Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, March 21, 1921, Page 3, Image 3

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TITE 3X0RXIG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, MARCH 21. 1921
24 BELIEVED DEAD
111 DISORDERS
Crown Forces Lose 10 Killed
and 11 Wounded.
MILITARY JUDGE IS SHO
3Ian Who Worked During Exccn
lion of alionaiisU Is Chained
to Pro-Catliedral.
PUBLIX, March 20. "A black week
end" has Just been experienced by the
trown forces In Ireland. According
to official report. 11 members or ine
government forces were killed and 11
R ounder! in ambushes, while it is te-
lievcd 1J assailants were Kiuca anu
JO wounded.
The reports do not take Into a
eonnt isolated killings and attacks.
Captain Atkinson, an Ulster barris
ter, who acted as Judge In a number
ot recent Dublin courtmartlais, was
wounded Saturday night by three
armed men.
John Sheehan, formerly an attend
ant at the Cork lunatic asylum, was
shot dead at Cork last night. He had
been suspected of giving Information
last December, on the occasion of the
arrest of a girl wearing steel armor.
concerning a republican arsenal.
Three bombs were thrown at a mil
itary lorrv here last night, killing two
soldiers and! wounding six others, in
cluding an officer. The remaining
oldiers fired, wounding three at.
tankers.
From Mondav nicht on. the curfew
has been fixed from 8 P. M. to 5 A. M.
The ambush of crown forces near
Kinsale Saturday took place when re
Inforcements were seeking a military
officer and a police sergeant, missing
In a previous ambush, it was learned
today. The officer has not been re
covered, but the sergeant's body was
found near Dungarvan, blindfolded
and riddled with bullets. A card
pinned to his breast read:
"ICxecuted."
A man was chained to the railing
of the Pro-Cathedral here today. Po
lice later liberated him. It was said
he worked during the executions of
six men in Mountjoy prison on March
14. (
The archbishop of Tuam, In a letter
to the parish priest in Clifden, con
demning the shooting of policemen
there as a reprisal of the Mountjoy
executions and the failure to obey his
call for a cessation of executions by
the republican forces, said:
"I must give my people moral guid
ance, even if corrupt politicians turn
gospel teachings to bad ends."
He repeated his appeal for a truce.
MILLS OPEN, WAGES CUT
"CM OX I ST WOI LB REGAIN" LOSS
11 ICC EX I L Y S U I FEU ED .
Minnoapolis Convention Expected
by Timber 'Workers' Head to
Make Helpful PJuns.
SKATTLE, 'Wash., March 20. (Spe
cial.) The mills closed for the last
three months arc gradually resuming
operations and that the lumber in
dustry has begun to return to normal,
leaving a trail of badly demoralized
wage scales, is the report that Clair
Covert, president, and John M. Nor
land, secretary-treasurer of the Inter
national Union of Timber Workers,
are taking from the state of Wash
ington to the fourth annual conven
tion of the international, which opens
in Minneapolis March 28. Mr. Covert
. and Mr. Norland leave for Minne
apolis today as members of the dele
gation of five the Washington dis
trict is sending to the convention,
which will be the first the timber
workers' international has ever held
off the Pacific coast, where it was
organized.
"Plans for active organization
work to regain ground that has been
lost during the period of depression
in the lumber industry, not only here
but all over the country, and to build
up the union now when the workers
feel the need of the protection of a
bona fide organization, will no doubt
be an important subject before the
convention." said Mr. Covert last
night. "The workers in the timber
industry on this coast are showing by
their renewed Interest in our union
that they have had their fill of sub
stitutes for real trade unionism and
also of visionary radicalism.
"Wages have been badly slashed in
the readjustment process and. In some
instances, have been forced down to
the pre-war level. Such drastic re
ductions cannot be permanent, but,
on tiie other hand, it cannot be said
that a new wage level has been established."
Black, New Tork multi-millionaire
and his two negro employes before
the federal grand Jury, H. S. Phillips,
United States district attorney, an
nounced today.
MIAMI, Fla., March 20. Harry St.
Francis Black, New Tork multi-millionaire,
rearrested last night in
West Palm Beach under the state
liquor laws on orders from Governor
Hardee, was released today when
bonds of $1000 for Black and $10,000
for the negro porter employed on
Black's private car, were furnished.
