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THE MORNING OREO QXIANV TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1920 111 i, SECT IN SENATE CONTESTED Iowa Senator's Position Is -None Too Secure. RAILROAD BILL DISLIKED Opposition of Brotherhoods and Labor Kleincnts Grows; Farmers Llkcvle Are Disatfeclcd. (Cor r.gHt ty the New Tork Bventns Post, inc. Published by Amnlmenl.) Bl' MAKK SUIX.IVAN. COUNCIL, BU'FKS, Oct. -4. Evervbodv hue been Resuming that the campaign n Iowa was going Hlong in the usual U0iel way toward the usual republican majority, but the fact is that Jowa has a sltua t'on that comes as cloe to being sensational as any situation in. any state this year. In the parsimonious distribution that is beins made of Senator Hard ing's personal presence you seek a reason for the speech he is to make on Wednesday in this normally safe republican state. That reason lies in the fact that Senator Cummins is in trouble. Senator Cummins has long been the most honored figure In his stale and has so high a place among the elder statesmen of his party in the nation that It comes . to you as a shock to learn that he needs a. I the assistance, he can get to secure re-election. Pending a more thorough survey of the state later, the superficial ex planation seems to be chiefly the railroad bill which bears Senator Cummins' name as Its senate author and the name of Kepresentati ve Lsch of Wisconsin as its author in the bouse. 9 V.nrh I.osen In Wintomiln. - Because of that authorship Air. Esch has recently been defeated ior renomination in his Wisconsin dis trict and Senator Cummins is now being subjected to a powerful assault here in Iowa. The republicans claim ihat Senator Cummins will win, but admit that his vote will fall fully 50.000 behind Hurdlne and 50.000 is a serious handicap even in a state that is normally so heavily republican ad Iowa. ... . The nucleus of the opposition to Cummins Is the railroad men. who are numercus here because Iowa is a state c' many railroads, but the rail road men are merely the nucleus. The labor element has Joined the railroad men. But these elements alone would not be formidable in a state like Iowa and against so strongly intrenched a figure as Sena tor Cummins. What is formidable is the fact that Iowa has a rapidly spreading radical movement among the farmers. The new railroad rates are just beginning to be felt in Iowa at pre cisely the same moment that prices of grain and other farmers' produce are going down. The Homestead, a radical farm paper of large circula tion, is fighting the republican ticket with such forceful bitterness that it is more or less admitted that, how ever Harding and Cummins may fare, the republican candidate for governor is in serious danger of defeat. Suck Mob Arc Dancerou. The situation is made worse ior Senator Cummins by the fact that he is ill and unable to make a per sonal campaign. His opponent is a Jean person with an acquisitive face suggestive of qualities likely to stick to a.n enterprise until it is success ful. -His name is Claude Porter and he Is-a Wilson appointee as counsel for the federal trade commission at Washington. He is described in terms of the not very usual combination of "a Presbyterian elder and a shrewd politician." The trust in this Iowa case is merely another example of the fact that, however the presidential elec tion may go, the republicans are going to have the hardest kind of a fight to get a safe majority In the senate. When you find so strong a figure as Cummins compelled to fight for his life in a state where he has been governor or senator continuous ly for the last 19 years, a state which, as the late Senator Dolllver ex pressed it, "will go democratic when hell goes Methodist" then you are prepared to consider the possibility at least that the republicans may fail entirely to win control of the senate this year. WILSON TIES COX FAST (Ciwithrued Frem rt Page.) tatlve E. H. Moore was here three days, but during that time, he did not reach the president. Former Senator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois was also here, but the White House doors did not open to him any further than the office doors of Mr. Tumulty. There was consternation everywhere It was recognized that things were going to pot and the Question was what was to be done. The differences of opinion In the. democratic camp still exist'as to the advisability of having President Wil son enter the campaign. It is recog nized that one of the chief reasons for the resentment against the presi