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SOVIET RULE HALTS
FEDERAL BUSINESS
SEATTLE UNIONISTS REFUSE
TO HANDLE RIFLES.
STEEL MEN INSIST
ON STRIKE MONDAY
SPRUCE PRODUCERS
MflYflR uiiriq nm
CALLED INEFFICIENT! mmu" l,u,,LU ULI 1
HAS TREATY FIGHT
IN GRIP ON FIUME
- AT LABOR COUNCIL1
THREE BUtLETS FIRED AXD ALL
TAKE EFFECT.
CHARGES 3 LADE BY SERGEAN
AXD ASTORIA EX-MAYOR.
FRENCH
CHAMBER
ANMUNZQ
FIRM
Minority Socialist Stings
Clemenceau to Reply.
PACT IS DECLARED UNJUST
Government Is Said to Have
Still 1,200,000 Under Arms.
OFFER TO REDS ALLEGED
Premier Rises to Deny Knowledge
of Bullitt's Supposed Tender
of Peace to Lenine.
PARIS, Sept. 18. Jean Donguet,
leader of the minority socialists, ad
dressing the chamber of deputies today
in. the debate on the German peace
treaty, said he and his friends would
not vote for the ratification of "this
peace of force and violence like those
terminating: conflicts in the past."
He declared the United States and
Great Britain had not taken their fair
share of the cost of the war. He said
he regretted general disarmament had
not been exacted by the peace con
ferees. M. Longuet provoked a 6torm of pro
test when he described the peace as one
of injustice and violence. It was Bis
marckian, he said, and marked the ad
vent of a reactionary Utopia, which
was more dangerous than bolshevism.
1,200,000 Germans I ndrr Arm.
M. Longuet declared that Gustave
Noske, German minister of defense, still
had under arms, 1,200,000 men.
The subject of the mission to Rus
sia of William C. Bullitt, attached to
the American peace mission, was taken
up by M. Longuet, who declared that
when Mr. Bullitt left Paris for Rus
sia he was the bearer of peace terms
offered by the peace conference to Rus
sia terms which had been edited by
Premier Lloyd George and approved by
President Wilson.
Premier Clemenceau arose at this
Juncture to reply .
"Mr. Lloyd George or Mr. Wilson
never mentioned it to me," he declared.
Alleged Peace Terms Read.
M. Longuet then read what he said
were the clauses in the peace terms
taken to Russia by Bullitt as follows:
1. The immediate cessation of hos
tilities. 2. The bolshevik government to con
trol the territories it occupied at the
time.
3. Freedom of seaports am" railroads
4. Free passage for the allies across
Russia.
5. General amnesty for political
prisoners.
6. Resumption of commercial rela
tions between Russia and the allies.
Z. Immediate Russian demobiliza
tion. After the reading of these clauses by
the speaker. Premier Clemenceau re
iterated. "Neither Mr. Lloyd George nor
Mr. Wilson at any time spoke to me
about such terms.
BULLITT'S STATEMENTS DENTED
Trfndon 'Writer Quotes American to
Defend Lloyd George.
LONDON, Sept. 18. Some of the state
ments made by William C. Bullitt be
i ore the foreign relations committee of
the United States senate are challenged
by a writer of the Daily Sketch, who
signs his articles with the initials
R. K." He says he was the' first' and
he believed, the only English newspaper
man who interviewed Mr. Bullitt in
Paris.
The writer quotes Mr. Bullitt as ear
ing in his interview that his mission
to Russia was suggested by Colonel
E. M. House and approved by President
Wilson. The arrangement, he says, was
undertaken without the knowledge of
the members of the "big four" of the
peace conference, as Mr. Wilson and
Colonel House desired the mission to
be as secret as possible.
Secret Letter Excluded.
When Mr. Bullitt returned, Mr. Wil
eon sent his report to Premier Lloyd
George, but did not include the secret
communication from Nikolai Lenine.
The premier was greatly impressed by
Mr. Bullitt's report and wished to have
it published, according to the article
but President Wilson refused, and sup
pressed it.
The writer is emphatic in his state
mem tnat Mr. Bullitt told him Mr.
