Section One
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92 Pages
Seven Sections
VOL.. XXXVIII NO. 39.
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Pntoffic a? Perond-Class Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORI'-i
SEPTEMBER 28, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WILSON TRIP-FAILS
TO BUDGE SENATE
HELEN TAFT URGES
TEACHERS TO STRIKE
J s.
u -III
PRESIDENT REGAINS
STRENGTH BY REST
REVOLUTION PLOT
BARED TD SOLOfJS
ERYX MAWR PRESIDENT SAYS
SHE WOULD NOT OBJECT.
DCST RAINFALL OR SOME
THING ELSE HITS TOWX.
MR. WILSON SPENDS MOST OF
DAY IN BED.
BRITISH RAILWAY
TRAFFIC TIED UP
Worst Strike in History of
Kingdom On.
FREAK STORM HERE
PUZZLES EVERYBODY
RUNAWAY TRAIN KILLS
TWO AND INJURES 14
LEAP OVER EMBANKMENT INTO
GULLY ENDS WILD DASH.
SHIPYARD STRIKE
CLOUDS DARKENED
Shipping Board Refuses
Increase in Wages.
Nothing Gained for Cove
nant, Verdict.
LOSS, RATHER, HELD LIKELY
Reservations to Treaty Now
Counted Inevitable.
SOME REMARKS RESENTED
"pper House Counts Johnson
Amendment as Pivotal Other
Legislation Must Wait.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU
Washington, Sept. 27. President Wil
son's trip, so abruptly ended yester
day, was all for naught so far as
winning support in the senate for a
treaty without amendment or reserva
tion was concerned. That was the
Ereneral verdict in Washington today.
As soon as he is well enough to re
ceive callers a delegation of demo
cratic senate leaders will visit the
White House to advise him that he
must be prepared to accept strong res
ervations to the treaty or count on its
defeat. He will be told that the
league covenant as it stands has been
losing support every day since his ae-
parture for the west, and that if every
senator on the democratic side were
to vote his convictions not more than
a dozen would go through for the
Wilson programme.
Democrats Have Reservations.
These senators will tell him that
they are ready to resist any reserva
tions that devitalize the treaty, but
that some sort of reservations are tne
only hope of favorable action. It was
learned that at least eight or ten
democratic senators who at nrsi
found no fault with the treaty are
arrying carefully framed reserva
tions around in their pockets which
they expect to offer at the proper
time.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia has
a programme of reservations which
he will give out to the press for pub
lication Monday. Senator Simmons of
North Carolina, always counted an
administration senator, has some res
ervations to present, and so it is on
down the line. Mr. Wilson has not
gained a singl vote in the senate and
has lost heavily since he has been on
the stump. The line has been run
ning against him every day and
whether he can stop it to any extent
on his return is doubtful.
Slighting Talk Resented.
The worst error of judgment made
by the president, however, was in
speaking slightly of the efforts ol
the mild reservationists to secure
some working agreement with the
two extremes in the senate. A few
days ago the mild republican reserva
tionists had seven or eight votes with
chances of adding six more on the re
publican side.
Today there are only four or five
who can be counted upon to follow
Senator McNary's lead for reserva
tions simply clarifying the meaning
of certain provisions of the treatj
and league covenant. One mild reser
vationist said today:
"I am inclined now to vote against
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Move Would Be Directed Against
Public, Which Should Pay
More, Is Statement.
BRTX MAWR, Pa., Sept. 27. Miss
Helen Taft, acting president of Bryn
Mawr college, declared in an address
before the alumni conference in the
Bryn Mawr campaign for Jl. 000. 000
to increase faculty remuneration, that
she wished the professors of the
country would organize a union and
strike for higher salaries.
She said they had a better case
than the ministers. Miss Taft holds
that the faculty of Bryn Mawr and
other colleges are taking the most
reasonable way possible to press their
claims.
She pointed out that she would not
object to a strike as a college execu
tive, because she believed it would
not be a strike against the college
executives, the college directors or
trustees, but against the public which
ought to be made to pay for its edu
cation. OFFICER LIST TO BE CUT
War Department Announces Num
bers for Each Grade.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. Under the
authority recently given to maintain
the commissioned strength of the
army at IS. 000. the war department
today announced the number each
grade will have. The list follows:
General officers, 101; Colonels. 693;
lieutenant colonels, 797; majors, 2717;
captains. 5408; first lieutenants, 5179,
and second lieutenants, 3105.
