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PORTLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, Al'KIL, 29. 102O
PRICE FIVE CENTS
10D KEEPS LEAD TSSSdI
WOOD GETS FOUR
CATERERS CONTINUE
BOYCOTT ON .'SPUDS'
POTATOES OFF SEATTLE ME
NUS UNTIL. NEW CROP.
ORGY OF RADICALISM
LAID TO GOVERNMENT
SUGAR PROFITEERING
IS LAID TO BROKERS
SHIPYARDS REFUSE-
III JERSEY RACE
IDAHO DFLEGATES
TO PRODUCE BOOKS
SERIOCS CPHEAVAL SHUOCD
ED IX MVSTERY.
OFFICIALS CENSURED FOR
FAILURE TO TAKE ACTION.
TWO FIRMS INDICTED FOR
. TAKING HUGE PROFITS.
PAIDUPLNSURANCE
PLAMNED US BONUS
Scheme Virtually Sure of
General Few Hundred
Ahead of Johnson.
OiltO GOES FOR HARDING
Favorite Son Indorsed by 14,
000 Plurality. .
CRY OF FRAUD- SOUNDED
Close Contest in Alaskan Frimarj
Results in Choice of Jolin C.
McBride for Committeeman.
SIMJURV OF HESII.TS IX
EASTERN PRIMARIES.
Wood keeps lead In New Jer
sey, with only 84 districts miss
ing. The vote: Wood, 51,402,
Johnson, 50, "SO.
Ohio gives Harding lead of
14,000 over Wood. The vote:
Harding;. 122.486; Wood, 108,173.
NEWARK, N. J., April 2S. Revised
returns in all but 84 districts In New
Jersey, tabulated at midnight, gave
Major-Genera" I Leonard Wood a ma
jority of 612 votes oven . Senator
Hiram W. Johnson of California in
the preferential presidential primary
held yesterday. The. vote was: John
son. 50.790; Wood, 51.402.
Charges that Senator Johnson had
been "robbed" of the republican pref
erence for president in at least three
counties of New JeVsey were made
tonight by William P. Verdun, repub
lican leader in Hobokcn and one of
the most enthusiastic Johnson sup
porters in the state. Mr. Verdun made
his allegations in a telegram sent to
Senator Johnson, in which he said:
"l'ou were robbed in Camden, Morris
and Essex counties." He expressed
the opinion that Johnson would win
at least 11 of the 28 delegates.
Farmers for Wood.
Wood's, vote was heaviest in the
rural districts, while Johnson polled
heavily in the industrial district. ol
the north. m
United States Senators Walter E.
Edge and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen,
pledged to the presidential choice of
the voters as expressed at the prl
mary, have been elected as members
of the republican "big four" by sub
stantial pluralities over their eight
opponents. Former Governor Edward
O. Stokes, pledged to Wood, seems as
sured of third place. Former Acting
Governor William N. Runyon, pledged
to Wood, is leading the race for
fourth place, although City Commis
sioncr Thomas L. Raymond of New
ark, pledged to Wood; Mulford L
Ballard of East Orange and Thomas
B. Layden of Faterson, both' pledged
to Johnson, and former United States
Attorney-General John W. Griggs,
pledged to Wood, are following close
behind in the order named.
Complete returns from five districts
showed the election of "five Wood
district delegates, four for Johnson
and one unpledged. Incomplete re
turns from six other districts indi
cated the election of eight Wood,
two Johnson and two unpledged del
egates, aitnough the vote in some
cases was close.
Edwards Is Elected.
Governor Edward I. Edwards, who
lias announced that he would carry
the fight against prohibition onto the
floor of the San Francisco conven
tion, was elected head of the demo
cratic "big four." Other democratic
delegates-at-large elected, all without
opposition, were James R. Nugent,
Essex county, democratic leader;
Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey Cits
and Mayor Frederick W. Donnelly ol
Trenton. Democratic voters did not
have an opportunity to register their
choice for president, there being no
candidates' names printed on the bal
lot, although all of the "big" four'
and virtually all of the district dele
gates are pledged to the candidacy
of Governor Edwards.
