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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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MARCHING INVADERS TO GO
HOME OX TRAIN.
Descent In Force Started on Logan
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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
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