5000 CMULATION
(25,000 BEADEBS DAILY)
Only Circulntion ia Salem Guar
anteed by the Audit Bureau of
Circulations
FULL LEASED WIRE
DISPATCHES
SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAIr
x.
J Weaker Report 5
Oregon: Tonight and Wednea
day fairolder enst pertkin ta-
night, moderate westerly wind
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LfcY. KEWS 8SHVICH
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mi iimnimirifif .
U Kin 3 D ftlrtr m AM
FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 29.
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1919.
; ' PRICE TWO CENTS
GEflESlRES
UK GEOR
CLOSER mm
I S.-GREAT l&IT
Expressed This Wish In Soeech
ed Parliament Today. Is Particularly Glad That
Peace Delegates Have Agreed To Accept Principles
jl League ui xNaiions.
OX TRAINS AND XEW
STANDS FIVE CENTS
AIN
UNDER THE BI G CAPITAL DOME
London Feb 11. - King George,. I commend to
..rv..wg ,u,u ute luronc in tormniiy tion consideration
"iiciiuijf jmiimiueiir snoniy arter noon loins
co nay,
expressed his desire that the
understanding between Great Britain
and the United States should increase
"id that the two countries will "ac((
uyiiaor in me tuiurc. "
"It has given me great pleasure to
receive President Wilson," said the
ting. "Tho enthusiastic welcome ac
corded him is proof of the good will
;ll sections of my pccplo feci toward
the United States. 1 enrnstly desire to
. incrcaso this understanding nd I trust
my country and the United States will
aft together in the future.
"I rejoice particularly that Mm
peace delegates have agreed to accept
Hie principle of the league of nations,
for it is by .progrcasa along that road
that I sea the only hope of saving man
kind from recurrence of the scourge of
war, . ! "
"The armistice has 'been persever
ingly enforced and the peace discus
sions have been marked by the utmost
cordiality and good will and by com
Jilete agreement have made good pro
gress. ;
your earnest atten
or industrial prob-
l ardently desire that the gifts of
insure aim prosperity shall be gener
ally shared throughput the community
and I hope you will spare- no effort to
ward healing the causes of the exist
ing unrest."
Urged Unfair Competition
The king recommended creation of
ministries of health, and ways of com
munication, and urg-d fulfillment of
the government's pledges to the" trade
unions, a large increase in housing ac
commodations and provisions for turn
in? over land to soldiers. He also urg
ed a bill "preventing unfair oompcti-
" uy tne saie or imported goods he
low the selling price- where they are
produced."
He recommended introduction in the
house of commons of a. bill for cousti
tional reform in India.
Regarding the Irish situation, . he
said: "Tho positlou in Ireland has
caused me great anxiety. earnestly
hope that conditions soon will improve
sufficiently to mnko possible a dur
able settlement."
TO
.11
II
OF THREE
-BILL
OREGON RETAILERS
AnACK ITS WEIGHTY
BlISINESSPROBLEHS
Subject Of Child Labor Ably
Discussed By Mrs. Trum
bull Of Portkd.
uring the past 21 hours the Oregon
Retailers, in session in this city, hcvf
boon confronted with and tackled some
of the greatest business problems tha
come before tho trade, and if they have
not settled them they have at least ex
pressed their viows. One of the biggest
of these was Dthe matter of child and
ian labor in stores and factories. I
This was presented to the dealers in an i
exhaustive manner by Mrs. Millio. R. !
Trumbull,
and industrial welfaro commission, of
Portland, Mrs, Trumbull speaks not
only from the gures that come Into her
office, but from personal observations
of conditions in business establishments
whero women and children are compell
ed to do work that is beyond their
strength. She emphasized strongly both
the physics! and psychological dangers
of this condition, and appealed to the
association to give its moral support
to any legislation looking toward bet
tering industrian conditions.
President Cusitcr, in his remarks.
Fishermen in the state of Wtshiiigton wn" should not be discriminated ouchcd uPoa thc duty of he 'retailers
Also Passes Bill Regulating
DIspositios of Strayed Stock
Picked Up.
Adopt Resolution To Give Re
turned Soldiers And Sailors
Preference In Work.
