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PoMoffiee as Second-Clans Matter.
TORTLxVND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PACKERS TO SELL
SUBSIDIMYUES
TACOMA LINES WANT
JEN-CENT CARFARE
PRFflnPMTPa OIL WAREHOUSE IS
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STEEL SHIP SURPLUS
M. BARDE & SONS SUCCESSFUL
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BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION!
OF REED RESIGNS
RAILWAY COMPANY FILES XEW
RATE AVITII . COMMISSION.
TANK. CONTAINING 52.000 GAL
LONS THREATENED.
FIVE MONTHS' WORK ON CO
LTTMBIA HIGHWAY WIPED OCT.
MOTHER OF SLAIN
GIRL IS WITNESS
12 Men Sworn to Sit in
Harry New Case.
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Government Anti-Trust
Action Compromised.
VAST INTERESTS GIVEN UP
Big Five to Continue Meat
Business Alone.
DECREE IS SWEEPING ONE
Agreement Provides lor Disposition
of Stockyards, Terminals and
Other Side Properties.
WASHINGTON-. Dec. 18. The gov
ernments anti-trust action against
the great meat packers, begun at
President Wilson's direction last sum
mer as part of the fight on the high
cost of living, has been compromised
under an agreement by which the
packers will confine themselves here
after to the meat and provision busi
ness. An injunction decree, to which the
packers have acceded, will be en
tered in the federal courts to make
the agreement ' binding. Under its
terms the big five Swift, Armour,
Slorris, Wilson and Cudahy have
agreed to divorce their meat-packing
industries from their other commer
cial activities and to sell their hold
ings in public stockyards and their
interests in stockyard railroads, ter
minals, market newspapers 'and sim-
ilar "side lines."
1 wo years are given to comply
witn tne decree, which affects 87
corporations and 49 individuals.
Mnrket Control Ended.
"In general," said Attorney-General
Palmer's official announcement
tonight, "this decree prevents the de
fendants from exercising any further
control over the marketing of live
stock. It forever prevents them from
any control over the retailing of meat
products. It eliminates them ' from
the field of meat substitutes, with the
exception of eggs, butter, poultry and
cheese, which are left for future con
sideration and action: and, there
fore the price of meat is within the
control of the people themselves. It
places the conduct of these great
aggregations of capital immediately
under the eye of a federal court -with
references to their business practices.
"But, greater than all. it establishes
the principle that no group of men.
no matter how powerful, can ever at
tempt to control the food table of the
American people or any one of the
necessities or component parts of it
Much Held Accomplished.
"The department of justice hav
ing in mind the necessities and in
terests of the whole American people
In this critical reconstruction period,
feels that by Insisting upon this sur
render on the part of packing in
terests it has accomplished more for
the American people than could have
been hoped for as the result of
long drawn out legal battle."
While Mr. Palmer views the pack
ers' submission to the government's
contentions as a "surrender," Henry
Veeder, counsel for Swift & Co.
announced that the step was taken
at the suggestion of the department
of justice, to avoid any appearance
cf antagonizing the government and
to remove causes of friction with
livestock producers and food dis
tributors. Emphatically, Mr. Vee
der stated that the decree was not
V, to be construed as an admission that
TPwIft & Company had violated any
law.
Lair Violation Denied.
"The company feels that the same
spirit which caused the business men
cf the country to submit to per
sonal sacrifices to win the war," he
said, "is just as essential during this
period of reconstruction as then, and
therefore, it meets the request of the
government for the sacrifice of its
own interests. The company has con
ented to the entry of a decree for
injunction only upon the expressed
condition that It should In so many
words, recite that the decree . does
not adjudicate that the company has
violated any law of the United
States."
Attorney-General Palmer said the
overtures for a compromise came first
from the packers, after the depart
merit had placed its evidence before
a grand jury in .Chicago.
The attitude of Morris & Company
was expressed by M. W. Borders, gen
eral counsel, who said the firm had
consented to the decree "in the spiri
of true Americanism."
Good Faith Is Claimed.