Lloyd George was unaware of his mis
sion until he saw the report, and that
President Wilson and not the premier
prevented the publication of Mr. Bui
litt's conclusions as to Russia.
WOMAN SHOT BY HUSBAND
San Diego Saloonkeeper Arrested
After Wounding Visitor Also.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Seot. 18. Mrs.
Jennie Henderson was shot twice and
possibly fatally wounded, and Edwin
Johnson, son of A. P. Jonrson, Jr., can
didate for mayor at a recent election
was slightly wounded by Alvin B. Hen
derson, husband of the woman, late
last night.
Johnson had called at the Henderson
home to deliver a letter from Mrs. Hen
derson's daughter in Seattle, when
.Henderson, a saloonkeeper, is said tr
have opened tire -n the visitor anj
his wife. Henderson was arrested
eaoxtjjr axter me snooting.
Holdup Occurs on Bridge In Dark
Part of Salem Victim of Thugs
Expected to Recover.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 18. (Special.)
Will Burger, who conducts a confec
tionery store at Seventeenth and Cen
ter street, was shot .three times by
hughwaymen tonight about 9:30 o'clock
while crossing a foot bridge on his
way home. One bullet penetrated Bur
ger's right shoulder and possibly his
lung and two other bullets entered the
fleshy part of the right thigh. It is
believed he will recover.
Burger crosses the bridge, which is
on Seventeenth street and in a dark
part of the city, each night between
9 and 10 o'clock. As he stepped onto
the bridge tonight he was confronted
by three men, one of whom struck at
him with a club or slingshot and
missed him. Burger turned a flash
light on the three and observed that
one was armed.
The man with the revolver leaped
over the railing of the bridge and
opened fire on Burger, who also drew
a pistol and fired at the highwaymen,
but after the first shot Burger's
weapon refused to" work and he took
to his heels. Three bullets struck him
as he ran. Police have been unable to
locate any of the robbers.
Burger is known to carry money
home each night and it is suspected
that the highwaymen were acquainted
with his habits.
JEWS PLAN FOR HOMELAND
Zionists Lay Foundation for Com
monwealth In Palestine.
CHICAGO Sept. 18. The Zionist or
ganization of America ended its twenty-
second annual convention last night
after laying, the foundation for a Jew
ish comonwealth-in Palestine, a home
land for the scattered Jewish people of
the world.
Palestine, returned to the Jews, un
der British control, with Jerusalem
as the center of the renaissance of
Hebrew art, literature and industry, a
democracy with the natural resources
and public utilities owned and admin
istered for the benefit of the whole
people, constituted the programme
worked out by the 800 delegates during
the four-day convention.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the su
preme court was re-elected honorary
president and Judge Julian W. Mack
f the superior court was re-elected
president.
1 Plans adopted ' today provide that
$7,000,000 shall be raised during the
coming year for development of the
Jewish commonwealth.
HAWAII WELCOMES RAINS
Islands' 192 0 Sugar Crop Boosted
Thousands of Tons.
HONOLULU. T- H., Sept. 7. (Spe
cial.) A little rain in the Hawaiian
islands at this time of the year is a
wonderful thing in the eyes of stock
holders in sugar companies. The sugar
crop of the islands for 1920 was boosted
thousands of tons by the heavy rains
that fell here within the past three
days.
Many sections of the territory where
there had been little or no rain and
where the sugar cane was commenc
ing to sear reported plenty of maisture.
This three-day ram storm will carry
the crop to the normally wet season.
ALTITUDE RECORD BROKEN
Roland Rohlfs Flies 34,610 Feet at
Mineola in 78 Minutes.
MINEOLA, N. T.. Sept. 18. A new
world's altitude record is believed to
have been made here today, when Ro
land Rohlfs, test pilot for the Curtiss
Aeroplane company, soared 34.610 feet
above sea level, according to the offi
cial barograph, in 78 minutes.
As Roosevelt field, his starting point,
is 110 feet above sea level, Rohlfs
actually climbed 34.500 feet, according
to the barograph. His altimeter regis
tered 34,400.
