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: 5000 CIRCULATION (25,000 READERS DAILY) Only Circulation in Salem Guar- snteod by the Audit Bureau of Weaikr Report i Oregon: Tcniht and Friday fair exceipt probobly rain north wrt "portion; moderate west- erly winds. N ' . w circulations J FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAIr , LEY NEWS SERVICE UWfcMfiM FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 42. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEW STANDS FIVK CKNT .. ... . . , ...... nt n l fl U 1 11 1 M IVOLUTIOft RESULT OF fh 0 Have Overtkown Radicals In DusseMorf And Siezed Con trol! Of City. SOVIET UPRISING HAS SPREAD TO ALL PARTS iew Strikes And Riots Are Reported In Saxany And Ruhr District By John Gruacnz (United Press staff correspondent) Berlin, Feb. So. Anarchists, charg ing tho Spnrtncans are too conserva tive, havo started a counter revolution in Germany. Reports from Dussellorf today stated that auarehists had overthrown the Hparlacnns and poized control of tho city. Dussoldorf had only recently pas-i;i-it into the hands of tho Spartac&ns. Meanwhile, the fepartatans soviet re-Tolat-an lias spread to 1.11 parts of the country. New uprisings, striitos and Ti!ta were wportod in Saxony, Bavaria, .the HliinolMid and the Ruhr district. -Woimer Cut Off. Wcimor, tho present seat of the Ger man government, hag been cut off from Herliii. No information could bo ob tained todny as to what is transpiring in Weimer. A speciul.government train which left Weimer for Berlin on Tues day night, started bv way of Loipsig, luit was forced to make several addi tional detours, us tho crew learn..-d that stations had been captured by Sparta cans. The minors and industrial workers in the Halle region. Saxony, havo joined the Spartnoans and that entire country in reported to bo paralyzed. The soviet government in Munich lifts threatened to execute ten promin ent citizens if tno German government sends Prussian troops gaaiust Bavaria. The congress of workmen, soldiers and peasants' councils there Tuesday do-' ananrlod that tho assembly bocomo. a provisional national council. A deputa tion representing five thousand work men urged the proclamation of a soviet republic, opening of diplomatic rela tions with the Russian bolshevik gov ecment and annulment of all stato debts. Government Divided. The Gwman government is reported field Big.ml battalion complete, 13 offi- vote of the people at the special elec ts be divided as to what steps shall be cerg anJ m mcn an(i a tfev york tas. tlon Jun9i The governor will ap tt.ken to suppress tho revolution. Some i ,inI , ntnt niitnant irrmAnmr nf th members demand the employment of force, while others counsel compromise. l ilitary Governor Noske demands that the reiclistag (national assembly) lm-j iiiediatcly authorize 200,000 additional ; militia, un tho other hand, President Ilbert is understood to favor establish- (Continued on page two) Abe Martin Plug hats reay become poplar agin. tut th ole time gentleman is gone for- ver. ''I've been married five times an' 111 say tV most tryin' thing is : lrainin' a man t u; th butter knife," i faaid Libbie Psh, ! 'day. Yea May Have To Begin Dating Letters "If ear 1' Paris, Feb. 10 (By mail) Tho peace conference 'is to be called upon to reform the cal- endar. The request is to be filed by tho French Aeademy of Sci- once9 with the technical author ity of N. Deislandres, director of the French observatory at Meudon. If tho academy plan is nc- ceptcd, next year probably will bo the yenr 5.. Time will be reckoned, not from the birth of Christ, hut from the signing of tho peace- treaty creating the new world. .Most of the world now ac- cepts the Gregorian calendar, .but much internatiional confus- ion arises from the fact that Russia and the Balkans uso the Julian calendar, in which the year differs from the Gregor- iari year by about 10 days. The peaco conference i ill be asked to make one calr dar compitl- sory or official throughout the world The French academy .plan proposes a yenr of 13 months, each month" having 28 days. The 30:)th day in ordinary years and 3fl5th nn,;l 3ti(t H days in leap years would oe h'oli- d!iys, not included un any monjh. Under this plan a given day of tho month always would fall on the same day of tho week. Another scheme proposes a year composed of four equal