VOL. IVTH. XO. 18,349 Entered at Portland fOreKon
iiv. ' Postofflce an Second-Clas-s Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTE3IBEK 17, 1919.
2G PAGES.
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
GALE DEATH TOLL
ON GOLF MOUNTS
BRITISH LABOR CHIEF
SEES STORM BREWING
CRflCT IQ PHftRCm 1 capital dresses up
SOCIALISM BREAKING
ITSELF, SAYS HOOVER
BANKRUPTCY SEEN IN LOWER
ING OF PRODUCTIVITY.
BOSTON
FIREMEN
SENATORS CLASH
HOTLY OVER PACT
Lodge and Hitchcock Get
Up Gallery Interest.
mini i iu uimuuLu ; FOR LAST WAR PARADE
AT SPRUCE PROBE
CONVULSION THREATENS, SAYS
ARTHUR HENDERSON.
REFUSE TP STRIKE
Support Is Denied New
Policemen's Union.
Total Close to 100; Loss
About $10,000,000.
47 BODIES AT CORPUS CHRISTI
Survivors Short of Food and
; Exposed to Rains.
THOUSANDS ARE DESTITUTE
Many Clad Only In Bathing Snits;
Three Relief Trains Arrive
Laden 'With Supplies.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Sept. 16.
Forty-eeven victim's of the tropical
hurricane which swept Corpus Christi
and this section early Sunday morning
had been brought to the temporary
morgue in the county court house to
night. In addition to the deaths in
this city, C6 were reported dead in the
vicinity of Portland, across Nueces bay
from Corpus Christi.
"With the death list mounting by leaps
and the property loss now placed in the
neighborhood of ten million dollars, the
people of Corpus Christi tonight, 36
hours after the 'passing of the storm,
seemingly were just coming to a reali
zation of the catastrophe through
which they passed. Every industry in
the city is prostrated ar.d business is at
a complete standstill, communication of
all kinds demoralized and the food and
housing problems acute.
75 Dead Near Corpus Christi.
The 47 known dead in Corpus Christi
nd the reported 58 victims near Port
land are not expected to be anywhere
near the total death toll, but the list
was not expected to be increased fur
ther tonight, as with the coming of
darkness, searching parties suspended
work fo'r the day.
Allowing for duplications, as many
storm victims probably have been re
ported at least twice from different
sources, the general belief here tonight
waa that the total number of dead in
the immediate vicinity of Corpus Christi
will reach abouJp.
Rain Adds to Suffering.
A steady rain began falling at noon,
turning the rapidly drying streets into
a slush of mud and interfering with the
clearing away of the debris. This will
also add greatly to the suffering and
privations of the thousands of destitute
and homeless.
Approximately 175 refugees have been
rescued at Odem, about 30 miles west of
j here, according to a telephone message.
' They had been carried across Nueces
bay on wreckage. All were suffering
greatly from exposure.
A military relief train from Browns
ville, bringing 5000 rations and 1000
beds, arrived here early today. A sec
ond train is on its way.
Seven bodies recovered here early to
day were: Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Helcher,
prominent in real estate circles here;
- F. W. O'Connor, newspaper man; H.
Prater, city policeman, and three uni
dentified girls, ranging from 5 to 15
years. At noon at least 100 persons
were unaccounted for in the city.
Patrolman Gives Ills Life.
Patrolman Prater lost his life while
attempting to save Henry Spiker and
26 other persons who were in his home
- when it was carried away by the tide.
All of the 26 are still among the miss
ing.
Despite the arrival today of relief
. trains from Xingsville and Robstown
ad a military train from Brownsville
with rations and bedding, the food and
housing situation is still serious.
Thousands of persons lost everything
they possessed in the way of property
and personal belongings and escaped
only with the clothing on their backs.
Many persons are clad in bathing suits
only. Churches and public and private
buildings that escaped damage from
the storm have been placed at the dis
posal of the various relief committees
organized to care for the homeless and
hungry.
Telegraph Offices Besieged.
Hundreds of persons are besieging
the telegraph and telephone offices
awaiting an opportunity to send word
of their safety to outside relatives and
friends.
