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Section nel Mlf fitM- lAiMMmT I 98 Pages Seven Sections vol. xxxviir no. Knter4 at Portland (Oreren) Potofffre an Scond-CVii Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY XING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS. pagesito24 r wwwu mmm wumiiwuu 3G. BOLSHEVIST PERIL HELD UP BY WON President Gives Warning if Treaty Is Delayed. WORLD IS DECLARED UNEASY Suspense- Checks Solution of . Problems, Is Assertion. FLOWERS RAIN FROM SKY Airplanes Drop Blossoms on Train 22,500 Auditors at Kansas City and Pes Moines. TES MOINES. la, Sept. 6. A possi bility that bolshevism may spread in threatening proportions to the .United States unless the peace treaty is rati fied promptly was suggested by Presi dent Wilson in an address here to night. The whole world "was waiting un easily, he said, while the poison which had wrecked Russia was spreading among peoples who did not yet know what guarantees there were to be for liberty in the new world order. Labor and capital In the United States, he asserted, could not proceed intelligently with their settlements, nor could great problems like the railroad situation be solved while the suspense continued, Mr. Wilson defended the Shantung provision of the treaty and said the league covenant section referring to the Monroe doctrine had been inserted to "give the Monroe doctrine right of way in the western hemisphere." He declared his conviction that it would do so. Vast CoItiM-am Killed. Making his second address of the day, the president spoke In the. Des Moines coliseum, said to seat 7500. Every chair was taken and many were standing. Earlier in the day he had spoken at Kansas City, Mo., mure than 300 miles away. ' ' ' - An escort of airplanes dropped flow ers on the president's special train as it approached the city, and te was cheered during an automobile ride through crowds that packed the down town streets far out beyond the curb. When he entered the coliseum he was cheered again. Peace Delayed, fmjm Wilson. The meeting was opened with an In vocation, and Mr. Wilson was intro duced by J. B. Weaver, president of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, who spoke on the "outstanding figure in the life of the world today. Mrs. WllBon sat on the platform. Describing the world as "desperately in need of the settled condition of peace," the president said the United States, the last nation which the world expected to have to wait upon, was de laying the coming of peace. The treaty, he said, not only would establish peace, but it would end for ever the rule of a few men over the destinies of the many. Bolshevistic PoImi Feared. Citing what had happened in Huron with the rise of bolshevism, Mr. Wil son said the move of radicalism and disorder was spreading on a reaction. "Do you honestly think that none of that poison has got into the veins of this free people?' he asked. "Men look you calmly in the face in America and tell you they are for that sort of revo lution." So long as the question is open of what kind of peace the world was to have and what guarantees were to be (Concluded on Pas 3. Column 1.) ATCH QVT It was TE.POvT T. THfVT OLD rylAMrFLV)"Hv DEEN.SEEU LEGION WAGES WAR ON EMPLOYER OF SLACKER MANAGER . OF FISHERMEN'S UNION AT ASTORIA ATTACKED. Dismissal of Thomas Nelson From City and Stale Tosts Asked When Disloyal Alien Is Protected. ASTORIA. Or.. Sept. 6. (Special,) In continuance of its fight to rid the community of slackers and disloyal aliens, and with a determination to in augurate a campaign against all who block Its efforts, Clatsop post, American Legion, today launched a fight against Thomas Nelson. manager of the Union Fishermen's Co-Operative Pack ing company.. Kelson is said to have refused to com ply with the legion's request to dis charge Hannes Fritzjof Huttula, a man to whom admission to citisenship was denied In the circuit court because he said he would not support the United States government. The legion today sent a communica tion to the city school board, asking it to demand Nelson's resignation as a member of that body. Letters were also sent to the chamber of commerce, Span ish War veterans and Klwanis club, asking them to make a similar request to the school board. Another communi cation was sent to the Y. M. C. A. ask ing that Nelson be requested to resign as a member of the board of directors of that body. These letters say In part: "Nelson has stated before our post he believes such people as Huttula ought to