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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01

KOREANS STAGE RIOT.

Pekin, Mar. 30-Twcnty thousand
Koreans staged a great demonstration
in Seoul on March 20, according TO de.
layed dispatches received here today
The military was called out and many
casualties resulted.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
MORE UNITS ASSIGNED


Washington, April 1.-The following
organizations have been assigned to
oarly convoy, the war department an.
nounced today: lrtsf
Base hospital n; Hath engineers and
train; j3rd pioneer infantry; 372nd aero
ordnance casual companies 30
TO 81, inclusive; casual company s.,
transportation corps; 3l2th clothing
anti; 336th butchery company and llO3
aero replacement squadron
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
TWO SECRET TREATIES

Paris. April 1.-The journal Des
Debais today published two secret treat
les between Bulgaria and Austria Hun
gary showing the concessions granted
the former for entering the war on the
side Of the central powers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
PIPP WEARS sHANTY

Jacksonville, Fla, April Walter
PipD is wearing a shantv over his left
gim today Ping Bodies liner took a
wicked bound in yesterdays five to
four game between the Yankee regulars
an the Yannigans. There were no
other casualties.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01

specifications for gasoline and other petroleum prod
ucts
This committee consisted Of the United States
Fuel Administration and representatives of the War
and Navy Departments, the United States Shipping
Board,the Director General of Railroads, the Bureau
of Mines and the Bureau of Standards.
The committee was assisted and advised by tech
nical experts from each of these departments and
bodies.
After extended discussions exhaustive tests and
experimentation, this Government committee adop-
ted standard specifications for gasoline, not only for
aviation purposes, but also for general motor
land and sea.
These United States Government specifications
were drawn up with view to providing grade of
gasoline that would meet every practical require
nent and yet allow maximum production. They deal
with the problem the basis Of the best utilization
of our petroleum resources. and the maintenance of
reasonable prices to the consumer.
Drafted as they were by impartial Government ex-
perts, these United States Government gasoline
specifications are today being generally considered
as the most practical standard for gasoline They
insure an efficient and satisfactory gasoline and at
the same time have due regard for the necessity Of
petroleum conservation.
The gasoline being furnished today is more pow
erfu and gives greater mileage than the gasoline of
ten years ago. Its is made possible by the inn
provements in automobile engines and methods of
carburization. To go back to the gasoline of ten
years ago would be to accept more highly volatile
but less powerful gasoline giving less mileage 1t
would also result in decreasing the production and
increasing the cost Of gasoline.
All Red Crown gasoline now being supplied in the
Pacific Coast states is refined to conform with The
United States Government standard specifications
It has the full uniform chain Of boiling points nee
essary for full-powered dependable gasoline: Low
boiling points for easy starting, medium boiling
points for quick smooth aceeleration and high boil
ing points for power and mileage,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
YANKs LEAVE ITALY.

New York. April l.--Ap Official
ceblegram from Rome 20 the Italian
consul general here today. says the
332nd United States infantry, composed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01

of Ohio and Pennsylvania drafted men,
has sailed from Genoa, where a gold
medal was presented TO the entire regi-
ment for vaIorous fighting with the
armies Of Italy
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
PLY TO NORTH POLE

London, April 1.-Captain Robert
Bartlett Of New York plans to fly to
the north pole in June, starting from a
base at Cape Columbia, it was an
nouneed today.
- TVY---'
Bartlett, who is A years old, started
his polar explorations as member Of
the Peary expedition in 1897. lie head
ed the Canadian government expedition
In 1914 when he crossed on the ice to
Siberia. s4E!E.ss
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
PRESLEY IN NEW YORK.