Black was arrested last Thursday
after local federal authorities had
raided his private car and seized 55
cases of liquorbut released the next
day.
The negro porter testified that ho
had placed the liquor aboard without
Black's knowledge.
LABOR IfflOHS FACE
E-
EDGE CRISIS
Radicals and Employers Hit
American Federation.
TO
GOVERXLMEXT 'M.VXAGESrEXT
OP BUSINESS OPPOSED.
Discussions Arc to Be Conducted
in Group Meetings Lasting
From April 2 7 to April 2 9.
WASHINGTON. March 20. "More
business methods in government and
less government management of busi
ness," will be the general discussion
at the ninth annual meeting of the
United States chamber of commerce
at Atlantic City, April 27 to 29, the
chamber announced today. Indus
trial and economic questions to bo
brought up will be approached from
their relationship to this subject, it
was said.
Discussions will be conducted in
group meetings to take up particu
larly finance, foreign commerce,
transportation and communication
and civil development, while other in.
dustria groups will consider ques
tions1 relating to their fields.
A group representing the raw ma
terial production interests, will con
sider, it was said, proposed legisla
tion for government "management" ol
basic industries and the government's
relation to natural resources.
CLASS FEELING STIRRED
Workers Flan New Economic Ex
periments and Capitalists
Want Open Shop.
15 SLAIN IN
7 SOLDIERS, POLICEMAX AXD
7 ATTACKERS KILLED.
Fatalities to Crown Forces in Ire
land Caused by Blowing Up
Bridge While Lorries Cross.
CORK. March 20. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Seven soldiers and
one policeman were killed and sev
eral wounded and seven members of
the attacking party were killed in
the ambush of military and police
near Kinsale Saturday, according
to the latest reports received here.
The fatalities to the crown forces
were caused by the blowing up of a
bridge w hile three lorries were cross
ing it.
Twenty Sinn Feiners were cap
tured, of whom seven were wounded.
and the military took a large quan
tity of ammunition.
A reign of terror prevails in County
Cork and the crown forces are re
ported to have burned farm houses
and produce In reprisal for the am
bush. Search for the members of the
ambushing party who escaped is be
ing continued.
"FATHER RECOGNIZES YOUTH
IN" PRISON" GARB,
'Dear Old Daddy" Sings Prisoner
AVith Arm Linked in Parent's
in First Time in 14 .Years.
COLUMBUS, O., March 20 Lemuel
Gary, district superintendent of a
large life insurance company, yester
day sat in a meeting of underwriters
listening to a male chorus, composed
of convicts from the Ohio peniten
tiary, sing. In the prison uniform
was a young man named WiHIam
Gary. Friends of the insurance man
commented) on the likeness of his
name with that of the convict's.
They cai'led the convict down, from
the stage.
There was an instant recognition
by the insurance man of a son; by
the convict of a father. Rising to
his feet, the father introduced the
convict to the audience, saying he
had not seen his son for 14 years.
As a closing number young Gary,
with his arm linked in that of his
father sang "Dear Old Daddy." "This
is j happiest day of my life," said
the father.
Young Gary, sentenced from Cleve
land for automobile theft, will be re
leased in April.
MILLIONAIRE IS IN TOILS
Conspiracy to Violate Volstead Act
Charged to Harry Black. .
TAMPA. Fla., March 20. Charges
of conspiracy to violate the Volstead
act will be pressed against Harry S.
RED SOCK SAVES TRAIN
Boot Taken Off by Rescuer; Pas
sengers Make X'p Purse.
TORONTO. Ont., March 20. Sam
Lowe of Holland Landing, was the
hero of his townsfolk today because
he had presence of mind to pull off a
boot and sock and flag an on-rushing
passenger train before it reached
a washout on the Grand Trunk rail
way. The sock was red. The train
stopped. Passengers made up a
purse.
DYNAMITE VVRECKS HOME
Houe of Preacher Who Opposed
Dives Is Damaged.
SCRANTON, Pa., March 20. The
home of Rev. R. S. Nichols, in Old
Forge, was damaged badly early to
day by a charge of dyjiamite. Re
cently the Rev. Mr. Nichols, who is
pastor of a Methodist church, has
played an active part in ridding the
village of objectionable resorts.
