VOL. LIX NO. J 8.7.18
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Postofffce as Second-Clan Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LABOR DISCOVERS
CUPID SNARES EIGHT
UNIVERSITY COUPLES
FIANCEE OF ENSIGN
ELOPES WITH SOLDIER
INAUGURAL QOUGING
MAY BE PROHIBITED
BILLS TO PROTECT CROWDS
INTRODUCED IX SEXATE.
FLOOD IS HALTED
HARDING ELEVATED TO
32D DEGREE MASONRY
PUBLIC IS
By TURN TO
'AMERICA MENACED
BY ALIEN INFLUX
ADMIRAL TO ADOPT
AWAKE
OLD
7 LITTLE RUSSIANS
Bachelor, 53, Brings Chil
dren to America.
3IAXY STUDENT MARRIAGES
MARK YULE HOLIDAYS.
BRIDEGROOM-TO-BE TAKES
LOXG TRIP, BUT GIRL SKIPS.
12-HOUR IXITIATIOX CERE
MOXY SPAXS 29 DEGREES.
Unionism Conscious That
Crisis Is Coming.
WAGE REDUCTION INEVITABLE
Open-Shop Problem Also Up
for Solution.
S0MPERS SEES SITUATION
federation Leader and His Staff
Leave for 3Ieiico; Departure
Is Counted Significant.
THE OREtlONIAX NEWS BUREAU,
Washington. Jan. B. Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
f Labor, accompanied by his execu
tive staff, has gone to Mexico. His
eparture calls attention to the fact
that organized labor in this country
Is facing the greatest crisis In its his
tory. There are rumors that Mr
Rompers has taken advantage of the
opportunity to get out of the country
before the crisis is reached. His lieu
tenants, who are remaining on the
lob, have taken an entirely new attl
tude toward the public and no longer
appear before legislators in a threa
tening and truculent mood.
There are two angles of the sltua
tion which labor is meeting. One of
them Is the necessity of accepting
lower wages and the other is the
problem of the "open shop." In spite
of assertions made by Mr. Gompers
and others to the effect that labor
would not accept lower wages, there
re evidences that wages are coming
uvv.ii uu must continue to come
own in keeping with the reduction
In the prices of commodities which
labor produces.
Labor Accepts Situation.
Dispatches from various sections of
the country show that, labor is ac
cepting this feature of the situation
witn considerable philosophy. For
xampls, a 20 per cent reduction has
been accepted by the J000 employes
f the Pullman company In its Illinois
chops. Even with this reduction it
leaves wages there higher than In
January. 1918. The 20 per cent reduc
tion cuts off Just one-fifth of the in
creases that have been received. In
the New England textile mills reduc
tions ef 224 per cent have been ac
cepted. In Salt Lake City the brick
tnasons of a fire clay company have
Jhsked their company to reduce their
.wages from 110 to SS a day.
Reports of reductions in wages
tome from all sections of the country
And are accompanied by reports of a
revival in industry. In spite of that,
there Is much unemployment in the
country, especially in the textile and
automobile manufacturing centers.
The closing down of the Ford and
Podge works in Detroit has thrown
thmiKanriy, nf mn mil nf Am nl
While rubber manufacturing centers
Ohio report a similar condition.
I'uhllr t oasldered Now.
In meeting this situation, organized
tabor is suffering from the result of
Its militant activity In years past.
The present attitude of organixed la
bor leaders Indicates that these
leaders have awakened to the fact
that the general public must be con
sidered in all contests between capi
tal and labor. Beginning with the
passage of the Adarason act, when
lfcbor leaders held a stop-watch on
congress, up to November 4. last, this
attitude has been maintained. The
November elections showed a terrific
reaction against this attitude on the
part of labor.
Sir. Gompers fell in with this atti
tude and co-operated with such or
ganisations as the Plumb Plan league
and other radical organizations, and
a definite fight was made upon every
member of congress who had not
voted as directed by organized labor.
The result leaves the leaders of or-
Sixteen Men and Women of Oregon
Campus Are Wedded During
Christmas Season Vacation.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
Jan. 5.--( Special.) The holiday spirit
seems to have affected eight Univer
sity of Oreson men and women, for
, curing ine vacation mat many mai
riages were pertormed.
