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K 78 Pages SIX SECTIONS Section One Pages 1 to 24 VOL. XXXV XO. 47. PORTLAND, 'OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 191G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DOLLAR BUYS LESS THIS MISGIVING Prices of Turkey and Other Items Soar. HOUSE DYNAMITED; ONE KILLED, 1 HURT REVELERS ARE IXTERUUPTED BY EXPLOSION' FROM ROOF. DALV AIDS JITNEYS TO EVADE RULING WEST'S PLAGE BIG ON POLITICAL MAP AUTO AND CAR HIT; GIRLA1ND MAN HURT MISS GEORGIA KILXElt AND BENJAMIN 1CNN VICTIMS. GRAND PRIZE AUTO INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS E FATAL TO 4 RAG K A V BEST BIRDS 10 GENTS HIGHER Fish and Oysters Are Scarce and Market Advances. CRANBERRIES ARE STEADY Potatoes to Cost Twice as Much as Last Year, Celery Holds Firm, v " Olives Quoted Higher and y Mushrooms Are Few. Smaller dollars will be used this year for the Thanksgiving marketing-. In other words, the dollars of bygone years will be considerably Jess in buy ing power, so that they will seem to have shrunken In size. For a dollar will buy considerably less this coming holiday than at any similar period, probably. In the mem ory ot this generation. Some few things remain at about the same level as last Thanksgiving, but most food articles have aeroplaned to new heights and they decline to be displaced from their high perch. Turkeys Are Expensive. All thoughts are fixed upon that grand old American bird, i the turkey, when the Thanksgiving dinner Is men tioned. This is the central figure, or should be, on every Thanksgiving table. Around it may be grouped the trim mings of the feast, but. the turkey Is the star of the piece. Turkey this year will cost real money. The crop is light and right (ow dealers are paying 28 cents per pound in ,the country for good birds and are glad to get them at that figure. Dealers with a good knowledge of con ditions say it looks to them like 35 cent ' turkeys for .' Thanksgiving.,. .and that possibly the price may range up to 40 cents for the cream of the mar ket. Last Thanksgiving time, turkeys sold for from 30 to 35 cents, with the very best birds at the latter figure. Geese and ChickenM Soar. Geese and chickens are also flying high. They are expected to bring 23 cents per pound, good big birds being meant, while last year 20 cents was the prevailing price. There will be plenty of poultry, it is said, for the Thanksgiving market, despite the fact that turkeys may not be in such large supply as heretofore. Fresh meats, say well Informed deal ers, are not higher than last year at this time. Prices will not be changed materially from last Thanksgiving., - Flab Will Coat More. Fish Is scarce and high, so that the earlier course of holiday dinner will also be more expensive than in former years. No. 1 halibut was quoted yes terday at 17 cents, with 15 cents for No. 2 quality. Last ye halibut was selling for 12 cents per pound. Salmon is exceedingly scarce Just now, and it will be expensive unless larger supplies come in before Thanks giving. Yesterday it was being sold for 20 cents per pound, while last Thanksgiving time it was retailed at 12 cents. Oysters Advance ln Price. Those who-affect oyster stuffing for their turkey will pay more for this garnishment than last year. Fresh , oysters, of the native North Pacific type, are 60 cents per pint, as compared with 60 cents a year ago. Eastern oy sters are 50 cents per pint as compared with 45 cents last year. Tinned oysters have advanced 20 per (Concluded on Page 2. Column 2.) Traveling Men From Spokane Among Those Who Escape When Charge Bursts Revenge Suspected. TROT, Mont., Nov. 18. (Special.) John Galworth, age 50, wfcs instantly killed and Timothy Rochford, also 50, cut severely and bruised at 1:30 A. M. today in a dynamite explosion in Belle Sinclair's house. The charge is said by officers to have been set off by some one. supposed to have nursed a griev ance against the Sinclair woman. Several sticks exploded on the roof of the one-story frame building, "tear ing a large hole in the roof and wreck ing the front room.