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FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 60.
ACTS OF PEACE COIf Elif IN
IfMIt! DECLARE TH
FORCES SH0ULD1E RU
THIS ALONE WILL
PREVEtIT SPREAD
OF BOLSHEVISM
Report That Troops Now In
Hungary Are Inadequate
Must Be Reinforced.
CONFERENCE MAKING
EFFORT TO SPEED UP
Believe Restoring Of Norma!
1 Economic Conditions Will
V Relieve Situation. ;
By Tred S. rerguson .
I (United ' Press Staff Correspondent.)
; Parts, March 25. American or allied
troops must be rushed into Hungary at
. euce to save the situution, was the opin
ion expressed adivcos received today
by the peace conference from Its agents
- ia that country ? -
Allied forces now in Hungary are en
tirely inadequate, it was stated, and
must be immediately and heavily rein
forced to prevent bolshevism from ob
taining a foothold from which it can
;' spread into western Europo.
The conference hag been deeply im
pressed by the collapse of the Hungar
ian government, the alliance Of the new
government with the Bussian bolsheviki
and the jcported declaration of war
against the etnente. Every etlort is
now being made to speed up the peace
settlement with Germany an the, other
enemy countries with resultant litting
4 of the blockade. One of the most po
tent weapons in the hands of the allies
to prevent the spread of bolshevism
westward will be re-establishment of
normal economie conditions is central
Europe, the delegates agree.
Continue Routine Business. -
The iupronie war council proceeded
with it routine business yesterday, but
all the delegates Showed the greatest
desire to obtain all information possible
concerning the Hungarian situown,
Despite the recognized necessity for
hurrying preparation of the preliminary
treaty, there was only hope instead of
confidence expressed today that the
terms would be ready by Saturday, as
scheduled. Beparation is one of the big
ticking points, owing to the inability
of the conferees to agree on what Ger
many will be able to pay. Beaching
such an agreement will naturally have
a, direct effect onHio entire economic
program; the larger the amount the
more economic opportunities the tier-
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Th Black Crook" used t' play t' men
only. It don't take some folks very
long t' say too much.
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U. S. Represei lives In
BudaPes e Protected
Peris, March 25. Two armsa
monitors have arrived in Buda-
' Pest after being fired on en .
route, it was reported in uis-
patches received through diplo-
matic channels today. They pro-
ceded to the Hungarian capital
along the" Danube from Bel-
grade.
One British patrol boat was
said to have been aeizeA by the
Hungarians, but was returned
later with apologies. Beports re-
ceived in official circles here
doclare -that American repre-
scntatives in BudaPest have
been assured of every protection
and may be asked to remain. -
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$300 PLEDGED FOR
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Scout Commissioner Brock
way Of Portland Told Of
Aims Of Movement.
A group of interested business men;
and boy soout workers met in the Com
mercial club rooms last evening for
further conference to the furtherance
of the work jtt the council, as well as
the matter of raising Ihe necessary
funds, it was decided that a fund of
nut less than $3000 would be needed to
carry on the work, the campaign for
this is to be started today. The ball
was started to rolling in the meeting
last night, when over $300 was pledg
ed by those present, M. L. Meyers w
chairman of the committee in charge
of raising the funds. Those who sub
scribed for the work last night were:
Thomas B, Kajt, U. G. Shipley, Hal
1. Patton, E. E. (Fisher, Judge Geo.
H. Burnett, Judge Lawrence T. Har
ris, O. A. Hartman, Dr. H. H. ding
er, J. Cv Perry, C. S. Hamilton, P.
K Thnmaann. M. L. Mevers. Irwin
Griffith, J. Hutehason, Robert E.
Paulus, E. F. C'arleton. a
Brock way Talked
Scout Commissioner: Brockway of
Portland was present and gavo a de
tailed account of what was proied
and was expected to be accomplished
through the council. Member of the,
council also spoke briefly in behalf
ofthe scout movement as a means of
both physical and ethical development.