Pierre Du Bois Mead, football star
from McMlnnville, and Zonweiss Rog
ers, a senior from McMinnville and (
member of Kappa Kappa Gamma,
were married during the holidays
They have left for New Orleans
where Mead Is to be engaged In the
cotton business. Mead is a member
of Beta Theta Pi, and played a sen
sational game on the university foot
ball team last fall.
Joseph Trowbridge and Lucille Stan
ton, both former students, were mar
ried and are living in Portland. Trow
bridge is a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, and Miss Stanton Is a member
of Kappa Kadpa Gamma.
Three women of PI Beta Phi are
brides of three Sigma Chls. Keith
Leslie, football star, and Louise Clau
sen were married. Both live in Co-
quille, where Leslie is an office man
ager in the office of a lumber com
pany. Velma Ross and Thomas Ben
nett and Benjamin Fisher and Kate
Chatburn were the other two couples
married. They all reside in Marsh
field. '
Dorothy Cox, junior In the journal
Ism department, was married to Dr.
J. L. Hesse, a Eugene dentist. They
are living in Eugene. Miss Cox for
merly was the only woman reporter
on the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Uldwalla Basler and Ed Fahen
stock, who were secretly married last
fall, have just announced their mar
riage. Miss Basler was a student
in the university last fall.
Carolyn Eugenia Merritt. sister of
Walee Merritt, an instructor in the
University of Oregon law school from
1914 to 1916, was married to Osman
Royal in San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Royal
formerly was an Instructor In the
Portland schools.
Deluge of Disease Car
riers Imminent.
SENATE COMMITTEE ADVISED
Bar Against Immigration,
However, Doubtful.
EUROPE EPIDEMIC-RIDDEN
Four Grave Diseases Reported
Raging Danger to This Coun
try Steadily Grows.
SCHOONER ABANDONS TOW
Barge and Cargo Are Cut Adrift in
Storm Off Coast.
NEWPORT, Or., Jan. 5. (Special.)
A barge loaded with lumber and a
pile-driving outfit and towed by the
gasoline schooner E. L. Smith was
cut losse during the recent storm, and
has gone ashore at lower Nestucca,
near Haystack rock, according to re
ports reaching this city today.
Captatn Knight of the gasoline
schooner said that he encountered
high winds and heavy seas and was
obliged to cut the barge adrift In
order to save the schooner. It was
said here today that the pile-driver
boiler and engine were in sight in the
surf and that the scow was riding
safely. The lumber cargo probably
will be a total loss. The schooner left
SUetz bay December 26 with a cargo
for Newport.
SCALDED BOY SUCCUMBS
Bath in Wash Boiler Is Fatal to
Child at Pioneer.
TOLEDO, Or., Jan. 6. (Special.)
Junior Miller, small son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nels W. Miller, who live near
Pioneer, died this morning as a re
sult of a scalding suffered last Sun
day morning in a wash boiler of hot
water which his mother had left on
the porcn. i
The, boy climbed into the boiler,
scalding himself about the arms and
shoulders. He was the only child of
the Millers. The family lives on a
farm on the Yaquina river above
Toledo.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Testimony
by Commissioner Wallis of the Ellis
island immigration station that Eu
rope was "literally moving to the
i-niterf states" and that a flood oi
aliens was imminent, still left mem
bers of the senate immigration com
mittee doubtful as to action on the
Johnson bill prohibiting Immigration
for one year. Several members ex
nressed doubt as to whether any
measures to stop or restrict Immigra
tion would be enacted at this session.
The committee obviously was im
pressed with Commissioner Wallis'
statement as to the need for inspec
tion of aliens before leaving Europe
and for more rigid examinations'after
their arrival here. He recommended
that falicities be established overseas
for such Inspection and declared that
90 per cent of the immigrants now
arriving would be denied permission
to sail if they were examined at the
ports of embarkation by American of
ficials. A system of examination in
Europe and upon arrival, Mr. Wallis
said, would prevent an imminent flood
of persons diseased in body and mind.
Nor Diseases Raring.
"Fortunately," he added, "steam
ships can bring only 1,300.000 a year.
