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Newspaper Page TextV -.- - .-;-.- ... - - - - . 1 . i f..Vi - 1 . - - ti V.-. i . 4 VOL T.TV VO 18 741 Entered at Portland (Oregon) ,UlJ' AA-V Portoffice as Second-Clase Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1920 20 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LEAGUE ACCEPTS CORVALLIS BUSINESS TO EARTH'S CRUST TORN BY TITANIC QUAKE SURFACE SHUDDERS HOURS UNDER HEED-LESS FEET. . 11 KILLED IN CLASH LEGION WANTS NO 2 HOLD UP CHINESE; 1 TAKEN AFTER CHASE STREET WARFARE MAN DIES SUDDENLY WITH MANILA POLICE .4 NO SECRET ENVOY 3 CONVCLSIOXS AXD DEATH FOLLOW BRIEF ILLSESS. FOUR AMERICANS SLAIX COXSTABULART RIOTS. IN ESCAPED ROBBER GETS 9100 FROM STORE SAFE. HARDING HAVE new MI DELAY WITH BONUS WAGED HOURS - i ... ) i .-A - ; . : ( Bulgaria, Finland, Costa Rica, Luxembourg In. 46 STATES NOW- ON ROLL Solomon Fine, Stricken at Theater, Passe Away at Home; Police and Doctors Mystified. Armenia Comes Up Again to Trouble Assembly. ADMISSION' IS DENIED Lord Hubert Cecil Makes Pica That Hope Be Held Out, However, for Acceptance 'cxt Time. '! GENEVA, Dec 16. (By the Asso- 'i ciated Press.) The league of nations .' Increase its membership to 46 states ! today by the admission of Bulgaria. . Finland. Luxembourg and Costa Rica. ''None met with opposition, but there ' f were some abstentions from voting ' on their admission, led by the French ', delegates, who explained, that, a 1- though they held no grievances against Bulgaria, they lacked suffl V? dent information and preferred not - m art either T-a ,-"! Armenia came up again today to J AUXOISTS . , trouble the. assembly. To do some-thing- for Armenia has appeared to J) be the slogan of several members since the beginning of the meeting. Including South Africa, represented by Lord Robert Cecil. Early Admiiwlo. Urged. The committee on the admission of new states having decidedi that Armenia could not be admitted now, Iord Robert asked the assembly at least to hold out the hope that Armenia will be adopted into the family of nations next year and to wish well to President Wilson' in his mission of mediation between the Armenians and Turkish nationalists. Edward XJ. Millan of Australia sug gested it might be wise to find out whether it was true Armenia had gone bolshevik and had made peace with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the na tionalist leader, before insisting fur ther on the proposal of mediation. George Nicoll Barnes of the English delegation asked whether it ; would not be wiser to drop the whole sub ject rather than risk a vote. If the vote should be negative, he declared, it would be like a slap in the face to Armenia: if favorable, it might prove to be without tangible result. Anrnblr Get Tangled. The assembly involved itself in tangle of procedure which Rene Viviani of France, as usual, unraveled by the simple suggestion to send the whole question back to the commit tee which, of course, would be unable to report at this assembly, CORVALLIS, Or., Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Solomon Fine, a young Cor vallis business man, died at his home here this morning under mysterious circumstances. He attended a theater last night, and in the midst of the performance complained to his wife that he felt ill and decided to go out and sit in the car. When the family came out they found him In a stran ger's car in a semi-conscious condi tion. He was Immediately taken where medical aid could be rendered. Phy sicians worked with him till 3 o'clock this morning, and left him then seem ingly on the way to recovery. A few hours fater he was seized withcon- vulsions and battled hard for breath. A pulmotor was brought Into service, rendering only temporary relief. Then he passed away. " Thinking that a possible brain le sion might have brought about his j death, an autopsy was held, but the tcauii auuncu iiuLlling wrung Willi his brain. An examination of the stomach was ordered made at the col lege laboratory in an effort to locate a possible poison. Mr. Fine came here a few years ago as an instructor in the college, and last fall entered business. He was a hustler, progressive, and ap parently was doing well. He had no family or business troubles so far as could be learned. His wife and two children survive. "Colonel House" Idea