In order that the officer lists may
be cut to the above figures, inclusive
of regulars, a general reduction in
grade will be ordered. The majority
of the officers now are graded on
the basis of a total commissioned per
sonnel of 200,000.
Designation of officers of the reg
ular army wno will be permitted to
hold their temporary rank will be
made by a board from the general
staff, the announcement said, and all
changes will have been completed
prior to October 31.
CAPT. HARDY FILM STAR
Veteran of Perry's Expedition to
Japan Is Engaged.
To the list of movie stars from this
city will soon be added the name of
Captain William H. Hardy, who has
just signed a year's contract to ap
pear in one-act film comedies put out
by the Cloverio Film company. Cap
tain Hardy is the 84-year-old sailor
who was with Perry'8 expedition to
Japan and was in the civil war.
The first motion picture in which
the. captain will be featured is "Tak
ing His Count," filming of which is to
begin October 1. The film is to be re
leased November 15 and will be ex
hibited in a local playhouse.
Appearing with the captain will
be 7-year-old Georgie Downs, son' of
Mrs. M. Downs, who Is a particular
pal of the old sailor.
RICE OF MILK IS RAISED
Increase by Clatsop Dairymen to
Be 4 0 Cents 100 Pounds.
ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 27. (Special.)
The Clatsop County Dairymen'
league announces an increase in the
price of milk of 40 cents a hundred
on October 1.
At present milk which carries 3.8
. er cent butterfat sells at $3.50 per
hundred, and it is to be advanced to
$3.90. The cause for the increase
is said to be the high price charged
for mill feed.
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OPT"T? .
SON,nA MAN
OYTHTL
MINERS EXPECTED TO QUIT
Transport and Dock Workers
to Join Movement.
ISLAND MAY BE ISOLATED
Channel Steamers Are Likely to Be
Halted Effect on Business
Already Is Disastrous.
LONDON, Sept. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Piess.) The most far-reaching
strike Great Britain has ever ex
perienced is in full operation today.
Virtually all railway traffic in the
kingdom has stopped. Local trans
portation in London and other cities
has been partially Interrupted and
complete suspension is threatened.
Two great railway organizations,
the National Union of Railwaymen
and the Society of Engineers and
Firemen, have stopped work. The
miners' and transport workers" un
ions, the latter of which includes
the dock workers, are expected to
Join them.
The English en an net steamers and
railway boats plying the Irish sea
probably will be tied up. cutting off
England's communication with the
outer world to a large degrree.
The effect on business already is
disastrous. Shops and offices every
where are being operated with par
tial forces. Many miners had been
unable to get to their work, while
the shortage of coal and of supplies
promises to cause the wholesale shut
ting down of factories.
The system of food distribution and
the mail service are disorganized but
the government expects to have them
in operation again without much
delay. - .
Him War, says Times.
In view of the widespread effect of
the movement leading newspaper
like the Times, declare that it is more
than a strike It is class war.
LONDON, Sept. 27. The railway
men's strike, which has Great Britain
in its grip today. Is of a different na
ture from ordinary labor disturbances
because the railways and the mines
are under government management.
Therefore there Is no question of the
government maintaining neutrality
between the employers and workmen.
The responsibility rests for the mo
ment on the cabinet, but parliament
may be summoned to support the
ministry in its task.
LONDON. Sept. 27. "The precipi
tancy of this action gives the impres
sion of a deliberate and matured in
tention on the part of some individu
als to seek a quarrel at any cost,"
said Premier Lloyd George in a state
ment today on the nation-wide rail
way strike.
"It has convinced me that it Is not
a strike for wages or better condi
tions," continued the premier. "The
government has reason to believe that
it has been engineered for some time
by a small but active body of men
who have wrought tirelessly and in
sidubusly to exploit the labor organ-
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CURRENT
WONT REXOMEJ
"Mud . Precipitation," Say Some;
"Lava Shower," Others Suggest.
But Xo One Seems to Know.
"What hit Portland this morning?"
was the popular query heard on every
hand yesterday.
Officials of the weather bureau
maintained that the city had been
struck by a dust-rain storm; automo
bile owners looking at their muddy
cars diagnosed the phenomenon as
a "mud precipitation," and there
were not a few people in the city who
insisted that it was a lava shower.
