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K VOL. LVIII. NO. 18,424 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce a Second-Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS RECORD ICY BLAST STILL GRIPS STATE Cold Wave Sets New Low Temperature Marks. $14,092,740,000 CROP HARVESTED THIS YEAR BOCXTIFCL OUTPUT ATTEND ED BY RECORD PRICES. COLD WHIP 40-YEAR BURSTING PIPES HURT MANY; WRECK HOMES HOUSEWIVES ARE INJURED BY STOVE EXPLOSIONS. CANADA SENDS GOLD TO STEADY. EXCHANGE CANCELED. T $24 FOR MEN'S SUITS LISTED AS FAIR PRICE CHICAGO RETAILERS, HOW EVER, PREDICT INCREASES. TO WILL RUN SHIPMENT OF $20,000,000 IS ON WAY TO NEW YORK. SNAPS RAINS MISS UN REC 0 AGAIN y V BATTLE WITH SNOW STILL ON Heavy Fall Blocks Roads Cities and Country. in POWER LINES BADLY HIT Rati Communications Being Re stored, but Not Enough Fuel Can Be Moved to Meet Demand. r MINIMUM TBMPKRATCRES OP t PAST 24 HOI RS. OKKOON. J Btloir Zero. 4 Elgin (Union) 40 J Bear Valley (Grant) . 40 I Prlnevllle (Crook) 31 Kamela (Union) 30 Endersby (Wasco) 30 Canyon City (Grant) .... 26 The Dalles (Wasco) 26 J Bend (DescliuteB) 25 J Hood River (Hood River) . . 24.5 I Wasco (Wasco) 24 Pendleton (Umatilla) 23 Molalla (Clackamas) 22 t North Powder (Baker) 22 T Baker (Baker) 17 J jucaiinnviue ( lamnuij ... ao La Grande (Union) 14 Tancpnt (T.lnnl 14 Corvallls (Benton) 13.5 t Dalas (Polk) 13 I Carlton (Yamhill) 11 J Albany (L.inn) 11 4 Oregon City (Clackamas).. 10 ? Enterprise (Wallowa) .10 t Salem (Marion) E J Rainier (Columbia) . 5 I Hillsboro (Washington) ..4 I Tillamook (Tillamook) ... 3 J Above Zero. I Marshfield (Coos) 18 I Newport (Lincoln) 15 Grants Pass (Josephine) . . 13 Roseburg (Douglas) 11 Astoria (Clatsop) 9 Medford (Jackson) ...... 9.5 Eugene (Lane) 4 WASHINGTON. Below Zero. t Kllensburg ............... SI I Goldendale ............... 29 . i Yakima 22 Dayton ................... IS t Centralia 16.5 I Spokane .................. 15 I Chehalis 10 I Vancouver ............... 10 Walla Walla 4 Stevenson 2 Above Zero. Seattle 12.2 Tacnma fi o. Grays Harbor 6 t Kelso 4 J Elgin, in Union county, and Bear Valley, In Grant county, were clasped tightest In the grasp of King Winter yesterday with minimum temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, according to reports received from Oregon and Washington points last night. Marshfield, In Coos county, with a temperature of 18 degrees above zero, was the warmest place reported with in the storm area, which has held Oregon in the grip of Ice and snow for the past week. Newport, in Lin coln county, was next warmest, with IB above. Prlnevllle, In Crook county, re ported SI below zero, and the mld- Colurnbta region followed closely with 26 below at The Dalles and 24.6 below at Hood River. In Deschutes county Eend reported the mercury had touched the lowest point within rec ord of 25 degrees below. Canyon City, in Grant county, re ported a minimum temperature of 26 degrees below zero. Astoria, at the mouth of the Co lumbla river, complained of the severity of 9 degrees above zero South of Portland in the Willamette valley, Corvallls reported 13.5 degrees below zero, Albany shivered with 11 degrees below and Salem themometers registered 5 below zero. Eugene re ported 4 above zero and Roseburg felt chilled at 11 above zero. Grants Pass, In Josephine, basked in a tem perature of 13 above. In Washington Ellensburg was the coldest point recorded with 31 de grees below zero, followed by Golden dale with 29 below. Seattle was 12.2 degrees above. Ta eoma reported 6.9 above zero and Grays Harber 6 above, all complain ing of the cold. Spokane registered 15 below, Che halls 10 below and Centralia 16.5 be low zero. ELGIN REPORTS 4 0 BELOW La Grande Temperature Coldest on Record for City. I,A GRANDE. Or.. Dee. 12. (Spe claL) Fourteen below zero last night and down to zero during several houra of daylight today is the unprecedented government record in the cold snap that has hit this vicinity. Elgin reported 40 below last night. Enterprise reported 10 below at 10 o'clock this morning. Kamela re corded 30 below. Similar tempera tures were reported by other sec tions. The wind hao abated and the cold la more acute. Schools were closed at Conciuuu on 0, Column 1.) $1,500,000,000 Increase Over; Production for 1918 Shown in Department Reports. WASHINGTON", Dec 12. Record j prices and bountiful production sent ! the value of farm crops harvested j this year to the unprecedented total of tl4.092.T40.000, exceeding the value of last year's crops by almost $1,500, 000,000. ' Final estimates of production were issued today by the department of agriculture and values were based on prices paid to producers December 1. The area of harvested crops this year was more than 2.600,000 acres larger than last year, amounting to a total of 359,124.473 acres. Corn easily maintained its place as king of crops, with a value of $3,934. 