Sergeant Albert c. Presley,
Of this city, who won the dis
tinguished service cross after he
had captured a machine gun
and 20 German prisoners sin
gle handed, arrived in New
York today aboard the trans
port Kentuekian, according to
press dispatches this afternoon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01

To meet this situation both the petroleum and au-
tOmoble industries have for several years been max
ing every effort. The problem has been approached
from every angle:
(a) The oil producers are constantly prospecting
for new fields. They have sunk many wells
and are doing everything possible to increase
petroleum production.
(b) The oil re6ners, with the help of their chemi-
cal engineers, are ever devising new and inn
proved processes of refining by which they
squeeze every possible drop of gasoline out of
each barrel of petroleum.
(c) The automotive engineers have aided much
in gasoline conservation by their constant
improvement OF automobile engines and
methods of carburization. Their efforts are
to secure the operation of automobiles on
grades of gasoline that permit the maximum
production of this motor fuel from each bar
rel of crude oil and which, at the same time,
will give the greatest power and mileage
from each unit of gasoline consumed.
All these methods are succeeding to marked de-
gree, and yet gasoline consumption is increasing
much faster than production,
Facing these bald facts last summer, it became
evident to President Wilson and the United States
Fuel Administration that there was virtually great
need for gasoline conservation as for food conserva-
ton
In consequence the United States Fuel Admins
traton requested Eastern states to discontinue
trely all non-essential use of passenger automobiles,
and for time this request was so extended that
only automobiles in Government, emergency or war
service were in use on Sunday. These limitations
were not extended to the Western states because at
the time there was enough gasoline being produced
in California for Pacific Coast needs and its dstri-
button did not require the of transcontinental
transportation facilities needed for war.
It was part of this same campaign to conserve
gasoline that led President Wilson to appoint Gov
ernment committee to determine and adopt standard
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-04-01
The Gasoline Problem
of Supply and Demand

The second of series of three statements
The directed petroleum Speaking
this subject Mark L. Oil Division United Fuel
Administration said:
The dpopoon between the supply of and demand for gasoline
and constitutes critical problem
Projected the percentage should 1927
something like 7OoooooO barrels petroleum In 1918 production
only 600 barrels"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
THE "WETS" ARE in
"uE BATTLE RING
LIQUOR INTERESTS WILL FIGHT
PROHIBITION TO LAST DITCH.
PIN HOPES ON COURTS.

Liquor interests in the United
States are making desperate effort
to prevent the enforcement of ma
tional prohibition on Jan. 16, 1920.
In Arkansas, California, Colorado,
Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebras-
ka, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Dakota and Washing
ton they have entered fights in the
courts to force a referendum vote on
the action of the legislature in rati-
flying the federal government In
Kentucky federal judge has declar-
ed national prohibition legislation I'M
constitutional, and whisky is being
sold.
In Ohio the voters sustained the
action Of the legislature. In Maine,
Oregon and Washington the highest
state courts have disposed of the
question adversely to the liquor in
terests. Efforts are being made to
force a referendum in Utah, Idaho,
Nevada and Wisconsin, but the "dry''
forces are confident sufficient names
will not be secured in Utah and Ida
no. The question is before the state
supreme courts in Nebraska, Arkan-
sas, New Mexico, Colorado, Califor-
MIA and Michigan.
Liquor interests now contend that
ratification in Ohio was not ccmplet-
ed until Nov. 4, 1919, and that hence,
if state referendum is allowed the
federal law cannot become operative
until sometime in 1921. However, the
United States supreme court must
pass on this issue and may hand down
a decision at any sitting.
Fighting to the Last Ditch.
Even after the legality of the proc
lamation of Franklin L. Polk, acting
secretary of state, has been esablish-
ed, the liquor interests will stage an
other fight in which they will bring
up the issue of state enforcement
The "wets" will undertake to estab-
fish that formal concurrence of the
states is necessary to the application
of the drastic terms of the Volstead
act. This issue involves the definition
of Intoxicating liquors" and the
2.75 per cent. beer dispute.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
HUNGER OF MOSCOW'S
STARVING PEOPLE
CHILDREN SEARCH FOR WHEAT
GRAINS IN STREET AND ENVY
DOGS CARRYING BONES.