Re pugnant to Senator. GUMSHOE AID UNNECESSARY Rumors Anent McCormick Mission Held Absurd. AGENT ABROAD1 POSSIBLE ARE WARNED 1921 License Tags Not Good Until January 1, Is Ruling. SALEM, Or., Dec. 16. (Special.) Automobile owners who place 1921 licenses on their cars prior to Janu ary .1 do so in violation of the motor vehicle laws and are subject to prose cution, according to a statement given out today by Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. Information has reached the secretary of state that some car owners already have placed 1921 licenses on thgir cars, despite the provisions of the motor vehicle laws which specifically state that the duration of. these permits shall be from January 1, 1921, until Decem ber 31. 1921. Field deputies employed by the sec retary have been instructed to en force, the laws providing for regis trations and licenses, and violators will be arrested as fast as they are detected. . - Root Suggested by Republican Leaders as Available for Liaison Service in Europe. OLD ROMANCE RECALLED Relatives or 'Woman's Girlhood Sweetheart Remembered. SALEM, Mass., Dec 16. A "romance of the civil war" was recalled by two bequests of $j00 each to Clark How Ed'wards, St. Paul, Minn., and Jack son How of San Francisco, contained in the will of .Miss Sarah M. Kelly of Haverhill, file3 today. Both bene- The entire afternoon session was oi -uiss jveuy s occupied in holding out hope to Sirlhood sweetheart, Major Henry Esthonia, Lithuania and Letvia, whose Jackson How, who was killed in bat- applications for admission were re jected by the committee. These tales found advocates in Delegates f Colombia. Schanzer of Italy and Prince Dowleh of Persia.. M. Viviani said: I join all those who express sympathy with, or hope 'or. the Baltic states, but there Is srave Question involved. There is an lcle in the covenant which has made some noise in the world article 10 irhich requires the members of ' the league to go to the aid of a fellow member who is attacked. Defense la Discussed. tie at Glendale, Va., June 30, 1852. Miss Kelly and Major How, for whom the local Grand Army of the nepuDiic post is named, were to have been married upon his return from the war. Cpon learning of his death she announced, that she "would never marry. Her death occurred last week. BOMBERS NOTOISCOVERED Prosecutions Said to Have Caused Bitter Feeling In Ronmania. VIENNA, Dec 16. The perpetra- BT MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the New York Ivening Post, Inc.. Published by Arrangement.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. (Special.) It ought not to have been necessary for Senator Harding to say that Sen ator McCormick, in Europe, is not his representative. Speaking of Senator McCormick as Senator Harding's "Colonel House" is merely a case of the common disposition to think and write in phrases and "formulas, and is unjust to both senators. The senator, if he felt that courtesy to his predecessor permitted him to do so, would probably say, with a good deal of emphasis, that he does not be lieve in the idea of a "Colonel House" as a permanent Institution of the gov ernment; that he does not propose to have any Colonel House, and that if he should have a senatorial interna tional Colonel House for the conduct of foreign affairs, he would- probably choose a senator who at least is, or has been, a member of the foreign affairs committee. McCormick Ko Gnnwhoer. Senator McCormick. on his part, doesn't need to be anybody's Colonel House, and is temperamentally most unfitted for that role. He Is too much given 4o the explosive v blurting' out of the truth to be a carrier of diplo matic messages. Moreover, he doesn't depend for his political standing on having a PresU dent Wilson, or anyone else, to- lean on. He doesn't need- to.depend for his place in the world on his" standing with any other individual. Ha stands squarely ' on his own feet,, and has his pilace in the political world by virtue of a franchise from several hundred thousand voters of the sov ereign state of Illinois. Further than that, he Is, among all the leaderr in the republican party. probably the one who is least adapt ed to being anybody's Colonel House. By conviction and. habit he is an ex tremely Individual person, with a sharply pimgent personality, inde- Centcr Estimated