YrOT, IMV- NO. 18.018 Entered at Portland (Oregon)
,jl-v .v. r-nsmfflce Second-Ola Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY. JULY 27, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
REWARD FOR CAPTURE'
OF OUTLAWS IS $5000
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5 BILLION TAX PAID
NAVY DEPARTMENT
COMMANDEERS OIL
SIX U. S. DESTROYERS FILL
TANKS AT SAN FRANCISCO.
YACHTS QUIT RAGE
QUAKE EARLY TODAY
JARS' LOS ANGELES
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S A D DOGS
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ORGANIZED
CUMMINGS ON JOB
IN ANOTHER ROLE .
Deposed Chairman Still
in Wilson Service.
PAST YEAR IS RECORD
MAN HUHTGOES ON
UMATILLA OFFERS STIMULUS
TO SEARCH I'OR SLAVER.
SUM COLLECTED PASSES ESTI
TWO SHOCKS YESTERDAY DO
SOME DAMAGE.
MATE BY $300,000,000.
PURSUE SLAYERS
One Fugitive, Not in At
tack, Recaptured.
FIVE STILL AT L1RGEE
Owens
to
and Hart Thought
Have Separated
From Others.
ALL UMATILLA JOINS CHASE
Bloodhounds Pick Up Scent
Where Three of Prisoners
Were Reported Seen.
$2500 Reward Up for Surrender of
Neil Hart, Dead or Alive; $1000
Is Posted for Companion.
PENDLETON, Or., July 26. (Spe
cial.) Rewards totaling $5000 were
offered here today by county authori
ties for the capture of the men who f
broke jail here Sunday, when Sheriff
T. D. Taylor was shot and killed by
Neil Hart, one of their number. It
expected also that the city of
dleton would offer- an additional
$1000, making the total reward for
the fugitives $6000.
County Commmlssionera Anderson
and Dunning: have offered $2500 re
ward for the capture of Neil Hart,
"dead or alive," and $1000 for the cap
ture of Jim Owens, Hart's companion.
For the capture of Jack Rathie, Louis
Anderson and Richard Patterson, the
other jail breakers still at large, re
wards of $500 each were posted.
Rathie, Anderson and Patterson were
held in jail for minor crimes.
As R. I. Keator. district attorney.
was out of the city today at the head
or a posse, the two commissioners
took other legal advice in making the
rewards. Mr. Dunning and Mr. An
derson are the only members of the
county court who are In Pendleton at
his time.
VILLA BAND IN BATTLE
PENDLETON, Or., July 26.
(Special.) A f t e r more than 24
hours of futile pursuit for the slay
ers of Sheriff Taylor, who was
killed yesterday afternoon when six
prisoners in the county jail at the
courthouse here made their escape,
a score of separate posses were con
tinuing the search tonight.
Albert Lindgren, one oi the fugi
tives, was captured early this morn
ing near Cayuse when he surrendered
to one of the possees withcut making
any show of resistance. Lindgren
was unarmed. Lindgren was one of
the trio released from his cell by
Hart, Owens, and Rathie, after
Sheriff Taylor had been shot and
mortally wounded by Hart.
Three Reported in Ravine.
Early tonight, three of the five
fugitives were reported to have been
seen in the ravine along Mackay
creek, 12 miles southeast of Pendle
ton.
The bloodhounds from the sheriff's
office at La Grande and from the
Washington state , penitentiary at
Walla: Walla were immediately dis
patched to that district. The dogs
were reported to have picked up the
trail immediately.
Several automobile loads of man-
hunters were sent to the Mackay
district, and another posse was wait
ing here for word from the search.
The plan was to surround the ravine
and move in from all sides.
"Take Hart, and Owens, dead or
alive, preferably dead," were the in
structions given to each member of
each posse. 1
Posse After Posse Leaves.'
All day yesterday and until far in
the night posse after posse left the
Fendleton courthouse to trace to the
source every one of the many clews
which were reported by tele
phone and messengers from ranchers
throughout the surrounding country.
