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TITE MORNING OTiEGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1919. GUILT FOR KILLING PLACED RIOTERS Death of Woman Organizer and Striker Probed. DEPUTIES' ACTS DEFENDED Sheriff's Aides Did Their Duty AThen They Fired on Rioters, Says Pittsburg Coroner's Jury. PITTSBURG. Sept. 26. That they came to their death "from gunshot -wounds inflicted by persons unknown to the jury while an attack was being made on deputy sheriffs during a riot." was the verdict of a coroner's jury iiure laue today following an in quest into the death of Mrs. Fannie Sellens, an organizer for the United Uline Workers, and Joseph Strazelecki, said to have been a striker, who were killed August 26. when deputy sheriffs fired at a crowd of striking miners at the mine of the Allegheny Coal & Coke company at West Natrona, Pa. "We deplore and criticise the foreipn agitators who instill anarchy and bolshevistic doctrines into the minds of the un-American and un educated aliens," continued the ver dict. The jury also commended Sheriff "William Haddock of Allegheny county for "his prompt and successful action in protecting property and persons in that vicinity." The jury also commended Sheriff "William Haddock of Allegheny county, for "his prompt and success ful action in protecting property and persons in that vicinity." Coroner S. C. Jamison in his charge to the jury said: "From the testimony introduced here it is a certainty that a riot ex isted. There were no innocent by standers, therefore, and everyone in that crowd was guilty of rioting. The deputy sheriffs did their duty when . they fired." The killing of Mrs. Sellens has at tracted nation-wide attention. be cause union officials have declared that fhe had been "murdered by mine guards." John P'itzpatrjck, chair man of the national committee for or ganizing iron and steel workers, while before the senate labor in vestigating committee at Washington, said that the slaying of the woman organizer was unprovoked. Officials of the mine workers' union also asked that a congressional in vestigation be made into the death of Mrs. Sellens. An investigator of the department of labor has been here for several wee.ks gathering evidence. PI LOTS ENTER H1R TEST FIVE FOREST PATROL AVIA TORS IX LONG FLIGHT. Cross-Country Run Between San Francisco - X'ew York Planned . as Aerial Endurance Trial. EUGENE. Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) Lieutenants Roeder, Kidenour, Webb, Batten and Goldaborough of the gov ernment forest fire patrol service lo cated in Eugene, have placed their lpplications for entry in the trans continental flight to be made between San Francisco and New York city October 8. This will be an endurance test, 50 ilanes starting from San Francisco und going east and 50 starting from Xew York and coming west. The oute of the flight, according to in 'ormation received by the officers lere, will be from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Denver, North Platte, it. Louis. Birmingham, Ala.; Wash .ngton. 1. C, and New York. Each pilot will carry his own me chanic, select his own plane, which nust have a speed of over 100 miles in hour, and make arranjftments with he Red Cross for food at the differ ent stops on the way. All stops will e about two hours' flying distance letween each other and the pilot must emain on the ground at least 30 min ltes and not longer than 48 hours. All repairs will have to be made luring that time, the instructions say. ach hip must encircle the field at east once before landing. The war department is offering no rizes and allowing no expenses for his trip, but the aero clubs probably .vill present prizes of some sort. PENNSYLVANIA STATE TROOPERS WHO ARE FIGHTING STRIKERS. I - fa rv. .... ft X, Vj E vvti t v- y x U '4 fit ft"?r7: V . '"vi-jm"';. W .LV. V 3 11 1 8 Photo by H- D. Jones, From Underwood & Underwood. N. T. Troop of the mounted Pennsylvania constabulary leaving their barracks. The atate police have already had acv- eral brushea with, the atecl atrlkera. in which many ahota have been fired. The flrat flfchta occurred near Pittsburg- Strikers have begun calling them "cossacka." bnt.dUorders have been suppressed so far. HURRY, SAYS CUMEltCEM PREMIER EXPRESSES ANXIETY OF ITIAXCE OVER LEAGUE. Plea for Speedy Ratification by Lnited States Is Made in Chamber of Deputies. Pub- HiEHER PAY ROILS CHIEF COMMANDANT QUITS WHEN ADJUTANT'S SALARY RISES. BY LINCOLN EYRE. (Copyright by the New York World. llshea oy A rran cment. ; PARIS, Sept. 26. Special Cable.) "If I could send a message to the re publican senators, I would say: 'Hasten the ratification of the treaty and especially the league of nations. In so doing you will score a great success.' Thus Premier Clemenceau summed up in the course of a two-hour speech in the chamerb yesterday the anxious desire of France to se the peace of Versailles