their affairs. "When the shipyard strike was called the men went out unwillingly in most instances although there is a feel ing that the lower paid men were not getting sufficient wage when figured on the present cost of living. "Then the radicals having read of the revolution in Petrograd tried to duplicate the initial steps of the same hert They wanted to run our light plant and all indus tries believing that we would surrender because of eco nomic pressure and suffering of our people. They had forgotten the lesson Germany acquired when they tried the policy of ruthlessness. The city government told them to go to hell, that all things would run as long as there was a government and made no concession to the revolution ists. They closed down the newspaper plants through fear of injury of .the employes of newspapers. Business, always cowardly, hunted its hole fotf'a little time until I announced that all people would be protected to the last man and that we had 1500 men armed with rifles to kill on sight any one that caused disorder. Yesterday I noti fied the strike, committee that at 8 o'clock this morning everything would operate. Everything is activity in Seat tle this morning. Every municipal car is running. Our light plant has never shut down one minute. Neither has our water plant. Gathered together in Seattle is Joe Et tar, of Lawrence, Mass., fame ; Mucky McDonald and men of his stripe from all over the Union. Gathered here are hundreds and thousands of Russian bolsheviki who have arrived here during the past two years. These scound rels want to take possession of our American government and try to duplicate the anarchy of Russia. Government Is In City Hall. "The seat of government is the city hall. We swore in 1000 extra police and hold in, reserve citizens armed; with rifles and shotguns. I gave orders to shoot on sight j any disturber of the peace. They knew from the exper ience they had at the riot a few weeks ago that we meant business and believe me, we, did. '1 wanted a showdown. If there is a majority of these in the United States I don't want to live here. They told me the troops were disloyal and would not help us. I told them that.was a lie but even if it was so we would fight until we were dead before we would even allow them to turn out one eight candle power light. "Chief of Police Joe Warren is a real man who loves his country. We decided that we would not call in the federal troops. If they are called in to quell disorder someone else must call them. We won't be here. The great body of union men saw the light. Today they are bitterly resenting their false leadership and will over throw their officers in many unions. "This is a test of unionism or I. W. W.ism. If any one owes higher allegiance to any organization than they do to this country, they are traitors and should be treated as such. That is all there is to it. This is a time for union men to stand up and be counted. This is a time when every American must forget all other allegiances, and stand by the government. ; "The unions of the nation are on trial. They are either American Federation of Labor loyalists or bolshe vik traitors. - "This morning the strike is broken. Business is re suming. Strikers are returning to work. Our city no longer lies prostrate. Ninety per cent of Seattle stands firm for Americanism. The other 10 per cent will be driven from this community." "OLE HANSON, "Mayor of Seattle." Gen. Morrison Came. Some restaurants had opened. And Seattle, Wash.. Fib. 8. At noon to- Inciters were planning t0 give the first day resumption of business was oing forward slowly in downtown streets of "'"nler of shoppers were beginning to Seattle with no reported interference, drift into stores along the nu.in ave clthnugh there had bcc3 no settlement nues. Orderly crowds walked the street lit- agreement ia the gcncr&l strik at that hour. .1 (Continued on page fonr) performances in three days. A small, OREGON RETAILERS ASSOCIATION OPENS MONDAY. FEBRUARY 1 0 Program Promises To Be One Of Unusual Interest And Information. An irresponsible person who shall be nameless noting that the annual convention of tho Oregon Retailers' as sociation opened withjirnyer, wants to know whether the preacher is supposed to pray for the association or for the city of Saley.i It should be a. prayer of felicitation, for the meeting that con venes next Monday is going to be a fifty-fifty mutual benefit affair. No raternity on earth knows better how to pity tho host thanthe business men of Salem. Tho visitors will be given