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Section One Pages 1 to 24 104- Pages Eight Sections VOL.. XXXVIII NO. 49. Entered at Portland (Oregon) PoFto'fice as Spcond-C!a? Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, DECE3IBER 7, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS Ul IVES TO HillT STRIKE Proposal Approved By Lewis and Green. CAMP LEWIS TROOPS AT MONTANA MINES CONGRESS STICKS TO STEADY GRIND PRESIDENT HANDLES BUSINESS MATTERS EUGENIE, 93, PICKS TUILLERIES FLOWERS MOTHER AND SON $117,000,000 GIVEN TO PUBLIC BY FRICK $25,000,000 OF VAST ESTATE RESERVED FOR FAMILY. WILLAMETTE PUT IN BIG CONFERENCE Application of Salem ASSERT XXOlCEMEXT IS MADE AF TER SAFE ARRIVAL REPORT. DR. DERCl'M, OX VISIT, FINDS CONDITION IS GOOD. FADED EX-EMPRESS IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY PASSERS. I ENGL GARFIELD NOT IN ON PLAN Indianapolis Meeting of Coal Unions Called for Next Tuesday. PALMER SLATED TO ATTEND No Intimation of Details of Offer Revealed in White House Announcement. WASHINGTON, Dec 7. Attor ney-General Palmer announced after midnight that an agreement was reached hero late last night between government officials and John L. Iewis, acting president, and William ureen, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, under which a proposal for termination of the coal strike will he submitted to a meet ing of the executive committee of the mine workers at Indianapolis next Tuesday. The proposal, which is not de scribed in the statement, was offered by President Wilson, "looking to a speedy termination of the strike situation and adjustment of the en tire controversy," the statement says. Lewis and Green will, urge acceptance of the proposal. Palmer Makes Statement. Mr. Palmer's statement follows: "A conference was held at the de partment of justice in Washington, at which were present the attorney general, Mr. Tumulty, secretary to the president; John L. Lewis, acting president, and William Green, secretary-treasurer, of the United Mine Workers of America, with a view to reaching an understanding between the government and the miners which would result in a settlement of the coal strike situation. "At this conference. there was sub mitted a definite and concrete prop osition from the president looking to a speedy termination of the strike situation and an adjustment of the entire situation. Officers of the United Mine Workers, in response to the suggestion of the president, agreed to and have called a meeting of the general scale committee, the representatives of all the district organizations and the international executive board of the United Mine Workers to be held in Indianapolis on Tuesday, December 9, at 2 o'clock r. M., at which time the president's proposal will be considered and its acceptance by the miners urged by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green. The at- Concludd on Page 23. Column 1.) a. Orders Issued by General Morri son Upon Governor's Request. Disorders to Be Prevented. TACOMA. Dec. 6. Under command of Colonel I'. C. Kndicott. commanding (he 1st infantry regiment, a special train carrying troops of the 1st and 35th regiments of infantry left Camp Lewis for Butte, Mont.. Thursday night for duty at Montana mines. This announcement was made at headquarters. Camp Lewis, tonight upon report being received that the soldiers had safely arrived at their destination. Orders dispatching the troops were issued by Major-General John F. Mor rison, commanding Camp Lewis, upon the request of Governor Stewart of Montana, it was stated. From Butte the soldiers were or dered to divide in detachments, going to Bear Creek, north of Great Falls, to Roundup, Red Lodge and Sand Coulee. The understanding given army officers here was that while no trouble had been experienced it was the intention to open the mines immediately and that the troops were wanted to prevent any possible at tempt at disorders. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 6. Four com panies of the regular army, drawn from the 1st and 35th infantry regi ments, arrived In Montana today on request of Governor Stewart, to af ford protection to the citizens of Mon tana who respond to the appeal of the state's executive to work the coal mines at Sand Coulee, Roundup. Red Lodge and Bear Creek. JAPAN HONORS ADMIRALS Decorations Conferred on 1 Rank ing American Officers. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 6. The Japanese government, through Am bassador Shidehara has conferred decorations on 14 ranking officers of the American navy in recognition of war service. Among those aecoraiea were Rear-Admirals Benson. Sims. Mayo and Knight, who received the grand cordon of the rising sun; Ad mirals Gleaves and Wilson, grana cor- r )i Harred treasury: Admiral Rodman, order of the rising sun. sec ond class. x iic- r a hrlef address by the ambassador. Secretary Daniels said the mutual participation of japan ana the United States in the war had "strengthened their bonds of friend ship." YOUTHS ADMIT' MURDER Pair Caught in Vtah. Contcss Kill ing Astoria Chinese Merchant. