VOL. liVIII. NO. 18,347
Entered at Portland fOreiron)
Pwtof fir- a Second-Clay; Matter.
POIITLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1919.
' TRICE FIVE CENTS.
NOT! STINTS
CHANGES IN LEAGUE
Undercurrent of Unrest Is
Scented by Wilson.
MASSES DEMAND MORE FACTS
Reservationists Predominate
Over Opponents and Others.
PORTLAND TO GET DETAILS
50 HURT IN OIL FIRE;
LOSS TOTALS MILLIONS
EXPLOSION AT LONG ISLAND
PLANT WORKS HAVOC.
.Full Explanation to Clear Up Pub
lie's Hazy Ideas of Covenant
Are Anticipated.
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 14. Presi
dent WIImb left fcrre tonight at 10
Vetetck for Perlland. where he will
eak tomorrow Bleat.
BT JOHN W. KELLY.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 14. (Staff
Correspondence.) After having; re
ceived a ton of gold braid from the Pa
cific fleet and atended services in the
First Presbyterian church. President
Wilson spent a day of rest preparatory
to bringing bis message of the league
of nations to Portland. Already members
of the presidential party are making
Inquiries regarding- the Columbia high
way and are asking for information as
to Portland In general. The weather
bureau, which reports daily to the
party, has promised cool, clear weather
for Portland.
In tho Pacific northwest, public sen
tin. ent on the league of nations falls
Into three divisions. First are those
who favor Mr. Wilson's league of na
tions as K stands; second, those who
want no league at all; third, those who
favor a league with reservations or
some modifications of the plan advo
cated by the president.
am Ib Uo Wnlnl
Of the three groups, the third has
the greatest preponderance. After
watching " Mr. Wilson's audiences in
this, the enemy's country, the home
states of Senators Borah and Poludex
ter. the conviction is borne -in -that
only a small percentage of the people
ere willing to swallow his programme
hook, line and sinker. There Ib a con
siderable element which objects to a
league, this objection not being based
necessarily on a desire to keep America
free from foreign alliances so much as
cn a bitterness to powers of the league.
Then, too, among these obstructionists
are those who are disciples of unrest
ar,d those who have leanings to Ger
many and the bloody rulers of bol
shevik Russia. It '.h no concern , over
America which inspires this antag
onism to the league, but quite the con
trary. There may be some signifi
cance in the fact that the objectors
Irclude almost entirely the radical, dis
satisfied element.
Maura Friendly ( League.
The great mass of people are un
questionably friendly disposed to the
league idea. They believe in the prin
ciple and consider the experiment
worth testing. They hesitate, however,
to stamp with unqualified approval
Air. Wilson's plan. They think that
America should be safeguarded care
fully. Mr. Wilson demands that the cove
nant be ratified without the crossing
of a -f or the dotting of an "1." He
insists that the instrument is perfect,
and consequently should be adopted
without reservation or amendment. To
those sincere Americans who are nerv
ous on certain points, Mr. Wilson states
that their fears are groundless, as the
document contains the very safeguards
asked. It Is merely a matter of phrase
ology, argues the president, so why
change the original?
Nerthweat Not Satlnried.
To those other critics who are more
(.belligerent, the president asks if they
'can suggest anything better. It is
ralpable that the public of the Pacific
northwest is not quite clear in its own
mind, nor completely satisfied, not
withstanding Mr. Wilson's explana
tions. His main idea that of league
is Indorsed but some doubt exists as to
the present draft of the covenant being
a irasterpiece.
What alterations, deductions, addi
tions or reservations should be made
are things on which the public enter
tains vague, hazy, nebulous thoughts.
Antagonism to the league by the ob
structors has not destroyed belief that
the league is a good thing to have,
but the obstructionists have caused the
people to inquire whether the draft
prcposed and advocated by Mr. Wilson
is as perfect a panacea as the president
assures them.
Pnblic Wants More Light.
The public wants more light. Whether
Mr. Wilson will go more into detail in
his address at Portland is not known.
As a rule he does not prepare his talk,
although occasionally he writes on a
typewriter SO or 100 words on a slip of
paper, using these as points for
elaborations.
