THE 3IORNTXG OKEGOXIAX, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1921 JOHN REED S CAREER mi nunni m iminnrn . nUbb A bl HWbtU BRUMFIELD AS HE APPEARS TODAY, Life Dedicated to Cause of 4 Soviet Government. GREAT HISTORY PLAINED Manner of Young Communist's Fasting and Events That Tucd Up ,k to It Xovr Disclosed. John Re3. whi. as the followlnir artl4e ihnws. was playinR a highly important role in the Russian soviet (tovernment at the tinie of his death in Moscow, in 1020, was a Port Is id boy. He was born in this city, of h well-known family, his father. C. J. Heed, hsvins; been United States marshal, and received his early education here, Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) . NEW YORK, Aug. 15. (Special.) In Moscow, nearly a year ago, John Reed, a reporter primarily and a com munist 'by a combination of his nature and the rule of time, died an agonizing- death, a victim of typhus, over work and undernourishment. The manner of hl-s groins, the events that led up to It, the experiences of this romantic figure in the history of re bellion, have remained since then to Americana a closed book. Today, however, the World is en abled ito outline in more or less dtail, and from a source that is beyond question as to authority, the last days of the youn? American whose body l,es with only five others of the mil lions who have seen death in Russia since November, 1917, in the hallowed grrave acre of the Kremlin, and the only one to whom, the masters of Russia have seen fit to do honor by the erection cf a d'eathless stone and epitaph. Regard the communist experiment in Russia as we may, there is in the story of John Reed sufficient of ro manticism, of poetry, of idealism and, above all. of physical courage to war rant a popular interest in his life that will, in the words of Lenin him self, "increase with time and strength en the heaj-ts of men, be they moving forward or standing still." Reed Reported to Knd. As Park Row knew John Reed, he was a repoi ter. As the World's In formation of his last year, his last months and his last days would in dicate, that is how he would have himself known. For, it is revealed in the story that has come to this news paper, his very death was indirectly due to his great ambition to write from persorral knowledge a history of the Russian revolution that would stand for all time as the authorita tive document on the subject. As it is, he was cut off with but a tithe of his work dione. and the story of Rus sia as he would have written it, lies In its material and uncollated shape in a trunk in a Finnish prison, and in Its spiritual form in the Kremlin graveya rd. John Reed left New Tork for the last time late in 1919. He had previ ously been everywhere a reporter would want to go. In the war he had been on a'.I fronts. With Richard Harding Davis he had covered th Serbian retreat and with Davis he had fallen a victim to a kidney plague that brought both to the operating table. Davis :on to die. Reed to pull through. 1-1 e had previously been with Villa in Mexico. ' Where intensive life was Reed went And that, probably more than com munism, took him to Russia after the revolution of 1917. In that year he saw government after government fall and finally saw the rising of the new Idea of social organization known now as the soviet form of govern ment. He srw it through and came back, writing a book called "The Ten Days that Shook the World." Today it is a history textbook in the schools of Russia by decree of Lenin, ap proved by the education committee of the all Russian congress of Soviets. If Reed knew this he would be happy. It was tha first of the six volumes he planned on soviet Russia. All Privilege Renounced. When Reed reached Russia on his last trip he was greeted by Lenin and his associates in control of the (rovernment for the heroic and dare devil figure that he was. Lenin set off an apartment for him in the Kremlin for Lenin, above all peo ple, seemed to appreciate Reed. ' But the reporter-communist declined. He said he would ruin himself for the job he had in mind, and he chose to sleep and eat rn the poorest work man's quarter in Moscow. Reed knew the Russian revolution. He knew that to wear fur coats and live in palaces would not endear him to those who had the economic revo lution closifst to heart, and he sensed keenly the spirit of comradeship with the rank and file that was necessary to complete understandingsof what it was he was passing through. So he renounced the fur coats that might have been his, he disdained the privi lege to travel in automobiles that was offered nlm, and he lived in a single suit that when he died was a ma 8a of