tho freedom of tho city and they will bo expected to enjoy themselves with the muffler wide opon. Neither influenza germs, legislative chlorine or police reg ulations will be allowed to interfere with three long days of pleasure and profit. As tho mercantile order repre sents the crystallized acumen and im petus of this stote, they will be ex pected to return the municipal hospitali ty with a lot of new enthusiasm nnd up to tho minute ideas. Order of Events. Beginning Monday morning, Febru rary 10, tho association, which should represent every soction of Oregon, will fill up three days with alternate busi ness, conference and sociability. The course of events as blocked out will be as follows: - Monday morning, 10 to 11 Registra tion of delegates tit Commercial club (Continued en page three) HARD SURFACE ROADS FOR FEEDERHIGHVVAYS f r,r i ' . . . Delegates From it. Angel And Scotts Mills Distrticts Want Paving Now. Tho first energetio impetus was' giv en tho matter of road improvement in Marion icounty yesterday when a big delegation of representative farmers and business men met with the coun ty commissioners at the emnrt house and nlsro held a conference at the Com mercial club rooms for the purpose of discussing ways and means for. bring ing the question before the taxpayers of the county. The body was made up largely of residents from the Mt. An gel and Scottg Mills districts, with a number from other parts of the coun ty. Tho body was unanimous and en thusiastic with regard to the project, which is a comprehensive one in the inception. It proposes the bonding of th county to the amount of $1,000, 000 if necessary, in order to hard sur fice the' main traveled roads connect i ing the various rural centers.This would mean, as a rough estimate, 83 miles of road improvement at the rate of approximately $12,000 a mile. It will be recallod that this question was 'brought up at a special election two or three yenis ago, and 'at that time there was a strong opposition vote from the farmers on the bond is sue, probably (because of the assump tion that the greater part of the mon ey was to be spent on trunk highways. (Continued on page four) ABE MARTIN Misg Fawn Lippincutt has received a letter from her uncle in Iudianny say in' he s sold more house slippers Since th' state went dry than in all th ' forty years he's been in business. Gran-haw Pash his a watered silk wrapper an' she looks like an npright walrus. r "M iW HOUSE IS "ROUGH ON RATS" AND ALL OTHER DEST RUCT1VE PESTS Stock Interests EH Says Dock ing And De-Horning Are Not Cruelty To 'Animals. -I, ) It is not cruelty to animals to do horn cuttle or to dock the tails of sheep or horses, according to a vote taken by the house u a bill defining cruelty to animals, i C. 7. Woodson of Heppner introduced the bill at the request of the big cat tlo and sheep interests of the eastern part of tho state. "He explained the advantages of. dehorning cattlo and the docking of sheep. Horsc8 to be sold on the Cunadian or English market or in fact any. European market must bo docked. A horsa-with a long tail biings on the English market about $50 less thtiu a docked one. (Hence the horse interests of eustern Oregon want it le gally understood that', whon they dock a horse, the law on cruelty to animais cannot bo enforced, j Eodcnts and other' niedatnrv aro in for a hard spring ana summer ii tno senate tnd governor una up with tho houso on its extorminntinn hill ie. ed yestorday. Land owners sie to be required to worK with the county agri culturalist and countv courts in lmv. ing poison to go after tho ground squir rels ana sucn. mo county agricultural ists are declared tn be-the nffii-inl nni. on mixers for each county, or the coun ty court u tuore is no , agriculturalist. Each county is to ha ve a revolving fund of $500 nnd land owners will m,t ln permitted to work on the idea of let ting tho other fellow do it. All must get in nnd cooperate with the county in aistnuuting poison. ' The big $10,000,000 road and highway bill has finally been drawn and receiv ed, tho approval of tho joint committees. Tho ' hpuse bus ordered 2000 copies in ordor that everyone interested inny get opy. If you-want Ofcij-'address your request to your senator or represents tivo. If you do not know his address, just writo hiin in euro of the houso of representatives. Tho houso is getting tired of the oratorical spell binders who do a lot of orating but it is claimed never change votes. Several times Friday the would bo orators wore choked off by a call for tho previous