RICHMOND, Ind., April 2S. ".
make no charges, but I have a very
lively recollection of the fraudulent
Minnesota primary' and I have wired
rr.y friends In New Jersey for detailed
Information," said United States Sen
ator Hiram W. Johnson here late to
night, in commenting on the New Jer
soy primaries. He had just received
a telegram from William P. Verdun
felling of charges that he had been
robbed In three counties.
JIARDIXG HAS 14,000 LEAD
AVood Far Behind in Presidential
Primaries in Ohio.
-COLUMBUS, O., April 28. With but
135 precincts out of 5882 in the state
missing. Senator W. G. Harding to
night was leading General Leonard
AVood by 14,313 votes for the republi
can presidential preference in yester
day's primary. The vote was: Hard
ing, 122,486; Wood. 108.173.
Three Harding candidates and one
Wood candidate were in the lead In
the race for delegate-at-large to the
republican national convention, out
Into returns today indicated a possi
bility that four Harding candidates
misht be elected.
Tabulated returns from 5211 out of
' (Concluded on Pase 3, Column 3.)
Guard Reported ot Have Been An
nihilated and Residents In
cluding Consul Murdered.
WASHINGTON, April 28. A ser,ious
upheaval in the district of Nikolaevsk
on the eastern coast of Siberia far
north of Vladivostok is reported in
an official statement issued by the
Japanese foreign office, received to
day by the state department.
With all communication cut off, the
uprising is shrouded in mystery but
the foreign office said that all re
ports point to the conclusion that
the Japanese guard in the district had
been annihilated and several, hundred
Japanese residents, including; the con
sul, massacred.
The number of men in the guard
was not given.
While the foreign office statement
said conditions in this district had
been assuming a -serious aspect since
the beginning of March, this. was the!
first information to be received here
that the situation in that particular
part ot Siberia was critical.
Because of the ice, the dispatching
of a Japanese expedition to Nikol
aevsk, the principal city of the dis
trict, located on the Non river, is
impossible. An expedition was start
ed, however, on April 19, under escort
of the warships Mikasa and Mishima
and it reached Alcxandrovski, a port
on the Siberian coast about 300 miles
south of Nikolaevsk, on April 22,
where it will remain until the ice
breaks up. The foreign office said the
troops landed without meeting resist
ance and that the Japanese residents
inthat district were fourid to be safe.
Most of them were taken aboard ths
Mikasa. The foreign office statement
declared the hopelessly chaotic con
dition into which the neighboring lo
calities have been thrown made it
clear that the obtaining of informa
tion would be impossible without
more drastic steps and that it was in
consequence of this that the military
expedition was dispatched northward.
JAP EXCHANGE TO REOPEN
Tokio Bankers Report Financial
Situation Apparently Sound.
NEW YORK, April 28. The Japa
nese stock exchange will reopen May
according to advices received here
today by Mitsui & Co., a large Japa
nese import and export company. The
silk, rice and cotton exchanges now
are open, the advices stated, adding
that the silk exchange reopened on
April 20.
TOKIO, April 27. The financial sit
uation here is apparently sound, ac
cording to local bankers, the Bank of
Japan and other leading banks ren
dering necessary accommodation to
sound business houses. The difficult
financial situation was due immedi
ately to the government's policy de
signed to check widespread specula
tive promotion of war-time mushroom
industries which had continued since
the armistice.
POLISH FORCES ADVANCE
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Army Goes Forward Into Ukraine
. to Expel "Foreign Invaders.",
WARSAW, April 28. (By the As
sociated Press.) A general advance
by Polish forces along a 180-mile
front into the Ukraine was announced
in today's communique by the Polish
general staff. The movement, it is set
forth, is for the expulsion of the
"foreign invaders."
The Poles covered about 50 milesl
the first day of their forward move-
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inent, their advanced line taking them i
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within 60 miles of Kiev. The advance)
, , i
su I in the name of General Pilsudski. I
head of the Polish state, which an
nounced that after the expulsion of
the foreign elements the Poles would
remain in the Ukraine only until an
authorized Ukrainian government
should take control. .. '
PEACE BILL SUBSTITUTED
Measure Would Take Place of Ter
mination Proposal.
WASHINGTON, April 28. A sub
stitute for the house resolution ter
minating the war with Germany was
laid before the senate foreign rela
tions committee today by Senator
Knox, republican, Pennsylvania. It
was discussed briefly, with demo
cratic opposition indicated.
