TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, TnUESDAT, DECEMBER 2, 1920
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BEFORE SCULPTRESS
Wolf of Red Government
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FEATURES ARE COMPLEX
War Minister Intimates to English
Woman Time Will Come When
Bolshevism Takes World.
(This Is tie third 'Instalment of the
diary of Mrs. Clare Sheridan, the English
e:u!ptress. In it she describes the various
m ttinrs of Trotsky, durins which he told
of his trip to Russia, save hia views on
Kngiish poets, and for an Instant showed
bis ferocity. In the fourth Installment,
to bo printed tomorrow, Mrs. Sheridan
tells of her vain attempt to obtain a
Hitting- from Tchitcherin, the foreisn min
ister, who works day and nleht and could
spare no hour but D A. M. ; describes pro
letarian sculptural art, and tells of the
d'-atli and burial of John Reed.)
Special Cable to The TCew Tork Tlrq.es.
Copyright by The New York Times Com
pany. Published by Arrangement. )
LONDON, Dec. 1. Mrs. Clare SherN
dan's diary today deals with her sit
tings with Trotzky.
"October 11 In the morning: I ac- i
companied a friend to the headquar
ters of the third internationale. It is
In a beautiful house formerly the
German embassy, and where Count
Mirbaeh was murdered. I came away
In a car with Mine. Balabanoff, whom
I had often heard of.
"tfhe is small, vain and middle
aged, with an ugly, crumpled-up face,
but intelligent. She practically told
me that I was doing Leuine's head
to take back to England to show to
the. idle curious. I corrected her by
taying that so far as the public wa
concerned I only wished to enable
those who had him at present repre
sented by photographs , to substitute
a bust. She was equaly vehement
about photographs.
Trotzky Agrees to Sit.
"Octo'ber 17 Litvinoff came to see
roe in the afternon and was surprised
. I had not been to work at Trotzky's.
I explained to him that through an
other comrade Trotkzy had flatly re
fused to be done by me. litvinoff
could not understand this. He s:l
he had seen Trotzky last night, who
had consented and had promised even
to be amiable to me.- It was then de
cided that Litvinoff would see Trot
zky again during the day and tele
phone me what arrangements he
made.
'October 18 Trotzky's car came
for me at 11:30 A. M. and Litvinoff
explained to the chauffeur that he
was first to go to the Kremlin with
me to fetch my things. The chauf
feur and myself and the plaster
moulder, who was there working,
carried the things down to the car
and I was then driven to some place
the long way from the Kremlin, the
war ministry, I think. I was ushered
Jn I and my molding stand and my
clay together.
"From behind an enormous writing
table in one corner and near a win
dow came forth Trotzky. He shook
hands with me welcomingly and
asked at once if I talked French.
Ridiculous Situation Remedied.
"The light'from two windows was
certainly very bod. It lit up one side
of my work. The rest was in outer
darkness. The room, which would
have made a beautiful ballroom,
looked large and dark. Beyond there
were huge white columns which got
In my way and hampered the light.
"My heart utterly sank at the dif
ficulties of the situation. I looked
at my man. who was bending down
writing at his desk. It was impos
sible to see what sort of face he had
got. I looked at him for a while and
looked at my lump of clay and then
I went and knelt in front of the
writing table opposite him with my
chin on his papers. He looked up
from his writing and stared back a
nerfectlv steady, unabashed stare.
His look was a solemn, analytical
one. Perhaps mine was, too.
"After a few seconds I realized' the
absurdity of our attitudes and had to
laugh. I said, 'I hope you ao not
mind being looked at.'
" T don't mind." he answered. 1
have my reason in looking: at you,
nd it is I who gain." '
"T asked permission to take a few
measurements.
"Whatever vou like he said, and
then he pointed out to me how utter
ly unsymmetrical his face is, which
is true. If his nose were straight, he
would have a very fine line from the
forehead. Full-faced, he is Mephisto.
His eyebrows go up at an angle and
the lower part of his face all goes to
a point. When he talks, his face
lisrhts up and his eyes flash. This
flash is much talked of in Russia
and people say to one, 'Have you seen
Trotskv'a eyes?' He is called the
wolf.
"He was thoughtful for a while and
then asked me. 'Are you under the
care here of our foreign office?'
6aid I was not.