Mrs. Nichols suffered a nervous
shock and has been unconscious.
$105,000 THEFT CHARGE
Trial of John Doughty to Begin
on Xext Tuesday.
TORONTO, Ont., March 20. John
Doughty, for many years secretary to
Ambrose J. Small, theater owner here,
who has been missing since December
2. 3919, will be placed on trial Tues
day on a charge of stealing $105.00(1
worth of victory bonds, the property
of his former employer.
Doughty also wRl be tried on a
charge of conspiring to kidnap Small.
Reichstag Votes Disarmament. '
BERLIN, March 20. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The reichstag last
night passed all three readings of
the disarmament bill.
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BY HARDEN COLAX.
(Copyright, 1921. by The lrcgonlan.)
WASHINGTON, D. C "March 20.
(Special.) Attacks on the American
Federation of Labor from within and
from without, led on the one hand
by the more Radical faction in labor
which is dissatisfied with the leader
ship of Samuel Gompers, and on the
other by the powerfully financed and
strongly organized open-shop cam
paign, is stimulating the federation
to unwonted activity and labor or
ganizations generally to new experi
ments designed to place greater eco
nomic power in the hands of work
ing men.
The federation itself is undertak
ing, as a result of the recent confer
ence of the 'heads of international
unions, to plaoe its point of view be
fore the public. Men prominent in
the labor movement notably Mr.
Gompers and Frank Morrison, secre
tary of the federation are being sent
on speaking tours to address mass
meetings in the larger cities every
where. Labor Problem DIxcnSMed.
Large meetings are being arranged
throughout the country In order to
procure views of the official spokes
men of organized labor on such topics
of the day as the open shop or "Amer
ican plan," the situation in the pack
ing plants, labor's defiance of injunc
tions. The railroad problem may be
presented.
Among labor organizations gener
ally, however, the present is being
taken as a time of experiment along
lines designated to protect the eco
nomic interests of workmen. An am
bitious project of this character is
that to establish the producers' and
consumers' co-operative bank, which
aims to erect branches in many im
portant cities and which hopes to
raise for all the banks a capital of
$100,000,000 among the labor union
members of the country.
The plan contemplates a start in
Philadelphia with the establishment
there of a bank having a capitaliza
tion of $5,000,000. The central labor
union of Philadelphia has indorsed
the plan, and shares of stock are be
ing sold at $20 each. The idea is to
conduct the bank through trustees
under a declaration of trust in order
to avoid certain difficulties of cor
poration management. Wheaton Bar
ker, at one time prominent in the
populist movement, is one of the pro
moters of the plan.
Official Approval Larking.
The object of starting in Philadel
phia is to reach the widest possible
circle of working men, and it is esti
mated that industrial plants nearby
that city bring a larger number of
working men in a radius than al
most anywhere else.
The plan has not received the offi
cial approval of the federation, al
though the International Association
of Machinists has taken the lead in
banking organization through obtain
ing control of two large banks here
in .Washington. The railroad organ
izations have long been at work on
a plan to establish a bank in Cleve
land in order to make full use of the
$12,000,000 available assets the rail
road brotherhoods are said to possess,
and unions in many parts of the coun
try invested funds in the state bank
of North Dakota because they did not
wish to have their money used in
loans to "open shop" employers.
(oniperM Is Opposed.
This growing "class consciousness"
on the part of labor is the cause of
the discontent with the policies of
Mr. Gompera. The men opposed to
him admit that for 20 years or more
there has been much talk of "throw
ing Gompers out" at each of the con
ventions of the federation, but they
also say that labor has rarely, in this
country, been in a more perilous posi
tion than now, and they contend tha't
the Gompers regime is mainly re
sponsible. Labor in Europe, it is
pointed out. is much stronger than
before the war, but here a relentless
war is being waged against organiza
tions of employes, and so effectively
that unions really are seriously
threatened in many places. A more
definite and conservative programme
is essential, say the opponents of Mr.
Gompers, to effective leadership of
the trade union movement.
GERMAN ABILITY LIMITED
Continued From First Pape.)
burden eats up every year at least
15.000,000.000 francs.
