VOL. LX 0. 18,803
Entered at Portland Ore iron)
Pottnfflre 6F Second -Clara Mutter
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
0
27 KILLED, 100
Hill
One Train Jumps Track
Into Another's Path,
Many Victims Dragged From
Flaming Debris at Lonely
Indiana Junction.
FIRE IS SOON EXTINGUISHED
CURRY CHILDREN DIET
AND GAIN IN WEIGHT
TESTS SHOW MASV ARE FAR
FROM XORMAL.
Telephone Calls Sent Out and
Scores of Farmers Has
ten to Give Assistance.
TORTER, Ind., Feb. 27. Twenty
6cven persons were known to have
been killed and more than 100 in
jured in the wreck of two passenger
trains here at 6:20 o'clock tonight.
New York Central train No. 151,
New York and Boston to Chicago,
plowed through Michigan Central
train No. 20, Chicago to Detroit and
Toronto, demolishing a wooden
coach, a combination passenger and
baggage car and killing or injuring
practically every person in it.
The wreck occurred at this lonely
junction point, which is about 50
miles from Chicago.
Volunteers Save Injured.
It was two hours before the first
relief train arrived and only efforts
of volunteer firefighters prevented
many of the injured from being
burned to death.
The accident was caused, accprd
ing to railway officials, when the
Michigan Central train crew failed
to observe stop signals at the inter
section of the two roads and was
thrown onto the New York Central
tracks from the derail switch. It
was declared that the New York
Central train had the right of way.
Eoth the engineer and firemen of
the Michigan Central train were
held.
Engine Plows Into Earth.
When the Michigan Central train
hit the derailing switch at the
crossover, it plowed across the ties
for more than 300 feet and stopped
with the wooden coach in the path
of the New York Central train. The
heavy engine struck the coach at an
angle, ground it into splinters, left
the rails, plowed a hole in the earth
and turned over on its side.
At midnight more than 100 in-
Jured had been taken to Chesterton,
Ind.
The victims were mostly residents
of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan,
Porter Man Sees Wreck.
Anthony Foster of Porter, who
xvas standing 220 feet from the
crossing when the wreck occurred,
said he was attracted by the screech
ing of the brakes on the Michigan
Central train.
"I was horrified when I saw the
New York Central train approach
ing at high speed as the Michigan
Central train lay across the tracks
of the New York Central," he said.
' The New York Central train ap
proached at nearly 50 miles an hour
and was so close behind the Michi
gan Central train that the frantic
efforts to stop the train were un
availing. "The crash demolished two coaches
of the Michigan Central train and
laid both engines in a tangled mass
in the ditch.
"Shrieks rose from the injured
and dying, and trainmen ran about
waving their lanterns as the wreck
age caught fire.
Rescue Is Quickly Begun.
"The work of rescue began
quickly, but was hindered by the
darkness. Bodies were placed along
the right of way as rapidly as they
were pulled from the WTeckage.
"We could dimly make out the out
line of the wrecked trains. Passen
gers of the New York Central train
began the work of rescue while train
crews went to summon aid.
"There were no doctors available
until the second relief train arrived
reveral hours later and the unin
jured had rendered emergency aid to
Mothers' Study of Xutrltion Said to
Have Resulted in Building Cp
Youngsters' Physique.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE. Corvallls, Feb. 27. (Special.)
Curry county Is in a fair way to
have all its children who a'.tendcd
the first child welfare conference at
Langlois, December 3 and 5. brought
up to normal by following? the recom
mendations for nutrition made by
Miss Lassie Lane, horns demons ra
tio i agent for Oregon.
A 14-year-old girl who was ten
pounds under weight gained 8
pounds the first month. Another girl,
13 years old, and also -Jen pounds
under weight, gained eix pounds In
the same time. Two children, 2Vi
and two pounds under weight, gained
to normal the first month. Eight
babies in this time gained 14 pounds.
an average of 1 pounds each. One
child that would not touch milk is
now drinking four cups a day, having
developed a liking for It by taking
it through a lemonade straw.