Word pictures of Moscow's hunger
are given in a Paris newspaper by
a Russian princess arriving from
Russia. 81 will not speak of the ter
rible, revolving and odious things that
passed in the streets of Moscow"
she said, "but only of the hunger in
cidents I saw with my own eyes, and
which were repeated day after day.
~ met a woman and child, ragged
and thin as skeletons, and the child
crying constantly with an unchang-
ing expression of terror. The mother
said that the child was hungry, and
asked for a piece of bread, as they
had not eaten for twenty-four hours.
1 opened my purse, but the woman
turned away, saying: "No, not mon
ey, but bread"
Like a Living Crucifx.
"Another time saw blond-hair-
ed young girl, with arms outstretch-
ed, leaning like a living crucifix
against wall and murmuring, 4 am
hungry Next day she died.
81 have seen in the middle of side
street great, yellow, hollow-sided
dog, carrying a bone with little
meat attached, while a ten-year-old
boy, a few steps away with the pal
Ior of long misery on his face watch
ed the dog as if hypnotized. With
neck outstretched, mouth open and
fist clenched, he looked at the dog
with hate and ferocity.
81 have seen children hardly cloth
ed, hollow-eyed and with forms like
shadows, on their knees in the street,
trying to pick from between the paw
ing stones grains of wheat that had
fallen from a torn sack. | have seen
before bakeries, men, women and
children stretched on the cold stones,
awaiting through days and nights
their turn to get their meager ration
of bread, and then often falling ex-
hausted and dying at the door-steps
before they received it."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
new YORK RADICAL
NEST RAIDED AGAIN
LUSK COMMITTEE DIRECTS THE
CLEANUP IN WHICH TONS OF
LITERATURE WAS SEIZED.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Seven hun
dred policemen made raids Saturday
night under the direction of the Lusk
committee of the state legislature,
which has been investigating radical
propaganda in cooperation with the
federal authorities.
Tons of radical literature were
seized and about 800 prisoners were
taken. The raids were made with the
help of search warrants and warrants
for arrests issued to the Lusk COM
mittee by Chief City Magistrate Nc
Adoo, based on evidence which the
Lusk committee had been accumulat-
ing. Senator Lusk took personal dl-
rection of the hunt.
The radical propaganda throughout
the United States, intimately COZ
nected with bomb plots and with red
activities in centers of the industrial
turmoil, has originated in the places
raided Saturday night, according to
Deputy Attorney General Berger,
counsel for the Lusk committee IN IN
vestigating revolutionary and boil
sheviki propaganda in this state.
ParIor Bolshevists angels"
One of the purposes of the raids
was to gather evidence as to the fu-
ture plans for causing outbreaks like
those in Seattle and at Gary, which
have been laid largely to lnt1amma-
tory publications printed in this city,
with the aid, according to Mr.. Berger,
of wealthy parlor bolshevists of New
York city.
After the raids started at about 10
o'clock patrol wagons drove up TO
police headquarters and policemen. be-
gan to stagger in under the weight
of the red literature which they were
carrying. Prisoners were taken IN
droves.
The largest crowd of prisoners cap
tured at any one place was taken at at
one of the Ukranian branches at 22Z
East Fifth street. The prisoners from
this place, which had been raIded
some time previously, numbered l5O'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
PEACE FARLEY IS
EXPECTED TO END
PARIS CONFERENCE WILL PROB
ABLY ADJOURN BEFORE DE-
GENDER 1ST. TREATY PROTO-
COL FINISHED.

The end of November may see the
close of the Paris peace conference
which has negotiated the peace trea-
ties with Germany and Austria and
has carried the negotiations with Bull
garia well toward completion. De-
cember LIST now is looked upon as
the latest probable date for the adj
journment of the conference.
Unless the conference can speedily
reach an agreement with Rumania
and compel it to discontinue its in
reference in Hungarian affairs there
seems little chance, delegates believe,
that a peace treaty can be negotiated
with Hungary at present, in which
case the conference will close with
out making that treaty. The Adriatic
question will not necessarily prolong
the life of the conference, according
to allied leaders in Paris, and there IS
no disposition among the delegates to
drag out the conference much longer
for the discussion of European polltl-
cal questions involved in the Ruma-
MAN and Italian difficulties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
$4,000 IS STOLEN
FROM A FARMER
SPENT DAY AWAY FROM HOME
AND FOUND MONEY GONE
WHEN HE RETURNED.