This organization, though it has been
in existence in Salem .for years, has
never received the attention or the
emphasis that it should have, and it
oauM m thn. the liffht of it suc
cess was just beginning to dawn. There
t"s never before in eaiem Deen iue
enthusiastic progress on the part of
the boys toward efficiency and organ
ized effort as it will receive under the
direction of the gcout council.
Possibly something of the lack of in
terest in the past has risen from the
supposition that tne iuncuons oi i"
organizatibn were being supplied by
the Y. M. C. A. But while the two
should operate in close cooperation,
they are entirely separate and do not
overlap in their work. The scout pro
gram has a broader scope of activity
an dwith the backing of a council com
and with the backing of a council com
ness men there is great promise for
it future. i
AMERICANS IN BUDAPEST
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Paris, March 25. Americans ,
in BudaPest, in an official, '
pacity, are Captain Nicholas
Boosevelt and Professor Philip
Brown, of Princeton. Becent
advices indicates Boosevelt may
now be en route to" Vienna,
Brown regaining in BudaPest. ,
First Chartered Post Of
Wor"i War Veterans
Aurora, HI., March 23. The first
chartered post of the newly, organized
World War Veterans has been named
oft pr Vainr (ionprr) Leonard Wood, it
was formally announced today. It is
known as General Leonard wood rose
Tso. 1 and is located at Aurora, where
the national veterans organization was
founded. ;
At a directors' meeting last night
charters were authorized for 1500 posts
all over the country. Memrjership is
open to soldiers wno served auring lai
war, whether in America or everseas. .
AT ALLIED
IIESE
' HUNGABIAJT REVOLUTION
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The revolution began Friday.
It . was. accomplished blood-
Tessly,- the Karolyi government
resigning and being replaced
immediately by a socialist-coin-
nlunist coalition.
Karolyi explained his action
resulted from three things .
unwarranted contraction of
Hungarian (boundaries by the
peace conference; failure of the
ftflie's to send food into1 Hun-
gary and. use of Hungary by
the allies as a voncentration
. place of forces to attack the
Russian bolsheviki.
The new Hungarian govern-
ment proclaimed a soviet re-
, public, foVmsd an alliance with
the Kiissiau soviet government
)and, 5t ia reported, declared,
war on the entente. This latter
report has not beea confirmed.
Two British nionitors have,
arrived at BudaPest via the
Danube, to protect allied in ter-
ests .'
While there is some disorder
in BudaPest diplomatic ad-
vices report the American and
allied representatives are safe
and probaibly ' will be asked to
remain. . ' - . . ,
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Reduced Rates On Shipments
To Orient Announced By
Adminstration.
'Washington, Ma'rch 25 Eastern man
ufacturers and the Pacific coast appar
ently have won the fight for lower
freights on traffic destined for tho far
cast and Australia. The railroad ad
ministration today announced it would
Aion put into effect reduced rates on
shipments consigned from points east
of the Missouri river to Japan, China,
Australia and the Philippine Islands.
Officials here regarded the rate re
ductions as tremendously important in
building up foreign trade which must
be routed through Pacific coast ports.
Tho department of commerce and the
railroad administration have had hun
dreds of appeals from industrial leaders
for lower rates, basing their arguments
on the fact that unless they were given
aid through reduced transportation
charges they could not compete with
European manufacturers. .Their argu
merits have been particularly insistent
since the armistice was signed.
Favors Move.
In the fight for rate reduction, Sec
retary Bedficld has taken a decided
stand favoring the move. It was point
ed out in communications to the depart
ment of commerce that a large major
ity of the articles sold in the far east
are manufactured in the eastern half of
the United States. Through ocean rates
from Atlantic ports are regarded as
prohibitive so far as competing with
Enrope is concerned. The only road
open then to re-establish the trade lost
through war regulations wr to haul the
traffic across the United States, it was
explained.
The new rates represent a substantial
reduction in the land haul. , Trans-Pacific
rates were cut by the shipping
board two months ago.
