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VOL. LX NO. 1.04
Entered t Portland (Oregon)
Poitof flee M Second -Clani Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, DEC'E.MItER 6, 1921
I'RIC'E FIVE CENTS
SINN FEIN AGREES
21 KILLED, 25 HURT
WHEN TRAINS COLLIDE
4P0WER ALLIANCE
SILETZ RIVER TRIP
FULL OF ADVENTURE
GERMANY MAY GET
MORE TIME TO PAY
EocAArRAcrHoLlDlU41,D0D Oil STRIKE
Tl
HARDING IS ASKED
IN PACKING PLANTS
MOST LOSJE LIVES IX FLANKS
OF WOODES CARS
LITTLE SCHOONER ROAMER IS
BADLY T A x'ERED.
THREE V EARS' DELAY IS CON
SIDERED by Allies.
SCHOONER DRIFTS 1 WlDKS.
SAIL IS SHREDDED.
D NEW PROPOSAL
BEING CONSIDERED
TO LEAD CONGRESS
House and Senate Dis
parity Serious.
y
m
i
Irish Faction in Session
With British Ministers.
DELEGATES APPEAR TIRED
Statement to Press Is Prom
ised by Member.
r MEETING IS LONG ONE
Iail Minister of Finiiiice Has Sharp
Ansucr When Asked J f He Mas
Anything to Say.
LONDON', Dec. 6. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The conference be.
tween the government ministers and
Sinn Fein delegates reached an agree
ment at an early hour this morning
on the new proposals, which under
went certain modifications, for an
Irish settlement.
After a session which lasted mort
than throe hours, from 11:15 last
night until 2:20 this morning, the
meeting of the government ministers I
and Irish representatives separated
and a member of the cabinet, replying
to a question as to how things stood,
said:
"The news isn't bad; an agreement,
in fact, has ! -:. reached, the terms
of which will be communicated to the
press.'
Helen"'' Look Tlrei:.
The delegates, looaed tired and grave I
as they left the premier's residence, i
Asked whether he had anything to 1
say, Michael Collins, the Sinn I'"eln
finance minister, answered sharply:
"Not a word."
The big questions at issue between
the British government and the rep
resentatives of the .Irish' republican
parliament have been:
Shall Ireland become entirely In
dependent, or, if It remain within
the British empire, shall there be two
separate governments in Ireland, one
for Ulster and oiy for the rest of
the country?
Prime Minister Lloyd George hag re
fused to consider any proposal which
would put Ireland outside the empire.
The Sihh Feinerg refused to admit
that Ireland should be spill In two
parts.
Ulster refused to unite In one par
liament with the Sinn Felnere. It
has organized a parliament of its
own under the government of Ireland
act.
The Sinn Felners refused to set up
a parliament for the south of Ireland,
as proposed in that act. They ad
hered to their own Irish parliament,
called the Dall Elrcann, which they
had set up Independently as the gov
erning body of the Irish republic.
Furpow la Outlined.
That was the situation when the
truce began last July, after King
George had made a conciliatory
speech at the opening of the new
parliament In Ulster.
The purpose of the negotiations
now in progress, as defined by
Lloyd George and accepted by the
Sinn Fein representatives, Is "to
ascertain how the association of Ire
land with the community of nations
known as the British empire may be
best reconciled with Irish national
aspirations,"
The conferences began in July
Both sides have at times entertained
higher hopes of a final and satisfac
tory settlement probably than at anv
time since the Irish question became
a thorn in the side of the British em
pire, but there have been several
crises when the negotiations seemed
doomed to failure.
The first of these occurred when
Lloyd George offered to Dc Valera at
consultation In London a form of self
government In Ireland something like
that prevailing In the British domin
ions. The Dail Eireann utterly re
jected this proposal on the ground
that it did not afford even genuine
dominion rule. For a time it seemed
that a deadlock had been reached.
Move Seems to Be Balked.
UVoyd George endeavored to resume
negotiations but this move seemed
likely to be balked by De Valera's
Insistence that the Irish delegates to
such a conference must be accepted
.is having derived their authority
from a free and independent Ireland.
