K.l!XMIDDPn 5250 CIRCULATION t - ...nmVMLP-l II Iniinvl llVf 1M i ) ':. , Oregon: Tonight and Satur- day fair; continued mm. W- eept cooler .interidr" of south- west portion Saturday. gentle north to northeast winds. r . ' V u (25,000 BEADEB.S DAILT) Only Circulation in Salem Guar- 41 anteed by the Audit 'Bureau of 41 Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE " VALLEY NEWS SEBVICB - PRICE TWO CENTS ON,TKAINB AND IT , I BTANDB hfl UU J?0RTY- SECOND YEAR NO. 204. TEN PAGES. SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 1919. Si FRANCISCO ARDMEII BACK ON JOB TODAY Pact Amended To Equalize - Voting Power Return n Bay District Of Strike i. Ies And Traf fic, vamed. V " STEAM TRAIK MAKE FIRST BREAK IN SOUTH Score Of Engineers And Con ductors At los Angeles Quit Strikers Ranks. DISQUE DROPS III Oil SPRUCE Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 29 Engineers of the steam roads of Southern Califor nia will respond to the orders of their chief executive and will be ready to work some time today in the belief of M. E. Montgomery, assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of .Locomotive Engi neers. " . "I am hopeful they will return to work," said Montgomery. . . Montgomery continued his efforts to persuade the men to return by ad dressing a meeting of engineers early today, urging them to fulfill their con tracts with the government controlled roads. .. . . By L. O. Martin ' '. "(United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 29. The senate foreign relations - committee 'today amended the peace treaty to provide that the United States shall have as many votes in the league of nations as sembly as the British empire; Under the covenant in its present form the British ompiro has six votes in the as sembly while the United StateB has. but one. ;-'-'.-- ' President Wilson today sent to the senate the treaty with Poland signed in Paris the day the German treaty was signed. lie also sent a protocol to the Herman treaty relating to occupation by the al lied forces of the Ehine province. The information was asked for somo days ago by the foreign relations committee, but the president iutransmitting it sent it to Vice-President Marshall and did not indicate that it was in reply 'to the committee's letter. The two documents, President Wilson pointed out, are related to the German treaty, "and I am glad, "ho said, "to lay them before the senate now in order that they may bo considered if possible in connection with that treaty and tvlso in order that they may serve to throw further light upon the treaty iseif." GOVERNMENT TO ASK APPEAL ON OIL CASE INVESTIGATORS General Arrives Unexpectedly In Portland To Answer Craft Charges. RECORD DECLARED CLEAN AS "NEW WASHED DISH; Ryan Defended As Man Too Big, Patriotic, Honest ror Crooked Work. S.an Francisco, Aug. .29. Sau.. Fran cisco yardmen returned to work at 8 a-, in. today,' clearing .thee bay district of railroad strike troubles. Although rail road men at Los Angeles continued to strike in sympathy with the Pacific Electric strikers the prediction was heard that they would end the strike be fore nightfall. . . v 1 It . was ..believed, the 'ultimatum ol Rail Director Hines and of the brother hood chiefs naming Saturday as the time when tho government, aided by the brotherhoods, would operate the tram, would havo the desired results. The first break came at Los Angeles late yesterday when half a score engi neers - and conductors of the Santu Fa reported for duty. The striko Is 8 inovs in sympathy with Pacific Electric employes. The I'. K. Is not under government control and the strikers assert its employes have not been accorded as fair treatment as those on roads run by the government. The quick termination of the striko in this section saved a big corp of perish able fruits. The embargo placed by the Southern Pacific over this territory has been gradually lifted until now freight is being accepted for territory half way down the San Joaquin valley towards Los Angeles. Fresno railroad employes were ex pected today to follow the local lead and end the strike. Employes here who in a mass meeting decided to wire Washington n request that the P. E. be taken over, have re ceived no reply to their telegram. ' BRITISH BARGE DESTROYED