The conference was held at the
request of the Northern Curry County
Welfare club. Twenty-three children
were weighed, measured and exam
ind. Of the children 11 were under
weight an average of 2.51 pounds, or
9.4 per cent. Six had enlarged ton
sils, five diseased tonsils, four ade
noids and two delayed teething.
The mothers of the community
were so Impressed that they asked
for another conference two days later.
At this conference 4S children were
examined.
Sixteen were under weight an aver
age of 5.7 pounds, or 6.6 per cent. It
was also found that 17 were over
weight an average of 8.1 pounds, said
to be quite unusual. Twenty had en
larged tonsils, ten diseased tonsils,
three poor chest development, six
adenoids and 14 bad teeth.
LABOR
PORTFOLIO
HARD TO DECIDE
REVOLT IS BREWING
IN EUGENE CHAMBER
PLAN TO CHANGE QUARTERS
AT EUGKXE OPPOSED.
Conflicting Interests Met
by Choice of Davis.
UNIONS ARE NOT PLEASED
Both Employing and Laboring
Classes Seek Prestige.
FINAL AWARD MYSTERY
Who Proposed Man Xow Xaraed
Secretary Xot Clear; Action
Believed Compromise.
BUS SPOOLER'S PARADISE
"Let 'Em," Says ew York Sheriff
and Ail Is Joy.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27. Spooning by
young couples atop Fifth-avenue
busses was officially recognized today
as a legitimate outdoor sport.
Sheriff D. H. Knott, in a statement
made in reply to an anonymous cor
respondent who complained of the
practice, declared it seemed to him a
"man must be either a crabbed old
bachelor or one who has been disap
pointed In love who will seek to In
voke official aid In putting an end to
a heritage of nature as old as the
world.
"Certainly there is nothing clan
destine in spooning atop a bus," he
said. "Let the spooners spoon. They
always did; they always will; why
try to awaken them from love's young
dream. I want to state I must refuse
to designate deputies to stop what
you cajl a nuisance. This statement
by you represents only, I think, a con
clusion, a state of mind."
RED REVOLT IS REPORTED
Really Serious Attack Against Bol
shevik Regime Held Under Way.
LOXDOX, Feb. 27. In connection
with rumors of a mutiny at Kron-
stadt, and also reports of rebellions
at Petrograd and in the Ukraine, and
differences between Lenine and Trot
zky, the Daily Graphic today asserted
t had "unimpeachable information'
that a really serious attack is in prog
ress against the bolshevik govern
ment In Russia.
It says the most important factor
is in the Increasing dissatisfaction of
the Russian people against the bol
shevik regime which is taking drastic
form.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copvrlght by the New York Evening Post,
inc., Published by Arrangemer-t.)
-WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 28.
(Special.) The apparent conclusion
of Mr. Harding's consideration of the
department of labor Is the end of a
process of pulling and hauling on the
part of opposing interests which be
gan immediately after the election.
During the -last week one ot the
candidates, T. V. O'Connor, was at St.
Augustine in person, and representa
tions on behalf of two of the others
were made by advocates of them.
These personal representations were
only a. fraction of the pressure that
has been brought to bear In many
other ways. ,The omciai representa
tives of union labor, while they will
not formally indorse any candidate
or formally oppose any other candi
date, are determined to have it on
record that the selection of J. J.
Davis -rill not be regarded as a
union labor choice, and will be con
sidered a break in the precedent
made by President Wilson wnen me
office was first created of filling it
with a unon labor man.
Complexities Are Noted.
The complexities of this, situation
and the difficultes Mr. Harding has
had can best be stated chronologi
cally. The first Interest that became act
ive immediately after Mr. Harding's
election was a group of manufactur
ers and employers who are actively
and Implacably ; opposed Jo union
labor.
Their wish was that Mr. Harding
should fill this post not with a union
man at all, but with a representative
of the employing interests, a captain
of Industry. Their thought can best
be illustrated by the fact among the
names they proposed was that of
Charles M. Schwab.
On the other hand, several other
large employers, as well as thought
ful men in public life, among
them Herbert Hoover, recommended
Opponents Fear Efforts Gradually
to Eliminate Social Features
i
of Organization.