patches and tears the uni form of a revolutionist, of a prisoner in Finland, of a stowaway, of a spirit unmindful of clothes. In the winter of 1920, according to the World's informant. Reed was at the height of his career, in a spiritual sense. He had the full confidence of Lenin and Trotzky, and was a mem ber of the executive committee of the communist Internationale, a post in volving a mass of executive and or ganizing work and calling for the ex penditure of every ounce of energy he possessed and he was a young man of superlative strength and push, only 32 years old when he died. 1.1 fe Strenuous One, He organized sanitary battalions to fight plagues and filth; he buried the dead: he wrote daily articles for newspapers and prepared much cir cular propaganda; and night after night he would go to the Kremlin at Lenin's request and stay until the break of dawn, advising, planning, discussing, ever equal to the occa sions that rose in his path. Never once, however, did he deviate from his big main course the collection of facts and information, the filing of documents, of papers, the making of notes, for the job that was to be the monument to his living days the his tory of Russia in revolt and recon struction. But in the spring of 1920 he got the news of an indictment, found by a federal jury in Chicago, charging him with participation in a left wing socialist convention that was alleged to have been in contravention of certain . American laws. He told Lenin and the rest that he was com ing home to face the charge, and as he did in previous charges against him. to defeat it. The information reaching the World is that he was advised by more than one highly placed soviet official to Ignore the indictment and stay in Russia, to which he is quoted as having re plied: "I'll take advice from friends or BRUMFIELD AS HE APPEARS TODAY. j -, .a - i - . .-. : -'.v . vi. ! - r-s.. -r v . - " ' i,- -,r" ...'.'- St ' '.::' III ' . .:&:':.; Ill . ! y Mil k : - V- ;v V l : if 'It v I asmn wurtanwi . .-n ' : -y jr rhotoffrapliB taken by Calfcary- (Al berta) police show Koncbnrg dentist with MTcral weekV growth of beard. HAYWOOD MAY BE RICH W.I TO ATTEND COMING CONFERENCE Premier to Head French Dele- gation at Washington. OTHER CHfEFS MAY COME 3Iessag From Paris Causes Satis factionAppropriation, for Dis armament Sleet Is .Asked. orders from superiors on anything but cowardice. ' ' And he started home by way of Finland, only to be arrested in Abo on a charge of smuggling a trunkful of documents, notes and papers by which he was to trace the course of the Russian revolution in book form so that the world might read. He had some valuables, too, some gold and some diamonds, but the r innlsh authorities accepted a fine for the possession of these and turned him loose. They refused, however, to give up the trunk full of papers. Grave Illness Contracted. Be was set out upon the street and walked for two blocks, when he was rearrested on no charge and placed In solitary confinement on raw fish and water for 12 weeks, during which time, the World's informant alleges, the American consul refused to in tervene, and in which time Reed con tracted an illness! due to a combina tion of bad food and the kidney that had been operated on in Serbia, that ultimately caused his death. At the end of 12 weeks he was re leased but was still deprived of his documents and possessions. He be sought the Hsthonlan minister to facilitate his return passage to Rus sia and succeeded, reaching Russia in time to attend the meeting of the third Internationale, where he Is said to have electrified the congress by his eloquence, despite the agonies he endured and despite a body Bwollen by the poisonous food of the Abo Jail. Then, agnaist the advice of his doc tors, but upon the urgent request of communist leaders, he went a Baku to attend the meeting of Russians and near eastern and middle eastern representatives where the antagon isms of centuries were to be wiped out, and it is recorded that here his youthful face and spirit, both some what restored to normal, captured I the great assemblage and did much toward effecting the rapproachement that holds good between the Russian and the middle and near eastern gov ernments and peoples today. Returning to Moscow, Reed fell 111 of the typhus and was taken to a hospital. His wife, by devious means, had reached Russia just at this time. There were no nurses, so his wife nursed him. He talked of all he had seen and all he wanted to do. He was particularly interested, next to his history, in a comic opera he had written of the republic of Azerbaijan as a result of his visit to that terri tory. Yonnsr Commubt Poet. He