The British premier refused to con
cede that point as. he said, it would
constitute a recognition at the very
outset of Ireland's claims for separa
tion from the British empire.
This obstacle was overcome by the
two parties agreeing upon Lloyd
George's fornjula that the purpose of
the conference should be to ascertain
" how Ireland's association with the
empire might be best reconciled with
Ireland's national aspirations.
Under that formula, meetings have
been In progress since early October.
The proceedings have been secret. It
has been reported, however, that Brit
ish representatives submitted a plan
to give Ireland a status of "associa
tion" with the empire and to allow
her an almost complete measure of
self-government to bo ewercieed by
separate parliaments in Ulster and
South Ireland, rt spectively. a-.d by a
-entr.il council Jclntly chosen.
This brought I'is't again Into the
negotiation,' and compelled Premier !
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CrtMb Occurs In Cut, 35 Feet .Deep,
Xarrow and Curved Some
Not Identified.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. .5 Twenty
one persons were killed today and 25
or more injured in a head-on collision
letween two passenger trains on the
Newton branch of the Philadelphia
& Reading railway, about 16 miles
north of Philadelphia in a deep cut.
Four of the injured were In a crit
ical condition. It was feared other
oodies still were concealed by the
hot ashes and twisted frame-work
of the two wooden coaches which
caught fire.
With few exceptions the recovered
bodies were burned beyond recogni
tion. Most of the victims lived at
Southampton and Newton.
Most of the victims perished in fire
which broke out in the wooden cars
armost immediately after the crash.
Rescuers were obliged to stand
helpless at the top of the cut while
the victims, enmeshed ir the wreck
age, shrieked as the flames tortured
them.
'An outbound train f- m Philadel-1-hia
ran into an inbound train from
Newton In the cut. which is 35 feet
aee.p, narrow' and curved. Its sides
were covered with snow and ice and
it was with the greatest difficulty
that t&e injured were dragged out.
Several of the cr.arred bodies had
l ot been Identified and it was thought
tossible that more might He in the
wreckage.
A statement from the railway of
f.ces said the accident seems "to be
due to train 151 (that from Phila
delphia) overrunning its orders." In
vestigations are under way.
The inbound train makes no stops
between Southampton and Bryn
'.thyn. The outbound train usually
-aits on a siding for it to pass. The
engineer is said to have waited ten
minutes and when a local that was
late, passed, to have assumed it to
be the other train and proceeded.
The curve with its steep, rocky walls
hid each train. In the middle of the
cut the two locomotives crashed. One
rose in the air and then toppled
backwards, falling upside down over
the track. The other locomotive
veered to the east and wedged itself
in between the rock wall and the
wreckage.
ROOSEVELT TO BE SANTA
Fx-Prcsident's Misxion of Gladness
to He Curried Out by Son.
OYSTER BAY. N. ' Y. Dec. 5. The
old Santa Claus who gladdened the
hearts of Cove Neck school tots at
Christmas time Is gone, but the task
of carrying the toy bar has de
scended .upon the shoulders of his
son.
Twenty-five years ago the late
Theodore Roosevelt played Santa
Claus for the children of Cove Neck
school, for four of his own tots were
pupils there. And then it became a
joyful habit with him to don the red
and white suit and long whiskers so
well known to little folk. Each year
at Cove Neck the children wrote to
tell Santa what they wanted, and
Mr. Roosevelt carried the gifts to
them.
The Santa letters written at Cove
Neck this year have been sent to As
sistant Secretary of the Navy Roose
velt at Washington.
JOHN D. JR. BORROWS COAT
Guest at Japanese Imperial Party
Forgets to Take Impedimenta.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. (By the As
sociated Press.) John D. Rockefeller
Jr.. one of the world's richest men,
today confessed he had had to ap
pear before the empress and crown
prince of Japan in a borrowed frock
coat thpt fitted him only "pretty
well."
Mr. Rockefeller, who has Just re
turned from the far east, said he had
been invited to an imperial garden
party in Tokio but found he could not
gain admittance without a frock
coat, a bit of impedimenta it had not
seemed worth while to take along.
