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VOL. LIX NO. 18,706 Entered- at Portland (Oregon) Potoffire aw SecoiKl -Cl a s Matter " PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER G, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS CONTROL THREATENED j HARDING AHEAD 17,340 IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY STAX FIELD WINS BY 2 9 64 IN CONTEST FOR SENATE. TO CULL GOVERNOR OF SAMOA ENDS HIS OWN LIFE DEMOCRATS VIEW WRECK IN .DISMAY WOMEN OF YONCALLA CAPTURE ALL OFFICES EE ON OF IF COAL STAYS HIGH MEETING OF MINDS IN TURKEY BLOWS UP NAVY COMMASDER DIES, JUST BEFORE COURT ARRIVES. CAMPAIGN SECRETLY ORGAN IZED; JIEX SURPRISED. PROFITEERS ARE WARNED BY SENATE COMMITTEE. 1 MYSTERY DING POWERS AGR AGTION BOMBS Leaders of Both Parties to Be in Conference TREATY FRIENDS INVITED Bitter-Enders Will Be on List With Democrats. VACATION TO BE FIRST rrctiident-Elcct Declines Wilson Offer or Battleship for Trip to Panama Canal Zone. BARTON, C Nor. 5. President elect Hardin? already has begun ful filment of his campaign promise to consult the nation's leading; minds with regard to a new association of nations and he hopes that by the time of his inauguration next March he will have laid the groundwork of a plan behind which the sentiment of the nation han unite. A list of those to be consulted first has been drawn up and invitations are going forward to several to come to Marion at the conclusion of the month's vacation trip which is to be started by the president-elect' tomor row. Both republicans and demo crats are to present their views in individual and personal talks with Mr. Harding during the winter months but he does not contemplate, for trie present at least, any general assem blage of his advisers for round-table discussion. Women to Be Invited. The names of those.' invite have not been made public bat It Was an nounced from the president-elect's of fice toniglit that "men ,and women who have been eminent - in the dis cussion of our foreign relations" made up the list. Additions will be" made during Mr. Harding's vacation' trip, it waa added, although no considera tion will be given during that period to the choice of a cabinet.' The announcement followed a long conference between Senator Harding and Will H. Hays. Neither -revealed what subjects they had discussed, but it was understood the national chair man's visit was made at Mr. Harding's request, and had to do both 'with the campaign Just' closed and with the policies to be shaped for the coming administration. Out-Door Vacation Planned. The objective of the senator's va cation trip is Point Isabel, Tex., and although he plans to occupy most of his time there hunting and fishing, another of his close campaign advis ers, Harry M. Daugherty, will accom pany him. It is taken for granted there will be some discussion of poli cies and administrative programmes between them. Mr. Harding today declined an offer of President Wilson to provide him with a battleship for the voyage to the Panama Canal rone, which is to follow a 12 days' stay at Point Isabel. In response td a telegram from Sec retary Daniels conveying the, presi dent's proposal, the president-elect telegraphed that he was thankful but already had closed an agreement to make the trip on a passenger steamer. Steamer BTot Diverted. It was said at Harding headquar ters tonight that a hitch over the sail ing schedule had been adjusted and that a proposal to have the liner go out of its regular course to pick up the party at Galveston had been aban doned. Under the present plan the departure will be made from New Orleans, to which point the senator and Mrs. Harding and their guests will go from Point Isabel by rail. That the plan for conferences on an association . of- nations already was taking form was1 revealed in this an nouncement from Mr. Harding's of ' fice: "Senator Harding let It be known today that he Is sending out a num ber of requests for personal and very informal conferences with men and women who have been eminent in the discussion of our foreign relations. These conferences will take place upon his return to Marion in December and will be Individual and personal, with the main purpose of learning what policy may enlist united sup port. Cabinet Decision to Walt. "Senator Harding means to avoid any unseemly anticipation, but he feels it wholly becoming to get an expression entirely free from cam paign bias, and to get it at the earli est possible