"We gave up certain legal right
and made certain business sacrifices
In order to meet the views of the gov
ernment," he continued, "and to for
ever set at rest the fear of monopoly
of the American table by t'.. j packers
In this period .f reconstruction an
unrest we desired to promote confl
dence. co-operation and stabl condi
tlons."
Bills proposing government regula
tion of the packing industry now be
fore the senate agriculture commit
will not be abandoned as a re
ult of the decree. Senators Kenyon
wa, and Kendrick, W yoming, au
thors of the measures, announced to
nljfht.
"The attorney-general's victory i
merely a step, though a very Ion
one, toward the goal we have been
seeking to attain," said Mr. Kendrick.
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Three-Cent Increase May Be Fought
by City- Statement Showing
Necessity - Is Prepared.
TACOMA, Wash.. Dec. 18. The
Tacoma Kailway & Power company
this afternoon gave notice of an in
crease in street-car fares here to 10
cents beginning January 18
The new rate was filed with the
state public service commission to
gether with a statement as to its
necessity. It was declared that the
present fare, 7 cents, does not bring
in sufflcent revenue to meet operat
ing expenses and the condition of the
system was pictured as being in a
bad state.
City officials were surprised at the
3-cent increase, but it could not be
stated at the city hall whether or
not a fight will be made to keep the
higher fare from going into effect.
It was presumed, however, that the
city will protest.
An increase from 5 to 7 cents, de
spite a state law which at that time
limited street railway fares to 5 cents,
was granted the traction company a
year ago after an investigation by a
public committee of 25. The law
limiting fares has since been re
pealed. STOWAWAY WEDS AT SEA
Ledea Guibon Becomes- Bride of
Member of S locum Crew.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 18.
Her experiences as a stowaway on
the army transport tug Slocum and
her wedding on the high seas to Syd
ney James Love, a member of the Slo
cum's engine room force, were being
told by Senora Ledea Guibon Love of
Salina Cruz, Mexico, to friends here
today, following the arrival of the
Slocum.
Love was taken sick at Salina Cruz
and Senorita. Ledea Guibon nursed
him back to health. She is an orphan.
He stowed her away on the Slocum
and when the captain discovered her,
the wedding took place.
RECRUITS TO BE SOUGHT
War Department to Open Extensive
Advertising Campaign.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. The war de
partment on January 1 will inaugu
rate a three-months' advertising cam
paign .in mora than 900 communities
and In 400 cities of the country where
auxiliary army recruiting stations are
located, it was announced here today.
Cities with main recruiting sta
tions are to be omitted, as the-y1 were
covered in last summer's campaign.
It was stated.
DISASTER BLAME UNFIXED
Mineola Grand Jury Disagrees
After 23 Hours' Deliberation.
MINEOLA, N. Y., Dec. 18. The su
preme court jury before which John
J. Dempsey, former superintendent of
the New York Consolidated Railway
company, was tried for manslaughter
in connection with the Malbone-streei
tunnel wreck in Brooklyn a year ago
when nearly 90 persons lost their
lives, was discharged today.
It reported it had failed to agree
after deliberating 23 hours.
BELGIUM REJECTS PACT
French and British Conditional
Guarantees Refused.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 18. The Belgian
government has categorically refused
a proposition submitted last week by
France and Great Britain guarantee
ing Belgian territorial integrity for
five years on condition that Belgium
observe strict neutrality during that
period.
This is reported by the newspaper
Nation Beige.
NEW DIVIDEND DECLARED
Marine Company Makes Deferred
Payment on Preferred Stock.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18. The Interna
tlonal Mercantile Marine company to
day declrred an extra dividend of
per cent on account of deferred divi
dends on preferred stock, reducing
the accumulated back dividends due
to 47 per cent.
The dividend is payable February
2 to stockholders of record Janu
ary 12.
JAPAN TO MAKE PROTEST
Chinese Reported to Be Molesting
Women and Children.
TOKIO, Dec. 18. (By the Associat
ed Press.) The spread of anti-Japa
nese agitation in China, with reported
Incidents of the molestation of Japa
nese, including women and children,
by the Chinese was the subject of
discussion by the cabinet today.
It is understood that it was decided
to forward a strong protest to the
Chinese government. '
NON-STOP PILOT INJURED
Plane of Captain John Alcock
Crashes in Normandy. .