Commodities covered by tho new
rates, together with the schedule pet
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Portland Employment
Offices To Continue
Portland, Or., March 25. Assurances
of community and volunteer support for
carrying on the present work of the
United Suites employment service and
its emergency bureaus for returning sol
diers, scailors and war workers, have
been received by Federal Director Wil
fred F. Smith.
The government ordered the working
force of the service decreased 80 per
cent last Saturday, due to the failure
of congress to pass the needed appro
priation. Bat due to the assurances he has re
ceived, Federal Director Smith touy
notified Director General Densmore at
Washington that most of the nine local
offices in Oregon will continue in oper
ation at community expense until such
timers congress meets and allows funds
necessary to restore the servlcs to its
present state of efficiency. .
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH
OERS' OPEKON
JAPANESE QUESTION
WILL BECOIISULIED
To Ask Him 'If Loophole To
Jap Labor Exists la Cove
nant In Present From.
By L. O. Martin .
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
v Washington, Mar. 25. Samuel Com
pere may be appealed to on behalf of
American labor to say whether, in his
op'mipn, the league jof nations consti
tution now provides V loophole through
which free immigration of Orientals
may become legal.
Gompers is in Paris, help' ng frame
the peace treaty. Bequests fo,'; J ! in
terpretation followed an exchl nf?s of
Telegrams on Japanese demands for im-1
migration equality, Mtween .Senator
Phelan, California and Senator 'Borah
Idaho.
Phelan, a strong administration dem-
ocrat and league advocate, appealed to
Borah, leader of the opposition to the
league, to d6 everything in his power
to prevent insertion of a clause which
might prove a 'loop hole by which
Oriental peoples, will possess equality
with the white race in the United
States " '
Borah Says It's There. !
Borah replied- that the loophole al
ready is in the leagifo covenant.
'I call your attention to the fact "
he wired Phelan, f 'that the league eon- !
stitution as it now mads unquestion
ably gives jurisdiction to the league
over immigration. There- is not the
slightest doubt that the question of
immigration could be forced by Japan
in three different ways before the ex
eeutivh council or delegate body so the
league would have to determine it and
if it determines it, it will be determined
by alien votes.',' ,
Gompers is to be asked, it is said;
whether he interprets the covenant in
this respect as Borah does that it will
be possible under' its present form for
.Japan to force a decision by the league
of the right of her subjects to enter
the, United States tjn an equality with
white persons and whether, by some
combination with other nations Japan
might succeed in imposing her wishes
on the rest of the league or on the
United States.
"This un-American scheme, if car
ried out, would put the Amejrican stand
ard of labor on a levol with the Jap
anese and Chinese standards," Borah
said.
Agreed To Co-Operate.
Borah agreed to cooperate with Phe
lan in keeping out of the covonant any
special raco equality provision and in
return asked Phelan 's help in beating
the whole scheme, for, he said "those
who favor this proposed league and at
the same time protest over a general
expression as to racial equality have
either not studied the proposed consti
tution or they are willing for the sake
of party ' regularity to jeopardize the
rights of American labor."
Japan's present demand for some
specific equality or "just, treatment"
clause is the Oriental way of raising
the dust to prevent amendment of the
clauses already in the covenant through
which Japan sees a way of getting her
ends late pn, Borah doelared.
League opponents plun to present the
Japanese immigration aspect pf the
question with emphasis Irom now on in
their speeches, particularly before the
workers - '
Secretary Daniels To
; VisitBatt?e Fields
Paris, March 25, Secretary Daniels,
who arrived here today, will call on
President Poincare this afternoon. He
will visit Belleim wood and other battle
fields this week and go to Italy next
week.
Daniels warmly praised Camp Pon
tanezen at Brest, where ho spent two
rainy days eating and spending most of
his time wtih the doughboys.