i i-JLDIEBS TO TESTIFY " Portland, Or., Aug. 29. .Sec rotary of War Baker wired the" congressional probers of the spruce production expenditures this afternoon that soldiers de siring -to testify at the Port-, bind hearings will be given full protection.. Chairman Frear " announced that returned, soldiers had in formed him they had startling revelations to make if promis ed immunity. COLONEL CRADELBAUGH WHi BE Hood Kiver, . Or., Aug. 29. ... On Wednesday, September 17,. ; the Hood .River county Pioneer , society at its annual reunion. will observe CradlebaugU. and Glacior day in respect to the memory of J. H. Cradlebaugh, first editor of the Hood Bivcr . Glacier, the fruit valley's pio- neer newspaper. George T. Pra- ther, Summit orchardist, who established tho Glacier as pub-, lisher, later selling it to Mr., t'radlebaugh, will read a paper entitled" How the Glacier caine to bo founded.";, IPoems of Mr. Cradlebaugh, who for many years before his death had 'been on the staff of the Salem Capitol Journal, will bo rend at the peeting. i MPHIS ASKS FOR AUDIENCE WITH WILSON Labor Problems Thought To Be Probable Topic For Discussion. Rail Workers To Ballot On Strike Again Archangel, Aug. 28. Twenty men were killed and forty are missing,, it was reported today, as a result of the explo sion of an ammunition barge which de stroyed the British monitor Glow Worm. Rehearing Of Suits Against Southern Pacific Railway Will Be Sought. Loa Angeles, Cal.;-Aug, 29.- Press-l-Counsel for- the government in. dicated today At .would -seek an Appeal from the decision last night of Judge Bledsoe, which dismissed tho six con solidated suits of the government in volving immense oil holdings of the Southern Pacific. The governjnent alleged the Southern Pacific obtained 102,000 acres of oil bearing land in tho San Joaquin vulley through fraud on affidavits alleging them to be agricultural. The lands are valued at $481,000,000. " Judge Bledsoe held that the govern ment failed to sustain the fraud charge. Ho cited the following points: ' The government surveyor had return ed the lauds as non-mineral bearing.; For several years the Southern Pacific isold the lands at prices ranging from $2.50 to fa an acre. .. The big suit was begun eight years ago. For some year the Southern Paci fic produced 10,000,000 barrel of oil un- nnally from the land involved. Judge Bledsoe heard all the eviilcnei in person, in hearings held at Sun Fran cisco, New York, Washington, Los An geles and Fresno. Sixteen thousand pages of testimony were taken. The government contended that the Southern Pacific obtained patents on the land as non-mineral bearing with netual knowledge on the part of its offi cers that, the land was rich in oil and non-patentable. London "Wilson Pence" were the Christian names n luckless Finchloy baby had to stand for through being born in peace year. Knox Terms Treaty as "Truce of Versailles;" Pact Spells War,Not Peace Says Senator Portland, Oiv, Aug. 29-. General iBrice P. Disque, former commander of the spruce production division and for mer president of the spruce production corporation, unexpectedly returned to. Portland today to face his detractors in Jho congressional spruce production , ., , i investigation, which is now under way Cnit.oU,in Portland. ' ' - Bisque arrived here from New York, where he i president of the G, . Anis- nic k company, an exporting ana im porting qoneern.IIO' immediately call ded upon Congressman James A. Frear, chairman ot the congressional sUD-com- mittee, for opportunity to be heard.: In a lormnl loiter he saw: "I have come across the continent for the .purpose of assisting your com mittee to arrive at the facts concern ing spruce production while you are here in the northwest. -where the sub ject ha J become one of public interest and where 1 reel that my, evidence is necessary in order to prevent a misun derstanding in the public mind of onr operations. ' ,' ',,, General UMsque declared unqualified ly in a personal statement that "there was not a cent of graft in the adminis tration of the spruce production divis ion and corporation. Its record is as clean as a new washed dish.!' 