SINTON. Tex., Sept. 16. Sinton is
acting as the relief headquarters for
the entire surrounding bay shore' ter
ritory, where already 70 bodies muti
lated beyond recognition have been
found.
The count so far shows that there
were 40 found at Westport, 22 at White
Point, four or five below Odem and a
few at Portland.
Among the known dead are:
MISS LONG WELL, Corpus Christi
MISS BROCK, 12 years old. Corpus
Christi.
No one was killed at Sinton, but
property damage was high.
Bodies are being held at ranch
houses and schools.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Sept. 16. Seven
scout airplanes were ordered from
Kelly Field to Corpus Christi today
and if they can find a suitable landing
field, larger planes will be sent later
to carry supplies from stalled relief
trains to the stricken city. The scout
planes also will endeavor to get news
from Rockport. which is cut off from
all communication.
A report was received at the office
f the San 'Antonio and Aransas Pass
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Old Order Passing, But Realization
of New Ideals Held Likely to
Bring Serious Trials.
LONDON', Sept. 16. "The present
world unrest means that the old order
of things is in its death throes; that
a new society is about to come to its
birth and that ape-long injustices and
inequalities that burdened the lives of
the common people are at last to be
swept away," declared Arthur Hender
son, secretary of the labor party, be
fore the international brotherhood con
gress here today.
"Class rule in politics Is doomed to
disappear," he added, "but It is still
doubtful whether the ideal of true
political liberty will be realized In this
or other countries without, a violent
convulsion of society."
The main problems now, he said, are
to restore popular confidence in rep
resentative institutions and to "guide
the movement of the masses along the
path of constitutional changes, and to
enable democracy to become master in
its own house without violence."
MILITARY ROADS SOUGHT
Paeiric Coast System Provided in
House Bill by Californlan.
WASHINGTON, Sept 16. A system
of military highways designed to pro
tect the Pacific coast from possible
invasion was proposed by a bill inf
troduced today by Representative
Raker, California. Appropriations nec
essary to build three main highways
with connecting lateral roads would
be authorized by the measure, which
directs the war department to make an
immediate survey and report on the
proposed routes.
One road would extend from Port
Angeles, Wash., to Tia Juana, Mexico;
second from Blaine, Wash., to Cal-
exico, Cal., and the third from Oroville,
Wash., to Los Angeles.
MR. HANSON MAY BE FINED
Ex-Mayor of Seattle Reported Minus
Auto License.
SEATTLE, Sept. 16. F. B. Williams.
representing the automobile license de
partment of the secretary of state's of
fice, today swore to a complaint be
fore Fred Brown, prosecuting attorney.
charging ex-Mayor Hanson with fail
ure to obtain an automobile license
for the current year.
Mr. Williams told the prosecuting: at
torney that he warned the driver last
Thursday that the car must have a new
license and he replied that he would
notify Mr. Hanson, but that no appli
cation had been made for a license.
The minimum penalty is a fine of $15.
ARMY DRAFT PROVIDED FOR
Pending Bill Means 18-to-45 Con
scription In War, Says March.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Under the
army reorganization law as the war
department is asking congress to pass
it. Chief of Staff March told the house
military committee today, conscription
of men between 18 and 45 would begin
automatically on declaration of war
without any other action by congress.
Volunteering would be wiped out, but
the national guard would be left intact.
The chief of staff also told the com
mittee the war department considered
universal training of young men with
out actually enrolling them in the army
constitutional.
JAPAN GETS U. S.' NOTE
Exclusion of Manchuria and Mon
golia Cause Objection.
TOKIO, Sept. 16. (By the Asociated
Press.) According to the newspapers
here, the Japanese government has
received a note from the American gov
ernment concerning Japan's desire to
exclude Manchuria and Mongolia from
the consortium under which financiers
of the United States, Great Britain,
France and Japan will assume a domi
nant position in the finances of China.
The American note insists that it
would not be wise to exclude the two
countries.