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) William Wilson and T'arila Alex Bran ner, the two young men arrested at Clear Creek, Utah, yesterday have confessed to the murder of Frank Gowan. the Chinese clothing mer chant, who was assassinated here by robbers on the night of November 29. That was the report in a message received late this afternoon from Chief of Police Carlson of this city, who is at Price, Utah. Carlson also reported ' that the " prisoners had waived extradi' them to Astoria. $200,073,210 IN BANKS Resources of Portland Insttutions Are Computed In Report. SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.) Total resources of the 25 banks and trust companies in Portland at the close of business November 17, 1919. were $200,073,210.91. according to a re port prepared today by Will H. Ben nett, state superintendent of banks. The total deposits on November 17, 1919, were $169,231,314.94 showing an increase since November 1, 191S, of $43. .152.917.59. Rigid Economy Keynote of New Legislation. APPROPRIATIONS TO BE CUT Shaving of $382,000,000 From Army Bill Promised. JENKINS CASE IS JOLT State Depart men t Suspects Re lease on Bail Is Trick by Mexican Government. ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 6. Big events of the last two weeks have obscured the fact that congress Is buckling down to business, and that Important legis lation is now under way. The senate has been working industriously on the railroad bill, and Senator Cummins hopes to obtain its passage before the holiday adjournment. A railroad bill already having passed the house, the measure will then go to conference and there is where the delay Is 11; ely to occur. The two measures are so dissimilar that no early agreement can be ex pected. Meanwhile, the labor organizations of the country are sending thousands of letters and telegrams to congress demanding the defeat of both the sen ate and house bills, and the extension of government control for two years. Appropriation Fare Cut The house has taken up the legisla tive, executive and judicial appropria tion bill in committee, with the hope of passing it and sending :t to the senate soon after the first of the year, j The first development of interest in ; connection with the appropriation j bills is the obvious present determina- ' tion of leaders at both ends of the ! capitol to economize. j If these good Intentions receive the j support for which taxpayers will hope there will be a sweeping reduction of $1,000,000,000 in the estimates submit ted to congress by the executive de-' partments last Monday. If the leaders have the ir way the clerical force of the government In this city will be reduced somewhere frojn 25,000 to 40,000. Singularly, since the armistice was signed the big war force of government employes has grown, rather than diminished, and congress is trying to find out the reason. Kconomj 1 Reduce Army. One economy which is sure to ma terialize relates to the reorganization of the army. To the amazement of congress when the estimates of Sec retary of War Baker were received last Monday they contained provi sion for an army of 576.000 men. This occasioned resentment because it was viewed as an attempt by Secre tary Baker and the general staff to force on congress their own ideas as to the country's military needs in spite of the antagonism of both the senate and house military affairs committees to a large army and the recommendations of Generals Wood and Pershing for an army of only 250,000 men. The war department estimates call for appropriations aggregating $982, 000.000, and Senator Wads worth, chairman of the senate military af fairs committee, has been prompt to assure the country that congress will never stand for such an army and that these estimates will be shaved to $1500,000,000. A fact worthy k,T note (Concluded on Paf 2, Column 1.) HIGH SPOTS IN THE NEWS OF THE WEEK AS CARTOONIST "VMA-T'TbOC CO OX SCOVEV Going- qovj m'. Reclining Position Makes Use of Indelible Pencil Necessary In Signing Official Documents. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Dr. F. X. Dercum, the Philadelphia neurologist, made his weekly visit to the White House today. He said he found the president's con dition good, but that he would not give out a statement as planned, as Sen ator Fall of New Mexico, who con ferred with the president yesterday, had done that for him. President Wilson transacted some official business today, including the signing of a number of pardon war rants and a bill to increase the pay of police in the District of Columbia. In signing the measures the presi dent used an indelioie pencil because of the difficulty of using the pen In a reclining position. This was the first time in the history of the nation, it was said at the White House, that the official document in parchment had not been signed with ink. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TKSTERDAVS Maximum temperature. 40 degree ; minimum. -7 de;refs. TODAY'S Fair; gentle easterly winds. Oepartment. Ed it orial. Se-t ion H. pagA 8. Dramatks. Section 4, page 4. Moving picture npwg. Section 4. page 6. Real estate and building. Section 4. page 10. Music. Section 4. page 12. Churches. Section 5, pane . School:. Section 5. page Books. Section Ti, page 6. Automobile news. Section fi Women's Feature. Society. Section 3. page Women's activities. Section 4. page S. Fashions. Section ". page 4. Miss Tingle's column. Section 3. page 4. Auction bridge. Section 5, page 5. pMial Feature. ' Cardinal Mrrcier's series. Section 4, page 7. Portland's growth crrates fortunes in real estate. Magazine section, page 1. How dancing reveals character. Maga zine section, page 1. r.ermpry again plans to dominate world. Manaaine section, page :. World news by camera. Magazine sec tion, page 4. Aimirrfl Sim's own story. Magazine sec tion, page 5. Wager culminates In marriage. Maga zine sect Ion. page . Kr?ience searches for substitute for coal. Magazine section, page 7. Life sketcheti of the day by Hil!. ..Maga zine section, page f. Seattle fireman holds memory title. Sec tion 3, page IO. Multnomah canning team. Section page 11. Madame Xazlmova's career revealed. Section 4, page 9. Oregon climate and soil suit roses. Sec tion 4, page 5. Sermon by Reverend Edward 'onstknt. Section . page 3. r Americans to visit French war ruins. Section 5, page 6. Rriggs and Darling caitoonl Section 5, page 7. Foreign. Empress Eugenie. 93. picks flowers in Tuilleries. Section 1, page 1. Final alternative In given to Germany. Section -r page 7. National. State department investigating whether Jenkins was released on bail or by Car ranza's order. Section 1. pa go 8. President transacts official business. Sec tion 1, page 1. Domestic. Mrs. Sarah Tabor denies implication in death of daughter. Section 1. page 1. Public bequests of ?! 1 7.OO0.000 left by late Henry Clay Fric k. Section 1, page 1.' Head of Pan Motor company convicted of misuse of mails. Section 2, page 6. Congress grinds steadily on new legisla tion. Section 1, page 1. Ex-soldiers challenge Archangel mutiny tale. Section 1, page 3. Pacific Northwest. Columbia blocked with Ice at The Dalles and river traffic halted. Section 1, page 23. Many trains canceled to save fuel. Section 2. page 7. Sight-seeing trip closes hotel men's con vention at Albany. Section 1, page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Efforts to be made to launch triple alli ance and to propose measures providing for much state ownership. Section 1, page 14. Several aspire to presidency of state sen ate. Section 3, page 10. Oregon called on to aid starving. Section 1, PS 19- Once Proud Royal Mistress of Paris Gardens Revisits Scene of Hap piness, Sorrow, Terror. PARIS, Dec. 6. (By the Associated Press.) With bowed head and with face of infinite sadness, a modestly dressed old lady was seen walking through Tuilleries gardens today. As she walked she would stop to pick autumn flowers, seared and blasted by the cold, but no more faded than her cheeks. Passersby, seeing her and knowing the regulation of the park, expected some policeman to ad monish her, but she passed on fol lowed by a single maid, unchecked by the uniformed representative of the law. It was the once proud Eugenie, who, bowed beneath the weight of 93 winters, thus plucked withered flow ers from a garden that once was hers. She was revisiting a scene recalling all the happiness, sorrow and terror which came to her during the years she was the chiefest Jewel of the old palatial mansion. Empress Eugenie left France on July 23, 1914, the fateful day when the then proud and haughty Austria sent an ultimatum to Serbia, which was destined to dismember realms and change the whole face of history. OREGON TO GET SNOW lEuin Also Arc Forecast for Tliis Week's Weather. WASHINGTON- Lec. 6. eathe predictions for the week beginning .vioiiaay issued oy tne weather burea today are: Northern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions Unsettled, with occa sional snows and rains and low tem perature. Pacific states Unsettled weather; occasional rains in California and rains and snows in Washington and Oregon. Temperatures will be some what below normal In Washington and Oregon and normal in California. GIFT FRUIT GOES EAST Car Shortage Cuts Down Ship men Is From (iruwfrs. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Dec S. (Spe cial.) Included with a shipment of fruit to customers, about 200 boxes of, grift apples were dispatched east for affiliated growers today by Duck wall Bros., owners of Odell orchards and shippers. John DucKwail, in charge of the local end of the busi ness, decidedjto render this service to hi fellow growers several weeks ago. ORGUOMtV IA. TO BR ISSIED. In keeping with its custom of many years. The Oregonian will issue an annual edition January 1, 1920. None was issued for 1918 because of paper shortage brought about by the war, and this number will cover all im portant state development since the last annual. The forthcoming annual edi tion will feature Oregon's great road-building programme, de tailing the progress made and noting the contracts awarded for future construction, togeth er with pictorial maps and spe cial stories regarding the main trunk highways that are des tined to play a large part in Oregon's rapid development. Oregon as a mecca for tour ists will be strongly featured and the" state's great develop ment will be fully covered in story and picture. Wonderful strides forward have been made In many lines and these form a charming chapter In the state's progress. VMCUEL SrV.NV NVtNvVT- TM ! t H E5a.5i Maude Tabor Died of Asthma, Says Pair. DETAILS OF TRIP REFUSED Mother and Son Are Held by Yreka, Cal., Officials. EXTRADITION IS ASKED Michigan Autliorlt io. Art to Secure! Custody of Pair Indicted for Murder of Cilrl. SAN FRANCISCO. Pec. 6. Denial; of any implication In the death of Miss Maud Tabor, whose body was discovered in the basement of the Tabor home at Uton. Mich., several days ago, was made today by Mrs. Sarah Tabor, the girl's mother, ac cording to a special dispatch received here from Yreka. Cal., where Mrs. Tabor Is detained pending the arrival of Michigan officials. Mrs. Tabor, who Is 75 years old. is held with her son. Waller, as mate rial witnesses. Both were appre hended yesterday in Siskiyou county. Mrs. Tabor was quoted as saying her daughter had died in her arms at Colorado Springs. Colo., from asthma, and that she was at a loss to under stand how the body could have been transported to lawton and hidden in a trunk. She refused to detail her movements since leaving Lawton with her son last September, other than to say thoy had traveled most of the way west in an automcbilr. Mother TellK of llrMt. Walter Tabor was -quoted as saying his mother had informed him that his sister died in Colorado. VREKA. Cal., Dec- 6. (Special.) "I did not kill my sister and 1 never knew her body lay in a trunk in our home. I was . wi Montana three years ago when they say she was killed i or died, and Tvill prove this.' This was the statement made Sat-i tirday by Walter Tabor. 40 years old. taken in custody.- at Yreka after a country-wide search by authorities as a witness who may clear up ihe. mys terious disappearance of his sister. When Information that officials had left Lawton to bring both Tabor and his mother back to,their home, abnr said: "I will gladly go. I will not fight extradition." Tabor. In declaring he was far from the scene of his sister's death as Bcrted: I was in Glendive, Mont.. 1916, when she died. My mother obtained my address and wrote me that Maude had died at Colorado Springs of asthma. I went back, got mother and brought her to Glendive. She grew homesick and 1 sent her buck to Lawton. i Knowledge of Murder Urnied. "If my sister was murdered I would like to know the facts myself." WEED, Cal., Dec. 6. (Special.) Mrs. Lester Tabor was brought here from Bray today by one of Sheriff Calkins' deputies. Sheriff Calkins. later took the woman to Yreka. Mra Tabor appears to be about 73 years of age. Walter Tabor is also in Treka. Warrants are said to have been telegraphed from Michigan today for the arrest of Mrs. Tabor and her son. wanted in connection with the death of Miss Maud Tabor, whose body was found recently at Lawton, Mich. (Concluded on Page 12. Column 1.) PERRY SEES THEM . VHfrVfcrVr TO DO II Sew V y M SONVEXHmC-; fttSUE? WT TrSV TH-IS SSOM , Charitable and Educational Ks tablishmcnts to Get Benefit of Large Endowments. NEW YORK. Dec. 6. Henry Clay Frick, multi-millionaire iron master and collector of art. left all but $;S, 000.000 of his vast estate to public, charitable and educational establish ments, according to the terms of his will, made public tonight. The Frick mansion and art collec tion of this city, valued at approxi mately $50,000,000. with an endow ment of lo, 000.000 additional to maintain them as "the Frick collec tion." is given to the public, at the termination of Mrs. Frick's life. This makes Mr. Frick's largest single gift to the public total $65,000,000. The value of the public bequests, after $25,000,000 is set aside for his widow, son and daughter, is $117,000, OOy. exclusive of 151 acres of Fitts burg real estate, left for a public park. Princeton and Harvard universi ties and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology receive approximately $25,000,000. divided so that Princeton will receive about $15,000,000 and Harvard and Technology each about $5,000,000. About $5,000,000 is left to the ed ucational fund commission at Pitts burg. Several Pittsburg institutions receive bequests amounting to about $500,000 