day. It is the first step toward the meeting of minds of which Senator Harding so frequently spoke during ; the campaign. He did not make public any list, because it will not be complete before his vacation ends. "Senator Harding further announced that no consideration would be given to a cabinet during his recreation . period." Officials close to Mr. Harding re called that in his campaign speeches he promised- repeatedly that the "meeting of minds" would begin as Y that he also frequently declared that the purpose or his consultation would be, not to suggest any plan of his own, but to ascertain how divergent views might be so brought Into har Eony as to put a united nation be- . (Concluded, on Fag S, Column ! Officer Found Dead in Bathroom of Palace While Battleship With Board Xears Island. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. Commander W. J. Terhune, naval governor of Samoa, shot and killed himself at noon November 3, said a dispatch re ceived today at the navy department. Commander Terhune recently was ordered relieved as commandant at Samoa-' and Captain W. H. Evans ap pointed to succeed him. ' He had been suffering from heart trouble. A naval board of inquiry is en route to Samoa to inquire into the adminis tration of the island. HONOLULU, Nov. 5. Advices from Samoa received today indicate that Commander Warren J. Terhune, naval governor of American Samoa, ended his life November 3. three days be fore the battleship Kansas was due to arrive with a naval board of inquiry sent from Washington to investigate charges against' Terhune's adminis tration. The governor's body was found in the bathroom of the executive man sion with a bullet wound through the heart, according to the dispatch fron Samoa. SCHOONER IS0N BEACH Steering' Gear of Oregon Touls In JVclialem River. WHEELER, Or.. Nov. 5. (Special.) The motor schooner Oregon, en route from San Francisco here to load lumber, went ashore tonight just after she had crossed into the Nehalem river. The accident was due to the Oregon's ' steering gear ' becoming fouled. Captain Woepke was in com mand of the vessel. The government life-saving crew commanded by Captain Farley was summoned from Barview, but as dark ness fell goon after the Oregon grounded, no attempt at .hauling the vessel off was made tonight. It was believed she would be floated without trouble tomorrow. The motorship Oregon, believed to be the boat reported aground at Ne halem. Or., has been, plying between that place and San Francisco. On the last reported trip northward it left San Francisco October 7. It has a gross tonnage of 362 and net of 269. It was built in 1905 at Prosper, Or., and has a nominal crew of six men. DUTCH ROYALTY MENACED, Republic of Holland Is Possibility by Constitutional Revision. THE HAGUE, Nov. 5. (By the As sociated Press.) The possibility of becoming a, republic is in prospect for Holland under recommendations sub mitted today by the commission ap pointed to revise the constitution. 1. If these recommendations are adopted Holland will have the chance to decide'' upon doing away with royalty, unless the little Princess Juliana, only child of Queen Wilhel mina and Prince Consort Henry, some day gives birth to a son by a husband Whom the Dutch parliament approves as her consort. The prin cess now is 11 years old. The commission proposes that here after, unless there is a direct male descendant of a male ruler, the throne shall go to some male of the second generation of th last king. In the event of there being no direct male successor the people shall have the opportunity to change the country's form of government under the com mission's scheme. EVIDENCE 200 YEARS OLD Records of Peter Stuyvesant Land Grants tip In New York Case. NEW YORK. Nov. 5. Records of land .grants made by Peter Stuyvesant- before the end of the Dutch regime in New York were presented by the city today in its action to prove title to a stretch of land along the Hudson river side of Manhattan Island, now occupied as a "right of way" by the New -York Central rail road. The trial was resumed today in state supreme court after an extended re cess in 'which counsel for both sides in the controversy de,lved into rec ords of more than 200 years ago for evidence. SHERMAN - COUNT IS IN County Slakes First Return of Election Results. SALEM,. Or., Nov. 5 (Special.) Sherman was the first county In Ore gon to send to the secretary of state its canvass of the voce at the yecent general election. Ihe official count from Sherman county reached here today. 