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Hostof "fire ax Second-Class. Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVE3IBER 21, 1919.
23 PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LABOR BODY SCORES j THIN OUTLIVE FAT,
JAIL TERM AVERTED
FOR MRS. DE SNELL
MILITARY POWER
MRS. BEAUREGARD
PLACED ON STAND
PORTLAND OASIS IS
CENTRALIA SHOOTING
STATISTICS REVEAL
FARMERS FOOD TO HAVE AD
VANTAGE OVER CITV FOLK.
SEEMS FUR AWAY
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BUTE WOMAN", AVHO WEDDED
CENTRAL COVXCXIi MSCLAI5IS
SYMPATHY FOR REDS.-
CARLISLE SENDS THANKS TO
RAILWAY FOR HATL.
PORTLAND MAX, PAROLED.
RAT F CAT ON NOW
DF GERMANY GON
SHRIHEHS
MECCA
Further Senate Fight
Held Inevitable.
Is
LEADERS STILL DETERMINED
Efforts for Compromise,
However, Are Assured.
WHITE HOUSE IS SILENT
democratic Leaders Hope to Reach
Some Agreement, but Prospect
Is Counted Dubious.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Avenues
f speculation leading many ways
were opened today when officials and
diplomats turned over in their minus
the possible results at home and
abroad that are to follow termina
tion of the special session of congress
last night without senate ratification
of the peace treaty.
The thoughts of the treaty's friends
in the senate centered on accomplish
lng some compromise for a ratifica
tion In the session beginning Decem
ber 1 and to that end .teps are under
stood to have been taken to ask that
President Wilson ascertain from the
other powers what reservations they
vould accept.
At the White House silence was
maintained and callers got the im
pression that for the present the ad
ministration was willing to await the
outcome of compromise efforts among
senators. It was not revealed whether
the president would permit that policy
to stan4 in the way of undertaking
the diplomatic exchanges suggested.
Delay Held Inevitable.
Everywhere the senate's action was
accepted as meaning at least a long
delay in ratification and officials
thought the formal establishment of
a state of peace between Germany
and the powers that have ratified
would proceed now without waiting
further for the decision of the United
States. The chief result, it was
agreed, would be commercial and fi
nanctal.
Chief among the matters of domes
tic concern affected by the senate's
delay is war-time prohibition, which j
took a new lease on life with the
postponement of a legal status of
peace. In the same class is various
other war legislation, and although
the republican leaders in congress
will seek to end the war formally by
a resoluf on, constitutional ' objec
tions to that method are likely in the
opinion of some officials to tie up
the effort for some time in the courts.
Compromise. !Sow Difficult.
Another line on which speculation
turned was the possible effect of the
senate showdown on domestic poli
tics. Although both parties have dis
claimed any desire to put the treaty
into politics, the chances of keeping
it out of 1920 calculations were ad
mitted on all sides to have been re
duced by the bitter clashes in debate
last night when republican and demo
cratic senators hurled across the
senate chamber their challenges to
go to the country on the issue.
The stubborn struggle which
featured the final hours of the ses
sion was generally declared to have
made harder the compromise for
hich the democratic leaders today
earnestly set to work. They were
optimistic, however, that in the open
ing days of the new session, if not
before, they could reach some agree
ment with the republican group of
mild reservationtsts who held out in
Bigamy Charge Dismissed on Con
sent of Complaining Wit
nesses Bills Are Paid.
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In the case of Mrs. Stella De Snell,
accused of bigamy and larceny by
bailee, the former charge was dis
missed in the circuit court yesterday
and on the latter count Mrs. De Snell
was sentenced to one year's imprison
ment, but was paroled.
Settlement of the charge against
the woman, whose escapade In wed
ding Antone Dolecki in Portland last
summer and decamping with money
belonging to him created a mild sen
sation, was effected by her attorneys.
Mrs. De Snell was said to be seri
ously ill at her home in Butte, Mont.
It was on this showing and after
restitution of all funds had been
made that Sam H. Pierce, deputy dis
trict attorney, consented , to with
drawal of the bigamy charge. The
complaining witnesses agreed to this.