- Galworth was asleep on a couch in this room and Rochford was seated nearby. There were nine persons in. the room. Two girls and two men were dancing. One man was playing a piano-player, another manipulating the drums and another was standing near the piano. A few moments before the dynamit ing was done the Sinclair woman called several women of the house to the kitchen to have luncheon. Two Spo kane traveling men Joined the lunclf party. But for this more would have been killed, as the front room was small. . Sheriff Brown and Coroner Ganpf ar rived a few hours later from Llbby and began an investigation. HUGHES WINS MINNESOTA Complete Official Count Gives Plu rality of 396 Votes. ST. PAUL. Nov. 18. The -nmri.. official vote of Minnesota, announced today by Secretary of Stats .Tnlii.. Schmahl, gave Hughes a plurality of io. The vote was: Hughes 179 Ksa Wilson 179,167. The complete official vnt nr. TTr States Senator Was: Kellogg (Rep.), 185,171: Lawler (Dem.l. 117.B43- r.i. derwood (Pro.). 78,426. Kelloertr'a nln- rality. 67,628. The final complete vote nn Rimrstn. Court Justice: Anderson 152,187, Qulnn 167,348. Quinn's plurality, 6161. PRICE OF SANDWICHES UP Chicago Also to Raise Ice-Cream Sodas to 15 Cents. CHICAGO, Nov. 18. The price of all 5-cent sandwiches was advanced to 10 cents in a string of popular-priced restaurants here today, and a candy manufacturer, who operates confec tionery stores in many cities, an nounced Ice cream sodas henceforth would be 15 cents instead of 10. Increases in the price of sugar and eggs was the reason given for the lat ter, while the cost of bread accounted for the Increased expense of sand wiches. SOLDIERS TO GET GIFTS Well-Filled Socks, With Smoking Material and Candy, to Be Sent. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. Thousands of socks stuffed with Christmas gifts are to be presented to tiie American troops at the border and in Mexico through the Red Cross. Miss Mabel Boardman, head of the organization, announced tonight that chapters throughout the country would be asked to begin collection of gifts immediately, such articles ae candy, stationery, pipes, tobacco and handker chiefs being preferred. MRS. BOISSEVAIN IMPROVES Los Angeles Report Says 111 Suf fragette Leader Still Gains. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Nov. 18. Con tinued Improvement in the condition of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, suf frage leader, of New York, was report ed tonight by nurses attending the pa tient. Mrs.' Boissevain has been dangerouelv ill for a month, since her collapse here during her suffrage campaign. Will of Council Majority Set at Naught. CARS OPERATE SAME AS EVER Special Zone System Created for Benefit of Drivers. POLICE POWERLESS AS YET Runs Made Under Taxlcab Ordi nance. and City Attorney Will Be Asked for' Opinion Tomorrow as to Their Legitimacy. By the aid' of City Commissioner Daly, Jitneys yesterday started oper t ing on their old routes by a subterfuge, which, so far, has evaded the mandate of the four out of five members of the City Council that the Jitneys shall not operate unless they accept regulation in franchise form. The new scheme of operation, while plainly an evasion of the law, has the police stumped. Mayor Albee. who has charge of the Police Bureau, has passed the buck up to the city's legal depart ment. Chief of Police Clark said last night that he is awaiting orders, and there the matter stands, with the Jit neys running as wide open as ever, if not wider open. Law Not Translated Yet. The Jitneys are 'now taxicabs or "taxi-Jits" or for-hire cars or ' for-hire-jits" or anything else you may wish to call them except plain Jitneys The plan of operation was devised by the Jitney Drivers' Union and Is framed so as to come within the strict t - -nical wording of the city's-taxlcab or dinance with the sides stretched out of Dlumb to some extent. Whether the new scheme is really within the taxicab law probably will " e a mat ter - for decision by City Attorney LaRoche. It is expected h- will be asked for an opinion tomorrow. The subterfuge plan was brought to a successful completion when Commls sloner Daly, of the department of public utilities, yesterday morning gave it his stamp of approval. In doing so he threw the regular taxlcab and for-hire car business Into confusion by adopt ing a new system of zones conflicting with the zones the. regular cars have had up to this time. The zones adopted by Mr. Daly yesterday were for the purpose of turning the Jitneys loose. The taxicab ordinance requires & uni form zone system for all taxicabs with the right of the driver to fix the rates within that zone, provided notice of the rates are posted inside and outside the car. Delivery of Passengers Required. Regular taxicabs have had a zone system heretofore, but this now Is thrown Into the discard, and to obey the law strictly these regular taxis will have to post rates in accordance with the Jitney zones. Under the new Jitney plan the Jitney can be compelled to leliver each pas senger