234.000, while cotton, including cot tonseed, was second with a total value of $2,332,913,000. The hay crop was third with $2,129,087,000. Wheat, combining the winter and spring crops, was fourth, with $2,028. 522,000. Oats, $1,000,000,000 crop last year, reached a total of only $895, 603,000 because of decreased produc tion. Record crops of winter wheat, rice, sweefVotatoea and hay were grown, while the production of all wheat, rye and tobacco was next to the larg est ever harvested. Prices paid producers were higher this year for every crop than th.ey were last year with the exception of beans, cranberries and oranges. PLUMBERS SUSPEND FEE Customary Double-Time Wage Is Foregone During Emergency. ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec 12. (Spe cial.) Journeymen plumbers will work for straight time wages Satur day afternoon and Sundays during the present emergency, instead of the customary double time wage. This action was taken last night at a meeting of the local union. Shops were notified this morning and will remain open Saturday afternoons and Sundays until the weather mod erates. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) City employes quickly and early thawed out pipes in different municipal buildings today by the use of electricity. Through a small trans former one wire was hooked to the pipes at the rear of the house and another at the entrance of the serv ice. When the "Juice" was turned on the resistance to the current passing through the iron pipes thawed the ice while the electricians sat by and smoked. By "stepping down" the cur rent all danger of fire was removed. PIPE THAW LAW FRAMED Ordinance Prohibiting Use of Blow Torch Framed by City Attorney. An ordinance prohibiting the use of blow torches or open flames to thaw water pipes or faucets was drafted yesterday by City Attorney LaRoche at the request of Chief Grenfell, fire marshal. The ordinance will be in troduced to the city council next Wednesday by City Commissioner Blgelow. The ordinance as drafted provides maximum penalty of $300 fine for violations of the provisions and in ad dition. In the event of conviction, the person so convicted will be made lia ble for the cost of extinguishing the fire caused by the use of blow torches or open flames. DATXT METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. Dec. 12. Maximum temper ature. 17 degrees: minimum. 4 decrees. River reading at 8 A. M.. 1.0 feet; chance In last 24 hours. 0.4 foot fall. Total rainfall (5 P. M. to 5 P. M. ). none; total rainfall since September 3. 1919, 14.07 inches; nor mal rainfall since September 1. 14.86 Inches: deficiency of rainfall since Sep tember 1. 1919. 0.79 Inch. Sunrise. 7:44 A. M.; sunset. 4:26 P. M. Total sunshine, 8 hours 42 minutes: possible sunshine. 8 hours 42 minutes. Moonrlse. 11:05 P. M. ; moonset. 11:25 A. M. Barometer (reduced to sea level) st 5 P. M.. 30.S3 Inches. Rela tive humidity at 5 A. M.. S3 per cent; at noon. 63 per cent; at 5 P. M., 64 per cent. Snow depth. 11.3 Inches. THE WEATHER. ? 5 Wind 3 3 a-E f. e o z e 3 3 3 . 2. STATIONS. ? ? -! T Weather. 3 : : ;-!: :.: j c : : : 3 : : : ' li.iktT 10, -il it. (Hi;, .i.si-: .clear Boise 4i S O. 00 . .'N"WClear Boston I 241 50'o.os W SW Cloudy falsa ry lis! 6 o.oo1. .,'W Pt. cloudy Chicago . .. . lienvpr lea Moines.. Kureka . . . . (ialveaton . . Helena .... 3-1 44 o.imi nv iciear -2: 0 0.10;..!Nw;Snow 141 1(1 O.C.I . .ixwiriear 841 40 O. 04 12 N IClear R4i 74 O.0014 S Pt. cloudy IU; . : M . Ill I . . w ,lca Jtineaut . . ..i 20 20 0.001 ..; NE Ipt. cloudy Kansas City, l.oa Angeles. I Marshfield . Medford ..n w.tm .4 :n w 'near 00 ioi 0.2H'. IPt. cloudy S 0.( 0 . .!XE Clear 24 0.0O . .'SE IClear M tnneapoli 4 o.'' r::XW.Sno New -Orleans! 5! 72 O.oo . jse New York. .. SSI 3S0.1S14SW Pt. cloudy I'loudy N. Yakima. .1-20! 