LOYAL
COOI
ROAD
His Ship, However, Will Probably Not Sail Until Sunday
Meanwhile, Peace Work Continues And Reprint Of
League Of Nations, Which Was Completed Yesterday
. . Was Read At Today's Session Of Committee.
rr E')bert Bender f which Wilson is chairmGn. uring the af-
( United Press staff correspondent) ternoon the president was to meet tho
Pans, Feb. 11. President Wilson sunrnmn wm. -niinii. w?n T?nlrinn Hoi.
pliimicd today to leave on Friday for'eeates wore tn discuss the svstematia
ilrest, preparatory t0 saiUng for the plans of "the Germans to destroy Belgian
Three Oregon scions in their most characteristic poses when the camera man is near.
SPLIT IS GROWING IN iATTORNEY GENERAL
SHIP YARD WORKERS
BROWN'S OFFICE FORCE
RANKS IN TACOMAiGETS RAISE OF $2,609
United States. Thore was a possibility,
however, that his steamer might not
leave before Sunday. The president's
party, it was learned, will include EctI
Rending, French Ambassador Jusse
rnd, Italian Ambassador Cellerg and
Franklin Roosevelt, assistant socrctary
of tho navy.
Tho re-print of tho lenguo of Mo
tions constitution, which was complotcd
and approved yesterday, was to be read
at toduy's session of tho committee, of
industries. The matter will be fcrerred
to the supreme economic council for
handling in connection with the indem
nities and armistice provisions. The
war council was also expected to con
sider Marshal Foch'g plan for further
military demonstrations, bucU ts occu
pation of other strategic points to in
sure compliance with the armistice.
The president will nttend n benefit
performance at the opera- fon'ight.
1 v
Radical And Conservative
Wings Of Unions Undergo
ing Tests Of Strength. ;
If Senate Bill No. 5, giving prefer
ence to returned soldiers and Bailors in
the matter of employment, goes dead
in the legislature this week, it will die
with Its boots on" to judge from the
The process of grinding out and vot
ing on bills is going along smoothly in
l.tie linuiui una- 1.... . i j
ner this' is allotted t0 the uTmakeri "('nti'"8t8 "nd determination "".
The stute land board is to be given . 0 0 A- K headquarters last
power of eminent domain and authority "'Rht. It will be recalled thct this bill
to trade lands with the federal govern- paed tho senate unanimously, went to
ment in a bill passed by the house yes- tlln ,,ous and was referred to the com-
jterday. Also to pick out swamp lands n''tte on revision of laws. It was re-
tbe state wants in order to perfect title. Prtcd favorably, but when it ccine up
There is somo big national legislation 011 tue calendar it was attacked by sev-
re;urding swamp lands and with title eral members, 0n tho ground that there
perfected, the state will be in better wo ""iny men who were not celled to
position to co-operate with federal for; tn0 service but wh0 were quite as loyal
11. "U aiMI SttCnilCinir as ailV on rlinr
luy ij-.uo license to cnen county in "K"1""". me 0111 wbb re-referred and
rhich they fish. In Oregon it is enme. back a second time with en ad-
1.50 for a state license. The house Tprse report and wns sent to the limbo
j i. :n ii- iv-i-.?-, :n,1n;.,!i- .
ira.iseu mil proviuing inai a iisuerman iuuwiiihb postponement
Tacoma, Wash., Feb,' 11. Strike ad
vocates retained eontro' of the boiler
makers union, tho largetualon affil
iated with the Motal Trades, when a
vote on going back to work in the ship
yards was taken at a wild meeting held
in the First Presbytorian church here
last night.
A growing split in the ranks of the
shipyard strikers was evident however
and it. was predicted that the end of
Sea Lions Are Not Seals And
No Bounty Will Be Offered
; ' For Them. "
wnrntarr f the ol.ll.l l-l,,.- luB strlKB imminent,
j ,
in taking greater interest in legislation,
and especially legislation that had to
do with commercial interests. He also
touched upon the invasion of local tor
several other unions affiliated
with the Metal Trades there developed
tests of strength between the radical
and conservative wings.
The action of the boilermakerg and
that of the sheet metal workers, en
gineers, painters and plumbers will bo
reported to the Metal Trades council
Thursday night, when another strike
reierendum may be called with or
without tho joint action of tho Seat
tle Metal Trades,, it was reported.
Are Weakening
. Following the collapse of the at
tempted general strike, the radicals
who are credited with engineering it
as well as the shipyard strike are said
to .be showing signs of weakening.
