I 5250 CIRCULATION.
(23 000 BEADER3 DAILT)
Only Circulation in Salem Guar-
eateed by the Audit Boreea of
Weather Report
Circulations,
FULL LEASED WIRL
Oregon: Tonight shower west
portion, fair east portion: wrm-
er. SuaJaT probably shower,
meJcra'.e winds, mostly souther-
DISPATCHES
SPECUL WILLAMETTE VAXr
LEV SEWS SIEHCS.
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SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919.
PRICE TT70 CENTS
OX TRUSS AND TTBWH
STANDS F1VB CE.VT
FORTY-SECOND YEAR NO. 73.
ftp limited tem 0iirail
B0LSI1
LED YANKS
TO REVOLT
Enemy Propaganda Is Blamed
For Mutiny Of American
Comoanv la Refusing To
Go To Front.
QUERIES fUT BY MEN
TRUE TO SOVIET FORM
Trosps Oa Archangel Front
Face No Iiiune?t Danger
Vhl!e Fighting On Line Now
Maintained.
By Raymond Clapper
(United Press tStaf f Correspondent.)
Washington, April 12. Bolsheviki
'irnpnguiidn is officially held rcaponsi
bli' fur the iiiutiiiy of mi American in
fantiy -1 1 in :l n y in northern Russia.
Chief of Stuff March, in announcing
1ulay that company I, of the 330th in
fiuitrv comprised the offending troops,
road u message nun the t'oiiimaiiiliii of
f at Archangel, which sinren that
tin1 qiioslioiis put by the men to their
officers were the same kh t lit; bolslio
viKi in their propaganda lt'iif letn ad
vised tlieiiv to a.'k.
'n'lipanv 1 consists nlmos? entirely of
Detroit men.
Kail communications have been com
pleted to the most southern port held by
the allies in northern Russia, March de
clared. Thin was cceoiunlishod by com
pletion of the Onda bridge, which en
ables supplies to be moved uninter
ruptedly from MiirmanHk to the interior
and assures nbiimlant food, clothes and
nniinmiition for the allied forces, March
said.
Ships equipped' with ice breakers have
iniidc their way to Murmansk and two
other vessels have reached Archangel,
nconling t,) reports to the general slaff.
This is taken to indicate that the ice
will soon be sufficiently brokeu to per
mit free movement of vessels in and
out.
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Patriotism Relied
Upon To Sell Bonds
The letter Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass
wrote to Senator W. M. Calder may almost be regarded
as a send-off for the coming Victory Liberty Loan. He
seeks in this communication to dispel any apprehension
which may exist in regard to the success of the forthcom
ing flotation, and the tone of it is well worthy of the cam-
paigiung eiiuris 01 ms predecessor in oince.
Allies To Feed Russia If
Finances Can Be Arranged
I'aris. April 12. (United
l'rpf. ) Russia will be fed by
the allies if financial arrange
ments can be worked out, it was
learned from an authoritative
source today.
The discussion turns on the
matter of credits. Herbert
Hoover's committee is handling
the problem. The present dispo
sition is toward t.iiling Russia
to establish credits for payment
of the food supplies. While
there is a tendency as usual, to
let America provide the credits,
it is understood the committee
is going ahead on sn arrange
ment for an inter allied scheme.
WOODBUEN NATIONAL GUARD.
Woodburn. Ore.. April 12. A com
pany of Oregon national guard wilt be
organized here. .This was assured at a
meeting last night when enough men
greed to eniist to mat;.? organiation
possible.
Among those wto signed the tente
tive muster roll are Captain Or'-er
Todd and Lieutenant C. 1!. Richards,
loth of whom saw service in France
SECOND ASPIRANT FOR
TRANS -OCEAN FLIGHT
HONORS MAKES READY
St.Jo. April 12.-(Uuited
Pres.-.) 'V. F. Morgan, the
British cviutiV, A- arrived here on
board the s.tean. from Liver
pool was today ''Inns for a
flight across the Atla. ,-tye Martin
ay de plane which he bn. ,u over with
hiui. Morgan hopes to mane Ma start
Iwfore the larger Sopwith plane with
which Harry Hawker plans to make the
flight, can again take the air.