at Leagues Deep, Probably "" Beneath Rolling Blue of Atlantic. WASHINGTON, Dec 16. Some where, perhaps leagues deep beneath the rolling blue of the Atlantic and forever bidden from the eyes of man, the earth's crust was torn and twist ed today by a titanic convulsion. For hours the earth's surface shud dered under the feet of its heedless millions. Force waves thousands of miles in length swept outward from that storm center like ripples on i rock-broken pool. -; Yet only the un sleeping seismographs noted it and inscribed a mute record for watchful scientists who guarded them. First word of the disturbance came from Georgetown university here. When Rev. Father Francis A. Tondorf, director of the seismographic observa tory, peered at his delicate mechan ism this morning, it' told him of a shock more severe than any recorded in the last two years. Somewhere the power beneath the surface was still bulging with the earth crust holding it in check. Father Tondorf sent out word of the shock, thinking it might be another great disaster. As the day went by, however, no word came back, leaving to conjecture the scenes and exact nature of the disturbance. Experienced observer that he is, Father Tondorf classed the record of bis instruments as that of a "terrible" shock. It began soon after 7 A. M. here, reached its greatest intensity toward 8' o'clock and waa still leav ing a wavering diminishing trail after noon, as the earth slowly settled to quiet. ' The chart indicated an east-westerly direction. Father Tondorf esti mated the distance from Washington as 2800 miles First impressions were indistinct, he said, while records of great disturbances in South or -Central America . have been recorded sharply and clearly. It might have been, he said, a submarine disturb ance, a new "mountain peak flung up under the waves. The' distance east ward would place the scene not far from the Azores, bu,t no word of an earthquake came from any quarter, Police Reserves Are Rushed to Walled City and Join Fray. Army Chief Restores Quiet. , . . ., MANILA, : Dec. 16, Eleven men. four Americans and seven Filipinos, were killed here last nig nt during a riot within the walled city between enlisted men of the Philippine con stabulary and the Manila police. The Americana killed were Captain of Police W. E. Wichmann, Patrolmen Albert H. Troge and John W. Dris coll and Augustus Jacuman, field clerk of the United States army. Fifty shots were fired when 40' consta bulary men sought to avenge the shooting of a constabulary man by the Filipino police. - The riot was a result of the shoot ing Tuesday night of a constabulary man, who was reported to have at tacked the Filipino policemen with a knife. The riot occurred when promiscu ous firing between the police and constabulary men took place. Police reservea with riot guns rushed to the walled city where hun dreds of shots were exchanged. The Filipinos killed included a patrol wagon driver and bystanders. Four Filipinos were wounded. There were no casualties among the constabulary forces. The enlisted personnel of the conr stabulary forces is composed entirely of Filipinos officered by Americans and Filipinos. The organization num bers 6000 and is stationed In various provinces of the Philippines for po lice purposes. Rioting ceased when Brigadier- General Raefel Crame appeared on the scene with Chief of Police Bopp. Colonel Lucien R. Sweet, inspector general of the constabulary, declared that this latest trouble between the constabulary and the police resulted from the arrest Sunday of the wife of a constabulary private by the police. Her clothing was torn, and the cir- Tax Plan Upheld Before Senate Committee. HOUSE BILL IS FAVORED Compensation to Railroads Cited as Parallel. Oriental Rdns to Street and Sliouts Alarm "When Pair Streak for Cover. ECONOMY ALSO URGED Payment to ex-Scrvlce Men Is Held, as Just a9 Aiding Industries Taken Over In War. WASHINGTON. Dec 16. The American Legion will defend the tax plan In the house bill granting ad Justed compensation to ex-service men, but it will not defend delay by congress in passing the measure, the senate, finance committee was told today by Gilbert Bettman, a member of the legion's executive committee. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, acting chairman of the committee, had advanced the condition of the treasury as a reason for suggesting postponement of action until 1922 or 1S23. He said treasury reports indi cated a deficit of $1,250,000,000 on January 1, $2,500,000,000 on next June 30, and $1,500,000,000 at the end of the next fiscal year, ' Railroads' Cane 'is Cited. "We all may be for a policy of re- Hunt for Negro Slayer Causes Kansas Clash. A Chinese store at til Flanders street, owned by Mrs. Sing Hey Luck and her cousinw Robert Kimball, was held up by two men last night about 6:30. Kimball, with, two guns at his back, was forced to open the safe, from which one of the men obtained foru $100 bills and about $300 in smal ler currency. Kimball, who is an Americanized Chinese, 28 years old, waa covered by one of the men until tho other had a good start with the money. When the guard finally left the store, Kim- I ball followed, shouting "holdup." De tectives Mcculloch and Morak were i near the corner of Fifth and Everett streets, and as the robber ran past them, they took up the chase, Morak firing a shot into the air. The man was caught at Sixtth and Everett Chief of Police Report? Situation. streets, attcr ne naa evidently thrown away his gun. WHITE KILLED, 2 WOUNDED Two Black's Believe to Have Been Slain. (CALL SENT FOR GUARD At police headquarters the alleged robber gave tho name of Bob Harri son, and1 said he was 27 years old. Police found 38 caliber revolver cart ridges in bis pockets, which later were found to be identical with cart ridges takne from a revolver found Under Control; Homes Ar Riddled Wlih Bullet. INDEPENDENCE. Kan., Dec. H. One white man was known to have oecn killed and two wounded, pol- by Patrolmen Miller and Mills, near I bly fatally, .as a result pf a race riot Fifth and Everett, and which it la thought Harrison threw away dur ing the chase. Harrison's partner, it is alleged, escaped with the money. Harrison was identified by young Kimball as one of the robbers, say the polico. cumstances were such as to make a trenchment," said Mr. Bettman, "but LAND FRAUD LAID TO 18 - (Concluded on Pace fi. Column 1.) Oakland. Cal., Vice-President of Firm Gives $5000 Bond. SAN FRANCISCO, " Cal., Dee. 16. Oscar L. Lamp of Oakland, vice-president and -western iriaiiager of" the Daniel Hayes company of Idaho, fur ni'shed :- $5000 bond before United States Commissioner Hayden today on a Chicago . indictment : charging him and 17 other officials of the com pany with land frauds in the San Joaquin valley. According to the indictment the officials sent.- through the mails cir culars and letters advertising the Chowchilla and Bliss ranches in Ma dera and Merced counties, aggregat ing 000 acres, as land suitable and ready for- cultivation, 'whereas It is alleged most of the acreage .was alkali. I real man's blood boil," he said. MAN LOST 5 WEEKS DEAD Wife Identifies Body of Prominent . Merchant, Victim of Exposure. GALVESTON, Tex., Dec 16. Bfrs. John P. Hammill, Ottawa, Ont., iate today identified the. body of a man found dead from exposure here Mon day as that of her husband, John- P. Hammill. wealthy Ottawa merchant,' A search has been In progress since November 11, when ha disappeared from his home, in Ottawa. v ' BULGARIA RECALLS ENVOY Stephan Panaretoff Minister to America Since 1914. WASHINGTON, Dec 16. Stephan Panaretoff, Bulgarian minister to the United States, was recalled today by his government and will leave for home within a short time. He was minister from Bulgaria, here since December 22, 1914. SOMETHING DIFFERENT AGAIN. I Xow who will be ready to go . to I tors of the bomb outrage in the Rou manian senate last Thursday, when two members of the senate were killed and several wounded, have not been traced, said a dispatch from Bucharest yesterday. Great bitterness was said to prevail in Boumania because of tho death sentence pronounced against the Journalist, Jakob Willner, and the fact that more than 4500 socialists were being prosecuted on the charge of conspiring against the safety of the state. in the defense of those Baltic stales? Let thoce who voted to ad mit them first make sure their gov ernments are ready to send troops to defend them." On the rollcall Esthonia was re jected by 27 votes out of the 35 cast. Latvia, and Lithuania each received five votes out of 29, It was stated before the voting took place that France