Through her attorneys, Mrs. De
Snell pleaded guilty to the larceny
charge, preferred by Felix Bloch,
from whom she had purchased a $50
watch and paid but $15. The balance
due was paid. Sentence of one year's
General Maurice Asserts
Railways Are Crippled.
Resolutions Extending Sjiupathj
to Parents of Dead Unani
mously Adopted.
H. W. Butliolpb, Indianapolis Ex
pert, Presents Facts in Address
Before Institute' of Actuaries.
TROOP SHIFTS IMPOSSIBLE
Nation Is No Longer Menace
in Military Way.
WORLD STATUS SERIOUS
Intrigues of JunJter'Class Cited as
Real Peril Endangering
Peace of World.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
LONDON, Nov. 20. (Special Cable.)
imprisonment was imposed by Judge j An arresting1 article on the situation
Gatens, but the woman was paroled.
Funds for settlement of Dolecki's
charge and costs incurred by bringr-
ng Mrs. De Snell here from Butte
after her arrest in September were
provided by her husband, said to be
an architect of standing in Butte.
About $600 was paid over to Dolecki,
while the county was reimbursed In
the sum of $157. The case was up
before Judge Gatens and had been
postponed from October 21, when Mrs.
De Snell's release on bail was ef
fected, so that she might return home
ostensibly to obtain testimony on her
behalf.
BRITAIN'S LIQUOR LID OFF
. -
Millions of Gallons Released From
Wartime Restrictions.
LONDON, Nov. 20. One hundred
and fifteen million gallons of whisky
and a quantity of other spirits in bond
in Great Britain were released from
war-time restrictions today.
Announcement of the removal of
the restrictions came as surprise to
members of the nouse of commons,
who greeted it with loud cheers.
The liquor trade was equally sur
prised and was besieged -by pur
chasers as soon as the news spread
Although it is figured Uiat enough
Spirits has thus been freed to sup
ply each man, woman and . child in
the country with " 36 bottles, it Is
doubtful if the public will find it easy
at present to increase consumption
to a great extent. The government
maintains control of the maximum
price, which for whisky is 10 shil
lings and 6 pence a bottle.
EX-MAYOR IS MOONSHINER
Fred Ganger, Anaconda, Mont.,
Held on Three Counts.
BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 20. Fred Gan
ger of Anaconda, was found guilty of
"moonshining" ' on three" counts in
federal court today, . it having been
shown that a liquor still had been
operated on his place on Georgetown
lake, west of Anaconda.
Ganger formerly was mayor of
Anaconda and once was a member of
the legislature from Deer Lodge
county.
in Germany is contributed by Major-
General Maurice in the Daily News.
He says:
'It is quite impossible that the
Germany of today can take an as
gressive military action. The wl ole
railway system of the country liai
been disorganized by the effects cf
the immense strain thrown upon it by
the war and by the surrender to the
allies under the terms of the armis
tice of great quantities of rolling
stock. It is not today capable of
doing more than meet the bare necea
sities of the population during the
coming winter.
"It is out of the question that Ger- '
many could concentrate 700.000 men
or anything approaching that number
in any one area and keep them sup
plied with their needs. Further, the
food situation in Germany is such
that she is living from hand to
mouth and has no margin for ration
ing large military forces.
Gemanr Now Helpless.
"Germany knows perfectly well
that in these circumstances she is
quite helpless and that the renewal
of the blockade would spell for her
almost irretrievable disaster. It is.
therefore, nonsense to talk of Ger
many "of today as possessing any real
military power and as constituting a
menace to the security of others.
On the other hand the int'ernational
condition of Germany is unquestion
ably very serious. Junkers and un
derlings of the military caste have
found that their occupation has gone.
They owed everything to the Hohen
zollerns and they see in the restora
tion the one means of getting back
something they have lost.
"There is -no question these men
are very busy intriguing today. Mili
tarists are obtaining recruits from
many who have come to think that
any change must'befor the better.
For exactly the same reasons the
Spartacists are steadily gaining ad
herents,' particularly in south Germany.