1 1 Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, will start the recanvass of the votes next week and the official results probably will be available by Novem ber 15. PAPER TO BE $130 A TON Canadian Producers Expected to , 'Announce Prices Soon. MONTREAL, Nov. 5. The price of newsprint paper for export to the United States during the first quar ter of 1921 probably, will be be tween . 6 and 7 cent!, a 'poaiid, or 130 to $140 a ton. it wan an nounced semi-of flcially here today While definite Information Is lack ing as to the prices at which Ca nadian producers will renew con tracts with consumers in the United States, it was stated that official in formation will be forthcoming within a few days. Chiefs Blame Each Other for Disaster. PARTY SEEMS DEMORALIZED Fight Over Reorganization Will Be Bitter One. THREE' GROUPS IN BATTLE One Taction Represents Cox, An oil her Administration and Third Is William Jennings Bryan. THE OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Nov. 5. The over whelming defeat of the democrats last Tuesday has resulted, in a seis mic disturbance within the party over reorganization.' As the returns continue to come in showing the utter demoralization of the party which, has ruled the nation for eight years, its leaders are charging re sponsibility for the result upon one another and engaging in a desperate struggle over future leadership. In this fight for reorganization there, will be three main elements, just as there were in the San "Tran Cisco convention. One will' represent the anti-administration group which nominated Cox, another -will repre sent, the administration group and William Jennings Bryan will be the third group, representing himself and opposed to the other two. The presidential nomination four years hence will be the prize. Hnnit Wants New Party. Various conferences already are being arranged in Washington and elsewhere and, in keeping with his desire to lead the party once more, Mr. Bryan is arranging to spend much of his time here this winter. In this conflict for leadership William Ran dolph Hearst, whose papers sup ported Harding on . the league of nations issue, - is expected . to enter Mr. Hearst is credited with the desire to build up an entirely new party to represent the irreconcilable group in the league of nations fight, with him self as leader. Mr. Hearst already is seen endeavoring to ow seeds of discord in the republican senate ma jority by intimating that the new senate proposes to throw Hiram Johnson and William E. Borah over board. In the struggle for reorganization the Wilson group'will hope to have the benefit of the president's leader ship in the event that his health im proves. If it does not. they will base (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) yes. ........................................... .............T THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS. f 1 1 1 VJ, If. i I J aA mm ! ' M 1 ' 1 . : , : 1 . : ; - - 1 1 n ' Inefficiency Chief Indictment of Officeholders hy Victorious feminine Candidates. YONCALLA, Or., Nov. 5. (Special.) Feminism captured the city of Yon- calla in Tuesday's election. An entire municipal ticket of women was chosen. Men opponents were defeated for all the offices. . Those elected were: Mayor, Mrs. Mary Burt. Members of council, Mrs. Bernice Wilson, Mrs. Jennie D. Laswell, Mrs. Nettie Hannan, Mrs. Edith B. Thomp son. ' The wonjen organized their cam paign secretly and the men did not realize what vas taking place until the votes were counted. Inefficiency was the chief count in the indictment of the women "cam- "paigners against the men office holders. In their pre-election meet ings, attended solely by women, charges were made that the city of ficials were allowing breaks in the sidewalks to go unrepaired, that speeding automobiles were not con trolled, that streets - were insuffi ciently lighted and- that general slackness in municipal affairs pre vailed. To cure these ills the women were rallied to go in and elect a com plete set of city officers of their own. They did so. BURNS, Or., Nov. 6. (Special.) Although she was not a candidate, Mrs. Grace B. Lampshlre was elected mayor of Burns last Tuesday, her friends writing her name in on the ballot without her knowledge. Mrs. Lampshire has been prominent in civic work here. CouMcilmen elected were M. H. Brejiton, Ben Brown, Joseph Thompson