No official analysis could be ob
tained of the grimy substance that
lodged on every smooth surface in
sight, but there was no difference of
opinion as to effect. Clean, shiny
automobiles were transformed into
machines which appeared to have
just concluded a long desert journey
And when a bit of real honest-to-goodness
"wet" rain hit the gasoline
buggies, they presented a dirty ap
pearance which brought a blush to
many owners.
Housewives who hung washing on
the line yesterday morning . were
forced to rewash. Highly polished
boots and shoes were speckled with
mud and show windows which are
washed three times a week looked
as if they had seen no water for
months.
Dust in the air or forest fire ash
was responsible for the freakish
storm, according to Edward L. Wells,
district forecaster. He said that the
upper air was probably filled with
dust and that it came down with the
rainfall yesterday morning.
Mr. Wells discounted the theory
advanced by some that it was lava
ash, as he said that no eruptions
had been noted for the past 48 hours.
The wind yesterday morning was
from the northwest, discounting sug
gestions offered that the dust or ash
might have como from the California
forest fires.
The unusual fall of dust or ash
did not last long, but before 'ending
covered every automobile standing In
the open throughout the city. Auto
mobile owners who attempted to wipe
the dust from their cars found that
it scratched the enamel and that
washing the cars with the hose was
the only effective way to clean them.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept. 27.
(Special.) An unusual rain today vis
ited Clarke county and when the
small amount of moisture dried, it
left a thin coating of mud. Auto
mobiles coming in from north and
west wer coated with a thicker layer
than those in the city, but here it
was noticed that when it covered the
black pavement, it resembled skim
med milk and when this dried the
coating was a bright gray.
Some believe that it was caused
by a dust storm from the Palouse
country, the dust clouds coming in
contact with the rain clouds, making
a thin mud which was spread over a
great area.
PENDLETON, Or., Sept. 27 (Spe
cial.) Dust storms are not unusual
for Pendleton, but one today has been
a decided novelty. With little more
than a slight breeze stirring, the dust
sifted down over the entire city, cov
ering streets with a decided coating
of fine sand. So heavy was the dust
cloud that the sun was obscured ex
cept for a short time.
BELLBOYS JMAY ORGANIZE
Better Pay Demanded at Leading
San Francisco Hotels.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27. Bell
boys at the leading hotels presented
demands for an increase in wages of
from $25 to $50 a month here today.
The boys also demand the right to
organize a union, it was announced.
NEWS EVENTS AS PORTRAYED BY CARTOONIST PERRY.
Ml c
Leaps Save Part or Crew Going to
Town In Logging Cars to
Pass Week-End.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 27. Two
men were killed, two seriously in
jured and a dozen others cut and
bruised when a logging train on the
May Valley Logging company's road
at Coalfield, & mining town near here,
ran away late today. The train vault
ed over a email embankment at a
sharp surve and rolled into a gully
20 feet below. '
The dead are William. May, 16, log
ger, and Louis Krlchar. 48. engineer.
The seriously Injured are Justin La
zares, 29. and George Grogiani. 50.
both loggers.
Twenty men were said to have been
on the train when it became uncon
trollable, due, according to the dep
uty coroner at Renton. to wet rails.
Some of the men escaped injury by
jumping from the train. The men on
the train were en route to Coalfield
to spend the week-end.
EUROPEAN LINE FORMED
Steam-hip Service to Be Direct
From Vancouver, B. C.
VANCOUVER. B. C. Sept. 27. Di
rect monthly steamship service be
tween Vancouver, B. C.. and Mar
seilles, Genoa and other southern Eu
ropean points, was provided for in a
contract signed here between Count
Fayolle of Paris and representatives
of the North Lilly Steamship company
of New York and the Dingwall Cotta
and company of Vancouver.
The steamships will be operated by
a French company, the Societe Gen
erate de Transports M&ritimes A
Vapeur. The Mont Cents, the first
boat to make the run, will arrive h-.-re
October 20, to load.
JAPAN HONORS W. T. PAYNE
Manager of Canadian Pacific
Ocean Service Decorated.