LONDON. Dec. 18. Captain Sir
John Alcock, who made the first non
stop airplane flight across the At
lantic ocean, has been seriously In
jured, according to a Lloyd's dispatch
from Rouen.
His plane crashed near CottevrarJ,
in the department of Selne-Inferieur,
Normandy. ' "
Election as Los Angeles
School Head Forecast.
COLLEGE TRUSTEES ACCEPT
Statement Also Announces
Increase in Board.
11 MEMBERS PROVIDED
Administrative Committee Will As
sume Duties Until Successor
Is Selected.
Formal announcement of the resig
nation of Dr. William T. Foster, presi
dent of Reed college, was made last
night by the board of trustees, in a
statement saying that the resignation
had been accepted and will become
effective at the end of the present
month.
It is understood that President Fos
ter, who Is now in Los Angeles, t111
be elected to the suDerintendency of
the public schools of that city, al
though members of the board, in a
tatement issued yesterday, said the
selection had not been maae and crit
icised the newspapers for what is
termed an attempt to make an ap
pointment over the board's head.
RniKnatloi Is Surprise.
News of Dr. Foster's resignation
came as a surprise to Reed college
and to Portland, though the first In
timation, when the word was received
with incredulity, was contained In Los
Angeles reports which said that the
Reed college president was a recep
tive candidate for the city superin-
tendency of schools.
By action of the board of trustees
of Reed college, arrangements nave
been made lor the assumption tem
porarily of the duties of president by
the administrative committee, con
sisting of three members of the facul
ty. Professors Norman F. Coleman
and Hudson B. Hastings, ana juih
Florence M. Read. '
Board to Be . Increased.
Another definite change In the pol
icy of administration was announced
in the statement Issued yesterday by
the board of. trustees. Henceforth
the board of five trustees, as named
In the will of Mrs. Simeon G. Reed,
will be broadened to a board of re
gents consisting of 11 members, in
cluding the five original trustees.
The six newly-elected regents are
Albert E. Doyle, Forrest s. r isner.
Mrs. Elliott R. Corbett, R. L. Sabin,
E. B. MacNaughton and Dr. Laurence
T. Selling, to serve for terms of two,
four and six years. The trustees who
are ex-officio members of the board
are Dr. T. L. Eliot, Judge Charles E.
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Loss at Kendall Station $12,000;
Wind Aids Firemen in Sav
ing Steel Structures.
Three steel tanks containing about j
E2.000 gallons of gasoline, kerosene
and distillate, were threatened late
yesterday by fire which destroyed the
Kendall station warehouse of the
Union Oil company of California, with
a loss estimated at $12,000. The ware
house was filled with cases and bar
rels of lubricating oil.
The fire started about 4:30 P. M. in
the pumproom in the warehouse,
while the employes were pumping
kerosene from the tank into a deliv
ery truck. The cause of the blaze
was not learned, although V. H. Kelly,
manager of the company, expressed
belief that the bursting of a pipe or
a spark from the engine had started
the flames.
The tanks are outside the city lim
its, at the intersection ot Eighty-second
street and Johnson creek. The
fire bureau, however, dispatched en
gine No. 19 to combat the flames and
the firemen succeeded in keeping the
fire from the tanks, more than 60
feet from the warehouse.
-The warehouse was a frame build
ing 50 by 30 feet in size. It con
tained about 20 grades of lubricating
oil. The company carried no in
surance. The tanks, each of which has a
capacity of 21,000 gallons, were 60
feet south of the warehouse. Th,e
gasoline and distillate tanks were
full, but the kerosene tank contained
only half its capacity. The wind car
ried the sparks and heat to the south
east, greatly assisting firemen in pre
serving the tanks.
Mr. Kelly tabulated the losses as
follows: Warehouse $5000, oil 13000,
and one delivery truck $4000. Em
ployes saved another truck which was
in the warehouse when the fire
started.
Several tanks owned by the Stand
ard Oil company were 300 yards away
from the blaze, but firemen did not
consider them in danger. Officials
or tne company sala that the tanks
would not explode unlees a leak in
the steel sides .allowed the contents
to flow out and become ignited.