LANE'S LAND BILL SCORED
Board of Farm Organizations Terms
Measure Impractical.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Secretary
Lane's bill providing for the redemp
tion of arid lands for use as homes for
returning soldiers was characterized as
"impractical, absurd and extravagant'
by the national board of farm organ!
zations today, in a resolution urging
congress to reject the measure.
The resolution -was offered by Albert
Manning, overseer of the New York
state grange. The board is holding
its semi-annual meeting here.
BREWERY MOVING TO JAPAN
Vancouver B. C, Concern to Send
Its Plant to Orient.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 18. Ofte
whole brewery and part of another will
form part of the cargo of the Japanese
freighter Idaho Maru, which docks here
early next week to take on cargo for
the orient. -
The brewery equipment is the prop
erty of the Vancouver Brewing com
pany and is to be set up and operated
in Japan.
HONDURAN REBELS WIN
Complete Triumph of Revolt Is Tele
graphed From Capital.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua.
Sept. 18. General Gutierrez, one of the I
military leaders of the Hondura : revo
lution, has reached the Honduran
capital.
He telegraphed from Tegucigalpa I
today that the revolution had com-
i pletely trinmphedj
nvaders Remain; Or
dered to Leave Today.
WILSON BARS WAY OF ITALY
Britain and France Said to Be
Ready to Give Port.
POET'S ENTRY DRAMATIC
Captain Sways Crowd In Speech on
Annexation Son in Xew York
Protests Allies' Course.
ROME, Sept. 18. (By the Associated
Press.) The situation at Flume oa
Wednesday was unchanged. , according
to semi-official advices received today.
D'Annunzio's forces still were holding
the town and General Badoglio, deputy
chief of staff of the Italian army, had
issued a proclamation reminding the
troops that the time limit for their re
turn to the armistice zone would ex
pire Thursday.
ROME, Sept. 16. (By the Associated
Press.) The Messagero says David
Lloyd George, the British prime min
ister, M. Clemenceau, the French pre
mier, and Signor" Tittoni, the Italian
foreign minister, are in perfect accord
over a definite solution of the Flume
question, insuring the Italian nation'
ality of the town, and are only await
ing President Wilson's decision on the
subject.
ROME, Sept. 14. "I, a war volunteer
and a mutilated fighter, appeal to Vic
tor Hugo's France, to Milton's England
and Lincoln's America, and, speaking
as an interpreter of the valorous sen
timents of the whole Italian people,
proclaim the annexation of Flume to
Italy,"' said Captain Gabriele D'An-
nunzio, speaking to an immense throng
the day his "irregular" force marched
nto Flume, according to reports reach
ing this city.
Poet All feat Eloquent.
Captain D'Annunzlo. who Is reported
to have been quite ill and suffering a
high fever when he reached Flume,
went to the commander's palace, being
borne along by a crowd that seemed
crazed with patriotic fervor. After en
tering the palace he was asked to
speak, and at once went to the balcony
overlooking the crowd.
"I am so ill that I will say but a.
few words." he began, with a simple
gesture. "In the present mad, cow
ardly world there is one pure thing
our love for Fiume. Flume stands like
a lighthouse over the sea of degrada
tion. People of Fiume, do you confirm
your vote of October 30 last, when you
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Loading of .Big Shipment of Arms
Consigned to Siberia on Vessel
Is Ordered Stopped. '
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 18. (Spe
cial.) Soviet rule as practiced by Seat
tle labor unions was brought into play
against the United States government
today, when the government's shipment
of 45 carloads of rifles to Siberia was
halted by the refusal of longshoremen
to handle arms consigned to Russia.
Government officers here tonight had
no statement to make further than to
say that Washington will be consulted.
The action was the" result of .a con
ference between the longshoremen's
delegates and the Central Labor Coun
cil Wednesday night, when It was de
cided to take this action upon the ar
rival of the shipment, advance notice
of which seemingly had reached the
union officials.
The arms were to have been shipped
to Vladivostok in the shipping board's
steel steamship Delight, which had been
assigned to Frank Waterhouse & Co..
as operators.
This morning five carloads arrived.