VICTORIA. B. C, Sept.,27. William
Thomas Payne, far eastern manager
ot the Canadian Pacific ocean Be r vice
a branch of the Canadian Pacific Rail
way company, has been decorated by
the etnperor cf Japan with the order
of the rising sun, third class, in rec
ognition of his services iu connection
with the promotion of international
commercial relations and the Improve
ment of navigation facilities.
MAUNA LOA IN ERUPTION
Rising Columns of Lava Reported
From Hilo Island Station.
HONOLULU, T. II., Sept. 27.
Mauna Loa, volcano on Hilo Island,
burst into eruption today at nearly
the same spot as the eruption in 1916.
Two rising columns of lava or Incan
descent gases are visible from the ob
servatory, which is located at a 4000
fcot level.
The volcano is situated on the sum
mit of Mount Mauna Loa, a 13,000-foot
peak.
EMMA GOLDMAN FREED
Prisoner Under Espionage Act
Starts for New York.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.. Sept. 27.
Emma Goldman, who has been in the
Missouri state penitentiary for viola
tion of the espionage act. was re
leased today.
She left for New Tork.
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LEAGUE.-
NrXTVOUS
WORKERS' PACT INTERCEPTED
Recall of Order Held Only Way
to Avert Walkout.
PRIVATE WORK TO GO ON
Standifer and Columbia River
Plants May Close; Coast Ac
tion Planned.
Strike clouds hanging over the
Portland shipbuilding plants grew
darker yesterday when the shipping
board order that no increase in wages
is to be granted on government work
was delivered to the shipbuilders by
F. B. Pape. director of steel ship con
struction in the northwest for the
emergency fleet corporation. This
order, which Intercepts an agreement
reached by shipbuilders and employes
in conference here recently, was sent
out from the home office of the
emergency fleet corporation in Phila
delphia September 19.
Mr. Tape, realizing the dire conse
quences that were almost certain to
follow the issuance of such an order,
laid it in his desk and telegraphed to
Philadelphia a request that it be re
scinded. It has developed since that
the same action on the order was
taken throughout the Pacific coast,
and that a conference on this order is
now in session in Philadelphia. When
it became evident yesterday that no
recall of the order was forthcoming
immediately from the headquarters
of the .emergency fleet corporation,
Mr. Pape was obliged to deliver the
order to the yards to give them some
time in which to prepare for the new
situation.
Yarda May Br Closed.
Mr. Pape said yesterday that he
till has hopes of hearing from the
shipping board Mondaytiv.it the order
has been canceled. If no stoppage of
the order is received before Wednes
day noon. It is considered certain by
both employers and employes that the
workmen will stop all government
work at least, and it is possible that
the yards may be closed entirely.
The metal trades council of Port
land at an executive session yester
day morning elected its secretary,
Charles F. Kendrigan. as the delegate
to represent shipyard labor ot this
district at a conference to be held at
Tacoma today by labor representa
tives from all parts of the Pacific
coast. At this conference a plan of
action on the shipping board order
will be formulated so that whatever
move is made by the labor unions
October 1 will be simultaneous for
the whole coast. There is no doubt
on the part of anyone connected with
shipbuilding in this district that a
strike will be declared October5 1 If
the wage scale agreed upon by ship
builders and laborers is not allowed
to go Into effect.
Extent of Strike I'lkRomi.
The extent of the threatened strike
is still problematical. It is generally
accepted that all work on government
ships will be stopped. Such action
would mean the absolute closing ot
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Special Train Duo In Washington
This Morning Welcome to
King Albert Abandoned.
ON BOARD PRESIDENT WIL
SON'S TRAIN. Sept. 27. Although
benefited by several hours of sleep.
President Wilson's condition showed
no Important change tonight, while
the special train on which he made
his interrupted tour of the country
was approaching Washington.
Late in the afternoon. Dr. Grayson.
Mr. Wilson's personal physician, is
sued this bulletin:
"The condition of the president this
afternoon shows no very material
change since this morning, but he has
benefited from the sleep and rest of
the early hours of the day.
-GRAYSON."
Remaining in bed nearly all day
President Wilson was said to have re
gained some strength. His train Is
due in Washington tomorrow morn
ing, and he will be taken to the White
House for a more complete rest.
Mr. Wilson sat up a short time
during the early afternoon, but Dr.
Grayson, enforcing strictly his rule of
absolute rest, did not permit his pa
tient to give attention to executive
affairs or to exert himself in any
way. Mrs. Wilson was in constant attend
ance upon her husband, insisting upon
acting as his nurse.