EUGENE, Or.. Feb. 27. (Special.)
A large number of the members of
the Eugene chamber of commerce
oppose the plan of the directors to
move the chamber quarters from the
Bonnett block on Ninth avenue west
to the Elks' temple at the corner
of Seventh avenus West and Olive
street. A meeting attended by more
than 50 members was held at the
chamber last night to take some ac
tion against the plan of the directors,
and after a thorough discussion
adopted a resolution directing the
directors not to move the chamber
from Its present location without
further order of the membership in
regular meeting.
Since the announcement of the dl
rectors that new quarters had been
procured and the chamber would
move some time this summer, the
members who opposed the proposal
recently submitted and voted down to
eliminate the social features of the
chamber, have been loud In their de
nunciation of this action of the di
rectors, declaring that it is a move
gradually to squeeze the social fea
tures out of the chamber, although
plans are being made to fit up good
quarters for the billiard and card
tables and for the meetings of the
women's auxiliary and other social or
ganizations connected with the
chamber.
There have been threats of organ
izing an- Independent social club for
men, but whether or not this Is done.
it is predicted by the opponents of
the moving plan that between 100
and 200 of the members of the cham
ber will withdraw.
(Concluded on Page -, Column 1.)
HARDING OFF TO MARION
Five Weeks' Visit to Florida Is
Ended by Prcsidcnt-Elcct.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 27
After a five weeks' visit to Florida,
President-elect Harding and his wife
left tonight for Marion to remain un
til they go to Washington. A fare
well celebration will be held on the
famous Harding front porch.
On the way back to Ohio the president-elect
expects to finish prepara
tion of his Inaugural address. He
will reach Washington Thursday afternoon.
TURKS HOLD BEND WOMAN
Mrs. P. C. Burt, Relief Worker, on
Way Home When Captured.
4
BEND, Or., Feb. 27. (Special.) P.
C. Burt, Deschutes county rancher.
has Just learned that his wife, one of
the first relief workers to sail for
Armenia after the war, has been cap
tured by the Turkish nationalists.
After two years' service abroad,
Mrs. Burt was on her way to take
passage for America when she, with
other American women, was seized by
the Turks.
FEEBLE WINTER BOWS
TO RADIANT SPRING
FIXED INDEMNITY
EWEST OF SEASONS TAKES
STAGE IX WILLAMETTE. '
GERMAN
DEMAND
Exports Toll of 12 Per
Cent to Be Refused.
COUNTER-PROPOSAL IS READY
PussyWUIow Catkin, Bee and Ant
and Red-Wing Blackbird Cue
. for Valley Dtfbut.
. When sunshine, about this time of
year, warms the bones to pleasant
laziness as It did during the closing
days of the week it is he custom to
yawn and observe, neighbor to neigh
bor, "Well, spring is here." And not j
eve., a slanting snower from the east.
such as fell yesterday, serves to dis
pel this conclusion. For It was a
spring rain, fit to quicken the tardy
crocus and wake the clover.
The reign of the pussy-willow cat
kin as the true and only prophet of
spring Is uncontested, but at best the
lovely s'lken buds of gray and gold
are merely the distant harbingers, the PAYMENTS IN KIND ASKED
tfuuii uig xupugts, ot me vernai sea
son, and any number of storms and
sullen days may follow their bloom
ing. But 'the ant and the bee are
infallible, and the redwing blackbird Teutons Hope to Prolong Xegotia-
Offer to Reconstruct Devas
tated France to Be Made.
JAPAN WILL INSIST
ON CONTROL OF YAP
KNOWLEDGE OF ORAL RESER
VATION Br WILSON'. DENIED.
PORTLAND VESSEL
IKS
DESTROYER
is more to be relied upon than any
weather bureau. These three have
said that It 's spring in the valley
of the Willamette.
Where the vivifying rays of sun- j
shine struck the twigs and litter of
the red-headed ant colony, heaped
about a budding bush of Oregon
grape, thousands of fierce little colon
ists swarmed forth from their winter
quarters, and seethed and brawled,
tions Until American Attitude
Is Definitely Known.