It is In the limited transportation fa
cilities and increased examinations
that we will get the best protection."
He declared reports of the public
health
Europe today "is in the grip of foul
epidemics typhus, typhoid, dysentery
and tuberculosis."
The war has undermined the health
of those countries and their emigrants
are "dangerous to the public health of
the United States," he added.
Mr. Wallis reminded the committee
'that not a mother's son who went to
war in Europe was allowed to return
until he had taken a bath in strong
est disinfectants and his clothes had
been cleansed."
Cleansing Proves Task.
"Yet these people come here un
cloansed and diseased," he added.
Xaval Ofricer Reaches Clinton, la.,
Only to Be Disappointed on Eve
of Day Set for Wedding.
CLINTON, la., Jan. E. A telegram
received tonight by Mrs. E. A. Young
announced the' marriage in Chicago
today of her daughter, Miss Celeste
Lamb, to Robert S. Smith Jr., son o
the superintendent of the Interstate
Iron & Steel company plant at East
Chicago, Ind.
Harold Holcomb, an ensign in th
United States navy, had journeyed all
the way from Pasadena, Cal., to mar
ry Miss Lamb, and the wedding had
been set for 8 o'clock Tuesday night
after two previous postponements.
Early Tuesday morning Miss Lamb
disappeared and last night Ensign
Holcomb, thrice disappointed, depart
ed for his home. V
Miss Lamb's mother was formerly
the wife, of the late James Dwlgh
Lamb. Miss Lamb is 21 years old
The family is one of the best known
in Iowa.
Mr. Smith's parents expressed sur
prise when told Miss Lamb had been
seen boarding a train to Chicago
with Robert, on the eve of her mar
riage to Ensign Hoicomb. They said
he had mentioned Miss Lamb as an
acquaintance while visiting at home
over the holidays, but that was all
Robert Smith Jr. has been employed
with a manufacturing company
Clinton since his return from France
early in 1919, where he served with
the 108th engineers' signal corps.
The wedding plans for Miss Lamb
and Ensign Holcomb were originally
laid for the Island of Guam in Mid-
Pacific, but later were set for a hoi
iday event in Clinton. At that time
it was said Miss Lamb was suddenly
taken, ill and the date was set for
January 4. The message received to
night by Mr. Smith s mother 6ald
only that the wedding had taken
place today in Chicago and that ex
planations were following in a let
ter.
POET'S CASH BOX LOOTED
D'Amiunzio Out Several Million
Lire, Says Report.
ROME, Jan. 5. Several million lire
In cash have been stolen from the
office of Gabriele d'Annunzlo at
Flume by arditi, who forced the
regency strong box, according to
dispatch today to Tempo. The news
paper states that documents relating
to D'Annunzio's enterprise also were
stolen and that the poet-soldier is
efice Indicated-that' eastern j considerably disturbed by the robbery.
L Annunzio wiu leave riume tomor
row for an unknown destination, the
dispatch says.
A thousand legionaries left the city
yesterday en route to Venice and 300
sailors of the irregular forces left
today for Pola.
(Concluded, on Pace 1!, Cohunn 1.)
BANK REPORT CALLED FOR
Controller of Currency Asks for
Statement of Conditions.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. The con
troller of the currency today issued a
call for the condition of all national
banks at the close of business on
Wednesday. December 29.
Hotel and Restaurant Keepers
Classified as "Bigger Robbers"
Than Lowly Pickpocket.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Measures
proposing protection Tor inaugural
crowds March 4 from gouging hotel-
keepers, restaurant propr'etors and
landlords as well as from pickpockets,
were introduced today in the senate
and their authors gave notice they
would be pressed. The measures
wore offered as the senate was adopt
ing a resolution appropriating to0,
000 to bu Id a stand a, the capitol and
to defray o:uer expenses in connec
tion with tae inauguration of preil-c'ent-elect
Harding. An attempt to
cut the appropriation to $10,000
f.Ie6
A resolution, Introduced by Senator
McCumber, republican North Dakota,
would prohibit hotels from charging
more than the rate charged during
last month and the present moniii.
He sa'd congress would provide police
protection from pickpockets and
asked if any protection was to be
given from "the bigger robbers."