approved by the United States. While the opposition continued to be violent it was appreciately weaker than in Wednesday's debate. The pre mier assured the deputies far more emphatically than before of his con fidence in the acceptance by the United States senate of the defensive alliance. There was warm applause when he exclaimed: "America rendered us services which will never be forgotten. We counted on her during the war. we counted on her in peace. She gave us the key to the door opening ou the new world." With a return to his habitual cyni cism, the tiger added here that what the new world would be like nobody could tell. He frankly admitted the imperfection of the treaty, but he in sisted it was capable if amelioration in the future. By no means at his best physically, the premier was seen several times to sway and clutch at the tribune for support, but he insisted on continuing. The public tribunes, as wel as the chamber proper, were packed with at tentive throngs in which there were many women. agreement was entered Into in good faith. There is no disagreement between the shipbuilding corporations and the employes, Mr. O'Connell said. The Pa cific Coast Shipbuilders' association, he said, had requested repeal of the order prohibiting the wage increase, so that it might carry out its agree ment with the workers. A conference of representatives of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Shipbuild ers association and representatives of the international unions affiliated in the shipbuilding industry was held in Philadelphia, but decided to take no action pending the outcome of the request for repeal of the administra tion's decision. According to O'Connell. the em ployes on the Atlantic coast are ask ing that the wages and hours on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts be equal ized. O'Connell emphasized that the ship building corporations and the employ ers were in perfect accord, but that their hands were tied by the order of the navy department and emer gency fleet corporation. WALTER H. CRAVES DIES EX-PRESIDEXT OF OREGON" ENGINEERS SUCCUMBS. INTERNED. GERMANS GO STARS AND STRIPES REMIND ALIENS OF DISASTER. ISSUES OF GIGANTIC STRUGGLE CLEARING Labor' Demands Only Rights, Declares Gompers. 1 BETHLEHEM STRIKE NEAR Captain tilers' Shaw of Roseburg Sol Home Points to Alleged Violation of Law. EOSEBURG, Or., Sept. 26. (Spe cial.) That Captain James P. Shaw, commandant of the Oregon soldiers' home, resigned his place at the head f the institution because of alleged increase of Adjutant Poorman's salary to a figure considerably higher than that of the commandant, is indicated in the telegram announcing his res ignation The commandant's and adjutant's salaries are fixed by legislative enact ment, according to statements made. The commandant's salary is $1000 a year, and adjutant's $600 a year, with living expenses allowed in both cases. It is said that the board of control recently allowed an increase to the adjutant's salary, boosting the pay to $100 a month. Captain Shaw, deem ing this an injustice, promptly sent in his resignation, according to state ments made today, and at. the same time called the board's attention to the seeming violation of the statute. ATTACK COSTS MAN $10 Postmaster, Refusing to Open Locks, Assaulted, Is Charge. HOOD RIVER, Or., Sept. 26. (Spe cial.) George Moyer, Cascade Locks lumber mill employe, charged by James Henderson, postmaster of that city, with assault and battery, was fined $10 and costs by Justice of the Peace Onthank here today. Post master Henderson-alleges that Moyer attacked him last night when he de clined after hours to open the Cascade Locks telephone exchange, of which the postmaster is in charge. Mr. Henderson arrived here with an automatic revolver, asserting that he needed the weapon to protect himself against Moyer, who threatened fur ther violence. His request for a per mit to carry the gun was dented. 90,000 READY TO STRIKE (Continued From First Page.) if issued, while at Tacoma the nui ber is given as 4800. Portland has about 10,000 shipyard workers and shipyard operators con firmed the statements of union men that a strike was expected there. Many Years of Life Devoted to De velopment of Idle Lands of Pacific Northwest. SALINAS. CaU Sept. 26. Walter H. Graves, prominent engineer, and in charge of the Pacific coast Investiga tion of farms and soldiers under the direction of Secretary of the Interior Lane, died here today. Mr. Graves was 62 years old and was chief engineer of the Oregon Short Line and president of the Ore gon Society of Civil Engineers. He was a superintendent of irrigation un der President Mclvinley. Mr. Graves, who served as president of the Oregon Society of Civil En gineers-in 1913 and 1914, was one of the best known members of his pro fession during his six years' residence in Portland. He came here in 1911 and left in 1917 and made his