BY ARNO DOSCH FLEUROT.
(Copyright by 'he New York .World. Pub
lished jy Arrangement.)
BERLIN, Feb. 27. (Special.) The
German counter-proposal for the
and matched antenna, and set about Payment of Indemnities will be the
cutting down an obstructive weed. refusal to pay the 12 per cent ton on
And to the sand-Dit. where the exports and also of any plan Involv-
warmth gathered in a great bowl, lng interest. Theyhave refused to
brown and golden honeybees 'drifted consider the Paris plan on that ac-
in from their first spring flight, and count. The counter-proposal will be
tumbled drowsily down on their fat in three parts.
backs resting t'll the sunshine drove First A fixed sum as Indemnity
away the last languor of chilly sleep. I on the basis of international credit
They rose too early for flowers, but ) which will permit the Immediate
every thigh was thick with the pollen liquidation of French debts.
of the pussy-willow. . Second The Germans to recon-
An Oregon spring was waking, struct France.
whether the groundhog willed "t or Third Payments In kind.
not. From a swaying rush in the This Is a definite proposition, but
siough an ugly term for rippled reaiiy it is meant as a basis of ne
water ringed with perfect green Lrntiatlon which the Germans hope to
the redwlnged blackbird proclaimed proionK untn the American attitude
It. "Ock-a-lee!" he cried.
He!"
"Ock-a-
EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED
is known. The plan necessitates
America as the banker.
Burden Would Be on America. '
The only way to accomplish this is
by America agreeing to stand behind
Scene of Temblor Is Estimated as the financial arrangement. Whether
. this takes the form, as suggested by
4200 M.les From Washington. Frankfurter Zeitung. of Interna-
WASHINGTON', Feb. 27. An earth, tional gold certificates or is simple
quake described as "rather severe," and plain, it involves the necessity of
and at an estimated distance of 4200 America shouldering the immediate
miles away, was recorded at the burden. Economists said the nego-
Georgetown university seismological I tiations In London will be futile until
observatory today from 2:18 P. il I America expresses herself.
ntil after 4 o'clock.
Although .the delegates left for
The temblor reached Its maximum I London today, the guesses were still
ntenslty between 2:18 and 2:22 P. M.
MORE ARIDITY WANTED
Anti-Saloon League to Seek Rigid
Dry Enforcement.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. More
rigid enforcement of prohibition Is to
be asked by the Anti-saloon league.
In a statement today the league
said congress would be urged to pass Zeitung, warned the Germans not to
wild about the amount of money in
gold marks they were going to offer
as indemnity. Figures, arrived at
through the ministerial estimates that
were available, indicated that the
amount will be 68.000.000,000 marks,
but there was no assurance that other
considerations will not change this
amount.
Support Held In Doubt.
George Bernhard, In the Vossische
a supplemental enforcement act.
JAPANESE FOILS -ATTACK
II. Saionji Routs 7 Assailants in
Defending Self With Sword.
TOKIO,' Feb. 26. An attack by
seven assailants on H. Saionji, son of
Marquis Saionji, ex-premier and head
of the Japan delegations at the
Paris' peace conference, in which he
was slightly injured, was announced
by the newspapers today. Six assail
ants were arrested.
The attack took place at the home
of Saionji, who defended himself with
his sword and routed his assailants.
(Concluded on Page 4. Column S.)
TUTOR, 80, STUDENT AGAIN
Jasper N. Miller of Eugene Enrolls
. for Bookkeeping Course.
EUGENE. Or., Feb. 27. (Special.)
Jasper N. Miller, 80, says a man Is
never too old to learn. He has been
teaching in the rural schools of Lane
and Douglas counties for the last two
or three years and Is now enrolled
in the Eugene Business college. He
says he Intends to finish a bookkeep
ing course begun many years ago.
Mr. Miller is a pioneer of Oregon
and has taught school most of his
life.