Heavily armed and desperate, the
five jail-breakers, who were still at
large, were expected to put up a
strong and bitter resistance. Be
tween them, they have two high
powered rifles and either eight- or
nine revolvers, with a large supply
of shells for all the guns. The guns
were taken from Sheriff Taylor's
office at the time of the jail.-break,
It was believed' practically certain
that the two leaders, Hart and
Owens, both half-breed Indians,
would stay together. Iney were
considered the most dangerous of
all. Latest accounts from the foot
hills indicated the other three also
were together and armed.
All Umatilla Joins Search.
Umatilla county tonight was de
termined that the brutal, cold
blooded murder of Taylor would be
avenged. More than 250 heavily-
armed men were searching with grim
determination through hills, ravines,
forests and sage brush.'
W. R. "Jinks" Taylor, younger
brother of the slain sheriff, late to
day took charge of the man-hunt.
His appointment as sheriff of Uma
tilla county to serve out the unex
pired term of his brother, was an
nounced this afternoon by the
county commissioners. He took the
oath of office at once and took, im
mediate charge of the man-hunt.
Lindgren, after his capture, told
Deputy Sheriff Marin that he had
separated from his fellow fugitives
at the jail entrance and had already
started on a run for the railroad
tracks before he heard the firing
of any shots.
Six man-hunters from . Portland
tConcludcd on rase 4, Cuiumn 1.)
Posses Ready to Keep Up
Search for Weeks.
WILD COUNTRY IS COMBED
Pendleton Appears Like Early
Frontier Town.
SEARCHERS SNATCH REST
Harum-Skarum Tactics Give Way
' to Systematic Effort to
Catch Outlaws.
Clash With Government Forces at
Sabinas Reported.
EAGLE PASS, Vex., July 26. Ar
rival of Francisco Villa, bandit chief
lain, at aaoinas tnis mornins. was
immediately followed by a sharp en
counter with a government force of
about 25 troops, all of whom are be
lieved to have been killed, accord
ing to information reaching Eagle
Pass late today. i
It Is said that Villa's force totals
between 300 and 500. Sabinas is 90
miles south of Eagle Pass. Earlier
reports were that Villa was in tele
graphic conferences with. President
De la Huerta at Mexico City and Gen
eral Eugenio Martinez, commander of
the Torreon zone, to arrange for his
surrender.
Villa will start on another war
path if his terms are not accepted,
it is reported here. Refugees are
coming to Piedras Negras from the
Sabinas district, fearing trouble as
a result, of Villa's presence, it is
understood.
A report reaching Eagle Pass to
night says Villa has taken Carl
Haegelin. an American, president oi
the Sabinas brewery, and is holding
him for ransom.
OREGON MAN IS SLAIN
Chinese Gamblers Kill F. Chisholm,
Said to Be of Klamath Falls.
bACKAMBNTO, Cal., July 26. A
man, said by the coroner's office to
be Fred Chisholm of Klamath Falls
ur., was shot and killed late this
afternoon by Chinese gamblers at
Lockeport, a small delta town, about
20 miles south of this city.
James Brody and A. W. Maher of
Oakland, companions of Chisholm, es
caped the volley of bullets.
George San, said to be one of the
slayers, was arrested tonight by
deputies from the sheriff's office. A
posse was searching for other orient
als believed to have been involved in
the shooting.
Chisholm was fatally wounded in
the back and died at Walnut Grove
a short time later.
PENDLETON, Or.. July 26. (Spe,
cial.) Tactics employed to capture
Neil Hart, murderer of Til Taylor,
and four of his companions who es-
capted In the jail-break yesterday,
have suddenly veered from 3- frantic.
harum - skarum, everybody-for-hlm
self effort to a careful, studied, de
termined man hunt.
Scores of haggard, dust-covered
friends of the late sheriff returned to
Peitdleton this afternoon, with rifles
loaded but not a shot fired. They had
been out all night and well into the
day without sight. of the desperadoes.
They returned merely to snatch a
wink of sleep before starting out
again, with new instructions and with
food enough to last through another
night's vigil and, if necessary, on l-?o
another day.
Tired Poaaemen Take Heat.