The Knox resolution would provide .
for the establishment of peace with
Austria. Further consideration will'
be taken-up Friday.
AIR PATROL CANCELED
Lack of Personnel to Prevent For
est Guard in Oregon. '
WASHINGTON, April 28. Because I
o- the depleted personnel only one
aviation squadron will be detailed for
forest observation this year, the war
department announced today.
The ninth squadron will be based
at Mather Field and will cover the
various forest reserves of California.
No squadrons will be available, it
was said, for the reserves of Wash
ington, Oregon, Nevada or Utah.
SHIPS TO AID4TH FETE
Four Destroyers Allotted Grays
Harbor for Celebration.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, April 28. Four destroyers
have been detailed to Grays Harbor
for the Fourth of July celebration
at Aberdeen, Wash.
Senator Jones was advised of this
today by the secretary of the navy.-
ConventKndorses Rec
ogrd Backers. .
FOUR OTHERS LED BY BORAH
Republicans Split State's
Representation- Fifty-Fifty.
NONE BOUND OFFICIALLY
Uclcsation Will Go to National
Meeting Unpledged Indorse
ment Given American Legion.
COECR D'ALENE, Idaho, April 28.
fSoeelal.) The republican state
convention split fifty-fifty in the se
lection of its delegates to the national
convention here today, naming four
recognized Wood, delegates and four
unpledged delegates, who are known
to be close friends of Senator Borah,
who heads 'the delegation. Resolu
tions were passed indorsing the state
administration and the American Le
glon.
The fight expected to break on the
floor in an attack on John w. Hart,
national committeeman, was blocked
from getting before the convention
The delegates and alternates elect
ed follow: Delegates-at-large, Sena
tor Borah, Ada; John Thomas, " Good
ing; John P. Gray, Coeur DAlene;
Stanley Easton, Shoshone. Alternates,
Dr. O. D. Piatt, Benewah ; Frank S.
Adams, Minidoka; Henry H. Armstead,
Bonner; Mrs. D. C. McDougall, Ada.
First district delegates are Harold
Jenness, Canyon county, and Henry
M. Jones, Nezperce county, and alter
nates are Fred Crane, Coeur D'Alene,
and J. W. Snook. Lemhi. Second dis
trict delegates are W. P. Guthrie,
Twin Falls, and Marshall B. Teaman,
Bonneville, and alternates are T. N.
Edwards, Bannock, and E. M. Ken
nedy, Bingham,
Delegates Are Vaaleilaed.
Gray. Eaeton, Jenness and Jones are
known Wood men, but Borah, Yeaman
and Guthrie are not announced Tor any
candidate. Officiary "I1 delegates are
unpledged. .
Senator Borah is regarded as fa
vorable to Senator Johnson; Mr. Yea
man is regarded as favoring Lowden
or Harding; Mr. Thomas is said not to
have committed himself and Mr.
Guthrie is considered as doubtful.
Resolutions as passed by the con
vention as presented by the commit
tee, say in part: y
"We glory in the valor, patriotism
and Americanism of our American
soldiers in the late war. We indorse
an approve the efforts made to band
our returned soldiers together into
the American legion and pledge the
support of the republicans of Idaho to
preserve to posterity the bravery and
heroism of the soldiers. '
"We heartily Injorse the action of
our republican members of congress
in maintaining those immortal principles-
and commend them for their
zeal in public affairs and devotion at
all times to true American id-eals.
1 ' "l ".,
tions as presented by President Wil-
. 1
son has rendered to the nation a great
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service. We approve the splendid
we realize ma. me memDers or
this convention have' not been com
missioned to deal with other than na-
tConcluded on Page 2, Column 2.)
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Decision Reached to Go' Through
"With Movement to Lower
Price of Product.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 28. (Spe
cial.) Decision to continue- the boy
cott on potatoes until local new po
tatoes reach the market was reached
by the Seattle Caterers' association at
its weekly meeting.
The association took the action by
resolving to buy no more old pota
toes at any price and to cease serving
potatoes until the new spuds come in
about June 15. The purpose of the
boycott as originally declared was to
force the price of old potatoes down
to a reasonable figure.
Reports made to the association
were toat while the boycott of the
restaurant men, aided by the house
wives, had virtually "knocked the bot
tom out of the local market," commis
sion dealers were still holding their
stocks on hand at unchanged prices,
depending on selling them to out-of-town
buyers.