PEACH POISON CASE RESTS
Widow of Murdered Man Goes to
Trial This Week.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Feb. 27. The
state rested Its case yesterday In the
"poison peaches case," in which Carl
Digre, a wealthy farmer of this coun
ty. Is charged with complicity In the I
murder last July of Martin Matheson
near Sherman.
Mrs. Anna Matheson, widow of the
murdered man. too'- the stand. She
was jointly indicted with Digre for
her husband's murder, and will go
to trial next week.
j LET HIM HAVE BOTH BARRELS! - j
III A XX 1S
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phi i'iffffipfc
r.w.;0vjy i n' . - .jv umw iy ,'' ' t t
count on America to back the German
plan with her credit, saying that only
a small circle In America is Interested
In the fate of Germany, and that pub
lic opinion there Is variable. Bern-
hard said there is, apparently, a
friendly' feeling in America toward
Germany, but the American govern
ment's policy is bound to be based on
economic needs.
He added that he cannot see how
America can back Germany financial,
ly except by shifting the French and
British debts on to Germany and that
is not to America's financial interest,
as it would weaken the security on
which the loans were made.
Security Alo Problem.
"It is strange that all the proposed
plans always presuppose that America
is willing to make great sacrifices.
and is bo full of neighborly love thai
it Is willing to transfer a 40,000.000,000
gold mark debt at 9i per cent to Ger
many," Bernhard wrote. "The orig
inators of this plan do not seem to
realize that America would demand
security, which could be given only if
Germany were willing to sacrifice her
freedom of action."
Bernhard said this Is orpposed by
the German reparations experts, yet
every scheme they present has as its
basis an American credit.
1 12,000,000,000 Likely Offer.
Perhaps a dozen men In Germany
know the exact number of billions
of gold marks Germany Is going to
offer and they are not talking. Fifty
billions (normally $12,000,000,000) Is
probably near the mark. If the allies
refuse to hear the proposal. Foreign
Minister Simons is prepared to re
sign and with the growing rumors
of a reactionary "putsch" (uprising)
the Germans believe the entente will
place Dr. Simons in an Impossible
position.
If France Is willing to come to
terms with Germany on a money basis
Mandatory Based on Final Decision'
of Supreme) Council Which
Ga've Islands to Orientals.
TOKIO, Feb. 26. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Japan will Insist on Its
mandatory to the island of Tap, ac
cording to authoritative Japanese
opinion. The protest of the United
States to the league of nations coun
cil has aroused Interest In Japan as a
new move.
Japan bases her mandatory on th
final decision ot the supreme council
in May. 1919, which handed over the
German islands north of the equator
to Japan without, reservation. If
President Wilson made oral reserva
tions regarding Tap at previous de
liberations. It is declared Japan wa
not represented and has no official
cognizance.
Japan will hold that the mandatory
means control of the cables on the
same status as Germany prior to the
war. During the war Japan diverted
the Tap end of the cabldtfrom Shang
hai to the Loo-Choo islands, between
Japan and Formosa, for administra
tive purposes. Therefore, cable com
munication from America to Shang
hai by way of Guam and Yap does
not exist.
It is understood Japan has sug
gested to the United States to lay a
cable to Shanghai from Guam as a
substitute for the Ynp route. The
Nichl Nichl declares that the United
States is in no position to Interfere
because it has not ratified the peace
treaty. But, it adds, considering
America's share In winning the war,
it would be Immoral not to consider
her contentions.
Steel Inventor Cuts U. S.
Craft in Two; 16 Lost.
STEAMER AND CREW SAFE
Crash Comes Off Pacific
Coast of Panama.-
W00LSEY GOES TO BOTTOM
One Enlisted Man Known lo Bo
Dead; IS Are Missing and
Two- Are Injured.
WORLD'S ENDIS RE-DATED
Self-Styled Potentate of Heaven
Changes His Opinion.
DENVER, Colo., Feb. 27. Joshua
Jehovah Sykes, self-styled potentate
of heaven and head of the Tabernacle
of David, left Denver tonight for San
Francisco, to begin serving an 18
months' sentence for obstructing the
draft during the war.