Finally Charles Warren, the Amer
ican ambassador, lent him one.
VENEZUELA IN TURMOIL
Anarchy Feared, Due to Illness ol
Dictator of Country.
W1LLEMSTAD. D. W. I., Dec. S.
Chaotic conditions in Venezuela as a
result of the serious illness of Gen
eral Juan Vicente Gomes, who for
many years has been that country's
virtual dictator, were reported in
dispatches reaching here today. Fears
that anarchy was likely to result in
the event of his death were expressed
In the dispatches.
It was said General Gomez had
reached Puerto Cabello, a Venexuelan
shore resort, where it was decided to
take him a few days ago.
HELIUM ELEVATES BLIMP
Virtually World's Supply Used jn
American Craft.
- i
WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 5. Na
val Blimp C-7,the first airship ever
to be Inflated with helium, the non
explosive gaa. arrived over Wash
ington today and landed at the navy
aviation station at Anacostia, a su
burb, for Inspection by naval offi
cials. The hlp left Hampton Roads this
morning and made quick time to
Washington. The C-7 contains in her
huge silver envelope virtually the
world's available supply ot the new
ias.
America Would be, One of
Parties to Pact.
TENTATIVE TREATY DRAFTED
United States, Great Britain,
France and Japan Included.
RATIO QUESTION DELAYED
Delegates Are Thought to Be Con
fcring With Governments as to
Approval of Entente.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. (By the As
sociated Press.) The question of a
three or four-power agreement to re
place the Anglo-Japanese alliance Is
demanding increased attention among
arms delegates while they wait for
Japan to define her position on the
naval ratio.
The latest suggestion contemplating
an entente to include the United
States, Great Britain, Japan arid
France, has developed to the point
where a tentative treaty draft is un
der consideration in some quarters al
though it has not 'been formally pre
sented to the conference.
Conferences Are Indicated.
There are indications that the Jap
anese delegates and perhaps the Brit
ish, are consulting their home govern
ment on such a proposition while they
are asking for further Instructions on
naval ratio.
On the part of the American gov
ernment there apparently is no dis
position to entertain an entente pro
posal, at least at present. Later such
a suggestion may receive considera
tion, provided It includes no require
ments counter to American public
opinion.
Upon high authority It was said
today that the naval problem as it
was referred to Tokio involved no
proposal for a political agreement,
but Is concerned solely with :he
naval and military aspects of the sit
uation. The American delegation ad
heres to its expectation that the
naval issue will be settled without
conditioning the decision on a poli
tical rearrangement.
Cable Blamed for Delay.
Admiral Baron Kato of the Japa
nese delegation said tonight, however. :
that the naval question involved -1
sues of far-reaching effect upon the
national and International life of
Japan and upon, the policies of great ;
powers for decades to come and per- !
hape permanently. These Issues, he
said, should be brought to the full
knowledge and consideration of his
government.
The delay In presenting Japan's def
inite position on ratio, he declared.
Is due wholly to the difficulties of
cable communication and the desire
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' i of Rations and
jr Food Wife of
C Walks Home.
A ses 0 y of adventure and dar
ing, o o" rdship and ahcrt rations,
was .,"i gtu to Portland yesterday
trom no farmer away than the Sileti
river, a few miles down the Oregon
coast, by the little gasoline schooner
Roamer, when she arrived, somewhat
battered and shy a few doors and
windows, but none the less staunch
and seaworthy for her experience.
What happened to the Roamer was
(hat she got Into the Siletz and be
cause of a breaking bar could not
get out again. The same storm that
was piling the breakers over the
bar had washed out the bridges and
made the roads connecting that sec
tion with the rest of the world Im
passable. No railroad serves the
town, and while the Roamer lay at
ber dock for three weeks, her sup
r.ly of provisions diminished to the
vanishing point. The citizens ashore
were in 'almost as bad a plight, with
the stock of the one grocery store
taken in a run that resembled an old
fashioned bank failure.
Captain Don Brown, commander of
the Roamer. had brought his wife
with him from Newport, and when a
famine threatened the boat, a family
council was held, and it was decided
that Mrs. Brown should go home, and
she did afoot, over 20 miles of beach.