was a poet. Reed, and it meant something that he should have said that the lines in this little, satire were among the best he had written. He had written plays, too. and not one-sided, either, for one of them is understood to have been a satire on socialism that might be presented some day. The Provincetown Play ers for a month presented a satire of his on the peace conference. Arnold Daly had enthused over another play that has never yet been offered to a producer. But the comic opera on the republic of Azerbaijan, like the material for his history of the Rus sian revolution, is in the trunk in Abo. Death by typhus is among the worst deaths a man may suffer. It is slow paralysis. The tongue thickens and becomes mute, an arm and then a leg is paralyzed. Reed endured these agonies in complete consciousness. Then for ten hours he held the hand of his wife while he died. They put a new suit on him then, for he was not to say no, and they laid him in state in the labor temple, and regi ments of soldiers assembled, and mul titudes came, for Reed to Russia was as much a hero as the mightiest of Russians. And everyone knew that Lenine sought his counsel and cher ished his friendship. As the World's informant yester day said, "The crime of it is that in Abo are the trunk and' the documents. uncollected, and in the Kremlin grave acre nis great experience." The tombstone over the grave wi unveiled on July 4, 1921. It bears only two woras lor an epitaph. They are "John Reed." ROMAXCE IX LIFE OF I. W. i LEADER IS REVEALED. Divorce Xever Obtained. . Wife's Father Dies Rich, Wife Dies Later, Xo Will Is Left. CHICAGO. Aug. 15.--A hidden ro mance in the life of W. T. (Big Bill) Haywood as a result of which the ex leader of the -Industrial Workers of the World may inherit a large for tune, was revealed today by Charles F. Clyne. district attorney. Haywood fled to Russia several months ago to avoid serving a sentence of 20 years in Leavenworth prison. Haywood, according to Mr. Clyne, married Jane Minor in California some 30 years ago. Later, after two chil dren were born, he was said to have deserted her. He never obtained a di vorce, according to Mr. Clyne. Later he became leader of the "Wobblles," which resulted in his arrest and con viction with other I. W. W. officials of conspiracy to obstruct the United States war efforts. In the meantime Mr. Clyne said he had been informed, Haywood's father-in-law, Mr. Minor, amassed a fortune In Nevada and Arizona which went to his daughter at the time of his death. Recently. It was said, the daughter died near Winnemucca, Nev., leaving no will. Under the laws of Nevada, one-third of her estate would go to her husband. Mr. Clyne said that he was investi gating the case with the idea of col lecting an unpaid $15,000 fine assessed against Haywood at the time of his conviction. SOLDIER'S FUNERAL HELD by BRUMFIELD1 DENIES NAME Continued From First Page.! that Roseburg citizens might attempt to take the law into their own hands. The other three officers will joln-the party at Kings Gate. SPECIAL COURT TERM LIKELY Judge Hamilton and District At torney Hold Conference. ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) The question of a special term of circuit court to try the Brumfield nurder case will be determined fol lowing the arrival of the prisoner and the statement which he tsakes to Dis trict Attorney Neuner, it was anr nounced today. It is quite probable WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 15. (By the Associated Press.) The hope of American officials that the disarma ment conference will be a diplomatic conclave -of the first - order was strengthened today when France in formed the state department that she would send Premier Brland at the head of her delegation of diplomatists. The decision is expected here to be followed by similar moves on the part of the other powers, investing the gathering with extraordinary sig nificance and giving it much of the plenary authority that was pos sessed by the council of "heada of states" at Versailles. The French notification came In the form of a message from Premier Briand himself, transmitted through the American embassy at Paris, say ing merely that the premier would take pleasure in personally represent ing his country at the conference. It was the first formal acceptance to be received from any of the invited nations. Meantime the administration's prep aration of its own part in the confer ence was advanced by a request sent to congress for an appropriation of $200,000 as an initial budget to pay expenses of the American representa tives and of a secretariat-general. The estimate worked out by the state