quarters, each quarter, compos- ld of ono month of 31 .days and two months oif 30 days each. 5,009 ; ARRIVE AT NEW YORK OH THREETRAKSF0R1 S New York, Feb. 27. Three trans ports arrived here today with nearly 5000 officers and soldiers, mitnv of whom were sick and wounded. The transports were the Wilhelmina, Caserta and Ulua. Tho Wilhelmina had 1,711 men aboard 1,378 of sixteen Bordeaux convalescent detachments made up of men who have been through the great battles of the war and who came from ai pints of 'the United States. Also on board were tho evacuating ambulance cuwpany number 80 of New York; company M 345th infantry, New York, and a Pennsylvania casual company. On tho Caserta, from Marseilles, Feb ruary 0, with 1,607, were tho 63rd regiment C. A. C. 46 officers cnd 1,496 men, and casual ofifcers. The Ulua had 1,180 men, including the 317th supply train complete, ten ual company. Nino hundred and eighty Washington state guardsmen arrived on tho (las-i er(a The troop8 W(,re members of (he 63rd ,,oaBt t.rtincry which went to France last summer under command of Colonel when packed in Oregon, must bear an F. VV. Phister. Major Willard M. Ship- Oregon label, according to the provis pam of Minneapolis, commanded tho ions of house bill 415. which was pass regiment on its return. 'ed by the senate yesterday afternoon. The regiment arrived too late to geii The bill was passed by the close vote into action, but was at several camps or lb to J4 in England and France. At Limoges, the ' The first section of the act says: famous chinaware citv of France, the1 "That all persons, firms or corpora officers hud initialed'dinner sets made tions-opera'ing under their own private for their wives. From Limoges tho do- bran(1 in thc f.atc of Oregon in the taehment was sent to La Courcan, where business of packing er canning fruit cr it finished it. trninim, and w. readv vegetables e,ther fresh, canned evapor- for action when the armistice was sign- atefd or otherwise, shall plainly dc . ... , , , , . , . , f, nate on ucn private brand that goods ed bis hundred and eighty of the: 0 row or ked -J 0t. re.turmng soldiers were onginally in the For the purposes of this e- it IWuHhir-gion state artillery corps, while ;win bo efficient for tho firms whose (three hundred were.... in the V ashing i j,fl(1nrt, ... ; Oree-m to pither Fort Worden, Wash. Among casual officers aboard the jCascrta was Lt. Curtiss Hill, Tacoma .and Lt. H. E. Sticknet, Ludlow, Ver 'mont. Stickncy, a son of the former governor of Vermont, wears the croix ue guerre witn pnims. LANESLIDEa IN ITALY Mrssira, Italy. Ftb 2 Eighteen towns between Tortorici and Castel lumbcrto have been damntred and scores of farm.) wiped out ty land slides resulting from heavy rains, ac cording to advices received hero to day There has been no loss of life, ow ing to the fact that the inhabitants were wara?d in advance The property damage amounts to millions of dollars Two hills Viding together buried seventy live nouses in tne lortonci i; ;rict. forty five between fan Piero ;-.d Piatti and fifty near Castellum- aerto STATE HEALTH CODE HAD NARROW ESCAPE After Considerable Opposition House Voted To Modern ize Code. The codo of Health for the stivte of Oregon, brought up to fit modern con ditions had a narrow escape in tho house yesterday afternoon when an ef- ! fort was made by D. C. Lewis of Port land and Mrs. Thompson of The Dalles to kill the bill. Mr. Lewis didn 't understand the bill and Mrs. Thompson hasn't much use for a codo of heulth nor for tho Oregon state board of health nor for Mr. Seely, state health officer. In bringing the codo of health for uso of the state health board up to date and to fit modern conditions, luciuuing epidemics, it was necessary to print the old health regulations with tho new conditions all of which required 72 pages of tho official pampmut., Having fought all day over a few hundred dollars in the oleomargarine bill, members of the house didn't caro very much whothor tho state had any modern sanitary laws, and there was" .disposition to follow the lead of Mrs. , ! Thompson and kill tho bill Members jjjljust couldn't bear to think of looking into 72 pages on the health code of tho - state, notwitnstanttina mu mc: that e- dozen committee meetings had boon held discti. sir-ig tho codo and every ef fort had been made by the medical men to make