ITALIAN TENOR ADMITTED
Decision on Alleged Status as Con
tract Laborer Yet to Come.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Urelio Bo
dini, the Italian tenor, who was de
tained at Ellis Island as a contract
laborer on his arrival last week to
Join the Metropolitan opera company,
was released tonight in custody of the
opera company's counsel pending dis
position of his appeal to the authori
ties in Washington. Bodini came here
to join the opera company's chorus.
The. decision in his case will affect
a number of other singers who are ex
pected from Italy in October.
BOY WITH $32,000 IS LOST
Messenger, 16, In New York, Fails
to Arrive With Bonds.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A 16-year-old
boy employed by L. M. Prince &
Co.. members of the stock exchange,
left the brokers' office in the financial
district yesterday with bonds valued at
$32,000 and never arrived at his desti
nation, it was learned today.
Another messenger employed by
Prince & Co. was held up and robbed
of securities a few months ago, but the
securities were recovered
WORKERS VOTING ON WALKOUT
Danger of General Tieup Is
Held Not Imminent.
CHIEF RESIGNS AT MACON
Head of Force Admits He Can Not
Handle Situation Resulting
Prom Organization.
BOSTON, Sept. 16. The outstanding
development today in the police strike
was the declaration of the city's fire
men that they would remain on duty.
The voting of unions affiliated with the
former policemen on the question of
supporting the latter continued me
thodically and there was doubt of the
outcome. Officials realized the danger
still confronting the city but hailed
with satisfaction tho attitude of the
fire fighters.
Immediately upon learning of the ac
tion of the firemen's union. Governor
Coolidge addressed a letter to Fire
Commissioner John R. Murrhy com
mending them.
Guy Oyster, secretary to President
Samuel Gompers, who conferred with
officials of the firemen's union today,
left for Washington tonight after ex
pressing the opinion that a general
ctrike here was not imminent.
Four thousand girls, members of the
telephone operators' union, were voting
today and tonight upon the question of
a sympathetic strike.
The Boston typographical union and
the web pressmen's union also were
voting tonight. ,
Brewery workers, bottlers, drivers.
the bartenders and the United Hebrew
Trades union already have votd in fa
vor ot striking in support of tho former
police.
MACON, Ga.. Sept. 16. Chief of Po
lice Warren. McWilllams. the Texas
ranger and war veteran whose ap
pointment Saturday was hailed with
delight hy Macon citizens, designed late
today, admitting he was unable to con
trol the situation growing; out of the
unionizing; of the police force.
McWilllams. who is 6 feet 4 inches.
took the reins of the police department
after the former chief was forced to
resign by the civil service commis
sioners and immediately announced
that thenceforth law and order would
prevail. But tonight he said members
of the police department and outsiders
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N?i, A
'America Must Xot Abandon Its
Moral Leadership In Restoring
Order In the World."
NEW YORK. Sept. 16. Two "domi
nant convictions" in the mind of Her
bert Hoover, after his five years"
service abroad,' are that socialism is
bankrupting itself and that America
must not abandon its moral leadership
In restoring order In the world or to
permit itself to be used for "experi
ment in social diseases."
In an address at a dinner tonight of
the American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers, at which he
was the guest of honor, he declared
that the philosophy of the Lenines and
Trotzkys was destroying itself "in the
extraordinary lowering of productivity
of industrial commodities to a point
below the necessity for continued ex
istence of their millions of people."
Referring to the revolution in Rus
sia, he said:
"Although socialism has proved Itself
with rivers of blood and suffering to
be an economic and spiritual fallacy
and to have wrecked Itself on the rock
of production, I believe it was neces
sary for the world to have had this
demonstration. It Is not necessary,
however, that we of the United States,
now that we havn witnessed these re
sults, should plunge our own popula
tion into these miseries and Into a
laboratory for experiment In foreign
social diseases.
"The paramount business of every
American today is this business of
finding a solution to these issues, but
this solution must be found by Ameri
cans, In a practical American way,
based upon American ideas, on Ameri
can philosophy of life. A definite
American substitute is needed for these
disintegrating theories of Europe. It
must be founded on our national in
stincts and upon the normal develop
ment of our national institutions."