Major Morgan's theory is that bis
smaller plane with its narrow wing
spread will not require the same calm
weather conditions necessary for Huwk
er. Hawker was prepared to make the
flight yesterday afternoon, but was pre
vented by a striff northwest wind nud
light suow showers.
Keen interest was manifested today
in the contest to be the first to cross
the Atlantic in an airplr.ne. Vntil Mor
gan's nrrival Hawker and Lieutenant
Commander Grieve, his navigator, had a
clear field before Morgan's uppei.rtiuee
and his apparent readiness quickened
the sporting blood of all concerned.
Morgan's pilot is F. 1'. Ruyuard, a vet
eran fiver.
Council Committee Will Go
Further Into Proposal Be
fore Reporting.
After bearing the proposition of E. T.
Bussollo, con-suiting engineer, in regard
to building B- $200,000 municipal tele
phone plant in Salem. (the telephone
committee of the city council is still in
doubt whether to request the council to
place on the ballot at the special elec
tion, a measure permitting the people
to vote on the proposition. W. A. Wiest
of the committee made a motion that
the committee report in favor ol muni
cipal telephones and that the council
submit the mutter to the people. The
second to the motion was made by Dr.
W. 8. Mott, who is not a memoer of the
committee. Hefore recommending any
net ion the rominitteo w ishes to investi
gate more thoroughly.
On this telephone committee nrc Dr.
O. I.. Hcott, Dr. F. 1.. Utter, Fred J.
Smith, W. A. Wiest and Otto J. Wilson.
AH were present nt the hearing Inst
evening excepting Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Bussollo proposes to put a muni
cipal plant in Hnlem that will cost close
to $'-'00,000. IK- figures that with 3200
subscribers, the net opcrnting revenue
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Secretary Class evidently noes not
mean to be forced into grunting nnnec
essarily liberal conditions bv bnnkers
and investors, but relies, as secretary
McAdoo did, on the patriotism of the
American people.
The secretary says. "I have been en
gaged with the aid of the bent minds at
my disposal and they include the
members of the great war loan organiza
tion both at the treasury, in Washing
ton, and throughout the country, which
has so successfully and briliautly sup
ported the treasury of the United States
throughout the period of active warfare
in the study of those conditions and
I am glad indeed to be able to tell you
that as a result of that study I take a
very optimistic view of the prospect
for the Victory Liberty loan and of the
future of this coutnry."
In some quarters there is heard the
compliant that the government has been
extravagant in the use of funds derived
from the loans and this ia one reason
bein" advanced by some "elackers" for
not intending to subscribe to the new
loan, hut the secretary points out that
our present national debt of less than
2"i,OW,WO.oimi and our ultimate nation
al debt after all war bills are paid,
which ought not in any event to exceed
.XiMiO,Omi.XM), against which we shall
hold some 1U,00U,WK).(KK) of obligations
of foreign governments, is the barest
fraction of our national resources.
"The relation of our debt," he says.
The government 'a expenditures which
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COMPLETION OF PEACE TREATY
Even Most Hopeful Delegates
Admit Chance of "Easter
Pact" Has Now Passed.
"Big Four" Virtually Agreed On Principal Problems, In
cluding Reparations, Responsibility For War, Saar
Valley, Disposition Of flume And Danzig And Ger
man Boundaries Monroe Doctrine To Be Allowed
To Stand Under League Wilson's Speech Dramatic.
By Fred S. Ferguson
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris, April 12. Talk of a "Easter Peace" today had
given way to promise of a "May Day Peace."
While the most chronic optimists admitted the last
hope of peace by April 20 apparently had vanished, there
was a general feeling that the treaty would be ready f or
presentation to the Germans by May 1, at least.
Persons close to tho "big four" inti
mated that Jn agreement hns virtually
been reached now on all important ques
tions reparations, responsibility for
the wur, the Bar valley, disposition of
Finnic and Danzig and (ionium boun
daries. The military, naval and aerial terms
of the treaty have been completed for
week. The revised league ol nations
covenant is ready for submission to a
plenary session.
