VOL.. LIX XO. 18,670 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Postoffice a. Scorn1-Claa Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS GLEAN BASEBALL TRIBUMAL'WANTED People May Control Own Game in Future. FRANCE GOES LIMIT HONORING PERSHING SUPREME JUSTICE HARDING LEADS STRAW BALLOT ON, FIFTH DAY FAVOR OF 143 TO 53 SHOWN IX THE OREGOAIAX CANVASS. EX-SENATOR CRANE SUCCUMBS SUDDENLY TENANTS REFUSE TO BUDGE MOVING DAY XKW YORK COURT DECISION PROTECTS RENTERS. BENNETT HIGHEST AVAR DECORATION" OF REPUBLIC CONFERRED. ' XOTED REPUBLICAN LUADER DIES AT DALTOX, MASS." HARD NG SCORES RESIGNS WED INTERESTS OPPOSED Leaders of Sport Take Stock v to Preserve Pastime. NATIONAL SPORT IN PERIL Men Above Question Desired to Take Cliare and Purge of Evils. CHICAGO, Oct. 1. Representatives of four major league baseball clubs tonight started a movement designed to "clean up baseball forever" by tak ing: control of the game out of the hands of men financially interested and placing it under a "civilian tri bunal" to be composed of men "of Unquestioned public standing." A letter was sent to every major league club and dozens of othere in terested, asking their approval of the plan, which was characterized as a means of "giving professional base ball to the American people, where It belongs, and taking ownership of it away from club owners and players." Loyal Owner Back Move. The letter waa signed by William Veeck, president of the Chicago Na tional league club: Charles A, Comls key, president of the Chicago Amer ican league club; Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburg club, and John McGraw, vice-president and manager of the New York National league club. It proposed that the national com mission be abolished because "in its present form it cannot be Impartial," and that In its place there be a tri bunal whose members would receive higher salaries than anyone now con nected with baseball. General Persh ing, Major-General Leonard Wood. former President William Howard Taft, Senator Hiram Johnson, Judge K. M. Land is and William G. McAdoo are eome of the men proposed for the tribunal, but the letter adds t' at none has been approached. Tribunal Would Rnle Sport. Salaries for members of the tri bunal and its secretaries and clerks would be paid from a fund set aside from major league and world series receipts. The tribunal would be in absolute charge of all organized baseball leagues, of the players, the managers and owners and league presidents and its decisions would be beyond appe: 1 or dispute. The letter declared that such a plan must be worked out immediately if baseball is to continue as the national frame and points out the gambling and betting evils revealed in the past two 3 ears. The plan was worked out by A, D. Lasker of the Chicago National league club and received full approval of President John Heydler of the Na tional league, the letter says. Impartial Leaders Sought. "The national commission, base hall's supreme body consists today of presidents of the National and Ameri can leagues," the letter continues. "Regardless of the desire of these men to be impartial, they could not be, at least subconsciously, unmind ful of the special interest of the individual league they represented. It was felt, therefore, that the third member of the commission should be connected with the game. The shock just received by the baseball world. the blacklisting of three major league players and the indictments and suspension of some of the great est stars on a world championship team, has caused the owners to look within themselves as. understand- ably, they might not look under ordinary circumstances. "As a basis for proposed action, the signers of this letter have agreed to a preliminary plan and agree to put 11 into operation. The undersigncrs urge that the three most prominent men obtainable, in nowise connected with baseball be obtained to act as a superior tri bunal, and that, such tribunal shall have tin review able authority over presidents of all leagues, club owners. flayers and every other person, act or thing connected with baseball. "The mere knowledge of control of baseball by such men would insure that the public interests would be first served and that, therefore, all existing evils would disappear. High Salaries Kavored. "It is proposed to appropriate the necessary expenses for this tribunal from the world series and major league receipts. Paying these men higher salaries than anyone connected -Uh baseball receives, would empha eize their authority and automati cally attract men of the type desired. "Kvcryone connected with baseball would bo absolutely under the con trol of this tribunal. If an owner committed an unethical act the tri bunal could reprimand him, fine him Or even revoke his franchise. "Likewise, it woujd be empowered to establish a proper relationship between minor and major leagues. "The conduct of the player on the field and the rules governing the frames also will bo subject to the .