P'ollowing reports of threats to kill
James Reid, president of thc boiler
makers union, a cordon of 16 uniform
ed and plain clothes officers was
thrown about the church by Chief of
Police Smith. In addition six gonads
from another state must Dav what the The mcetinz wns hebl . ntory by the mail order octopus some-
license is in his state if he wants to "lp G- A- R. post, made up of veterans ttine that has been emphasized thisof rogular troops from Camp Lewis
t X. : .. r T. 1 .. 1 a 4-UA --I.,!! . 1 ft . . . WAAlr ll 4 ha Atlmtxlnn n A " t m ..t L.M . 1 ... 1
in viksuu. it hus tuucu it jucu- nn nur, ine Bpanisli-Anieriean -v v - .ric uaia unaer arms at tne armory,
piacity measure. war and returned soldiers from the Scars Hoeluck catalogues into the eity a; Mock away, ready to quell any dis-
Politics crept into a debate in the world war, handled tho matter with in- of Sc'!cm tnis week. Along with this turbance.
house in the bill offered by Illcman. i-'gnant protest, holdine that tho-sum- ne mentioned the extent to Which co-op-1 A clos watch was kept at tho en
All he wanted wrg that in case of death mary action of the legislature reflected erative buying ig being done 4y con-j trance to exclude radicals who, it was
.or removal from a district that the discredit upon the patriotism and the umer. i . thought, mirht attempt to pack the
spirit or gratitude in Oregon. The spirit jmhcii juwuuuueuuauoDB meeting, ine oouermaserg were Jarge-
of the gathering was crystnlized in the Tto prfident's rccommcndatio:is, ' 'y responsible for the central labor
following resolutions: which were presented at this session, ' council 'g action in ordering a general
"Whereas, This legislature has en- included the following: strike last week. In tho general strike
acted and is proposing to enact certain Changing the name of this organiza-! er(;n,lnm thcy reported n voto of
reconstruction measures and provide an- tlon t0 uregn "State Ketcilers' asbo- " '" ''"
(Continued on page three)
4c
ABE MARTIN
ciatton" on the ground that the pros
ATif nnmrt wna tn Innrr And olart lioniinaa
it placed too much emphasis upon tho dif"'on Monday was to accept
to some confusion as ' y"u'"' 1 "" ""wior
pronnations to meet the problems of
uiimpioyment, tneretore, be it
' ' Kesolved by this gathering of mem
bors of the Grand Army of the Rcpub
, hpanish war veterans und returning
..w.uiuin, sauors anu marines of the pres
ent war, that we consider thc r.etion of
tne house in rejecting Senate Bill No.
3 at this time and under present indus
trial conditions as an act of injustice
to enlisted men and not encouraging to
those who have made sacrifices for the
honor 0f our eountry and the defense of
the American flag.
"Resolved that we demand the re
consideration of the hestv action hv
the house to the end that Senate Bill
No. 3 may eome up for passuee and that
all members of the house may be given 1
a opportunity to record their vote for
or against its passage after formal
roll call."
Following the unanimous adoption of
'the resolutions, a. committee was ap-l
pointed to bring the matter before the!
house today, as tomorrow ia the last 1
day in w hich thc bill can eome nn for I suggested, that the secretary should
consideration. The committee is made mske a regular tour of the atate during
nn of Comrades Webster. Hnatnn pn.l tho vear.
It is believed the pronoeal
tho strike committee reported
grocers, leadine
to the status of the organization.
Ho recommended that tho per capita
dues bo made $1.00 Instead of S3 cent!
and 2.00 for members not affiliated
with a local, holding that present dues
wcro not sufficient to care for the needs
of thc association.
' He recommended that the director!
bo hereafter elected in groups as fol
lows: Two from Portland, two from'
the Willamette Valley, two from the
lower Columbia district, three oat of
Southern -Oregon, and three out, of east-,
ern Oregon. J
No recommended that arrangements
be made whereby the organ of the asso
ciation -the- Oregon Merchants Maga-i
zine should be made of reel benefit
through advertising on the "part of Or
egon merchants. President Cusiter al-
so called attention to the need of field
eral of the Emergency Fleet corpora
tion that the shipyard men return to
work before their demands are given
consideration.
French Censor Disapproved
- American Press Comment
Kuney,
1
Ms-dame Neuralgia told Miss Tawney Harvard, one of the' most widely
Apple that she'd marry a round, florid known astronomers in the country, is
money maker an' be very miserable, dead at Cambridge. ,
"Dandy" Mopps died yesterday, and " ' '
!ik,. ail good dressers he oweu ever-bud- Fortv convention will be held in
San Francisco during 1K19.
Paris, Feb. 11. The French censor
showed his disapproval of the report
that the peace conference might be re
moved from Paris by deleting comment
from the Paris editions ot tw0 Aeriean
newspapers.