'Disoue declared that he can prove the spruce production enterprise to be free of reproach, and that tno inter ests of the government and her allies were the first and only consideration in the entire operation from John U. Kvan. director of airplane division down. "John I). Rryan will be shown to be a man too big, patriotic and honest to have been engaged in any of the pct tv crookedness insinuated," said .Disquc. " He is as ciean a man as they make them." "It was a heartbreaking thing to stay on this side," he declared, "and I only accepted the assignment when shown that.it was my auiy. That $5,000,000 was squandered, mis applied and converted to the use of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company, in the construction of the SiemsCarey-Kerbaugh spruce road thoueh the Olympia poninsula is tho official finding of the committee. POLICE SEED M VETERAN FOR MURDER . '' ... i- . - . V" '. ' Soldier Kills Bartender Vrith Razor And Makes Clean : CetAway. San Francisco, Aug. 29. United States army men united with .police this afternoon in a search for Sergeant Arthur T. Ford w)io is wanted in con nection with the murder early today of Otto Wunderlishj1 bartender in The States cafe. ,' '.' - " -'!' ' Ford, a member of company E, 18-th infantry, has lost an arm in overseas service. He has overstayed his leave fronf Lettcrman hospital. Those who found Wunderlish dying said he told thciu a ."one armed soldier'" 'killed hint Thcv saw the soldier leaving the Hills dale hotel, where Wunderlish was fa- tnllv cut. ' -1 Wunderlish 's death resulted from hemorrhage, according to the coroner's autopsy. Hia 'body was streaked with a long" ddeft nt1(nf cJd with his- Own HIKES' ORDER TO RAIL STRIKERS SHOWS STAND President To Be Asked To In tervene In Deadlock In Steel Industry. Washington, Aug. 29. It was learn ed that tho railway shopmen's executive committee had sent to all loeal unions new instructions-regarding their' vote ana astcea tnai ail voting do oeierrca until the new instructions Had been re ceived. . .-.' :' ' In the telegram the committee advised that i n order for a striko on September 2 was officially rescinded. It w& ex- plaited today that any balloting already I none wouia nave to do anno over. Th telegraphic appeal laid .special emphasis on President Wilson's efforts in behalf of tne sohpmen. Hildreth Refuses $300,000 For Three-Year-u.a Hcrse . Washington, Aug. 29.--Samuel Goinpera, president of the American Federation of Labor, accompanied by members of the executive coun cil, went into conference with Fres ident Wilson at 3 p. m, today. . Gompers retailed ia conference with the president 46 minutes. "I nave nothing to say," said . Gonipers, as he left "See the .'president"'..;:;': ,,',',. . , New York, Aug. 29. Samuel C. Hii dreth announced today that he had 're fused an offer of f300,000 for his three- year-old horse, Purchase. It is said to bo the largest pf fer that was ever made for, a race hor.so la the United States. PRESIDENT TO HIT DIRECTLY ATOPPOSKI Most Of Speeches On Trip To Be Made In States Oppos ;;"' ing Leagse. -' i ADDRESSES SLATED FOU THIRTY IMGER C1TL1S s n' w" ". : 'V '-'V'-' Will ftesd Day And Eciare Evening Of Septcr.bsr 14 In Portland. razor. The cut' scveied. his throat an'd proceeded downward across ' hU . left breast and under tho left arm. Another cut was'under the right arm. A third gash was on the outside of the right arm. - . .. i There was every evidence of a strug gle. Wunderlish died in the emergency hospital. .. ' The soldier calmly walked f torn the i Hillsdulo hotel after killing Wunderlish and disappeared. "The police, however, arc confident they know aim and mat thoy will find him .soon. -"I have had a quarrel with this fei- low, but he is- too handy, with a bottlo. I'm going up now to get mm." ,ne sol dier is said to have remarked before he went tp Wunderlish 'a room. Wunderlish Was killed with his own razor. S. J. O'Brien, night clerk, who heard his crv, ran to his room to find liini in the hull clastiiiis his breast. H staggered and fell at O'Brien's feet. . ' Ri.fnm he fell. Wunderlish said: "I want my mother to have all my things, and added "I met him in the park." He was dresRed in his pajamas. Wunderlish and the soldier entered the hotel at 1 a. m. Wunderlish remark ed the soldier was his friend, and they went upstairs, At about 3 o'clock the soldier left the ItUUM. lie