"There are many and interesting
indications that revolution is in the
11 PARTY PLEDGES CLAIM
San Francisco Second in Fight for
Republican Meet.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. Asser
tions that 11 republican national com
mitteemen had been pledged to vote
for San Francisco as the convention j
Resolutions unanimously adopted by
the Central Labor council at its week
ly session last night disclaim any
affiliation with or sympathy for the
I. W. W. movement and brand the
Centralia Armistice-day attack by
members of that organization as mur
der, while expressing deep concern
and sympathy for the relatives of the
four ex-service men who died by the
bullets of the "reds." The resolutions
in full are as follows:
Whereas, On Tuesday, November
11.' 1919, in Centralia. Wash., an out
break occurred that resulted in the
wanton and deliberate killing of sev
eral Inoffensive and law-abiding cit
izens of our sister state; and
'Whereas, Said outrage was pre
sumably planned and perpetrated by
ndividuals connected with the organ
ization known as the 'Industrial
Workers of the World"; and
Whereas, It is believed that the
Central Labor council of Portland and
vicinity, has many delegates In ita
council . who have been and are in
active sympathy with the revolution
ary sentiments advocated by the
ultra-radical element composing the
said 'Industrial Workers of the
World-'; and
"Whereas. We believe in view of
these facts that it la a solemn duty
we owe to ourselves, to the public
and to our country at this time to
place ourselves as individuals and as
an organization, squarely on record
as law-abiding. 100 per cent American
citizens; therefore, be it
"Resolved, That the Portland Cen
tral Labor council, in regular meeting
assembled this 20th day of November,
1919. most unreservedly denounce and
execrate the dastardly crime of No
vember 11 which resulted in the un
timely death of men who so recently
had offered their lives that liberty
should not perish; sad be it further
"Resolved, That we most emphati
cally disclaim any affiliation, commu
nity of interests or purposes with any
organization that has revolution fo
its policy and murder for its pass
word, and that we hereby pledge our
selves as , individuals and as an or
ganisation to co-operate in every way
possible with the forces of law and
order to the end that the "red" men
ace that threatens the very existence
of our beloved country be eliminated;
and be it .also
"Resolved, That the council goes on
record as tendering earnest sympathy
to the relatives and friend of the
martyred- men of Centralia. and that a
copy of these resolutions be published
in the Oregon Labor Press and that a
copy be furnished the daily press of
this city with request that same be
published, so that there may be no
question in the minds of the citizens
of this community as - to the Ameri
canism, patriotism and rationalism of
the Central Labor council of Port
land.". In the inaugural address delivered
by President D. E. Nlckerson, who
was chosen to office at the recent
elections of the Central Labor council,
the new executive- sounded a note
similar to that of the anti-I. W. W.
resolution.
"Under the guise of radicalism,"
said President Nickerson, "all sorts of
CHICAGO, Nov. 29. In an address
delivered here today before the
American Institute of Actuaries, H.
Vi . Butholph. Indianapolis, who has
devoted years to the study of the
statistics of life Insurance companies,
made these, observations:
That thin persons live longer than
fat persons.
That" being underweight is not'
nearly as just a cause for alarm as
being overweight.
That the moderate use of alcoholio
beverages is not likely to lessen a
person's life span.
That the high nervous strain under
which Americans . live has not in-
creased this country's death rate com
pared with that of Great Britain.
That farmers live longer than per
sons who reside in cities.
That the middle west is the most
healthful locality of the United
States in which to live.
That the extreme south is the most
unhealthful section of the United
States in which to live.
.That negroes have a much heavier
mortality than either the whites or
the American Indian.
That one-tenth of all 'Insured per
sons, deaths are due to accident, sui
cide or murder.
He said that the government war-
risk plan adopted for the soldiers
during the war had increased the
business of private life insurance
companies, who are at present enjoy
ing the most profitable year in the
history of the business in this country.
Killing of Husband Laid to
Woman's Curiosity.
GUN SUPPED, SHE TESTIFIES
Vancouver Murder Case May
Go to Jury Today.
TRIAL ATTRACTS WOMEN
Defendant Calm and Unemotional
in Court Final Argument to
Start This Morning.
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MAN WALKS OUT OF JAIL
Alleged Thir Nonchalantly Flits
Via Unguarded Door.
Harry Williams, held in the city
jail on a charge of stealing an auto
robe, made his escape yesterday just
before he was to be tried in munic
ipal . court, walking nonchalantly
through the court room and down
stairs past the police information
desk and out into the street.