(.Concluded on Page 2, Column 4.) Medaille Militaire Is Presented to American Commander by French General Fayolle. - WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. "In the name of the- American army that fought In f'rance," General Pershing today accepted the award of the medaille militaire, the highest mili tary decoration within the gift of the French government. The presentation was made at Fort Myer by the French General Marie Fayolle, who commanded the first American troops on the western front. The parade ground at the fort pre sented a colorful picture, the French tricolor everywhere floating In uni son with the stars and stripes as General Pershing, an isolated figure in the center of the field, was ap proached by General Fayolle and the medal pinned on hi3 breast after a brief address by the French officer. "It gives me the deepest pleasure," General Fayoll declared, in present ing the medal, "to confer upon you as the commander-in-chief of the valiant American soldiers who fought in France, the highest decoration of my government." Accepting the honor on behalf of the American army, General Per shing expressed his "deepest grati ture," adding that it was a "particu lar pleasure to receive the medaille militaire from the French general who commanded the first American troops to enter the fighting line in France." LANE ILL, QUITS BUSINESS Retirement as Oil Company Offi cial Temporary. NEW YORK, Oct. 1. Franklin K. Lane, ex-secretary of the interior, has been forced to give up business tem porarily because of ill health, it was learned today. It was said at the offices of the oil company of which he is vice-president that, approaching a physical break down after f even years of public life, he had been ordered by his physicians to leave his desk two weeks ago. He went to Katonah, N. Y., returning here yesterday on his way to Bethel, Maine, where he has been directed to take a complet rest. His condition now, it was said, is not serious. SEATTLE IS OUTSTRIPPED Bank Clearings of Portland Lead by Xearly $5,000,000. Portland bank clearings for the month of September exceeded those of Seattle. by nearly Jo, 000,000, accord ing to comparative figures obtained yesterday. Earlier in the month com parative figures showed that Portland was running consistently ahead of the Puget sound city and it was not con sidered surprising when Portland'3 monthly total was found to be well ahead. The figures are: Portland bank clearings for September, 1920. il80,- 346,491.38; Seattle's clearings for the same period, 175,874,388.96. AUTO HITS WAGON, 2 HURT George Ilousch, 42, and Son Henry, 1 1, Sustain Injuries. George Housch, 42, of 950 Prescott street, suffered an injury to his an kle, and his son Henry, 14, suffered a scalp wound last night, when their milk wagon was run down by an automobile at East Twenty-sixth and Knott streets. Both received first-aid treatment at the emergency hospital. G. B. Nakamura, a Japaese real estate dealer, was arrested last night by Patrolman Atkinson and charged with being drunk, following a col lision between Nakamura's automo bile and a Vancouver street car on the Broadway bridge. ' PLOT KNOWLEDGE CLAIMED Brooklyn Loiterer Tells roliee He Knows Bombers. NEW YORK, Oct. 1. A man giving the name of Joshua Greenspan, arrested early today for loitering in a Brooklyn building, was said by the police to have stated he knew the identity of persons responsible for the Wall street explosion. Greenspan was sent to a hospital for observation, while members of the bomb squad and agents of the department of Justice began checking up his record. LOVERS BRAVE WEATHER Six Couples Wed at Vancouver. Fiscal Year Shows Loss. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Oct. 1. (Spe cial.) Though today was Friday, and unusually stormy, windy and rainy, six couples braved the elements and superstition and were married. During September this year, 237 couples were married. The number for September, 1919, was 263. The number married here the past 12 months, ending last night, was 2788 couples. LAWS MADE STRINGENT Industrial Troubles at Ports Ruled by Measure. AUSTIN, Tex.. Oct. 1. The house passed today the bill proposing more stringent laws relating to industrial troubles at ports by a vote of 86 to 20, This was nine votes less than the number required to give the measure the emergency fclausa. Attorney-General Brown Named Successor. T. B. HANDLEY GETS POST Corporation Commissioner to Take Attorney's Place. OLCOTT FILLS VACANCIES Member of Commission to Be Xamcd by Governor Today. Age Causes Resignation. SALEM, Or., Oct. 1. (Special.) George M. Brown, since January 1, 1915, attorney-general .of Oregon, to night was appointed justice of the Oregon supreme court by Governor Olcott to succeed A. S. Bennett, who has resigned because of private busi ness affairs needing his attention in Eastern Oregon. Attorney-General Brown will be succeeded by T. B. Handley, who was named corporation commissioner last May following the resignation of H. J. Schulderman. Mr. Handley's successor will be appointed byGovernor Olcott tomorrow. In presenting his resignation to Governor Olcott late this afternoon Justice Bennett said: "I regret exceedingly to break the pleasant associations which have sur rounded me on the supreme bench and to give up the very congenial work thereon. But the cares and disabill tiesof advancing years, together with the pressure of some private affairs, make it difficult and sometimes al most impossible satisfactorily to per form the duties of the office. Renlgiiatlon la Tendered. "I therefore tender my resignation as associate justice of the supreme court, to take effect on Wednesday, October 6." Attorney-General Brown was elect ed to his present office in November, 1914, and entered upon his duties on January of the following year. He was re-elected to the office .at the general election in 1918 and had more than two years yet to serve. Before coming to Salem Mr. Brown had resided in Douglas county prac tically all of his life and still re tains his legal residence at Roseburg. For 21 years he was district attorney of Douglas county, leaving that of fice to accept the duties of attorney general. During his incumbency as attorney-general Mr. Brown has han dled considerable Important litigation for the state and practically all of his legaT opinions have stood the tests of the supreme court. As a legal ad viser state officials said tonight that he has no peer in the state. Handley Ex-Deputy Attorney. Mr. Handley resided in Tillamook before coming to Salem last May. He was deputy district attorney there for (Concluded on Fuse 4, Column 2.) CITIES ARE INCREASING IN pnn, writ- ! f c-.i i ll' . .. , l irti T ti l I . psw 'X ?i : Jg"JP?y ffpfi sii SI-fes? E rent foj b tr.- fx-'-' ,n ip i, - ' 1 i P' All Returns With Exception or Those in St. Johns Ferry Over, whelmingly for Senator. THE OREGOMAVS STRAW BALLOT VESTERDAV. VOTING PLACE. 5 8 ? a. : 5" : : : 3 St. Johns Ferry Men 21 21 1 vv omen . 3 Police Dept. Men 83 22 2 1 Journal Bldg. Men 30 4 1 ... Women ...... 9 . 3 Total 143 53 4 1 Returns on the fifth day of The Oregonian straw ballot on the presi dential candidates, being carried out in various parts of the city In an at tempt to obtain a reasonable forecast of the coming elections, resulted in e. total of 143 to 53 in favor of Senator Harding yesterday. Votes were taken from the day and nlgVt reliefs of the police departmi t, the Journal build ing exclusive of the newspaper em ployes and a two-hour canvass of all passengers on the St. Johns ferry. All returns for the day were over whelmingly in favor of Senator Hard ing, with the exception of the canvass on the St. Johns ferry, where Cox r.osed into the lead over the repub lican candidate to the tune of 24 to 21, while a single vote was cast for Eugene V. Debs. The Debs adherent announced that he was a socialist and was votingfor Debs on principle "but I've got a $60 bet on Harding," he concluded. The alleged "wet" proclivities of the democratic nominee were the greatest single deciding factor among the passengers of the ferry, most of whom were laborers from the nearby mills. One man, proclaimed loudly that he was for Cox. "I was a republican until the coun try went dry." he announced. "But now I'm off all the parties and all the candidates except Cox. Cox seems to have leanings toward liquor so tie gets my vote." "I haven't got any use for either candidate," declared one truck driver. "Neither