home with his family in San Francisco, continu ing under government supervision h-'s work of promoting settlement of the logged-off lands in the northwest. During his residence in Portland, Mr. Graves specialized in reclamation of these lands. Prior to coming west he was asso ciated with the irrigation department of the Indian service with headquar ters in Washington, and later was as signed to duty in connection with gov ernment irrigation projects at Salt Lake City. Mr. Graves was 62 years .of age, but was sturdy and vigorous. When the call came for troops at the outbreak of the war he tendered his services, but because of his age could not be accepted. As a test of his phys ical condition, the examining physi cians asked Mr. Graves to walk up a number of flights of stairs in one of the downtown office buildings and found his heart action so normal at the completion of the ascent that he was accused of having used the ele vator. Mr. Graves" association with the Short Line was not of recent duration, the latter years of his life being de voted to service in encouragement of reclamation of idle lands in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. American Marines March 1731 Men, Women and Children Aboard Former Princess Irene. NEW YORK. Sept. 26. Hundreds of -German sailors, most of whom had been identified with commerce raid ing exploits during the war and all of them prisoners of war, marched silently aboard the steamer Pocahon tas early today to return in defeat to their native land. Even the ship they sailed on was a poignant reminder of the overwhelming disaster that had befallen their country, for the Pocahontas, once the Princess Irene. was one of the great ships with which Germany in peace had bid for the supremacy of the sea. There were 1731 German men. women and children who boarded the Pocahontas, the great majority sail ors, and there was scarcely a place that their eyes could rest on which did not bear witness to the change which had come over the fortunes of themselves and their empire since they first landed on American shores. Above them the Stars and Stripes floated over the tremendout hulks of the steamers Vaterland, Imperator and Kron Prinzessin Cecille, ships which flew the flag of imperial Ger many before she embarked on her dream of world dominion. To their right the standard of democracy was hoisted over the great piers of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American line, and as they embarked they were shepherded to their quar ters by 200 American marines. Among the deported were members of the crew of the commerce raider Moewe. They marched silently on board under the command of their captain. Hans Berg. Close behind them came members of the crew of the Prinz Eitel Friederich which ended its career by sinking the American ship William P. Frye and then took refuge in Newport News. They were headed by their captain. Max Thierichens. A little group of 16 insane included Lieutenant Herman Berka. formerly chief engineer of the cruiser Cor moran. which was blown up in Guam harbor when the United States en tered the war. A report that Werner Horn, who plotted destruction of the Vanceboro, Maine, railroad bridge, was on board, proved incorrect. He is still at Fort McPherson. Rockefeller to Take No Part In Fight Each. Side "Waiting for Other to Make Next Move. . (By the Associated Tress.) Chief developments on the fifth day of the great steel strike were: 1. Definition of the strike Issue as the right of employes "to be heard, to organize and to have some voice in determining conditions under which they labor," made by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, before the senate labor committee in Washington. 2. Calling of a meeting of the strikers' national committee in Pitts burg today to make final arrange ments for the strike of the 55,000 employes of the Bethlehem Steel com pany, set for Monday. 3. Announcement that John D. Rockefeller Jr., principal owner of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, will take no part in the strike of 6000 workers at the Pueblo plant. YounKStown Worker Firm. 4. Claim by union officials that workers in the Youngstown district, at a meeting held to vote on the ques tion of returning to work, had de cided against such a move. 5. Condemnation of "foreign agi tators" and commendation of Sheriff Haddock of Allegheny county by a coroner's jury in Pittsburg which re turned a verdict of "death from gun shot wounds Inflicted by persons un known ... while an attack was being made on deputy sheriffs during a riot" in the case of a woman or ganizer and striker whom the steel workers claimed had been murdered at West Natrona. Pa. 6. Apparent deadlock, marked by lack of violence, prevailing in the chief steel centers. PITTSBURG, Sept. 26. The close of the fifth day of the steel workers' strike found each side in the great 'n dustrial struggle