. "I can't see any reason to ciitciso,
but more to praise than in any camp I
have visited in the United States,"
said the secretary. "I wish to con
gratulate the war department on hav
ing General Holmick here. General
Butler is a steam engine in breeches.
His work has been monumental." .
London Papers Fearful
Of, Outcome In Europe
London, March 25 "While the peace
delegates are discussing an idealistic ad
justment of central Euroipc, events are
moving in such a way there is liable to
be nothing left for them to adjust, if
they don't hurry."
This typifies the spirit of comment
here today on the latest developments
in Hungary and Germany. The morning
papers are frankly alarmed at the ten
dency toward ft bolshevistic blow in
eastern and central Europe, leaving the
continent divided against nsen, m
report that Germany has sent a mission
to Moscow has stimulated gpeeufation
regarding the chances of a Bus) -batman
approachment (
James Harding, manager of one of
the largest hotels in Tscoma, hat been
sentenced to serve 40 days in jail for
having liquor ia hii possession.
25, 1&9.
HVE YEAR BOND FOR
REPAIR OF PAVEMENT
MAY BE IN CONTRACTS
Attorney General Brown Holds
This Is Possible Notwith
standing H.B. 114.
At the request of the state highway
commission, Attorney General Brown
has made an analysis of H. B. 114, pass
ed by the lato legislature, providing
that no person or official body shall
enter into any contract in which it is
stipulated that aparty making a pav
ing contract shall be responsible for its
repair bf upkeep for a period exeeeumg
one year. The object of this law is to
relieve contractors from the burden of
keeping . up pavement that uiifcuc de
velop defects from other causes than
The question confronting the highway
commission was as to whether a cluusc!
could be inserted in contracts, requiring
t five-year bond for the repair of pave
ment that might . develop defects
through faulty construction, without
conflicting with the provisions of the
statute Attorney General Brown holds
hat such a clause may be exacted, and
in order to make contracts entirely free
from misconstruction he suggests that a
contract be drawn after this fashion:
"In his construction contract for
hard-surfacing or paving state high
ways, tho bidder shall be required to
renew, correct, make whole and recon
struct if need be, immediately upon no
tieo of the commission, all defects which
may exist or appear in Bald hard sur
face or pavement, including the base,
sub-grade or. other portions thereof,
within five years from the completion
and acceptance of said hard surfacing
and . pavement by tho state highway
commission, which defects are the result
of any defective material or improper
preparation or use of same, or are the
result of any improper or faulty work
manship, whether, due to the prepara
tion, use or kind of material, or duo to
any improper or faulty method, manner
or plan of workmanship, and ts a. guar
antee of faithful performance or the
foregoing requirements, the successful
bidder shall enter into the contract con
ditioned: as outlined, jiibpve, and. shall
furnish a satisfactory Surety bond cov
ering a ; five-year period, which said
bond shall be in the sum of ono-third
of the cost of surfacing,-' exclusive ofl
the Trading and other work, and which
said bond shall be in full force and ef
fect from and after the date of the
completion and acceptance of the said
herd surfacing or pavement for the said
period of five years."
BOUNDARY QULSTIOHS
ARE DISCUSSED TODAY
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Japanese Have Not Given Up
Amendment For Racial
Equality.
By Ed. L. Keen.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Paris, March 25. Bccoustruction of
tho lc&gue of nations covenant has pro
gressed to a point where A report can
bo presented any time the allied load
ers demand it, according to an an
nouncement made today. The league
commitUceompleted the Bow draft of
18 articles last night, adjourning, at
11:30. The constitution is expected to
be finished at Wednesday's eeting, aft
er which it will be turned over to a sub
committee of international law experts
who will put it in technical shape.
The French again, urged creation of
an international general stuff last night
but received no support. An amend
ment covering the Monroe doctrine was
put over util Wednesday. At that time
the Japanese aro cxpectod to present
their amendment for raewi ,,.jiniy
which has not yet been definitely form
ulated. The Japcnoso mado it pluin today
they have not dropped their original
proposal for equality of nationalities
and that mcro equality of nations will
not suffice. The Americans are offer
ing no objection to tne contentions of
the Japanese, who, meantime, are in
conference with the British.
