hi ;cj ii ii ti iti ii ? i 11 i t VOL. IVTII. XO. 18,333 Entered it Portland (Orfjon PoFtoffic aw Prorii1-Cla?5 tattr. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER . 20, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EXECUTION HALTED SCOTTISH RITE BUYS SITE FOR NEW TEMPLE STEEL COMPANIES HOPE TO OPERATE ELEPHANT RUNS AMUCK AT SEA; SHIP MENACED BIG PACHYDERM SHIFTS CARGO. 5 OF CREW HURT. STEAMSHIP SUNK; 450 ARE MISSING WILSON BLOCKS ALLIED WARNING TO GERMANY SECRET OF MURDER IS KEPT 23 YEARS AT LUST T MAGN'IFICEVT . STRrCTCRE TO BE BUILT IX PORTLAND. FRENCH FEAR FU ME SITUATION MAY APPLY TO SILESIA. 'VJ -V 4 5HH MOMEN Firing Squad in Place for Frenchman. LENOIR SENTENCED AS TRAITOR Prisoner Begs Permission to Confront ex-Premier. REVELATIONS MAY COME Reopening of Humbert Case Is Xow Possible Official Pulled Out ot Bed to Grant Stay. PARIS, Sept. 19. FierreLenoir. tried with Senator Humbert and other de fendants on charges of treason and sentenced to death, was saved from a firing squad which had already taken Its place at dawn today. The charge was that he communicated military in telligence to the enemy. This dramatic escape from death, in the Vincennes woods, was the subject of lively conversation in political cir cles here today With the firing squad already in place, preparations were being made to escort Lenoir out to meet death when the condemned man begged to be confronted with former Premier Cail laux, who is under charges similar to those on which Lenoir was convicted. He said: "At the moment of death, I repeat what I have always vainly asked to be confronted with Joseph Caillaux." (Joseph Caillaux, former premier of Prance, now is under arrest in a hos pital near Paris on charges similar to those upon which Lenoir was con victed.) Cases Declared Connected. Lenoir then argued that the action of the court had shown that his case and that of M. Caillaux were connected. Lenoir's lawyer then demanded that his request to be confronted wiV1 M. Cail laux be communicated to the under secretary of military justice. This was done, and the order to postpone the execution was received two hours later. When he heard that he was not to be executed this morning, Lenoir said: "Before God and man I 'swear I am jjo traitor. The execution was suspended and the condemned man remained in his cell. Nothing has been officially given out concerning the personages who may be affected by Lenoir's death-door accu sations but members of the chamber of deputies, discussing the matter, de clared the Caillaux case was mentioned and also that the name of Ernest Judet, former owner of the Paris newspaper L'Eclair, who is under indictment here on a charge of having had dealings with the enemy in the purchase or founding of French newspapers with German capital, came up. Judet, for a Jons time, has been in Switzerland. Humbert Case Nay Be Reopened. The arrest of another member of the chamber of deputies, and also of a prominent newspaper owner is said to be expected shortly in connection with Lenoir's statement, and it was even asserted that his revelations might cause a reopening of the Humbert case. Lenoir's escape from the waiting ex ecutioners was nothing short of miraculous. Captain Julien declining to postpone the execution, signing the register of the Sante prison, account ing for Lenoir and ordering Lenoir to proceed to enter the waiting automobile which was to convey him to the Vin cennes wood and death. M. Demolines, Lenoir's lawyer, nearly had an alterca tion with Captain Julien, while . en deavoring to obtain a few minutes .J?spite for the prisoner in order that he might telephone to Mr. Ignace, under secretary of state for military justice. Off trial Aroused in Night Clothes. Having secured the permission to telephone, M. Demolines then entered an automobile and raoed to the home of M. Ignace, who received him in his night clothes at 5 o'clock In the morn ing and made the stay of execution of the sentence indefinite. Meanwhile .Lenoir will remain in his oell and await eventualities. In con nection with the reprieve it may be remembered that Bolo Pasha succeeded in postponing his execution ten days while making revelations. MURRAY FORFEITS BAIL Portland Man Not in Court When Land Fraud Case Is Called. SAN FRANCISCO, . Sept. 19. A jury. which will hear the evidence in the , so-called Oregon