dent is the prevalence of the belief that he is too autocratic and in the face of this sentiment the) president calmly announced he would not exe cute the shipping law which congress passed and w hich he had signed. Cox tiets In Bad. Governor Cox in his campaign tour undertook to tell his audiences with emphasis that he. Governor Cox, and not JJreflirfnt Tlllcrtn le running UA also criticised the administration by implication by throwing verbal mis siles in the . direction of two of the president's cabinet officers, Burleson and Palmer. Naturally. none of these things have set well at the White House or with the close friends of the presi dent. The '"solemn referendum," which the president had asked tor was being turned into a grotesque perform ance in which wild charges, failing of substantiation had taken the place r rhetorical appeals to save the Pbreakiner heart of the wnriH These facts point to the belief here, that the president has deefded to make the fight himself. He will not allow the "solemn referendum" to go by default and if defeated, his record will have been made straight. Governor Cox. it is also assumed, Is more interested in securing his own election than -In having the Wilson record preserved, and there is heavi ness of heart in democratic head quarters. On the oilier hand, the republicans are having their own trouble and fears and one of these is the dread of over confidence. CDX TO STORM EAST UNTIL ELECTION DAY Seven States Will Be Chief Battleground From Now On. OHIO DOWN FOR 4 DAYS Candidate Receives Women, and Tells Why League Should Appeal to Them. SLAV GOLD MISTRUSTED BIG RUSSIAN SHIPMENT TO BE INVESTIGATED. Department of Justice Officials Be lieve Coin ' Is 'Part ot Bolshe vik Propaganda Fund. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. Inauirv into the source of the recent shipment of Russian gold to the United States has been ordered by the department of justice. Belief exists at the depart ment that the gold may be a part of tne Jiussian bolshevik propaganda fund. Receipt of the shipment, totaling 9339, 63S. was announced last week by the federal reserve board in its peri odical statement on gold exports and imports. This was the first ship ment o gold from Russia to the United Stales since late in 1916. Of ficials of the board said todav thev had not yet identified the shipment or its consignee. The federal reserve board's state ment contained an item merely' re cording receipt of the gold from "Russia in Europe." Federal reserve board officials sug gested that the shipment miirht sub stitute one which was started to this country before America's declaration o l war. CAFE ROBBERS GET $5000 Patrons Lined Up and Relieved of Cash and Jewelry. NHW YORK, Oct. 4. Six masked robbers lined up 45 patrons of a Lenox-avenue cale early today and robbed them of cash and jewelry valued at more than $5000. They eluded a policeman in a sub way. ACHESON has been on a vacation In California and Texas for two months; he will open up a clothing store in Portland in about eight or ten days Adv. . James Curran Is Dead. -James Curran. 65. died at his home, 455 V.HSt Viftv.thlrH ,.. L- Sunday. He had lived In Oregon for o years. i ne runerai services will be held from Finley's chapel soon and Interment will be in Rlverview ceme tery. Mr. Curran is survived by his widow, two daughters. Emily M. Cur ran and Mrs. A. G. Frlewald, and a son, William H. Curran. DATTONV O., Oct. 4. Plans for completion of the democratic national campaign, now declared by leaders to be entering its last stages, were formulated today by Governor Cox; George White, national chairman; Senator Harrison, chairman of the national speakers' bureau, and i. H. Moore, the governor's pre-convention nipnager. As a result of the conference Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey and Maryland probably will be the chief battle ground until election, according to Senator Harrison. Governor Cox will spend four days campaigning in his home state, three days in Indiana, one day in West Virginia, one .In New Jersey and most of two days in Illinois. Night meetings have been arranged for Indianapolis for October 2S and Chicago, October 30. It also was announced that the governor-will sfcak in Baltimore. i n First Ohio Speech October 14. The governor's first speeches in Ohio. will be on October 14. He will speak first at Van Wert, Lima, and Bellefontalne, with a night meeting either at Springfield or Dayton, his heme city. The next day will find him-at Detroit and then again in Ohio with a noon