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THE MORNING' OREGOXI AX, AVEDN ESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1920 K COX CARRIES FIGHT 311 NEW ENGLAND Scathing Attacks Made on Lodge and Harding. TEN SPEECHES DELIVERED Sarcasm and Ridicule Hc'aied on IJepubllcan Nominee; "Arch Con spirator" Rapped Again. BOSTON", Oct. 19. Scathing attack upon Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and sarcastic criticism of Senator Harding were made today by Gover nor Cox during his New England tour embracing Massachusetts and New Hampshire cities and ending with a large meeting tonight on Boston com mon. Here, as well as to other audiences today, the democratic candidate de nounced Senator !uiige as "the arch conspirator of the ages" because of his fight against th league of na tions. Reiterating that Mr. Lodge headed "a conspiracy 10 strangle the treaty to death," through the "round robin," Governor Cox urged his Bos ton audience to "repudiate Mr. Lodge's leadership and retire him to private life as soon as possible. To his New Hampshire audience Governor Cox urged defeat of Senator Moses, re publican, because he signed the "round robin." Senator Harding was heaped with sarcasm and ridicule by Governor Cox in virtually every address, with the incident between President Wil son and tbe senator regarding the latter's statement of French over tures for a new association of na tions as the basis. Harding Held Blunderer. 'The facts justify the conclusion that Senator Harding has stupidly though deliberately attempted to de ceive the people of the United States," Governor Cox declared. Reciting Mr. Harding's explanation f his Den Moines speech "rejecting" the league. Governor Cox added: "Me must think the American peo ple very stupid. He continues to say they don't understand him." Kxpressing belief that a French author and humorist was Senator Harding's source of information re garding French sentiment upon a new association of nations and comment ing upon Senator Harding's letter to President Wilson, Governor Cox said sarcastically: "Poor Senator Harding has been misunderstood again. It is a pathetic thing that he suffers so much from the dullness of the American people, including newspaper editors and lead ers among partisans and opponents." Lodge Openly Denounced. Governor Cox's address tonight made a total of ten speeches delivered to day. His denunciation " of Senator Lodge was followed by hissing from his audiences at Concord and Man chester, N. H. The heights of his attack upon Senator Lodge were reached tonight. Expressing happiness over speaking on "the first forum of America dedi cated to free speech and free assem blage." Governor Cox said he desired "to remove clouds and confusion" re garding the league. These, he as Berted. were "set up in a partisan plot, instigated and led by the arch conspirator of the ages. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts." Lodge Held Aiotorlona. Stating that Governor Coolidge had introduced Senator Lodge in Boston as "famous everywhere," Governor Cox continued: "I have Just completed a nilc-rim- age from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again. I can testify to the irutn or tne governor's statement senator ioage must be known to every man and woman in everv citv and villiage in the land, for wherever I mentioned his name it has been recognized and greeted, not with cheers, but with jeers, not with ao plause. but with hisses and loud cries oi shame. shame. Judging from this continuously repeated experience, I should be dis posed to suggest, even to a Boston audience, that it would have been more accurate to have said that the notorious' everywhere. border states are "as aafe 'for demo cracy as Texas." "During the last two weeks a change has been apparent," he said. "It started with the Des Moines speech of Senator Harding, in which he broke away from his 'board of strategy and revealed himself as an irreconcilable on the league, joining company openly with Senators Borah and Johnson. "At national headquarters in New Tork, from the moment that the Des Moines speech appeared in the press, it was like watching a tidal wave. First came hundreds of telegrams from republicans and independents announcing their support of Cox. "And then came the real baro metric test. LiteTally by the thou sands, letters containing small con tributions began to pour in from re publicans aiuj independents, a high proportion of them from women. Dimes, quarters, dollars and larger sums of currency, checks, postal money orders and drafts piled up on the desk of Treasure Marsh. In totals they represented no large sum. but as an earnest of the turning tide in America they were most significant. The ascendancy of the democratic cause began then and it has passed the republican campaign long since. "Western Chairman Doremus turned over his reports to me today and they reveal a west and northwest burning like a flame for the league of nations." GIVE FARMERS LIFT, Secretary Urges Bankers to Back Agriculture. SUICIDE, MURDER IN BATH MOTIVE FOR ABKRDKEX LOG GER'S ACT MYSTERY. BILLIONS REPORTED LOST senator is rather than that he is 'famous eery- "Why have the neoole ris demnation of Senator Lodge? The reason is clear. Our people are quick ii i ci:usnize insincerity. Treaty Stabbed, Says Cox. Reiterating that President Wilson before returning to Paris in Murnv, 1918. conferred with the senate and house foreign affairs committees and had approved league covenant cnanges. Governor Cox said that Sen luuueu me oase conspir acy to stab the treaty in the back." "But even before the president had a cnance to return to Paris," he con tinued, "the base conspiracy and the infamous round robin was under way wiu me nerarious pledge had been mane to strangle the treaty to death umi iiarn oay until now no means have been too vile to employ to traduce American opinion and be- irn.. t.ie confidence of the electorate jinu l.ooge s leadership was made j.ossioie only ry the vote of Truman H. Newberry, now under con v-l.