MILLEN, GA. E. Joiner, prom
inent planter living eight miles south
west of Millen, left his home at 3
o'clock yesterday morning and came
to Millen in an automobile and
caught ca a train passing Millen at day
LIGHT for Savannah, where ne went
Mr., Joiner returned to Millen last
night at 1870 o'clock and Went s, I'M a.
mediately home. Upon his arrival at
home he found that a trunk which
Contained thirteen thousand dollars
had been removed from his house
mad mad this morning soon he located the
trunk t at the head of branch about bout
one mile from his house broken 1 open
and the money missing. Evidence
4oodoJ IN show that the package had
been ripped open with a knife. han
No clue as to the theft has been
found.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
Few Hired Hands VIII Work On
Missouri's Famous Rattlesnake Farm

reptiles and has never been bitten.
Some of the snakes become so tame
they can be handled with impunity
by her, but not by others.
The Aherns have found as many
as 100 snakes in one cave or crevice
in the rocks. If left undisturbed one
family of reptiles will occupy the
same cave for years. The proper
time for capturing rattlesnakes is in
the early spring when they first leave
their winter quarters and are slug
gish. During the chilly months there
is little activity on the snake farm,
for the rattlers are all housed in
holes and crevices of the rocks for
winter. While rattlesnakes are rails
ed almost exclusively on the farm
Miss Ahern also fills orders for king
snakes. As the king snake and the
RATHER are deadly enemies they have
to be kept apart.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
CLOTHING UNION
USED POLITICAL PULL
HAVE OBTAINED TWO MILLION
DOLLARS FROM MANUFAC-
TURERS BY EXTORTION.

CHICAGO, Ill.-Assistant States
Attorney Nicholas Michels, who has
charge of the investigation of charg-
es that officials of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America have
obtained 100000 from clothing
manufacturers in Chicago and other
cities by means of extortlon in set
Ting strikes, announced on Saturday
that in the raid recently made on
union headquarters letters were selz-
ed which idicate that when agents of
the organization were arrested IN
Cincinnati and arraigned before
Judge Robert Buckwalter attorneys
were engaged to represent the de-
PENDANTS, who were said to be backed
by powerful political influence and
to be on friendly terms with the jul
rist.
Will Notify Court.
Copies of the correspondence will
be sent to Judge Buckwalter In GIN
cinnati for his information, and such
use as he desires to make of them.
The union agents, it is said, were ar
rested lOE IuIOWlLS P~PPNA GU AAN4A
union workers during strike.
"The letters show that the unions
lawyers were engaged because they
were supposed to have influence with
the judge in Cincinnati" said Prose
cutor Michels.
"Seventy-fve thousand dollars
worth of liberty bonds were sent by
the Chicago officials of the union, to
be used as bonds in the Cincinnati
cases. The names of New York law
yers also are mentioned in the let
tiers, which l will send to Judge
Buckwalter."
Prosecutor Michels said also that a
large red flag had been found at
headquarters of the union in Chlca-
go, when the rooms were raided last
Thursday
Sixty clothing firms, who have
been compelled to pay tribute to the
union officials, will be summoned as
witnesses by the state when the case
is presented to the grand jury next
week, according to Assistant States
Attorney Michels.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
GOMPERS IN DEFIANT MOOD
Tells International Labor Delegates That Organized
Workers Will Fight the Present Administration.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, at dinner Civ
en- Monday night in the Hotel Will
lard to the delegates of the interna-
tional labor conference, asserted the
determination of American organized
labor to stand behind the coal strik-
ers. Mr.. Gompers said that Ameri-
can labor stood for all the ideals OF
Americanism and was in accord with
the government when it followed a
course of freedom and justice. The
present administration, he asserted,
had failed to conform to these prln-
ciples and American labor had no al
tentative, therefore, but "to assert
that the principles of justice, free,
dom and democracy must prevail
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
CITIES SPEND MORE
THAN Their REVENUES
OF 227 AMERICAN MUNICIPALI-
TIES 147 SHOW GOVERNMENT
AL COSTS EXCEED INCOMES.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In lat of
the 227 American cities Of more than
10000 population the excess of ex-
penditures for governmental costs, in
GLIDING interest and OUTLAWS for per-
manent improvements, over revenues
during the fiscal year 1918 amounted
to $70,923,99O, or $3.48 per capita.
In the remaining eighty cities the ex-
cess of revenues over expenditures
was S22,323,O60, or $3.50 per capt.
ia. Taking the entire 227 cities as a
group the excess of expenditures
over revenues amounted to $48,6OO,-
$50, or S1.42 per capita. The net in
debtedness of these cities averaged
.$77.53 per capita.
These are among the significant
facts presented in a report entitled:
"Financial Statistics of Cities Hav-
ing a Population of more than 3d.
900; 1913" soon to be issued by d.
rector Sam L. Rogers, of the bureau
of census, department of commerce.
This report gives detailed data IN
respect to the revenues and expendl--
lures. the assessments, the taxes and
the Indebtedness and assets of the
227 American cities.
Revenue Figures.
The aggregate revenue of all the
cities during the year were $1,124,-
0a4 ,899; the aggregate expenditures
for current expenses and interest,
S894,332,392, and the aggregate out
lays, $278,363,437. o
Of the total revenues S79O,5F|,-
487. or &c per cent, represents re-
cepits from the various kinds of tax
es. The bulk of this amount, $705,-
723,158, was derived from the gen
eral property tax" made up of taxes
on real and personal property OF
the remaining receipts from taxes the
largest item, 35,576,383, was derIv-
ed from taxes on the liquor traffic.
This amount is smaller by S1,398,OO0
than the corresponding sum reported
for the fiscal year 1917.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
Much Desired
Two Wealthy American Girls
Showered With 1000 Proposals
While in Europe.