and Joseph Krum holz. NEW SHERIFF FELICITATED Woman Representative-elect Sends Message of Congratulation. . MUSKOGEE, Okla., Nov. 6. Miss Alice Robertson of Muskogee, newly elected woman representative in con gress from the second district, today sent a telegram of congratulation to Mrs. Jane Johnson of Roscommon, Mich:, who has been elected sheriff of Roscommon county. "Bless your soul," Miss Robertson said, adding that she sincerely hoped Mrs. Johnson would be a successful sheriff. . CHICAGO MUST SOBER UP Doom of Windy City's Hilarious Night Life Pronounced. . CHICAGO, Nov. 5. The doom of Chicago's night life was forecast to day by Charles A. Clyne, district at torney, when he notified every well known cabaret in the city not only to cease selling liquor, but to pro hibit guests bringing their own. Mr. Clyne threatened to close every place where guests were allowed to use hip-pocket flasks and to arrest proprietors and waiters for violation of the Volstead act McArthnr Leads Lovejoy by 5904, Baker Has 44,422 Votes or All Three Classes. Warren G. Harding carried Mult nomah county by 17,340, and R. N. Stanfield carried the county for sena tor by 2964. Th's result was shown by the complete returns of the 413 precincts In the county. On president, the vote stood, Hard ing (rep.) 44,482; Cox (dem.) 27.142. Other returns- showed the following: United States senator, Stanfield (rep.) 36,067; Chamberlain (dem.) 33.103; Hayes (ind.)' 1779; Slaughter (soc.) 2356; Svenson (industrial-labor) 676. Representative in congress, Mc Arthur (rep.) 37,138; Lovejoy (dem.) 31.234; Johns (lnd.-lab.) 3417. Supreme court, to fill vacancy. Brown (rep.) 20,036; McCarthy (dem.) 1708. Attorney-general, Van Winkle (rep ) 9758, Bailey (rep.) 8065, Johnson (rep.) 2352, tCoshow (dem.) 1781. Mayor, Baker, first choice 39.990, second choice 2976, third choice 1456. Gordon, first choice 14.769. second choice 6487. third choice 2134. Rich ards, first choice 5352, second choice 4408, third choice 3677. Kellaher, first choice 9769, second choice 4033, third choice 2784. Commissioner, Mann 49,203, Barbur 46,438, Perkins 20,859--Ziegler 7461. The zoning ordinance was defeated. The vote was yes 30,288, no 30,706. Port consolidation measure returns were yes 33,585. no 28,230. On the fcoosevelt bird refuge the vote was yes 32.568, no 32.035. RUMELY TRIAL IS BEGUN Ex-Publisher to Face Jury on War Conspiracy Charge. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. A. jury was empaneled in federal court today for the trial of Dr. Edward A. Rumely, former publisher and owner of the Evening Mail, Indicted with his two attorneys for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government. Dr. Rumely, charged with having attempted to violate the trading with the enemy act by making a false statement to the alien property custo dian as to the German ownership of the newspaper, was arrested before the close of the war in 1918. SIMPSON WINS JUDGESHIP Official Canvas Settles Close Race In Vancouver, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 5. (Spe cial.) The contest for judge of the superior court of Clarke county, which was in doubt .until the official canvass today, is settled. George B. Simpson won over James O. Blair by a majority of 53. -While the returns were coming In Blair was several times in the lead. Mr. Simpson will succeed R. H. Back, who has been on the bench for the past eight years and who was not a candidate for re-election. Britain, France, Italy to Aid One Another. PACT FOR MONTHS SECRET "Spheres of Influence" Rec ognized and Defined. DEVELOPMENT HELD AIM Provision Made for- Operation of Bagdad Railroad and Exploita tion of Other Resources. PARIS. Nov. 5. (By the Associated Press.) France. Great Britain and Italy have signeC a tripartite agree ment in which they agree to support each other in maintaining their "spheres of influence" in Turkey. The limits of the areas .in which the re spective special interests of Prance and Italy are recognized are defined by the same document. This agreement, it developed today. was signed at Sevres, August 10, the day the public ceremonial of the signing of the peace treaty with Turkey took place. Although the agreement, it is ex plained, is nob considered a secret one, it nevertheless has never been made publio until now, after a lapse of nearly three months since the sign ing. Under its own terms the docu ment was to come into force and be published at the time the Turkish