-t ir,,. In the state of Michigan for having purchased his seat in the senate. "Malicious falsehoods ' have been scattered like autumn leaves and the hypocrisy of Idge. himself, is one of the outstanding black events in American history. In the light of his earlier recorded pronouncements he has been forced to stultifv himself over and over again. He has libeled and slandered no man more than him self. He is supporting a candidate w ho voted for the Knox resolution for a separate peace with Germany and who since, publicly, has advocated the same unworthy act." I0IS StatrmentN Keealled. Citing Senator Lodge's statements in ISIS, against a separate peace and the senators Union college address for world peace. Governor Cox said: "In view of' the present attitude of Senator Lodge, as the acknowl edged leader of treaty wreckers, it is certain that he has neither honesty of purpose nor sincerity of mind. It is up to the state of Massachusetts now to repudiate his leadership and at the earliest possible moment re tire him forever to private life.'" CHAIRMAN WHITE JUBILANT Country Is Declared Aflame for League of Nations. CHICAGO. Oct. U. George White, chairman of the democratic national committee, on his arrival here today said that recent detailed reports re ceived from campaign managers in Ohio assured him that the Male would be carried by the Cox - Roosevelt ticket, and that Indiana and other Lodger and Landlady Known to Have Been on Friendly Terms Last Eight Months. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 19. (Special.) Mrs. Olga Kantonen, 45 years old, proprietor of a bath house at 916 West Cushing street, was shot and instantly killed this morning at 7:45 o'clock by John Nort, 41, a logger who had lodging in the Kantonen house. Nort fired two shots at Mrs. Kan tonen. The first went wild, the sec ond passed through the woman's brain. He then shot himself and died instantly. Police have been unable to determine the motive for the crime. Mrs. Kantonen this morning pre pared to go to Montesano to lodge a complaint against Waino Kantonen, divorced five years ago, because he had failed to provide for her two chil dren. When she was about to eat break fast, Nort came downstairs from his room and entered the bathroom. She followed him. A moment later John Wilenius, an employe, went from the house to feed rabbits and chickens in the back yard. He heard shots and screams. Returning, he found the bathroom locked. When the door was broken In, Mrs. Kantonen and Nort were dead on the floor. A revolver lay beside Nort. There had been no quarrel between the two earlier in the morning, Wil enius said. Nort had been a lodger in the house for seven or eight months. Mrs. Kantonen lived in Aberdeen 15 years. She is survived by two children. Frank, 12 years old. and Olga, 10. They are being cared for by the county charity commissioner. Little is known of Nort. Last De cember he forfeited bail in police court on a charge of drunkenness and disorder. He is not known to have relatives In this country. WRECK ATTEMPT 'DENIED Reported Act Against Serbian Prince Held "Pure Invention." WASHINGTON. Oct. 19. An offi cial dispatch from Belgrade, made public today by the Serbian minister, said the recent report that an attempt had been made to blow up the train of Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia near Sarajevo was "pure invention." The report was given publicity by the- Montenegrin press bureau. Federal Taxation Discussed at Con vention at Capital; Business Held Badly Hindered. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Discussion of federal taxation revision and finan cial relief for the agricultural in terests was pressed to the fore today at the convention of the Ameri can Bankers' association. Suggested changes in tax laws, however, were indefinite although some probably will be dealt with in resolutions con sidered today. Secretary Meredith's speech, plead ing for a square deal for farmers by the banking interests, opened the way for several informal meetings by rural bankers. While none of these crystal ized into a settled plan, representa tives of the banks decided upon a gen eral mass meeting for tomorrow night. Robert Maddock, Atlanta banker, de clared that the south was not nearly so broke as it has been made to appear. Maddock. however, said he appreciated the situation said to be facing the cotton growers and that there appeared to be no hope for help from the government. He suggested the formation of a great cotton ex port corporation, proposed for the southern states by Governor Harding of the federal reserve board a year ago, saying this seemed to be the only practical solution. The tax question came up in the section meeting of the trust company bankers, where Lynn V. Dinkins, New Orleans, president of the group, said he believed present tax laws placed a handicap on commercial pioneering and acted as a brake on business. Shrinkage in the value of farm products so far this season will result In American farmers receiving $2,500. 