"A pickpocket," he said, "may rob
a visitor of (5 and If be is caught
he will go to jail. But a hotel pro
prietor may rob a visitor of J100 a
day and insist on doing It seven
t'mes over. Is there to be no pro
tection against him?"
Senator Jones, republican, Washing
ton, offered a bill which would go
further in protecting visitors. It
would authorize commissioners of the
District of Columbia to regulate
charges for meals and lodgings from
February 28 to March 10, and vio
lators would be liable to fines of
from J100 to J100j and prison sen
tences of six months.
Willamette Not Expected
to Go Any Higher.
NORTHWEST DAMAGE SMALL
Coos County Traffic Is Cut
Off by Slides.
SNOW FALLS IN PORTLAND
Heights Are Blanketed and Then
Sun Peeks From Clouds for
First Time In 1921.
LONELY HUMANS ORGANIZE
Social Club," It Develops, Has
Matrimonial Object.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 5. The Wid
owers and Widows Social club of
Cuyahoga county, (Cleveland), filed
articles of incorporation with the sec
retary of state today.
The papers state that the club is
organized "for the educational and
social benefit of its members," but
State Representative Brenner, an in
corporator, said It was no secret that
its real object was to bring together
lonely widows and widowers with a
view to matrimony. He said there
are about 300 members of the club
but that remarriage nullifies mem
bership.
TOBACCO CENT A POUND
Offerings Heavy for Weed That
Brought 20 Cents Last Year.
JOHNSON CITT, Tenn., Jan. S.
Tobacco offerings were heavy at the
opening today of the local tobacco
warehouse.
Tobacco which sold last year at
around 20 cents a pound brought
only one-half and one cent a pound
Fancier grades sold as high as 45
cents a pound. Several farmeTs hauled
their tobacco back home.
IF PRIVATE BUSINESS DID BUSINESS THE WAY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT DOES.
SENATOR HAS BEST DAY!
Chamberlain's Condition Is More
Serious Than Reported.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Jan. i. Senator Cham
berlain had the best day of his ill
ness today, according to reports from
the emergency hospital.
It became known today, however.
that reports which have been coming
sTanised labor in an unfortunate posi- j from the hospital for the last week
too reassuring.
tion In the present crisis. The public, j have been entirely
which they failed to consider, has
turned against them. The wiser men
in organised labor realize that this
does not show a lack of symparhy
wlth the proper aeplrations of labor,
but Is merely an announcement that
the public has become class conscious
and is determined to protect Itself in
the future against both organized ! Congressional Committee to Decide
labor and organized capital. They on Projcrts shorllT.
are accordingly endeavoring o read
just their attitude and a new legiala- WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. The joint
tlve committee lias been appointed congressional sub-committee on fa
which is approaching members of con-
Until today, it Is learned, the senator's
condition for more than a week was
alarming, with hopes for his recovery
practically fading at times.
COAST TO BE CONSIDERED!
gress in a conciliatory attitude.
Vn.flt.-rr,, iu ilu ( harsrrd.
clfic coast naval projects will meet
tomorrow. Senator Ball, republican.
Khede Island, chairman, announced i
touay.
A3 early decision both as to the
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k.v and the seDarate aerial and sub-
rr.asine base Is expected.
In opposing the reduction of wages,
organized labor is also met by the
charge that it profiteered during the
War, and returned soldiers who fought
for 130 a month are especially strong
In pressing the charge.
Labor leaders have long represent-I PREMIERS TO MEET SOON
d the closed shop as a basic principle 1
in their creed, but find themselves in
an unfortunate position now in press
ing that claim. Recent testimony giv
en by Mr Grace of the United States
Steel corporation before the New
ork investigating committee shows 1 cuss the subject of German disarm-
German Disarmament to Be Dis-eu-i'd
in Paris January 19.
PARIS, Jan. 5. The allied premiers
will meet In Paris January 19 to dls-
that organization determined to main
tain the principle of the open shop
id manufacturers generally appear
to be favorable to the steel corpora
Uda's position. Advocates of the open
ament. the reparations question and
the future attitude of the allies to
ward Greece, it was announced this
afternoon.