C. Querin, manager of the Arlington
dock of the Waterhouse interests, set
a crew of longshoremen at work un
loading the cars of rifles. Two of the
men protested, and Querin was at a
loss to understand why, as he was not
familiar with labor's attitude regarding
such shipments. He called the union
and was Informed that a delegation
of business agents would be on hand
soon.
Meantime the work of unloading the
cars proceeded without objection from
the longshoremen other than the two
who uttered the first protests, but when
the business agent reached the dock
they called all off the work, and no
further effort was made to unload the
munitions during the day.
POSTMISTRESS IS ACCUSED
Shortage or $2 7,000 in Accounts Is
Charged to Willapa Official.
SOUTH BEND. Wash.. Sept. 18.
(Special.) Mrs. F. M. Glen, postmis
tress of Willapa, -as taken to Chehr.lis
Wednesday to appear before govern
ment authorities on a charge of em
bezzling postoffice funds.
. Inspector Fitch discovered a shortage
of 2700 in her accounts last week
and granted her a week's time to re
place the shortage, which she failed to
Co. Government. money, it is alleged,
was appropriated by her in the conduct
of a grocery store which was operated
in connection with the postoffice.
REPRESENTATIVE IS DEAD
J. B. Thompson of Oklahoma Suffers
Heart Stroke Near Washington.
MARTINS BURG, W. Va.. Sept. 18.
Representative J. B. Thompson of Okla
homa died of heart trouble on a train
an hour out of Washington late today.
He was accompanied by his son. Lieu
tenant J. B. Thompson, lately quartered
at Camp Funston.
His body was removed to an under
taking establishment here.
SHE'S NEVER BEEN NEAR THE WATER BEItRE. v I
i . I
President's Plea Fails to
Move Unions.
POSTPONEMENT YOTED DOWN
Letter Sent Wilson Explains
Failure to Comply.
OFFICIALS FEAR TO DELAY
Workers Want Walkout; Confident
of Forcing Gary to Recognize
Their Organization.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 18. The national
committee tor organizing iron and steel
workers late today voted down a mo
tion to rescind the action taken at
Washington calling a strike of all
workers in iron and steel mills not op
erating under union agreements next
Monday.
The committee followed this by
adopting a motion to affirm the action
taken at Washington. Final adjourn
ment was taken and the representa
tives of the 24 unions included in the
national committee left for their homes
to put the strike into effect. .
The motion to postpone the strike
until after the industrial conference at
Washington, beginning October 6, was
offered, it was announced, out of defer
ence to President Wilson, who had re
quested Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, to
use his Influence to have the walkout
deferred.
Letter Stat Frealdeat Wllaoa.
The committee late tonight made
public a letter it has drafted and sent
to the president, giving 11 reasons
why it could not comply with his re
quest to postpone the strike. The let
ter expresses faith in the president's
"desire to bring about a conference
with employers."
"We regret that for the first time
your call upon organized labor cannot
meet with favorable, response," the
letter states. "If delay were no more
than delay, even at the cost of loss of
membership in our organizations, we
would urge the same to the fullest
of our ability, notwithstanding the men
are firmly set for an Immediate strike.
But delay here means the surrender of
all hope."
President Held lilatormrd.
There was considerable discussion ot
the motion both yesterday and today.
Emphatic speeches were made against
any postponement. It was declared that
neither President Wilson nor others
who favored a postponement were cog
nizant of the actual conditions sur
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Supply Prices High; Conditions of
Sanitation Intolerable;
Protests Punished.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18. Manage
ment of the spruce production division
of the United States army at Vancou
ver barracks, Washington, was "highly
inefficient," soldiers were charged "ex
orbitant" prices for tobacco and other
supplies at the camp commissary, and
sanitary conditions were "intolerable,"
Thomas H. Lipps, a first sergeant of
the 140th spruce squadron, and F. C.
Harley, former mayor of Astoria, Or.,
testified here today before the congres
sional aircraft Investigating committee.
Representatives James Frear of Wis
consin and Waiter W. Magee of New
York heard the evidence.
When asked by Representative Frear
why complaints about the conditions a,
the spruce camps were not made. Ser
geant Lipps declared that when officers
complained they "were immediately
transferred."