speech at Akron and a night speech at Cleveland. From Cleveland he will go into New York state, where on October 18 he will speak at Rochester at noon and Buffalo at night. Two days will be spent irt New England, it was said. He . will speak at Madison Square gir'aen in New York on the night of October 23. Next Wednesday evening the jawing Into Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois will begin, reaching the most extreme western point at St. Louis where the governor will speak on the night of October 11, swinging back toward Ohio through Indiana and Illinois on October 12 and 13. I.easne Talk Aimed at Women. The candidate spent most of today renting. He received a delegation of women, headed by Mrs. Florence Kellcy, general secretary of the Na tional Consumers' league, and Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman of the National League of Women Voters. The governor talked to them on phases of the league of nations, par ticularly why women hould be in terested in its adoption. On most of the questions presented by the women, especially child wel fare and the Kenyon cold storage bill. Governor Cox told them he had stood for such reforms for 12 years and that Ohio had laws similar to those they sought nationally. Governor Cox said tonight he had received a telegram from Edward A. Ran, who was arrested at Baltimore when he sought to ask Senator Hard ing a question, saying he wds for the democratic candidate. The text of the message was not made public. I.racne Benefits1 Are Many. The league. Governor Cox said, not only will prevent war which he as serted is its primary purpose, but also will promote progress and will "set up or itself become a clearing house for international justice and social service.". Those who, want to keep on dream ing of 'a new. heaven and a new earth,' can perhaps afford, to stay out of the league," the candidate said, "but those who really want to make their dreams come true and mike this world a fit habitat for the hu man spirit, will want to join the league without delay." The governor detailed the follow ing social service and justice pro gramme, which he asserted member nations of the league will endeavor to carry out: , , Try to . secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men. women -and children, thns lift ing the standard of living everywhere.. Try to secure Just treatment of the native inhabitants of territories under their control. Try to secure and maintain free dom of communication and of transit and equitable treatment for the com merce of members of the league. Labor together In the effort to con trol and ultimately eradicate disease. Set up commissions for the preven tion of illicit traffic in arms, in dan gerous drugs and in women for im moral purposes. HENEY TO SPEAK IN EAST California Gubernatorial Candidate to Help Democrats. ' -SAN FKANCISCO. Oct. 4. Francis J. "Heney, former candidate for gov ernor of California, 'is. to leave. Los Angeles October 13 to campaign for the democratic presidential ticket throughout the east, western head quarters of the democratic national committee announced here today. It was announced aJso that Solon Fieldman, prominent in New York as a labor orator, would leave that city in a few days to campaign for the democratic ticket in the state . of Washington. x C. J. HOGUE IS IN CHARGE Work of New West Coast Forest Products Bureau Directed. , C. J. Hogue, who for the last two years. has been eastern representative of the West Coast Lumbermens asso ciation, with headquarters in New York, has taken charge of the work of the recently formed West Coast forest products bureau, according to a communication from Seattle. Membership in the West Coast For est Products bureau comprises the lumber manufacturers acting through the West Coast'Lumbermens associa tion, loggers, lumber wholesalers and timber owners of the Pacific coast. In outlining some plans for future work Mr. Hogue announced that a survey of the requirements of the eastern market would be made and a number of field men to do personal work among eastern wholesalers and re tailers would be appointed. As soon as the plans of the tjureau can be put before the subscribers in district meetings and a local organ ization necessary to carry out its work is completed. Mr. Hogue will leave on an extended eastern trip to organize the field work and to obtain information necessary to carrying on the plans of the bureau. GOBS TO KNOW SERIES ,." - Navy Department Will Radio Re sults to All War Vessels. j WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. Worlds se ries baseball results will be sent broadcast to all ships on the Atlantic and Pacific during the games, accord ing to arrangements . completed to night by the navy department. Sta--tiona at Annapolis and Arlington with special long distance radio sets" and those of shorter radius at Bos ton, New York, Norfolk and Key West will carry the scores by innings to vessels in the Atlantic, while the transoceanic station at Han Diego, Cal., will take care of Pacific vessels. All vessels havincr radio juii)inent will be able to receive dispatches, the' navy communications officers said, and the stations on the Atlantic sea board will be able. to reach all points on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. HUGH FOSTER IS DEAD Victim of Auto Accident Is Ex Oregon City Man. OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 4. (Spe cial.) Hugh Foster, well-known in Oregon City, an ex-employe of tho Willamette Valley Southern Railway and for the last month employed by an oil company with headquarters at Casper, Wyoming, died Saturday from injuries received in an automobile ac cident Friday. The body will be brought to Fort land for burial. Mr, Foster was born in Independ ence, Kansas, September 15, 1879, and resided in Portland for a number of years before coming to Oregon City. He returned to Portland about a year ago, and recently left for Wyoming. 8. A K. green stamps tor easn. HolraaD Fuel Co. Main Hi. SSO-21. - Aa nor is it in contravention of the con stitution, which places that duly upon congress. Moral Obligation Admitted. The question of obligation has al ready been discussed at great length. was fully dwelt upon in the senate debates, and President Wilson him self admitted in his conference with the members of the senate that there was a moral obligation Involved which was even greater, perhaps, than a legal one. In this statement the presidenjt ig nores the moral obligation involved and dwells unon the freedom of ac tion that would result to the United States. The 'njection of the president into the election has been anticipated for some time, although it was not known what form it would take. It is not known whether Governor Cox appealed to the president, although the best opinion here is that the pres ident decided upon his course out of dissatisfaction with the disastrous trend the campaign was taking. The president Is said to maintain the idea that his popularity Is unimpaired and that an appeal from him will have .far-reaching effect. I'mnipaljcn Failure Admired. That the campaign so far conducted has been a failure is acknowledged by democrats generally. In the Fri day issues of the New York World and the New York Times of last Fri day morning, simultaneous editorials appeared, indicating that fact. The World editorial was headed "Why the Campaign Lags," and the Times editorial was captioned "The Great .Issue." Both papers demanded that emphasis from thfs time on be placed on the league and that methods of the past, be abandoned. The fact that the campaign has lagged, it is recognized. hiuSt be clearly evident to warrant this stalwart democratic organ to : ac knowledge it, while the Times edi torial was equally significant, . President Wilson was beaten by his party managers at San Francisco who accepted Just so much of his record as was necessary to make It appear he was not clearly repudiated. It then became the task of the can didate to merge the conflicting ele ments of his party and how he has failed, is a matter of record. 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Breast, waist and trunk measurements as well as the style number is always in the same place. Once we help you to the size, style and grade suited to your needs there never will again be any un certainty as to the character of underwear you want. " . Come in and let us introduce' you to underwear satisfaction that endures. We are Portland headquarters for Cooper's Bennington Under wear for men. We carry more numbers and a more complete line of this famous make than any houe inthe city. $4.00 Suit, men's heavy wool mixed union suits. JjvJ.OO Suit, men's heavy wool mixed union suits. $5.."0 Suits, men's heavy wool mixed union suits. .$fi.."0" Suits, men's heavy wooU -mixed union suits. Jj7.."0 Suits, men's heavy wool mixed union suits. $9.50 Suits, men's all-wool union suits. $0.00 Suits, men's light-weight worsted mixed union suits. $2.50 to $3?50 Suit, men's all cotton union suits. Special Sale Aluminum Ware If! 