The Frencp government accepted
shop maintain that a man's right to the British suggestion that the meet-
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AFTERMATH OF THE STORM
XS OREGON AND THE PA
CIFIC NORTHWEST.
Lower temperature halts ris
ing flood in Willamette river.
Toledo, Or. Falling trees
block roads, tides damage war
railroad and slides bait South
ern Pacific traffic.
Willamina, Or. Slides cut off
city's water supply and cause
schools to close.
Centralia, Wash. Basements
are flooded as result of rain
downpour.
Astoria, Or. Path cut through
Columbia highway slide and
traffic is resumed, slides block
railway and first snow falls in
valley.
Marshfield, Or. Coos county
traffic practically cut off by
slides on Southern Pacific rail
way.
Salem, Or. Willamette
at su.o-ioot stage. Hooding
lands.
Roseburg, Or. Flood danger
Is averted by snowfall In north
Umpqua basin.
Oregon City, Or. First snow
falls and Willamette river rises
above paper mills.
Corvallis, Or. Storm entirely
escaped by Corvallis district.
Albany, Or. Flint snow falls
and river fcegins to recede.
Eugene, Or. River rising, but
snowfall is expected to check it.
tte river
ing low-
President-Elect Motors to Colum
bus After Holding Only One
Conference at Marlon.
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 5. President-
Elect Harding became a 32d degree
Masnn tnniht in a lfl.linnr Initiutinn '
ceremony, participated in by ranking
officials of the order from all parts
of the United States.
Starting as a Master Mason, the
president-elect was raised through
the 29 other degrees at a continuous
sitting arranged for him. He was
the third chosen chief executive to
take the degrees before the Scioto
Valley Consistory, James A. Garfield
and William McKlnley having been
given their 32d degrees here.
Mr, Harding was presented with a
Mason ring by the S2d degree Masons
of Marion, who had occupied posts of
honor in the initiation. He may re
turn Friday to receive membership in
the Mystic Shrine.
With Mrs. Harding, the president
elect motored from Marlon today, his
only conference before leaving home
being with Fred Upham of Chicago,
treasurer of the republican national
committee. He will return tomorrow.
It became known tonight that in
continuing his conference at Marion,
Mr. Harding will make army and navy-
appropriations and preparedness in
general a principal subject to be dis
cussed. He is expected to see Repre
sentative Kahn, chairman of the
house military committee, and Repre
sentative Butler, chairman of the
house naval committee, in addition to
other members of congress influen
tial in the framing of military and
naval legislation.
The president-elect has talked over
the subject with Senator Wadsworth,
chairman of the senate military com
mittee, with several members of the
senate naval committee and with the
representatives in charge of the fram
ing of appropriations for the army
and navy. Upon all he has urged the
advisability of keeping such appro
priations as low as possible.
The whole policy of military and
naval preparedness is linked with the
question of disarmament under a pos
sible world agreement, and It Is
understood this broader aspect of the
situation is constantly In Mr. Hard
ing's mind. It is said to be his hope
that an association of nations soon
will make the preparedness problem
easier to solve and that, in conse
quence, he is working for a temporary
policy that will keep the nation safe
until international conditions are
clarified.
WAIFS PICKED AT RANDOM
Labor Department Allows
Temporary Admission.
OLDEST IS GIRL OF 19
Old Salt I5 Glad Tlioy Have Kot
Tet Begun to Call Him 'rather"
for Change Is so Sudden.
A sudden lowering of the tempera
ture throughout the area drained by
tlie Willamette river yesterday checked
the flood, and Weatherman Wells
last night withdrew his prediction of
a 20-foot stage, made earlier in the
day, and said that in all probability
the Willamette will not go over the
19-foot stage at Portland. The weath
er bureau gauge on the Morrison
bridge stood at 18.9 feet at 7 o'clock
last night, showing a rise of only
three-tenths of a foot In 24 hours.
The lowering of temperature was
accompanied by a flurry of wet snow
that started at 9:30 A. M. yesterday
and Blanketed the heights. Then, as
If the weather had done its worst and
was content, the sun shone for the
first time In 1921. Whatever pre
cipitation occurred in the mountains
was in the form of snow, Mr. Wells
said, and this fact could be counted
upon to check the flood in the upper
Willamette valley.