The supreme war council was sched
uled today to discuss boundary ques
tions and other matters directly affect
ing the preliminarytreaty.
PBOHIBIT SINN FEIN' MEETINGS
Dublin, March 25. A special , order
was issued today by British military of
ficials prohibiting the holding of any
meeting or procession tomorrow.
Announcement was made in Sinn Fein
quarters recently that Professor Edward
DcValcra, who has been hiding since his
escape from Lincoln prison, woma puo
licly appear in Dublin tomorrow and as
sume his place as head of the Irish re
public. 1
During the last 10 days orders have
ibeen placed with Xorth Bend's mills
for more than 20,000,000 feet of lura-,
ber for early delivery to the markets
of the middle west.
PRICE TWO CENTS
SPARTACIS PUlil TO
This Will Be Their Third Attempt To Overthrow German
Government. Opening Of Hostilities Is Supposed To
lie Signal For General Uprising Through Central
'Europe, According To Radical Leaders.
BRITISH ARE DISPOSED
TO LIFTING BLOCKADE
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This Is In View Of Increasing
benosness Of Food
Situation.
By Lowell Mellett. ...
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Paris, March 25. the matter of pro
viding economic safeguards to prevont
Germany "capturing tho world mar
kets" is proving so difficult thore is
a strong likelihood thnt each nation
will bo left Jo lookout for itself ia this
regard, it was learned from an authori
tative sourco today..
1 In the light of the encouragomont of
fered tho bolsheviki by the present
blockade, us evidenced by the situa
tion in Hungary the British are in
creasingly disposed to join the Amer
icans in insisting that the blockade be
lifted Immediately regardless of when
tho pence treaty is signed.
fay only specified Claims. -Added
to tho questions which will be
sottlcd on tho Bimple ground of prin
ciple, apparently ia that of indemnities.
Prcmior Lloyd-Goorge hss been in fre
quent conversation with Lord Cunliffe
and Lord Sumner, British financial ex
perts. ,:;
Tho British purpose now seems to be
only to insist that Germany shall pay
specified damage claims and pay in
such a manner that she will not be
crushed economically.
To ir.aict All Offenders.
The committee on responsibility for
tho war is understood to have com
pleted its work,' reaching conclusions
as recently outlined . to the United
Press drawing up what practically
amounts to an international indictment
affecting every offender frora tho for
mer kaiser down to the lowest private.
Contrary to the original plan, how
ever, it is reported tho committee will
recommend that all offenders be triod
n tho countries in which their crimes
wore committed, except where there are
no national laws fitting their cases. In
that contingency, they will bo tried by
the international court to be created.
The former kaiser, as decided some time
ago, probably will not bo brought to
trial, as there is n0 international prece
dent covering his case.
A curious commentary was made re
cently by one of the committee concern
ing the American members.
"The Americans Rro too damned
legal-minded," he said. "They mwse
to take the obvious common sense view
sometimes because there is no law to
support it." "
INCREASE OF BOLSHEVISM
BIG ARGUMENT IN LEAGUE
Hitchcock Believes When It
Comes To Voting Congress
Will Favor Covenant
By L. 0, Martin.
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, March 25. The sweep
of bolshevism across Kurope, coupled
with tho opposition tactics of 1 ranee
and Japan, form the strongest argu
ments for tho league of nations, and
will strengthen it In American public
opinion, declares Senator Hitchcock,
foreign relations committee chairman.
Hitchcock returned to Washington
after a brief vacation, during wmch he
"sized up" the league situation from
a position detached from thoso influ
ences which, in Washington, often af
fect men's consciences.