000.000 less than they would have ob tained under 1919 prices. Secretary of Agriculture Meredith told delegates to the convention. He classed the situation as one which demands the best thought and synipathetic consideration of the bankers of America, and in fact of all the people of the country. Ho estimated that the fall in corn prices had involved a billion-dollar loss to producers. "The American bankers must see to It that farmers secure credit suffi cient for their needs," he continued. "Only thus can they continue to sup ply the nation's need for food. I think you gentlemen fully realize that if the farmer is to continue to pro duce and to meet the food require ments of the nation, he must have adequate prices for his products. The farmer is not the only one who would be adversely affected If he fails to secure a reasonable return for his efforts. I do not think you can fail to see that the farmers' problems are your problems and that your ultimate prosperity depends upon a right solu tion of the difficulties confronting the, farmers." The marketing problem, Mr. Mere dith said, is the greatest one facing the agricultural interests. He urged that bankers assist co-operative farm ers' enterprises, and acknowledged that bankers had given "very great aid" to agriculture. Snow Halts Searchers. ROSE BURG, Or.. Oct. 19. (Special.) Searching parties that have been f tsfim'mnttnriirrri " jS Wi Y rf " f You Too Will be interested in this Sale of Fine Overcoats Note the Prices:- $40 Overcoats $50 Overcoats $60 Overcoats $70 Overcoats $80 Overcoats $64 All Men's Suits Reduced 20 $40 $48 $56 MENS Corbett Bldg. WEAR Fifth and Morrison scouring the -woods in the - north Umpqua forest since October 11 to day gave up the search for Joseph Rohrer, who disappeared while hunt ing. With 18 inches of snow on the ground and stilt continuing to fall the men decided it was useless to longer continue the search. Ellis Jennings Dies. Ellis Jennings, president of the Jennings-McRae Logging company and formerly a heavy timber opera tor on the lower Columbia river, died yesterday at his residence. 334 East Third street North. He was 78 years of age and had been a resident of Portland for the past 20 years, com ing here from Wisconsin. He is sur vived by his widow. Body Washed Up at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 19. (Special.) A telephone message received from Port Canby this evening stated that the body of a man was washed ashore on the beach there this afternoon. The body, judging irom the dress, is that 'of a fisherman. La mm Wow compare the guaranteed, service which fellows the purchase ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY, Inc. Branches and Agencies the World Over Local Office 216 Railway Exchange Bldg. Portland, Oregon. Phone Main 189. tt a '' "i'iViii "nYVii'i ill mi Vwii' " v. 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PRICES Dainty Dresses for Six-months, I and 2-year-olds Very Special $4.65 Beautiful little hand-made dresses in hand embroidered or smocked style, trimmed with real hand-made filet lace, for wee boys or girls. Very exquisitely and daintily made. Creepers At an Unusually Low Price, $1.85 Adorable little creepers, made of pink or blue chambray gingham, with checked collar and cuffs, and the dearest little pockets in the form of a chicken. KNITTED TOQUES, in many styles, at $1.50. $1.95. $2.25. $2.95. A new shipment of collapsible ' NURSERY SEATS, white enameled, $3.50. . Mattresses. Special at $2.95 Cotton mattresses, covered with pretty col ored art ticking, very specially priced at $2.95. Baby Blankets, 79c - Blankets, so cosy and warm, made of very pretty figured reversible material; pink and white or blue and white. Very special at 79c. Knitted Body Leggings v $2.75 Little body leggings, knitted in plain' stitch and made with or without feet, for one and two-year-olds. TOILET BASKETS, in natural wicker, in round or octagon shape, $2.75. TOILET BASKETS, white enameled, with high handle, in round, square or oblong shape,. $5.50. Baby's Otvn Room, Fourth Floor Lipman, W olfe & Co. Presenting a New and Interesting Selection of Superior Trunks and Hand Luggage Featuring Our Mendel "DUSTPROOF" Wardrobe Trunks IF YOU are contemplating a journey, either by land or sea, you will most surely be interested in seeing our high-grade stocks of trunks and smart hand luggage. Undoubtedly you will find here among our new arrivals, just the particular con veyance most suited to your traveling requirements, for bags, cases and trunks of every description are represented. MENDEL . WARDROBE TQUN K.S THE MENDEL "Dustproof" Ward-" ROBE Trunk is a baggage of distinction the favorite of people who are accustomed to the best. By reason of its handsome, substan tial appearance, the Mendel marks its owner as a person of taste and position. 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