An instance of how the covenant is
interwoven with the treaty is provided
in the settlement of the Maar problem.
The ''big four" tgreed that rcgior
would be under political stiprcvisiou of
tho lea.i?ue for a period of years while
Franco controls tho important conl
mines there, final ownership of which
will be determined by a plebescito di
rected by tho league.
Monroe Doctrine Stands.
Tho league's committee at last
night's meeting approved the remain?
ing urticles of tho re draft, it was un
derstood that neither tho Japanese
amendment for equality nor the French
amendment for an international general
staff were added. Both natious, accord
ing to unofficial information, reserved
the right to submit these amendments to
the plenary session for discussion.
The new article providing for recognl
of tho Monroe doctrine, it was leuruud
today, declared that nothing in the
covenant shall be construed an invali
dating treaties of arbitration or region
al agreements such as the Monroo uoc,
trinn. Although at first reported that
acceptance of the new urticle was uniitt
imous, it was understood the Chinese
opposed it on the ground that it might
vnlidute Japanese claims to China, it
answer to tentative opposition by tho
French, President Wilson assured them
the article would not reduce America's
responsibilities to the league.
Wilson ' Plea. Strong.
When tho president crosc to speuk on
the Monroe doctrine amendment, it was
nearly midnight at the end of a long
day's work. Standing at the head of a
table, the lines of fatigue on bis face
accentuated by tho blazing light of the
chandeliers, he delivered wlu;t is aaid
to have been one of the most dramatic
and effective speeches since the confer
ence opened.
The president pointed out that the
Monroe doctrine had its inception at a
time when absolutism was supreme in
Europe; thtt it was permitting the free
and untrammelled development of pen
pltv of the Americans.
These peoples, he said, had now join
ed with free Europeans in & final strug
gle against absolutism and that thev
were able to do so was directly attri
DutKMie to the Monroo doctrine.
The president's defense of the Mon
roct doctrine and his address support
ing selection of Geneva aa the perma
nent seat of the league of nations were
referred to by some of the delegates to
dav as "the two best speeches he ever
made. ' '
League Not of "Hate."
No stenographic copies were made
and accounts differ as to his exact
words.
Paul Hyman of Belgium urged that
Brussels be made the league's ecat, as
serting it was fitting that sonic city in
Belgium be selected, "in which memor
ies of the past are closest and hatred of
the enemy freshest."
Wilson is said to have declared brief
ly tnd forcefully to the effect that the
league "is not built on hate" but that
the wipin- out of hate among the peo
ple of the world is one of ita prime ob
jects. Albany, Or.. April 12. Itl the first in
terscholastie baseball game of the year
in Albany, Stayton high school defeated
Albany high school here yesterday nftr
noon bv a s-ore of 6 to 3. Kearns and
Folis formed the battery for the win
ners. Bilven and Ellis pitched for Al
bany and Harris (aught.
liWIIDMTEOF
SM fl fffl UNION
Stockholders Get Eight Per
Cent Cash Dividends And
Bonus Of Stock.
The Salem Fruit Union today cut a
nice large sized melon, not exactly on
the Standard Oil company proportions,
but about tho largest melon that has
ever beeu cut in the county. The cut
ting was done at the annual meeting
of the stockholders held at the office
of tho Fruit Union.
As a result of the prosperous busi
ness of tho Union the past year, and
especially the high grndo salesmanship
that brought the highest prices for
fruits, each of the Slit) members finds
himself or herself in tho possession of
1(H per cent more stock in the Union
than in the piest year, in the way of
a dividend.
Not only thnt. but every member of
Ihe I'liion was given a cash dividend
of eight per cent in real money. That
is if a member owned $100 worth of
stock, there was paid a cash dividend
of $H.
Stock Dividend Paid
Then in addition to issuing to each
member an additional block of stock
equal to the holdings of the past year,
there was isT'tied in stock, three per
cent on the amount of fruit delivered.