of them Ls the people's choice. It's six of one and half a dozen of the other. But I'm for Cox he might bring the booze back again.1 Fully 50 per cent of the laborers who were. returning from work via the ferry declined to vote either way many of them having failed to regis ter. Their attitude was one of utter indifference, apparently,- as to which candidate would be elected. "What difference does it make who's elected?" asked one of these. "The system we eot of electing presi dents ls the bunk. Whoever heard of Cox' or Harding, either, before they were nominated?" Senator Harding was an over whelming favorite among policemen of the day relief, including the traf fic bureau and officials of the munici pal court. The poll for the day relief showed these results: Harding, 31; Cox, 8; Deb3, 2; Christenscn, 1. Several of the1 patrolmen declined to announce their choice for president, thinking they might be accused of entering politics. Another patrolman who at first de- tConcluded on Page 3. Column 1.) POPULATION 71 'i TIMES AS 7 ' '" net 1 ' t , r i ! ,a ) , ' A ij-eQ 1 . A I T eiti. i- J t . I I "III,, ' o.; H. I',,!'" ! Ontslanding Characteristic of ex- Governor Is Prominence With- out Being Orator. DALTOX, Mass., Oct. 2. Winthrop Murray Crane, ex-United States sen ator, who ha. been seriously ill for several weeks, died suddenly at his home here early today. An outstanding characteristic of Mr. Crane, ex-Governor of Massachu setts and for two terms a United States senator from that state, was the fact that he attained eminence in public life without being an orator. Although he served eight years in the senate it was said of him that he never ' made what really could be called a "speech" in that body. The successor of Senator Hoar, whose wit and eloquence rang through the halls of congress. Crane's chief claim to distinction was that of silent leader ship and of a. party mediator. Senator Crane on more than one occasion in the interval from 1904 to 1913, when republican differences de veloped and party measures were en dangered, demonstrated his ability, as a harmonizer and by using his per suasive powers in personal interviews with other senators, with whom he was popular, restored peace. On one occasion the fate of an im portant bill appeared to depend upon the vote of one senator. His col leagues had tried In vain, by many methods, to learn the probable atti tude of this man. Crane, who had been talking the matter over with a group of republican senators, re marked: "Wait a minute." He crossed the floor of the senate chamber to the recalcitrant's desk and conversed with him in low tones for a few moments. Returning to his friends, he an nounced with a smile: "He'll vote for the bill," "How did you find out?" was the astonished inquiry. "I asked him," was Crane's reply. Born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853, the son of Zenas M. Crane, a paper manufacturer, young Crane was edu cated in the public schools and at Williston seminary. He never at tended colege but, after leaving the seminary, entered the paper mills founded by his grandfather at Dalton and in them he maintained an interest throughout his life. For many years these mills produced the paper used by the United States government in engraving its currency, bonds and f otes. Because of his interest in this ndustry and his desire to continue with it, Mr. Crane, at the beginning of President Roosevelt's administra tion, declined an invitation o enter his cabinet as secretary of the treas ury. ' President Roosevelt held the "silent" Massachusetts man in high esteem. Crane had been unusually successful In averting strikes and disagreements at the Dalton Mills. In 1902, when he was governor of Massachusetts, he was instrumental in adjusting by ar bitration a serious1 strike of team sters and freight handlers in Boston. Later, it is said, he suggested to Pres ident Roosevelt the method by which the strike of several hundred thou sand coal miners in the anthracite fields was settled. Three years as lieutenant governor and three years as governor of Mass achusetts preceded Crane's entrance into the senate to fill the vacancy in 1904 caused by the death of George F. Hoar. Appointed to the senate (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) FAST AS RURAL DISTRICTS News Item. UY .ri.. ''' .' i -f i t DRY lit LAXITY Condemnation Voiced in Front Porch Speech. ADDRESS MADE TO WOMEN Department of Public Welfare Is Advocated. MATERNITY IS MENTIONED