A few guns of various types were in
the possession of the Roamer's crew,
and armed with these they went out
and killed ducks for the ship's mess.
After three weeks of this living,
with the larder empty and no more
food to be had. the bar was breaking
as badly as ever, but Captain Brown
determined to take a chance and make
a run for the sea. This was last
Saturday morning. Timing his de
parture to take advantage of the flood
tide, which would give the deepest
water and the least current at the
river mouth, he cast off his lines and
headed for the Faciflc ocean and
PBrtland..
As the Roamer paused before the
first line of breakers, to pick a smooth
one, the current of the flooded Siletx
river carried her bodily Into the dash
ing foam. One big comber struck
the vessel on the quarter, swung her
about like a corfc and hurled her
broadside into the trough of the next.
The sea broke entirely over the ves
sel, broke in doors and port lights,
flooded bunks and floated out the
cabin furniture, but the little ves
sel's hatches were tight, and she
bobbed up again with her gas engine
kicking will all its 75 horsepower.
Catching the next breaker on her
bow, she rode cleanly over It and
reached deep water and safety. Yes
terday afternoon she was placidly
loading lumber In the slip at mu
nicipal terminal No. 1, just ahead of
the big liner West Kader, which
towered above her like a church be
side a pawnship.
The Oregon-Pacific company, which
operates the Roamer, was negotiating
yesterday afternoon for a charter on
the gasoline schooner E. L. Smith,
another vessel of about the same
size, to carry a cargo of 100 tons of
much-needed foodstuffs to Siletz.
Crew Runs
Hunts Bi'
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All Tliut Remains to Be Done Is to
Find Scheme Acceptable to
France and Britain.
PARIS, Dec. 5. (By the Associate
Press.) Germany will probably bo
granted a three years' delay In her
cash Indemnity payments, the Asso
ciated Press Is informed from the
most reliable sources.
Negotiations are going on between
reparations officials of France and
Great Brlta'n, and responsible offi
cials of both countries virtually agree
that Germany mutt be given a breath
ing spell.
All that remains to be done Is to
work out a scheme acc ptable to both
countries.
The suggestion of a three-year
moratorium has been abandoned at
the solicitation of France. The
French representatives explained that
the word moratorium was offensive
to the French people in connection
with the indemnity, as it was under
stood to mean complete suspension of
all payments.
The greatest progress has been
made in the last few days in bring
ing the French and British viewpoints
together; the result of this progress
has been the decision to give Ger
many a chance to regain a normal
status.
The reparations holiday cannot be
used by Germany as a means of evad
ing all future payments. French offi
cials explain that it is being consid
ered so that Germany will be better
able, after two or three years, to
fulfill her reparations obligations
and she must then be prepared to pay
in full ''a reasonable indemnity."
The whole problem will be for
mally placed before the reparations
commission when the German reply
to the last reparation note is received,
probably late this week. In the mean
time, the officials are working hard
to reach a common plan of action.
Numerous suggestions are under con
sideration. ,
One receiving considerable French
support Involves a written'guarantee
by Germany that:
The budget will be balanced.
No capital shall be exported to for
eign countries.
There shall be no policy of retain
ing capital in foreign countries.
There shall be ho policy of retain
ing capital in foreign counties.
The raising of a loan, a portion of
which is to go to the reparations
commission.
Continuation and probable increase
durinrg the delay of payments in kind.
Such a plan would set up an allied
cqntrol commission In Berlin fo super
vise budgetary reforms and have
broad powers to effect other finan
cial changes.
It is declared there are no longer
any Insurmountable differences be
tween the two countries on repara
tions policy.
The Associated Press is informed
that the supreme council probably
will consider the new situation at a
meeting to be held in five or six
weeks, when France probably will
make a formal demand for a new
distribution of the first billion 'of
the indemnity paid last August.
American observers are strong sup
porters of the plan to grant the de
lay: they have advocated such amove
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t
REPUBLICANS SHOW CONCERN
President Seems Reluctant to
Intervene.