the codo warkable. An undertaker fired in several telo grams opposing tho bill and a member opposed to chiropractics didn't like a certain provision. Others didn't like tho idea of giving school boards tho right to employ nurses and physicians for the purpose of examining children. And just as things wore looking dark for a new code of health for Oregon, Dr. C. G. Moore, a member of. tho Portia-id delegation told the house just what it was doing in tryi'Tg to kill tho bill. And instead of killing the bill, tho house got in better humor and at an. adjourned session passed it, with only two or three votes against it. FRUIT PACKED HERE 1ST IE SO LABELED v ... This Will Apply To All Pro dscis Grown Or Packed . Is Oregon The Senate at 3 p. in. passed the Lieutenant Governor bill bv a vote of ig to 11, without amendment. It pro- point the lieutenant governor of tha measure carries. A resolution was adopted to adjourn ; sine die at 4 p. m. this afternoon Oregon crown frui's and vewtnbles. designatc the local address of the can nery or to designate the location of their main office in the s-'ate of Oregon. This act shall not apply to wholesalers packers and others repacking. As exnlained bv senators, the billlthn American Red CroB mission in will apply to all Oregon products which j Russia, investigating alleged bolshc are packed by ennncrios-or packing orvik atrocities, had reported that the evaporating plants located in thisjbolsheviki had massacred hundreds of state, but it will not apply sold to out civilians. He is said to havo cited one side concerns which repack the pro-,i8tance in Perm of an officer's ducts and use other labels. juhoulder straps' being nailed to bis Tho senate .passed Schuehel's inher-1 shoulder. There have been .several ca itance tax law, which raises the rates ' he snid, of priests ibeing mutilated. of inheritance taxes encugn to increase the revenues from that source about $60,000 a year, according to estimates made by the lawmakers. Other Eills Passed. Other bills were passed by the sen ate yesterday afternoon as follows: H. B. 260, br Woldson Amending) the law relating to roals reaching i lands which are not alrcad lie road. pub (Continued on page eight) HOUSE DISPOSED OF REC01TEI11ILL OlMEiAY Measure To Be Put To Vote Of People At Election On JlHv 3. The big Teconsttuction measure of the thirtieth legislative assembly was presented to the House late Wednesday afternoon, and although it proposed to spend $5,000,000 o the state's money, there was no debate and it required only five minutes of the time of the House to pass the bill. -It camo from the Senate in a bill drawn by Senator Eddy and has tho following provisions: On account of the demand that work be provided for returning soldiers in promoting land settlement, reclamation plan-;, construotion of buildings Rnd to avoid tho evils of unemployment, it is proposed to issue state bonds for 000,000, to be known as Ecconstruction bonds. Part of the money is to be used as follows: . For tho construction of a s'atc pen itentiary at Saleni, $500,000. Of this sum $40,000 is to be used for the pur chase of land for penitentiary purposes. To Build Hospital. For the construction of an Oregon state reconstruction hospital on the campus of the Medical school of the University- of Oregon at Portland, $350,000. . . For building or buildings on the campus of tho Oregon Agricultural col lego at Corvallis, $500,000. For building or buildings on the campus of the" University of Oregon at Eugene, $500,000. For building or buildings on the campus of the Oregon state normal school at Monmouth, $100,000. For buildings at Pendloton for the eastom Oregon state hospital, $150,000. Five armories in tho state are to be erected, for which the slato is to con tribute to each $37,500. TheBe armories are to be located at Astoria, Baker, Bend, La Grande aildModford. Tho pro vision is made tmri tlie city or enun ty in which the armory is located must each provide! an equal amount -For Land Settlement. For land settlement, to aid soldiers in securing farms, it is provided that not more than $647,501 of -the amount is to bo used. For use in the reclamation of lands in tho -atato, it is provided that $2, 000,000 shall be expended, but only co operating on a basis whereby the fed eral government pays at least 50 per cent of the expenses of the work . The last