0 0.00 . ,;xb ICIear Phoenix 40 66 0.00'. .iV IPt. cloudy Poi-atello I 12 12 0.C1'. .IXWrioudy Portland ...I 4' 10 0.OOI.JK icijar Roseburit 121 20 o . OO' . . I SW iCloudy Sacramento ...I 44 0.00 14 NW'Clear St. Louts... I :i! BO o .00 2 -NW Cloudy Salt LaJe.. 14! 20 ..-... .!N IPt. cloudy San Dtcico...! S-l Sfi'o. 2 .. SW : Pt.' cloudy San Franc o' 42' 4 o.oo 12 NE 'Clear Seattle 14 24 0.00l..;SE Iciear Sitka I 22! 30. OO' .INK Cloudy Spokane !14' 2 o.02i . .ISW iCloudy Tacoma I 10 2H n . 001 .. SW (Clear Tatoosh lsl'd'...! .".2 O.OOI . .SE ICIoutly Valdest 12 -22 O.OOI. .IN (Cloudy Walla Walla! 4! 4'0.0Ol..tN Iciear Washington I Ii 4 0.04'. .'SW ICloudy Winnipeg . .!-2O!-J0 0.00I12 S ICIear tA, day. M- today. P. M. report of preceding FORECASTS. Portland and vicinity Fair and con tinued cold: moderate easterly winds: Orejon and Washington Fair and con tinned cold: moderate easterly winds. Idaho Fair and continued cold. 4 Degrees Above Zero Be numbs Portland. WILLAMETTE SHEATHED IN ICE Young Folk Enjoy Skating Un der Sunny Skies. MILK SUPPLY IS PROBLEM Weather Man Laughs at "End of World" Alarm and Predicts "Continued Fair and Cold." COLD PACTS OX PORTLAND'S BOUT WITH FKOST KING. Today's forecast Fair and continued cold. Yesterday's record Four de grees above zero, with but three rival days In 30 years. Street cars in operation on all main lines, with complete clean up of city's traction syetem promised today. Fuel dealers unable to make residential deliveries, but are furnishing fuel in emergency cases. Milk supply curtailed by sus pension of navigation, with dealers still supplying stores. Willamette and Columbia riv ers bridged with Ice. Ice skaters take to lakes and ponds of the city. BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN. For 40 years no December day has furnished to Portland, a city that Is possessed of more winter-blooming roses than of robes and fur coats. minimum temperature to vie with that established yesterday, when the official reading of the weather bureau was 4 degrees above zero at 8:30 In the morning. Like the crack of a polar whip, though the sunshine assayed 100 per cent, the snappiest cold snap of many a long year caught the city about Its numbed legs. "Continued fair and cold," runs the prediction of Weather Man Wells for today, gleaned from the government instruments and observations at the weather bureau. Added to this is the promise of an easterly wind, and dwellers of the Willamette know the east wind for a tartar. Mercury on Decline. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the last official reading of the day was taken, the mercury had again dropped to 14 degrees above and was still on the descent. On the previous day at the same hour it had been at least two degrees warmer. After 5 o'clock the temperature took a dizzy drop, reaching 11 degrees at 6 o'clock, and at midnight street thermometers registered 8.5 degrees above zero. Last night or this morning may show a minimum temperature to shat ter all records, though yesterday's has but three contestants since 1871. Still shambling through the drifts of the two-day blizzard that had smitten the city earlier in the week, the city made light of the frigidity, content that its traffic is on the gain and that the normal distribution o the necessities of life will be restored wtihln the next day or so. unless an- I (Concluded on Page 10, Column 1.) I dersby. the coldest ever on record. I were charging more. I (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) ................ . . . . ............. ....... ...... .. .......................................................... t SHE NEEDS A-NEW BROOM THAT WILL SWEEP CLEAN. I ! '1 n -x in . I ' i .......e........... ......... e.e... Range Blows to Bits in Portland Residence Thawing Process Cause of Accidents. CARLTON. Or., Dec 12. (Special.) M. F. McElhaney. a prominent fruit grower near Yamhill, was injured. probably fatally, and his wife was slightly hurt when a water pipe which they were thawing out burst and sent bits of iron in all directions. Mr. McElhaney's right arm was mangled and he sustained Internal Injuries. The kitchen of their house was wrecked. R. B. Long. 1236 East Ninth street North, Portland, received a com pound fracture of the leff arm and was badly scalded and cut about the face and body as the result of an explosion of the hot water system of his kitchen range yesterday morn'ng about 9 o'clock. The range itself was blown to bits and every window in the Long residence was broken by the force of the explosion. Mr. Long had built a fire In the kitchen range about half an hour be fore the explosion The water sys tem had evidently become frozen, re sulting in the accident. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) John Black, who was everely Injured yesterday by the bursting of water pipes in his home, is reported as progressing toward recovery. CENTRALIA, Wash., Dec. 12. (Spe cial.) Kitchen stoves In the homes of A. R. Hughes and F. K. Shipley ex ploded this morning as the result of frozen pipes. No one was injured at either accident. SALEM. Dec. 12. (Special.) Mrs, Elizabeth Hoxie, aged 71 years, is ly ing unconscious in a local hospital as the? result of injuries sustained when the coil in a stove on which she was preparing breakfast exploded. Mrs. Hoxie was thrown some distance and suffered a broken upper jaw, frac tured arm, two broken fingers, lac erations about the face am body and It Is feared that she is internally In jured. The house was virtually wrecked. A similar accident occurred at the home of Mrs. P. A. Cupper. 165 North Thirteenth street. Mrs. Cupper was thrown violently against c table, but it Is not believed she was seriously Injured. Mrs. Cupper is the mother of Percy A. Cupper, 'state engineer. A water back in the kite" en stove in the home of Mrs. Thomas foot ex ploded, with the result that the frying pan in which she was cooking meat struck her violently in the face. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec 12. (Spe cial.) Explosions of three kitchen ranges caused by frozen water pipes resulted in the serious injury of two people, a fire and the wrecking of three homes early Friday morning. J. M. Maring, 62. 1124 Hardy street, was Injured and his daughter Ethel, 26, Is suffering from severe scalds as the result of an explosion of the stove which shattered the kitchen. Both victims are in the city hospital. Mrs. Charles S. Newton, negro, 2201 Lane street, barely escaped serious Injury when her kitchen range ex ploded and wrecked all of the win dows and the kitchen. H. A. Levigne, 311 Twenty-second avenue, reported to the police that his stove had exploded. ALBANY, Or., Dec 22. (Special.) Stoves blew up this morning in tha residences of W. J. Patterson and T. M. Gilchrist here when frozen water pipes burst. In each instance pieces of tlfe stoves flew in all directions. some going through windows, but no one was hurt. Endersby Reports 3 0 Below. ENDERSBY, Or., Dec 12. (Spe ctal.) Thirty degrees below zero was reported early this morning at En-1 Postofflce Department Suspends Is suance of Money Orders Pay able in United States. OTTAWA. Ont.. Dec. 12. Twenty million dollars in gold is being sent to New York in an effort to stabilize the demoralized Canadian exchange in that market, it was learned today. Some of the shipment already has been delivered and the remainder Is on the way. I The adverse exchange rate has re- ! suited in a suspension by the post office department of the issuance of money orders payable in the. United Stages. The ban will not be lifted until the exchange rate is stabilized. TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 12. The shipment of $20,000,000 gold to New York by the Canadian government Is equivalent to the export of the entire production of the gold mines of northern Ontario for January of the present year until June, 1920, says the Toronto Evening Telegram. That paper also points to the im portation of 6473 pleasure automo biles, valued at $5,326,510 from the United States last year and 7466 val ued at $6,964,594 for the first seven months of the present fiscal year, as a conspicuous item In the adverse trade balance which compels exporta tion of gold. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. Large shipments of precious metals are be ing made from the United States to oriental countries, according to the federal reserve board's figures on the movement of gold and silver In No vember. Exports amounted to $51, 857,796 and Imports $2,396,770, a net loss of more than $49,000,000. Most of the outgoing metal went to Japan which took $53,581,535, exports to other countries being $8,900,000 to the Argentine, $5,362,790 to Hong Kong and $3,963,780 to India. Exports of silver amount to $19.