Pendleton appeared like art early-
day frontier town.
Tired possemen who had wriggled
through' sagebrush and along moun-
ain stock paths, through wheat fields
nd along railroad tracks, flung thera-
elves down at posse headquarters
this afternoon on the courthouse
lawn. Rifles were stacked and the
tmosphere was surcharged with ex
ilement and eagerness for the ca-
ure of the outlaws.
Owens and Hart Reported Seen.
A Umatilla Indian and his squaw
in the Meacham Hill country, above
Mackay creek, reported that they
had seen two men answering the de
scription of Hart and Owens headed
from Mackay cneek toward the
Meacham Hill country. Less than an
hour after this report had been re
eived another resident of that see-
on telephoned in a similar report.
Police Inspectors Swennes, McCul-
loch and Klingensmith of 'the Port-
and police department, and Deputy
Sheriff Christofferson of Portland,
were among the picked man-hunters
to be sent to Meacham hill.
More than a score of men, armed
with high-powered rifles, were ready
Totals of 1918 and 1019 Exceeded
by 75 Per Cent; New York Leads
All Other States In Levy.
WASHINGTON. July 26. The na
tion's greatest tax bill $3,410,284,874
was collected during the fiscal year
ending June 30. Official figures to
night showed that the tax paid ex
ceeded all estimates, by approximate
ly $300,000,000 and was nearly 75 per
cent larger than the total paid In
either of the war years of 1918 or
1919. The 1918 tax levy yielded $3,
694.619,638 and the taxes In 1919 ag
gregated $3,839,950,612.
Collection of this record-breaking
assessment cost the government $39.-
750,000, or about 65 cents for each
$100.
Revenues derived from Income cud
excess profits taxes were $3,944,656,-
737, nearly $1,250,000,000 larger than
the collections In either of the last
two years. Ai Increase for this year
also was shown in the receipts from
miscellaneous taxes, which brought
In $1,465,728,136. These taxes totaled
$1,243,941,909 and $855,591,700 for 1919
and 1918, respectively.
.2w York state continued to lead
thf nation as a taxpayer. Its burden
totaling $l,il6, 939,276, of which
$1,135,097,403 came from th,o Wall
street district.
The Chicago district paid all but
$40,315,758 of the total Illinois taxes
of $442,233,070. Collections by states
or by groups of states in cases where
more than one state comprises a dis
trict Included: Montana, Utah and
Idaho, $20,757,741; Oregon, $27,264,123;
Washington and Alaska, $42,179,655.
Postoffice sales of internal revenue
stamps (11 months) were $22, 528,651.
500,000 Gallons Taken at $1.72 a
Barrel, Ignoring Company's
Price of $2.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 26.
The navy began carrying out today
its threat to seize fuel oil from four
California oil companies which had
refused to sell at the price of $1.72 a
barrel fixed by the navy. Six de
stroyers, with a total capacity of
about 500,000 gallons, were loaded at
the Associated Oil company plant here
under protest, after naval officials
had declared their right to take the
fuel.
The total amount that the navy will
find it necessary to seize has not yet
been determined, it was announced,
so the policy toward the Associated.
stanaara, bhell and Union oil com
panies will be decided from day to
Ly
An emergency caused by shortage
f oil for the Pacific fleet and the
Mare island navy-yard brought about
today's action. .
The navy was taking the oil at Its
own price of $1.72 'a barrel, navy
authorities announced. The oil com
pany was notified that it may resort
the court if it wishes to get its
own price, which ranges around $2.
The commanders of the destroyers
were ordered to use all means within
the 'power of the navy to secure the
oil and two of the war vessels which
were in the van, berthed at the. com
pany's wharf.
WHEN BREEZE DIES
Deciding Contest to Be
Tried Again Today.
RESOLUTE LEADS AT END
Four-Knot Wind Makes Start
Quite Fast.