The day Mr. Wilson is in Portland
the report of the senate committee on
foreign affairs is to become active In
Washington, so there is a possibility
that the president will go into detail in
his auditorium speech. Mr. Wilson
takes too much for granted for his
audience. He apparently believes that
In three-quarters of an hour he can
convince an audience on subjects far
more important than topics which Bryan
Roosevelt. Taft. Hughes and other na
tional men have discussed for two hours
(Concluded on Fage , Column &.) i
20 Flame-Swept Acres Resemble
War-Devastated Districts; Five
Tanks Still Burning.
NEW TORK. Sept. 14. With more
than SO persons' Injured and the damage
already done estimated at from 15.000,
000 to $10,000,000 weary firemen to
night still were fighting a threat of
further explosions of oil tanks at the
fire which practically wiped out the
Stone & Fleming Oil company's plant
In Long Island City yesterday.
Five tanks of crude oil were burn
ing late today. Should there be a sua
den shift of the wind from north to
northeast, many additional tanks In
plants nearby would be threatened, as
well as thousands of tons of coal.
The 20 acres of fire-swept territory
looked like a scene in war-devastated
France or Belgium. Tanks were
crumpled up; huge steel girders lay in
a tangled mass, few walls were left
standing, and burning oil continued to
How alone: the surface of Newton
creek.
Mayor Hylan made two trips to the
fire this morning and once was stand
ing within 130 feet of a tank when it
exploded. He was deluged with water
and oil, but insisted that he had not
been in any danger.
BRIT1W1TSIJ.S.
TO SHARE IN TUSK
Restoration of Europe Is in
Lord Grey's Hands.
BID FOR FULL FAITH IS MADE
ROOSEVELT TO RIDE IN AIR
Colonel to Fly From Portland to
Pendleton Wednesday.
SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. Lieuten
ant-Colcnel Theodore Roosevelt ar
rived here today and will speak tomor
row noon and at Oakland tomorrow
right in behall of the membership
drive of the American Legion.
His plans call for his departure to
morrow night for Portland, where he
Is duo to arrive Wednesday. He is to
speak in Seattle Thursday and Spokane
Friday. It was announced that on
Wednesday he will fly from Portland
to Pendleton, Or., to speak at the
round-up.
RANSOM IS PAID MEXICANS
$6000 Given for Release of Swedlt.li
Subject and American.
EL PASO. Texas, Sept. 14. Six thou
sand dollars, gold, was paid Mexicans
late yesterday tor the release of Dr.
J. W. Smith, an American, and E. Mon
son, believed to be a subject of Sweden,
who were taken from a train near
Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, yesterday
according to te'egrama received from
Chihuahua City tonight.
They are expected to reach that city
tonight.
NAVY CRIPPLED FOR MEN
Many Vessels Tied Up for Lack of
Crews; Recruiting Drrve On.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. Demobili
zation of the navy demoralized the At
lantic fleet so far as man power is con
cerned, it was said Saturday at the
navy department.
Scores of vessels are moored at navy
yards with crews so greatly reduced
that in many cases it Is difficult and in
some cases Impossible to keep up
steam. An Intensive recruiting drive
has been launched.
TONOPAH STRIKE TO END
Miners' Vote to Return to Work at
Once Is Five to One.
TONOPAH. Nev. Sept. 14. The min
ers, by a vote of 5 to 1 decided to end
the strike that has for several weeks
halted production in the Tonopah dis
trict and an order was issued last night
to resume work at once.
A proposal by the operators to estab
lish commissaries where staples of liv
ing will be sold at cost was accepted
by the miners.
GRAIN ELEVATOR BLOWS UP
One Man Missing, 15 Injured at
North Kansas City.
KANSAS CITT. Mo.. Sept. 14. One
man Is missing and 15 men were in
jured, one probably fatally, in an ex
plosion which partly wrecked the Bur
lington grain elevators in North Kan
sas City this afternoon.
Kansas City firemen worked nearly
two hours before a line of hose could
be run across a Missouri river bridge.
The fire was under control late today.