- 052.177 of which $13,264,020 went to China. Imports duringthe month were $6,931,486. GIRL MAILCARRIER LEADS Eugene Lass Defies Weather When Men on Other Routes Quit. EUGENE, Or.. Dec. 12. (Special.) While the three men carriers on sural mail routes out of Eugene turned back to town on account of the deep snow before they had fin ished their routes yesterday. Miss Irene Maxwell, carrier on route 2, made the complete round and helped her father, J. W. Maxwell, on route 3, part of the way. Miss Maxwell has been substitute rural carrier here for a number of years and it is said never has failed to make her complete rounds. She drives a car over the route and on her trip yesterday covered 26 miles. PROFESSORS CHOP WOOD Montana Faculty Out In Wilds to Get Own Supplies of Fuel. BOZEMAN, Mont., Dec 12. Forced by the fuel shortage to adopt stren uous measures to obtain wood, 15 members of the faculty of the Mon tana State college here have decided to take a few days of their annual vacation at this time. They have established a wood camp in the mountains, where they will chop and saw wood. DENVER EGGS GO TO $1.10 Residence District Retailers' Quo tatlons at High Mark. DENVER, Colo., Dec 12. Eggs sold as high as $1.10 a dozen here today. In the downtown retail stores $1 was the prevailing price. Retailers In the residence districts I Directors May Remove Restrictions Soon. ACTION DEPENDS ON STOCKS Garfield Resignation Is Ex pected to Be Accepted. SETTLEMENT IS SCORED Government Will Pay Largest Part of Bigger BUI for Coal as It Buys for Railroads. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 The re gional directors were authorized to re store train service removed or cur tailed to meet the coal shortage due to tne miners' strike as soon as the fuel supply In the various regions justifies. Sending out of the instructions con stituted the first step by the govern ment in expectation that the miners would accept the government's set tlement and return to work. Director-General Hines in announc ing .his action said conditions in the regions varied greatly and coal still was being shipped from the east to the west, but that removal of re- strictlons might be shortly Justified. Per Cent at Work. The railroad administration re ceived unofficial estimates during the day that from 65 to 70 per cent of the miners had gone back to work. Private reports to operators said that in Indiana nearly all the men had re turned, but elsewhere delay was be ing shown. Fuel Administrator Garfield's res ignation sent to President wn.nn was discussed by White House of ficials, who expressed the belief that it would be accepted, though it was not indicated that the president had acted. The work of the fuel rimin- istratlon, it was said, probably would be transferred to the railroad admin istration. Settlement la Criticised. Operators representing the central Pennsylvania district were the first to act today upon the settlement pro posal, ana while accepting it, criti cised its terms with the utmost vigor. E- Harkness, counsel for the fuel administration,- said that prices of coal contracted for by purchasers prior to the resumption of govern ment price-fixing could be legally raised to absorb the cost of the 14 per cent increase in miners' wages granted under the settlement. Coal mined on contract, it was said. in most casei bore a price below the government maximum of $2.35 per ton minerun, and contracts ordinarily carried a clause binding the pur chasers to pay additions in labor costs incurred after their making. Fuel administration statistics, it was said, indicated that even after the addition of extra labor costs created by the 14 per cent Increase, the largest portion of the contract coal still would be sold below the $2.35 maximum. Government to Pay Most. ' The government itself, through the railroad administration, which con sumes normally 31 per cent of the coal mined, will pay the largest amounts under tne ruling, it was pointed out. The war department contracts were said to give power to the secretary of war to make ad- Shoes Offered at 95.95 as Long as Present Stocks Last; $ 1 5 Is Fixed for Dresses. CHICAGO. Dec. 12. The first "fair prices" on clothing were listed today by the Chicago clothing sub-committee