The building up of the territory
France Swamped by Debt,
destroyed during the war costs
France as much more. To this outgo
of 39.000.000.000 francs must be added
the normal budget expenditures. So
here we have an insufferable condi
tion for a country where the entire
taxes for last year amounted only to
18.000,000.000 francs.
Therefore, he who strives for jus
tice can understand the French cry
that Germany, who declared war.
SPRUCE-UPTIME
High Class Tailored Clothes Low Prices
TT-OU'VE been putting off getting
Sf the new suit or having it tai
H lored as well-dressed men pre
fer until prices tumble.
Well, that time is here. With the largest
and most handsome selection of materials
seen in Portland since before the war, I'm
ready for you with prices at only
$50 - $60 - $70
HENRY W. JACOBSON
324-26 Morrison Street Portland Hotel Block
must cover the deficit by replacing
all the damage done by her arjnies.
Unfortunately, however, everything
comprehensible is not always pos
sible in. this world of realities. Ger-
"many has no gold nor other inter- j
nationally valid means of payment 1
in quantities worth mentioning. If1
she were to pay out the bulk of hre ,
national wealth say by the sale of I
her mines, her forests, her railways. ;
etc. she would destroy herself and
at the same time kill the chances of
her creditors to obtain further pay- i
ments.
Allied Nations Menaced.
If she were to pay the tremendous
amount, of the Indemnity in goods
that is to say, by perfecting raw ma
terials delivered to her then the
countries which would be swamped
by these goods would be thrown out
'of work and into industrial ruination.
Nobody wants Germany's paper
millions. But even if they were taken j
into the payment plan, the mark
quickly would sink to the depth of j
the Russian soviet rouble. Conse- t
quently. If the most sacred righteous- j
ness of heaven and earth were in fa- '
vor of the Paris reparation demands, ,
these demands could not be fulfilled. I
For this reason Is ft sensible to try
to coerce by means of military and
economical terror a poverty-stricken j
, nation, which has to buy American j
dollars at 15 times the pre-war rate,
to sign a promissory note to pay
within 42 years 226,000,000.000 gold
marks? According to .today's ex
change, this would amount almost to
three trillion paper marks.
Slavery Means Destruction.
If Germany should agree, the applause-seeking
allied prime minister
could parade before his parliament
with a signature, but tne money
would not be forthcoming and a peo
ple so long and firmly bound together
would be lost to the world as buyers
and forced into life slavery. In such
circumstances, and in spite of the
wisest pacifist advice, such a people
would be filled only with a passion
ate wish to break its chains. This
reparation problem dare not last
longer than necessary to make a film
spectacle.
Unprejudiced experts, not blinded
by hate, must calculate the losses of
the conquerors which must be resti
tuted, and also must estimate the pro
ductive power of the defeated.
Germany's workers and technical
experts must rebuild northern France.
To diminish the distrust of our cred- '
itors and to adopt such a mode of
living as becomes poor people, Ger- '
many must tolerate this economic :
control, which naturally must not be
carried out with arrogant presump- '
tion, nor in the manner of the un- i
speakable- Turk. j
Germany Has Its limits. j
Germany also may take on an ob- I
ligation to pay to her creditors 40 to j
60 per cent for 30 vears from nrnlns
exports over import returns. If. in
addition to that, she proves- by her
honesty, by disarmament and by
peaceful domestic policies, that the
world in the future has nothing to
fear from her, and for that reason
none of her neighbors need to con
tinue to carry the burden of war
armaments, then she will have done
everything possible toward the rep
aration of the material damages and
the political wrongs of the war.
In that event, it will be France's
stern duty to recognize that the
flood which 'swept the earth from
1914 to J919 caused suffering
alike to the just anc. to the
unjust. The after-effects of such a
w-orld catastrophe are not like the
after-effects of previous wars. The
right of the conqueror to booty as
well as gain, or even to full com
pensation for losses sustained, can
not aPPlV. If it nr.p. 1 ,
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through the incendiarism of an in
dividual a whole town had been de
stroyed, would this individual be ex
pected to have fhp tr.nff,i,
- ".'.,ibiu lu re
store the entire damage?