COREAN NEWSJS SHUT OFF
Few Details of Attempt to Kill Gov
ernor-General Received.
TOKIO, Sept. 14. (By the Associated
Press.) Little news has ben re
ceived in press despatches from Corea
since the attempted assassination of
Baron Saito, the new governor-general,
as to developments following that
occurrence.
This mav be accounted for by the
derangement of the Corean telegraphic
system because ol a storm, reported oy
the newspapers.
Viscount Will Make Trip to Try
to Convince America.
MUTUAL POLICY PROPOSED
Appeasement- of Ireland and Agree
ment Not to Compete In Size of
Navies Are Suggested.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
LONDON, Sept. 14. (Special cable.)
"Lord Grey's Task" is the title of the
following striking article in the Dally
News by A. G. G. (A. G. Gardner, who
recently resigned as editor of the Daily
News):
"Next week Viscount Grey sails for
America. There has been no more mo
mentous journey across the Atlantic in
this or any other time it is hardly too
much to say that upon Its success or
failure hang the destinies of two hemi
spheres.
"In saying this it is not suggested
that Lord Grey is a miracle worker or
tjiat it is in his power by the magic of
his personality to resolve the dlscorda
of this distracted earth. But, if any one
can redeem the catastrophe of Paris
it is he.
Assurance of Good Will Offered.
"In Lord Grey we are sending to
America the best mind of the national.
not a cunning mind nor a clever mind,
but a mind noble in thought, disinter
ested in purpose, spacious of vision.
moved as only great souls can be moved
by the agony of these years and in
spired by the single idea of rescuing
the world from the pit into which it has
fallen, and. It is to America that we
need most to senfl such a messenger:
Such'a witness of our good will, such an
assurance of our good faith. ....
"In the general chaos of affairs there
is still one hope of world reconstruc
tion. It is in the British people and the
American people working together loy
ally for a common policy of appease
ment. When the war ended, that hope
was high but the golden moment was
ost Six precious weeks were wasted
on a 'hang the kaiser,' election in this
country, an election in which the mind
of the national Instead of being moved
to grand issues was saturated with the
basest appeals to revenge and ignor
ance, w e emerged irom that saturna
lia to the discussion of peace with the
Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
COMPLETE PROGRAMME OF
WILSON-DAY EVENTS.
5 A. M. President's train ar
rives at Union station.
9 A. M. President and party
detrain and meet reception com
mittee; presentation of Portland
roses to Mrs. Wilson.
Automobile drive through
business, section and over Colum
bia river highway to Crown
Point, for formal reception.
I P. M. Luncheon in honor
of President and Mrs. Wilson at
Hotel Portland.
5:30 P. M. Venison dinner to
visiting newspaper men at Press
club.
8 P. M. President Wilson to
deliver only Oregon address at
municipal auditorium.
II P. M. Presidential party
leaves for California over South
ern Pacific.
Route of Automobile Drive.
From Union station south on
Sixth to Washington; east to
Third; south to Madison; west to
Sixth; north to Taylor; west to
Broadway; north to Morrison;
east to Fifth; north to Alder;
west to Eleventh; north to
Washington; east to Broadway;
north to Broadway bridge; east
on East Broadway to Sandy
road, thence to Crown Point and
Columbia river highway. "
Returning Cross Sandy river
at Automobile club; west on
Base Line road to 12-mile house;
south through Gresham via
Main street and Powell Valley
road, stopping at fair grounds;
west on Powell Valley road to
Eighty-second street; north to
Division; west to Sixtieth; north
to Hawthorne; west across Haw
thorne bridge; west on Madison
to Fifth; north to Morrison;
west to Sixth street entrance of
Portland hotel, arriving at 12:30
o'clock.
LANSING EXPECTED
TO OUJTM TIME
Resignation Now May Be
in Wilson's Hands.
EFFECT ON TOUR IS FEARED
Washington Is Sure Secretary
Does Not Need Request.
GIRL AND YOUNG MAN,
CANOEISTS, DROWNED
THIRD OCCUPANT IS HELD BY
HAIR UNTIL RESCUED.