Sykes had started for San Francisco
last Thursday, but upon his arrival
at Cheyenne, Wyo., he declared he had
a vision In which he was told by an
angel that the world was coming to
an end Immediately and that there
waj no use of his proceeding. He
thereupon returned to Denver.
He said this afternoon just before
boarding a train that the end of the
world had been postponed until the
end of he week.
Sykes will arrive In San Francisco
Just in time to comply with a court
order which gave him until March 1
to appear before the federal authorities.
CHAMP CLARK IN RELAPSE
Physicians Say Democratic Ilouse
Leader Is Seriously III.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Champ
Clark, democratic leader of the house,
was described as dangerously 111 to
night by a physicians' bulletin. His
condition was described as worse than
yesterday.
Mr. Clark, who Is suffering from
complications resulting from an at
tack of pleurisy, showed a decided
Improvement yesterday, but a turn
for the worse developed last night.
The bulletin Issued tonight said:,
"Mr. Clark is seriously 111. He has
fluid in the right pleural cavity and
an irregular heart."
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TBPTFRDAT'S Maximum temperature,
53 nVKreed. minimum 45 deKreca.
TODAY'S Cloudy: southwesterly wind.
Fordi-n.
Japan will insist on control, of Yap.
Page 1.
Germany to balk at toll on eiporta
Page 1.
America declared to have been against
armistice. Page 4.
Commander of British troopa In Ireland
reported wounded. Paso A.
National.
Portland steamer cuta naval destroyer in
two. 16 enlisted men missing. Page 1.
Choice of labor secretary center of union
and non-union conflicts. Page 1.
Soviet rule scored by organised labor.
Page 2.
Congress to speed up to adjourn by Fri
day. Page 4.
Herbert Hoover, as secretsry of commerce.
will strike lor traae supremacy, fage
8.
Domestie.
Coat of whitewash given North Dakota
non-partisan league. Fag 2.
Lost naval balloon now Indian canoes.
Page S.
Dalton boy. 18. who looted bank of bonds,
loses his bravado. Page S.
More than score killed. 100 hurt when
trains crash. Page 1.
Pacifie Northwest.
Curry children diet and gain In weight.
WASHINGTON. D. C, Feb. :7. On
naval enlisted man is dead, IS are
missing and two are Injured as the
result of a collision yesterday morn
ing between the American destroyer
Woolsey of the Paclfio fleet and the
Ameri;ai. steamer Steel Inventor oft
the Pacific coast of Panama.
The Woolsey, one of the niryw
most modern destroyers, was cut In
two at the after tank and sank at S
A. M. while in tow of the destroyer
Aaron Ward, -vhlch, with the de
stroyer, have 112 of the Woolsey'a
survivors aboard.
The collision was reported to the
navy department late today by Ad
miral Rodman, commander of the Pa
cific fleet.
Steamer Little Injured.
The damage to the Steel Inventor
v. as slight and no casualties occurred
among her crew. She was reported
pi acceding to Balboa, convoyed by
the destroyer Buch-nan.
Admiral Hodman's report said Tom
Stanley Woodcock, first-class engine,
man, was killed by the collision and
his body was placed on the Buchanan.
The missing were reported as fol
lows: D. T. Blakely. fireman, first;
Floyd Coltengln, fireman, second; Ro
man Fieckls, blacksmith; John Jo
seph Galcher, machinist mate, first;
George Joseph Zibello, fireman, sec
ond: Elbert Jesse Harson, fireman,
first; Henry George, Hancock, engine
man, second; Emerson Floyd Long,
storekeeper, first; Leo Norwardsky,
fireman, third; Harold Reed, fireman;
Mattle Owen, Stewart, fireman, third;
Webb Stubblefield, fireman, first;
George Elmer Wochlman, electrician,
third; Charles N. Yost, fireman, first,
and L'merson Dale Walsht, fireman,
second.
Umtrorrr Sinks, Reported.
The Injured aboard the cruiser
Birmingham are:
D. M. McCalgo, water tender, and
A. O. Burnside.
The collision. Admiral Rodman re
ported, occurred 13 miles southwest
of Coiba Island. The destroyer ank
as an attempt was being made to
bring her Into a port.
