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It von IX No. M. llr BIER WITS REGULAR ARMY OF 500,000 WOIIJ) I't'lM'HAHK ARMY CAN. TONMKNTH AND HOLD Til KM FOR TRAINING Of ARTKIW ENLISTMENT TO BE VOLUNTARY ltenlt'U Una Akid for lix-rawe In Navy IVmonnet of tt.1,0OO Men for Oiio Year Wellington, Jan. 3. Secretary Baker say a bill authorizing a regu lar army of 500,000 men to be ralaod by voluntary enlistment would be submitted to congress. Tho eecre tary believes that the army canton ment ahould be purchased and held for training renters of the nation's army. Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary Daniels has asked the house naval committee to provide for a tempor ary Increase In the naval personnel of 260.000 men for the year begin ning next July, leaving the question of a permanent peace-time person nel to be determined later. He also ought authority to transfer 1,000 officers among the reserve force to the permanent naval establishment. Mr. Daniels also asked a provision making Permanent the war time pay Increases for enlisted men. This would sjvw Inrnmaea of $8 to 913 month over the pre-war scale, mak ing the pay range from $38 to 151 v month. MONTANAsfETHAS E Dillon, Mont., Jan. 2. That the disappearance of the range and the encroachments of the small farmer have not entirety wiped out the (Teat estates of the plonoer cattle kings wss made plain here when the great ranch of the Diamond O, an outfit operating In Beaverhead coun ty, was sold for $225,000. The es tate comprises In all 11,000 acres under fence. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallls, Jan. 3. Results of rodonl campaigns conducted In 16 Oregon . counties under tho direction of the agricultural agents hnvo been com piled and show that 7,083 formers cooperated In placing poison for equlrrcls on 709,600 acres of private land and public domain, .using ap proximately 30 tons of poison and saving crops estimated at $646,550. Right counties engaged in mole ex termination campaigns. The annual v report of Paul V. Marls, county agont loader, shows that the number of pelts pooled by agents was 11,450 Those brought $3,073 and saved $10,965 In crops. 4 GOVERNOR DOlllTS IIIIVKH' 4 -f TO lOHTPONE HUSSION 4 Salem, Ore., Jan. 8. Discus- 4 . 4 sing the rumors that the loglB- 4 flature may be postponed due to 4 4 Influenza, Governor Withy- 4 4- combe said that' If the board of 4 4 health ordered It he would back -4' 4 up the board, hut stated that he 4 4 believes the postponement will 4 -4 be unnecessary. He doubts his 4 4- authority to postpone the ses- 4 4 Ion. 'The legislature might 4 4 have to meet and then adjourn. 4 .1444444444444444' T ftOO Officers and 10,000 Mm From Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Washington, Jan. 3. Practically the entire 4 1st division, the "Sun set," Is Included In the list of units announced by the war department for early convoy home. ' Tbero will be more than 500 of ficers and 16,000 men of the Sunset division, comprising troops from Montana, Oregon, Washington, Ida ho and Wyoming ordered home The 162nd infantry, "Third Ore gon." loss the second battalion, la In cluded. ' HTfMKXT IM.N FIND AIDS MANY AT THK O. A. C. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallls, Jan. 3. That hundreds of men and women 568 have been aided by the student loan fund of the collage is shown by W. M. At- wood, chairman and treasurer, In a report Just completed. Loans In the sum of $20,939.65 have been made since the establishment of the fund In 1911, or an average of $36.86 per student. Seventy-five men and 30 women now hold loana amount ing to $3,735.03. 18.000 SOLDIERS ARE SAVED FROMTRANSPORT Fire Island. Jan. 3. 