0LYMPIA COUNT 8537
Washington Capital Gains 1541,
Announces Bureau.
WASHINGTON, April 28. Census
returns were announced today ad
follows:, v '
Olympia, Wash., 8537; increase 1541,
or 22 per cent.
Youngstown, O., 132,358; increase
53,292, or 67.4 per cent.
Portsmouth. O., 33,011; increase
95S0, or 40.6 per cent:
Kalamazoo, Mich., 48,858; increase
9421, or 23.9 per cent. .
Springfield, Mass., 129, 33S; increase
40,412, or 45.4 per cent.
Fitchburg, ' Mass., 41,013; increase
3187, or 8.4 per cent.
Gardner, Mass., 16,960; increase
2261, or 15.4 per cent.
Elmira, N. Y., 45,305; Increase 8129,
or 21.9 per cent.
Niagara Falls, N. Y., 50.T60; In
crease 20,315, or 66.7 per cent.
The census bureau announced that
the population of Portsmouth, O., was
co-extensive with Wayne township.
353 SOLDIER, DEAD HOME
First Bodies of Americans Killed
in France Returned to U. S.
NEW YORK. April 28. The bodies
of 353 American soldiers who gave
their lives for the cause of freedom
and humanity on foreign soil and of
whom all but 80 died in France, ar
rived here today rn the army trans
port Mercury from Antwerp and
Southampton. Their arrival marked
the first return of soldier dead from
France. The bodies of four officers
were aboard. --
Under a soldier guard of honor, the
caskets were prepared for shipment
home by rail. Each body will be ac
companied by a uniformed guard of
honor, who will - remain with his
charge until the casket is lowered
into the final resting place.
At the piers here there was ne
ceremony, no display or ostentation,
save the colors at half-mast and the
bare walls of. the temporary pier
morgue hidden with flags.
LAND GIVEN VETERANS
3 7 to Form Colony on Project. in
California.
BERKELEY, Cal.. April 28. What
was said by its originators to be the
first land settlement in the United
States to be turned over to ex-service
men was parceled out by the state
land settlement board today when 37
applicants who served In the war re
ceived title to farms In the Delhi
land project.
Three more farms were disposed
of to civilian applicants.
A DEUCE
Montana Senator Asserts Congress
Too Subservient to Decrees
of Organized Labor.
WASHINGTON, April 28 That sym
pathizers with radicals bent on the
overthrow of the government are to
be found even "in high places" was
the declaration of Senator Myers
(democrat, Montana). Speaking to
day in the senate, he criticised the
government in general and the de
partment of labor in particular for
failure to, take adequate steps to pre
vent the spread of radicalism.
"The activities of those who would
undermine and overturn our govern
ment are undoubtedly increasing," he
said. "In my opinion this country is
reeking and seething with the machi
nations of disloyal sedition and bol-
shevism."
Referring, to the recent miners'
strike at Butte, Mont.. Senator Myers
said that aside from the government
keeping temporary order by the use
of troops, he did not know what would
be done toward going to the bottom of
"this nest of anarchy and root out the
moving force."
"There is one thing," he said, "that
the government appears to be ex
tremely reluctant to do. and that Is
to measure strength to a final test
with any organized body of persons
affiliated with organized labor or call
ing themselves a branch of organized
labor, i
The .government may promise to do
so, may threaten to do so. may start
to do so, but when the time for the
actual test comes it seems there is al
most certain to be" by the government
.... some way found of avoiding
the test."
The senator declared congress was
too "subservient to the decrees of or
ganized labor," adding that since Sam
uel Gompers had said the Sterling
anti-sedition bil) must not be enacted
nor anything like it, he did not be
lieve it would be.
Senator Myers declared that con
gress could remedy the conditions ot
which he complained.
"We -whipped the red skins to ob
tain possession of this country," he
said, "we whipped the red coats to
achieve its independence, and we must
not let the red-hearted and red
handed overthrow it. 'Down the reds.
has been our practice. It should now
be our motto."
SPIRIT AFFINITY ALLEGED
Husband Says Gets Daily Messages
of Love From Other World.
CHICAGO, April 28. Mrs. Lillian P.