That is, prices were obtained in an ad
vnnce. of three per cent of the amount
already pnid those who delivered fruit
to the Union.
Tho net profits for the year to the
surplus account wcro $10,000 but tho
overnment took $200 of this, allow
ing $s00O to be passed to the surplus
account. In addition to this $10,000
clean d under the management of Kob-1
ert C. I'aulus, there is $17,000 in earn
ings which is to be returned to the
grower in the shape of additional
stock on the basis of the amount each
grower has owned.
Hence if the grower owned stock to
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Abe Martin t
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Th' Little Gem reataurict has aa
Used fer a waitress that hain't alius
flddlin' with her hair. Speakln' o' lux
uries, Mr. an" Mrs. ElKln Tyler are
kcepin' a daughter that doesn' work.
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BURLESON JUSTIFIES
WIRE INCREASES ON
GROUNDT BUSINESS
Increased Cost Made Higher
Rate Necessary, Post
master Declares.
Washington, April 12. (United
Press.) "Recent 20 per cent increases
of telegraph rates was neeeasilatea by
the same reason that forced other in
dustries to increase the price of prod
ucts and service as much aa 100 per
cent to obviate financial collapse,"
Postmaster General Burleson announced I
today.
While the price of products uid serv
ice of various industrial, mercantile and
miscellaneous corporations of the United
States has increased 100 per cent, tele
graph service has been rendered to the
country at pre-war prices throughout a
period when industrial and business
profits were unprecedented," ilurieson
declared.
Kate Comparatively Low.
''The increase of 20 per cent in tele
graph rates should be considered In com--nrisoii
with the 100 per cent increase
in other prices and it is less than that
found necessary t0 add to tho railroad
freight rules. This is no greater than
have been inndc generally in oiner pub
lie utility rates, in order to obviate fi
nancial collapse."
lu making a rate sufficient to main
tain the telegraph service oi me coun
try, Burleson declared there should be
no discrimination between tho two com
panies. During the six mouths from
August, 1018, to January, IDllt, the
Postal Telegraph Cable company cur
ried only about 17 per cent of the busi
ness of the country and about H'i per
cent of the government, Burleson suid,
"while the Weslern Union carried S3
per cent of tho business und 01 per cent
of gin eminent business. Handling of
government business claimed n, ,,-,;;i
compunies to be at a loss of 50 per cent
of the operating cost, is charged against
tho gross revenues, which Burleson de
clared is escaped bv a compnny avoiding
this necessary public, service.
Postal Blighted Government.
Burleson said Western Union busi
ness between 1018 and 1010 increased
10 per cent while the Postal business in
creased only tt per cent, yet the earnings
of the Postal for the month of January
were $222,207. This year the Western
Union, due to to increase in the number
of employes and in the wage rate com
bined will operate at an expense of $i;t,
000,000 in excess of tho increase in its
gross ovenuos, he said. It has Increased
but 51 per cent. It carried I I times
as much government business in Janu
ary, 101!), as in the same in 1010. The
Postal, he said, avoided carrying Ihe
unprofitable government business as far
as possible, actually issuing instructions
in somo cases "to avoid thm govern
ment business whenever it cull be done,
a plausible excuse being suggested such
a shortage of operators, etc."
CAHPAIGNWILL OPEN
Morris Brothers Of Portland
WiJ Boost Victory Bond '
Drive.
A victory loan advertising blanket
will be spread over all Oregon.
W. 8. Kirkiatrick, manager of .the
advertising bureau, hse received infor
mation thaFJ. L. Elheridgp, president
of Morris Brothers, Inc., Portland, in
aid of the victory loan has contribut
ed to the advertising fund sufficient
for one of the most distinctive paid
publicity efforts ever made in any
stato in aid of the government. It will
be launched just preceding the drive
in Oregon. Every daily and weekly
newspaper in Oregon will receive for
simultaneous publication an advertise
ment almost a full page in size. Thi
will mean 150 advertisements, 100 col
umn inches each, or 13,000 inrhes of
advertising at a cost of $.VKt;. It is
Mr. Etheridrge's idea to make this
appeal not only from a patriotic stand
point, but for the purpose of acquaJ.it
iug Oregon pctrple with the true worth
of a government bond as a safe, aane
and profitable investment. The publi
cation date selected is April 17th.