apparently waiting for the other to make the next move. There wf-re no notable changes dis cernible and from information gleaned from the headquarters of the strikers' national committee and from the of fices of the larger steel companies in the Pittsburg district no material de velopments are expected before Mon day. Representatives of several large concerns, including the Carnegie Steel company, let it be known that they look for a big influx of men when the whistles blow Monday morning. It was contended by them that the strikers would then have had a week of idleness and, finding that large number of men are still at work and their own funds are getting low. thou sands will change their minds and seek their old jobs. Protection Is Promised. Assurances by police authorities and company officials, it was also pointed out, would have an Influence on strikers who are favorable to re turning to work. These views were combated by Wil liam Z. Foster, secretary of the steel workers' national committee, who said a drive would be made Monday on all plants that are still in opera tion. He said that "the bulk" of the steel workers in the Pittsburg dis trict had walked out of the mills and denied that the men were deserting the union and returning to work. "There has been a continual stream of men out of the Homestead works." Mr. Foster said. "The situation looks brighter than ever." All at Work to He Srrn. Mr. Foster also announced that the strike will be enforced against the Jones & Laughlin company plants on the south side and in Soho on Mon day. There are about 12,000 men em ployed in the mills. A meeting of the strikers national committee has been arranged for to morrow to take further and prob ably final action with relation to the proposed strike against the Bethle hem Steel company, the largest steel interest next to the United Slates Steel corporation. The strike has been fixed for Monday and the ques tion of making it effective will come before the committee tomorrow. "Gobs" Held as Deserters. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. 26. J. B. Yohman. a warrant officer of the United States navy, arrived in this city yesterday to take charge of Ger ald Christian t.nd Nicholas Sloan, said to be deserters from the battleship Texas, who were arrested here Mon day by Officer Hodges. The two are reported to have left their ship when It landed with the Pacific fleet at Seattle. Third Oregon Veteran Home. CASTLE ROCK. Sept. 26.- (Spe cial.) Albert Johnston returned recently from overseas, where he had been for the past 21 months. He en listed in the old 3d Oregon, but when replacements were called for he vol unteered for the ammuntion train and was with the 1st division in all the big drives engaged ia by that divi sion. , WALKOUT IS HELD CERTAIN Navy Department Order Only Ob stacle to Settlement. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. A strike of 90,000 shipyard employes on the. Pacific coast is certain unless the navy department and the shipping board revoke their joint order pro hibiting wage increases after October 1, James O'Connell. president of the metal trades department or the Amer ican Federation of Labor, said today. About 200,000 workers on the At lantic coast will join in a strike un less the order is changed, O'Connell said. A meeting of the executives of 15 international unions affiliated in the shipbuilding industry will be held Monday to decide on action and Mr. O'Connell has arranged for a confer ence Tuesday between representatives of the shipbuilding employes and As sistant Secretary Rdosevelt and Di rector Ackerson of the emergency fleet corporation. Yards In Accord With Men. An agreement was reached between the Pacific Coast Shipbuilders' asso ciation and their employes on August 16. agreeing to a wage increase of 64 cents a day. to take effect October 1. Mr. O'Connell said that the negotia tions for this increase in wages were WATER PERMITS ASKED Irrigation of 560 Acres on Sprague River Sought. SALEM, Or., Sept. 26. (Special.) James H. Owen of Bly has made ap plication to the state engineer for the appropriation of six second-feet of water from the tributaries of Sprague river for the irrigation of 560 acres of land. This development contem plates the construction of several miles of ditch at an estimated cost of $1000. W. E. Evans of Prineville also has made application for stock water on a small spring, while Lester Mowe of Deep River, Wash., has asked for a domestic supply of water in Yamhill county. Noah D. Norcross of Rogue River seeks water for irrigation of a small tract in Josephine county. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. ' Main 7070. A 6095. S. & H. green stamps for cash. Hol man Fuel company. Main 353, A 3353. Block wood. 4 ft. or short slabwood. Utah and Rock Springs coal; sawdust, Adv. Stolen Money Recovered. 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