'Williams had requested to be al
lowed to see his attorney and was
granted this privilege in a room Just
off the court room, where prisoners
are held awaiting trial.
After the attorney bad left, the
door opening into the court room was
left unguarded for a moment. So
Williams walked into the court room
where court had not, yet convened,
and on out of the building.
Russians are deported
Arizona , Legion Ousts Colonists
Who'Kvaded Military Service.
TUCSON. Ariz., Nov. 20. Russian
colonists were .reported from Casa
Grande, Arie., Saturday by members
of the American Legion, according: to
word brought here yesterday. Real es
tate men refused to sell them land be
cause they had refused to do military
service. .
A colonizing: agent was loaded on
the cars with them, Under-Sherlff Su
linger , of Tucson, said on bis return
here today.
yesterday's debate against all efforts 1 city or 1920 were made today DV tne
republican leaders in charge of the
fight for the convention.
Chicago, they said, claims 15 and
St. Louis 9 of the 53 members of the
national committee.
to divorce them from the republican
organization.
Hitchcock Stfll Hopeful.
Democratic Leader Hitchcock and
Senator Underwood, who took a con
spicuous part in the administration's
fiKht for ratification, called at the
White House today, and. although
they did not see the president, are un
derstood to have left for him their
estimates of the possibilities of a
compromise.
After Senator Hitchcock issued a
tatement pointing out that 80 sena-i sold at tne United States army retail
tors In all voted yesterday for ratifi- i store here, it was announced today,
c.ition in some form, and expressing j Fig oars. 100.000 .of them; 49,000
a belief that the 64 necessary to ratify fudge bars. 72.000 chocolate bars and
would get together ultimately. J 25.000 packages of peppermint are at
"T realize," he said, "that it will re- ' present on their way here from New
ARMY TO SELL CANDIES
2 4 6,0 00 Articles Sent to Govern
ment Store at Seattle. '
SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 20. Thanks
giving and Christmas candy win De
Quire very genuine efforts at compro
mise to bring this about, and that
concessions on both sides mutt be
real, and not merely nominal."
Tonight the democratic leader had
drawn up a new set of compromise
reservations, which are understood to
propose principally a modification of
tiie preamble requirement in the for
eign relations committee'draft, which
would require the other powers to
accept affirmatively all the senate's
Qualifications.
Fight Will Not Lapse.
Everything indicated that the ad
ministration had no intention of let
ting the treaty light lapse, even dur
ing the interval before December 1,
and that there was no thought of
abandoning the treaty and negotiat
ing a new one. The general oqinlon
seemed to be that the president, in
erder to get the treaty into an ad
vantageous , parliamentary position
again, probably would withdraw it
and then submit it again , in the new
Session.
It was pointed out that under such
A procedure it would come hack before
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York and will be sc!d at prices below
the usual mail prices.
JAPAN SIGNS TRADE PACT
Commercial Treaty Obtained by
Special Envoy to Paraguay.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 20. A
commercial treaty between Paraguay
and Japan has been signed by For
eign Minister Ayala and S. Tatsuke.
Japanese minister to Chile.
S. Tatsuke was sent to Paraguay
as the special envoy of Japan.
SWEDES AWAIT U.S. ACTION
Christiana Parliament Defers
Joining League.
CHRISTIAN! A. Nov. 19. The Swed
ish parliament, summoned to consider
the invitation to join the league of
nations, has decided to postpone ac
tion until next year.
It desires to await America's decision.
WHO KILLED THE PEACE DOVE? '
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VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 20.
(Special.) Woman's curiosity about
a gun caused her to be a widow and
to be before the court of justice
fighting for her life and liberty, ac
cording to Mrs. Elizabeth Beauregard,
now on trial for the murder of her
husband on the evening of August 22,
in his pawnshop and store, 702 Main
street.
After examining two witnesses for
the state, T. P. Vallanhingham and
iefried Petrocic, who entered the
store a few moments after the shoot
ing and heard Mrs. Beauregard say
she had shot - her husband because
he had been mean to her. W. K. Yates,
county attorney, stated to the court
that he would rest his case.