1 Trotsky Tells of Arrest.
"At 4 o'clock he ordered tea and had
f onio with me. He talked to me about
himself and of his wanderings in ex
ile during the war, and how finally at
the outbreak of the 'revolution he
sailed on a neutral ship from the
United States to return to Russia.
Also how they (the British) arrested
him and took him to a Canadian con
centration camp.
"At -5 I prepared to leave. He
ent me home in his car.
"Oct. 19. Trotsky's car came at 6:30.
"When I got to Trctsky's I waj frozen.
He put a chair for me by the fire and
when I had melted, he put all the
lights on and got to work. He said:
'We will have an agreement quite
businesslike. I will come and stand
by the side of your work for five
minutes every half hour.' Of course
the five, minutes got very enlarged
and we talked and worked and lost
all track of time.
"Oct. 20. Foreign papers, we heard,
have started news of a counter revo
lution, but if there is any such plot
eteps have been taken to deal with it.
It is a bore coming to Moscow to find
It so beastly quiet.
German Workers Intrigue.
"This evening I asked Trotsky for
rev;s. He says that German workers
have voted in favor of joining the
Moscow internationale, which he says
is very important, but England, he
fays, is Russia's real and dangerous
enemy.
"I said: 'Not France?'
" "No, France is just a noisy, hys
terical woman, making scenes, but
England, that is different altogether.1
"After that I worked for an hour
and he never spoke. He was busy at
bis table with his papers. Toward
the end of the -evening he offered to
come and stand for a bit and while
doing so he remarked on my name
being spelled the same as that of the
playwright (Richard Brinsley Sheri
dan). I explained that I had married
a lirect descendant. He was Inter
dal' had been translated and has been
continually acted here in Russia.
"It was then a quarter to midnight.
I looked desperately at the clock.
'What about this order to be homet
midnight? How am I tc do it?" He
said : . 'I will take you myself.'
"At about half after midnight we
left. A man in uniform joined us and
sat next to the chauffeur. He had in
his hand a very big leather holster.
Crossing the bridge, we were stopped
by about five soldiers, and the man
with the holster had to show our pa
pers by the light of the car lamp.' It
delayed us several minutes. I said
to Trotzky, 'Put your head out of
the window and say who you are.
" 'Taisezvous,' said Trotzky peremp
torily, so I sat. rebuked and eilent,
until we were allowed to pass on un
recognized. Oct. 21. Tonight was better for
work. I felt calmer, as the worst dif
ficulties were surmounted. Trotzky
stood for me in a good tight and dic
tated to his stenographer. That was
excellent. His face was animated and
his attention occupied.
- "We talked a little about me. He
said 1 should remain in Russia a while
longer and do some big work, some
thing like my 'Victory,' which he likes
and has insisted on keeping: photo
graphs of, 'an emaciated and exhaust
ed figure, and still fighting, and that
is the allegory of the soviet."
"I answered him that I could get
no news of my children, and there
fore I must go back. T must return
to my own world, with its cultured
people, who wonder always what the
world will think, and leave behind
Russia, with its big ideas which
spoil one so.'
A Moment of Ferocity.
"'Ah, that is what you say now,
but when you are away' and he hes
itated. T,hen, suddenly turning on
me with clenched teeth and fire in
his eyes, he shook a threatening fin
ger in my face. "If when you get
back to England vous nous calominez
as the rest have. I tell you I will come
to England, et je vous' He did not
say what he would do, but there was
murder in his face. I smiled. 'That
is all rig-lit. Now I know how to get
you to England.'
Oct. Hi;. I have finished my Trot
zky bust. I worked until half after
nidnight. I think it is a success. He
said so. but it has been such a strug
gle. About half way through the
evening the electric light went out
A secretary lit four candles. On the
telephone Trotzky learns that the
ights had gone out all over town.
'. asked him, hopefully, if it could
possibly be the outburst of a counter
revolution. He laughed and asKed
if that was what, I wanted. I said I
thought it would break the monotony.
"Until the lights went on I read a
leading article on bolshevism in the
(London) Times of. I think, October 4.