GRANTS PASS DECLINES
Population Is Reported Materially
Under That of 1810.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, July 26. Census figures an
nounced today show the 1920 popula
tions of several incorporated cities
and towns in Josephine and Grant
counties, Oregon, together with fig
ures for 1900 and 1910. The figures
follow:
Grants Pass 3151
Austin 149
Canyon City 354
Day vllle 117
Granite 55
John Day IVJl
Long- Creek Town.... 148
Monument Town .... 147
Prairie City B43
The population of Marsh field. Or.
was reported as 4034, an increase of
1054, or 35.4 per cent.
10W
3S'J7
144
3ti4
' 8!
258
8
119
343
1000
2290
345
28
11
MEDF0RD HAS BIG BLAZE
Destruction of Large Warehouse
Entails Loss of $100,000.
MEDFORD, Or., July 26. The most
destructive fire in Medford's history
occurred early this morning whe
Eads brothers' warehouse in the heart
of the city burned at a loss of $100,000.
More than 300 people In Medford had
property stored in this building and
everything was destroyed.
' The total Insurance carried by th
various individuals has not been de
termined, but is believed to be small.
Spontaneous combustion is given as
the cause.
DR. DORTEN IS RELEASED
Allies Order Surrender and Return
of Separatist Leader.
BERLIN. July 26. Dr. H. A. Dorten
the separatist leader, who was known
as "Dresident of the Rhineland re
public," and who was arersted re
cently by German authorities, has
been set free upon the government's
order, the Lokal Anzeiger announces
today.
PARIS, July 26. The allied high
commissioners in the Rhineland last
evening informed the German Ira
perlal commissioner there that unless
Dr. H. A. Dorten, separatist leader,
was surrendered, and brought back to
the Rhineland.the commission would
take the most energetic measures, ac
cording to news received at the for
eign office today.
AGED MAN IS PUT IN JAIL
(Concluded on Page 4, Column 3.)
Young Woman Admits Babies
Found In Cistern, Are Hers
OMAHA, Neb., July 26. Hi S. Kent
61 years old.. Is in Jail today follow
ing the finding of two Infants abou
two days old in an abandoned cistern
here Saturday.
Miss Louise Boeke, about 25 years
old, admitted today that she was th
mother of the babies.
MAIL EMPLOYES WARNED
Order Help to Refrain From "Per
nicious Political Activity."
WASHINGTON, July 26. All post
masters and postal employes are
warned to "refrain carefully from en
gaging in pernicious political activ
ity during the political campaign," in
an order issued today by Postmaster-
General Burleson.
Quoting rulings by the civil serv
ice commission, the order gave notice
that presidential appointees are for
bidden to solicit or receive contrlbu
tions, must not use their office "to
control political movements or cause
public scandal," while employes actu
ally under civil service are forbidden
to take an active part In management
or conduct of political campaigns.
Employes under civil service, the
notice said, "are accountable for ac
tivity by persons - other "than them
selves, including wives and husbands,
if they are in fact accomplishing
through the relationship purposes
which they are forbidden directly to
seek."
Chimneys Knocked Down, Dihcs
Broken and AVindows Rattled
AH Over Town.
LOS ANGELES, July 27. A slight
earthquake was felt here at 12:02
A. M.
The shock rattled windows in
downtown buildings and awakened
prisoners in the county jail, who
immediately set up a howl to be. re
leased. Reports from various parts
of the city, however, show ftiat no
damage was done.
CAMPAIGN DUTIES ASSIGNED
SHAMROCK CROSSES FIRST
Contenders Wallow Along for Four
Hours and Half in Very
Breezeless Sea.
ON BOARD VICTORIA. July 26.
Sir Thomas Lipton today announced
he would challenge again for the
America's cup should he fail to lift
it with his present entry.
. "I will not do so for a year," he
said, "as It would only be sportsman
like to wait that long to give some
one else a chance."
In .making this announcement, the
LOS ANGELES. Cal., July 26. A
sham earthauake shock woke Los
I Angeles at 4:12 this morning. Reports
to the telephone and telegraph com
panies and to fire and police depart
ments indicated It apparently was felt
chiefly at Los Angeles and in a lesser
degree at Inglewood and Redondo
beach, the former about 12 miles and
the latter about 22 miles distant, both
in a southwesterly direction.