question. When tho previous question cajrics, the only chauco the orator has is when his namo is called on roll call. The rules of the house permit s member to 'explain his vote and occasion is often taken at that time to get rid of the accumulated amount of oratory. As tho present law stends, county courts levy a tax for school purposes that shall aggregato at least $8 per capi to for everyone in the school district between the ages of four and 20. A bill that passed the houso yesterday pro vides that the levy shall be increased' in order that $10 a head may bo raised. I With $75 as tho proposed minimum sal-, ary for teachers in any school district, it ai ii ii.: u:n - little. For tho Salem school district, should tho bill become a law, it would put about $700 more In the treasury. The state lime board end the stato lime plant at Gold Hill is in for some rough sledding Monday. It seems a bill was passed by the house permitting tho plant to selljn any amount and to anybody anywhero at the state's cost price of $1.75 a ton. The Bill was so worded that hardly any of the mem bers in voting in favor of the bill un derstood its provisions, one of which wag that the plant could sell in Wash ington or California at the state cost of $1.75 a ton. Tho retail price now is from $10 to $12 a ton and if tho bill passed had become a law, big dealers In in Portland could have bought In ccr lots and disposed of same in Washing ton or anywhere, with a profit of be-1 tween the cost price or i.7a ana the wholesale of $10 to $12 a ton. Kubli of Portland never did care very much for tho farmer and his demand for cheap lime. But it is to his vigilance in this instance that the house will cor rect the bill and will prevent selling outside of the state and to big whole sale interests. The Southern Pacific was about to be swatted by the house yesterday but it just so happened that it wasn't. Under the present law of license to for eign corporations, the 8. P. pays a tax of $200. Under the law proposed by Rchcnbel. it would be obliged to pay $2400. With a fine chance to swat the bi railroad corporation, the house de cided not to. Hughes and Speske Bey mour Jones were in favor of the swat and Martin wag against -it. Looncy and Weeks were absent when tho vote wti taken. The state engineer is in for raisn of salary, as the salary committee will recommend $3600. The corporation com missioner was also '.recommended for ,$3600. In each ease, the bill proposed 'that $4200 was about the right salary but the committee to which it was re ferred ehopped off $600. There is a LEAGUE OF RATIONS' CONSTITUTION NEARS COMPLETION TODAY Executive Commiiies Of 7 Will Have Iniiial Gov erning Capacity. Paris, Feb. 8. The league of na tions committoo virtually completed tho entire constitution at its meeting this morning, it was announced. The re-drafting necessitated by tho sever al changes will delny its completion until tho middle of next week, how ever. Lord Cecil of Great Britain, Promier Venizelos of Greece, Senator Bourge ois of France and Paul Hymans of Bol gium were appointed as a drafting com mittee. . Tho meeting of the committee will bo held at 10:30 Monday morning. FIRST GOVEENISTG BODY By Fred S. Ferguson (United Pross staff correspondent) Faris,1 Feb. 8. The initial govern ing body of the league of nations will be an executive committee of seven one l'M'resontativB for , eyich of the five great powers and two for the smaller countires it was learned from a reliable aoureo today. This agreement is said to have boon contained in ono of the twenty two articles of the constitution, half of which are officially accepted by the special committee on the league of nations. It would indicnto that the minor powers, lost their contention for larger representation on the executivo committee. With continued progress at tho two sessions scheduled for today nnd a meeting for tomorrow night, it was be lieved the draft would be ready for presentation to the general peace con gress early next week. Tho committee working on interna tionalization of waterways will get down to business next week. One of its first subjects will bo tho question of whether the Bhine jg to be an opon waterway or placed under' a commis sion similar to that which will control the i Danube. " TACOMA electric LINES ARE IH FULL OPERATIC AGAIN Union Carmen Say Their In tematioal Union Won't En dorse General Strike. Tacoma. Wash.. Fob. 8. Streolccrs ox liie xticuiuu mu i way uuu xuvvuf cum pany and municipal lines were operst ing on full schedule again today. Tho . i. rti