The lubricating oil burned with
out explosions and . with but little
flame. Dense clouds of smoke, with
occasional bursts of flame, attracted
a crowd of several hundred specta
tors-. Fearing an explosion from the
tanks, the authorities kept the crowds
several hundred yards back from the
fire. '
NAVY HERO SHIP AFLOAT
Destroyer Ausburn Launched to
Honor Radio Operator.
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 18. The de
stroyer Ausburn, one of the few ves
sels in the navy named for non-commissioned
officers, was launched to
day at the Squantum plant of the
Bethlehem Steel corporation. Mrs.
Delia Ausburn of New Vork, sister-in-law
of C. L. Ausburn, chief elec
trician, for whom the destroyer was
named, was sponsor.
Electrician Ausburn, as wireless
operator on the transport Antilles,
lost his life when he stuck to his ship
sounding calls for help after she had
been torpedoed by a German submarine.
2,000,000 Feet or Logs Pass From
Cowlitz and Columbia When
Ice Floes Break Booms.
THE DALLES. Or.. Dec. 18. (Spe
cial.) An ice jam, behind which was
the combined force of the Deschutes,
has ripped out the false work ot the
new uoiumDia nignway bridge, in i
course of construction, and sent it
down the river, according to word i
reaching this city today. The false
work represents five months' work
and an outlay of approximately $5000.
New false work will be constructed
in the spring.
The bridge, which was to have been
completed in May, will be delayed
in completion until fall. Due to the
large pieces of floating ice which
now fill the rapid Deschutes river,
no bridge work can now be under
taken. Crews have been laid off.
KELSO, Wash., Dec. 18. (Speical.)
An ice Jam which formed in the
Cowlitz river last night, near Rocky
Point, two- miles above Kelso, raised
the water 13 feet at Ostrander. It was
feared here that bridges might be
torn out. When the jam went out
about 1 o'clock today a raft of logs
was torn loose at the Thompson Ford
sawmill. There was little other dam
age along the river front.
Nearly 2.000.000 feet of logs went
down the Cowlitz into the Columbia
with heavy Ice floes when rafts were
torn loose at Ostrander. The heaviest
losers are the. Silver Lake Railway &
Timber company, Ostrander company
and Robert Barr. Ice .which moved
down the Columbia last night is re
ported to have taken out the jetty
near LaDu. A big Jam was reported
in the Columbia near Oak Point.
IRISH QUESTION RAISED
British National Party to Push
New Motion.
LONDON, Dec. 18. The national
party in the house of commons has
given notice of a motion on the Irish
question reading as follows:
"The house, in view of the fact that
the Sinn Fein organization has made
it abundantly clear that it will not
accept any form of home rule retain
ing the sovereign powers of the gov
ernment at Westminster, declines to
proceed with legislation which can
not be acceptable to any considerable
section of opinion in Ireland, and
calls upon the government to enforce
law and order In that country." . v
The national party in Great Britain
was organized "to promote reform,
union and defense." The records show
it as having at present only two mem
bers in the house of commons, in the
non-coalition group. The Irish na
tionalist party is in no way affiliated
with the national party.
CANADIAN PAPER DEARER
Controller to Raise Price From $69
to $80 Per Ton.
OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 18. The price
of news prir.t paper in Canada is to
be raised to $80 per ton, f. o. b. mill,
January 1, according to an announce-
ment made today by Paper Controller
Prlngle.
The price now being paid by th
I Canadian newspapers is $69 per ton.
WILL NOT DESERT YOUT'
WOMEN ARE DISQUALIFIED
Mrs. Alice Lesser Tells
of
Marriage Request.
PRISONER IS INDIFFERENT
Court Orders Recess When Women
Spectators Become Hysterical;
Glrl'8 Condition Shown.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 18.
Twelve men. all but two past the
meridian of life, were sworn late to
day to try Harry. S. New on the
charge that he murdered Freda Les
ser, his sweetheart last July. Neither
state nor defense permitted women to
pass the peremptory challenges, al
though several were passed for cause.
Formal proof of the alleged crime
was Introduced and then with set face
and motionless body. New listened
while Freda Leaser's mother, Mrs.