IB ntxtw . quoted remark ' in a restaurant. Me . By Fred 8. Ferguson Washington, Aug, 29. bumuel Coin- pers, president of the American Fedora tion of Labor,' today asked for un ap poiiitmont with President Wilson, it was learned. " Gompers' requested for a conference was granted and ho will see the presi dent this afternoon. In absence of any announcement, it was assumed that Gompers wished to go over the whole present labuv situation with the president. . . '''.;,; '.':. i It was tegardod-as probable thai Goin pofs nright-ask. the president to appeal to heads-of the stool, Bol'poration to meet -the -eoinniitte representing its or ganized employes. Judge Elbort Gary, steel corporation head, has refused to jieet this committee so far. " '' Director General Hines' telegram last night to coast railway administration of ficials and brotherhoods, giving tomor row as the date to end the strike volun tarily, clearly showed tho government, is ready to invoke the law and take c- tremo measures to prevent strikes on the railroads, leaders here said. . Director General Hines' tciogram was sent to the Pacific coast, not .only with the approval of President. Wilson, but with the approval pf Warren S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, ' The strong measures threatened by the government thorcfor have the un ions forces back of them and the broth erhoods luid previously threatened the coast strikers - with suspension unless they returned to work. Ono big homespun stationary engi neer,' while voicing the viewpoint of the leaders in the hope and expectation that the program of moderation will carry,' ald voiced the viewpoint of the men. ' . "They stood by the president during the wo"?,"" he' said, "and want to con tinue to stand by him. I think they win. Washington, Aug. 29 -(United Press The itinerary of President Wilson" tour on behalf of the peaco treaty an league covenant officially given out to day, calls for visits in thirty cities, i twenty states.: '.: '..'.-'.v,, ."! .'.;':'.'.'. - The Touto to lje followed 'HI cever approximately 10,000 toilos' and tho ttif will last 27 days. ' J;'""v , The president will Tcavo Washingtoa tho evening of next' Wednesday and r tui'M at 1 la. in., September 30. He will . . j. r- mi.. 1 1 g? . 1 ' A I go west as mi us ivuiisas ivjr, rareniS UI ACCOEUmCe Ua 1 to Nebraska, the Dakotas, . - . - -. .-' 1 a ' BURT BTED Of BVATCIIi'l Hand To Fight For Free dom Of Young Son. ' han Luis Obispo, Cal:, Aug. 29. Sotn Burt, 22, was convicted of first degree murder early today, following trial on charge of murdoring David Morehouse, night watchman at Paso Monies. . The jury recommended life imprisonment,. The youth admitted, in-a confession thd-t he shoti.the officer when More- honse, interfered' while he and Hugh Moorei 19-year-old Rogue Kiver; Or.'; boy wero robbing a store. Tho defense sought to prove that Biirt is tlie victim of heriditary insanity. " ' " In his confosslon, mado before his Minnesota. and Montana and then into the Pacific coast. , --. , . . .. ' ". He will then swing down the coast to Sun Diego, turn north'" to' Kono an across , to uenvcr, , roturning iiironRa Kansas and Oklahoma. Tho itinerary reveals how the president has planned his journey to carry the fight into tho territory. of the bltorest enemies of tho treaty and the league. ' ' ; He will confiui , his speeches to tho west and middle west, in whien section comes some of the strongest opposition. He will-open his attack in-Ohio, Sena tor Harding's homo state.. oBth Sena tors New and .Watson of Indiana are opposed to the president's peaoe plan. He will trvto arouse their constituents! , at Indianapolis. ' .' . By invading California ana lanno, ins trial. Burt dcclnred that he had been involved in scores of automobile thefts president will aim blows at -two of hi throughout California and southern Ore- bitterest enemies on the trcaty-r-Senm- gon. j tors Johnsoi and Borah. Trial of -Moore, as Burt's accomplice In Washington the president will is to start Monday. ..The parents of the speak at Tacotna, Spokane and Seattle-. Oregon youth are here to fight i'or their ' Senator roindexter, Washington, wants son, declaring ho is the .victim of bad the treaty rejected. ... company) and that until he mot Burt in