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"The Store That Undersells Because It Sells for Cash" Oar score and more of skilled and expert buyers are constantly and keenly watching every change in the wholesale- market, quickly taking full advantage of every opportunity to place before you the last word in price lowering. Therefore, no matter what your need mifrht be for the home or person, don't make a single pur- 'i chase before you have investigaft- ea our prices. Thousands of Yards of the Most Beautiful Sensationally Slashed! $lJ00to$l0 A Yard LESS! Than Regular Prices Yes! Even One-Half Former Selling Prices Let This Be "Your Sale of Silks For the Profit Is All Yours EXTRA! At One-half Less 56-Inch All Wool Double Warp Tricotine at $;.05 Yard Comes in perfect weave in a deep Nile navy blue an unmatchable offering of a high-class fabric Yard wide Tricolettes at $3.49 Yd. This extremely popular silk comes in nary, brown, blue, taupe and black it is 36 inches wide and makes up beautifully. Just half price at this sale. Unmatchable! Silk Dress Velvets a.t$9.00 Au silk Dress Veivet me linear, quality, snown in all colors and. black. Yard S Heavy Yard-wide p Black Dress Satins $1.00 Yard (0 C A v1 H Less at P.OU U. z Fashionable. and in great demand E fine heavy, yard-wide Black Dress Satins that will meet your instant approval. One Dollar a Yard Less! Messaline and Taffeta Silks at $2.00 Yd. Our entire stock of yard-wide Messaline and Taffeta Silks, including all staple and new plain colors are in this sale at the above great price reduction. Satins, Charmeuse and Crepe Meteors at $30 a yd. $1.00 Less! 40-Inch Satins Ch'armeuse and Crepe Me teors, shown in all desirable street and evening shades. Silks of perfect weave and quality priced for this sale at $1.00 a yard less Forty Inch Crepe de Chine , $1.00 Less at $2.00 a Yard Silks of beautiful finish and soft perfect weave. It comes' in a full assortment of all wanted colors and in 40-inch .width. A dollar saved on every yard purchased at this sale. - . $10 a yard Less at $3JS0 a yard for 40-Inch Dress Satins Extra weight Charmeuse-finish Dress Satins in 40-inch width, shown in a deep rich black priced for this sale at a dollar and fifty cents a yard less than regular selling price. Announcing a Most Unusual Underpricing of Women's Gloves in Famous Makes Elte Eudora La France Fownes Merito Vogue Myers, Etc., Pique and Over Seam Styles, All On Sale at $1.69 Pair An event of decided interest to all women within reach of our store, offering as it does a selection of famous makes at unprecedented price reduction. An opportunity to secure one or more pairs of perfeot fitting Gloves in shades to match your new fall and winter garments. You have choice from the best styles in French Kid Washable Kid New Zealand Suede Chamoia'and Cape. Both pique and overseam styles in all sizes from o to 8. It is a sale worthy of your immediate attention, for you have choice .from the entire assortment at a surprising saving $1.69 a pair. One-Third Less! For Women's Smart Full Fashioned Silk Stockings All Sizes in White Black Cordovan and Navy. $1 .65 -A- PAIR One of the most important items in a woman's wardrobe is well fitting, well wearing, well appearing Hosiery. At this sale you can secure a generous supply of just such hosiery at a saving of one third the resrular selling price. It is a special sale of Pure Dipped Silk, Full-fashioned Stockings made with reinforced mer cerized lisle top, sole, heel and toe. Colors are black, white, gray, cordovan and navy. All sizes a most wonderful value at $1.6.5 Pair. 25 Off! Enable r About 90 Pairs of Cotton, Wool Mixed and All-Wool Blankets A Positive Saving of Qnet Fourth Regular Prices! We have gathered . about 90 pairs of Blankets samples and odd lots in cotton, wool mixed and all-wool blankets that have become slightly soiled on the edges from display or handling not damaged,, mind you, but slightly soiled. While Any Remain You . Have Unrestricted Choice at Vi Off Our Store Now Opens at 9 A. M. Extraordinary Price Concessions Us to Sell All Our Best Standard Outing Flannels At 35c a Yd. 27-inch standard Outing Flannels and Daisy Cloth in all styles and colors. 36-Inch Daisy Cloth Reduced to 4o Yard Plaid Ginghams, Standard Percales at. Yard OOC Unlimited choice from pretty Plaid Ginghams and standard quality Percales. , All Our Sheets Muslins Sheetings and Cambrics Now On Sale at REDUCED PRICES The Most in Value The Best in Quality Store Closes at 5:30 P. M. Saturdays at 6 P. M. uutiiiniaiuiiuiMuuiuiuMHMmiifuiuiMm UIMUHIUHimill,!