. The Paris edition of the New York
Herald appeared this morning with a
big double white space on the first
page. A column article in thc Paris
edition of tho Chicago Tribune was also
deleted, save for rtrn nnrrnr,ha ra.
work in behalf of the association, ndjuting to the leairue of nations.
Foreign Secretory Balfour, replying
to correspondents' questions regarding
the alleged threat to move the peace
conference, said it wag conceivable that
the press of a large city, by keeping up
certain propaganda, might ereate an un-
Tnc; Ways and Means eommitteo in
its session last evening was Inclined to
view with the attorney general 's office,
thut a first-class lawyer was worth to
the stato more than $2,000. instead of
i having tho legislature namo the salaries
of the first, second and thiiM assistants
to the attorney gencrul, the committoe
agreed to place tho lump Bum of $7,000
for these three lawyers and lot Mr.
Brown do tho dividing.
The: bill proposing to give $2j,000 for
investigating and prosecuting lund
frauds, especially those against tho
school lands, was bIbo fisvorcd by thf
committoe. A bill has been introduced
iu tho house providing that this amount
shall be expended by tho attorney
general's office to prosocuto those guil
ty of lund frauds.
Jap Upton, head of the irrigation
congross appeared before tho eommitteo
asking for its support in an appropria
tion to continuo tho surveys for irriga
tion projects. Ho said that during tho
present year $2,500,000 in irrigation
bonds had been sold and that $200,0001
acre8 of land will be irrigated tho com
ing tw0 years. Mr. Powers, sccretury
of the stato grange also spoke tn favor
of the bill appropriating $10,000 a year
for two years for soil and irrigation
work.
Sam Brown, of Gervais, president of
the drainugo association of Oregon, also
spoke ia favor of tho appropriation. He
said many drainge projects need t sci
entific survey to ascertain first wliethor
the soil is such that drainage would
pay.
Mr. Chenowcth, appointed to repre
sent thc interests of Coos and Curry
counties, once again spoke on the boun
ty question. Down in that part of the
state, tho courts include sea lions in its
interpretation of thc word seal. Hence
which 'hunters have been killing and scalping
Mtnutcds 1 1 nz. lions ana mo two
counties had to pay for bountios. It
seems the soa lion doesn't cat salmon
and there ig no use in the counties pay
ing big duties for them. What is
wanted is the bounty for just ordinary
seals as thcy feed mostly on salmon.
Thc committoe agreed to draw a boun
ty bill counting out sea lions.
Bepresentr.tivc Roman, of Astoria
spoke in favor of tho bill appropriating
$2,000 for an experimental station near
Astoria. It is needed to- tile 20 acres
of this frm to demonstrate to ewnors
SENATORS HAD LITTLE, SEATTLE STRIKE
JOKE BEFORE PASSING ;
ft LAFOLLEIT'S BIIL
LOSS ESTIMATED
Governor's Signature Neces-'
sary To Provide Bounties
On Burrowing Animals. , J
The genate today passed the .Marion
county gopher and aquirrol bounty bill, !
but in doing so some of tho senators
could not resist the opportunity to play
a little joko on Senator LaFollett, who
consistently voteg against salary in-'
creasing bills. , i
More than Jialf of the senators vot-'
ed against the bill, until Senator La
Follett thought the measure was tost,
and then before the final result was
announced they jumped to their feet
and huu their votes changed, carry '
ing the bill with u handsome majority.
Tho bill, which now needs only the
governor's signaturo to make it a law-
within 90 days after tho adjournment
of tho legislature, provides a bounty
of 10 cents on moles and gophers end
five cents on gray digger squirrels.
When the senators laughed at Sena
tor LaFollett 's surprise, the Marioa
county man rosa and shook his finger
at them and said:
"There is moro joy over one sinner
that repentoth than over 09 that go
cth not astray."
House bill 291, which repeals tho act
Jassod in 1917 declaring that the pol
icy of the stato was not to give fi
nancial aid to eharitablo institutions,
was passed! by tho genate today.
When house bill 12H, which provides
that tho labor commissioner shall ex
tond hig work iby conducting an edu
cational campaign against accidents,
wag taken from the table today Sena
tor Eddy and Senator Pattorson point-
ea out that the -mimsuro was
Ml
AT MANY MILLION
Majority Of Labor Is Back At
VheeI Of kdusiry THs
Afternoon. ?
"SPEEO UP" WAS WORD
BEING PASSED AROUND
Whistles At Noon Announced
That Five Day Sympathetic
Strike Was Ended.