When the lights went on I worked
hectically on until. after midnight
with the desperation of knowing it
was the last sitting. When he left
his last words to me were: 'Well, we
will go together to the front.' But
something tells me that we will never
meet again, for I would rather pre
serve the impression of our hours of
individual work, collaboration and
quietude, silently guarded over by a
sentry with a fixed bayonet outside
th,e door." ,
RECESS IS ORDERED
Hi SHIPPING PROBE
Committee to Resume After
Congress' Reconvenes.
ACCUSED DENY CHARGES
WHISKY GUARDS TRICKED
SUPPLY REMOVED WHILE DEP
UTY SHERIFFS WATCH. '
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Liquor Valued at Several Hundred
Dollars Taken From Cellar of
Seattle Residence.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 1. (Spe
cial.) While deputy sheriffs were
standing guard whisky valued prob
ably at hundreds of dollars at current
prices was alleged by federal agents
to have disappeared from P. E. Sulli
van's cella?- in his residence at 3002
Harvard avenue north, between Fri
day night and Monday morning, ac
cording to information received by
R. C. Saunders, deputy United States
attorney.
An attempt was made by county
officials Friday night to seize the
Sullivan stock of liquor under the
Washington state prohibition act. A
60-mile gale was blowing at the time
and nobody would take the respon
sibility of moving the liquor in the
storm, it was said at the sheriff's
office. Before the liquor could be
moved Saturday, a temporary re
straining order had been obtained by
Sullivan to prevent the sheriff from
doing so. Deputy Sheriffs Connors
and Von Gerst were appointed guards
to watch the cellar, to see that none
of the liquor was touched until the
matter of the restraining order was
settled in court.
S. E. Bunker, prohibition eaforce
ment officer, stated that when he
went to the Sullivan cellar with
county officials Friday night, 36 bot
tles of Canadian whisky and several
kegs of other whiskies, including
some Sunnybrook, were in sight. He
said he knew what the kegs con
tained,- Because when the spigots
were turned whisky ran out.
When he returned to the cellar
Monday, he said, the w-hisky was
gone. Empty containers alone were
in sight where the whisky had been
The stocks of wines and other liquors
seemed to be intact.
UNIT TO BE INSPECTED
First Rollcall for Battery Is to Be
on Monday.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 1. (Spe
cial.) The initial rollcall of the new
national guard artillery unit will
4ake place on Monday and state in
spection is expected by Thursday of
next week, according to Captain
Ralph Horr, who said he expected
lso to raise an artillery unit at
Hoquiam.
Within 48 hours after the federal
inspection, according to the promise
of Ad'utant-Ceneral Maurice Thomp
son, the state armory board will
start work on plans for the armory
here for which there already is
legislative appropriation of 1125,000.
John Cranor and Lester Sisler Are
Among Witnesses Testifying at
Close of Hearing.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The Walsh
congressional committee, investigat
ing affairs of the United States ship
ping board, terminated today a three
weeks' open session. The committee
will resume its work after the re
convening of congress, sitting for a
time in Washington before returning
to New York.
Among witnesses testifying today
were John Cranor, ex-representative
of the Downey Shipbuilding corpora
tion at Washington, and Lester Sisler,
ex-secretary to the shipping' board,
who were named by Tucker K. Sands
in his testimony as sharing in an
alleged fee of $40,000 which Sands
said was paid toobtain a shipping
board contract.
Charges Denied by Both.
Both witneses denied the charges
and asserted they were unable to say
what motive inspired Sands to make
them. William Denman, first execu
tive of the fleet corporation, also
testified that there had never been
a "controversy" over the wodden ship
programme before him and Major
General Goethals, associated "with
him in organization of the corpora
tion. '
During the sessions here, sub
peneed and1 voluntary witnesses tes
tified to numerous alleged instances
of mismanagement and lack of ac
counting and checking which were
said to have resulted in losses to the
government of millions of dollars.
Expert Accountant Testifies.
Martin Gillen. expert accountant to
ex-Chairman Payne, testified that
more than $2,000,000,000 of the value
of the ships for which the government
appropriated approximately $4,000.-
000.000 had been amortized and should
treated the same as "burned pow
der or other war emergency expenses."
Cranor testified that while he was
in Washington the Providence com
pany was endeavoring to procure a
contract for the construction of ten
tugboats and that he learned that the
financial standing of the concern was
not satisfactory to the credit depart
ment of the shipping board."