A few chimneys were knocked down,
dishes broken and windows rattled.
A second and much lighter shock
.was felt in Los Angeles at 8:59 A. M.
Pressure to Be Brought and
Kept on Mr. Cox.
LEAGUE IS FIRST CONCERN
Expectation Is That Ex-Coninnittce
Chief Will Head Managers in
Coming Campaign.
SANTIAGO, Chile. July 26. This
city was rocked by a strong earth
quake at 12:30 o'clock this morning,
but little damage was reported. The
disturbance was felt throughout the
central zone from Serena to Concep
cion. The duration is estimated at
from four to six seconds.
Advices from Argentina say an
British sportsman by no means ad- I earthquake occurred at Mendoza last
mitted or even intimated his present
erfort would not be successful.
"I am sorry there was no race to
day," he said. "I honestly believe
that when the contest was called off
Shamrock had by far the better po
sition had a breeze come up in time
to have finished."
Name "Shanrork" To Be Kept.
Sir Thomas also Intimated that the
name "Shamrock" would be retained
to go with any future challenger.
The tedium of today's v-atchlng on
board Victoria was broken by several
aerial visitors, who called to wish Sir
x nomas good luck and to pay their
respects. Two of the visiting sea
planes alighted on the water near the
yacht and took some of his guests
for an air spin. '
night lasting nearly two minutes
Other estimates of the duration of
the shock here vary, some reaching
25 seconds.
Dispatches from Valparaiso say that
the earthquake produced considerable
alarm. The population, recalling the
disastrous quake of 1906, evacuated
their homes.
This morning's quake was the most
Intense since 1906.
L0WDEN TO TAKE STUMP
MILK DENIED TO 12,000
Four Largest Kansis City, Mo., Dis
tributors Give No Reason for Act.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 27. The
four largest milk distributing com
panies in Kansas City, in an advertis
ment printed In morning papers, an
nounced that no milk would be deliv
ered today to their 12,000 customers.
No explanation was given f.or the
action.
THE SILVER LINING.
THEFT OF PLANE DENIED
Ex-Army Aviator Accused of At
tempting Air Getaway.
FARGO, N. D., July 26. Huteel
Metzger. former army aviator, pleaded
not guilty in police court today to a
charge of attempting to steal an airplane.-
He was held under $2000 ball.
It is charged that he and an accom
plice took the plane from the air field
here today but the motor stopped just
after they "hopped off." The plane
was abandoned.
Lots of
automobile
accusants
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SANDY HOOK. N. J., July 26. The
5-mlle gale that drove defender
Resolute and her British ' challenger
Shamrock IV back to shelter Satur
day, retired today, and the fifth and
deciding race for the America's cup
was called off after the contenders
had wallowed along four and a half
hours in a very breezeless sea.
The third attempt to run the race
will be made tomorrow.- wind and
weather permitting. The course will
be the same that the rivals tried to
cover today 15 miles to windward
and 15 miles to leeward.
Although their favorite failed to
win today, Resolute's supporters took
comfort in the fact that she was
leading by about two miles when the
match was declared off.
Jlenolute Overcome Lead.
Measured in actual progress this
meant about an hour's sailing, for
the defender had consumed a trifle
more than four and a half hours in
covering nine miles.
Both yachts, however, had covered
more actual distance than nine miles
for after the start. Captain Adams I
II of Resolute and Captain Burton
of Shamrock IV got into a luffing
match that took them ' far off the
course.
When they finally came about after
an hour and twenty minutes of sail
ing that had carried them only a
short distance toward the mark. Res
olute had picked up the 56 seconds'
lead the Shamrock IV took at the
start and soon passed the challenger.
Breath of Wind pies Away.
But the breath of wind that had
given the committee sufficient hope
to start the race had died out by
this time and the sloops fairly drifted
until the match was declared off.
The signal calling the race off was
sounded at 5:03 P. M., with Resolute
six miles from the turn and Sham
rock two miles away offshore.
Believing that the morning north
erly would last all day. ' the com
mittee ordered the yachts off on a
leeward and windward race with the
outer mark a little west of south of
the lightship.