LACK OF HARMONY FELT
SILVER ORE IS TO BE SENT
Several Thousand Tons Will Be
Shipped From Alaska, Yukon.
DAWSON, Y. T., Sept. . 14. Several
thousand tons of silver ore will, be
shipped "outside' next spring' from
Yukon and Alaska, according to Volney
Richmond, superintendent of the North
ern Commercial company.
Half of this amount, he said, would
come from Nixon Fork, near Iditarod,
and half from Kantishna, near Fair
banks. The Stewart river country, is
expected to ship possibly 1000 or 2000
tons.
A number of other points, it is said.
are developing bright promises in silver
yield and much exploration work is to
be done this winter. The Guggenheims
have taken an option on the main group
of claims staked on a fork of Duncan
creek, a well-known gold placer
producer.
News Accounts of President's Re-
ceptlon Do Not Indicate Any
Great Success Along Way.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Sept 14. Interest turns today
from the issue of who is having the
most cordial receptions and the biggest
crowds, the president or the senators
speaking against the league, to this
question: "What is going to happen to
Robert Lansing, secretary of state?"
Developments at the foreign relations
committee hearing of William C. Bul
litt, formerly one of the advisers to
the American peace commission in
Paris, serve further to confirm rumors
that the secretary of state has been out
of harmony with the president on the
peace treaty for some time. His own
testimony before the senate foreign
relations committee a few weeks ago
indicated that he was not enthusiastic
over certain provisions of the treaty.
Disapproval Not Expressed.
While he did not express his disap
probation he manifested a desire then
to have it understood that he nev.er ap
proved certain features of the peace
pact and the league of nations cove
nant. If Bullitt's testimony can be be
lieved, and there are reasons to accept
it with the customary discounts. Sec
retary Lansing is not in accord with
Mr. Wilson and a vacancy at the head
of the state department may be antici
pated at any time. The Bullitt testi
mony is necessarily subject to some
discounts because Bullitt is admittedly
a bolshevik sympathiser.
Had Secretary Lansing taken the
palnB promptly to deny Bullitt's state
ments he would have received the bene
fit of the doubt. But no denial from
Lansing up to this afternoon makes
comment permissable.
Discordant notes have been vaguely
sounded by Mr. Lansing on several oc
casions and the Bullitt testimony is
causing a few interested ones to go
back through the files of the daily
newspapers to see exactly what the
secretary of state has been saying. It
is noted that In an address to. the
American Bar association on September
Eugelia Ingman, 17, and A. V. Mat
ney Drown Near Swan Island
When Waves Upset Their Boat.
Through the overturning of a canoe
in the Willamette river late yesterday
Miss Eugenia Ingman, 17-year-old stu
dent of Jefferson high school, ar.d A. V.
Matney, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arville
V. Matney, 1S36 Fiske street, were
drowned.
The drowning occurred near Swan
island, in the lower Willamette harbor,
about' 6 o'clock. Miss Ingman was
swimming beside the motor canoe, in
which were riding Mr. Matney and Miss
Hazel Halverson, 16. When waves from
a passing boat overturned the canoe
Miss Ingman was in some way drawn
under the water. Matney was unable
to cling to the overturned canoe and
was drowned.
The rescue of Miss Halverson was
effected by John Peterson, 80 Beach
street. He was passing a canoe and
managed to reach the girl and catch
her by the hair. She was held on the
surface in this manner until other as
sistance arrived.
First reports to -the police said that
it was probably Clarence Twining who
had lost his life. Matney and William
Wing were joint owners of the boat
and it was discovered later that it was
Matney who was riding with the girls.
The young man, who was born in Port
land, is survived by his parents and a
sister.
The United States engineering boat
Woodland, passing close by, caused high
waves which overturned the canoe, and
the man and Miss Ingman could not be
saved, although every effort was made
by vessels in the vicinity.
Harbor officers immediately took
charge of the situation and began look
ing for the bodies. Up to a late hour
neither had been recovered.
Miss Eugelia Ingman was born In
Portland. She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ingman, 394 Monroe
stree't Besides her parents, she leaves
three brothers and two sisters. She
had just entered upon her fourth year
at Jefferson high school, being one of
the popular members of her class.