Alice Lesser, told between Intervals
of hysteria of her daughter's love for
New and his for her.
Court Orders Recess.
Mrs. Lesser was taken to the court
room from her home in an automo
bile by county detectives, and as she
was led toward the courtroom door
she fell In a faint. When she was
revived. her piercing, hysterical
screams penetrated throughout the
hall of Justice In which the courtroom
is situated and several women in the
courtroom . becoming hysterical, Su
perior Judge Craig ordered a short
recess till quiet had been restored.
Mrs. Lesser entered the room on
crutches, aided by detectives. She
was helped Into the witness stand.
She sobbed for a short, time before
gaining sufficient composure to tes
tify. Mrs. Lesser testified that her daugh
ter was m her twentieth year at the
time of her death, and that she had
been courted for some months by
New. They had been fellow employes
in a Los Angeles business house. New
and Miss Lesser frequently went on
long automobile trips and sometimes
Mrs. Lesser and a neighbor woman
accompanied them.
Mother Asks Drlav.
Two days before the alleged mur
der, Mrs. Lesser said. New told her
he wished to marry her daughter on
the day which afterward proved the
last of her life. She urged him to
wait, she said, but he Insisted that he
desired to marry as quickly as pos
sible. On the day after this conversation,
according to the vitness. she. her
daughter, a neighbor woman and New
went on an automobile ride, returning
to the Lesser home in the afternoon.
New ard Miss Lesser then left again
and that was the last Mrs. Lesser saw
of her daughter, she said.
"He seemed to love her and I know
she loved him." said Mrs. Lesser. "He
said he would bring her back to me,
but he never dldt"
Asa Keyes, deputy district attor
ney, at this point asked Mrs. Lesser
to identify a picture of her daughter.
"Oh, I can't look at it. I can't look
at it!" cried Mrs. Lesser, again
breaking down and covering her face
with her handkerchief.
Detective Gives Testimony.
Under cross-examination, Mrs. Les
ser said New always had been kind
to her daughter and also had been
very considerate of the witness.
"I never saw a nicer young man."
she said. "I had every confidence in
him."
Mrs. Lesser was preceded on the
stand by E. A. Davidson, a police de
tective. The witness said he was on
duty, acting as desk sergeant at cen
tral police station here on the morn
ing of July 5, when the defendant
entered and handed him a revolver.
No effort was made to introduce con
fessions New is alleged to have made
to Davidson and others. Davidson said
he and another police officer and two
newspaper men went outside and saw
within a closed automobile in which
New had driven to the station the
body of a young woman he afterward
learned was Freda Lesser.
It is the theory of the prosecution
that New killed his. sweetheart In
Topango canyon, a few miles from
here, in a burst of anger because of
her refusal to marry him, and then
drove with the body beside him to the
police station to surrender.
. Defendant Is Indifferent.
The first prosecution witness was
Dr. A F. Wagner, county autopsy sur
geon. He testified an examination
had shown Miss Lesser was to become
a mother and also described the bullet
wound which caused death.
New's demeanor during the day was
J j unchanged for the most
t maintained his air of indifl
part. He
fference and
looked neither at the witness nor the
I This was when the bullet with
which he is alleged to have killed
Miss Lesser was introduced in evi
dence and passed from one juror to
another for examination. He glanced
at the Jurors as they bent over, the
bit of lead and seemed somewhat
affected.
The attendance today was larger
than on previous days.
Junked Iron and Steel Valued at
From $11,000,000 to $21,000,
00 0 Involved in Transaction.
. M. Barde & Sons, Incorporated,
Portland wholesale firm dealing in
steel and machinery, yesterday pur
chased at public auction at Philadel
phia the entire supply of steel plates,
anchors, bars, chains and other equip
ment left over from steel shipbuilding
throughout the United States, accord
ing to a telegram received by J. N.
Barde, president of the firm, last
night.
The transaction will aggregate be
tween $11,000,000 and $1,000,000. it
was stated, and is considered to be
the largest purchase of "Junked" Iron
and steel in the history of the world.
The auction was held yesterday at
Philadelphia, being conducted per
sonally by officials of the United
States shipping board. At least 250.