each. The Society of the l.ying-In hospi tal of New York is left about $1,500, 000. Approximately $6,500,000 in addi tion to her share in the $25,000,000 left the immediate family, is be queathed to Miss Helen C. Frick to dispose of along the general lines of public benefit provided for in be quests to public and educational in stitutions. The New York mansion in which the Frick art collection is housed is left to Mrs. Adelaide II. C Frick. his widow, as long as she continues to live there. The house and the art coi lection together are valued at $50,000, 000. Upon her death or election to relinquish the house as a residence the entire property is left to a cor poration to be formed to maintain a "gallery of art" on the property for "encouraging and developing the study of fine arts and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects." The trustees .ire 'ilirectrd imme diately to form the corporation under the laws of New York state to be known as "the Frick collection." The corporation is to maintain in the New York mansion a "public gallery of art." Fifteen million dollars are left in trust for the maintenance and im provement of the Frick art collection, house and grounds. 'A tract of land in Pittsburg, about 151 acres, is left to Pittsburg for a public prk. Two million dollars are left to the Union Trust company of Pittsburg, as trustees, for maintenance and embellishment of the park. PRESCOTT HOTEL BURNED Lurk of Water Prevents Checking Blaze -I.os Is $ 1 O.OOO. WALLA WALLA. Wash., Dec. 6. (Special.) Prescott. IS miles from Walla Walla, had Its Fecond big fire this fall, when the Hotel Prescott burned to the ground today, with a loss of $10,000. The Are caught between the walls from a plumber's torch, being used to thaw out frozen water pipes. There was practically no water available to fight the blaze. The fire burned slow ly enough to enable patrons to save their personal effects and the pro prietor. J. H. Hayes, to save the furni ture. The building was a two-story frame structure. Fire a few weeks ago destroyed two blocks of buildings in Prescott. School Accepted. POST-SEASON GAME PROVIDED Southern California Left Out of Coast Sports Body. COMBINATION IS BROKEN Institutions Limited to One Tradi tional Gridiron Contest Each; Ercshman Battles Reduced.' SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. S. Resolji--'' Lions providing- for a rc..-. game in 1920, and annually thereafter, between eastern and Pacific inter collegiate football champion teams, to be played under the auspices of the Pacific Coast conference, were adopt ed at the meeting of coast conference officials in session here today. It was further decided that the game will be played at a place to be decided by the college winning the coast title, and that the designation of the champion ship team is to be made by the con ference. Pasadena May l.oae Contest. A bombshell was thrown into the ranks of the coast conference dele gates when a resolution was present ed and unanimously adopted that the conference determine which is the champion gridiron team of the con ference and that t'ie Intersectional game be played under the manage ment and auspices of the host college. The resolution does not go into ef fect until next season and has no bearing on the present football en tanglement between the Universities of Washington and Oregon as to which institution should play Har vard at Pasadena. I'nder the resolution as adopted the winning team, as decided by the con ference, may stage an intersectional game on its own campus or any place it so desires. The main object of the resolution is to stop the present plan of exploiting a city which has nothing In common with any of the confer ence Institutions and from which the conference champions receive no re muneration except bare expenses. The resolution may be interpreted to mean that Pasadena may stage the classic provided the financial and other arrangements are satisfactory to the winning team of the Pacific coast conference. Cross-country run ning was placed under conference rules. SEATTLK, Wash.. Dec. 6. (Spe cial.) The northwest college confer ence, in session here today, admitted to membership Willamette University of Salem. Acceptance of the Salem school was at first voted down he. cause of its application for admit tance as a basketball member. When Coach Matthews changed the applica tion to read "all branches of sport," the northwest conference accepted the application. Admittance to the con ference, however, does not mean that Willamette must participate in all major sports. The Pacific Coast college con ference decided to postpone for one year -action on the application of the University of Southern California for admittance to the conference. Many arguments were advanced by Califor nia and Stanford delegates favoring admission of the southern institution, but the conference wanted more def (Concluded on Page 6, Column 2.)