section of the bill provides that an emergency exists on account of the sailors, marines and soldiers re turning from the great war, and that tho bill shall be referred to tho peo ple at tho coming special election, June 3. Hence, it will be up to the peo ple to decide whether tho 'vte shall spend '$5,000,000 for reconstruction pur poses. The bill was introduced in the Senato by Senator Eddy and taken care of in tho House by Mr.' Sheldon of Mcdford. LSHE1 PlAB COMBINED OFFENSIVE Bat Allies Have Advanced More Than 26 Miles Oa Murmansk Front. London, Feb. 27. Tho bolfhcviki arc planning a combined offensive on prac tically all fronts, it ig revealed in cap lured' orders of their supreme military command, n dispatch from Archangel reporU-d .today. The ntta.-k'is to start in the Arch angel region and be extended rapidly to the western, southern and eastern fronts. Only the Murmansk and Fin nish fronts will -be excluded from the offensive and preparations will be ina.lo there for defensive .fighting. While these preparations are going on, tho allien have successfully under taken an offensive on tho Murmansk front. Reports received from Archan gel todav said the allies- hud advanc ed more than twenty six miles in that gion, tho bolshevik! suffering heavy casualties fMhor Hisrmtches said the head ot SUSPECT SMTJGOLEES Saa Francisco, Feb. 26 United States customs inspectors w?re inclin ed to h lieve todav that pearls worth i $2,000,000 for which they are searching here, may be aboard vessels appioaca inz pUzet bound. A band of smugglers, says the tip, am attrmotinz to brine the peals, in cluding the "Tahiti Queen," from Ta-j hiti. PIEZ SAYS K63E.PAY MUST CAUSE GREATEi PfRKTl Only Offered Hog Isksd Fore men Two Dollar Weekly Increase.'";-- Washington, Feb. 27. If further in creases in pay are to be given ship yard workorg "a considerable increase in the par -man production must en sue", was the warning in a statement covering the demnnds of the Hog Is land shipyard foremen today by -Director General Pieis of the Emergency Floet corporation. Piez offered the "400 foremen an inreaso of $2 a week instead of the demanded $0 raise "Certainly, with unemployment growing, with prices geneially on tho dec-line and with lessening opportunity in many industries, demands for wago increases can bo justified solely on tho ground of a considerable increase in production,'' Piez replied to the foremen. , Officials regarded' the courso taken by Piez as leading directly to a cancel lation of contracts for further ship building should strikes come. Still Much Work to Do His .statement mentioned that there still wag mucin work to do in carrying out tho government construction pro gram tout intimated strongly that time was no longer pressing and that the wofk could be temporarily delayed if it were necessary to await more fav orable conditions. Pica said .tho shipbuilding industry must 'be "purged" if men tue not able to' do the work for which they wore em ployed, -thoro can be no reduction in tho costs of .production, he pointed out It is only by mmnning tho yards with men physically fit and skilled that the industry in this country can be placed on a basis where foreign con tracts can bo obtained, he added. Tho now wage scalo, which Piez says will bo satisfactory to hint, affects foremen of tho following classes of work and is a follows: Ship fitter.g. $(16 per week; riveters $06 per week; ercctori-: $0(1' per- week; tank testers $66 per, week; clippers, caulkers $66 per week; carpenters $66 per week; -boiler installation $66 per week; Ibolters $54 per week; drillers, reamers $54 per week. LEGSSLATSSS W (JUAIIT TA AHIT Wl. via i iy noil m Members Of House Even Try Revivmg Dead Bis To Prolong Session. The legislature dies hard. It was sup posed to expire last Friday evoning, but the members were not in fraino of mind. Tho'i it wag supposed to quit yesterday, but still the members were not quitters. And again this morning,. with but little real business to transact, members of tho house were in auch fine fcttlo aod showed such a strong fighting spirit that tho guess at 2: JO o'clock this af ternoon wag just 00-50 that the final adjournment would take placo lato this afternoon. . - , There was a tempest in a teapot this morning, which stirred up tho scrapping pint of house members, Iti s a dead easy proposition to Ret through