2:06 n. m Eighteen hundred soldiers have been removed from the transport North ern Pacific. New York, Jan. 3. Information that approximately 1,000 troops, in cluding some of the wounded, have been removed from the transport Northern Pacific was received by navy officials here today. Lees than 1,500 are loft on board. The work of removing them by small boats and breeches buoy is progressing favor ably. The surf Is breaking higher over the transport than it was yesterday, despite oil put on the water. There Is a heavy rain falling. Fire Island, Jan. 8. A pontoon bridge may be constructed to the transport Northern Pacific. lOIilSII ARMY OF 30,000 IS MARCHING ON BERLIN Copenhagen. Jan. 3. A Polish army of 30,000 men la marching on Berlin, according to dispatches re ceived here quoting rumors at the German capital. Gustave Noske, member of the Ebort cabinet, in charge of military affaire, Is said to have ordered tho fifth German division to meet the Poles. MUST ALL TALK NICE 10 AN AMERICAN GIRL Helona, Mont., Jan. 3. When the poace conforence opens and Pros! dont Wilson, or David Lloyd George or.iPremlor Clemeiueau or the Ak ound of Swat or tho grand vlaslor ot Guam doslres to call somebody about something on the house telephone In tho palace of Versailles, ho or they will have to be very polite to a pretty llttlo girl from Helona, Mon tana, IT. S. A. For the head central at the Ver sallies palace, during the conference will be MIbs Merle Bgan of this city. , Miss Egan volunteered early as n oxchnnge export. She was a tele phone girl here. Her knowledge of French stood her In good stead and she has been for some weeks in the central headquarters In Paris, at tending to the calls of the peace conferees. Word now comes that she lias been appointed chief opera tor at Versailles during the meetings there, DIVSI ILL RETURN HOME OHANT8 PAHS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919. STRIKE TIES NKW YORK, BOSTON AMI PHILA DELPHIA EM II A HOOKS FOOD STIFFS OIT-UOIND PIERS CROWDED WITH GOODS Chief Cause Are Spreading Strike of Freight Handlers and Placing of ShlMi In Dry Dock New York, Jan. 8. Shipment of all classes of freight, particularly foodstuffs intended for the American troops abroad and Europe's starving people, were embargoed from other parts of the country through the ports of Boston, Philadelphia and New York for export by order of the federal food administration. Accu mulations on the piers is so great that It Is impossible to handle any more stuff. The chief cause are the strike of the freight handlers, which Is spreading, and the disposition of owners to put vessels In dry dock when the war strain relapsed, and the decrease of labor due to the hol iday. Washington, Jan. 3. Railroad ad ministration officials said that the embargo was. caused by local con gested ' condition which might be remedied within a week and ought not to Interfere with the overseas movement of supplies tor the Ameri can troops and civlalian relief. The embargo was declared by the freight traffic ' committee of the North Atlantic ports on the sugges tion of the food administration that supplies for abroad be routed through ports outside the congested sone. E Paris, Jan. 8. Four million idle soldiers have been super-Imposed upon a labor problem that already had been deeply distressing Ger many. The kaiser and his crowd left a fine industrial and financial mess for "My People." Famine's shadow falls upon a third of the population, while the great plants recently engaged in making the devices of trlghtfulness now are contemplating throwing out thousands of workmen. The people who have contributed many millions to the war loans are wondering where the government will get the money to make good. The wealthier classes and those con scienceless members of the old mili taristic crowd are standing sullenly aloof watching the workers, soldiers and socialists sotting up an amateur government in the seats of the mighty. The Bolshevlkl encourage strikes and stand ready to supply arms to the strikers at the same timo preach' Ing the gospel of property contlaca tiou, on the theory that what a man wants is his, and therefore why not break Into anyfconvenlont store and help himself. AMERICAN SOLDI Kits ARE INSURED FOR 9:18,000,000,000 Washington, Juh. 3. Twenty-six tons of insurance records from the American Expeditionary Force were rocelved today by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. They represent $1,600,000,000 of government insurance written on American soldiers overseas and will bring the total insurance written by the bureau to more than $38,000, 000,000. . . UP FOODSTUFFS FOR STARVING MILLION MORE MEN RELEASED IN FEW WEEKS SECRETARY IIAKEH SAYS 700,000 HAVE ISEEN DISCHARGED SINCE ARMISTICE EUROPEAN STATUS UNCERTAIN Senate .Military Committee Reject Baker IlecomhiendiUion Would Take Power From War Board Washington, Jan. 3. Secretary of War Baker told the