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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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