000 tons of steel and iron plates,
equipment and machinery are un
derstood to be Included in the tran
saction. The bid of the local concern, which
was the successful one, was in the
neighborhood of $40 per ton. Mr.
Barde stated. L. B. Barde, secretary
of the company, left some time ago
for Philadelphia, and personally
represented the company in bidding.
The equipment Is located mainly at
New York and Philadelphia, but is
also scattered throughout the country
at nearly all plants which were en
gaged during the war in building
steel ships. There is none of the
equipment in Portland. Mr. Barde
said. A deposit of $1,000,000 cash
was made by the local concern to
bind the deal.
The steel was purchased entirely
for resVle. and steps already are being
taken by the local concern for dis
posing of this enormous holding. Be
tween 25.000 and 30.000 tons will be
brought to the Pacific coast for dis
posal, and the rest, more than 200.000
(.tons, will be exported.
M. Barde & Sons, located at Front
and Main streets, was established
here 29 years ago by M. Barde, and
has grown to be the largest firm In j immigration believed when they se
ttle west dealing in second-hand Iron 1 cured the passage of the act of Octo-
and steel and machinery. During the
war the company did an enormoui
business, and a short time ago it bid
2. 500. 000 on the spruce production
machinery, but was outbid, however,
by another firm.
PRESIDENT WED 4 YEARS
Washington Society Folk Send
Cards to White House Couple.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 18. (Special.)
The president and Mrs. Wilson
quietly observed their fourth wedding
anniversary at the White House to
day. They received many greetings
from friends and relatives, and a large
number of capital society folk sent
their cards, but aside from William G.
McAdoo. the president's son-in-law,
there were no visitors. During the
day the president and Mrs. Wilson
wrapped up for mailing a large num
ber of Christmas presents.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
43 degrees: minimum, 30 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain and warmer; itronf
southerly winds.
Foreign.
Allies reach agreement on peace treaty, re
gardless osenate action. Page .
National.
Japan Issues ban on picture bride prac
tice. Page. 5.
House bill to deport alien I. XV. w. Page 1.
Passage of railroad bill by senate this
Decree against packers is sweeping.
Page 2.
week is considered unlikely. Page 5.
Domination of American dinner table by
big packers Is declared ended. Page 1.
Urgent deficiency bill is up In house.
Page 7.
lomestlc.
Mother of Freda Lesser Ii witness in Harry
flew muraer case. rage 1.
Major-General Wood says Indifference of
Americans aids unrest. Page 2.
Twenty-eight Kansas I. W. W. get prison
terms. Page 17.
General McAIexander describes victorious
stand at Marne. Page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
Ice Jam tears out bridge construction.
Page 1.
Asylum to release George Chenoweth. Curry
slayer and overseas veteran. Page s.
Question of Governor Olcott's tenure of
office put up to supreme court. Page 8.
Washington coal miners doubt strike set
tlement and refuse to resume work.
Page 0.
Seattle mayor is candidate for re-election
Page 4.
Miles C. Moore, former governor of Wash
ington, is dead. Page 8.
Tacoma street railway company asks 10
cent fare. Page 1.
Sports.
Oregon football team leaves for Pasadena
determined to win. Page 16.
Bill Esslck sees danger in Beavers
Page 17.
"Battling" Ortega la due here today.
Page 16.
Commercial and Marine.
Western apple crop exceeds earlier es
timates. Page 23A
Corn market weakened by break in ster
ling exchange. Page 1!3.
Reversal in Wall street stock market.
Page 23.
Columbia channel now cleared for steel
vessels. Page 19.
Taylor-street dock ordered condemned.
Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
M. Barde A Sonssuccesrful bidders at Bale
ot steel shipbuilding materials. Page 1.
H. Glct Is dropped by school board in
stormy session. Page 4.
Northwest lumbermen to meet here today.
Page 18.
President Foster of Reed resigns, ap
parently to become Los Angeles school
superintendent. Page 1.
Telegram defense checked on point.
Page 24.
Butter and cheesw convention ends.
Page 10.
Policy of Roosevelt republican club to be
outlined at luncheon tomorrow. Page 10.
Friends of W. I Finley resent his dis
charge by . state game commission.
Page IS.