receive employment and help earn a living- while they are in this country. He has admitted that when Huttula was employed it was known he tried to evade military service on the ground that he was an alien and was unwilling to fight for this country. The American Legion believes that this attitude toward slackers will meet with the instant disapproval of all Ameri cans." In addition to the above, the legion today sent a letter to Governor Olcott calling upon him to demand Nelson s resignation from the state pilot board and every post of the legion in .the state has been requested to make similar request of the governor. The letter to Olcott says that Huttula was tried on a charge of perjury before a federal court Jury which recommended that he either be deported or drafted into the army. Officers of the legion say they have nothing against Nelson personally, but they cannot wage a successful fight against slackers so long as heads of Industrial firms are willing to furnish the slackers with employment. HOGS CAUSE OF LAWSUIT Title to Two Porkers to Be Decided in Circuit Court. SALEM. Or.. Sept. 6. (Special.) To establish title to two porkers is a task that confronts Judge G. G. Bingham in the September term of the Marlon county circuit court, which- convenes here next week. On June 12 George W. Eyre, vice-president of the United States National bank here, brought suit in Justice court against Edward Berry to recover possession of the hogs, al leging that they were held illegally by the defendant. Justice Unruh decided In favor of the defendant. The plaintiff has appealed the case to the circuit court. GIRL LOOKOUTS RETURN School Teachers Find Locating For est Fires Pleasant Work. EUGENE, Or., Sept 6. (Special.) After a season spent as forest fire look outs on the high peaks of the Cascades east of Eugene, Miss Dorothy Andrews and Miss Martha Andrews, sisters, have returned to the city and are preparing to teach school this fall and winter. Miss Dorothy will be principal of the schools at Wendling and Miss Martha will teach at McKenaie Bridge, near where she was on duty as lookout. The young women say they have en Joyed the work. WATCH vOG AGAVvA DISQUE'S METHODS CALLED WASTEFUL Construction of Yaquina Bay Railway Attacked. EXPERTS IGNORED, THEY SAY Biggest Spruce Stands Held to . Have Been Passed Up. BENSON PROBE IS TARGET fort land Lumberman's Investiga tion Is Declared by Loggers to Have Been Superficial. That the north and south spruce lines of thj government, in Lincoln county, are not properly located for the tap ping of the larger areas of spruce, and that in the unprejudiced Judgment of lumbermen and residents of Lincoln county the two lines should never have been built, was testimony given yes terday before the congressional com mittee on aircraft expenditures, at Its Portland sessions in the federal build ing. General Brice P. Disue, former head of spruce production and commander of 28,000 men in the spruce division, now president of G. Amsinck & Co., of New York, concluded his testimony at noon, and will not be recalled unless some point arises that reauires his elucidation. General's Testimony Contradicted. George M. Hall, Walter E. Ball and B. Gildner, all residents and practical timbermen of Lincoln county, prac tically controverted, by the trend of their testimony, the assertions of Gen eral Disque and his associates with re spect to the construction of the Yaquina Day spruce logging roads. They testified that residents and business' men of Toledo earnestly and patriotically seeking to show the spruce corporation the proper road to the great blletz basin of spruce timber, contain ing approximately 550,000,000 feet of spruce, were set aside by General Disque and his staff, their - optnlons disregarded and their evidence uncon sidered. Engineers Said to Approve. Against these contentions stands the testimony of General Disque, who has asserted that the construction of the north road from . Yaquina bay, to tar the spruce on the western slope, had the approval of six out of seven engi neers who were sent by his office into Lincoln county. The building of the southern route from Yaquina bay w$ rendered imperative, according to Gen eral Disque's testimony, by the neces sity for reaching the Blodgett tract of spruce. By building to the Siletz basin, north of Toledo, a maximum distance of 20 miles, the Lincoln county witnesses tes tified that a stand of spruce ranging upward from 550,000,000 feet could have been reached, whereas the combined mileage