LANSING REFUSES TO TALK
Secretary Has No Comment Upon
Bullitt's League Testimony.
WATERTOWN. N. Y Sept. 16. Sec
retary of State Robert Lansing re
turned this afternon to his summer
home at Henderson Harbor from a
short excursion to the Galloup Islands
and was shown a copy of the report
of the Bullitt testimony before the
senate foreign relations committee, as
well as newspaper comment.
He read the matter submitted and
reiterated his stand of Friday that
he had absolutely no comment to make.
AMERICAN GIRL MURDERED
Man Arrested at Naples Confesses
Murder After Elopement.
NAPLES, Sept. 16. The arrest of a
man named Luxemburg, 30 years old.
has developed an alleged murder case
in which an American girl was the
victim, according to the authorities.
The police say the prisoner has con
fessed that he eloped with a Miss Ellis,
an American girl then living in Geneva,
and shortly afterward murdered her.
MOVING DAY.
K r.tv'
Railroad Locator Says
$12,000 Was Offered.
COUNTY OFFICIAL IS ACCUSED
Route Through Newport Said
to Have Been Suggested.
DISQUE TOLD IN LETTER
Portland Law Firm Mentioned as
"financially Interested" in
Spruce Production.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 16. A letter
written by C. J. Millar, a government
railroad locator, saying that a Mr. Ba
ker, a county commissioner at Newport.
Or., suggested to him that It "would
be worth $11,000 to $12,000 personally
to him to have a government railroad
run through Newport." was Introduced
at the hearing here today of the con
gressional sub-committee investigating
alleged spruce production irregularities
in the northwest.
The letter was written to Brice P.
Disque, head of tho airplane spruce pro
duction corporation with rank of brigadier-general,
and was as follows:
"In the early part of February, 1918,
1 was ordered to proceed to Newport,
Or., to make a reconnaissance for and
1. rate railroad lines in the Siletz basin.
While I was engaged on this work I
had reason to inquire of many of the
residents of the district as to the feas
ibility and possibility of railroad lines.
1 was speaking to a gentleman named
Mr. Baker, one of the county commis
sioners at Newport, on one occasion in
this regard and during the course of
the conversation Mr. Baker asked me
what I considered up to that time the
Most feasible route.
No Wltaeaaea Present.
"On my telling Mr. Baker that I con
sidered the Ollala slough as the most
practicable outlet, he suggested that it
would be worth $11,000 or $12,000 to
me personally If the railroad could be
brought through Newport. This con
versation was personal between ' Mr.
Baker and myself, no witnesses being
present.
"I mentioned Mr. Baker's suggestion
to other officers on the surveying de
tail. Lieutenant Gilbert, Lieutenant
Bruton and Lieutenant Soltau. When
Major Rearden was detailed by the
Portland office to make certain inves
tigations In the Newport district he
called me to his office to get certain
Information and I informed Major
Rearden of Mr. Baker's suggestion at
that time."
A statement that ex-Governor West
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PERSHING LEADS 2 5,0 0 0 OF
FIRST DIVISION MEN.
Public Reception Will Be Tendered
General Thursday Congress
Votes Thanks of Nation.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. Washing
ton was in full holiday dress tonight,
awaiting the culminating military spec
tacle of the great war tomorrow, when
General John J. Pershing leads the 1st
division up Pennsylvania avenue in the
national victory parade.
Approximately 25.000 veterans will
follow their chief In this last appear
ance of the American expeditionary
forces, soon to go out of existence
completely. They will be officially re
viewed by Vice-President Marshall In
the absence of President Wilson and
unofficially by nearly half a million
citizens of Washington and surround
ing towns.
For General Pershing himself the
national reception ceremonies will not
end until Thursday. On that day he
will be tendered an honor rarely be
stowed, a public reception by congress
in the name of the nation.
A Joint resolution expressing the
gratitude of congress to him and to
the officers and men of his army was
passed today by .both houses. At the
last moment, in keeping with the demo
cratic ideals of the nation, it was de
cided not to present him with a sword,
as has been suggested.