The report did not explain the man
ner in which the missing men were
lost. . '
The Woolsey was commanded by
Commander H. C. Gearing Jr. She
had a length of S10 feet, a breadth
of 31 feet and a normal displacement
of 1154 tons. Her speed was rated
35 knots and her normal complement
was IS officers and 106 men.
, oniy, ine government Deueves u can Revolt brews In Eugene chamber of
! bring the negotiations to such a point commerce. Page 1.
Hillsboro boy shot dead: wnetner suicide
in London that a fixed sum will be
named by which France's financial
burden will be lifted and which at
the same time will convince the Eng
lish that German manufacturing com
petition will not hurt them.
Simons Feela S?ronsr.
If France is determined to break
Germany, and the conviction Is gen
eral that France intends to do so, the
negotiations . will lead to nothing.
Foreign Minister Simons feels strong.
The putsch talk by the reactionaries
is being overplayed by their newspa
pers, considering the small evidence
sustaining It, and it gives the impres
sion of holding up a specter to the
entente, if they will not be reason
able. When I told a reparations expert
today that I heard the number of
IConcluded on Page 2. Column 3.)
or murder is mystery. Page 8.
Sports.
Fans eager to see Thye-Clapham meet on
mat. Page 8.
National auto championship won by Ds
Palma at Los Angeles. Page &
Rickard has flvs days for naming site of
Dempsey-Carpentier go. Page 8.
Portland and Vicinity.
New evidence links John Bruno to slaying
of sea cook. Page 16.
Warehouse safe cracked and $500 loot ob
tained. Page 16.
Pogs oust babies In scores of homes, evan
gelist tells crowd at revival. Page 7.
Public welfare bureau drive for discarded
. articles opens today. Pag 14.
Bond market takes sharp tilt upward.
Page IS.
Portland retailers shy at Oregon-made
goods, reports A. G. Clark. Page 14.
Tottering winter furls his banners as au
dacious t-pring enters arena of the W'U
lamette.' Page 1.
Baron Ferssn says spirits are liars. Page
8.
The Steel Inventor arrived In Port
land from New York with a general
cargo about February 1. She later
proceeded to Puget -und ana on lier
return voyago touched at St. Helena
to load lumber. The Steel Inventor
sailed from St. Helens for New York
on February 9, loaded with lumber
und a mixed cargo.
The Steel Inventor is one of the
Isthmian line of steamships operating
between New York and Portland and
ether Pacific coast ports. She waj
completed early in 1920 and was on
her second trip on the Portland run.
She is of steel construction and of
3450 net tonnage.
A sister ship, the Steel Worker, ar
rived In the Columbia yesterday and
Is expected in Portland today. An
other sister ship, the Steel Maker,
sailed for New York from Portland
on February 24.
The Isthmian line operates a num
ber of ships between New York and
Pacific coast ports. Norton. Lilly St
Co of San Francisco, witn orancn
offices In Portland, are local agents
for the line
THIRD ACCIDKXT IS FATAL
Destroyer Woolsey in Two Mishaps
Before Sinking.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Feb. 27. The
United States destroyer Woolsey left
this port January 7 with the rest of
the Pacfllo fleet when It started
south for maneuvers with the Atlan
tic fleet In Central and South Amer
ican waters. Shortly before that tlm
the destroyer bad been In two acci
dents, one of which was of a fairly
serious nature. About a month be.
fore the Woolsey went south the de
stroyer and the tender Prairie were
In collision In San Diego harbor, the
Woolsey being badly damaged amid
ships. Repairs, however, were mada
In plenty of time for the craft to
leave with the rest of th fleet.
The roster of officers of the Wcol
sey, according to the latest navy di
rectory. Is as follows:
Commander H. C. Gearing Jr., com
manding; Lieutenant P. F. bhort
rldge, executive officer; Lieutenant
D. R. Knapp, Ensigns My A. Bsrber,
.(Concluded on Pag 2, Column 2.)
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