peace treaty should go Into effect. This 'date is r.lll an uncertainty. . British Interest Uncertain. In connection- with examination of the text of the agreement now avail able, attention is being called here to the fact that while the treaty de fines the spheres of influence of Prance and Italy recognizing the special interests of France In Cillcla and the western part of Kurdistan, bordering on-Syria, and of Italy in southern Anatolia the British spheres of influence are not only undefined but are not mentioned. This has raised the question of whether the agreement is susceptible of the in terpretation that the British interest may be held to extend to any or all the remaining parts of the Turkish empire. It is noted, alfjo, that while the agreement does not take the form of an alliance, it pledges the contract ing powers to "render diplomatic support to each other in maintaining their respective positions in the areas in which their interests are recog nized." Batdad Road Disposed Of. . One section of the document pro vides for the exploitation of the Bag dad railway by a company in which British, French and Italian capital is equally interested. It gives the exploitation of the Heraclea coal mine between Konich and Adana, to Italy. Article 10 of the agreement pro vides that nothing- contained in it shall prejudice the rights of nationals of non-signatory states to free access to the various areas for commercial and economic purposes. The preamble of the document reads: "Being anxious to help Turkey de velop her resources and to avoid the international rivalries which have obstructed these objects In the past, and being desirous to meet the re quest of the Turkish government that it receive necessary assistance ir the reorganization of Justice, the fi nances, the gendarmerie and the police, in protection of religious, racial and linguistic minorities and the economic development of the country; consid ering that th autonomy or eventual Independence of Kurdistan has been recognized by them and that It is desirable with a view to facilitating the development f that country and .making provision for any assistance it may require in its administration and to avoid international.rIvalries in such matters; recognizing the re spective special interests of 'Italy in southern Anatolia and of France in Cillcla and the western part of Kurd istan bordering on Syria, up to Jezire Ibn-Omer, as these areas are here after defined, the B-ltish, Italian and French, governments, have agreed upon the following: Equal Bights Promised. "Article 1. There shall be equality In Turkey between the contracting parties in the composition of all in ternational commissions, whether ex isting or to be established, charged with the organization and supervision of the different public services and for Insuring the protection of racial, religious and linguistic minorities. However, in the event the Turkish government of Kurdistan is desirous of obtaining external assistance in the local administration or policing of areas in which the special interests of France and Italy are respectively recognized ' the contracting powers undertaking not to dispute the pre ferred claim of the power whose spe cial interests in such area are recog nized to supply such assistance. This assistance shall be specially directed to enhancing the protection afforded to the racial and linguistic minorities in said areas." . Article 2 provides that the products and manufactured articles coming from or going to the territories, (Concluded on Page 4. Column 3.) Cut in Prices to Reasonable Figure! by December 6 Is Demand ed In Ultimatum. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. United States Senators William M. Calder and W. E. Edge, members of the senate commit tee on reconstruction, in a joint state ment today, announced that "unless the coal industry reforms itself and cuts prices to a reasonable figure by December 6," they will introduce a bill for the "most stringent regulation of every branch of the business." The senators declared they did not undertake to say "tlrat this individual is a profiteer and that this one is not, but the coal industry as a whole stands self -convicted of practicing gross extortion on the whole public of the United States." "We are boLh opposed to govern ment regulation as a policy," the statement said, "but the government must assume responsibility for its people and we will recommend a bill for entire control