had no ob jection to Bulgaria in particular, but would not vote because there was eome analogy between the' cases of Bulgaria and Germany. It waa as serted the delegation desired to main tain a consistent attitude on ques tions relative to qualifications of ap plicants for admission. At opening of today's session Presi dent Eymana announced that the re quest for consideration of the Tacna- Arlca case at this cession of the as- I for trial in connection with the "vice ! eembly ha4 been withdrawn with the I gang" case, as one of the men who request that it be put on the agenda I held him up and took his automobile PRISONER IS IDENTIFIED Farmer Says Alleged Gangster Is Man Who Held Him Up. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16. Albert Lawrence, Hayward, Cal, farmer, to day identified James Carey, held here i of the next assembly to meet in Sep tember. Some Vote for Anaemia. Tbe committee reported unfavora bly on the applications of Armenia, Ethonia, Lithuania. Letvia and Geor gia. It failed to recommend the ad mission of Armenia because author ity over the entire territory of that nation waa not being exercised by the government. The hope waa expressed that Armenia might be admitted at an early date. Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Peru, Uruguay. Venezuela, Portugal and Salvador voted for her admission, but the votes of 31 other states were against her. China, Persia and Po land abstained from voting. - The assembly passed a reeolution presented by Delegate Rowell of Can ada expressing the hope that Presi dent Wilson's efforts woulud rmilt In Kthe saving of Armenia and the estab lishment of a stable government, so that she might be admitted to the league in the not far distant future. - from him on the day tbe bank of Alameda county was robbed two months ago. From 20 men at the jail here, Law rence pointed out Carey and James Anslen, arrested on a San Francisco burglary charge, as men, who at the point of revolvers compelled him to relinquish his car to them. DIVIDEND IS DECLARED International Mercantile Marine Company Conserves Finances. - NEW TORK, Dec. 16. Directors of the International Mercantile Marine company today declared the regular semi-annual dividend of 3 ' per cent on preferred stock, but took no action on an extra disbursement of divi dends still in arrears on that issue. , Their failure to do so was attrib uted to general shipping conditions, which make it advisable that . the company conserve" Its financial re sources. : SOMETHING DIFFERENT AGAIN. ' : . ' ' ' OWVt & j i i yrcjr-wai iAir i iuii 1 1 1 1 1 w im isi , i i I Ml I II i f I il t ' l 'JTTVw YJ K -v yi H 1 I -1 . HI, l l l IF. ! i 'Ti j ii. n r. i let's not retrench when the men came back at an economic disadvantage. Carl Calvin, national commander of the World War Veterans, told the com mittee congress had provided the means for compensating the railroads and other industries taken over dur Ing the war and that the ex-soldiers felt they should have equal treat ment. - Major Frederick W. Galbraith Jr. of Cincinnati, national commander of the American Legion, in presenting the claims eald congress should find the means of meeting these claims. Mr. Bettman expressed similar views, saying It waa not for the legion to advise when or how "the debtor" should pay. ' t Administration Is Attacked. Some senators did not agree with the legion spokesmen that large num bers of the soldiers must accept homestead- or other features of the bill in lieu of the cash bonus pro posed as one of the alternate plans of compensation. Major Galbraith thought a campaign of education would reduce the number who now favored a cash payment by. the gov ernment. Major Galbraith sharply attacked the administration for the treatment of disabled service men. He said con gress had been liberal with funds for this' purpose, but that the federal agencies charged with carrying on the work had not co-operated and functioned properly. R. G. Woodislde of Pittsburg, com mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged immediate passage of the house measure, declaring that all the men asked was a square deal. Cuk Bonos la Wanted. Proposing a substitute bill for vo cational training and some form of government loans for homes, Sam Lovenbeinv chairman of the Rank and File ' Veterans' association, declared