Along the broad avenue which has
been trod in triumphal pageants by
hundreds of thousands of Americans
In days gone by General Pershing will
lead a force worthy of every honor be
cause of Its own deeds and also be
cause it typifies on this occasion the
whole army of the United States dur
ing the war. Through the men of the
first division, pioneers of the force In
France and last of the fighting di
visions to return the nation will ex
press its gratitude tomorrow to those
other millions of its soldiers who could
not share directly in the spectacle; to
the dead whose sacrifice brought peace
to the fields of France where they
sleep, to the wounded and maimed in
the hospitals and to all the men who
have gone back to enjoy as civilians
the honor and peace and liberty for
which they turned to war.
BUTCHER WITH BEER FINED
Seattle Dealer Finds Keeping Stock
In Ice Box Is Not Profitable.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. 16. It Is not
profitable to keep home-made beer in
the ice box along with chotcs steaks
and pot roasts. At least this Inference
was frleaned by G. J. Dupont a butcher
of Mukllteo, who was fined $100 today
by Federal District Judge Neterer.
The beer, the court was told by the
complaining officer, had more than a
2.75 "kick."
SOUTHERN SPAIN SHAKEN
Serious Damage Caused by Quakes
at Alicante.
MADRID. Sept. 16. (Havai.) The
recent earth shocks in southern Spain
caused serious damage at Alicante, a
Mediterranean seaport with about 5.0,
000 population.
The buildings on entire streets of
the city caved in from tho tremors,
the advices state.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 61
degrees: minimum, Zii degrees.
TODAY'S Fair, gentle south westerly winds.
Foreign.
Bolshevlkl defeated In Poland and Arctic
Haea 2.
British labor leader looks for social con
vulsion. Page 1.
Imperial and military spirit perwUta In
Germany. Page 5.
Mandatory of some great power held only
solution to Turkish muddle. Page 4.
Dommtir.
Gary says Independents might welcome steel
strike. Page 1.
Foreign domination under league of nations
Is a He sed by Senator Johnson. Page 3.
Spruce Inquisitors hear charge of graft.
Page 1.
Nation will enforce dry law to last letter
Page 8.
President has rest on his way to San Fran
cisco. Page ft.
Gale's toll of death on gulf mounts. Page 1.
Firemen of Boston refuse to strike for po
lice. Page 1.
Cardinal Mercler thanks Vnited States for
aid to Belgium. Pag 6.
National.
Mexican majority crucified, says witness at
Washington. Page ft.
Senators in hot tilt over treaty. Page 1.
Perching to lead last parade of war today.
Pane 1.
Pacific North went.
Judgment for $:M.JOO against L. O. Ralston
upheld. Page 9.
Flotilla of destroyers anchors at Vancouver
for prune festival. Page IS.
K porta.
Cincinnati wins pennant In National league.
Page 16.
Outfielder Ieifer of Western Canada league
reports to Beavers today. Page 17.
George W. Philbrook la selected to coach
W 1 n ged M f oo t ba 1 1 tea m. Pa ge 17.
Pacific Coast league results: Salt Ukf 10,
Vernon 9: San Francisco 11, Ios Angeles
10; Oakland Sacramento 3. Page 17.
Com raerWm! and Marine.
Oregon hop crop coming down lighter than
expected. I "age 25.
Chicago corn market closes Strang and
higher. Page 25.
Stocks become firm and active with decline
in call money rates. Page 25.
Four docks may be condemned. Page 24.
Portland's coaatwUe service to expand. Page
Port land and Vicinity.
Cannon captured from Germans reaches
Portland. Page 15.
Women want city to buy downtown block
for market. Page 14.
Portland teachers boycott Thompson's his
tory. Page
Fire-prevention day will be observed tomor
row. Page 12.
Colonel Roosevelt to open convention of
Oregon legion today. Page 8.
Mayor Baker appeals to Portland for imme
diate aid for Corpus Christi (Tex.) storm
victims. Page 2,
Dancing . masters dig grave for shimmy
Page 26.
Juveniie exhibits at Oresham fair are held
oewi ever aifrpiayea inert, i'age 2G.