LEVERAGE MAY BE USED
Members of Both Branches Anxious
to Edge in I'nder Mantle of
Executive's Popularity.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright. 1821, by the New York Evening
Post. Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 6 (Spe
cial.) The most important aspect of
the present session of congress Is not
President Harding's speech and not
the immediate programme for the
present month. It Is, rather, the con
cern felt by republican leaders, within
and without the administration, about
the way in which the republican house
and senate have gotten completely out
of hand, the determination of the
republican leaders to do something
about It and the efforts they are mak
ing now In that direction.
When they get down to considering
ways and means the mcst Immediate
and obvious device thm occurs to the
leaders is to-tnersuad: Mr. Harding to
take the leadership of congress him
self. This the leaders have done and
arejjoing. The president. If he chose,
cculd assert leadership oer the re
publicans in the house atd senate and
reduce them to party discipline within
20 hours. In any one of the several
cases In which both the senate an I
the house flouted then republican
leaders and did what the leaders didn't
want, Mr. Harding could have pre
vented that outcome if he had wanted
to. But Mr. Harding has never seemed
to care 'to do what Wilson and Roose
velt were willing to do and frequently
did do.
Hardline 1'rced to Intervene.
President Harding could have sent
for leaders and members of the house
and senate himself, and he could have
sent members of his cabinet to 'labor
with senators and representatives. If
he had chosen to do that he could
have had his way on every bit of
legislation that has come. He can
still do It if he chooses to. Many
republican leaders are urging him to
do it now, and have hopes that the
president will take command during
the new sessions. This hope does not
lie in anything Mr. Harding has said
or done. Whether he has any crystal
lized Intention of taking command no
person can tell. But that he could if
he wanted to admits of no question.
It is frequently said by the cynical
that a president can exercfee control
of the senate and house as long as he
has important patronage to bestow,
and that it a president doesn't en
tiench himself during the first yeur
by the use of his patronage he is not
likely to be able to take control later.
In the present case, Mr. Harding still
has a good deal of patronage which
he could use as a lever if he felt
like It.
Popularity May Be Leverage.
Further than that, in the present
case, Mr. Harding's capacity to make
himself leader restB on a different
"basis. He is popular throughout the
country. The senate and house are
rot popular. The members of the
senate and house know this because
thgy have Just returned from vaca
tions in which they found out how
their constituents are feeling. The
public makes a clean distinction be
tween the republican president and,
on the other hand, the republican
house and senate. Mr. Harding could,
if he chose, use his personal popu
larity as a leverage to lead the house
and senate.
The republican house and senate
would like 'very much Just now to
edge in under the mantle of Mr
Harding's personal popularity. With
in a very few months the entire mem.
bership of the house will be up for
re-election in primaries and within a
year they'wlll all be up at a general
election. The same is true of one
third of the members of the senate.
A republican senator or representa
tive running for re-election can have
hardly any asset sp great as the
president's approval. Very soon now
there will be calls from republican
senators and representatives for the
president to write letters In their be-,
half or to visit their states and smile
upon them before the voters.
I surmise that Mr. Harding will do
a good deal of thinking before he as
sumes leadership over congress. At
the same time, the greater likelihood
is that he will come to it. When Mr.
Harding as a senator used to criticise
dictation from Wilson in the White
House, he wasn't, as a good many
others were, merely grabbing any
brtck that was handy to throw at a
democratic president. Mr. Harding
really meant it. He was deeply dis
turbed over its possible effects on our
form of government.
HardlnK Reluctant to Act.
The president is tenacious of ideas
that lodge in his mind through his
own processes of thought, and 1t will
cause him much concern if he has to
take the attitude toward congress
that Wilson and Roosevelt did. It is
iCeoiudeU u- Vao t. Ceiuma 3.1
Nine Meet Death When Wuve Over
turns Craft as It Is Running
for Columhiu River.
MARSH FIELD, Or.. Dec. 5. (Spe
cial.) While running for the Colum
bia river the tug Sea Eagle with the
schooner Ecola In tow. was swamped
by a huge wave, overturned and sank
with all on board. The accident hap
pened the morning of November 25
at 11 o'clock. There was no oppor
tunity to save members of the crew,
for they went down with the over
turned craft. There were nine mem
bers of the crew. A few minutes
after the accident the crew of the
Ecola severed the steel cable on ob
serving there was no chance that the
Sea Eagle: would right herself. She
was beneath the surface and nothing
in sight.