Xominee Suggests Fair Sex Should Have Important Part in Fed eral Department. MARION. O.. Oct. 1. In a front porch speech today outlining h's'pro gramme or social justice. Senator Harding described enforcement of law as a fundamental o social prog ress, regardless of. the private opin ions of executive officials and de clared particularly that "we must all condemn without qualification the failure to enforce prohibition." A federal department of public wel fare was advocated by the nominee, but he proclaimed his opposition to concentration of too much authority in Washington and asserted there was grave danger in authorizing the fed eral government to "take from local communities all the burdens of social conscience." The allusion to prohibi tion was the first to be made pub licly by the candidate since his speech of acceptance and he did not follow it with a detailed discussion.. In addi tion to law enforcement, he spoke for Industrial peace, protectionf ma ternity, humane1 regulation of 1 .bor conditions, promotion of public health, aid to child welfare and stabilization of employment as fac tors In social betterment. League Opposition Re-stated. The speech was delivered to a dele gation of women from many parts of the country and the senator took occasion to present the league Issue as it affects woman's interests and to re-state his oppesition to the Ver sailles covenant. Reading article 10. he declared he was "not In favor that covenant." The crowd which heard the candi date and cheered him many times was one of the largest of the front-porch campaign. Several special trains brought dele gations of women to Marion, and most of the commercial establishments here employing women closed their doors to permit these to attend. The visitors marched to the Hard ing home In martial order with bands playing and with standards bearing the names of numerous cities follow ing in column the banners of local employes' organizations. They crowd ed the lawn to overflowing and at the end of the speech, women factory workers Jostled shoulders with women decked In costly furs and tailored gowns In a scramble to hake the nominee's hand. Pageant FcatnrM March. One feature "f the procession 'was a Tiageant In which Zl girls of for eign ancestry marched in the nativ'e costume. of their races. Mrs. Richard Edwards o'f Indiana acted as marshal of the parade and chairman of the front porch meeting, and 'Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago made the speech presenting the dele gation to Senator and Mrs. Harding. Tonight Senator Harding made pub lic a telegram to Edward A. Ryan of Washington, D. C, who was arrested at the senator's Baltimore meeting Monday night after he had asked the nominee whether he "had agreed with Senator Johnson in his position to scrap the league of nations." Mr. Harding expressed regret that there had been an arrest and declared that he did not control any senator's atti tude, but was trying to "harmonize the views of American leadership that we shall be able to adopt a pol icy in our world relations to which Americans will unitedly subscribe." In his speech to the women the candidate said he was sure "the moth ers and wives of America do not wish to give their sons and husbands for sacrifice at the call of an extra-constitutional body like the council of the Paris league." V. S. Co;;-, rn Plrat. "Tou have heard so much about article 10, the "heart of the league, that I wish to read it to you. You have also heard something about our failure to adopt it. breaking "the hea.rt of the world" "I am a pretty sympathetic man myself, but I want to tell you women of America that I would rather break the heart of the world than destroy the soul of the United States. "I have a notion that most of you can understand the English language. Yoa can understand article 10. That is the heart of the league. That is the mortgage of American resources, man-power and wealth, putting them at the command of a council of f-c-eign powers, sitting around s table at the capftal of the world Geneva. And if anybody is in dpt about my position understand me now: I am not in favor of that covenant. "You note the contract. America ls not a welcher. If you do go in and don't keep your promises you have made It the colossal disappointment of all time. So 1 say to you, women ACpuUuded pa Pass S, Column 4.i Landlords Fut to Rout by Law and Moving Vans Are Idle as Result. NEW TORK, Oct. 1. (Special.) Moving day came and went with hardly so