of the' north and south roads, as nuilt by the spruce corporation, more than doubled this distance and afforded a lesser supply. Benson Investigation Criticised. Walter E. Ball, former assessor of Lincoln county, familiar' with timber lands' and the topography of the country, testified that Amos Beason, Portland- tlmberman, when sent by General Disque to inspect the route ad vocated by Toledo business men, did not make a thorough investigation and left for Portland before the local com mittee had opportunity to present in- (Continued on Page 10. Column 1.) THE WEEK'S INDEX OF;-vvS NEWS ' si . eat her. TESTER t) a " .xlmum temperature, 63 degrees; .mm, 56 degrees. TODAY'S She -vers; gentle westerly winds. Foreign. Traffic on Danube ia resumed. Section 1, page 7. France and England are at odds over Syrian mandate. Section 1, page 1J. National. President apathetically received on tour. Sec tion 1, page 1. Senator Norris challenges president to prove statements on Shantung deal. Section page 2. Burleson accused by ousted official of d bauching civil service. Section 1, page jDomeMtic. Kansas City turns out to hear president, Section 1. page 3. Two nations honor Lafayette on 162d birth day anniversary. Section 1, page 6. Armed men call off attack on West Vir ginia mine. Section 1. page 1. President warns of bolshevism as peril in delay of ratifying treaty. Section page 1. Pacific North went. Idaho republicans to oust democrats. Sec tion 1. Da.ee 8. Vancouver, B. C, preparing to receive Prince of Wales. Section 1, page s. Shriners make merry in merry La Grande. Section 1, page 11. Astoria legion wages war on employer of disloyal alien. Section 1, page 1. Astoria gala as warships enter. Section page Is. Prompt action to prevent car shortage in Oregon urged. bection l, page lb. Sports. Pacific coast league results: Portland 7, Sac ramento 3: Loa Angeles 5-9, bait J-AKe 2-4; Oakland 10-8, Seattle 3-4; San Fran Cisco 4, Vernon 2. Section 2, page 1. Goss says Anzacs may visit Portland, Sec tion 2, page 1. Thirty-four rounds of boxing on first bill under new regime, bection 2, page Municipal golf tournament starts today Eastmoreland course. Section z, page , Gridiron season to open. Section 2, page 6. Woman officially recognized as trapshoot champion. Section 2, page 5. High school players are ready for footba season. Section 2, page S. Joe Beckett, British heavyweight, has record similar to Dempsey. Section 2, page . Football interest reaches fever heat at O. A C. Section 2, page 4. Multnomah Amateur Athletic club issues first call for football. Section 2, page 4. Commercial and Marine. Butter production In this territory steadily declining, bection 2, page 2i. Chicago corn traders cautious pending com ing crop report, bection 2, page -6. Stock trading restricted by uncertain labor situation, bection 2, page 16. New Portland-orient steamship line' believed possible. Section 2, page 24. Portland and Vicinity. Disaue is -condemned by witnesses at in quiry. Section 1. page 1. Portland does -its best to give navy men good time. Section 1, page lb. Musician of presidential ship Portland visi tor. Section 1, page 20. Heirs of woman killed by auto fall to get damages. Section 1. page 22. Northwest fire chiefs to see Portland pre vention parade. Section 1, page 22. Multnomah guard reglmen.t to disband to day at Laurelhurst park. bection l page 17. Elite of Shrinedom will attend AI Kader ceremonial November 20. Section 1 page 14. SHOWERS ARE PREDICTED Nearly Normal Tt-uperature Fore cast for North Pacific. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: -' - Northern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions Occasional showers with nearly normal temperatures. Pacific states Fair in south, occa sional showers in north portion; nearly normal temperatures. SUBSTITUTE LIQUOR KILLS Bay Rum and Hair Tonic Kick Is Fatal to Four. JAMESTOWN. N. Y., Sept. 6. Four men have died in Jamestown within the last 24 hours from drinking bay rum. hair tonics and other alcoholic sub stitutes. . In each case the attending physician certified to death as due to "alcohol ism." NEW AIR REC0RD CLAIMED Major R. W. Schroeder Ascends 29,000 Feet With Passenger. DAYTON. O., Sept. 6. What is be lieved to be a new two-man airplane altitude record was set at McCook aviation field today by Major R. W. Schroeder. He escended to a height of 29,000 feet. NEWS AS VIEWED BY CARTOONIST PERRY. A2o "II KVoo frj.TRVP - MAT WHITE WW ONCE MORE ALIGHT Actors Sign 5-Year Agree ment With Theaters. FIVE BIG PLAYHOUSES REOPEN New Equity Association Is Recognized by Managers. "OPEN SHOP" IS RETAINED Broken Promises to Be Arbitrated Before Actors Again Walk Out; Chorus Girls Protected. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The most pop- ulard bird on Broadway today was the dove, dressed in a strange new garment made of olive branches, and en more. there were lights and shows along the quaint old thoroughfare which had been dark and playless for a month. Five theaters opened tonight and many more will throw open their doors Mon day night and early next week. The strike came to an end early this morning. The final papers of agree ment were drawn up and signed tonight by attorneys and representatives of both sides. Although the text was not given out, Frank Gillmore, executive secretary of the equity, and. Arthur Hopkins, spokesman for the managers, told the reporters the main points of settlement. They are: The Actors' Equity Association is now recognized. A five-year agreement was signed. This will expire in June, 1924 at the end of the theatrical season. During the life of this agreement there shall be no strike of actors unless there is a breach of the agreement. There shall be no strike until after the differences have been submitted to arbitration. "Open Shop" Is Permitted. Stage hands or musicians will not ask the actors to go on sympathetic strike during the five years. Existing contracts between actors and managers shall be faithfully ob served, by hpth parties. All striking actors Ehall be taken I back into casts except where the man agers have contracted for other actors in their stead. In that case the strik ers shall be placed in other productions or snail receive a cash settlement, or the matter shall be left to arbitration. All lawsuits growing out of the trike shall be dropped. . There shall be an open shop on the tage. Managers shall make no black lists. Chorus girls shall receive a minimum f 45 a week on the road and $30 in New York. The Chorus Equity asso- iation also comes in for recognition. Arbitration Board to Sit. Disputes between individual actor nd manager shall be settled by a board of arbitration, each side appointing one member and the members choos- ng a neutral umpire. The actors' representative may be ap pointed by the equity. There will be three forms of con tracts for individual actors and mana gers. The provisions in all shall 6e practically the same. All will contain these concessions: The actor shall re- earse four weeks, without pay for a ramatic play and. five weeks for a usical or spectacular play. After that he shall receive full pay. Eight performances shall constitute week. One-eighth of a week's salary (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) ZNOTtttV ! EdPEOPLE APATHETIC ni inurv ui um mimi MARCHING INVADERS TO GO HOME OX TRAIN. Descent In Force Started on Logan a County (W. Va.) Property to Force Unionization. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept 6- F. Keeney. president of the United Mine Workers of America of District No. 17, in a telephone conversation with Governor Cornwell tonight stated tnat the 1500 miners encamped at Danville would call off the invasion of Logan county and would return to their homes on a special train tomorrow. Keeney left Charleston at noon in an automobile in an effort to deter the miners from procscding further sifter a conference with Governor Corn well. CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Sept. 6. Five hundred miners who left Oak Grove this morning to march across the mountains to Coal River, where they said they intended to enforce unlonizar tion in mines, were joined at Racine on the Little Coal River by 3000 more men, according to word received shortly before noon. All the men are said to be armed. Coal operators of the Guyan field were reported to have unloaded yester day a carload of machine guns at dif ferent places in Logan county. W. M. Petry, vice-president of district 17, United Mine Workers of America, said 4000 armed miners were on the march. Petry predicted trouble at Coal River "unless the miners' demands are granted." . He estimated the marchers would be joined by a force of 25,000 men. The march toward the Logan fields followed a big demonstration at Oak Grove, near Marmet', on Cabin creek, last, night. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Sept. 6. At 6:30 o'clock tonight the advance guard of Kanawha coal miners marching on the Guyan valley operations had reached Danville, Boone county, a mile and a half from Madison. Twenty-five-automobiles, loaded with deputy sher iffs, armed with rifles, left Logan with the intention of stopping the invaders before they cross the Logan county line The deputies are led -by Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan county. GANG IN CELL MOBS "PAL" Jailor Beats Off Four Men Who At tack Other Prisoner. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 6. Four prisoners in a county jail "tank" here mutinied today, attacked a fifth pris oner and refused to return to their cells until forced to by jailors. Jailor Doyle beat the four men off the other pits- oner. The man they attacked was being removed from the jail and it is be lieved the four men thought he had been placed in the cells to spy on them. BRITISH AND HUNS FIGHT Leader of Germans Sentenced to Death in Town Near Cologne. COLOGNE, Friday, Sept. 5 Serious disturbances between Germans and British troops at Euskirchen, 20 miles southwest of this city, resulted in a soldier being badly injured. The leader of the Germans, a man named Kupper, was court-martialed and sentenced to death and the town was fined 100,000 marks. GERMAN POTASH COMING iTcn Thousand-Ton Shipment Said to Be First Since 1914. NEW YORK. Sept. 6. A shipment of 10,000 tons of potash from Germany to the United States, said to be the first since 1914, nas been contracted for. Ships have been provided for its transportation by Tarleton Winchester, an official here of the 'Tnited States shipping board, who made th. contract. WALKOUT TO WILSON'S PLEAS Middle Class Staying at Home Everywhere. TREATY RESERVATIONS SURE Opponents Gain as Wilson Speeds From Capital. DEMOCRATS LOSING HOPE Policy of Playing to Labor and Wall Street Angers Those Who Belong to Neither Faction. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Sept. 6. (Special.) It Is vir tually a truism that distance lends en chantment. The eyes of the east ar focused curiously on the west at thhi minute to observe whether President Wilson accomplishes more by his ap peal in that far-away country than h achieved here at home during his per sonal contact with the senate and th people of the east. It will hardly be disputed that sino his return from abroad he has steadlty lost ground in his fight to force th ratification of the treaty without harm to its jokers or ambiguities, and the ground lost during the eight weeks he remained on the job in Washington, which, by the way, is the total period of his presence at his post of duty since last December, is as nothing com pared to what has happened in the three days since he entrained for th Tacific coast. President Still Among Knemles. But what has been going on here will be told later. With the White House on wheels again and traveling west ward it necessarily must be the cen ter of any narrative about the president at this date. Reports which so far have come back from along the route indicate that the president has not yet emerged from the zone in which, as his. opponents would say. he is known and understood. It is not necessary to examine between lines of the dispatches of the most re liable newspaper correspondents of the presidential entourage to see that the "going is not yet good." People Generally Cold. It is significant enough when David Lawrence, faithful friend of the presi dent and representative of the New York Evening Post, strong for the league of nations, writes of the presi dent's greeting at Columbus, Ohio: "He got more attention in that very city seven years ago as an unknown candidate." Robert T. Small, for years with the Associated Press and whose entire newspaper training has been away from partisanship, says in his report of the first day: "It required but one day of travel in the near west to make it apparent that President Wilson in taking the league of nations fight to the people of the country must combat a very def inite amount of apathy." And it must be remembered that Mr. Small represents on this trip the Phila delphia Tublic Ledger, which would be glad to hear from Its correspondent that the president's remarks received unanimous approval along the route. Digressing from his account of the reception at St. Louis yesterday, the same correspondent Bald: "The democrats in this section feel that they need whatever benefit may accrue to the party from the president's (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) 1 2 2 Ki.Ldo,7lO MlitVr HLfUL IN LrVbT MONTHS CN DY AUT05 vs i ... tt-tEVvs Er'l 1 STOP! Look LlSTCN! V vjff vtt7 TO