"I believe sentiment for the league
is gaining," . said, Hitchcock. "Un
doubted'y the desire to know about it
is growing and from the tono of the
mnnv invitations to speak that I am re
ceiving I should say this desire for in
formation is friendly rather than hos
tile. ,
- Will Come to Time,
"My firm belief is that when it
comes to snying 'y' or 'no' on the
leagno covenant as submitted, those
senators opposing the league in its pres
ent form bow to the universal publie
ON TSAINS AND NEW
STANDS FIVE CKNTS
By Frank 3. Taylor. f
(United Press staff Correspondent.)
(Copyright 1919 by the United Press.) ,
Berlin, March 21. (By , courier to
Puiis, March 25.) Spartacans are plan
ii in if to launch their third revolution m
fore the first of April.
This revolt, it. was learned from Spar
tacuus themselves today, is intended as
the signal for a general bolshevist up
rising through central Europe. Bussinn
bolshoviki have been asked to start an
invasion to insure the revolution's suc
cess. The Spartacans expect to open hostil
ities wtiliout warning, since tho general
strike that preceded the lust revolution
gave the government lime to jirepuro.
They are gathering weapons, ammuni
tion and food, which they are storing
in numerous secret rendezvous.
Some FavOr Postponing It. '
Some of the Spartacan's, vastly in the
minority, favor postponing the revolu
tion until after the soviet eongress
which meets here April 8, then seeking
to persuade the workmen and indepond- "
eut socialists to join them. This plan
has mot with little favor, as the work
men and independents want n0 vlolonce
and the Spartacans do. '
The Spartacans recently sent a dolo
gutlo to Moscow in an airplane they
had stolen. This method of establish
ing communication was employed be
cause, tho .frontiers aro dosed. They
asked the bolsheviki to assist tho pend
ing revolution by throwinglatge forces
of soviet troops into central Kuppo.
Spartaean leaders say it will iahti ten
years for bolshevism (o dominate Eur
ope completely. They afo laying their
plans accordingly. , .
The povornment, under direction of
VVar Minister Noske, it massing wea
pons and ammunition and strengthening
its arsenals in preparation for-tho strug-
Woman's Suffrage t!?efeg ;
, Began In St. Lcuis Today
St. Loois, March 23. Wiw nuiuuto
map of its future presented in an n-d-drcss
by Ms.- Carrie Chapman 'Cttt,
the first business sessloa.of the Nation
al 'w-imnn 'g Sitf rfnge association began
horn this morning.
''The league of women voters," pro
posed by tho national president Itst
night, will be presented tit toduy's
business session. Tho non-pariiwin, noil
sccretarinn political force of women
was cxpectod to be formulated along
the following lines: ,
To uso its influence to secure" final
enfranchisement of tho women of every
state and in foreign lands. '
To remove the remaining legal dis
criminations against women in the codes
and constitutions of every state. . , 1
To mnke democracy safe for the na
tion and safe for the world.-
sentiment that demands some sort of
leuguo and will suy yes.
"Tho opposition of Japan is, to my
mind, the bgjit thing that hns happened,
With Japau against it, a good many
Americans areMikely to be for tho
league.
''French opposition, of course, is
based on a demand which we can never
concede the demand for a standing
army (to protect hor against Germany.
If we concede that) there will be no
league." . -
The menacing spread of bolshevism,
exemplified by . the situation in Hun
gary, is one of the strongest reasons
President Wilson has for urging that
the league and the peace treaty be mado '
one, Hitchcock said. Ho pointed out
that unruly nations will calm them
selves when confronted by a union of
the allied and neutral nations capable
of wielding not a lone military force
but equally economic, power.
ORGANIZATIONS Vo COMB HOMB
Washington, March. 23. Tho war de
partment announced today the follow
ing organizations assigned to early eon
voyi '
The 304th bakery company, 4Mth
ami 411th telegraph battalions; 405th
pontoon train; United States army am
bulance service sections 504, SKI, P12,
525, 524, 552, 55.1, 5(30, 571, 590, 601,
(Suit, 625, 032, 033, 634, 6.1(3, 8, 610. .