Henry Cfass, attorney for the de
fense, then outlined briefly the life
of the defendant from her birth to
the present time. He said that the
evi.enc would show that Mrs. Beaure
gard was born near Washougal, her
maiden name was Elizabeth Ross, and
when about IS years old, she was j pR
marnea 10 juics eauregara; mai
they lived in San Francisco and both
worked in a pawnshop they started.
Fourteen years ago they came to
Vancouver and opened the store here
at 702 Main street, and until eight
years ago both worked there to
gether and lived in rooms in the back
of the store. The' family life was
exemplary and harmonious. They be
came In better financial circum
stances, and built .a fine home at
Twenty-first and Main streets, where
they lived until the shooti-.T.
Hunting; Trip Proposed. -Prior
to August 22, Mr. Beauregard
contemplated taking a hunting trip in
southern Oregon and she was some
what alarmed about his safety on the
trip and he assured her he would
wear a red cap so that he would not
be taken for an animal. Mr. and Mrs.
Beauregard and W. L. Vest, their
clerk, had picked out a pearl handled
revolver for her to have at the home
during Mr. Beauregard's absence -on
the trip. She came to the store on the
fatal night and remained there until
closing time. He told her a bill for
$80 for her earrings had come and
he wrote a check for this amount
and gave it to her. She picked up the
gun on his desk to. look at it, ft
slipped and as she tried to catch it
with-her left hand, it was accidentally
discharged. She asked Mr. Vest "Do
you think he is hurt?" Then she sug
gested getting a doctor and Mr. Beau
regard said, "My God. she's shot me."
Mrs. Beauregard soon after, enter-
ing the courtroom today raised her
J heavy black veil .for the first time.
permitting ner ieaiures to De seen.
She was the first witness in her own
behalf.
She stated that she is 41 years old.
that she was married in 1896, and
two children were born, one being
riAnd. the other. Mrs. Ethel Connor.
recently married, lives in Vancouver. I
Woman Describes Shootlmu;.
She told of the events related in
her attorney's opening statement
down to the evening of the shooting.
She" said ehe stood by the desk while
Mr. Beauregard was writing the
check for (80. and she saw the gun
lying on the desk. Without visible
emotion and in a matter of fact man
ner, she said: "I picked up the gun
with my right hand, and it started
to slip, and I tried to grab it with
my left hand and it went off."
She was asked by Mr. Crass: "What
did Mr. Beauregard say?"
"You've, shot me."
She denied knowing Edward Mc-
Lane, last witness on the stand yes
terday, and did not recall speaking
to him soon after the shooting.
She told of being: taken to the po
lice station, and there calling her
daughter and telling her to go to the
hospital, as her father was shot. She
eaid she had been kept in the jail
six or seven weeks. She also testi
fied that she had no feeling or
thought In her mind to kill her hus
band, and recalled no statement she j
is alleged to have made that she shot
Mr. Beauregard because he had been i
mean to her.
Mr. Yates, upon cross-examination,
asked Mrs. Beauregard what prompted
her to pick up the gun. He walked
to a point in front of her and picked
up the gun.
"Curiosity," She Says.
.'Curiosity," was her answer. She
added she did not want that gun to
take home, but that she had been pro
vided with another one with a pearl
handle, which was a woman's gun.
She went through the shooting scene
again, but when asked If she put her
Union Pacific Doubles Train
Guards to Insure Passenger Safe
ty; Big Posse in Field.
CHETEN'NE, Wyo.. Xov. 20. Will
iam L. Carlisle, train robber, still Is
at liberty tonight. A telegram signed
"Carlisle" filed in Ca.sper thanking
the Union Pacific for the "haul" is
the only additional bit of information
today. Union Pacific officials said .
the telegram had not been received
here.
Casper Js being combed by police
and sheriff's officers, a posse of 70
men still Is searching the country
around Medicine Bow, aided by United
States cavalry, and other armed men
are in readiness to leave Cheyenne on
10 minutes' notice by special train in
case new depredations of the robber
are reported to headquarters of the
Union Pacific railroad here. j
. "Thanks for haul on limited. Some
detective force," the message pur
porting to come" from Carlisle said.