of the industry ju-st as far as possible under the constitu tion unless prices are materially re duced to the public by December 6. "We are deadly in earnest about this. We are both conservatives on the matter of government ownership, but we are dV.sgusted with this situa tion. The coal industry stands self convicted. "The wrong-doing has been ad mitted by D. B. Wentz. representing the National Coal association; by Commissioner Clyde B. Atchison of the interstate commerce commission, and Daniel Willard, representing the rail roads. There is a general confession on the part of the industry even though guilty Individuals have not been identified." The senators decl-are-d they are not here "to try to decide definitely who or what particular element are guil ty." They asserted, however, that there is guilt somewhere among op erators and speculators who fix prices." "With 40,000,000 more tons of coal produced so far In 1920 over the same period of 1919," the statement added. there is no reason for high prices and coal shortage." PRISONER UNSEATS JUDGE Outcome of Election Race in Ken tucky Is- Unusual. WHITESBURG, Ky., Nov. 6. Prob ably the most unusual outcome of Tuesday's election in Kentucky waa the victory of Fess Whitaker, jailer of Whitesburg, over Stephen Combs Jr., in the race for county judge, Whitatoer having been sentenced to his own jail for six months by Judge Combs on the charge of attacking county officers. Including the sheriff. After being placed in the jail of which he was the legal keeper Whitaker escaped, was recaptured and again sentenced for jail-breaking. Following one of the most excit ing campaigns known to the moun tains of Kentucky, Whitaker though in jail won over Judge Combs by more than a thousand majority. Gov ernor Morrow has three times refused to pardon Whitaker. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 50 degrees; minimum, 34 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. Forelsm. Britain. Franc, and Italy In agreement on future action in Turkey. Page 1. Haiders in Ireland sack houses, bum build ings and shoot citizens. Page 2. National. Ka-ral governor, of Samoa kills hlmaelf. Page 1. Domestic. Julius H, Barnes declares competitive mar keting of grain is beneficial. Page 4. Gompers pledges support of labor to President-elect Harding. Page 2. Strlr.gent regulation threatened if coal prices stay high. Page 1. Coast traffic manager with power to make shipping rates declared needed. Page 6. Politics. Harding plans for "meeting of minds" on new association of nations. Page 1. Harding carries Multnomah by 17,340 votes. Page I. Harding may not find It easy to scrap in augural ball, say friends. Bags 3. Republicans still may increase house gains. Page 6. Harding's lead In Oregon is 82,416. Page 7. Governor Cox issues firt statement since democratic debacle. Page 3. Democrats survey wreck of party and bo gin plans for reorganization. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Nell Hart pays penalty with life on gal lows. Page 8. Prehistoric race la uncovered near The Dalles. Page 5. Feminism captures all municipal offices of Yoncalla. Page 1. Lumbermen want markets in east. Page 4. Sports. Gonzaga team Is fast. Page 12. Fight card completed for Portland show. Page 13. , CaUfornia-Pullman game eyed as crucial clash. Pago 12. Dempsey and Carpentier- sign fight con tract. Page 13. Washington beats Columbia 21 to 9, prac tically clinching title. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Northwestern wheat exporters shut out of European markets. Page 39. Break in exchange rates unsettles Chicago wheat prices. Page 19. Wall street stocks decline under heavy selling. Page 19. Portland mariners oppose service eut. Page IS. Portland and Vicinity. City council cuts 1100,000 from budget es timates. Page 19. State chamber of commerce calls confer ence of Oregon interests to formulate congressional programme for develop-' ment. Page 14. State highway commission orders that John Day and Columbia river highways shall connect at Arlington. Page 10. Pre - war schedule of Portland trains planned. Page IS. Stamp fraud trial may go to jury Monday. Page 18. Realty board is told at .weekly luncheon - that Portland needs more advertising. Page 7. Portland bomb mystery blows up with "bam." Page 1. Confidential exchange will act as clearing houap tor local welfare organizations. rage. 4. Boys in Prank Use Vic tory Loan Fireworks. SLEUTHS REACH TRAIL'S END