Speeding eastward on a clear track.
the presidential special ran virtually
without schedule, railroad officials
making what speed they could with
out taking unnecessary risks.
As the train ncared Pittsburg, run
ning at a rate in excess of most ex
press trains. Dr. Grayson objected to
the pace and it was decided to slacken
it during the night.
Dr. Grayson issued no further for
mal bulletin, but told inquirers late
tonight that the president was doing
"as well as could be expected."
"He still . suffers from headaches
and nervousness," said Or. Grayson,
"but he has secured a little refreshing
sleep and retained tonic nourishing
food. I believe he will respond to the
simple treatment of complete rest."
Late today the president, on the ad
vice of rr. Grayson, abandoned his
plan to go to New York next Friday
to welcome King Albert of Belgium.
MANY SEEK CITIZENSHIP
Alien- Barred Durlns War-Time
I "lock to Federal Court.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Sept. 27. (Spe
cial.) Former alien enemies barred
from naturalization during war time
today flocked to federal court to re
ceive citizenship papers from Judge
Frank II. Rudkin. The el as was one
of the largest in recent-years.
In the lint of 55 applicants were
the names of a dozen ex-service men.
who were admitted to citizenship with
considerably less red tape than were
the other aliens.
Nineteen Germans and Austrian;,
none of whom could be admitted dur
ing the war, took advantage of this
first opportunity to obtain naturaliza
tion papers.
WIRELESS RETURN ASKED
nouse Resolution Would Give Con
trol of Slatlonis to Owners.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. Chairman
Green of the houee merchant marine
committee introduced a resolution to
day directing the immediate return
to their owners of wireless stations
now controlled by the navy.
Permission, however. would be
granted for the navy department to
permit use of government stations
for trans-Pacific commercial business
until private stations are able to take
care of this eerviee.
Vc TvKn.fcwr or the:
Senators to Seek Real
Motive for Strike.
ACTIVITIES OF REDS EXPOSED
Evidence Places Guilt -Upon
Alien Anarchists.
DANGER SEEMS REMOTE
Steel Company Accuses Labor Fed
eration of Shielding Elc
nients or Syndicalism.
BY CARL W. ACKERMAN.
(Copvriuht. by Public I.edKrr com
pany. Published by irranjtmcnL)
PITTSBURG. Pa., Sept. 27. (Spe
cial.) The United States senate com
mittee tonight was In possession of
important information regarding the
revolutionary aspects of the great
steel strike. This information was
obtained in Pittsburs and. according:
to every indication tonight, the com
plete story of the activities of the
"reds" in the Pennsylvania and Ohio
steel districts will be given to the
federal committee investigating the
strike when it resumes its hearings
on Wednesday.
If Judge E. II. Gary, president of
the United States steel corporation,
does not disclose the information fol
lowing questioning by Senator Ken
yon and show that "moral issues" en
ter into this strike, there aro other
men who will do so. Preparations al
ready have been made for a number of
men to leave this city for Washington
to supply all the connecting links tho
senate committee needs to prove to
the country the revolutionary aspect
of tho steel strike.
AmnThUI.' Artlvlty Kxpoaed-
The expose will give some inkling
of the nature of the evidence which
is to show what the real object of the
steel strike was to be. It shows what
an important part alien anarchists
played in the preparation for this
walkout. Because congress -withheld
funds from the department of
labor, the United States immigration
service has prevented the federal gov
ernment from deporting revolution
ists. 300 of whom are active in the
United States today preaching anarchy
and holshevism. The expose shows
the kind of radical propaganda which
was distributed among the foreign
and American workers. It shows how
close the I. W. W. is to William Z.
Foster, secretary-treasurer of the
American Federation of Labor com
mittee to organize the iron and steel
workers.
Radicalism Is Kotsght.
The most Important development in
the steel strike in the Pittsburg dis
trict today was the step taken by
the operators to resume full opera
tions Monday. "Go back to work Mon
day" page advertisements appeared in
many of the local newspapers, printed
in six languages. English. Polish.
Croation. Slovak. Italian and Hunga
rian. The advertisements say:
"Yesterday the enemy of lincrty
was Prussianism. Today It is radi
calism. Masquerading under the cloak
of the American Federation of Labor
a few radicals are striving for power.
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