tho house a $o,000,000 reconstruction meas ure in, ubout five minutes or to kill a state marketing bill or to even endan ger tho health code of tho sun. Are Always on Guard. But when it comes to monkeying with some bill that touches the interests of several of the "hoys" back homo, the "boys" in the House are suddenly gal vanized into Buddeu action, and on tho job. Hence this morning when the little In- nrtpant- hill nrnvirlitirr ttitit tlm f.na scnoois districts snouiu do acpositea with tho county treasurers was intro duced, it started a little breeze that was soo.i'fanned into a hurricane, with a doz en mombors on tho floor all trying to speak at once. The bill provides that school districts shall deposit their money with the county treasurers. Theoe treasurers are supposed to got a twn per cent daily bnl anco from tho bank, wboreag at present t!-,e funds draw no interest. The bill exempted Multnomah coutiry, vet so anxious were the Portlnnd delegates to get into the fight that they bitterly opposed tho bill. After spending almost all of the morning session scrapping cn the bill a committee was finally appointed, con sisting of Bean, Woodson and Cross, who are supposed to arrango some sort of a compromise. , Unfavorable to Eesurrectiois. Another fight was precipitated over the efforts made to resurrect a bill which had been indefinitely postponed. This was a bill providing that in tho materialg used in corrugated culverts must be chemically analyzed and this analysis submitted to tho State High (Continue! on page eight) Gives Congressmen Absolute Freedom To Make Public Every Detail Of Last Night's Conference. Explain ed That Great Britain Would Have Only One Vote In Executive Council And That Monroe Doctrine Would Not Be Imperiled But Strengthened. WHAT PRESIDENT TOLD CONGRESSMEN ABOUT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Seriojis complications will oc cur Sn the near futuro unless the league is formod Despair will grip tho world America abandons tho loague plan Disarmament depends large ly on the good faith of nations The United States will ,bo reluctant to become a manda tory over any nation Great Britain will have. five ' full votes in tho full league, but only one in tho executive council . ... , . . :. , Ireland will not bo represent ed as a separate nation : ; By L. O. Martin. (United Press staff correspondent) -Washington, Fob. 27. Prisidont Wil son's own interpretation of tho league of nations constitution was placed be fore congress today. It was presented informally to house and sonata mem bers by tho foreign relations commit tocs of tho two "bodies. They received it from the president last night at a din ner and conference at tho White House. It will bo givou moro formally to the senato in speeches by administration lenders. ' Absolute' freedom to make public every detail of last night's con forouco was explicitly explained to those attending it, they said today. At tho very outset tho president invited full, fruuk discussion of tho league by congress and the couutry. Made Position Clear. Tho president's position on provis ions about which dobato lias couierod was made plain in answer to questions asked him by his guosts, they said to- day. . .. Tho president did not take up fuc. league constitution articlo by article and expound it, nor did he make a speech. Ho jj-ivitcd qttostlons and thon answered them. la view of tho president's evidont de sire that congress and tho people get all postiiblo information concerning tno workings of the projected league, those attending the dinner and conference talked freely today. The president's interpretation, as it appeared to tho cotnmitteo members miU as stated by them to tho United Press, is given herewith; Monroe Doctrine. Tho proposed league extends the Monroo Doctrine to tho entire world and thus would strengthen instead of weak en or dustroy this traditional American policy. Mandatories. Tho provision for states mandatory to supervise, guide and guard former colonies of Germany or her allies docs not compel nny nation to assume thu task of mandatory against its will. . In this connection, tho president sta ted, according to cominittco members. that numerous requests have boon made that tho United States net as manda tory in the cases of a number of coun tries. But it will bo with the greatest niluctanco that this country