Reed of Missouri, in whose state two) Mcdford and ran away with hun to Can- addresses will bo made, is a aemocrauo foinia, he never showed crlmin.r.l In- opponent of the treaty. - '. stincts. A number of affidavits from The president is planning to speak is Jackson county men of prominonco will , the Mormon tabernalo at Salt Lako be prosented by tho defense. But, in his confession, dcclnred that he alone was responsible for the death of Morehouse. then returned to the hotel going to Wun-J r derlish 's room. I - S ,T1 ..1 ....... n.nnmnDiiiaH liV I" 11 K w KJ OIUT-I WUB tiv.wu..B,..t .t Walsh when he ran to investigate the outcry. They passed the soldier on the stairs. (Continued on page two) "London JOomplailiiiag that soldieTS billeted on him had otolen his gram nnhone a Welsh householder was ask- istration at Seattle, and will open hear ings here this afternoon, forwarded its initial reportHo Secretary of War Baker last night, in which it urged: "Those directly responsible for ex- Washington, Aug. 29 The treaty now have no objections to its being so, but I cessive expenditures, used to advance f.c.al finding or tne committee - the only thing he had The committee, which just completed " , OTnmn. - . ,lmi XOST. CI1, "... ' 1 an extensive prooe 01 me uprucr uu.nn.- , cost fifty five dollars.' beore the senate is merely the "truce 'see no reason why we, who do not par of Versailles," not a treaty of lasting! take in its, spoils should become parties peace: it does not spell peace, but war, to its harshness and ernclty. I see no -war more woeful and devastiitc then the one ju,t closed; it "lays the founda tion for centuries of blood letting." This characterization of the pending treaty was presented to the semvte to day by Senator Knox, Pennsylvania, in a speech in which he stated that "the more I consider this treaty, the more I am convinced that the only safe way for ns to deal with it is to decline to be a party to it at ell. " As the facts concerning tho treaty be came apparent to the American people, Knox said, "they may now hope to see reason why we should be parlies to im- lnrge .business interests, should be held to a strict legal responsibility. The report asserts that the Siems Carey-Kerbaugh road was undoubtedly posing upon Germany a treaty' whose 'built at government expense for the ul terms, our negotiators say, she will not be able to meet ; that robs onr ancient friend China; that lays the foundation for centuries of blood-letting into which we should not be drawn; that with omi nous words presages our involvment in the eruptions of suppressed votcantc world conditions." CommfjSiting on the finnl section of the treaty, dealing with labor, Knox de clared thnt "it will never be enforzed as drawn and perhaps was never intend- the whole of the great gaunt tragedy ' cd to be enforced as drawn, but merely into which those whom they had charged ! to be a sop, thronn to labor, or if en with proteetHg them were about to be tray them. ' ' Analyzing the treaty . provisions, Knox declared it is so harsh on Ger many that it " will kill the golden egg," of reparation's, upon which the nllied na tions have ronnted so much. "It is a hard and erael peace that! this treaty stipulate," said Kuox. "I forced as written and in the spirit Its provisions seem to carry, it will wreck the world. "It compels the class antagonism be tween capital and labor which wisdom requires that we lessen, not increase, if wo are to remtain a free people, and (Continued on page two) ABE MAETTN REPORT OH MOONEY PROBE IS REFUSED Secretary Wilson Declines To Tell House Of Department Activities. Steamers Damaged In Clash Off New York Early Today n Now York, Aug. 29. (Uitcd Press.) The Munaires, a 3750 ton freighter of the Muuson Steamship Lines, was badly damaged in a collision early today with the British freighter Hortcnsius in tho Ambrose channel. Tho Munaires wk reported safely anchored ut Hod Hook Plats at 5:20 a. m., where she was able to proceed under her own steam. No lives wero lost. City. Senator Smooth, ' Vtan, recently cited Mormon revelations, against th league pact. The president's determination to de vote so great a share of his time to tho racifie const is partly because of tho strong opposition from there to tho Shantung