that all ex-service soldiers opposed the pending measure; that all wanted a cash bonua and that they wanted it to come from "the war profiteers.' Mr. Bettman said the question now was "the expense ox international altruism." It isn't fair," he concluded, "to saddle the expense oi that adventure on the service men and make them fight the battle and then bear the loss." REVOLT PENALTY UPHELD Appeals Court Rules Against Four Accused! of India Uprising, CHICAGO. Dec. 16 The United States court of appeals today affirmed the three-year sentences of Heramba Lai Gupta, George Paul Boehm, Albert A. Wehde and Gustav H. Jacobeon. convicted of fomenting a revolution in I ' mcn gathered hurriedly which broke out here shortly before 7 o'clock tonight Two nrgroci were believed to have been kUIrd, accord- Ing to Chief of Police Hall, who de clared at :40 P. M. that the situation was under control. Shortly after P. M Chief of To Hoe Hall announced that a request had been sent to Topeka urging that the national guardhmon be sent here. Members of the home guard and of the local post of the American Legion turned out to assist in quelling tbe disorders. Wharton Killed in Store. Wharton was killed In his store early today by a negro who mraprd with about $300. Shortly afterward the alarm was spread and hundreds some of India and organizing a military ex-I them armed, to seek for the robber, pedition against England. I The search kept up for hours without The four, together with .Baron von I any definite results. Race fveling waa Relswitz, ex-German vice-consul in stirred up by the insistence of the Chicago, were indicted June 2, 1917. searchers in trying to find the slayer The baron had returned to Germany of Wharton in the houses of other prior to that date and escaped trial. Sentences of three years on one charge and two on the other, to rua concurrently, were given the four. RICH FATHER FUGITIVE Man Charged With. Locking Daugh ter in Hotel and Fleeing, NEW YORK. Dec. 16. Rudolph negroes. Various minor clashes resulted from, the aggressiveness of the man hunt and open violence broke out In the evening. Shots were fired In many of the streets and houses were punc. tured with bulleta, the struggle be. coming more violent with each suc ceeding volley. All Sorta of Weaaeas tsed. All aorta of weapon were brourbt Into play by both aides and the streeta were lighted by the flaahea of fire arms, while men and evon women and children rushed through tha thoroughfares In the negro quarter fighting and shouting. At 9 o'clock the fighting had ex- Mosner, reputed to be a wealthy cabl net manufacturer of St. Paul. Minn., was arrested as a fugitive from Jus tice today, prior to the Departure of tbe steamship Mongolia for Hamburg. Detectives said Mosner was wanted by the St. Paul police on a charo-e of deserting his 10-year-old daughter '"ded 'n eome cases outside the city after locking her in a hotel room "mlts with whites In pursuit of ne- there. I &roea. The negroes seemed to have few firearms and rushed about In r n fnnniiiiMO cnai nrr """"' l po. "oporto to I". n. UUUUIIVU O OUIV UCMU the police, however, indicated that the negroes had fired on the white Boy Succumbs After Operation at I In several Inetances. Most of the population of Ina pendence, which has 13,000 Inhab- FREE ISLANDS IS PLEA Philippines Declared to Have Earned Promised Independence. WASHINGTON. "Dec. 16. Philippine independence was advocated today in the house by Representative Frear, republican, of Wisconsin, who de clared the United States should not continue Its hold of tbe islands by armed soldiers stationed there, ''just as we have maintained an army in Russia, a force of marines in Santo Domingo In Haiti, In our peculiar governmental system of regulating the affairs of the world." Mr. Frear said a recent visit to the Islands with a congressional delega tion had convinced hhn tha the Phil ippine government bad fulfilled the conditions set by congress for granting- Independence. HUNGARY INTERNS JEWS Five Hundred- Families Dragged From Beds to Cantonment. VIENNA; Dec 16. (Jewish Tele graphic Agency.) The Hungarian authorities are taking steps to intern all alien Jews, says a dispatch from Budapest. During the last few nights, the dis patch adds, 500 Jewish families were dragged from their beds and removed Spokane