land fraud cases, was completed late today in United States Judge Maurice T. Dooling's court. The men on trial are F. P. Bull of San Francisco. M. D. Puter of Berkeley. J. L. Van Wormer of Fresno, Alan Mc Ewen of San Francisco and W. L. Mur ray of Portland. Although it had been announced that Murray, who failed to appear when the cases were called for trial, was ex pected to arrive later In the day from Portland, he had not appeared when Judge Dooling adjourned court until Monday. His bail of 12000 was ordered forfeited' Oregon Consistory Kinds Old Temple Inadequate Land in Cedar Hill Addition Purchased. The purchase of a tract of land, com prising about 10 lots in what is known as the Green estate property, between Fordi street and Green avenue, near the head of Washington street, by the trustees of Oregon Consistory No. 1, of the Scottish Rite Masons, has brought to light plans of that organ ization for the erection of a new tem ple which it is expected to make one of the most magnificent buildings of the kind in the country. P. S. Malcolm, who Holds the position of inspector-general of the organiza tion for the state, in a talk before a recent meeting of the lodge said that fit was hoped to jnalce the new temple one of the best in the United States. An architect is to be employed for the drawing up of preliminary plans and it is expected to have some sort of a working idea for the new building within the next two months. The Oregon Consistory is said to have outgrown its present cathedral at Morrison and Lownsdale streets and it was for this reason that the new step was decided upon. The new site is in Cedar Hill addi tion to the city of Portland and com prises about 48,880 square feet of ground. It is located on a rise jus up the hill from the intersection of Twenty-third -and Washington streets and furnishes a beautiful view, and there fore an advantageous position for a magnificent structure such as it Is hoped to put up. BAKER ARMY BILL FOUGHT Chamberlain Measure Preferred by- Military Camp Authorities. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. Tompkins Mcllvain, acting chairman of the mili tary training camps association, before the senate military committee pro nounced the war department's bill for army reorganization thoroughly un sound. He said it would perpetuate the worst mistakes of the past. Mcllvain urged favorable considera tion of the so-called national service act introduced by Senator Chamber lain, democrat of Oregon, at the in stance of the military training camps association, which he- argued would coat but little more than half of the $900,000,000 estimated cost of the ad ministration bill. PRUNES $1000 AN ACRE Mosier Ships Ten Carloads Fresh From Orchards to East. HOOD RIVER. Or, Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) It is likely that no growers will reap any greater returns this sea son than prune growers of Mosier, where approximately ten carloads of .fresh prunes, packed in small boxes. were shipped east. The growers will realize an average of $1000 an acre from their orchards. "We have about two acres of prunes on our east Hood river tract," said W. H. Weber. Chicago capitalist, who is out looking after orchard interests, while here yesterday, "and we expect to realize about $1100 par icre. The prunes have been sold for $100 per ton, f. o. b. Mosier." DYNAMITE CACHE FOUND Explosives Under Nye Beach Cottage . Thought Set by I. W. W. SALEM, Or., Sept. 19. (Special.) Much excitement prevailed In the neighborhood of Nye Beach, at New port, Monday, when a quantity of dy namite was found under the cottage of Mrs. Al Beeschen'of this city, accord ing to word reaching here. Investiga tion by the Newport officers showed that the dynamite was wrapped in carpenter's apron and two copies of Salem newspaper. It is believed to have been 4he cache of an I. W. W., members of which or ganization were active in the Newport vicinity about the time the spruce oper ations began. 8-HOUR DAY BOOSTS' FUL Spokane Dealers Tell Committee Help Works Less, Pay More. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 19. "Labor inefficiency," arising from indepen dence of the labor market, was blamed by local retail fuel dealers for present high prices of fuel. In their statements to the joint state and county fair price committee meeting here today. Deal ers declared laboring men are not ac complishing as much work per hour under an eight-hour day as under the ten-hour day, although their compen sation is almost twice as great. Under the eight-hour day they de clared only about one-third as much is accomplished as under the recent nine-hour day. WHEAT IN DANGER OF ROT Elevators Pull and Cars Short Western Nebraska. LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. 19. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of wheat are on the ground in danger of rotting in western Nebraska because elevators are already filled and because there is a shortage of railroad cars, together with an embargo on wheat shipments to Omaha and Kansas City, according to information reaching Governor Sam uel R. McKelvey. The governor announced he would appeal to the railroad administration to take steps to relieve the situation.. Battle With Labor to Be Nation-Wide. ENGINEERS REFUSE TO JOIN Official of Union at Chicago Says Men Win Stick. ORGANIZERS HARD AT WORK Sailors at Detroit Vote to Quit in Sympathy and Tie Up Ore Carriers on Lakes. PITTSBURG, Sept. 19. Preparations for the test- of strength between or ganized labor and capital in the steel industry throughout the United States to begin Monday went forward today with both sides confident of the out come. There were no official state ments forthcoming from either side, but informal talks indicated that they were ready for the contest. Representatives of steel companies In the Pittsburg district let it be known that they intend to operate their plants Monday and also let the impression go out that they do not look for as large a walkout as the union leaders assert will take place. Labor Expects Bio; Walkout. Organized labor expects a big turn out of men and predicted that the em ployers will receive the surprise of their lives. Neither side will venture figures. Both frankly confessed they do not know how many men will re main at work or fail to answer the whistle. Monday only can tell, they said. Steel companies in many cases are understood to have canvassed their men to get an idea of the number of men who will strike. Union leaders said that from their experiences these canvasses usually trove to be Inac curate and pointed to past strikes where a majority of men in a plant have signed up not to strike and then quit when the time came. It was said tonight that in a number of plants some men have already quit and sought work in other places. National Leaders bo Home. All the national leaders of unions involved in the strike had left the city tonight for their respective headquar ters to make final plans for the strike, and much of the activity about the offices of the steel workers' national committee had to do with the prepara tions in the Pittsburg district. While national headquarters are in this city, in charge of William Z. Foster, secre tary of the national committee, it was learned that much of the work will be conducted by districts. CHICAGO, Sept. 19. Steam and oper- (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) in I I lf"A .' l 'I1! I . . ....... ............ . .... ... ..... . . . ....... .. . ... 4 Koan Mara, Bound or Japan, Is Forced to Return When In Danger of Capsizing. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 19. (Special.) A big elephant running amuck aboard the Japanese freighter Koan Maru, Captain Tamanaki, started a dangerous shifting of freight which caused the serious injury of five mem bers of the crew. The freighter, which sailed for Yokohama two days ago with a general cargo, was forced to put about and return to port to land the men for medical attention. She ar rived here today. The old circus performer, which was being transported to Yokohama, broke loose when a storm began to toss the vessel. As he plunged about he caused some of the essential fastenings to break. . The movement of the vessel caused serious displacements of the cargo and for a time it was feared the vessel might capsize. As the five members of the crew were busy trimming ' cargo several lashings gave way and the men were crushed between packing cases of freight. MILL HAS $225,000 FIRE Klamath Falls Plant Is Burned by Early Morning Blaze. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 19. (Special.) The mammoth sawmill of the Pelican Bay Lumber company two miles north of the city, the largest In this district, was completely destroyed by fire early today. The estimated loss is $225,000. fully Insured. Fire is believed to have been started by a hotbox in the center of the mill. The blaze was discovered and fought by a watchman for 15 minutes. He believed he had it under control when suddenly it burst out anew and spread rapidly. The boiler house, planing mill, kilns and 10,000,000 feet of lumber were saved after a heroic fight by employes in face of a heavy wind that carried sparks among them. CHENOWETH IS COMMITTED Man Acquitted of Murder to Be Sent ' to Asylum at Once. MARSHFIELD. Or., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) George Chenoweth of Curry county, found. not guilty of murder ot George Sydham In the circuit court at Goldbeach. has been ordered committed to the asylum by Judge Coke, insanity having been his defense. ' He will at once be taken to Salem. It is believed that under treatment he may entirely recover. 1 TWO DIE IN STREET FIGHT Deputy Marshal and ex-Detective in Battle at Memphis. MKMPHIS. Tenn., Sept. 19. O. W Webster, a deputy United States mar shal, and William t-middy, a former city detective, were killed, and a negro bystander was wounded in an exchange of shots here this afternoon. The shooting took place in the down town shopping district. " " (, . fill ' ' ' I I SDjy f I Divers Find Big Vessel Quicksands. m I PASSENGERS' FATE UNKNOWN Craft Believed to Be Liner Valbanera, Lost in Gale. WIRELESS CALLS HEARD Faint Signals May Be Sent by Sur vlvors or 6000-Ton Span ish Ship. KEY WEST, Sept. 19. Imbedded in quicksand under 40 feet of water, off Rebecca ehoals lighthouse, divers to day found the hulk of a vessel be lieved to be ths Spanish passenger liner Valbanera, which has been miss ing since the eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico was swept by a hurri cane ten days ago. The divers employed by the Cuban consul here, after the sunken wreck was discovered by a United States coast guard vessel, reported that the name Valbanera could be made out clearlv but no trace was found of the 300 pas sengers ana 150 members of the crew reported aboard the liner, when she left Spain for Havana. The steamer found off the Rebecca shoal lighthouse, which is 40 miles from here, the divers said, appeared to be of about 6000 tons. The missing Valbanera was of 3291 tons net. The Valbanera appeared off Moro Castle. Havana. September 9. but was unable to put Into port on account of the storm. Within the last few days faint wireless calls supposed to be from the Valbanera have been picked up here and at Havana. In marine circles here it was considered probable that some of the Valbanera's survivors have sent the calls using improvised ap paratus taken from the vessel. 20 HOUSES LOST IN FIRE Soldiers Rushed to Fight Flames in California Forest. MILL VALLET, Cal.. Sept. 19. Be. twen 20 and 25 cottages have been destroyed In a brush fire which swept a part of Mount Tamalpais. three miles west of this city today, according to announcement by Fire Marshal Will iam White. The fire along the rldg of Mount Tamalpais is under control, but, according to White, the flames are now sweeping the lower end of Mulr woods, a government forest. . A detachment of 240 soldiers have b?en ordered from Fort Baker to fight the flames, it .was announced here. The fire was continuing toward Mulr Woods despite heroic efforts to check it. j Council's Note Threatening Puni-.li- mcnt if Berlin Attempts In- Tasion Is Canceled. BY WILLIAM COOK. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by arrtraemetit.) PARIS. Sept. 19. (Special cable.) Although D'Annunzto's move on Flume is causing the supreme council but little trouble, it is feared that this action will set a precedent and give Germany an excuse to follow the ex ample in Silesia. Therefore, Marshal Foci's advice was sought as to what should be done if Germany should take such a fateful step. It was de cided that. In such a case, stern mili tary measures should be taken against Germany. The entire conference agreed on that and Germany was to be notified of it but today a cablegram from President Wilson was received which vetoed the decision. Now, according to some members of the conference, Germany is practically free to go into Silesia, assume full power there and laugh at the allies' indecision