CITT TO WELCOME
PRESIDENT TODAY
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 4.)
WELCOME!
200,000 HUNS NEAR POLAND
Army Reported to Be on Silesian
Frontier Ready to Move.
PARIS. Sept 14. (Havas.) A dis
patch received here from Sosnowice in
the government of Piotrkow. Poland,
asserts that a German army, compris
ing a minimum of 200,000 men. is con
centrated on the frontier of Silesia
ready to be thrown against Poland.
DEER SHOT, MAN IS KILLED
Henry Miller, Soofleld, Victim of
Ranger, Who Reports.
ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 14. (Special.)
A report was received here today by
Deputy Sheriff Bafferty to -the effect
that Henry Miller, a resident of Sco
field, a district near Gardiner, was ac
cidently killed early this morning by
his companion, John D. Voe, forest
ranger, while the pair were on a hunt
ing trip. The accident happened about
16 miles from Gardiner.
The two hunters started for the
mountains last night and arose early
this morning to go in quest of deer.
They seprated and had parted about
20 or 30 minutes when Devoe saw a
deer in a ravine' and fired at it. He
fired two or three shots and saw the
deer fall and started for the spot
When he arrived there he saw Miller
lying in a pool of blood, dead. He im
mediately hurried to a telephone and
reported the affair. He says the deer
will be found near the dead man, and
U is tnought that Miller was just be
yond where the deer was standing.
Coroner Ritter left today for that dis
trict to investigate the matter and
the body will be brought out.
Special Train Rolls Into
Portland at 5 A. M.
PARTY DETRAINS AT 9 O'CLOCK
Throngs to Glimpse Wilson in
Procession Through Streets.
FAIR WEATHER FORECAST
Chier Executive to Get Official Re
ception at Crown Point; Citi
zens Eagerly Await Address.
BANK TELLER IS ARRESTED
San Francisco Man Is Said to Have
Confessed $10,000 Embezzlement.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. A state
ment that he had embezzled more than
$10,000 from the Savings Union Bank
& Trust company in the past two years,
was made to the police Saturday by
Harold Lauritzen, head paying teller of
the bank, according to R. B. Burmister,
vice-president and cashier.
Lauritzen was .-.rrested yesterday.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature.
Si
degrees: minimum, 59 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, followed during afternoon
or night by showers: cooler; winds becom
ing southerly.
Foreign.
Three great powers on eva of ratifying peace
pact. Page 2.
Italian poet leads troops into Flume. Page 6.
German Junkers hard at work building up
new militarism. Paga 3.
Britain ak United States to share in task
of redeeming world. Page 1.
National.
Ex-adjutant-general of Oregon haa new Job
at capital. Page 3.
Lansing expected to resign any minute.
Page 1.
DomeMtic.
Oil fire on Long Island does millions damage,
injures 00 people. Page 1.
Galveston little hurt by gale. Page 2.
Pacific Northwest.
Northwest wants change in league of na
tions. Page 1.
Wilson confers with Washington labor rep
resentatives. Page 9.
Sport.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland 5-3,
Vernon 3-2: Los Angeles 6-8, Oakland 3-2;
San Francisco 4-7, Salt Lake 10-5; Sac
ramento 6. Seattle 4. Page 12.
Lebanon thronged for dog field trial
Page 12.
Four hurt on speedway. Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Portland to welcome president today. Page 1.
Dr. S. J. Reid declares in sermon that camou
flage art snoum give way to sincerity
and truth. Page 20.
Union of htgh school teachers declared act of
individuals. Page 12.
British representative of cold storage firm
advocates direct fruit shipments to Eng
land via Panama canal. Page IS.
Great throngs will see nation's chief here to
day. Page o.
Lucky 7000 to hear Wilson In auditorium to
night Page s.
Large crowds will greet Colonel Roosevelt,
due here next weonesaay. i-age u.
Girl and young man drown when canoe up
sets. Page 1.
Wilson ticket traffickers make Big profit.
Page 9.
State commissioner of labor considers pub
lication ol housewlle s airectory. rage 19.