Both yachts prepared for spinnaker
work, but Shamrock, which led Reso
lute across the line by two seconds
under a minute, elected to start the
first luffing match of the series and
the two yachts headed directly off
the course for the Jersey shore under
balloon jibs and usual working sails.
Wind About Four Knots.,
The wind was about four knots at
the start from the north and the
first mile was sailed quite fast. Then
the wind began to fail and in half
an hour had dropped to a mere zephyr
Shamrock, however, still held off the
course and R jlute followed. Dur
ing the first hour the green boat
gained a lead more than a quarter
of a mile.
Then Skipper Adams showed Skip
per Burton he could play the luffing
game a trifle better, for, after get
ting five miles off the course to the
westward and almost going aground
on the upper end of Sandy Hook.
Resolute jibed over and hauled off
shore. Before the Shamrock could
follow the defender had slipped into
a lead, a position which she main
tained until the postponement signal
was blown.
The yachts worked the Jersey shore
for the next two hours, with the wind
backing and hauling and still keeping
light. Shamrock dropped steadily be
hind, while Resolute, picking up a
head wind, shifted "canvas quickly
Illinois Governor to Tour for Hard
ing; 15,000 Speakers on List.
CHICAGO, July 26. Governor F. O.
Lowden will take the stump In be
half- of the republican presidential
ticket, it was announced today after
a conference between the governor.
Chairman Hays of the national, com
mittee, and Senator Harry S. New of
Indiana, head of the speakers' bureau.
Senator New announced that his
list of speakers for the campaign
contained more than 13,000 names, in
cluding about 1500 women.
BATHERS SEE MAN-EATER
Screams Attract Guard and Shark
Is Clubbed to Death.
EIK5EMERE, N. Y... July 26. A
shark weighing 450 pounds was cap
tured and killed on the bathing
beach today by George Weiss, a life
guard.
Attracted by the screams of bathers,
Weiss saw the shark plunging over
the breakers. He jumped into a small
boat, drove the shark Into shallow
water and clubbed It to death with an
oar.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
65
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
degrees; minimum, o i degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and continued warm
northwesterly winds.
Foreign.
Poles and bolshevik! meet
armistice. Page
National. I
Nation collects more than five billion In !
taxes past year, setting: record. Page 1. '
Chairman Cummlngs deposed yet In service
of White House. Page 1.
Do met tic.
Harding to go slow In forming Russian
policy. Page i.
Karly morning earthquake wakes citizens
of Los Angeles. Page 1.
Deciding yacht race of series again post
poned. Page 1.
Search for slayer of woman found In
trunk becomes nation-wide. Page 5.
Homer Wilson, idol of wild west shows,
slain by wife. Page '2.
Party leaders gather to notify Governor
Coolidge of vice-presidential nomina
tion. Page
Pacific NorthwPfct.
Navy destroyers commandeer fuel oil
San Francisco. Page i.
$5000 reward offered for capture
Pendleton outlaws. Page 1.
Sheriff Tilman D. Taylors funeral to
held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Page 4.
Salem pastors demand inquiry or 7Iks
convention. Pase o.
Grim, systematic manhunt In lmatilia
county may continue weeKs. rare l.
Posses traiiins faherirr Taylors s.aycrs.
Pase 1.
Governor Hart advocates stricter limit
ation of alien ownersnip or lano.
Page 3.
Commercial and Marine.
Stock prices crumble when call money
advances to 10 per cent at New Tork.
Pase 17.
Coffee slump believed to be at end. Pase
17.
Hogs make advance at local yards. Pass
17.
Grain prices undergo smash at Chicago.
Pase 17.
Shipments to Orient how improvement
Pase 16.
Sports.
Beavers, return home today to play seven
game series with Seals. Page 10.
Hagen and Barnes give Vardon and Ray
' hard golf contest. Page 10.
Negro knocks out Ku'ton in third round.
Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Commissioners grant increases in salaries
of county employes, ranging from $lo
to $30. Page IS.
Captain James Dillane is made actins
battalion chief. Page 7.