and weakness. French circles in the conference are especially displeased at President Wil son's veto, fearing further trouble. Virtually the same thing happened in regard to the German troops in the Baltic provinces. Marshal Foch ad vised the conference to let the Poles clear the Germans out. but that course was disapproved by certain members of the supreme council on the ground that the Poles already have undertaken heavy fighting without any certainty of a successful result. It was even decided to ask the Poles to stop fight ing the bolshevik!. CALIFORNIA WETS LOSE Injunction on Enforcement of Pro hibition Is Denied. ,SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 19. A peti tion by the California Grape Protective association, asking that government officers here be enjoined from enforc ing the wartime prohibition act. was denied by United States District Judge William C. Van Fleet here today. The fate of $75,000,000 worth of vine yards in the state rested on the deci sion, according to Theodore Bell, the attorney representing the plaintiffs. "I find that the tentative Impres sions made upon my mind at the time of submission have been ripened Into conviction that not only Is the act of congress In question In all respects a constitutional enactment. but that within the broad and generic sense in which the words are employed in the statute 'wine grapes' are included with in the designation of 'fruit or other food products," " Judge Van Fleet held In his decision. CHICAGO STRIKE IS OFF More Than 100,000 Workers Out for Two Months. CHICAGO. Sept. 19. Chicago's build ing strike and lockout, which for more than two months had made idle more than 100,000 works and halted construc tion aggregating $5,000,000, was an nounced as ended tonight. The construction employers yielded to the demands of the union carpenters for $1 an hour. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 74 degrees; minimum. 51 degree.. TODAY'S Fair and warmer; moderate westerly wind.. Foreign. Moscow declared In state of siege. Page 17. Wilson blocks allied warning to Germany. PK 1. Kxecutfon of Frenchman for treason halted at. lat moment. Page L National. Witness at senate hearing on Mexico paid by carranxa.- Page 14. Civil service examination. Mid oiten to be .hams. for postmasters Page 7. Republicans claim vote, to pass first amend meat to peaee pact. Pag 7. bomnuA. San Francisco to sell government meat a reduced prices. Page 5. Elephant runs amuck on vessel, five of crow. Page 1. Engineers refuse to Join steel .Injuring walkout. Page 1. - Divers find hulk of lost liner off Florida coast. Page 1. Known dead In gulf storm total 400. Page 5. Mavor of New York makes war on agitators. Page 4. Wllson quote. Rooevelt in favor of league of nations. Page 3. Senator Johnson abandons his tour to coast. Page 2. Robert Hteks. arretted ai Chehalls, Wash.. confesses to murdering hia daughter 23 years ago. Pagts 1- Pacine Northwent. Vancouver queen rules over parades. Page v. Twenty-four thousand thrilled at Round-Up. Page . Great Island Bramble, owned by William Zlegler, wins Oregon derby field trials event. Page 14. Pacific Coast league results: Portland 7. tieattlo 9; Vernon 7, tait Lake "; Los Angeles 3. San r'ranclsco 2; Sacramento 9, Oakland 4. Page 15. National league magnates refuse to sanction drafting of minor leagua ballplayers in 11.. Page 14. Brookes and Patterson. Australian tennis players, are Invited to visit Portland. Pag a 13. Commercial asd Marina. Move to end strike of flour loaders falls. Page T2. Fall apple harvest under way. Page iJ. Portland and Vicinity. Scottish Rite Mason, buy alte for new Tem ple. Page L. Indlctments spoil romance of frank S. Wll- - son. 22. and Lucile Roles. IS. Page -3. Legion continues Investigation of German relief. Page 2. Democrats alighted in Wilson welcome. Page 13. Memorial highway, planned for heroes and organisation perfected. Page IS. Heroes of French battlefields are decorated and their bravery praised. Page 6. City's housing code revision committee seems hopelessly divided. Page 12. Army store, to be) opened ia Portland Pagw iSLf Robert Hicks Tells How He Slew Daughter. - REMORSE FAILS TO BOTHER Work Keeps Him Too Busy to Think of Crime, He Says. "JUST DEAD," EXPLANATION Man Arrested at Chehalis, Wash.. Calmly Tells Sheritr How He Strangled Girl Ixn Ago. KANSAS CITT. Mo.. Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) For 23 years Robert Hicks car ried a secret in his breast, the secret that with his own hands and a short piece of heavy twine he strangled to death his daughter, Luellen. 19 years old, and never once, in all that 13 years, did the ghost of his murdered daughter return to haunt him. to follow him, to keep him awake. It was on a lonesome part of the Hicks farm in Hickory county. Mis souri, the afternoon of December 7, 1896, that the daughter, in a fit of rage, threatened to shoot him. He had told her mother the young woman had spent an afternoon buggy riding with the hotelkeeper of Urbana, and the mother chastised the daughter as a result. Hicks, old and feeble, his body wasted by age. his shoulders bent by toil, recounted his story today as he sat in a car on the Frisco train with J. P. McCaslin. sheriff of Hickory coun ty, who Is taking Hicks from Chehalis, Wash., to Hickory county for trial. Hicks is 7S years old. Olrl Selae by Throat. "I was afraid she would do as she threatened. he said, speaking calmly in a low voice. "I was mad. 1 seised her by the throat with my fingers and squeezed. She didn't call out. She didn't fight. Her eyes rolled up and looked at me Just like the eyes of a dog when you lick him. Then I took a piece of heavy grass twine from my pocket I had been using it to tie pun nysacks wrapped it about her throat, pulled it tight and she dropped on the ground, dead. I left her there." A brother, going to look at traps, found the body of his sister where Hicks had left it. The authorities were notified, of course, the girl was buried in the little cemetery adjacent to ths chapel, the neighbors talked, but soon it all was forgotten. Hicks was suspected, but never ar rested. He sold his place and moved to Washington to farm, leaving ths grave of his daughter and an infant son in Hickory county. A son-in-law was living in another city and he de sired the old folks with him. Censrienre Never Bothered Hint. "Did your conscience ever bother you? Did you ever see the face of your daughter in your dreams? Did you never awake during the night and live over the scene when your fingers were sinking into the soft flesh of your daughter's neck?" Hicks was asked. "Me? No," he replied- "I ain't never seen her since the day of the funeral She was just dead, that's all. You see. I ain't never had no book learning and things like that never bothered me. I was bound out when my folks died and I was 2 a years old and had to work all the time. That was down in Taney county, on the White river, and I didn't never have no chance. So things like that didn't bother me." "But didn't you ver desire to tell anyone that you murdered your own daughter?" he was asked. "No, I never wanted to tell arry body," he said, speaking In tire same low voice. "I didn't miss her no mwe'n if she'd just died. Of course, her ma missed her some for a while, but she didn't know 1 did it and I never felt called on to tell her. Severn Children Rialard. "I raised seven other children, fowr boys and the rest girls, and that kep' ma pretty busy working on the farm all the time and my health bing rust so good. That didn't bother me neJrrly so much as my other troubles. You see. $ sold my property and give tlTs money to my son-in-law and he prom ised to keep me and ma the rest of o.r lives. It was done in writing and then he wanted to get rid of me. That's what bothered me. "Neither me nor ma ain't got long to live, you know, so I fixed up the prop erty so we could die in peace and then got beat out of it. My son-in-law sjld I owed some money in Missouri and wrote the banker at Urban and huA the police, come after me, just o get rid of me. But me. I don't owe no body. He just wanted to get rid of me after he got the $1100." "How did you happen to confass It this late in life, when you knew you probably would die and no one could find It out?" he was asked. "They can't do much to me now," ha said. "I'm likely to die any time. I jutit thought, as they was taking me back to Missouri. I'd tell 'em about U Nothin' told me to. I Just thought I might as well give 'em a real rewooa to take me back." Irish Loan Fund Oprtwd. DUBLIN. Sept. 17. Subscriptions for the Irish republic loan ot 1250.000 were opened today. No reliable data regarding tho ro Epons Is as yet available.