In Portland, the citizens of Oregon
today will be host to Woodrow Wilson,
twenty-eighth president of the United
States. .
The president will come to Portland
in the course of a tour through the na
tion, covering the western Mates in par
ticular, only four stated west of the
Mississippi river being omitted from his
itinerary.
Mr. Wilson's tour Is made for the
purpose of placing before the electorate
his views on the league of nations pact
and his appeal for support of the league
plans he helped formulate.
Oregon will extend heartiest hospi
tality and will rjive him a respectful
hearing.
Wilson's Trnln In at 5 A. M.
Citizens of the state will take keen
pleasure in greeting Mrs. Wilson, who
accompanies her husband.
Although Portland folk will have
time for 40 winks after President Wil
son's special train rolls across the steel
bridge and into the yards at Union
station at 5 o'clock this morning. Indi
cations are that they will harken to
the musical chimes of the alarm clock
and forego the customary beauty sleep.
The presidential party will not detrain
until 9 o'clock, but that will not pre
vent the assembly of a crowd that is
expected to tax the energies of militia
and special police who will be on duty
at the station.
Americans of the west want to see
the man who bore so much of the
weight of responsibility of the world
war; they want to be able to say they
participated In his welcome to the Rosa
City and helped extend the glad hand
to Oregon's distinguished visitor.
Party Issues Sidetracked.
No event in "ears has created such
spirit of expectancy as the visit of
President Wilson and his party. Peo
ple from ail parts of the state, and
from other states where the party did
not s.top, have come to Portland, mere
ly to catch a glimpse of the nation's
chief executive, for comparatively few
will be able to hear the address In the
public auditorium tonight.
Difference of opinion on political
questions will be forgotten while all
Origon observes a half-holiday in hon
or of the man who called the German
bluff and held the militarists to a
strict accountability. Issues will be
sidetracked, save as the president
wishes to refer to them, and men and
women of ail parties will unite with
the one idea of making tho city's guest
and lis companions feel that western
hospitality is all that has been said
of it.
President to Be Greeted at 9.
Promptly at 3 o'clock the reception
committee, of which former Governor
Oswald West is chairman, will greet
the president and his party at the sta
tion. Those delegated to represent the
city aid state in this formality are
Governor Olcott, Mayor Baker, Mrs.
Beu W. Olcott, Mrs. George L. Baker,
Mrs. C. S. Jackson. T. H. Crawford.
La Grande; Judse A. S. Bennett, The
Dalles; Jude W. R. Bilyeu, Albany;
C. S. lackson. Edgar B. Piper and "tV.
B. Ayer, Portland. In the Dresidential
party are Pre.ii-.lent and Mrs. Wilson.
Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to the
president; Admiral Carey T. Grayson.
White House physician; secret service
operatives and 28 news writers and
press photographers; Charles Swem.
Gilbert F. Close. Warren F. Johnson
and Edward W. Sraithers, members of
the staff.
Party to Ride Through Streets.
If promises of the weatherman hold
good. President and Mrs. Wilson and
party will be greeted this morning
with characteristically charming, au
tumnal Oregon weather. There Is just
a possibility that before the party's
stay in Portland ends there may also
be a few of Oregon's characteristic
showers as though just to exhibit all
the domestic varieties tor edification of
the visitors.
An optimistic citizenry is bound to
embrace with ardent faith the portion
of the forecast which promises a bright.
fair morning today. As for the re
mainder, they will hope for the best
The official prediction for Portland and
vicinity reads: "Fair, followed during
afternoon or night by showers; cooler,
winds becoming southerly."
Immediately following the welcome
at Union station.' the visitors will be
tendered an automobile ride through,
the business section of the city and
thence to Crown Point and the Colum
bia River highway, returning via
Gresham, where a brief stop will be
made at the county fair grounds. Ar
riving in Portland at 12:30 o clock,
President and Mrs. Wilson will be es
corted to Hotel Portland, where C. S.
Jackson as host will give a luncheon in
honor of the visitors.
John D. Mann, chief deputy United
(Concluded on Paga 2, Column 8.)