Clayton obtained a divorce decree to
day because her husband wrote her
from the Pacific coast that he had
an affinity in the spirit world from
whom he received love messages.
Mrs. Clayton charged that her
husband, Robert C. Clayton, eloped. to
Seattle with the wife of Wellington
Glover, his best friend. In 1918.
Mrs. Glover died recently. , Clay
ton Informed Mrs. .Clayton fhat he
could not return to her, as he re
celved "dally messages of love" from
Mrs. Glover, according to letters in
troduced as evidence. "Death has not
changed my love," he wrote.
M'BRIDE LEADS ALASKA
Republican Interest Centers
Committeeman Race.
in
1 JUNEAU, Alaska, April 28. In re
publican ranks the chief interest in
yesterday's primary centered in the
contest for national committeeman
between John C. McBride of Juneau
and Charles E. Herron.
On their face the returns from 15
precincts in the third division, includ
ing Seward. Valdez and Cordova gave
McBride 1490: Herron, 864. Returns
are coming In slowly.
OF A FIX!
Inclusion in Law.
IDEA IS HELD BEST OF .ALL
Average Policy Would Total
at Least $1857.
FIVE PROPOSALS LISTED
Former Soldiers, Under Republic
an Programme, May Get
Chance to Elect One.
WASHINGTON. April 28. (By the
Associated Press.) Republican mem
bers of the house ways and means
committee virtually decided today to
include in their soldier relief legis
lation programme a plan of paid-up
insurance, its value to Increase an
nually by compounded Interest, and
on which loans could be obtained from
any postoffice.
With this addition, ex-service men
might elect any one of the five fol
lowing plans included in the repub
lican programme:
A cash bonus of 81.25 a day for
each day of service.
Aid in buying farm la nil, to be re
claimed by the government.
Aid In buying city homes.
Aid in their education, or
The insurance. .
l'aid-up Policy Proposed.
To popularize the last four plans,
the republicans propose to allow "J 1. 75
a day for each day of service, instead
of the $1.25 cash bom as the basis
for computing farm and home aid,
loans and the amount of financial aid
each man might receive in the form
of educational training.
The insurance plan, as such. wa
said by committeemen to be a "mis
nomer," but they declared it mas the
"most attractive" of any of the five
plans. The average period of ervlc
for world-war veterans was 400 days,
they said, explaining that under the
insurance plan the average veteran
could receive a paid-up insurance pol
icy of 81857, payable to him in cash
at the end of 20 years, or immediately
to his heirs in event of death.
Insurance Cost Hlajbest.
Similarly the veteran of 100 days
would be entitled to "pay up" 20-year
endowment insurance of $464, with a
cash surrender or loan value of $137
In three years; the 200-day veteran
to' Insurance of $928, with a loan
value of $273; the 300-day veteran to
insurance of $1392, with a loan value
of $413. and the 500-day veteran to in
surance of $2321, with a loan value
of $689.
Estimating 3,590,000 ex-service per
sons will be affected by the bill, com
mitteemen declared that the ultimate
cost of the Insurance plan. If adopted
by all. would be approximately $6.000,.
000,000. The cash bonus, it was esti
mated, would cost $1,807,000,000 if ac
cepted by all.
HOUSE TAKES ACTION TODAY
Bonus Bill Starts Lap on Journey
Through Congress.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington. April 28. Soldiery bonus
legislation will start on the first lap
of Its journey thr.ough congress to
morrow when the house ways and
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.
New Vork House Accused of Over
charging in Deal for 45,000
Pounds of Potatoes.
NEW YORK. April 2S. On evidence
procured by the government's "fly
ing squadron" of profiteer hunters.
the federal grand jury today indicted
two firms for alleged profiteering in
sugar, and a third on charges of ask
ing illegal profits on potatoes.
Leon Israel and Brothers, Wall
street brokers and Importers, were j
charged with selling 500.000 pounds
of sugar at 21.50 cents a pound which j
they bought at 14.60 cents. Israel is
a director of the New York coffee and
sugar exchange.
E. H. Shurburne was charged with
having sold 960.000 pounds at- 21.75
cents a pound which he was said to
have bought at 16.50 cents.
"Andrew Shade, a New York com
mission merchant, . as indicted on a
charge of selling 45.000 pound of
potatoes at $13 a sack of 1T, pounds
which he was said to have purchased
at $9.44.