Last night the robber was reported to
have entered a Casper newspaper of
fice to inquire about news of the train
robbery. Descrip tions furnished by
Western Union employes of the man
who filed the message at Casper and
by the Casper editor tally with those
of the man who robbed the Union
Pacific passenger train Tuesday
night.
In Cheyenne the chief concern of
Union Pacific officials is for the
safety of passengers traversing this
state. Guards were doubled on trains
yesterday and officials are confident
that Carlisle will attempt to repeat
his exploits of 1916, when he held up
I three trains within a short period and
flaunted officers with telegrams and
letters.
Carlisle is known to have boasted
that he is the greatest train robber
in history.
Officials are considering the possi
bility that Carlisle may try to leave
the state for Montana or some other
state of the northwest, because in
Wyoming train robbery is a capitai
offense.
Valley of Living Green
Swarms With Fezzes.
HIGH RULER VIEWS CIRCUS
569 Novices Fearsomefy
Tread Sands at A! Kader.
3-RING SHOW IN ARMORY
DAMAGES PRISON
Supplies and Barracks at Leaven
worth Damaged $100,000.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Nov. 20.
Klre of unknown origin broke out ii
the exchange building at the disci
plinary barracks at Fort Leaven
worth tonight and completely de
stroyed it within half an hour. The
building contained a large amount of
army supplies and clothing for pria
oners. The loss is estimated at $100.
000. The fire spread to the wooden can
tonment buildings, erected two years
ago. Fourteen of these were de
stroyed. There was no adequate
water service and dynamite was used
to blow up other buildings to check
the fire.
The cantonment barracks were
erected in 1917 at a cost of $220,000.
GARDEN'S ROBE GLITTERS
Gown of a Thousand Mirrors"
Reached" New York.
NEW YORK. Nov. 20. The "gown
o a thousand mirrors' was brought
here yesterday by Mary Garden from
Europe.
The idea was borrowed from ths
East Indians, tiny mirrors covering a
background of gold and silver cloth.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tbe Wc-mtber.
YESTERDAY'S Maxtmumt emperature, 45
degrees ; minimum. J4 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain: moderate southeasterly
winds, increasing in lorce.
Forr-iim.
General Maurice asserts Germany Is help
less as military power. Page 1.
National.
Democratic senators feel they are "sacri
ficed" by White House on treaty vote.
Page 3.
United States warns Mexico not to molest
consular agent further. Page 21.
Trade is handicapped by senate failure.
Page 16.
President calls new conference in effort
to establish industrial peace. Page 2.
Friends and foes of treaty still resolute
and ratification seems far away. Page 1.
Decision dawning in coal strike. Page 4.
Domestic.
Superd read naught California launched at
Mare Island navy yard. Page 6.
Train robber still roams in Wyoming.
Page 1.
Insurance expert finds thin people out
live fat. Page 1.
United States court forbids new coal strike
in Colorado. Page 2.
. Pacific Northwest.
Mrsv Beauregard is placed on stand.
Page 1.
Presidential nominations bold first in
terest in Oregon. Page 5.
Centralia posse falls to locate two fugi
tives. Page 5.
Seattle district attorney rates I. W. W.
membership unlawful. Page 17.
Sports.
Cougar football so. uad in for hard game
with Oregon Agricultural college.
Page 18.
Mike Gibbons has chance to regain popu
larity in boxing O'Dowd. Page 19.
Cougars can't see University of Oregon as
northwest football champs, Pullman
coach explains. Page 18.
Franklin and James John play scoreless tie
football game. Page 18.
Commercial sd 5Iarine.
Government will offer straight flour to
retaileri at lower prices. Page -7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Twenty-two Portland radicals Indicted by
grand jury. Page 14.
Will H. Hayes offers Ralph Williams post
in east- Page 28.
Crowd urges on bidders for stock. Page 9.
Imperial Potentate Kendrick forecasts
record attendance of Shrine in 1&20.
" Page 8.
Portland oasis is Shrine mecca. Page 1.
Let Chinese farm laborers In. says Cali
fornia secretary f state. Page 13.
Parade by Shrlners Is colorful line of
laughter. Page 8.
Sister-in-law threatens to break up family.