t..:i t i men went back to work early this morn ing after a day of idleness, during which there was genoral pomplaint at tho order which called them off thoir jobs yesterday. Tho union carmen issued a statement srying: . "Our international will not endorse a genoral strike and docs not rccognizo the control labor council ns having any authority to call us out against our own vote." The return to work of the etrcotcr men, along with the repudiation of the central labor council 's order will go far toward breaking the general strike, in the belief of many porsons here today. Thcro wes much talk of forming now unions among tho many. workers who are opposed to a general strike with a possible (weeping reorganization of the central labor council and affiliated bo dies under new charters. A majority of the teamsters who quit work yesterday morning wero reported to have returned to their jobs in the afternoon. The barbers, wh0 declared "vacation'' Thursday, also were ro-i turning. Markets, groceries and restaurants were serving the public as usual, many oporating under "pcrrits" from the strike committee. . Bring Strong rPessure to aeBr. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 8. Strong pres mre was being brought to bear by tht (Continued on page ten) dlspoaition among some member! of tho house to submit all these big salary raiseg to a vote of the people. Schcubcl introduced and spoke in fa vor of a bill providing that if an alien wants to own Oregon property, ho must become a citizen, at least within seven years after acquiring the property. He said some of tho largest land owners In tho state didn't care enough for thU country to become citize or even to speak the English language, Gallagher rung in Italy and France and said he didn't propose to keep such good citi zens out after Burdick had pronounced the bill a vicious one, some of tho oth ers thought likewise and it was prompt ly killed. ' Will Have Polish And Spartacan Questions To Settle At Once. Casualties In Fighting Between Government Troops And Spartacans In Bremen Yesterday Were Heavy. Many Buildings Badly Damaged. Zurich. Feb. 8 Eilwnrd Tlnviil a. mfi. jority socialist-was olected .president of the German constituent government by tne national assembly at Weimar, dih patches from that city announced to day. Tho vote was 274 to 25. Hcrr Fchronbach, former president of the reichstag, Conrad Haetssman and Hcrr Deitrich wore elected vice presi dents. By Frank J. Taylor (Unitod Press Staff Correspondent.) Lack of Harmony. Woi mar, Germany, Feb. 7. Tho sec ond session of the national assembly to day begun to devolop evidencos of lack of harmony. : Aside from political dis putes there was a strong fooling in all parties against tho loaders' "steam-roll er" tactics. The strong coalition form ed has given the proceedings much tho saino cut and dried atmosphere that ob tained in tho old reichstag. Tho coalition, which at present in cludes tho democrats, Catholic! and ma jority socialists, is believed by many to bo uustablo. The socialists demand gen oral socialization of all industries as a FIGHT AGAINST PAVING CONCERNS GOING STRONG Would Stop Secret Agreement Between i'aving Companies And Contractors. The supporters of the. bills to curb tho paving trust will go to bat for thoir measures on tho floor of the senate Mon day afternoon, That is the program agreed upon by the senate roads and highways commit tee at a mooting yesterday afternoon, when A. J. Hill, nianagor of the War ron Construction company, and R. W. Montague, attorney for Warren Broth ers company, appeared before the com mittee and protested against the pass age of the bills. Tho committee mcmbors agreed to moot at noon Monday and tuko ono more look at the bills as amended and hrtn flln nn nn the rmwrts. either for '-- i -wr r . or against tho bills. There aro four bills ami it is likely that there will 'nn two rnnorts nn all of them, one re port favoring them and tho other op posing them. Thnan fun bills havo been introduced my Sens' torj Lachmiind, Thomas and Dimick. who are leading tho light to put tho patented paving concerns out nf business so far an their power to control paving prices th' tato concerned. Manager Hill of the Warren Construe BIG CONSOLIDATION BILL WAS KNIFED YESTERDAY IN HOUSE With the bill proposing to create a department of agriculture receiving its death blow at 6 o'clock Friday eve-j ning, the death knoll has been sound ed to all proposed consolidation bills. The bill to crcato a health department died Friday beforo tho house had a