much as a ripple of ex citement. No evictions were recorded. Those who moved were so few that van owners reported idle trucks, can celed orders and the poorest mov ing business on record. The new rent laws did the work. The "October 1, "pandemonium" and "state-of-war" prophets were wholly discredited. The mayor's committee on rent profiteering, the municipal court Jus tices and other sources of informa tion were sought by tenants asking information as to their legal status, but the vast majority of apartment leaseholders seemed to have realized with deep satisfaction that it was not theirs, but the landlord's move. The most generous estimate placed upon the number of families that moved today in this city was well under 5000. H. A. Morgan, secretary of the Van Owners' association, said the idle vans and the countermanded orders were directly due to the new laws. The van drivers' strike, he asserted, is well In hand, as the owners have p!enty of substitute teamsters and drivers, many of whom would not even have to be called upon, since the moving was less than 10 per cent of what it generally is on October 1. The orders of Chief Justice Levy of the municipal court, following a confer ence of 30 justices, that no warrants in holdover landlord and tenant pro ceedings begun before September 2S, are to be issued, effectively stopped all attempts t eviction. PONZI FACES NEW CHARGE Use of Mails to Defraud Alleged in Federal Indictment. BOSTON, Oct. 1. The federal grand jury today indicted Charles Ponzi. promoter of the scheme by hich thousands of dollars were obtained from investors on promises to pay 60 per cent profits, on a charge of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. The indictments, of which there were two of 43 counts each, were the longest returned here in years. Ponzi now is a federal prisoner at the East Cambridge jail and is under indictment on state court charges of larceny. POWER SCHOONER SINKS Xcwart Goes Down Off California Coast Passengers Saved. SAN DIEGO. Cal., Oct. 1. News of the sinking Wednesday of the power schooner Newark off the Lower Cali fornia coast was brought here today with the arrival of Captain A. H. Moore, six passengers and the six members of the crew. The Newark struck a sunken reef about 18 miles south of Geronimo is land. The Italian fishing boat Mar dito rescued all on board before the Newark sank. The Newark was of 188 tons and valued at $20,000. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 5,0 degree: minimum, b- degrees. TODAY'S Rain ; aoulheriy shifting to toouth westerly winds. 1'orelcn. British conspiracy in. I relanrl charged by binn Fein leader. i'age II. An ti -reds capture Kharkov in Kussi. i'aa o. National. ' Highest war decoration in gift ot French government conferred on Pershing, i'ajfe 1. I'oliticc. Harding holds lead on fifth day of The Orestn-n straw ballot. 1'age 1. Toll In Ohio thows Harding leading over democratic opponent. l'age . Borah drops republican campaign tour. Page 3. Hardinff scores lax enforcement of prohi bition law. 1'age 1. Oklahoma wildly enthusiastic in reception of Governor Cox. Page 2. Nomination petition for major filed by Kellahcr. lae 10. Faific Nortliwefit." Jewelry pickets lose appeal to uprem court. I'age 1. Jury complet ed in case ff two chars ed w ith murder of bheriff Til Xaior. Fage 3. Boasung charged to Alleged s:&yr of Sis ters hermit. Fage 7. Justice Bennett reipns and Attorney-General Brown is named sucrsar. Face 1. Kpiseopalians deHaxe modern dances im moral. Fage 7. Foreign-born day ls held at state fair. I'age 5. 8 port a. Chicago's (crip on American league pen nant slacken j. I'age 1. Gambling frameup on owners? now before bat-batl jury. I'age 12. White Sox can only win American pennant by tie playoff. Page Sam Langford takes on five boys in daily workout. Page 111. Coast league results: Vernon 0. San Fran cisco 3; Oakiand 14, I,os Angeles 4; Sacramento 1. Salt Lake 2; .Seattle Portland, wet grounds. Page 1 2. Move starts to have new baseball tri bunal. Page 1. Commercial and Marine. Another five-cent decline in Oregon hop values. Page 19. Weakness in Chicago wheat continues with heavy selling. Page 10. Advance in railway stocks is continued. Page 10. Wilson hampers merchant marine. Page IS. Big l"an!sh motorsrtlp coming noon to load wheat for Burope. Page 18. Portland and ViHnfty. Exodus from Alaska held due to high cost of living. Page 9. Two victims of automobile accidents die in hospitals. I'age 11. Wholesalers