The contribution in expected to serve
not alone in carrying Oregon "over
the top" but as a stimulus to the ad
vertising fund campaign in rach com
munity of the state.
DEBS TO SERVE FIRST '
HOURS OF SENTENCE IN
FEDERAL PRISON TODAY
Terre Haute, Ind., April 12. Eugene
V. Debs, was to go to Cleveland today
to give himse'f up to federal authori
ties to serve a ten year prison sentence
for violating the espionage act in a
speech at Canton, Ohio.
The socialist leader in the final in
terview showed much emotion when
he spol;e of his wife, who has been his
coiiNuint companion for years.
''It is not for myself that 1 am con
cerned, but for Mrs. Debs," he said.
''She will not accompany me to prison,
but will remain here with her mother
to keep the home fires birning."
Looking back on a stormy career of
63 years, Debs expressed no fear of
the ten years behind prison walls. They
will be no novelty to him. He has seen
them from the inside before for par
ticipation in v railroad strike in Chi
cago, 24 years ago. -
'When I first w.mic to prison I whs
a meie bov," he said, "but 1 go non
without the least fear. Then I didn't
have the full understanding that 1
have now. 1 now accept it with sjicu
ity and composure."
Salem And Other Va' Jey Men
Return With Casual Company
A boiling, vociferous train of fifteen
cars, loaded with overseas men, pulled
into Spokane yesterday bringing along
iihout a hundred Oregon men as part of
the contingent of 580 soldiers, who rep
resented the 34Nth casual company, the
:ir2nd casual company, the s.ith engi-
ners and the l.'iOlh infantry. Among j
mem were tno rouowing ooys irom mis
nnrt of tho Willamette valley: Lerov
Stout, Albanv; Rov fi. Cairns, f.ngene;
J. W. Wickurre, Hulem; Lloyd W. Ir
vine, Raleiu; Byron (). (iurrett, II ills
born; ("has. L. Turnson, liickrenll; (iil
bert W. Whitney, Woodburn; Alfred O.
Moon, Woodburn; liarrv C. Clinton, In
dependence; Arthur J. Penuble, Kueene;
Conrad B. Spenner, Htaytou; Wilbur
Burkhart, Albany; Emit Vanaeher,
llillsboro; Irving I). Balcherrec, Oallns;
J. F. Itnuck, Sblenu Paul B. Pugg, Me
Minnville; Robert Muscntt, Dallas; Hnr
Inn llnrlsoll, McMinuville; James Pe
tite, McMinnville; John II, Ouiner. Eo
cene; Paul B. Meyers, Springfield; John
If. Corkerham. McMinnville- Hui'h W.
Fnrnham, llilsboro; Frank W. Willson,
Dnllns; Corporal David B. Campbell,
Monmouth; Frank II. Johnson, Eugene;
Lewis W. Covey, Woodburn; John F.
Fallin, Fulls City; Arthur R. Hickson,
Eugene; Clr.rence W, Hickock, McMinn
ville; Ellis Purtrnw. Wnndburn.
McADOO COMINO NORTH.
San Francisco, April 12. William
flibbs McAdoo who arrived here lnte
yesterday, will, leave on a night trniu
tonight for Portland, Ore. From Port
land he will go east.
Save The Pieces Cry
Of German Populace
By Frank J. Taylor.
(United Press Htnff Correspondent.)
Berlin, March 20. (By Mail.) Ger
mans regard their foreign office much
in the light of a government salvago de
partment. Its aim is to save r.s much
out of the wreck and defeat of the old
regime as possible. Public feeling is ex
tremely bitter against Erzbergcr and
tht armistice commission for not gain
ing more concessions, and hopes rave
turned largely to tho foreign office to
recover nil that is lost.