CROP PROSPECTS GLOOMY
Report Made on Washington Says
Season Three Weeks Late.
SEATTLE. Wash., April 2S. Crop
prospects for the state of Washington
are not flattering, according to a
synopsis of conditions issued today
by George N. Salisbury, meteorologist
for the United States department of
agriculture in Seattle.
The season is 12 days later than
last year, he says, or three weeks
later than normal, and crops and farm
work are correspondingly behind, the
synopsis states. This is attributed to
cold, stormy weather at the close of
March and the beginning of April.
Fruit trees are exceptionally late in
blooming this jcar, Mr. Salisbury re
ports. Range stock is doing well, but old
weather has delayed sheep shearing.
SUGAR GOES UP AGAIN
Basic Price Is Advanced $3.75 a
Hundred Overnight.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 28. The
Western Sugar Refining company to
day announced a basic price of $22.75
a 100 pounds for sugar, an increase
of $6.75 overnight. The jobbers are
under a trade understanding to con
fine their profits to approximately
1 cent a pound, while the retailers
have been turning sugar over for an
advance of between 2 and 2 'i cents
above the Jobbers' price.
This would bring the latest price
on Western Refinery Sugar to the
consumer to 26 25-100 cents a pound
at the San Francisco seaboard with
freight added to other points.
J. Q. MASON. TACQMA, DIES
Pioneer Railroad Official Veteran
Civil War Telegrapher.
TACOMA. Wash., April 2S. John Q.
Mason, Tacoma pioneer railroad offi
cial, veteran Civil War telegrapher,
died at his home here last night. Mr.
Mason came to Tacoma 32 years ago
and was for a number of years su
perintendent of telegraph for the
Northern Pacific, western division.
In recent years he had been an in
spector for the Western Union.
A widow and three sons, one of
whom. Edward W. Mason, is general
manager of the Western Pacific Kail
way, San Francisco, survive him.
INDEX UF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTt'.F.DAV S Maximum temperature,
ito ucsree; minimum. 4ti dt-jtreen.
TODAY'S Generally fair; westerly wind:.
National.
Jsptnfue In Siberia believed to have been
massacred. Pase 1.
Xewnprint prices b'smed on makers.
Pse 2.
Ony of radicalism laid to Cullison. Psse 1.
Senate adopts naval appropriations bii:.
'age
Paid-up insurance planned as bonus for
ex-service men. Page 13.
Itomewtte.
Wood keeps lead la race In New Jersey.
Pace 1.
Christian Scientists upho'd manual of alary
tsaaer r.aoy. i-ase -.
Mlchisan murderer
sirl k:s.-ed him
and b'tged to be killed. Pase
Government asks supreme court to reopen
suit ass-lntt steel corporation. Page J.
New York firms Indicted for profiteering
in sugar and potatoes. Page 1.
Anti-militarists of Kngiand la ccntrol, de
clares Ueddes. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Wogd gets four of Idaho's eignt dele
gates. Page 1.
State newspapers favor increased revenues
for nchools. Page 7.
Publisher of Seattle Post-IntcMigeneer tlo
mands in court return of .--k and
writ to prevent pale to Hearst. Page 8.
Potato boycott continued by Scattie ca
terers. Page 1.
Sports.
Pacific Coast league results: Tort and O,
San Francisco i; Oakland i. Sacramen
to 2; Vernon 5. Salt l.ke 1; Seattle 1.
Los Angeles 3. Page fj.
Herman has hla big chance In bout Fri
day with Farmer. Page 12.
Close competition likely In city swim
championships. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Fine, and medium wools wilt find first
aeliers in northwest. Pace 21.
Corn and oats "average lower In Chicago
market. Page 21.
Stock market rallies near close of session.
Page 21.
Non-union men hired when union long
shoremen balk. 1'age 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Swan Island" project to be placed on bal
lot. Page 20.
Yamhill county candidate criticises work
of highway commission. Page 13.
ShlDvards refuse to show books. Pace 1
New rules affect traffic on bridges.
Page 11
Moonshtning cases - swamp attorneys
Pag 10.
Aviator fined for running motorcycle at
6i miles an hour. Page 10.
Party lines disregarded in straw ballot for
president Page 7.
i Bed prisoner has never heard of I. W. W.