Detective W. J. Burns says many returned
soldiers involved in wave of crime.
Page 8.
Gourt ruling halts state work on Dallas
Independence link. Page 8.
Cox victory sure, says Dr. Morrow, bran
dishing straw votes. Page 9.
Portland to prosecute dairymen. Pase 11.
Building inspector says James John high
tail be made tafe. Page 11.
Wages of rail workers in Portland In
creased $400,000. Page 18.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, July 26. Homer S. Cum
mings. deposed chairman of the dem
ocratic national committee. Is to be
the White House agent before the
public to compel Governor Cox to ad
here to the Wilson ideal of the league
of nations, a sort of liaison officer
In the camp of the enemy.
This Is the Interpretation placed
here on the conference held by Mr.
Cummings today with President Wil
son, preliminary to the conference
which the president will .hold with
George, White, who succeeded Mr.
Cummings as chairman.
noth Keenly Disappointed.
It Is a well-known fact that both
the White House and Mr. Cummings
were disappointed over the fact that
Mr. Cummings was not retained in his
position as chairman. While the sub
ject probably was not mentioned in
the White House conference, it was
probably assumed that inasmuch as
Governor Cox had undertaken to
shoulder the Wilson league. Mr. Cum
mings, who had been the president's
chief spokesman on this subject,
would be retained to head the cam
paign managers.
It was one of those subtle, un
spoken understandings which a dip
lomatic situation demanded should
remain outside of the field of dis
cussion. But a few days ago Mr.
Cummings was invited to take his hat
and go, the explanation being given
that he would go on the stump.
Cox' Fidelity Questioned.
Mr. Cummings had voiced the presi
dent's views before the San Francisco
convention and in his keynote speech,
spoke for the president on this sub
ject. It was recognized that his re
tention as chairman would assist the
president in securing some semblance
of the solemn referendum he desires
on the league. His rejection as
chairman made It equally doubtful
if Governor Cox was really as earn
est a supporter of the president's
position as he had professed to be.
Mr. Cummings acknowledged today
that the league was discussed and
le also admitted that his possible
.andidacy as United States senator
,rom Connecticut against Senator
frank B. Brandegee is under consid
eration. Wilson Boosts Cummins.
As it is understood here, the presi
dent is anxious to put Mr. Cummings
forward so prominently that his
I words will get attention, and such a
July 30 for PIan w-ould naturally make it more
j difficult for Governor Cox to deviate
I from the letter and spirit of his
agreement with the president to
stand for his position on the league.
Whether Mr. Cummings could be
more effective as a candidate for sen
ator or as free lance speaker sent
out to round up the electorate, is a
question of strategy. Mr. Cummings
once before attempted to break Into .
the senate, opposing Senator McLean,
but was defeated by a Jwido margin.
It is barely possible, however, that
the plan of strategy may take into
consideration that Mr. Cummings. as
the president's mouthpiece, might
make Just as good a run for the sen
ate while making speeches outside
of Connecticut and thai his candi
dacy against Brandegee. one of the
staunchest opponents of the league,
would secure widespread publicity for
him. This double-barreled plan may
be tried.
(tueer SUtemeat Made.
After his conference with the pres
ident Mr. Cummings said that Senator
Harding's speech made it clear that
those who wanted any kind of a
league would vote the democratic
ticket, while those who were opposed
to any kind of a league would vote
the republican ticket. This Is regard
ed as a singular statement. In view of
the fact that the president is standing
1 for Just one kind of a league, namely.
the one he negotiated
right."
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PEAK FILMED FROM ABOVE
Motion Pictures of Mount Rainier
Made in Airplane.
SEATTLE, Wash.. July 26. Her
bert Munter. a Seattle pilot, claims an
aerial mountain climbing record for
passengers which he made Sunday
when he took a motion picture pho
tographer and a reporter in his air
plane 1500 feet above the summit of
Mount Rainier, the peak of which is
14,526 feet above sea level.
Motion pictures and still photo
graphs of the peak, said to be the
first taken from an airplane at that
height, were made by Munter's pas
sengers, who carried with them a,
complete photographic outfit.
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