Cap'Mn H. C. Lund could not be
seen tonight, as the landing of the
Ecola at the Smith dock took a nuch
longer time than expected, owing to
the narrowness of the channel at the
dock.
Members of the crew talked from
the craft In the darkness and gave
what information was gathered.
The Ecola was out 43 days from
Honolulu when she docked here to-
night and 21 days off the Oregon : hoUM workerSi unlon official, an
coast after coming up to this harbor. nounred 41,000 workmen In parkin
or near it, during the storm. .houses were on strike, while spoke.
The Sea Eagle picked the Ecola up I men f(Jr the packers a.ss,.rted that
on the morning of November 19. off chicaKO plants w,re operating with
Cape Blanco, and was on ooos o
the next morning. Considering the
bar too rough for entrance, the Sea
Eagle set out for the Columbia river
with the Ecola in tow.
She had proceeded north in the
storm, which became fiercer during
the night, and was oft Yaqulna when
overwhelmed by the great comber.
First Mate Alne L,angiuna saia averaging 10 per cent had been de-
Ecola had had a severe time during I ( i(i(.d 0 b). pant assemblies, com
the last two weeks, excepting within ! pollt.a of representatives of employ.
the last five days. lnelr sail was.
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smcuueu ttiiw jiik4k.ii ji h .v.... - .
patched and made the best they could
out of their tattered canvas and came
down the coast in reasonable time.
There are 14 men on board the
Ecola, none of whom are residents
of the Pacific coast except Frank
Johnson of Portland. All are well
and there were no accidents on board
during their two weeks ot drifting
with the storm.
Quarantine Officer Keiber of North
Bend went aboard late this evening
and found things all right as far as
the health of the crew was concerned.
ALIENS TO BE PROTECTED
Nationalists Threatening Revolt in
India ls-ue I'roelamntion.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 5 A
proclamation has been Issued by na
tionalist leaders in India calling on
loyal natives to assist In protecting
all American and European non
combatants ''during the revolution
expected to break over India jils
month."
This Is according to Information
received by N. Ghose. director of the
American commlssloh to promote
self-government in India.
STORM HEADED THIS WAY
Dlsturbnnce Off Vancouver Island
Working Bouthmnlw nrd.
SAN FRANCISCO Dec. B. Wash
ington and Oregon are expected to
be visited tomorrow by a storm now
centered off Vancouver Island, ac
cording to San Francisco weather
& i t .. 1 .
oureau
Storm warnings for Oregon and
. . ,.., ,1,1.
Washington, ordered hoisted this
, " .
morning, were still up tonight.
1 . .
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Weather.
YESTERDAYS RlRhest temperature, 51
degrees; lowest, 32.
TODAY'S Kaln, southerly winds.
Foreign.
Germany may get more time to pay.
Page 1.
Sinn Fein and British agree. Page L
Tariff big Issue In Canada. Page 2.
National.
Oregon needs provided for In budget Just
submitted to congress. Page 2.
Dogging of workers by strikers barred by
United State supreme court. Page S.
Harding asked to leatf congress. Page 1.
Congress convenes after ten-day adjourn
ment. Page 2.
Four-power alliance' Is being considered.
Page 1.
President denies yielding at Parls Page 5.
Chinese delegate tto arms parley quits In
proletat Inaction. Page 14.
IMimestle.
Cther cases grow out of trial of Arhuck'.a
on manslaughter charge. Page 3.
21 killed. 25 hurt when two trains collide.
Page 1.
41.000 packing house employes on strike.
Page X.
Pacific Northwest.
Tag Sea Essie swaisped and all of crew
drown. Page 1,
rnntv indites for laws to save roads.
- Page 7.
Death 'threat charged to youth. Pare 1.
Bport.
University of Oregon students revive plan
for director of athletics. Page 12.
