VOL. L.VIII. NO. 18,4:i.3 Kntered at Portland (Orefon) PoMofflce as Second-Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS OLD SANTA MYTH? WASHINGTON MINERS CLASH; TROOPS ASKED UNION WORK KKS ATTACK NON UNION MEN. EDICT WILL EASE LABOR SITUATION EX-SOLDIER IS FOUND DYING BESIDE ROAD PFFfl PUR RFPMR Iastronomer begins ji llu uttn nunm,! SEARCH F0R planet ADJUTANT-GENERAL REFUSES TO RESIGN TREATY EXCHANGE IS DELAYED AGAIN URGE LUMBERMEN YOUTH WITH BULLET OlXD IX HEAD SUCCUMBS. WASHINGTON Gl'ARD OFFICER IGNORES GOVERNOR'S ORDER. BODY BELIEVED TO EXIST OUT SIDE OF XEPTUXE. WHO SATS T NOW Childhood's Bulliest of Dreams Come True. DOUBTERS ARE DISCOMFITED Evidence of Old Saint's Visit Found Everywhere. 'YOUNGSTERS ARE HAPPY Clirl-tma.- Celebrated as Never Be fore in Portland Nobody, It Seems, Was Forgotten. BY BEN HL'R LA51PMAX. TVho says that S. Claus, the storied, the fabled, the kindest paint in all the calendar, orthodox or otherwise, comes no more? That the hoofs of his prancers, whose heads are tossing their horns this very minute over the tundra of the north, have long for saken the trails that lead away to homes and happiness? That wretch who does deny, wher ever he may be, stands this day a discountenanced and unnatural fel low, shorn of the right to friendship and reft of the bulliest dream that ever came true. He doesn't reside In Portland, at any rate so away with all thought of him! Away with the last lingering remembrance of the ruffian renegade who dared U the Christmas traditions! Doubters Convinced Xow. For Santa Claus came to Portland, sometime before dawn arrived yes terday. Ho came as truly as ever a true friend comes when friends call out for him and, to prove beyond dispute that he was really here, he came to homes where folks had ban ished all thought of inviting him. to homes where the cupboard was almost as bare as the late Mother Hubbard's pantry. And he left Christmas din ners and toys and nuts and candy and all the concomitants of the cheer ful Yule. Peculiarly the province of children. Christmas In Portland yesterday was little different from the many Yules that have preceded It except that maybe it made the children a little more happy, if that were possible. For the city saw to It with especial solicitude that no "kiddie" within its boundaries, from the Heights to Mount Tabor, lacked for toys or joy. ThouManda Render Thanks. In the great, dim churches, where the organs rolled away at the chants and carols and hymns that are bound with Christmas as firmly as the mis tletoe and holly, nay, more so for they are the lifted word of the holl h v-thoutands of worshipers ren dered thanks from full hearts for the meaning of the Yule. Save when the church-goers were on their way to worship the streets were almost de eerted, for Christmas found Portland at its own firesides, as should be. The snowy and drab adventurer gulls that ride over the river and perch on the pilings below Morrison-street bridge, took such toll as comes to them only once a year. They may not have known that the day was Christmas, as did the featherleas. coated fellow bipeds who tossed peanuts and bits of bread from the bridge rail, to see the graceful swoop and curve of clean sure wings as the eulls retrieved the morsel in mid-air. And. maybe, they did know for there is a story about a bird called the crossbill, and if you don't know it. it's worth looking into. any rate the gulls were fed so full of Christmas cheer that they gazed apathetically on the most tempting provender, ruffled grumpy mendicants who would beg nor take no more. olns Tinkle on Streets. In the heart of the city, from the hotel windows and from street cor ners, folks threw nickels and dimes and pennies to the newsboys who were firtly as swift and certain as the gulls, and a great deal more pro nounced in their opinions regarding the right of possession. As the coins tinkled to the street the boys met them in melee formation, or an espe cially agile one would leap high in the air and catch the money ere It fell within the grasp of his fellows. The newsboys knew that it was Christmas, all right, and they played with delighted. Jovial jest the game that has come to be a feature of Portland's streets on the day that celebrates the advent of a certain friend of all children. Biggest and best of all. because it compassed a multitude of children, each with a full heart and a propor tionately quotaed stomach, was the entertainment that the Portland lodge of Elks held in the forenoon at the Auditorium. There were 1700 chil dren assembled in the great hall, and there were 600 more who couldn't come, but who were eaually remem bered with baskets though they missed the joyous and splendiferous tree. Pictures Precede Climax. For an hour the screen across the stage had raced away its diverting tales of the comic "movies." with the pranking heroes of childish filmdom at their very best. And there had been songs and music, before the lights died down and the curtain rose in hushed darkness. Suddenly athwart that forefront of velvet dark flashed the brilliant elec trie letters that spelled "Merry Christ Concluded on Paite 4. Column ll Appeal Sent Governor liart to Rush Soldiers to Wilkeson to Protect Employes. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec. 25. John J. Hewitt, treasurer of the I. Wilkeson Coal & Coke company of Wilkeson, Wash., at 8:30 tonight telephoned from Tacoma to Governor Louis F. Hart appealing for troops to be rushed to Wilkeson because of fight ing which is reported to have broken out between union and non-union miners, who are ex-service men. "I have been informed tonight that union miners at Wilkeson attacked several of our non-union men and beat them." said Mr. Hewitt. "I un derstand that they then formed in quite a large force and started for our mine works but were turned back by some of our deputies. "I have asked for troops to protect our miners and the mine property and am awaiting a replyfrom Gov ernor Hart." The Wilkeson Coal & Coke company is the only mine of the state which is holding out for the open-shop basis of operation, which was instituted when the miners refused to return to work in conformance with the orders of their international and district of ficers and the settlement made through the government. Reports of labor troubles at Wilke son began to arrive here this after noon, but could not then be con firmed. Later J. T. Lee, mine superinten dent, advised Sheriff Tom Morris here that two non-union men arriving on an automobile stage from Tacoma to day had been taken off and beaten by a crowd of union miners and that further trouble was likely. Following this Deputy Sheriff A. White at Wilkeson reported that an other man arriving to go to work was met with a demonstration by the union men, but that no one in that affair had so far been injured. Additional deputy sheriffs in auto mobiles were then sent tonight to aid those already at Wilkeson and were hardly on their way when Treasurer Hewitt sent his appeal to the gov ernor. Ill feeling between the unions and (Concluded or-.Page 3. Column 3. PM flr . i iii i iiiiiiiiiM iii i mi MMMMiMiiiMiiiii I I I lii I h liwranmrfli i ii i wmmmKrrTT-yr----' mi mil s sm w ..m No. I Newnfcsjra participate in joll street Ncrlmraase for coin tnaneri their way. No. 2 They could hardly wait for the start of the fraat, and nobody hlan.es them. No. :t This nicrry-gn round is always an appreciated feature of Tonunj Snivel's Christmas yartj tur the kiddies. -No. 4 The tvalls can hard!) belle . c it. but rliiliL bciure their eyes is the tuiko, Wilson Railroad Procla mation Approved. MORE TIME HELD NECESSARY Chance for Solution of Prob lems Bettered. SHIPPERS' AGENTS CONFER Meeting to Be Held in Chicago to Consider Legislation to Pre cede Return of Roads. ALBIO.I IORQl K, It. M., Dec. 25. Six railroad shop crafts numbering; 000,000 members will strike If con-k-i !. Trhen enactlne legislation to KOvern the railroads when they are returned to private ownership, in- nH..lrikp clause, it was in . statement Issued by -v. S. Patterson, seeretnry-treas- ; urer of the International Machinists' j union, on the Santa Fe system. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. President Wilson's nroclamatlon returning the ...... .. vor.i, i vniironfis lcj urnnic iuiiliui ...... , .. , lends a new aspect to wage problems now before Director-General Hlnes. In the opinion of railroad adminis tration officials the president's order, made public last night, should tran quillize the labor situation, inasmuch as the time of government control is extended by two full months. Union officers who have been press ing for a settlement of their demands before the roads went back, on the supposition that the transfer would be made on January 1, the date orig- t Concluded on Pa.se 3, Column 1.) IN THESE WAYS CHRISTMAS BROUGHT FUN ... iiississasssssWrW" sssKiW. JMWWEmWW1 H M WWIB , Earl Milton Picked Up by Auto Party 7 Miles From Chehalis. Coroner to Hold Inquest. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Dec. 25. (Spe cial.) -Earl Milton, discharged sailor of Chehalis. was found lying beside the road with a bullet wound in his head, seven miles southeast of Che halis, near Forest, at 8 o'clock last night. The young man's groans drew a party of Chehalis motorists who were on their way to an entertain ment at Forest, and they discovered Milton. Beside him was a revolver with one empty cartridge in It. Milton was removed to a Chehalis hospital, where he died at 6 o'clock this morning. The coroner announced tonight he would hold an Inquest to morrow. Whether death was due to suicide or a clash was not Indicated by the coroner. Milton, who was an orphan, had been living the past three months with C. M. Miles of Chehalis. SAILORS' FATE IN DOUBT Intention to Release Americans In Mexico Not Confirmed. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 24. No con firmation was obtainable here to- i nigni irom Mexican BUvtruiiiCiu sources of reports published here this morning that the two American sailors who had been placed In jail at Mazatlan would be released during the day. Neither did the American embassy have ny advices regarding the in tention to release the Americans. EDGE BILL IS SIGNED Increase Authorizes Creation of U. S. Export Corporations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. President Wilson today signed the Edge bill authorizing the creation of corpora tions for the purpose of financing American export trade. The measure was passed just before the Christmas recess of congress. AND GOOD CHEER TO SOME OF Harvey J. Moss Is Reported to Have Turned orfice Over, but to Have Retained Title. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Dec. 25. Brigadier-General Harvey J. Moss, adjutant-general of Washington, has re fused to comply with Governor L. E. Hart's request that he resign from his post at the head of the state military organization. C. L. Snuff, secretary to the governor, announced here today. Governor Hart early this week asked General Moss to hand in his resignation and to turn over his of fice to Major E. H. Keene. assistant adjutant-general. In a letter re ceived by the governor today. Sec retary Shuff said. the adjutant general said he had turned his office over to Major Keene but declared he would not resign, "in view of all the circumstances and military provisions governing the qualtf lcations of the adjutant -general." The resignation of General Moss was requested by the governor. It was said. because the general wrote American Legion posts throughout the state asking their support In a campaign he was making to retain his post. The letter, it was said, de clared that General Moss was the only man in Washington who had all the necessary military requirements for the post Governor Hart has not Indicated what further steps will be taken to make effective his demands that Moss retire. The governor was not yet ready to announce a successor to Moss, and it was believed that legal objection to the new appointee named would be filed by Moss. It was also intimated that court-martial proceedings might be Invoked in the attempt to dispose of Moss. $250,000 CJIven to Church. NEW YORK. Dec. 25. Three Christmas gifts aggregating $250,000 toward completion of the nave of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, were announced today by Right Rev. Charles Sumner Burch, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York. PORTLAND'S LESS FORTUNATE Northwest Moves to Get More Carriers. METAL MILLS CO-OPERATE Appeal Will Be Made to Rail road Administration. GOVERNMENT IS BLAMED 2 100 Cars Lie in Shops in Bad Order High Cost of New Work Held Justified. SEATTLE. Wash.. Dec. 25. (Spe cial.) As a practical and constructive step to relieve the car shortage threatening them with ruin, leading Pacific northwest lumbermen are planning to make an Immediate ap peal to the railway administration and to the head office of the railroad corn- Pnles under Its control to speed up replacement and rei air of rolling stock by turning at least a part of the work over to private car builders of this section. More than 2000 freight cars, badly needed by the rail roads to handle lumber shipments, the lumbermen ascertained, are In railroad car shops of Washington and Oregon undergoing repairs In the or dinary routine of management and with only normal forces of shopmen at work on them, although several large private car-building plants in the same territory are running part time owing to lack of work and are faced with the prospect of being forced to close down before many weeks. Lumbermen interested in the plan (Concluded on Page 3. Column 2. ) CHILDREN. Telescopic Photographs to lie Tak en of Heavens to Determine Whether Points Move. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. Dec. 25. Pro fessor William H. Pickering of the Harvard astronomical observatory, who is stationed at Mandeville, Ja maica, is engaged In a search for the planet which Is supposed by astrono mers to exist outside Neptune and es timates that this undiscovered mem ber of the solar system Is some 55 times as far from the sun as Is the earth, according to a statement today by Professor Solon L. Bailey, acting director of the Harvard observatory. "Astronomers have suspected the existence of a planet outside Neptune for at least 50 years," said Professor Bailey, "and since 1S77 many ob servers have tried to locate it. The usual met .od was to study the per turbations of Uranus and determine from these what must be the situation of the object which was deflecting Uranus from Its course. in recent years Professor Pickering has studied the perturbations of Neptune as well, and as a result has ascertained what he believes to be the approximate po sition of the new planet. "He has recently been engaged In a systematic study of photographic plates of tht anea of the sky in which he believes the planet to be situated. His method Is to have telescopic pho tographs of a certain small section of the heavens taken at short intervals and by placing the plates one on top of another to see if any of the minute points recorded on the plates seem to have moved. "It is expected that the planet will be in opposition to the sun this win ter and therefore In a favorable posi tion for observation. The exact date set for opposition by Professor Pick ering in an estimate was December 30, 1919. It is thought that the planet will be of about the 15th magnitude, which meanr that it will prove to be several thousand times too faint to be seen with the naked eye." KAUFM.AN BUYS M'CLURE'S Writer Will Edit Magazine; Busi ness Men Are Associates. NEW YORK, Dec. 25. McClure's magazine has been bought by Herbert Kaufman, poet, author and editorial writer, it was announced by Frederick L. Collins, president of the company. All tie stock or McClure's Publica tions. Incorporated, went to Mr. Kauf man in the purchase. Mr. Collins said. Mr. Kaufman will be editor of the magazine, it was stated, and no other change in the staff is contemplated. Associated with Mr. Kaufman in his new enterprise will be the follow ing men, it was announced: George L Storm, manufacturer: Leon Schin asi. tobacco manufacturer; J. F. Bresnahan. manufacturer and former magazine executive: Frederick L. Collins, publisher of McClures for several years: J. O'Hara Cosgrove. formerly managing editor of Every body's magazine, and Edgar Sisson. former editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine. LOGGER'S $3400 TAKEN Fiity Patrolmen Scour Waterfront Tor Mold-l p .Men. Mike Evanoff. logging foreman, was robbed of $230 cash and checks worth J3150 by two men who met him at Thirteenth and Hall streets late last night. The police believe the robbers had worked in Evanoff's camp and knew that he had a considerable sum of money. Patrolman Simpson saw two armed men answering the description of the robbers in the north end shortly after the holdup, and chased them under the Ash-street dock. Fifty po licemen scoured the neighborhood for half an hour, but were unable to find them on account of the darkness, which was intensif'ed by a dense fog. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TKSTERDATS Maximum temperature. 51 decrees: minimum. 39 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; limit southwesterly winds. Forelgrn. Treaty exchange again delayed. Page 1. Pope in Christmas message pleads for faith In Qod. Page 2. National. . Washington, with all departments closed. has quiet Christmas. Page 2. President's railroad proclamation expected to ease labor situation. Page 1. Iometlr. Frankness wins Triends for Viscount Grey, new ambassador to tJ. 8. Page 3. Pacific Northwest. Howell murder jury again disagrees. Page 6. Ex-sallor Is found dying beside road. Page 1. Washington adjutant-general refuses to resign, as requested. Page 1. Northwest lumbermen move to speed re pair of cars. Page 1. Washington miners clash: troops asked Page 1. Sports. Harvard works out on San Francisco gridiron. Page 12. Oregon squad plods on, despite Christmas. Page 12. West's prowess In football is recognized In east. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Tillamook 1. W. W. held peaceful men Page 6. Huge ocean terminals at Halifax built by Portland man. Page 4. Ex-mate of diamond king's wife accused Page 15. Politics suspected in announcement of In crease In price of oil. Page 10. Christmas celebrated tn Portland as never before. Page 1. Flood necessitates detourlng of trains on Union Pacific main line. Page 10. Joy of giving to poor kiddles dims Santa's eyes. Page 11. Enrollment In Knights of Columbus free school for ex-service men to start January 1. l'aae 13. German Tonnage Figures Yet to Be Verified. BERLIN FAILS TO GET NOTE Peace Mission Head Charges Misunderstanding. INTENT TO DELAY DENIED Estimate on Bottoms Available as Compensation for Scupa Flow Sinkings Held Correct. PARIS. Dec. 25. (By the Associated Press.) The final debate of the re peatedly postponed exchange of rati fications of the treaty of Versailles depends upon the speed with which the allied missions in Germany can verify the German figures of avail able floating dock tonnage demanded by the allies as compensation for the sinking of the German warships at Scapa Flow. The Associated Press was informed to this effect today at the headquarters of the German peace delegation. Baron Von Lersner, head of the German representatives, said he thought this would take at least a fortnight if not longer In view of the difficulties of transportation In Ger many and details involved In verify ing the figures. Speed Held llrrmnn Aim. "A decided misunderstanding Is re flected in the Paris press during the past two days regarding my projected trip to Berlin, which I subsequently abandoned." he said. "My object was to hurry rather than to delay the putting of the Ver sailles treaty Into effect. From Mon day night until Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock I vis deDrived of nnv communication with my government by either telegraph or telephone, in consequence or which Berlin had no knowledge of the entente note or of the verbal communications given on this subject by M. Dutasta (secretary of the peace conference) until this morning. "I thought that a trip to Berlin and a verbal explanation of the situation to the government would facilitate matters. The inference by the French papers that the German government wanted to delay the exchange of rati fications Is absolutely unfounded. We want nothing more than effective restoration of peace. Intent to Delay Pact Denied. "Peace means the repatriation of our soldiers, prisoners in France, who are obliged to spend another Christ mas in captivity though hostilities have been suspended for more than a year. "The fact that Herr von Slmson ar rived in Paris last Sunday to start negotiations for putting the treaty into effect proves that we had no intention to delay matters." Regarding the entente note. Baron von Lersner aaid its tenor surprised him. as It seemed so 1 ittle In accord with the progress of the negotiations. "The Paris press," he said, "even announced our readiness to deliver over all the harbor material we could "Pare without endangering our eeo iiomic existence as compensation for the Scapa Flow sinkings and fore cast an early agreement on this question. If we did not get that far It was not our fault. Our experts have not been asked to talk the mat ter over since a week ago." Kntlmate Believed Correct. Baron von Lersner asserted that ac cording to the verbal communication of M. Outasta at the time of the de livery of the note, the entente made a diminution in the port tonnage de manded, conditional upon verification of Germany's claim that the entente estimates of the harbor material available were erroneous, "I want to say in this connection." he continued, "that the statements in the French press that we were die loyal and gave out wrong figures on this tonnage are absolutely un founded. This the investigation would prove. I promised M. Dutasta to ask my government to give all facilities for such Investigation. "We both agreed that it should be possible in a short time to verify our statements and come to a definite agreement regarding harbor ma terials to be delivered by Germany. I hope that all our expectations will soon be fulfilled and that peace will finally be put into effect." After the chief of the German dele gation had informed M. Dutasta that he thought it advisable to go to Ber lin, communication by special wire was restored, according to the in formation given out at the head quarters of the German delegation, and it was decided to telegraph the note and verbal communication, which, taking into consideration tha time for coding, transmission and de coding, could not come to the knowl edge of the German government be fore the morning of December 25. TEUTON STATEMENT DENIED Von Lersner's Declarations Sen. to Allies, Says Havas. . PARIS. Dec. 25. The Havas 4rency has issued the following official note: LCoucludt-d on Fuse ( Column 1.) ' ''.