Suffrrinir Ileynnd Reparation.
Thft anff.HniF a
---- . i.npu upon tne
world through the war surpassed so
greatly all traditional human meas
urements that the thought of being
able to clear it
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and legal verdict is about as feasible
as a ciiiiu s aream.
The dual Durnnne nf h -
Versailles to reduce and weaken
Germany to continued Impotence, and
at the same time to demand of her
gigantic sums for reparation is un
attainable, and even the conclusion
to attempt it becomes a peril to our
entire continent. The military occu
pation and economical weakening of
Germany, and the threat to tear up
Silesia, whose industry under Poland's
technically bad and quite inadequate
management would quickly deterior
ate, are not the means of creating
work-loving strength. Instead, they
tend to send morality to the devil
and to a mood for the enjoyment of
today in a delirium because there is
no tomorrow to hope for.
Enough has been said of the right
of the victor and the duty of the
vanquished. No honest person doubts
that both have to be accepted within
the limits of what is possible.
VAGRANTS BOUND SOUTH
Armed Band Is Taken From Box
car by Salem Police.
SALEM, Or., March 20. (Special.)
Night police officers late, yesterday
discovered 25 transients huddled in a
box car attached to a southbound
Southern Pacific train. To prevent
the men alighting here the officers
closed and locked the door of the
car and ordered the trainmen to carry
the travelers out of the city.
The prisoners, upon discovering
that they had been locked in the car,
raised such a rumpus that a night
watchman in.the-ailroad yards came
to their rescue and released them.
The police then were notified, with
the result that most of the men were
rounded up and locked in the city jail
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Victor records and Victrola instruments are scientifically
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The result is fully evident when you play Victor records
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for the remainder of the night. In a
majority of instances the men were
armed. They said they were on their
way to California in search of em- j
ployment. j
ways and trackage to
the population of New
years from now. The
accommodate
York city 2
population is
expected to be 9.000,000 and the traf
fic on rapid-transit systems 5,000,000,
000 flMssertgers a year.
Newsprint Shortage Acute.
MADRID, March 20. The news
print situation in Spain has become
so acute that the newspaper propri
etors have sent a deputation to Pre
mier Allende Salazar to request him
to appoint an arbitration commission
for fixing tb price of paper. They
also have petitioned for the main
tenance of existing import duties.
Bngineers have been planning sub-
"GREENLAND QUALITY"
TAILORED CLOTHES
MADE-TO-MEASURE
.AND MADE TO FIT
FROM
J75 to 100
TAILOR
MORGAN BUILDINO.
The Big National
Advertising Medium
The daily newspaper has always
been the pre-eminent local advertis
ing medium.
, In recent years it has come to be
the great national medium of ad
vertising; for manufacturers and
distributors of trade-marked goods.
It is estimated that in 1920 the
newspapers carried more than
$700,000,000 worth of advertising
and of this vast sum, from $200,
000,000 to $250,000,000 came from
national advertisers.
Most of all the ntoney spent for
' any kind of advertising was spent
in the daily newspapers. "
The supremacy of the daily news
paper as an advertising medium is
due to the fact that it is read by
virtually everyone, " everywhere,
every day, because everybody who
reads wants to know the news of
the world and of business.
DANCING taucht
ALL NEW STEPS AND
POPULAR DANCES
guaranteed in eight
three - hour lessons.
Ladies. $2; irentl-1-nien.
$5. le Honeya
beautiful academ.
Twenty - third a n il
Wash! ngton. Be
ginners' class starts
Monday and Thurs
day evenings. Ad
vance class Tues
day and V r i d a v
evenings, g to 1 1:36.
Plenty of desirable
partners and prac
tice no embarrass
ment; the social
feature alone is
worth double the
price. Private instructions with cla.--s
lessons free. All dances taught as
lanced in the ballroom today. You
can never learn dancing in privale
lessons alone, or in public halls. You
musf have practice. We have taught
10,000 people to dance during the past
three years, and if you do learn in
Portland it will eventually be at
I-e Honey's. My latest hook describ
ing all dances free. Phone Main 76.".
PRIVATE LKSSON'S AT AA. HOI7HS.
Remember
WATER-HEATER SALE
at the
Gas Office
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