of the Illinois fair price commit tee to show' that dependable merchan dise can be bought at reasonable prices. The prices were not fixed as maximum or minimum prices. As long as present stocks last women's suits can be ' purchased as Tow as $25. dresses at $15.25, shoes at $4.95. men's shoes at $5.95. suits and overcoats at $24.50 each. These prices were made by the sub-committee, consisting of five executives of some of Chicago's large stores, and their statement said the figures were "fair prices for serviceable articles in the various lines mentioned" but that "re placement orders at present market prices will Increase these figures." Officials of five of Chicago's biggest retail stores prepared the prfr?e list, which was: Men's suits. $24.50. Men's overcoats, $24.50. Men's shoes, $5.95. Men's hosiery. 25 cents. Men's underwear. $1.35. Women's suits. $25. Women's dresses. $15.25. Women's coats, $18.90. Women's shoes. $4.95. ' "Women's hosiery. 25 cents. omen's underwear, $1.-5. Boys' suits, $5.90. Boys' overcoats, $S.50. Children's hosiery, 40 cents. Childrena' underwear. 75 cents. Childrens" shoes. $3.95. The first effect of the fair price list will be to bring about a drastic decrease in the price of suits, over coats, hats, shoes and all other staple articles of clothing, the committee declared. STOCK MARKET ERRATIC Sharp Declines Caused by New Low Mark in London Exchutige. NEW TORX Dec. 12. An excitingly erratic money market and another break in exchange on London to the lowest rate yet recorded, created fresh unsettlement in the stock market to day. Many speculative shares made extreme declines of 3 to 15 points. These losses we:e partly recoverd later when call .money eased from 15 to 8 per cent. A very favorable gov ernment crop report impelled covering of short contracts. Much of the day's liquidation, in which foreign interests were again prominent, was traceable to yester day s action of the rederal reserve bank in taking further steps to curb excess operations in the stock market by a general advance in interest in rediscount rates. Remittances to France and Itnly improved slightly, but the British rate was at its lowest after the market closed, demand bills declining to the new discount of $3,654 against a gold parity of pre-war quotation of $4.86',i. RESCUE SHIP IS DISABLED West Togtis .Springs Leak in At tempt to Aid Another. HALIFAX. Dec. 12. The United btates shipping board steamer David son County, which had been taken in tow in a disabled condition by the steamer West Togus. is again adrift and helpless In a heavy sea. The West Togus sprang a leak and is racing for the nearest port. The United States coast guard steamer Apache is rushing to the as sistance of the Davidson County. The steamer West Togus is an 8800 ton steel steamship, built in Portland. She left here with a grain cargo loaded under orders of the federal grain corporation, and went to the Atlantic coast for orders. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wrather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. IT dicr?s; minimum, 4 dfrees. TODAY'S Talr and continued cold'; mod erate easterly nlnde Foreign. Russian army forced back on Kiev, page 2. Germany in reply to allies renew-, dis claimer of responsibility for sinking of fleet. Page 3. Canada sends (told in effort to stabilize .New York exchange. Page 1. National. Canceled trains to run again as soon as coal supplies justify step. Page 1. McNary sugar bill passes senate providing" for continued control. Page 3. Domestic. Emma Goldman abandon legal bat tin against deportation, preferring banish ment to separation from Berkman. Page 1. Congressmen debate Irish claims. Pag5 2. Crops worth $1 4.0,74O.0O0 harvested dur ing toil. Page 1. Twenty-four doliars for men's suits is de clared to be fair price. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Bursting pipes hurt many. Page 1. Icy blast still grips Oregon. Page 1. Enumclaw woman held in connection with shooting of laborer. Page 4. Western lumbermen hold car shortage re sponsible for present prices. Page 11. District attorneys favor appointive office. Page 4. fi ports. Oreeon will take two full grid squads to Pasadena. Page 1 -. Harvard eleven's plays similar to Oregon eleven's. Page 12. Carpentler's' defi makes Derapscy bout certain. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. First bulk mniasaea shipment successfully handled. Page 17. Evening up of trades rallies Chicago corn market. Page 17. Stock market unsettled by tight money and demoralization in exchange. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Cold whip snaps 40-year record. Page 1. Inter-church world movement formally launched in Oregon. Page 8. Lodge realty deal involves $2t0,000. Page 8. Citya milk supply reduced by freezing of yil lame Us river. Page 8. GIVE UP HER FIGHT Berkman Not to Be De ported Alone. APPEAL IS TO BE DROPPED Woman Red Prefers Banish ment to Separation. LAST WORDS ARE BITTER Govern meat's Determination to Act Quickly Is Characterized as Autocratic and Hysterical. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Rather than be separated from Alexander Berk man, her companion of years, Emma Goldman announced tonight through her attorney that she had abandoned her fight in the supreme court to pre vent her deportation to soviet Rus sia with Berkman and some 80 other radicals. Harry Weinberger, her attorney. In a letter to Assistant Attorney-General Stewart at Washington, asked that Miss Goldman's application for a writ of error for appeal and re lease on bail be withdrawn. She said that this request was made in "view of the statement made by your department and the commissioner general of Immigration that Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and other Russians will be deported with in ten days to soviet Russia." The letter said Miss Goldman pre ferred jail or deportation to "contin ued custody on Ellis island." The refusal of the supreme court to delay Berkman's deportation, the I attorney said, also had led Miss Gold man to abandon her fight. She said that the sudden calling for her deportation showed "the hys teria of the government officials." and that she did not expect that she would be given time to arrange her "many business and personal af fairs." Characterizing the government's action as like that of "the czar of Russia." Miss Goldman continued: "I expect while in soviet Russia to read shortly of American-born cit izens being deported from America to the island of Guam or some other co lonial possession of America, despite the constitution which guarantees free speech and free press." TALK DELAYS RAIL BILL Legislation Enactment by First of Year- Held Impossible. WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. There was no indication tonight how soon the senate debate on the railroad bill mlpht end. but leaders agreed that enactment of legislation by the first of the year was out of the question. Senator La-Follette who has talked almost continuously since Tuesday, still held floor when the senate re cessed until tomorrow and he will continue then to attack the bill de signed to pave the way for return of the roads to private control. Sen ator McKellar, dividing speaking time with Senator La Follette, declared the Cummins measure would open the way for the creation of the most gigantic trust In the history of the world, through possible consolidation seven years hence of all the railway systems. JESS HELD PROFITEER Willard Accused of Charging Too Much for His Wood. KANSAS CITT, Dec. 12. A federal warrant charging profiteering In the sale of cordwood. a violation of the Lever act. was issued late today for Jess Willard, former heavyweight champion, by Fred Robertson, United states district attorney for Kansas. Willard will appear before O. Q. Claflln. Jr.. United States commission er. In the federal court in Kansas City, Kan., at 5 0 A. M. tomorrow, Mr. Rob ertson said. PADEREWSKI MAY QUIT Health Expected to Force Polish Premier Out ot Politics. GENEVA, Dec. 12. Ignace Jan Pa derewski. Polish premier. Is expected ( to abandon politics in the near fu ture and return to his home in Switzerland, owing to the condition of his health, according to advices reaching the Polish agency at Lau zanne from Warsaw today. M. Paderewski, the advices add. will devote himself to music He has not touched the piano since the war. SOVIET SEES GOOD OMENS "Last Tear of Bourgeoise" Says Bolshevik Statement. LISBON. Dec. 12. "The third year of the soviet government begins under very good omens. says a bolshevik communication received from Moscow today. . This year will be the last year of the bourgeoise'a rule on earth." toe dispatch adds.