Roosevelt Memorial association of Oregon
READING OF TREATY HALTED
Adjournment Taken to Friday;
No Vote Till Next Week.
SHERMAN ASSAILS LEAGUE
President Declared Vsln Flpht as
Basis lor Third Term Wil
son Sharply Attacked.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. Formal
reading of the Oerman peace treaty
for amendment was begun late today in
the senate after a sharp parliamentary
wrangle and demand by democrats for
an avowal from Republican Leader
Lodije that the pact be kept continu
ally before the body. It had not been
the intention of opponents of the treaty
to take it up this week, as was indi
cated by a motion of Senator Smoot of
Utah, to consider other legislation
after a four-hour discussion. Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, insisting: the
treaty was emergency business, and
pointing out not one line of the docu
ment had been read, drew fire from
Senator Lodge by asking: if in all good
faith it was his purpose to expedite
conslderat Ion.
"My good faith and what I intend to
do, is my business." Senator Lodge re
plied, with feeling:, and the crowds in
the galleries leaned forward expecting:
the firet real fight over the treaty.
rhr.kin' A 4 v loe Sror.fd.
Senator Hitchcock thereupon again
asked Senator Lodge if he intended to
carry out his promise and keep tho
treaty before the senate. "I certainly
do, and in my own way, without ad
vice from the senator from Nebraska.
Senator Lodge declared.
The answer was hurled by the sena
tor with so much emphasis and feeling
that the galleries broke into applause,
which led the discussion to the conduct
of the crowds coming out daily to hear
it.
Tresident pro tern Cummins declared
that, while visitors hud been permitted
to applaud at the end of an address, in
violation of the standing rules of the
senate, they would not be permitted to
show partisan feeling by noisy demon
strations. Senator Hitchcock said the
galleries generally were not aware of
the rule until it had been broken, and
Senator Williams of Mississippi insisted
that the rule ought to be abolished so
that visitors could give expression ,to
their feelings.
Clerk Starfa Reading.
The democrats asked for the ayes and
nays on the Smoot motion to take up
other business, and this was met from
the republican side by the claim that
there was no quorum. Before the count
was announced Senator Smoot with
drew his motion and reading of the
treaty was begun.
The reading clerk struggled through
the preamble, with its list of all the
signatories, difficult to pronounce. The
clerk had read through article 3 of the
league covenant when he reached the
amendment by Senator Johnson of Cal
ifornia to equalize the vote of Great
Britain and the United States. Senator
Lodge asked that the amendment be
passed over, as senators who desired to
be heard on it were absent.
Senator Hitchcock and Senator Lodge
then engaged in another colloquy, the
latter reiterating that he would not
attempt by artificial means to delay
consideration, but that, there would be
"due consideration" so everybody could
be heard. There was no objection in
the end and the amendment was tem
porarily passed over.
No Vote till Xext Week.
After the clerk had started Into the
next article Senator Lodge stopped the
reading with a motion to adjourn until
Friday. Senator Reed -of Missouri gave
notice that he would discuss the treaty
then and, while formal readings may
continue this week. Senator Lodge said
he had promised members that there
would be no vote until next week.
Democratic leaders today for the
first time suggested that a deadlock
might result in regard to reservations
which might have to be settled by
negotiation.
These democratic spokesmen claimed
40 or 41 democrats solid against any
reservations, "mild" or "strong."
Senator Sherman, republican, Illi
nois, in attacking the league declared
if the league covenant were ratified as
drafted. American motheas "will but
cradle their sons to fill the muster
rolls of armWs to give their lives in
foreign wars."
Ireldcot Monarch of tt alt term.
Replying to attacks by President
Wilson on senators opposing the league,
the Illinois senator asserted "the presi
dent himself Is the crowned monarch
of quitters without a rival in the west
ern hemisphere," and that "his silence
and speed when escaping from his Im
perishable principles of yesterday is as
abysmal and swift as primal chaos."
We have now reached that crisis."
said Senator Sh-erman. "where we must
choose between exhausting ourselves to
make the old world safe tor some ot
its nations, and making the United
States safe for the American people."
When we decline to ruin ourselves."
he continued, "by a mad crusade around
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