settlement, it is said by tdV ministration senators. It is improbable tho president will make mnny open air speeches from trie piuuorm 0r ni num. Official Itinerary Washington, Aun. 29, The official itinerary for President Wilson's tonr today was announced as follows: : Thursday morning, September 4 .Co lumbus, Ohio, f (Continued on pnjre three) timate use of the Milwaukee line. Tho report, which is the first official finding of the spruce adiuini.strr.tlon probers, was signed by Chairman James Frear and Representative W. W. Magee. Congressman Clarence T. Lea of Cali fornia, democrat, did not affix his sig nature. ' "It appears that the line as built was not to carry spruce logs, but as an ex tension of the Milwaukee rail toad for cqjumercial purposes," the congressional report declares. . "The Milwaukee railroad officials and Milwaukee engineers ' apparently controlled the location and determina tion of the road which has been built. A Milwaukee engineer built the road. Mr. Byan (John li. Ryan) then govern ment director of aireraft and director of the WHwauke li-ve, personally exam- Wu-shiuaton. Aug. 29. Secretary of Labor Wilson today refused to inform the house of the activities tho otpitr-- meat of labor may at present be con- ductinE in. the case of Thomas J. Moon- ey, convicted of bomb throwing in t, Sail Francisco preparedness purude. The information Was asked in a reso lution of Representative Blanton, Tex as, recently passed by tho house. It is not deemed compatible with pub lic interest to make public the present activities of the department that affect the case of Thomas Mooney, Wilson wrote Speaker Gillett. The secretary also refused to reveal the detailed activities in tho case No vember 1, 1918, as requested by the reso lution and refused to itemize the- expen ditures of all the government agents and investigators in the case. The only statement of the secretary shedding light on the information the house desires, says: The department of labor through its Senate Foreign Relations Committee Will Complete Work on Treaty Wednesday By L. O. Martin (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 29. Next Wednes day, the day of President Wilson's de parture on his tour for the league of na tions, has been fixed as the probable date for completing work on the treaty in the sejiate foreign relations committee. He publican leaders do not vish the mittee took n0 action. On Thursday m hearing took up the moruing and an executive session in the afternoon tools no action. It was deferred until Fri day. ',..' "Howovcr," said Seaator Hitcheoen. administration leader, "I am confident that by next Wednesday or Thursday the treaty will be ready to report." Every speech the president makes will be promptly answered on tho senate t floor. Prospects are that little legisia- the joint debate goes on. - Normal Electric Service Serves Pittsburg Agaa (Continued on page eight) "If a railroad boiler maker can ist clerk keeps nressen ud When drinkin' hair tonic, add a little. have developed cleuse that lead to the, vinegar t' cut th' oil. . ' Mooney easo." ' president to be able to tell the country j tiye blinww wiu be transacted whita t int th committee Is noiauitf up ma treaty, for even though they would re gard such a statement as unfair to them, they fear, they said today, that it might be believed in somo quarters. Th". re publican position had that the president and not they, has been responsible for uny delav in the committee 's report. Democrats, however, pointed to the committee's record this week us1" proof that republicans have not sincerely tried to speed up their report On on his wages how does he think (immigration bureau is to deport alien I hearing at which k keeps dressed up an' smilin' anarchists. It investigation in the case were presented. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29. Normal electric service was resumed o 5 'o'clock thiB morning, tho striking ear ' men having voted to accept the war la bor board's award of a i increase of si Monday tho committee held o cents an nour. ine mru ... the claims ot tgypi to worn unucr firvw, -- " of striking and will continue their fight m l.... (h. i.n n mp iiri mp n lh i Tor nil uumiurmii .v...wv - were adopted. Oa Wednesday tne com- an hour.