to his or her home for 6 cents, provided the home is within the Jitney zones. The district bounded by Second, Yamhill, Broadway and Stark streets Is taken as the common terminal or start ing place. The Jitney moves from this district to the 5-cent zones, -but for service outside those zones charges on an hourly balls of from 81.25 to (2.60 an hour. New Zone Made. There are four 5-cent zones. One is bounded on the north' by East Mor rison street, from the river to East Thirtieth street, and by Belmont from East Thirtieth to East Fiftieth IConeluded on Pace o. Column 1. SOME HICH SPOTS IN THE PAST S ' I .. - ' I V'-cf 7"-V A CC The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 4J degrees; minimum. ( degreei. TODAY'S Fair; slightly warmer; westerly winds. - War. All sides claim victories In Balkans. . Sec tion 1, pace 4. British win ground In Ancre. Section 1. Paea 4. Mexico. Massacre by Villa bandits in - Parral re ported. Section 1. pase ft. ' 1'orelcn. Cologne, Germany, feeds half Its popula tion of Toy. ODD at .charge of 00 cents a week each. Section 1, page 4. National. Portland Is district headquarters for (rain standards. bection 1, page 3. East to get bulk of Navy contracts. Section 1. page 3. President pleads for end of all class feeling. bection 1, page 2. lometlc. Four killed in grand prize auto raca. Sec tlon 1. page 1. Farmers accused of underestimating crops. section 1, page 2. West likely to gain recognition as result of recent election, bection 1. page 1. Sir Robert Borden asks American lawyers to aia in aennlng international law. Sec tion 1, page 5. Helen Keller breaks engagement to wed. Section 1, page 23. Troy, Mont., resort dynamited: one killed, one hurt. Section 1. page 1. Sport.. Washington humbles California, 13-3. Sec tion '1, page o. Multnomah beats Whitman, 6 to 0. Section 2, page 2. Interftcholastlc football season reaching climax. bection 2, page 3. Coast and Northwest conference may be de terred to Uectmber 10-18. bection 1!. Page 4. Ice rink may open Thursday. Section Page 4. Yale shuts out Princeton. 10-0. Section 3, page 1. Roberts is signed by Vancouver septet. Section 2, page 5. Gibbons brothers will box hera December 10. Section 2, page 7. Portland. Seattle and Spokane shoots ar ranged. 'Section 2, page 4. Northwestern beata Purdue. 3S-6, and closes In on "Big Nine" title. Section 2, page 3. Brow a shuts out Harvard, 21-0. Section 2. page 2. Montana overcomes 13-0 lead and beats Idaho, l'u-13. Section 2. page 2. Chicago upsets dope and defeats Illinois. 2U-7. Section 2. page 2. Aggie and Oregon freshlea play scoreless tic. Section 2, page 1. Pacific Northwest. War romance revealed at Medford. Section 1. page 10. Washington election result still puzzles poli ticians. Section 1, page 0. University of Oregon complains of dwindling rivenue aa work grows. Section 1, page a. Strahorn route Into Klamath Falls Is de cided. Section 1, page 7. Election dispute holds Idaho's interest. Sec tion 1. page ,7. Mrs. John Allen says husband shot Lewis Butts In self-defense. Section 1, page 10. Double liability of bank stockholders denied In Yoncalla case. Section i, page . Serloua conditions faced at Salem prison. Section 1, page 10. Commercial and Marine. Higher oats prices expected as result of Eastern demand. bection 2. page 13. Lack of foreign buykng breaks Chicago wheat market. Section 2. pag 15. Wild speculation In copper stocks In Wall street. Section 2, page 13. Oregon wool clip cleaning up rapidly. Sec- tlon 2, page 15. Steamer Norwood engaged to move newa- paper rolls to San Francisco. Section 2, page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Commissioner Daly aids Jitneys to evade Council's order. Section 1, page 1. Dollar buya less this Thanksgiving. Section 1, page 1. "Deserving Democrats" after Jobs. Section 1, page 11. Auto and streetcar collide: 2 hurt. . Section 1, page 1. Vote on negro suffrage Is considered real view of state. Section 1. page 12. Government engineers arrange for stream measurement. Section J, page 12. Officers of Knights and Ladles of Security are coming on visit. Section 1. page 15. Reed students to present two French dra mas next week. Section 1. page 19. Thirty traffic violators appear before Judge Langguth. Section 1, page 18. Winner of charity prize la up to buyers. Section 1. page 14. Livestock show here is expected to ba rec ord-breaker, bection 1, page 17. Muts hold relief plans In abeyance. Bec tion 1, page 14. 