New storm damage reported yes
terday consisted of a serious slide on
the Yaquina branch of the Southern
Pacific line west of Summit, which
is expected to block this line for two
days. Several small slides were also
reported between Cochran and En
right on the Tillamook branch. Dam
age done telephone and telegraph
lines by the high wind of Tuesday
had nearly all been repaired last
night, and service was again normal.
TOLEDO REPORTS SNOWFALL
Further Storm Damage Reported
in Lincoln County.
TOLEDO, Or., Jan. 5. (Special.)
Continued wind and rains did further
damage in Lincoln county yesterday.
Another section of the roof on the
government mill was blown off, win
dows were blown in, and fallen trees
blocked the wagon roads. Two new
slides, one near Summit and the other
at Blk City, completely blocked the
Southern Pacific line, cutting Lincoln
county off from the valley mail and
train service.
Reports from Newport indicated'
that the high surf was endangering
some of the waterfront property
there. The high tides of the past
week have undermined the railroad
built from Yaquina to Newport and
northward by the government during
the war. The wind and rain abated
I today. The ground is covered with a
I light fall Of snow, with conditions in
dicating more snow.
COLBY HOMEWARD BOUND
Final Honors Paid by Agent of
Uruguayan Government.
MONTEVIDEO. Jan. 5. Bainbridge
Colby, American secretary of state,
arrived here from Buenos Aires to
day on board the Uruguayan cruiser
Uruguay, which was escorted by the
Argenline cruiser Libertad. Imme
diately after his arrival Mr. Colby
boarded the battleship Florida, where
he received a visit of courtesy from
a representative of the Uruguayan
government.
The Florida left for the United 1
States at 7 o'clock tonight.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 Reai-Ad-miral
Newton A. McCully, American
ex-high commissioner at Sebastopol,
having obtained trotn the labor de
partment an order for temporary ad
mission of the seven Russian children
he has tentatively adopted, left to
night for New York to get the chil
dren, now at Ellis Island, and bring
tliein here. He said he would deposit
the bond required In the case of each
of the children and assurance that
they will not become public charges.
Admiral McCully plans to keep the
children here until their right to re
main In the United States has been
fully established. Afterward he will
take them to his boyhood home in
Anderson. S. C, to Introduce them to
his mother, who will assume tempor
ary charge while the officer Is re
furnishing and remodeling Ills Wash
ington home for their residence.
Adoption In Intended.
Admiral McCully said he intended
to adopt the children formally If
there was no legal bar. He had at
tended, he said, to all legal matters
In Russia connected with receiving
custody of the children. No difficulty
was encountered, be said, because of
the terrible conditions In the region
In which the children were living.
"The children are but isolated cases
among hundreds of thousands of
cases," he said. "I did not careful. y
select the seven, but when 1 came
away 1 decided that I should do some
thing, and I took the first I came to.
"There were three others I wanted
to bring, but one was tubercular and
I knew would not be admitted. Ia
another case the mother gave licr
consent to my adopting the child and
at the last moment withdrew it, and
in the third case the mother con
sented, but the father refused."
Burbrlor I.jkes His Tnnk.
"What are your plans for the fu
ture of the children?" he was asked.
"Well." was the reply, "being a
bachelor, you can imagine it took me
some time to get my nerve up to g
through with the affair. Now that I
am started, I like It better every
minute,"
The admral said he had "called a
family council" to meet at Anderson
and added: "I hope that my niece
will take over the big Job of supply
ing the necessary feminine iuflgcncc
In their lives.
"It is my intention to give them an
all-around education. When they
are old enough. I shall give them the
opportunity to return to Russia and
if they care to stay, that will be their
privilege. If not, they will of course
return to me. I Intend always to re
I main 'father' to them, although thus
I The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 44
degrees; minimum, 3ti decrees.
TODAY'S Partly cloudy with occasional
rain; westerly wliida
Foreian,
Petrograd. cold and famine-stricken, is
last drifting toward ruin. Page '6.
French government confronted by bol
shevlst menace. Page 3.
Sixteen in ambuab party .are killed by
troops in Erin. Page Z,
BailoonUts tell story of hardships. Page 6.
National.