Cranor said that Mr. Downey sent
him to Washington to arrange a
credit for the Providence company
and took the matter to Sands, who
was then vice-president and cashier
of the Commercial National bank.
The bank then issued a credit letter
to the extent of $125,000 to the ship
ping board for the Providence Engi
neering corporation.
10,000 Iterlnrrd Paid.
The witness safd that he had agreed
to pay $40,000 for arranging ' this
credit.
Mr. Downey and Sands eventually
agreed on $25,000, Cranor said.
Denman testified that there never
had been any controversy between
himstelf and Major-General George W.
Goethals, associated with Denman
when the fleet corporation first was
instituted, over the "wooden ship
programme." Denman said he at no
me was in favor of wooden ships
except as a war emergency or as
auxiliary to steel vessels.
Sisler resumed the stand and -reit
erated his previous testimony deny
ing improper business relations with
Sands.
Denman, whose home is In San
FrancLsco; appeared at his own re
quest. He said he would reappear
prepared to testify as to matters con
cerning the board when he was
actively connected with it.
"It is my desire to kill the so-called
Denman-Goethals controversy.' "
Policy Is Explained.
"During our time with the board.
General Goethals was in favor of
building just as many ships as was
passible. The country was demand
ing that they be constructed regard
less of cost or methods.
'In the two months we served with
out an organization contracts were
arranged for 600 vessels) costing more
than $300,000,000 without a -scratch
of a pen for authority and the con
tracts were afterwards ratified.
He said he had promulgated a
project relating to building of an. in
ternal combustion engine which, had
it been carried out, , would have
solved any bunkering problem," In
the world-
cisier also lecsiii-ieu -a xi is eiioria j- . ,
to get asanas to mane an accountingh-T
with reference to Sisler s sand and)
gravel company, which Sands and hel
financed. He also said that thel
Goethals-Denman controversy was i
most unfortunate thing for the coun
try. ,
School Debate Announced.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Dec. 1. (Spe
ciai.) The Centralia high school de
bating team, which, arguing the af
firmative side of the question of com
pulsory arbitration of labor disputes,
defeated Raymond in the opening de
bate of the season, will debate the
Olympia team December 10. At Ol-ym-
pia the Centralians will trgue the
negative side of the question.
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Mexico has a tribe of Indians whose
language is limited to about 30o!
words and who cannot count more
than ten.
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that night. The second or third day
after the thing had happened I went
up to the house to see what the bomb
had done to it. After the explosion 1
a went to Tacoma vhere I met some
railroad men who told me there were
a lot of railroad Jobs in Canada. I
went up to Vancouver and stayed five
days looking for a switchman's job,
but couldn't get any. I came back to
Tajoma and went to live with my
cousin at 7425 Union avenue."
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-University.' Women Pledge to Sup-
port Xear East Orphans.
1 UNIVERSITY. OF OREGON, Eugene,
iDec. 1. (Special.) Hendricks hall.
i the women's dormitory, pledged to
'support two Armenian orphans after
J hearing a talk on near-east relief
' work in Armenia by Dr. Lincoln Wirt,
,.! who is lecturing on the campus.
Drj Wirt has just returned from
: Turkey after extended Armenian re
j lief work. The local drive has re
1 ceived considerable support from
university folk, and a generous co
operation in this work.
The Red Cross drive also Is in full
swing on the campus. Delta Theta
Pi, law fraternity, is the first organ
ization in the university to report
100 per cent membership, according
to Mozelle Hair, local chairman.
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Child Welfare Workers Take Steps
Under State Leader to Provide
Nourishment for Babies.
OREGON AGRICtTTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 1. (Special.)
A "more milk" campaign will be run
as a feature of the Ashland chamber
cf commerce fair, opening tomorrow
for three days, by the home demon
stration agent and other child welfare
workers, reports Mrs. Jessie D. Mc
Comb, state leader of home demon
stration work for Oregon.
The work of increasing the milk
consumed by 325 Grants Pass children
is, said by Mrs. McComb to have been
all the more remarkable for the rea
son that the local supply was inade
quate, and milk had to be imported
for the increased use in child feeding.
At Medford 102 children are getting
milk now who did not get any when
the campaign opened. A milk and
dairy products shop is one, of the in
cidental advantages that have grown
out of the campaign.
More milk is a feature of the Uma
tilla county hot lunch contest launched
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