department and the budget bureau was taken under committee consid eration immediately in the senate and probably will receive favorable action in the near future. Delegates Pay Their Way. The sum fixed in the request and the data accompanying It apparently disposed .of any expectation that this government would pay the expenses of any of the visiting delegations, for congress was informed specifically that the money was to be used for the American delegation and for the secretariat-general alone. It was In dtcated that a later appropriation would be asked should the printing bill exceed present expectations or should the conference last more than two months. In making the request President' Harding merely transmitted with his approval a letter written by Under Secretary Fletcher of the state de partment, who has been placed In charge of physical arrangements for the conference and who prepared his estimates after a conference with Director-General Dawes of the budget bureau. There was no attempt to divide the sum Into separate items. In the senate it is likely that the requested appropriation will be at tached to the shipping board appro priation bill. News that the French premier would attend the conference was re ceived with much satisfaction here, for there has been a general expecta tion that should one of the powers de cide, to send itB premier the o'chers would do likewise in the interest of fair representation. It is considered doubtful, however, whether all of the invited nations will follow the French example of announcing any part of the personnel of their delegations at the time of formally accepting a piace in the conference. Work Will Be Expedited. Not only will the presence of the foreign premiers here add greatly to the weight of. the deliberations, but it is expected also to be considerable help in expediting the work of the conference. In ordinary diplomatic gatherings much time is consumed communicating with the home gov ernments for information and instruc tions, but with the highest political authorities ef the various powers actually on the ground it Is hoped d-e cisions can be made promptly and with finality. The- text of the message from Paris which was addressed to Secretary Hughes and signed by Ambassador Herrick, was as follows: "Premier Briand authorizes me to express through you to the president his appreciation of the invitation to the Washington conference on No vember 11, and to say to the president that he wWl have great pleasure in attending the conference in person as head of the French delegation. Captain Huntington, his Interpreter, said: "Italy, seeking only peace and pros perity, has resumed useful labor. Kconomlcally, it is returning to nor mal more quickly than any other Eu ropean nation. Levying heavy taxes, it- is at the same time economizing everywhere, paying its debts. Ten billion lire of the 14. 000.000. 000-lire deficit has been paid off In a year. "Not counting on any indemnity or reparation, we are trying to pay our own obligations. If we receive any indemnity from the enemy, so much the better, but we are not relying on such financial help, as is France. "Our internal conditions are Im proving. "Scareheads' in American newspapers about little rows we have had in Italian cities are misleading. The fascisti and communists have clashed, but the communists are far in the minority. With 9,000,000 of our people in agricultural pursuits, as against 1.500,000 in ' industrial work, stability is assured, for the small land owners are conservative. 'We have had some strikes, but nothing like England's mine strike, or your own labor troubles In West Virginia. 'The immensity of your country Is most impressive. ' It is unfortunate that in restricting immigration you do not limit newcomers to those will ing to settle on the land. Instead of letting them crowd, into big cities. buca immigrants soon would own their farms and be of great value to the nation." CHIXESE OOXTROL S TOM ED Washington Disavows Report of Proposed Commission. TOKIO, Aug. 15. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Reports from America that the United States may suggest: control of China by an international commission are understood to have been considered at the meeting of the Japanese cabinet 'yesterday. Viscount Uchida, foreign mlnHster, told members of t'he cabinet, accord ing to the Yomi Url Shimbu-n, that if such a suggestion was made, it was a matter of grave" Importance upon which Japan must carefully delib erate. . Japan is studying the advisablMty of proposing an. international stand ing council for the guidance and de velopment of China, says the Koku min Shimbun. The work of this coun cil would be based upon the idea of the powers' abandonment of spheres of influence and all other measures, including extra - ternitoriality, which are inimical - to China's complete sovereignty. The unification of North and South China also would; be sought, the newspaper asserts. WASHINGTON, "57 C, Aug. 15. Re ports from Tokio that a proposal for control of China by an international commission might be put forward by th United States in connection with the disarmament and far eastern con ference are not understood by of ficials here. No such suggestion, has ever been put forward, they say, or even talked over here, so far as could be learned. AD CLUB PARTY IS FETED t KLAMATH FALLS HAS BAXQCET FOR EXCURSTONTSTS. TOKIO. Aug. 15. (By the Associ ated Press.) Formal invitation to Japan to send representatives to the conference on disarmament and far eastern questions to be held in Wash ington late this autumn has been re ceived from the American capital. Lieutenant-General Shoichi Sugano has been informally selected to head the Japanese army delegation at the conference, says the Jljl Shimpo. General Sugano served at various times as military attache at Japanese legations in Europe. that at special session of the grand I ITALIAIXS " (READY -TO DISARM jury will be called and the circuit Body of Private Allen Burled Oregon City Comrades. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) Funeral services of Private Joseph S. Allen, son of Mrs. George Allen of this city,-who died from the effects of scarlet fever and pneumo nia while overseas, and a member of the loth cavalry, were held In St. John's Catholic church in this city Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Monsignor Hillebrand oficiated. Many friends of the young man and members of Willamette Falls post No. 5, American legion, attended the services. The choir gave special music for the occasion. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery. Hunter to Enter Amateur Play. LONDON, Ont.. Aug. 15. W. J. Hunter, British amateur golf cham pion, will sail 'for the United States on Saturday to play in the American amateur championship in September. court will be convened in, a special term, which will doubtless be set for the last part of September. The regular term does not come un til November, and as the case likely will be very long, because of the num ber of witnesses to be examined, it is thought very probable that it will be neecssary to bring the case-to trial at once. Circuit Judge Hamilton and District Attorney Neuner conferred today on this matter but said that they reached no definite understanding and that no action would be taken until after Dr. Brumfield's return. . Just when Brumfield will he brought back to the city was some thing which the officers were either unwilling to tell or did not know. Brumfield will be brought into the city under heavy guard, and it is be lieved very probable that he will be smuggled in, as feeling runs quite high here .3. & H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co.. coal and wood. Mala b3; S60-21, Adv. . ALASKA VICTIM IS BURIED Pendleton People Honor Memory of Miss Ruth Hart. PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) Pendleton people today paid homage to the memory of Ruth Hart, local girl, who lost her life in the sinking of the steamer Alaska, whose funeral here today was attended by scores oi local people, together with friends from La Grande, where the young woman was graduated from high school and' later was employed by the O.-W. R. & N. Co. The body was laid to rest In Olney cemetery here, where Miss Hart's par ents are buried, General Touring America Would "Gladly Doff Unciform. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) "Italy is ready to disarm, her ancient enemy, Austria, having been destroyed. President Harding's en deavor to obtain disarmament is a fine thing for the world if it can succeed, but I anticipate difficulty in having all the world accept disarmament," said General Pietro Badoglio, former chief of staff of the Italian army, who arrived in Seattle this morning on his trip around the United States, thank ing Italian-Americans who fought in the world war. "For myself, I would be glad to lay aside my uniform, ' never to don it again," he said. "I hope I nver see war again. Those who have fought, who have undergone the horrors of war, are of the same mind. It would be a great achievement if your presi dent's call for a disarmament confer ence by the leading powers should be fruitful." General Badoglio, who as General Diaz' chief of staff, mapped the Vit torio Veneto offensive that crushed the Austrian army, with the bagging of 400,000 prisoners, is accompanied by Colonel D. Sicilian!, his chief of staff, and Captain C. H. Huntington, an Italian of American parentage and a veteran of the Italian, army cam paigns. Hundreds of the distinguished Ital ian's compatriots and former coun trymen gathered at -the union station and shouted their welcome to the trio as they approached the gates, es corted by a squad of regulars from Fort Lawton commanded by Captain F. C. Milner. General Badoglio, speaking through Approval of 192 5 Fair Voiced and Thanks Given Portland- for Aid In Rate Fig-ht. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Aug. 15. (Special.) At a banquet tendered the Portland Ad club excursionists who reached this city late today, .the local chamber of commerce not only gave hearty welcome to the visitors, but voiced approval of the 1925 world's fair and promised support. Tired and dusty from the trip from Crater lake, where they passed Sun- Cay, the members of the party found j hospitable welcome awaiting them here. Various local speakers assured the ad men that Klamath Falls no longer l'eels a sense of isolation. We anticipate deeply the kindly assistance of Portland during the re cent freight case." -said E. B. Hall, president of the local chamber. "This aid, I believe, has won for us an enormous reduction in freight rates. I merely mention this so that you may know that we in the Klamath country are not ungrateful of your ef forts In our behalf. Speaking of his plans for the further development of the Crater lake hotel property, Eric Hauser, president of the Crater Lake National Park Hotel company, said that within a few weeks he would again visit this city and confer with business men upon the project, proposing a programme that will result in making the southern Oregon scenic wonder one of the most popular scenic resorts in America. Julius L. Meier, president of the Atlantic-Pacific Highways and Elec trical exposition, referring to a song with the refrain "and he lives down In our alley," bade the banqueters re member that in Oregon every resi dent is not primarily a community member, but a citizen of the state. As such he urged them to do their utmost to further the world's fair. "Portland has no ax to grind," said Mr. Meier, "but what we want is for the state at large to avail itself of its opportunity. It means that every community should back up the ex position in a few years when it Is held." Early tomorrow morning the ex cursionists will leave, for Bend, where they will be guests of the chamber of commerce. They will return to Portland Wednesday. Realty Tax .Bill Reduced. ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) Aberdeen's realty tax bill for 1921 was reduced approximately $650,000 by a horizontal cut of 12 per cent of valuation ior ADeroeen GENUINE O; DURHAM tobacco makes 50 flood cigarettes for 10c Tprofit I r A like this ? A costly menu of fancy "indigestibles served after a tedious interval, by a waiter who deposits on your table little else but an appetite-dispelling check and then stands by for a tip like this?' In lunchrooms where the cheapest ingredi ents go into the foods you eat. Where clean liness stops at the entrance to the kitchen and you leave with a bad taste in your mouth or like this ? Where you may select a variety of tasteful, wholesome foods, made from products known for quality and prepared under the most sanitary conditions. Where overhead expense is cut to the minimum and you get your full money's worth in FOOD. YouH find this last at its best in the Im perial Lunchrooms. We buy the best food products on the market. Our overhead ex pense is distributed between three lunch rooms. Our policy is A Big Volume of Business at a Small Margin of Profit. For your convenience never close. I 1 e j xi p ' - - 1 1 1 rrnnu imu wfvy't- J -.!-iJj w Lj w rr) by the county equalization board in session at Montesano this afternoon. Three members of the Aberdeen city council sat on the board and recom mended the reduction. ' Vancouver to Join Parade. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Aug. 15. (Special.) Vancouver - will take part in the Portland automobile parade Wednesday, celebrating the signing of the 1925 fair resolution, it was an nounced today. Business men here hope to have 500 machines from this city In the parade, carrying signs advertising the Hayden island site for the fair. Dr. R. M. Andruns is in charge of the preparations for Van couver's part in the celebration. Grants Pass has been admitted to the federal reserve system, the treasury department announced today. Bank Admitted to Federal System. 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