house military committee that no decision ha been reached by the war department on the. question of universal military service. When asked whether it would be necessary ,to keep a large force of soldiers in Europe for at least two years, Secretary Baker aald: "We hope that Is not true, although we were planning on It." Seven hundred thousand have been discharged since the armistice was signed, and a million more will be discharged within five weeks more Washington, Jan. 3. The senate military committee unanimously re jected Secretary Baker' recommen dation for legislation to validate In formal war contracts. . The commit tee would legalize the contracts, but place the adjustment In the hands of non-interested a commission Instead' of the war department THE IMPERIAL PALACE SUFFERS GREAT LOSS Berlin, Jan. 3. The damage to the Imperial palace in Berlin during the recent excesses, by theft or van dalism, Is estimated to exceed $1,- 500,000. Five hundred person im plicated In the plundering which is said to have been going on for the past six weeks, have been apprehend ed and much of the stolen property recovered. The former emperor's warden succeeded In getting the bulk of the Imperial art treasures to a place of safety after the flight of the emper or. The wardrobes of the former emperor and his wife were almost en tirely denuded of their contents. In one of the former imperial dressing rooms the old uniform of a soldier was found. Its owner had exchanged nis untrorm for imperial raiment and disappeared. GERMANY IS NOW OUT OF THE AIR F London, Jan, 3. For the allies to take 2,000 airplanes from Germany, in accordance with the terms of the armlBtlce, means militarily crippling Germany lu the air beyond hope of early recovery, while immensely ad ding to the aerial strength of the al lies, says an aviation expert. This Is emphasized, '.he says, by the fact that In five months of tho heaviest air righting of the war, Germany lost In aerial combat with the British alone something like 2,700 machines. To this total must be added the des truction wrought by the French and American air services. The expert asserts that for several months before the armistice, Ger many's capacity for producing air planes was unequal to the task of re placing her Immense losses. This, he adds, was strikingly Illustrated by the almost complete failure ot her air arm during the final and most critical phase of the war. ' HINGING THE MEN U PROBLEM Hurley Say It Will Be Six Month Before France and England Will Need Raw Material London, Dec. 5. (Correspondence ot the Associated Press.) There will be no shortage of cargo tonnage for supplying world need during the first halt of It IS In the opinion of Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United State Shipping Board. It Is passenger apace for transporting troop home that la occupying atten tion of the allied shipping control lers. No nation can have as much of that a It want now. After conferring with industrial and ahipping heads in England and France and viewing a large part of the battle area ot France and Bel gium, Mr. Hurley stated that It would take at least six months, pos sibly more, for France and England to rehabilitate their Industrie to the point where large amount ot raw material would be needed. It is pointed out that it would be useless to send Industrial machinery and raw materials to France until her destroyed factory buildings are made ready to receive them.. Almost the entire British indus trial system now Is a huge munitions production machine virtually Idle. Until It Is transformed to its pre war state raw materials would be a burden. It will be necessary to im port some machinery for the trans formation but not enough seriously to tax cargo space for the next seven months, Mr. Hurley believes. . The 32 German passenger vessels in German ports have been the cen ter ot most ot the allied shipping discussions on this side for weeks. Americans want all ot them they can get to send home roughly 1,700,000 men as soon as possible. England must send home to Canada about 300,000, to Australia about 200,000, to New Zealand 75,000 or more and bringing to England thousands from Mesopotamia, Palestine, and other places. Obviously the American problem is the greatest and it Is un derstood, that, In pressing