Organized labor realizes that rights of
public miul be considered. Page 1.
Measures Introduced in senate to pro
tect Inaugural crowds from Washington
gougers. Page L
Deschutes project seema assured; river and
harbor bill In doubt. Page 2.
America declared menaced by flood ot
European disease carriers. Page 1.
Iomefttlc.
Harding la elevated to S2d degree Masonry.
Page 1.
Kear-Admiral McCully brings seven little
Russians to America for adoption.
Pace 1.
Ensign on eve of wedding Is Jilted by
fiancee who is married to ex-fioldier.
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Eight weaaings ei uunerao oi vrejon , 6nevjks.
BLUUeuia m icv.v.1 v. ,.., eta
Washington legislature to consider many j youth's bloodthirsty account
far they haven't got to the point of
calling me by the paternal name.
They Call Him I nele.
"They call me uncle and I am well
satisfied that It is that way for the
present, for all these swift develop
I ments are rather startling for a
! bachelor who has spent most of his
I life at sea."
I Admiral McCully said that 12-year-old
Nikolai was found In the trehchea
on the Wrangel front acting as a
I mascot for the soldiers. He was cov-
ered with vermin and dirt, but boasted
j proudly of having killed two bol-
The admiral was not in
clined to place much credence in the
measures for auto regulation. Page 5.
Boise legislature memorializes congress to
pass Fordney tariff bill. Page a.
sports.
Tourne to open' gun club on January IS. j
Page 12.
Coast tenr.ia stars make good showing. ;
Page IS.
Joe Gorman again defeats AI Grunan. 1
Page 1-'.
Lcudmila Manetzkaya, an 11-year-
old girl, first caught the admiral's at
tention when he visited an orphanage
at Yelta. He was captivated by the
girl's smile and charm of manner, be
said, while Nina Furnlnan, S years
old, he described as "very bright and
cheerful" with a capable manner and
Stanford, California and Wa.hlngton sign , great ability at looking after the
Big Three " football schedule. Page 12, I , ,,,,. K.Mntm Sellfanova.
WIXJOOWS BROKEN AT SEASIDE
Autoists Take School Children to
Homes in Storm.
SEASIDE. Or., Jan. 5. (Special.)
The gale which swept Seaside yes
terday broke several windows in the i
was torn off, striking the other rail
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.)
Commercial and Marine
Signs of improvement in bide market seen
by dealers. Pae 18.
Liberty bonds strong, but speculative
stocks weaken. Page 19.
Drop In temperature checks flood in Wil
lamette rtver. Page L
Steam schooner Tiverton enters Columbia
despite gale. Page 1.1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Quiz of Etheridge m chancery proceedings
to De put oi. uiiwi uudj. r.ge u.
19, was "mother" to the party, the
officer said.
Admiral McCully, who Is 63, has
I been on duty In Russia and nearby
I waters for five years and upon his
i arrival today in Washington con
! ferred with Secretary Daniels. The
I secretary characterized Admiral Mc
I cully's decision to adopt the chll-
events.
will
In 10 days
Page 7.
Paving programme
Page 20.
New game bille ready for solons. Page
Grade teachers discuss protest over present
aalary schedule. Page 10.
Dr. George D. Strayer favors tenure law
change. Page 10.
Commissioners Holman and P.udeen Join
forces in election and assignment of
patronage. Page .
State board of health announces Its op
position to Dr. John Abele as secretary
Central school, and one of the inside . yUe say s Dr. Schmitt planned touching
doors was blown down. One of the ' courtroom drama. Page 8.
railings on the Twelfth-street bridge Franchise (or bus line Jo Linnton sought.
! Woman and three children ousted by land
lord, brutality is charg-ed. Page 4.
Auditorium will undergo Ugh-min changes j dren as "the big" act of a big man
tor various big
Be extensive.
with a big- heart."
7. DANGER LIGHTS PLANNED
Philadelphia to Adopt Markers for
Street Intersections.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5. Flash
light danger(signals are to be placed
at street intersections in this city
as additional safeguards against ac
cidents at night, it vaa announced
today by the electrical bureau.
Red and green lenses, with power
ful incandescent lamps enclosed ir
an Iron case will be used. ,
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