Freddie Williams, eastern righter, says
boxers of both coasts are classed about
alike. Page 12.
Sportsmen ot. state mar organize. Page 13.
Babe Ruth suspended and fined t3302.
Page 12.
Commercial, and Marine.
Export demand fSr wheat still lacking
in coast markets. Page 21.
Southwestern pressure weakens wheat at
Chicago. Page 21.
Governmert bonds advance to highest
prices of year. Page 21.
Deertleld takoa on froien stuff here.
Page 20.
Portland and Vicinity.
Cut in city employes pay voted down.
Page 1L
Sileti river trip filled with adventure.
Page L
Hoad costs figured for bus regulation.
Page 10
Rate hearing held here In behalf of Inter- '
aula cummerce iVjjuuusiua. Pago 14.
Many Idle Are Reported
Seeking Chicago Jobs.
ST. PAUL FIGHTERS INJURED
Commission Men and Pickets
Clash; Several Hurt.
ONE TRAIN IS HALTED
Three Hundred Btrlke-BreakeM
Arc Forced to Take to Flight.
Walkout Declared Success.
CHICAGO, Dec. E. (By the Asso-
ciated Press.) At the close of ths,
firsf rinv of tlitt .Irlkn of mifklnfif
full forces while plants In other cen
ters all continued work.
Twenty-nine thousand workers out
side Chicago responded to the strike
call, according to a statement by Den
nis Lane, secretary uf the Amalga
mated Meat Cutterr and Butcher
Workmen of North America, which
called the strike after a wage cut
and workers
'
1J.OOO Iteportrd Out,
More than H.OuO workers employed
by the big five packers here walked
out, Mr. Lane said. Spokesmen for
the "big five" gave figures to show
that only about 1000 men were out In
these plants, while the number on
strike In independent plants was
given by packing officials as about
the same number.
According to Mr. Lane approxi
mately 28 per cent of the Chicago
workers reported for work today. "I
am satisfied that tomorrow will see
the packing extabliK-hments closed
tight hecauce this element will Join
the majority" he said.
Four independent packing concerns
here and two outside the city, settled
with the striker! today, he Maid.
Mini) Aunllrantn In Line,
According to te packers two" men
were waiting for every Job vacant
and men were being hired to fill the
strikers places. The strike has caused
meat prices to t rise here, Russell
Poole, secretary of the city council
high cost of living committee, re
ported. There was no violence here but at
St. Paul several persons were slightly
injured when commission men clashed
with pickets, while early In the day
a train carrying 300 strike breakers
was stopped and the occupants forced
to flee.
At Oklahoma City superintendents
of "the packing plants said about 700
men failed to report for work. Union
men said 1000 workmen were out.
Union officials at Omaha declared
the walkout was "practically 100 per
I cent," while packers estimated that
I from 40 to 75 per cent were working.
1 At St. Joseph, Mo., the packers as-
serted only 25 per cent of the men
1 . ,.. ,. malli ,h
1 were out. Union officers saia tne
'
number was 60 per cent,
j
j All In Denver Strike.
Practlvally all employes of th
Denver packing plants were striking,
company officials admitted and to
night an order was issued In district
court demanding that the workmen
return to their Jobs pending investi
gation of the dispute by the Colorado
Industrial commission.
Union officials at East St. Louis
said 20O0 of 2500 employes were out
on strike while packing company
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OREGON TIMBER RE
SOURCES TO BE
FEATURED.
Among many other impor
tant subjects, the wonderful
timber resources of Oregon
will be featured in the annual
edition of The Oregonian, to I
be issued January 2. I
The last great stands of
virgin forests in this country
are on Oregon and Washington
!soil. A review of the year's
activities in this premier in- Z
idustry, a statement of its sig
nificance to the future of the
commonwealth and its vital
. bearing on the prosperity of
4 the community will be set forth
in captivating fashion.
:
Other articles will tell of he
industrial development of our
timber, how reforestation is
being conducted to provide
! against future "tree famine"
and how the vast reserves are
! guarded from the fire menace
. by the latest and most modern
I appliances with four pages of
illustrations and text and cover
in colors.
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