The committee will leave tomorrow
morning for San Diego, where they will
resume their hearings.
HEN SLACKER COSTLY ONE
Poultrymen Lose Millions Yearly,
Says Professor Dryden.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Cor vail is. Sept. 18. (Special.) Poultry
men might have saved enough money
to pay for the world war if they had
known SO years ago what is known
today about culling poultry, declared
James Dryden, professor of poultry
husbandry of the college, in speaking
this morning to 230 poultry ' enthusi
asts men. women and children at the
all-day culling school.
If poultrymen 1 general had prac
ticed what is known about culling in
the last three years the money saved
would more than equal the spruce pro
duction waste. Professor Dryden as
serted. On every farm, even where the
birds are given good attention, at least
55 per cent are either nonlayece or
poor layers. It costs the poultrymen
millions of dollars annually to keep
these birds, he said.
NAVY MONOPLANE FALLS
Llentenant Commander Hurt Near
Rog Island Shipyard.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 18. A navy
department monoplane, which left Xew
York yesterday for a flight to
Washington, fell near the Hog island
shipyard. Lieutenant - Commander E.
McDonnell. 34 years old. of Washington.
who was operating the machine, was
severely Injured.
His companion. Knsign E. B. Koter,
Los Angeles, escaped with a severe
shaking up and a few scratches.
When flying over Hog Island. 1000
feet in the air. engine trouble devel
oped. The machine landed in a swamp
with Its nose deep in the mud. it was
wrecked.
McDonnell and Koter were rushed to
the Hog island hospital. Both men
saw service in France.
ISLAND SCHOOLS GROWING
Large Increase In Enrollment Over
Last "Year Assured.
HONOLULU, T. H.. Sept. 7. (Spe
cial.) The public schools of Hawaii
will open September 22. with an in
crease in enrollment of 1500 pupils. At
the clos of the last school year there
were 35.967 pupils in the territory in
public schools.
Since then 18 school bungalows, each
housing a class or two, have been
erected In the city of Honolulu alone
in anticipation nf an increased school
attendance this fall.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 74
degrees; minimum. rS degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and warmer; senile north
westerly winds.
Foreign.
French chamber of deputies In storm over
peace treaty. Page J.
Reds driven back lOO miles by Poles. Page 3.
Roman paper nays Britain and France are
ready to give up Fiume; Wilson buurs way.
Pae 1.
National.
Senator Johnson called bark from tour to
vote on treaty amendment. t age
Republicans move to bring early vote on
treaty amendments. rage .
Pershing receive thanks of conpreta Page 7.
President opposes policemen's unions. Page 6.
Doroeet lc.
Gulf storm deaths estimated at SOO. Far 3-
President accuses foea of pact of misrepre
sentation. Page 2.
Spruce producers declared Inefficient. Page 1.
Steel workers Insist on strike Monday.
Page 1.
Mine workers convention refuses to vote on
league of nations. Page 4.
Women's overdressing Is blamed on men.
Page 1.
Business men told by president acceptance
of treaty will -be good for trade. Fags 2.
rartflc Northweet.
Frinky beasts conquer at opening day of
Pendleton roundup. Page 9.
Soviet rule halts government business in
Seattle, Page 1.
Oregon asks Hlncs to send more cars.
Page 11.
Vancouver pays homage and Queen opens
festival. Page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Crops of commercial onions and potatoes
smaller than last year. Page -".
Corn higher at Chicago because of holding
by farmers. Page 25.
Stocks affected by crisis in steel labor sit
uation. Page -3.
Inducement for location of big industry here
urged. Page 24.
Longshoremen refuse to load flour. Page 24.
ft porta.
Twenty-one dogs compete In Oregon field
trials derby at Lebanon. Page 16.
Claude Thomas. Seattle pitcher, suffers sud
den attack of appendicitis. Page 37.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland . Se
attle 1; I -on Angeles 7. San Francisco 1;
Vernon 7. Salt Lake 4; Sacramento S,
Oakland 0. Page 17.
Portland and Vicinity.
Pennies welcomed in Roosevelt memorial
fund, typifying spirit of democracy.