Page
iner on the trigger could not recall Central Ubor council denounces Centralia
. . m i i iil shooting. Page 1.
and could not tell Just how it all I Mr DcSne aentene.d o year', impritoa-
Govcrnor Olcott First to Appear.
Imperial Potentate Kendrick
Indorses Performance.
BY FRANK IRA WHITE.
From the hills and plains of the
commonwealth came the. faithful tot
do obeisance at the temple of Al
Kader in the oasis of Portland, the
Mecca of the devout in the valley ot
livins green that betokens food for
n-.en and forage for the camels.
They came yesterday to pay hom
age tx W. Freeland Kendrick, whose
insignia of authority, the scimitar
and crescent joined, is set with the
richest jewels of the realm, brought
from the troves of far places.
wrought by masters and shaped in
the mystic form of the emblem. In
his honor Al Kader temple designated
this as the "W. Freeland Kendrick
class," and amplified its entertain
ment with a three-ring circus. Before
the vanguard of the Arabs wearing
their distinctive fezzes of flaming
crlor came the flock of novices to
si ek the privilege of being chosen
that they, too. may be entitled to
make the semi-annual pilgrimages
novices Get Everything;.
It is not for those outside the
wholesome precincts of shrinedom to
know the lessons taught the novices
in their first approach to the mystic
altar to which only the faithful may
come. But it may be revealed that
every mother's son. of the 669 whose
names were yesterday inscribed on
the scroll of Al Kader got all that
was coming to him. Further, they
feel assured that no member of the
band was ever endowed more richly
with the wisdom of the Arab patrol
that assumes supreme direction of the
entertainment.
Never in all history did any circus
provide so varied and colorful a pro
gramme of entertainment for its vo
taries, nor was such exceptional tal
ent furnished by another class. For,
be it understood that while there were
professional acts, the feature events
were those in which the novices were
proven stars.
Governor Oleott Is First.
Benjamin W. Olcott. governor of
Oregon, had the honor of being the
first of the novices to appear in the
arena of the circus. He was promptly
joined by Right Rev. Walter T. Sum
ner. Episcopal bishop of the diocese
of Oregon, and Leo V. Jenkins, chief
of police of Portland. These acces
sions to the roster of Al Kader did .
their turns with apparent ease and
afforded a full measure of enjoyment
to the throng of Shriners that crowd
ed the capacity of the armory, the big
arena of which was converted into
the typical three rings of the popular .
'big top."
As director of the show. Noble Phil
Metschan Jr. scoured the far stretches
of the Zambesi, the wide reaches of
the Sahara, with a band of Zulu war
riors, including expert broilers. These
skilled artisans in the secrets of tor
ture, with sharp lances directed the
neophytes of their jungle camp, where
special consideration was shown the
hard-boiled individuals.
Spelnt Ako.7 for Some.
Woe be unto the novice who had
let fall from his lips a suggestion
that he might not get all that a
penitent sinner was entitled to. For
recalcitrants there were special
phases of agony that some of the
meek evaded.
With the grand entry which marked
the opening of the circus, as has
been customary since the first Roman
chariots paraded for the festal day oi
Nero came the houris harem on their
chariot, to do dances for the amuse
ment of the elect.
Imperial Potentate Kendrick is rec
ognized as the master showman of
this era and he gave unqualified in
dorsement of the excellence of the
performance staged in his honor.
Complimentary Lssrh Served.
Complimentary ' to the imperial
potentate and party, which included
the illustrious potentates of Pacific
coast temples from the north and
south, a luncheon was served at noon
at the Portland hotel at which 75
covers were laid. Again at the dinner
hcur the visitors met around the ban
quet board in the ballroom of the
Multnomah hotel, where in brief
talks felicitations were exchanged.
Illustrious Potentate Hofmann pre
sided at both of these affairs, and at
the evening repast the presiding sta
tion was transferred to Mayor Baker
for a part of tne programme In which
tie visitors heard from the visiting
representatives of the coast shrines
assurance of their friendly Interest
and co-operation to make the 1420
scssi-.n at Portland the expression of
western hospitality In the highest
degree.
Potentate McGiiviey of Islam tem
ple, San Francisco, extended a cordial
irvitattor- for eastern temples to
route their trains one way through
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