These are high hopes, as the foreign
office realizes, but the (ierinan people
have been brought up to expect wonders
from their government. In this relation
the conception of the average (iermun
has nit changed. He gives support to
the government only when he is obliged
to, yet he expects it to accomplish mir
acles in its deitfings with outside pow
ers. It is a remnant of the old "Deuts-
land uber allies" di.vs, a viewpoint
drilled into Germans from the days of
their youth. It cannot be changed in
a month.
The foreign office, then, has to make
the most of a bad situation, and with
the hope rather than tho belief that it
can save something for the republic,
it has ninde its claims on a status quo
basis, which the foreign office feels
Germany is entitled to througn Presi
dent Wilson's fourteen points, which
are the byword in Germany. These
points arc Germany's only hope, Is the
feeling in the forcibn office.
With these for the basis for claim
ing a status qou settlement, the for
eign office secretory, Count Broek
durff liant.nii, in his reichstng speech,
claimed the return of the German colon
ies, free access to the world's commerce,
a plebiscite in Alsace Lorraine, no in
demnities to be paid by Germany, al
though he declared the republic ready
to make good the dr.mages "done by
its assault on civilians in Belgium and
northern France," as the main demands
of Germany, which should enter the
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HUN RULERS
IETMET
Present Government Stronger
Than Appearances Indicate
Armed Force Of 500,CC3
Is Held Ready.
LITTLE ATTENTION PAID
STRIKES AND DISORDERS
Ehert - Scheideman Officials
Wait Conclusion Of Peace
To Start Construction Of
New Germany.
By Frank J. Taylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Berlin. April 11. Via London, April
12. Tho present Oerninn government
is much more stable than appears on tha
surface. It caa threw half a million
well trained and equipped troops into
the field, if necessary, and is in a
position to maintain order by force.
Hut the government is not averse to
the occurrence of strikes and other
troubles -so long as they do not get
out of hand until peace is made. Then
we probably shall see the German
bringing order out of chaos like and
American business man wading into the
duy's work.
Bavaria Not Lost.
fThe Bavarian affair is not. serious
and will not be wnUas there Is a gen
eral communist outbreak. Organized re
sistance by tho deposed socialist gov
ernment is steadily gaining followers
because the real Bavarians resent the
way the Hpartacans flocked to Munich
and seized control. The soviet republio
thero is largely tho work of a popula
tion that has flowed in during or since
tho war munition worker.) and sot
diers. Kven if tho Ebert Hcheideman
government should, by some cnanco oe
overthrown, the foreign office would
reniuin the same. Foreign Minister
Ilrockdorf f liuntau has some sort of
an agreement with Hugo Ilnssn and the
other independent socialist leaders who
admire him for his pacifism. And if
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New "Romance Of Trenches"
Uncovered. 363rd Mascot
Adds To Unit's Collection
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Bun Francisco, April 12.
(United Press.) A new -,ro-
uiance of thu trenches" ccmo to
light today when "Powder
River," feline inascott of the
3ti.)rd infantry, Wild West vet-
erans, gavo birth to 3 kittens.
Mayor Kolph who brought the
cat home from New York, tele-
graphed the ilfKird dougnua iu
think up some new names of ex-
plosive streams as names for tho
newest war babies.
Base Hospital Unit
Will Return From France
Washington, April 12. Base hospit
al 40, 1 officer and W nurses, almost
all from Portland. Eugene and other
points in western Oregon, sailed from
Brest on the transport Kaiserin Aa
iusta Victoria on April 8 and is due
to arrive at New York April 18, accord
ing to announcement of the war de
partment today.
Other detachment of Oregon and
Washington troops bound for Cnnrp
Ijewis have sailed as follows: 347th
machine gun battalion, 2 officerg anil
311 men. on the transport Virginian,
due at New York April 20; 3i6ta sup
ply train 2 officers and 78 men, on tha
Hanta Paula, due at New York April
22; casual company H2K on the Wea
Durfec, due New York April 19.
The Brownsville Canning company
has received an order from Allen Is
lwis of Portland for 50,000 eases of
small fruits and vegetables, besides oth
er orders of equal importaate. ,
OR