T I . ii
' Clothing to go up. declare retailert.
' Page 4.
Lonc-hldden crime revealed In arrest e
-4 tial estate uiuu. fic i.
Contempt of Court Cita
tions Are Prepared.
WAY IS OPENED FOR APPEAL
Seizure Held Violation of Con
stitutional Rights.
HEARING MAY BE DELAYED
Heads of orthC!-t Stool and Co
lumbia River Companies Ap
pear Before Federal Jury.
Following the refusal of J. R.
Bowles, president of the Northwest
Steel company, and Alfred F. Smith,
president of the Columbia River
Shipbuilding corporation, to produce
their corporation books and records
yesterday betur'e the federal grand
Jury, United States Attorney Hum
phreys announced that his steno
graphic force is preparing papers cit-
1 ing the two shipbuilding corporations
before Judje Bean for alleged con
tempt of court.
The contempt citations probably
will be filed in federal court today,
as Mr. Humphreys indicated the
papers would be filed as soon as they
were prepared. It is believed that
the proposed contempt citation will
be directed against the corporations
and not the presidents as individuals,
inasmuch as the subpenas duces te
cum were directed only against the
two corporations.
Submis.ioa f Hooka Rrfusrd.
Promptly at 2 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon the two shipbuilding heads,
Mr. BaWvles and Mr. Smith, were in
readiness in the grand Jury anteroom
wailing to be called. Immediately
after United Slates Attorney Hum
phreys had entered the grand Jury
room Mr. Bowles was called before
the Jurors. He was closeted with
them but a moment when Mr. Smltrt
was ushered Into the roi.m.
The entire proceedings did not last
more than ten minutes, and at its
conclusion announcement was made
by the federal authorities and at
torneys for the corporation heads that
both had announced their refusal to
submit their books and records for
grand Jury inspection. Both Mr.
Smith and Mr. Bowles filed written
statements with the grand jury, set
ting forth their reasons for refusal
10 obey the instructions of Judge
Bean.
A few minutes later the grand Jury
filed Into Judge Wolvcrton's court
room and reported progress on the
shipbuilding probe. A written report
as road by the foreman stated that
the corporations had refused to sub
mit their books for Inspection. The
Jury was then discharged subject to
call.
Way Favr4 for A,pr-r-.
W. Lair Thompson o: ' ?
the shipbuilding rorp i.;s - -nounced
that the refu: I
the books and records i- -K , :U
jury was made for the ,
of paving way for an :j : . .
United Slates eHrcuil ecu;
from the decision of Ju a - ' -
held that .under a j '.j :
tecum as issued Tues y ;
jury could demand po-- ; a '
corporate records of . -under
fire.
In view of the fact that several
of the jurors who live in other parts
of the state were permitted to return
to their homes last night, it is gen
erally believed that the investigation
now will be delayed until an appeal
in the United States circuit court of
appeals Is decided. This is expected
to take several months. United States
Attorney Humphreys told Judge Wol
verton he had no Idea when the Ju
rors might be called together again.
Hrarlsg May Be Delayed.
Although the contempt proceedings
are expected to be filed today, it is
believed that the hearing will be de
layed for several days in order to
permit both the government and the
defendants to prepare for the next
legal tilt or the investigation. It
was said thaj Judge Bean could order
the instant production of these cor
poration records, which could be
taken today from the plants by
physical force, but in view of the
fact that the contempt of court, if
such it proves to be, was taken sole
ly for the purpose of an appeal to a
higher court, it is believed that Judge
Bean will not be averse to grantinfe
this right to the shipyard beads.
. Shipyard Heads Explain. N-
If Judge Bean now holds that the
two corporations are in contempt of
court for refusal to produce their rec
ords before the grand Jury, the de
fense attorneys will ask for an ar
rest of judgment, which will give
them the desired opportunity to ap
peal to the higher court. Both Mr.
I Thompson and Dan J. Malarkey, ship-
yard counsel, explained this was the
only method by which they could
get the case before a higher tribunal.
A full explanation of their refusal
to submit their books for grand jury
investigation was made by Presidents
Bowles of the Northwest teel com
pany and Smith of the Columbia River
Shipbuilding corporation, in written
Vuntiuded on, l'.ge tt Column 2.