NEW YORK.-Two American
girls, who share with their broth
er a $4,000,O00 estate, had near
ly 1000 proposals of marriage
abroad.
The lineup: Sarah Kouns and
Nellie Kouns, daughters of the
late c. W. Kouns, Topeka, Kan,
president of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe railroad.
The score as follows: Sarah
Kouns, 422 proposals; Nellie
Kouns, 435 proposals.
The girls are accomplished vo-
calists and have appeared in
vaudeville act, known as the
Koun Sisters. They were abroad
with the war entertainment the
atrical forces, and took occasion
to see Europe. They were lavish
ly entertained in society in the
various countries, and were met
and proposed to by men of vari-
Gus nationalities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18

Information about the rattlesnake
farm of Miss Rose Ahern and her
brother in the Ozark region IN Mis-
souri, has appeared at various times
in the papers. Their speciality is the
diamond back rattlesnake, for which
they get high prices from DOCTORS
chemists, museums and circuses'
Physicians use the venom after it has
been prepared for treating epilepsy
and other diseases. Its prescription
name is crotalin.
For nearly 4 years the Aherns have
bean following this odd way of max
inc a living and now have 400 snakes
right where they can be found when
needed. They find it difficult to get
hands to help in such dangerous work:
Miss Ahern herself has no fear OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18

over any temporary administration"
whenever and wherever an at
tempt is made by the employers as
employers or by the government as a
government to depart from the fun
damental principles OF justice and
humanity" Mr.. Gompers said, cit is
not only the right but it is the duty
of the men and women of labor to
stand up and protest regardless of
what consequences must be.
"What matters it if you or l are
placed in jail because we have at
tempted to uphold the principles of
freedom and justice and democracy?
1t is better that we should have our
self-respect and hand down to the
generations yet to come the princi-
Piles of freedom than to live an in
glorious life. To know how to die is
big thing, but it is better to know
how to live for our fellow beings"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-11-18
UNCLE SAM TEACHING
BARROOM ETIQUETTE
Saloon Manners and Method of Win
ming Confidence of Bartenders
Being Taught Officers.

The United States government has
opened a bar-brass fOotrail and ev-
erything-in the custom house in
New York city, and federal agents
are being educated in saloon ETH
quette. This is all part of the school
for the education of prohibition en-
forcers who will enforce the dry
law in New York.
Rye, Scotch and "third rail' whis-
kies adorn the mahogany" together
with 2.75 beer and light wine. APP
pearance of customer" who have
taken of drinks stronger than the law
allows is demonstrated and ways and
means of getting liquor with a kick
in it are rehearsed for the classes;
How to approach the bartender and
win his confidence also is taught.