announce another cut In local sugar prices. Page 2. W. C. T. U. entertains guests from north. Page 4. Building material costs remain high. Page 10. Sellers of liquor are warned by court. Page J9. League 'of Nations association is formed in Portland. Page 6. L-ecision in theater picture case due loo- JEWELRY PICKETS LOSE IM APPEAL Supreme Court Holds Good Cause Lacking. UNION RECOGNITION IS ISSUE Wages, Hours or Conditions Declared Not Involved. LABOR WINS IN ANOTHER Retail Clerks' Local 1237 Is Al lowed to Place Pickets at Shoe Store Entrances. SALEM. Or., Oct. 1. (Special.) Local union. No. 4t, International Jewelry 'Workers union, has no legal right to station pickets In front oC the establishments of Portland jew elry firms for the purpose of com pelling them to recognize the union, according to an opinion written by Justice C. A. Johns and handed down by the Oregon supreme court here today. The opinion written by Justica Johns affirmed the findings of Judges Kavanaugh, Gatens and Stapleton, who presided at the time the case was originally heard in the circuit court for Multnomah county. Chief Justice McBrlde and Justices Benson, Harris and Burnett concurred in the predom inating opinion, with Justices Bean and Bennett dissenting. In this action O. Heitkempcr, a cor poration, and eight other jewelers op erating in Portland sought to obtain an injunction order restraining tha Central Labor council of Portland. Harry Anderson, William Kimsey, K. J. Stack, local union No. 41, Edward Becker and R. A. Sutliff from plac ing pickets in front of the stores or shops of the plaintiffs. IMeketins I Admitted. The defendants admitted the pick etin "iut claimed it was peaceful and law : that It was done for the pro lr . jn and furtherance of the Inter ests of union labor, and that they had a legal right to do it, even though the plaintiffs were damaged as a re sult. "The testimony did not Indicate that there ever was any dispute about wages, hours of labor or conditions of employment," said Judge Johns' opirv ion. "Througn conferences, all of these matters had been amicably set tled, subject only to formal approval, but the agreement was never actually ratified, because the defendants in sisted that the plaintiffs recognize their union.' This the defendants re fused, to do. The recognition of the union was the only real dispute be tween the parties in the case. "The defendants relied upon chap ter SI", laws of 1919, known as the 'picketing act,' and finder the facts shown to exist, that law does not em brace or legalize picketing a place of business and destroying its patronage where the only purpose is to compel recognition of a labor union. Authority Held Larking. "Distinguished counsel have not cited, and after diligent search we have not found any authority which would Justify or sustain picketing, even though it be peaceable, where the controversy is not 'jetween em ployer and employe and there is no dispute growing out of employment but the purpose of the picketing ls to induce the employer to recognize the union. As we analyze the authorities, the legal right peacefully to picket ia largely dependent upon the purpose and intent, and the method and man ner in which the picketing is done." The co-j't held that the primary purpose ot calling the strike, plac ing the plaintiffs on the unfair list and picketing their places of businets was to obtain the recognition of the defendant local union No. 41 L'ndcr such a state of facts the court de clared the damages were not inciden tal to the legal right of the defendants- . lthrr Side to Retevfr. Since this action was a test case, the predominating opinion modified the decree of the lower courts as to costs, and neither tide will recover. In another case, brought by George I Greenfield, doing business under the title of "Wright's Shoe Shop" and "Greenfield's." to enjoin the Portland Central Labor council. IX K. N'icker (Concludod on PaRC -. Column ".) TODAY IS I.ASX CHANCE RKtilSTKR! y At 8 o'clock tonight regis tration books at the courthouse will close finally,' and citizens whose names are not on the records will not be able to vote at the general election in No vember. Only those need register who have not voted for two years or who have moved from the precincts in which they for inerlj voted. registration totals for all parties to date are as follows: Male. Female. Total ReDUblicans..45.t0 ao.350 76.010 Democrats 15.10S 10.996 26.104 Other parties 3.023 2.069 5. 098 4 ' Grand total. .107 J