for ships. Americans generally have Insisted that the United State, with less than two years of war, is in a better posi tion to assimilate its returning men than la England whose Industrial conditions have been more disrupted. With the rapid Increase in Amer ican tonnage It is expected that more than 40 per cent ot the American forces will go home In American ships. It is the desire ot American army officers and shipping Interests that aa many as possible ot the bal ance be carried home in German pas senger vessels, thus releasing a large number ot British bottoms. It the demands ot Americans, heard there, that the troops be sent home as rapidly as they were brought over becomes insistent it will take more ships to send them back than to bring them over. They, were brought over under the stress' ot ne cessity and in some instances ships were loaded to the extent ot dis comfort. Loss of tonnage caused by lighter loading however will par tially be made up by greater speed. Fast vessels will not be compelled to conform to convoy speed and the elimination of ztg-sagglng will save much time. 'WMJo a sreat many men are be ing sent home now and the number will constantly increase It Is not be lieved the real homeward movement will be Inaugurated before February 1. Whether then It will be on the suggested basis of 300,000 a month depends almost entirely upen dec! slons of the allied shipping confer ences which began soon after the armistice was signed. V. OF O. TO HAVE R. O. T. C. Eugene, Ore., Jan. 3. A reserve officers' training corps will be es tablished at the University ot Oregon at the beginning of the next semes ter, January 6, according to word received by Colonel Bowen, commandant. WHOLE Nl'.UIJER 2.V55. SENATORS IN WRANGLE OVER PRES. WILSON SENATOR LEWIS SAYS PRESI DENT IS UNDER NO OBLIGA TION'S TO THE SENATE Lodge Denies ' Charge and Says Peace Should Be Made Quickly to Avoid Difficulties Washington, Jan. 1. Senator Lewis, of Illinois, democrat. In a speech charging tne republicans with trying to discredit President Wilson while the latter is abroad, said: "I Inform the European negotia tors and the world," he said, "that there is no law In America, by consti tution, statute or custom by which the president is under any obligation to submit what he Is now doing to the senate or to any other branch of the legislative or executive body. "I Inform the negotiators as I do all those Interested, that the pres ent undertakings of the president of the United (States are aa commander In chief of the armies. That ha' re mains such with full power as com mander in chief until tho roll treaty or compact of peace has been finally accepted and peace declared and tho armies withdrawn as a result of that acceptance." ,;.y , Washington, Jan. 5 3. Senator' Lodge, republlan, ' denied Senator Lewis' charge that the republicans were attempting to embaraas the president and prevent a unity In tho senate, and said the peace negotia tions should be completed as quickly as possible, for the reason that every day's delay made it more difficult to make peace with Germany. OF Rome, Jan. 3. President Wilson arrived In Rome today. He was re ceived by the king and queen and representatives ot the Italian gov ernment. An Immense crowd wel comed him with the greatest ot en thusiasm. Rome, Jan. 3. From the fron tier to Rome the Journey of Presi dent Wilson was like a triumphal procession. Mountaineers and vll-, lagers swarmed from the hills and valleys to the railroad over which the presidential train passed, to pay homage to America. FIVE YEAR CONTROL Washington, Jan, 3 Director Mc Adoo, testifying before the senate Interstate commerce committee, re cited accomplishments ot the rail roads under government control and argued for a five year continuance ot government operation to provide a fair test. 4 4 4 4 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 PENITENTIARY PROBE ' 4 4 SATO TO BE ENDED ..' ' 4 4 Salem, Ore.,' Jan. 3. Judge 4 4 Kelly; of the circuit court, held 4 that the Marlon county grand 4 4 Jury's presentments against two 4 penitentiary guards for consplr- 4 4 Ing with a convict for securing 4 his release for remuneration 4 4 did not state the facts constltut- 4- Ing the crime. This end the 4 Investigation, according to the 4 4 officials. . . 4 44 4 ' I