Page 4.
Legion would bar all Immigration. Page 6.
Fire prevention preached in big parade.
Page 10.
Republicans eye places as delegates to na
tional convention. Page 14.
Labor's strike threat brings defiance from
mayor. Paso J
Threat of Strike Brings
Quick Response.
USE OF AUDITORIUM DENIED
Meeting in Behalf of Political
Prisoners Vetoed.
SHOWDOWN IS INEVITABLE
Executive Declares Place Alwvajs
Open Tor Legitimate Use, but
Barred to Vicious Element.
Mayor Baker yesterday hurled a defl
at the central labor council by refus.
eg the use of the auditorium for an
amnesty meeting for the purpose of
discussing freedom for "political pris
oners." The refusal was In face of a
threat of a general strike of 14 hours
duration in the event the use of the
auditorium was not allowed.
The mayor, in a letter to the central
Ifctor council, recounted that on but
two occasions had organized labor been
denied use of the building, once when
a proposed general strike was to have
been discussed ana again when two
alleged I. W. W. agitators planned to
debate the Irish question.
In his letter the mayor Iceenly re
st nts the ultimatum issued by the labor
council, contending that if organized
labor Is to threaten disorder and strife
for the public If Its demands are not
granted, then a showdown Is inevit
able and' might as well come now as
later.
Vicious Elrmrit Barren.
The auditorium, the mayor asserts. Is
always open for legitimate discussion
of any and all questions, but It Is mad
clear in his letter that the doors are
always barred to members of the I. W.
". "or any other vicious persons or
element at any time."
By resolution adopted by the labo
council last week, the use of the audi,
t'.rlum was demanded, and It was pro
vided that in the event the city official
ould not grant the request a refere.r.
c.um vote would be called for a general
strike in Portland.
The letter making the demand, '.n
accordance witn the action of the labor
body at lis meeting last week, was
not delivered to Mayor Baker's office
until Wednesday afternoon. The an
swer to the letter was delivered by
special messenger to Harry Anderson,
president of the Central Labor Council,
early last night.
Mayer's Position Is Clear.
The mayor's letter in full follows:
"I am In receipt of your letter of
September 17. 1919. stating that if the
city refuses to allow the use of the
public auditorium for a mass meeting
in the interest of freeing and pardoning
persons now held in jail for. offenses
committed against the government of
the United States during the war, labor
will call a general strike in Portland
covering a period of 2t hour.
"In reply. I will say that on only two
occasions that I know of has tjse of
the auditorium been refused the cen
tral labor council; once when it was
proposed to put on a meeting in behalf
of a general strike in Portland, this
proposed general strike having been
advocated all over the country by the
ultra-radical element, and the other
when two acknowledged I. W. W.
were scheduled to pour forth their ven
omous propaganda against the govern
ment of the United States under the
pretense of a discussion of the Irish
question.
Legitimate Une Available.
The auditorium is open to legiti
mate discussion of any question at any
time, but It is not open to the L W. W.
or any other vicious persons or element
at any time.
"Your letter is an ultimatum to the
effect that unless the city of Portland
grants your request the people will be
subject to disorder and strife. If that
is the attitude of organized labor at
this time it is impossible to avert a
showdown and it might as well come
now as later. In view of the fact that
your letter Is not an ordinary applica
tion for the use of the auditorium, and
is not an application for the use of
the building for a legitimate purpose,
but is an application for use of this
public building for a meeting calculated
to dls-upt law and order In this coun
try, your application is refused."
SHIP REGULATION FEARED
Commerce Commission Control Is
Opposed by Coast Interests.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. Opposing
those features of proposed legislation
for railroad- organization, which wouVd
place water carriers under the control
of the interstate commerce commission,
W. E. Clark of Seattle, representing the
Pacific Steamship company, today told
the house Interstate commerce commit
tee ruch legislation "might result in
regulating American shipping into the
boneyard."
Legislation to benefit water linee,
"Mr. Clark urged, shou'd permit a free
hand in competitive foreign commerce,
including Alaska, and provision for ex
port and import rates on American rail
lines appllng only to water freight
moved by American ships.
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