150 business men visit Peninsula Industries. Section 1, paga 14. Russian airman in English hospital thanks Portlander for gift. Section 1, paga 19. Roads expected to get ample funds for es sentials. Section 1, paga Zl. Auto accident fatal to Emll FranslttL Sec- lion 1, paga 21. Christie Home fund campaign climax drawa near. Section 1, page 21. Weather report, data and forecast. Section 2. page 7. Senator C. P. Olson enters race for ravel and splits Multnomah delegation. Sec tion 1, page 22. . Lumbermen arrive for conference. Section 1. puge 2. Hughes carries state by 8905. Section 1, page 22. j WEEK'S NEWS AS VIEWED BY CARTOONIST REYNOLDS. East Learns Its Lesson in Recent Election. OLD LEADERS REPUDIATED Refusal to Recognize Section Costs Presidency. NEW'YORK IS ASTOUNDED Belief Is Western Men Will Have Lot to Say in Republican Circles In Arranging Details for Cam paign of 1920. OREGOMAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. Nov. 18. If the recent Presi dential election accomplished nothing else, from the Republican standpoint, it at least put the West on the polit ical map, and served notice on Repub lican leaders that the West hereafter must receive its full share of attention. Failure on the part of the Republican National Committee to give serious at tention to the West cost Mr. Hughes the Presidency, and that lono failure of Itself accounts for the surprising W ilson victory. But the defeat of Mr. Hughes also carried with it another important les son for Republican leaders, a lesson which they might well have learned had they been disposed to profit by the elections of the past six or eight years. West Brfsnr. to Follow Blindly. It made plain the fact that the West. progressive in its tendencies, will not now, any more than it did four and six years ago, follow meekly the leader ship of the old Republicans who led the party to disruption by their efforts to override the Western progressives. So deeply has the lesson of the 1916 election been impressed .upon some Re publicans, that the statement has been made by mora than one that the next Presidential campaign will be directed from Chicago, rather than from New York. This may or may not prove true, but it 'is morally certain that if the Republicans go Into the Presidential campaign of 1930 with a serious hope of winning, they will establish and maintain a Western headquarters under the direction of Western men. inde pendent of New York, and free to act as the demands of the West seem to justify. Work All Centers In Xen York. The Republican campaign of 1916 was directed from New York, notwith standing Western headquarters were maintained in Chicago. New York was all-powerful in running the Hughes campaign, and New York not only planned the campaign In the Kast. but to a large degree, shaped and directed the campaign in the West aa well. The trips of Mr. Hughes were laid out in New York, even his trips through the West; the Hughes train was under the management of a New Yorker, who knew not the West, and who regarded the West as a mere tail to the kite; the advance agent who preceded Mr. Hughes through the West was another East erner who knew nothing of the West, and who entertained the familiar New York view of the Far West. Kast Forced to Pay Price. It Is not overstating the, fact' to say that the men who primarily directed the campaign for the Republicans this year took it for granted that the West, as in the past, would do its duty and support the Republican ticket, and therefore concentrated their efforts on the big states of the East. And in the main, they were successful in' the East. But they paid the price, for the West. iConcluded on Page 3. Column S. Collision Occurs at Vnlighted Corner and Machine Is Hurled Dis tance of Thirty 1'cet. Miss Georgia Kilner. IS years old, and Benjamin Dunn. 22. were Injured last night about 8:30 o'clock when the auto mobile in which they ' were riding col lided with .an Irvington streetcar near East Sixth and Multnomah streets, an unllghted corner. Mr. Dunn suffered two fractured ribs and possibly other internal injuries, as It was with difficulty that respiration was revived when he was taken in charge by the Ambulance Service Com pany. It Is feared the ribs are frac tured near the heart. Miss Kilner suffered a severe gash on the head, among other injuries. Both were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. When the collision came the automo bile, which was hired from Long & Sllva, was hurled about 30 feet. Both occupants were thrown out. . Miss Kilner lives at S74 East Mason street and Mr. Dunn at 440 East Taylor street. Mr. Dunn works for Bingham & Shelly, contractors. The streetcar waa In charge of Con ductor , Matthews and Motorman L. W. Edwards. MRS. J. H. MITCHELL DEAD Widow of Late Senator Kroni Oregon Dies in Paris. PARIS. Nov. 18. Mrs. John H, Mitchell, widow of the late United States Senator from Oregon, Is dead here. She was the mother of the Duchess do la Rochefoucauld. Mrs. Mitchell had been living in Taris with her daughter. Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, for many years. She was living there at the time of Senator Mitchell's death in Portland in 1905. and had been there for several years previously. Prior to that she had lived in Washington. She had not been 'in Portland for nearly 20 years. THIS WEEK TO BE RAINY Moderate Temperatures l'orecast by Washington. WASHINGTON. Nov. 18. Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday. Issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: Rocky Mountain and Dlateau regions Fair and moderate temperatures at beginning of the week, followed by un settled weather and probable local snows Wednesday: fair and colder weather after. Pacific States Unsettled, with gen eral rains in North Pacific States and Northern California; temperatures moderate. CALIFORNIA GUARD IS DRY Colonel Says Order of Prohibition Will Be Enforced to Letter. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Nov. 18. An or der making the California National Guard a dry organization was Issued today by Colonel J. J. Borree, Acting Adjutant-General. The edict, according to Colonel Bor ree. will be enforced to the letter and Is designed to remove any possibility of associating liquor with the state mili tary service. CHINESE WOMAN ROBBED Two Robbers Take $900 and Tie and Gag Victim. STOCKTON. Cal.. Nov. 18. Two rob bers armed with a knife and gun en tered a small merchandise store at Holt early this morning and forced the Chinese proprietress to open the safe. After taking $900 the men tied and a-agged the woman. Machine Swerves Off Road Into Crowd. CAR DASHES THROUGH PALMS Lewis Jackson, Driver, and 3 Others Are Killed. JOHNNY AITKEN IS VICTOR Wilcox, However, W hom W inner Re lieved Midway in Contest, Gains Prize Money and Gels Credit for New World's Record. SANTA MONICA. Cal.. Nov. IS. Four persons were kilJed. one a woman, and three were injured today In the seventh annual International grand prize automobile road race. Lewis Jackson, a Los Angeles driver, on his thirteenth lap. swerved into one of the palm trees lining the course and caused the death of himself and three others and the injury of two. One Spectator Killed. The dead: HAROLD EDGERTO.V. Los Angeles, spectator. LEWIS JACKSON, Los Angeles, driver. L. B. JENKINS, motion picture cam era operator. MRS. LEANA Jl'RATCH, Venice. Cal, lemonade vendor. The injured: JOHN GHIANDA. Los Angeles. Jack son's mechanician. J. S. HANNIG.VN. Los Angeles, spec tator. MISS GEORGIA M CALL. Santa Mon ico.. left arm and right leg broken. Jackson's car uprooted the first palm trae It struck, overturned a lemonade stand, killing the woman. in charge, cruvhed Jenkins against a second palm, which waa broken ofr short, and wrapped Itself about a third tree, much as if the steel were cloth. Klylnsr I-arta of Car Wreak II a roe. In this wreckage Jackson was crushed until his body was practically In two pieces. His mechanician. John. Ghianda. was thrown out and escapr.il dangerous injuries. Kdgerton was struck by flying parts of the wrecked car. He and Jenkins died an hour after they were taken to a hospital. Miss McCall was In a crowd of spec tators near the scene of the accident. She was struck by flying parts from the car. Hannigan also was struck by parts of the wrecked car. He and Ghianda will recover. Jackson, according to course officials, was going at an estimated speed of 100 miles an hour on the St. Vincente backstretch at the time his car became unmanageable. His left front wheel hit the cement curb, which is about li inches high, and crumpled. The axis rested on the curb and the car raced along for 25 feet before it left the road Hundreds See Accident. Hundreds of spectators taw the car smash through the lemonade stand, crushing the woman, uproot a palm tree, smash into the second and pin Jenkins, and wrap Its steel frame com pletely around 'the third tree. The motor was thrown 20 feet, and the radiator and hood were thrown 30 feet further. . , The race was won by Johnny Altken. drivinsT as relief for Howard Wilcox. Wilcox was declared the official winner, and the new average speed record of 85.55 miles an hour for the 403.248 miles of the course will stand In tVil- iConcluded on Page 6. Column . -o A