chance to give dt a final blow. But tho health department bill lived long enough to give the menvbers of the house an opportunity to go emphatic ally on record as oppoBcu to ail con solidations. It is these various consolidation bills that propose to place the affairs of the state in half a dozen departments and to abolish tubout three fourths of the office holders and the dozen or two commissions. The knowing ones laugh ed up their sleevo! when the bills were introduced. Now that the way has been pointed to an untimely death of all such, tho same knowing ones are laugh ing out loud. The department of agriculture bill that was so hilariously kicked to death Friday evening proposed to cieate the office of commissioner of agriculture, to be appointed toy the governor, and with him four superintendents, all to be directly under the control of the one commissioner, The Ibig opposition to the bill, be sides making the governor the whole thing, came from the fact that it was intended to abolish the following: Board of state fair directors and ail lot Its officers; board of agriculture part of tho national oenstitution. Tho I democrats and Catholics consider par tial socialization as tho only means of j insuring tho payment of Germany' 1 debts and re-establishment of hor credit Durirg the discussions today many delegates contended that it is useless to raise the questions .of disposition of Aluaco-Lorruino and the repatriation of German war prisoners at this time. Edward David echoed Chancellor Eb crt's demand for a aplobescite In Alsuce Lorrjine. It is significant t!iat during these debutes the principal opposition to tho n-i'ition enmo from cnmvr tives, rnlhcr than the radicals. i ' Volunteer Reinforcements Berlin, Feb. fi. Fourteen hundred vol mitoers left today to reinforce the Ger man troops who are holding off th Polish forces attacking tho Brostoau- Kissay railroad on the Silesian frontier Unconfirmed dispatches received earl icr in tho week declared that an armis tice hi.i.1 boon effected between the ff"r- (Continived on page seven) tion company which has tho uitulithio patented 'pavement declared that tho bills would drive the patented pave ments from the stato if they were en acted into lnw. But the senators favor ing tho bills refuse to seo it thut way, us they contend the bills will not drivu the puto;itcd pavement! out of Oregon but they will give every contractor au equal chance at bidding on paving con tracts where patented paving am te rial is to bo used. Stop Secret Agreements. . The bills aro intended to make secret agreements between the paving com panies nnd contractors, whereby on contractor is given a preference over another, impossible. beuator Lachmund asked Mr.. Hill if his company ever made secret agree ments of this nature with contractor. Mr. Hill udmittod that such agreements hrd been msdo before he became man ager of tho company seven yeurs ago, but that Mine had been niudo einco mi took churgo of tho business so far as ho knew. "I came to this eompiiuy from or of tho biggest independent paving con cerns in tho country," ho said, "and since then this company has pus np a deal fiyht for business. Whenever thcro is any fraud In connection witV their transactions then 1 am througit (Continued on page four) and a few others reading from ilia and its officers; state live stock san itary board, state veterinarian, board! of sheep commissioners, stnihon regis tration board, stato lime board, liv stock adjusting brand froard, state chemist, dairy and food commissioner and state scaler of weights end meat ures anoN his deputies. When the bill came up for third reading and passing late Friday eve ning, Representative Schoeoel attempt-, ed to postpone action until Monthly morning. He insisted on a call of the house and when it was found 11 had gone home, he declared his intentions of standing pat and preventing a vot until the 11 absent ones had l)3en re called, even if it was necessary to ait up all night. "It looks like some crooked work 4n the house," declared Mr. Schuebel "I understood certain men from Portland would come here and run this legisla ture and it looks like it now. A littl9 coterie of men have got together to run this houso and inther legisla tion." Insistanjf on postponing a vote until tho sergeant at arms should get out search warrants, Mr. Hchuebcl propos ed holding up action, of the house un til the absent ones, mostly in Port land, should be brought back. With a dozen members standing and attempting to take part in the debat (Continued on page four) .