undertake such work, tho president is quoted as "BUFFER STATE" BETWEEN FRANCE AND GERMANY IS DEBATED BY CONFEREES This Territory Would Be Per fitted To Decide Its Own Future' Later. By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press slaff correspondent) Paris. Feb. 27. Creation of a." buf fer state" between Franco and Ger many by making the Khcnish provinc es nolf governing, was discussed by tho pence delegates todny.. This project, which is still in a for mative stao, was introduced during debate on tho adjustment of tho boun daries of enemy cuuntrles. France, being the only country not saying. Ha indicated, it waa stated, that if this country does become a man datory, Armenia is likely t0 o mo ob ject of our caro. Tho mandatory plan was adopted, committee members quoted the presi dent as saying, because of the obvious difficulties of outright annexations. Disarmament Effectivo disarmament, in tho yresi- dent's view, as stated by membors, do ponds upon (1) the good faith and hon or of nations of the league, and (2) enforcement of the provision np;tii .st general privato manufacture of arris, i munitions a:i.d war material. Each nation is the judge of the pro-'-gram necessary to insure its own safety and it is hero, in tho president's view, that unless absolute good faith is shown disarmament will not be completely ef fective. But the provision limiting pro duction of war material will, in his op- ' iniou, go far to uid disarmament by preventing the equipping of u hugo army or super-army. Nothing in the constitution, ho is quoted as saying, pre vents the training of anv number ef men, but they do not constitute au , army unless armod and equipped. The president impressed, his hearers with the fut that once the program fur nny nation has boon ratified that nauoa cannot of its own motion increase tho program without flying Into thoiaco of its solemn, pledgo as a leaguo member. : Great Britain's Power,' - The British empire will have fiv votes ih tho full league, but ono in the ; . executive council. Each of Britain's self-governing colonial possessions will get a sepnrato vote in the full league, but the United Kingdom alone will go -a separate vote In tho council. This dis- r poses, in the view of administration ' solictors, of tho argument that. British ' power would bo increased out of all pro- portion by creation of tho leaguo under' the proposed constitution. Ireland. For tho present, Ireland ' will not ' have a vote or be a member of th leaguo as a separate nation, committee men understood. Tho president in dicated they said, that Ireland's future, status is a mattor between Ireland and -tho British government K:d that the louguo bus no jurisdiction. Withdrawal From the League. Any nation wishing to withdraw from the leugue may do so by renouncing mo treaty, the president said, according to congrcssiuc-!!, This is the same courso' any iiiitiou is at liborty to pursue witii.. -respect at any treaty. Amendment of tho constitution, once it has been ratified, will bo difficult, and not to bo accomplished upon the whim uf a:.y nation, tho president told his guests, they said today. Ho also was quoted us saying practically nil neutral nations havo expressed a desire to bo como league members. lie emphasized what he said at Bos ton that despair will grip the world if tho United States docs not ratify the lo;:.gu plan. . . ' ; (Serious complications will occur al most ntVnco if tho leaguo is not creat ed. President Wilson told us,-Sonntor Hitchcock, chairman of tho senato (on- 1 iiiitti'c, said. " Ho said tho leaguo already is in use, a tinniber of questions hnvin been re furred to it by tho the peace conference (Continued on page eight) by barrier, ig gtill clinging to tha idea that the Rhine should constitute its east ern frontier. Tho proposition for the establishment of a "buffer state" was presented as a compromise. This ar rangement, it is understood, would temporary, tho new state being per mitted to decide its own future by a plehescitp ns soon as Germany has mado full reparation. The next plenary session of the peaca conference, it was said today, probab ly will take placo in tho middle of next month, when all the specinl com mittees will bo present wit.h their re ports. Especial progress is being mada by the lommi'teos on reparation nod responsibility lot the war, it is under stood, j