Hospital. SPOKANE, Dec. 16. Franklin Good ing, five-year-old son of F. R. Good ing of Gooding, Idaho, United Slates senator-elect, and Mrs. Gooding, died at a hospital here last night. The boy's death followed a surgl cal operation. Hants, obeyed the orders of the police to remain In their homes to avoid stirring up further trouble. KANSAS CITT, Mo., Dee. 11 Fighting was In progress between whites and negroes on the streets of Independence, Kin, and there has Japanese- Dress lie form Proposed. I been much shooting, according to a telepnona message received here to- HONOLULU. T. H.. Dec 16 (Spe cial.) The Japanese consul has called a meeting of the Japanese newspaper men to discuss plans to create sentl ment among the Japanese of Hawaii ,to discard their native drem and adopt the dress of America, This Is along the lines of Americanization, planned by the consul. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Hlghut temptratore, deer.: lowest. SO der.; cloudy. TODAY'S Rain; easterly wtads. night from Independence. The re port said at least three persons had been killed. It was denied that an attempt bad been made to lynch a negro accused of shooting a white man. The message, which came from a telephone operator at Independence, said the trouble broke out suddenly and ' followed a day of excitement over the shooting of a white man, a grocer, this morning. WOMAN PERISHES IN FIRE Charred Body Is Recovered From Ruins of Dwelling-. ABERDEEN. Wash, Dec 16. (Spe cial.) The charred body of Mrs. Ethel Mackey, wife of C. J. Mac key, was recovered from the Mackey residence following a fire at McCleary, Wash., this afternoon, and removed to the borne of the dead woman's mother. Mrs. A. W. Teagle. The fire started about 2 o'clock In the afternoon, and is believed to have been caused by de fective wiring. The fire had made great headway when discovered and quickly de stroyed the dwelling. Mrs. Mackey was alone In the house. Mrs. Mackey Is survived by her mother, her husband, and thrts daughters, S, 7 and f years old. .jo ao-oas...oajJ-.sjl4 ...to. n Internment camp. Portland and Vlctnltr. Many poor families In pitiful plight rase l. Business piling- up for next session of leg islature. Fas 11. Citizenship In United States Is (ranted to 48. rage 14. Gas "company sees bl deficit la 1921. Page 14. Hubert M. Berry, "college boy" holdup pronounced Insane by alienists, rage 17. Old liberty loan workers' aid asked Id Hoover fund drive. Fage IT. Terminal settlement . believed In view. Fage 26. Vancouver wants to join Portland In 1923 exposition. Page 26. Eleven soft drink cases heard by council. Page 8. Foreign, Lea rue accepts Costa Rica, Lnxumbourg. Bulgaria and Finland as new memben. Page 1. British dominions win block European domination of league of nations. Page 7. Vlvianl'a retort to Swiss plea for Justice to enemy states brings ovation. Page 7. National. y Harding wants no "Colonel House" as per manent feature of government. Page 1. Earth's crust torn by tltanlo convulsion.. Page 1. Legion wants no delay In congress voting compensation. Page 1. Senate and house committees promise Im mediate action (or farmers. Page S. Anti-strike bill passed by senate. Page S. Committee busy framing farm relief legis lation. Page 4. Loss of 110,000.000 In lumber Industry sub Ject to U. S. excess profits tax. Page 4. Pacific Northwest. Young Corrallis bu.lness man dies under mysterious circumstances. Page 1. Vancouver pastors In nuptial fee war. Page 8. Betty Bralnerd to go free If Star surren ders and pleada guilty to gldnapHig. Paire s. I at Long eBach, Cel., has been notl- irngauon aispute solution sougnu rage i. tlei Bnd ,h, may b, mbu t0 pIae, Bpora. Ithorlties In touch with kin of the C;' '"V? puU off lectlon "nt" tod5r' 1 dead man. Mr. Hurley was a mem- JTJstlo tans learn home boxers but. Page It, her. of. the Knights of Pythias lodge. WORKMAN DIES SUDDENLY Woodcutter on Mrs. Simon Benson'a Ranch Stricken at Work. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec H.(8f- clal.) John Hurley, aged about 10 years, died suddenly while cutting wood on the Oak Grove ranch of Mrs. Simon Benson. Although Mr. ' Hurley has resided here for the past 1$ years, little Is known of him. He came from North Dakota. He waa reticent and never talked of relatives. Mrs. Benson, now r . ' f. I' ' Sv V i -.