Seattle, Wush., Feb. 11, At noon to
day Seattle tooted its whistles ' and
switched its civic gear into "high"
again as the five duy sympathetic
strike of workmen cumo to an official
eloso.
Tho majority of labor that had re
mained out until then, went back to
its job.
Business did its best to mnko up for
lost time. .
Street crowds hastened to deferred
shopping, thronging the avenue and
stores.
There was an almost uudiblo sigh ot
relief as wanted activities wcro resumed.
under
the
gen-
In this session Theo. Both was named
as chairman of the nominating commit
tee, and A. W. Anderson of the com
mittee on resolutions. The eommittoe! happy. atmosphere that would interfere
and A. W. Anderson of the committee with the work of the eonferenM and
on resolutions. The committee on ere- render its removal to a neutral cnuntrr
dcntialg is rncde up of E. O. Guuthcr, desirable. But if guch a situation were
fronted, he said, he thought it could be
adjusted.
(Continued on page eight)
nt HAn ltinita whnt ilrninftcA will liccnm-
Di: h i marked "not subject to inspection or
The Hood Bivcr experimental station terminal weight or grade," is repealed
is after a smell appropriation. This PrT th" .
i Lav:.. Ia house joint resolution 13, which
.thlf. ,ld he rown in annle ! wa PaMei1 . the t'l,ate today, me-
orchards. While a few yecrs ago noth
ing wns grown between the trees, last
year 72 car loads of alfalfa- were ship
ped by orchardists.
The bounty bill which called for $75,
000, was finally pessed last evening by
the ways and mean, committee with a
recommendation of $65,000.
While the government is doing work
atom? bounty lines, witnessea who spoke
on the subject agreed thst tho stock
man and the farmer would do the work
better is there was a proper bounty.
Markets, shops, groceries, the&torics,
merely "U places of commerce and amusement,
an opening wedge for building up a combined t0 restoro the interrupted o
biT state department, at an incroasod ciul and industrid life of the harried
eost to the itAte, The bill was refer- northwestern metropolis.
rod to tho ways and means committee, And traffic cops began to funetiom
whero it is likely to rest. . again.
Amend Or'in.Iaw, "Speed up," was tho word every-
Tho grain (inspection law is amend- where. J
ed by senate bill 144, which poased the . . , Employes Appeared
senato today. The amendments bring Calculated by strike leaders to be t
within the scope of Mie law grain and" dramatic a display as they had regarded
hay products and potatoes and onions, the general sympathetic walkout in sup-.
support ol shipyard woracrs- wnjie in-;
mends, thousands of laborers and clerks
appeared at their employment simul-
tancously. . j
Thus ended the most portentous un-
dertaking of America's industrial life,!
begun at 10 o'clock Thursday morning,
February 6, characterized by Mayor ,
wiaa Hanson and civic organizations as "am
rbortive attempt to start a revolution."
and by the strike monitors as a "con-,
vincing demonstration of labor's aoli-
wntch will 'bo subject to inspection
nd weighing tho same as is grain. The
limit on tne amount of salaries that
may be paid to inspectors, samplers
and other employes in the department
ig removed and the question of salar
ies is loft to the public service com
mission. The provision which exempt'
ed from aiumeetion igrain that
Nine members of a fishing party
were drowned in the Warrior river at
Birmingham. Ala.. Saturday, by the
capsizing of a. fishing boat. - - .
morializes the government railroad ad
ministration to restore thc freight rate
on Mad construction materials which
was in effect prior to the time the gov
ernmnnt took over control of the roads
"ThiK arbitrary and unreasonable
increase in freight .charges upon high
way matorial places the people of the
state at a great disadvantage and nec
essarily take from the people a large
amount of money In the way of
freight rates and at the same 'time
df.rity."
. . " f
Aro Kow Counting Cost.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 11. In the bus :
tlo to reorganize its disjointed indus
trial life after thc stroke of 12 nor
whnn tho general strike here ended, 8e
attlo wns beginning to count profit a d
loss on thc five day sympathetlewalk
oiit that lmd affected in all more thai
100,000 working people and had tied
up tho city.
Speculation on wha enni.goa mini.
reduces the Amount nt moncv avail-1 trial relations, if any. might come a
able for highway construction an.dMhe,j result of tho strike was wide spread i
employment or iator therein," says : tho ranks of labor ana ouisiuo.
tho resolution.
The senate passed house joint me-
(Continued on page five)
In fact. It hud become probably tl.a
biggest question in Seattle tcduy.
.. . Continued on pag '