Pyrotechnics Stolen for Hal . loween Celebration. FINALE IS LUDICROUS I'ive Youth, Taken Into Custody, Confess AV recking AVindows of Oue Home by Uxplosiou. The mystery of the black bombs, perplexing puz'.le to Portland police and harbinger of fear in general, blew up with a ludicrous "bam!" last night,' when Inspector Swennes, smil ing at his own temerity, cast a sack of the supposed anarchistic munitions on the floor of the police property room and went home to dinner. The ugly cylindrical packages did not re sent this casual treatment. Five boys of the ingenious 'teens and two in particular comprise the squad of assumed terrorists for whom the entire police force has sought since three "bombs" were discovered on election night in the doorway of the Jenning furniture store, hard by the First National bank. Situation In Revealed. They are Roy Willard Hall, 17, of 1470 Kast Glisan street; Claude Hol ton, 19, of Kast Forty-seventh street and Sandy boulevard, and their three free crfmpanions, John Hazlett, Ken neth Wilson and Gregs Carlton. In a statement made to Inspector Swen nes late yesterday, Roy Hall revealed a situation such as Booth Tarktngton would delight to chronicle. For the explosives, which created a seven days' wonder in Portland and incidentally wrecked the windows of an east side home, were patriotic plunder from the late victory loan campaigns when their reverberations were intended to wake the slumber ing quota. Merely this, and nothing more. Remorseful Confraslon Made. Roy Willard Hall, office boy to the firm of Morris Bros?, whose trail was closely followed by Inspectors Swennes and Schulpius, made a candid and remorseful confession late yester day to having pilfered the explosives from the basement of the firm's build ing, where they had re-posed ever since John L. Ktherldge, president of the firm and state director of liberty loans, fired the last broadside for an Oregon victory. "Nobody needed those bombs," said the repentent Roy. "And we fellows thought that there might be some fun In them for Halloween and Armistice day." Armistice day will not be so cele brated, but Halloween was a distinct success. For it was on that sprightly might that an explosion near the home of C. B. Hurtt. 1067 Kast Burnside street, roused the family to amazed alarm and an Inspection of shattered windows. This and more was told in the expose of the "bom'b" mystery, when young Hall accepted the official invitation to confidence. Loot Boldly Carried Away. On Halloween day at closin'g time Roy Hall and his confederate, Claude Holton, also an office boy with the firm of Morris Bros., entered the basement with one of the private mail sacks, filched ten of the big black firecrackers and carried their loot boldly through the building camou flaged as late mail. That night in an auto of the type affected by young gallants and briefly termed "the bug," Roy and Claude, accompanied by' Kenne-th Wilson and Gregs Carlton in another car, drove forth on the Columbia boulevard and elsewhere and fired several of the "bomibs" with gratifying success. It was one of these convivial attempts that rudely roused the Hurtts. Re turning, they secreted the remaining explosives in the Holton garage, a re serve munitions dump for election night or other appropriate occasion. While thousands of citizens thronged the streets as the returns came in. the sputtering little car with its sack of restrained celebration cruised down Washington, street and parked while the chums joined the crowd, with John Hazelett as a new recruit. Kenneth Wilson was inspired, to strategy. He left his companions, returned to the' car, plundered the sack for "bombs" and craftily hid them in the Jenning doorway for his own future entertainment. When JCennath returned the "bombs" were gone. He bantered tb night watchman retreated in secret worry, approached the guardian again and requested his cache. Whereupon the night watchman informed him that he had found the trio of cylin- , ders and had sent them to police headquarters with a full report. "They weren't nothing but big fire crackers," explained Kenneth. "You better wait until the police -come, and set them right," counseled the functionary. Departure Is Harried. Kenneth did not wish'to wait. He left hurriedly. And his troubled spirit moved him .to confess to Roy Hall later that night his perfidy and Its consequences. The two boys and their appearance before the night watch- (Concluded on Page 6, Column 3).