Ministers attack zoning proposal. Page 14.
Oil warehouse is burned. Page 1.
Earl Snyder draws 20-year sentence for
hold-up. Page IS.
Albert Johnson Bill to De
port Alien Mernbers.
LABOR DEPARTMENT SCORED
National Legislation Outcome
of Centralia Murders.
WASHINGTON TAKES LEAD
Representatives, Stirred by Possi
bility of Berber's Re-election,
to Deny Seat Again.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Dec 18. Mere member
ship of any alien in the Industrial
Workers of the World shall be suf
ficient grounds for his deportation
when the house completes its work
Saturday on a bill by Representative
Albert Johnson of Washington, which
is the result of the murder of four
war veterans at Centralia. Wash., on
November 11.
A recent ruling of the United
States department of labor relative
to the deportation of 14 L W. W.
aliens who were arrested In raids fol
lowing the Centralia murders, coupled
with the possibilities that Victor
Berger may be re-elected to congress
tomorrow from Milwaukee, has put
the house in a fighting mood. Mem-'
bers of the house say their minds will
not be changed by a re-election of
the Milwaukee radical, and that in
such event a seat will be denied him
before he can get here.
Kxrlnslon Believed Covered.
Members of the house committee on
ber 18, 1918, for the exclusion and
expulsion of aliens, that they had
made its terms sufficiently clear to
keep I. W. W. aliens out of this coun
try and to exclude those already here,
and the authorities of the state ot
Washington thought the same way.
- When Attorney-General Thompson
of Washington undertook through
Henry M. White, commissioner of im
migration at Seattle, to secure the
deportation of these 14 alien I. W. W.s
arrested at Centralia, Commissioner
White presented the question to the
department of labor and received a
telegram from Louis F. Post, assist
ant secretary of labor, ruling that
membership in the I. W. W. did not
bring aliens within the scope of the
act of October 16. 1918.
Scathing Letter Sent.
This caused Attorney-General
Thompson to write a scathing letter
to Assistant-Secretary Post citing the
sections of that act which provide for
the deportation of all aliens who ad
vocate the overthrow of organized
government, with the assassination
of public officials, sabotage and like
assaults upon government and Indi
viduals, also for the expulsion of
those who are affiliated with organ
izations teaching such doctrines. To
prove that alien I. W. W. were with
in the scope of the act he quoted at
length from the pamphlets of their
organization, one paragraph after an
other advocating everything from as
sassination and sabotage to criminal
assault on women.
He Included in his letter a copy of
the I. W. W. song. "Onward, Christian
Soldiers," which covers, as completely
as volumes could, the entire variety
of desperate crimes advocated by the
organization. The mildest stanza of
the song is:
"Onward, Christian soldiers; drench
j the land with gore;
Mercy is a weakness ail tne goas
abhor.
Bayonet the babies; jab the mothers..
too;
Hoist the cross of Calvary, to hallow
all you- do;
File your bullet noses nai, poison
every well-
God decrees your enemies must all go
plumb to h .
Bill to Pass Saturday.
Obviously not hopeful of securing
any satisfactory action from the de
partment of labor, Attorney-General
Thompson furnished a copy or nis
letter to Representative Albert John
son, which resulted in the bringing
out of the amended bill to be p-ssed
next Saturday, which will mark every
alien I. W. W. for prompt deportation
and make it mandatory on the depart
ment of labor to act.
In reporting the bill, the commit
tee on immigration emphasizes the
fact that the department of labor
has been lax In enforcing the de
portation laws and that out of 69?
arrests only 60 have been deported.
Many of those released are shown
by a recent congressional Investiga
tion to have been self-confessed
anarchists.
The report of the committee was
the most popular document, around
the capitol today, Attorney-General
Thompson's letter containing much
information on the I. W. W. which
appeared to be new to many eastern
members of congress.
Multnomah Bonds Certified.
SALEM. Or., bee 18. (Special.)
Approximately $218,000 or $400,000 In
bonds to be sold for rne development
of Multnomah county drainage dis
trict No. 1 was certified here today
by the irrigation .securities commis
sion. Certification of the bonds was
based on a recent inspection of the
district by members of the commission.
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