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SectionOne Pages 1 to 24 96 Pages Seven Sections VOL. XXXVIII NO. 41. Ent.rfd at Portland fOron) PORTLAND, xC SUNDAY MORXIXG, OCTOBER 12, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS MARSHALL MAY RACING FLIER TELLS OF FATAL TAIL-SPIN TROOPb MAY UNLOAD LAWS ENACTED TO PUNISH PROFITEERS PRESIDENT PUCES . LONG STAY IN BED LONGSHOREMEN DEFY RIFLE-CARGO ORDER NON-UNION MEN USED ON CON SIGNMENT TO RUSSIA. , KIEL SHIPS IN NEW YORK IEI FIRST LAP GOLDSBOROVGH DESCRIBES FATE OF LIEUT. WALES. WAR DEPARTMENT TO ACT IN LONGSHOREMEN'S STRIKE. PENALTY 2 YEARS' IMPRISON MENT AND $5000 FIXE. oi " "'"' NEWYORKSTUDIES IN D KILL! INT SDVIET PROBLEMS WN Vice-President May Vote Against Johnson. SENATE DIVISION IS CLOSE Californian's Proposal Gain ing Some Friends. FARMERS SNUB LABOR .Northwest Delegations Are to Re turn lo Tliclr Homes When House Takes Recess Soon. OREGOXIAN NEWS BCREAU. TVsshinrton. Oct. 11. With the Inter national baseball championship decid ed, devotees of rood clean sport will turn their attention to the peace treaty. Statesmen. Irishmen, politi cians and pacifists will no longer have a monopoly of the Interest In this contest in the senate. This new clement Is attracted by the latest development as to the John ton amendment which would five the as Great Britain holds in the league of cations assembly. When Hiram Johnson introduced the amendment his Tiew was that he was Injecting a principle, unconsciously, but he also Introduced a horse race. At any rate, that is the way the contest on the amendment stands today. Marshall Faces Trouble. It will be some time before there will be a vote on the amendment, but rough times are ahead for Vice-Presi dent Marshall If he tries to suppress applause In the senate press galler ies, on the day the race Is finished. Friends of the Johnson amendment appear to be a nose ahead . today, claiming that they have 4 votes for the amendment to 47 against. Four republicans are counted today to vote against the amendment, while a week ago the republican oppo- litlon was said to be nine. This leaves 45 republicans supporting the proposal. 43 Democrats Oppose. On the democratic side, there ap pear to be four democrats for the amendment, leaving 43 democratic senators opposed. The republicans who will oppose the amendment are McXary. Oregon; Colt. Rhode Island: McCnmber, North Dakota; and Nelson. Minnesota. Democrats supporting the amend ment, if the present poll Is correct, would be Reed. Missouri; Gore, Okla homa: Shields. Tennessee; and Walsh. Massachusetts. Just now the only question hinges on the position of Shields of Ten nessee, who parted company with bis democratic colleagues in the foreign relations committee on several amendments. If Shields should be lined up against the Johnson amend ment, which looks doubtful, then the vote would be tie. which the vice president in the chair would break by casting the vote, which would mean defeat. Taft Werka for Compromise. - In this event would anyone again say that the office of ' vice-president is of no Importance? His vote would thus save the treaty from re submission to the peace conference. Lenroot of Wisconsin will offer a more drastic substitute for the John son amendment but it will be de- Airman, Himself Badly Hurt, Says Mountain Loomed, Wind Hit Plane and Fall Resulted. CHEYENNE. Wyo.. Oct. 11. An airflight through a snowstorm she suddenly a mountain appeared almos at the nose of the airplane; a sharp turn; a burst of wind that threw th airplane into a tall spin, dashing tb aviators to the ground beneath th wreckage this was the sudden end of Lieutenant Edward V. Wales, kill ed near Elk mountain, southern Wy omina-. Thursday afternoon while eastbound in the transcontinental air race. Lieutenant W. G. Goldsborough, his companion, told the story here to day. "It was terrible to have to stand there and watch him die," he said "Nobody was anywhere around to do a thing for him and all I could do wae first aid work. "We were doing well when all of a sudden the mountain confronted us. Lieutenant Wales turned the machine sharply to avoid hitting the mountain It went into a tall spin and dropped into a ravine. "I was knocked out but came to in a few minutes ana got v aies ouu He was badly cut and bleeding pro fusely. I got the bleeding stopped with the means available and then wrapped him in all the clothes we had. built a fire alongside and went to the nearest ranch for help. "When we returned Wales was dead. He probably was dead when I left him. His skull was crushed and there was a great, jagged hole in his forehead." The aviators were off their course and flying north to follow the Union Pacific railroad tracks in the storm. Goldsborough was badly bruised. He brought Wales body here and later left to take the body to the lieuten ant's mother In California. BIG PROJECT IS APPROVED $900,000 Bond Issue to Irrigate Langeli Valley -Voted. KLAMATH FALLS. Or, Oct. 11. (Special.) Issuance of $900,000 In bonds to finance Irrigation of 18.000 acres of the Langeli valley 30 miles esst of here was approved today at a special election of taxpayers of the district by a vote of 63 to 11. The Langeli valley irrigation dis trict was orgsnlsed six years ago. but' much objection had to be over come to bring the- bond election to a successful Issue. Business Men Realize Situation Serious. INDIFFERENCE IS PASSING Organized Discontent Appears in Many Quarters. - SOLUTION UP TO CITIES Iuterest Being Taken by Nations Leading Business Men Held Most Hopeful Sign. tConciudd on Pag 8. Column 1.) SHIP ON ATLANTIC AFIRE i Wireless Call for Help Is Picked Vp In Boston. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 11. An S. O. S. call from a steamship which reported that she was on fire was picked up here tonight. The steamer, which did not report her name, gave her position as 3:11 north latitude. (0:33 west. The coast guard cutters Acushnet and Seneca were ordered to her assistance from Woods Hole and New York, re spectively. The position given is about COO miles southeast of New York. FAIR WEATHER INDICATED Normal Temperature and Showers Predicted for Week. WASHINGTON. Oct 11. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: Pacific states Generally fair ex cept that occasional rains are prob able in Washington and Oregon, nor mal temperature. By CARL W. ACKERMAN. (Copyright. 1MB. by the Public Ledger Company. Published by arrangement.) NEW YORK. Oct. 11. (Special.) New York may be a city of ostriches today. The big men in 'industry, finance and business may have their heads in the sand of unrest, which keeps piling higher and higher each day. . They may consider themselves mmune to strikes. Many of them are. Thousands of them are so strapped up in plans and schemes to clean up" financially now before the approaching industrial storm that they have no interest in conditions in this city and throughout the nation But. there are two New Yorks. There Is an outer and an inner city, There is the kernel and the shell. this respect, this great city is typical in the United States. There re two Americans the shell, that all of us observe every day, and the kernel, that only a few ljave found. Outwardly, the metropolis of New York, representative American Indus try city. Is hard, callous, " inhuman. Indifferent. unsympathetic ' uncon cerned and "money mad." Heads Buried In Sand. Inwardly, one section of the city is alert, pensive, attention, interest. serious and awake to the signs of the times. Outwardly, the "big men" of the city appear to have burled their eads in the sand, Outwardly, the city seems to be an Ostrich town; but inwardly New York is awakening. On the stage, which the public sees, New York and the United States are Indifferent and unconcerned toward anything which may disturb the tran quillty of business and life, tut be hind the scenes men are at work, studying and thinking. This la the most encouraging Indi cation, the most optimistic sign of the possibility of this city and coun try ' weathering the world industrial storm that I have seen in ten weeks of travel. New York is studying and thinking. One New York is the Inner city, the other New York is hopeless, reckless. Insincere, extravagant and critical. One New York is preparing to meet the worst conditions. It is making plans now. Its motto is "Take care, prepare, lead." The motto of the other city Is "Eat, drink and be mer ry, for tomorrow business may die." Indifference) Leas Marked. Six. months ago all New York and $0-100 of the country were indiffer ent and unconcerned by the possibili ties of an Industrial crisis, which were Just beginning to be noticeable. Today the men who have made this nation a great Industrial and finan cial power are gathering; reports, studying conditions, analysing . the Motor Transport and Labor Battal ions Counted On to Handle 10 Army Vessels Xow en Route. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. Soldiers will be used to unload and reload army vessels at New York if . the longshoremen's strike prevents the normal handling of the ships, Secre tary Baker said today. Brigadier-General Hines, chief of embarkation, is considering the neces sary steps to prevent congestion of military tonnage at New York, and Mr. Baker said' that upon the gen eral's recommendation he was pre pared to order the necessary person nel to the docks. This decision fol lowed the refusal of the strikers to handle army ships now nearlng New York. Mr. Baker said an adequate num ber of men was near New York. A number of companies of motor trans port troops and reserve labor bat talions are at Camps Merritt and Dix, New Jersey, and Upton, New York. The department will follow its usual policy." General Hines said the conclusion of a conference with other officials regarding the situation at New York. "We have approved the award made to the men. If or ganized labor does not now . resume the work army units will be sent to the scene in order that normal progress of our operation may not be disturbed." NEW YORK, Oct. 11. A commit tee representing the striking long shoremen today flatly refused a vir tual ultimatum from the war depart ment in regard to the handling of four freight ships and six passenger ships now on their way to New York. The war department had announced through William Z. Ripley, chairman of the national adjustment commis sion, that it "intended" that the ships should be handled. Mr. Ripley asked the strikers' committee If they would take care of these ten ships, and re ceived a flat refusal. Extension to the coastwise traffic at every Atlantic port of the long shoremen's strike, which has virtually stopped activities in New York har bor, appeared inevitable today. ' John F. Riley, chairman of tne committee directing the strike, an nounced that orders for such an ex tension had been issued following the I Congress Hits at Hoarding and Ex tends Food Control Act to Include Clothing. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Senate and house adopted today the conference report on amendments extending the food control act to include clothing and food containers and providing punishment for profiteering and hoarding. The bill now goes to the president, who asked for this legislation as a weapon against the high cost of liv ing. . Dispute over a senate provision aimed . at extortionate rents in the District of Columbia caused consider able delay in passage of the measure and the section finally was carried through the house under a special rule, the conference report including It, being adopted 208 to 8. Hoarding and profiteering under the act are punishable by two years' imprisonment and S5000 fine. Doctors Confine Wilson for Extended Period. PROBLEMS RISE IN CAPITAL War Expedients in Hands of Executive Alone. DISABILITY ISSUE RAISED TEACHERS" DEMAND RISE North Bend Petition Signed by In structors in 30 Schools. NORTH BEND, Or., Oct. 11. (Spe cial.) Demands were presented to the board of education by the teachers of 30 schools here today for an in crease in salaries of $20 a month, ef fective from the beginning of the present semester. The request was presented in the form of a petition signed by the entire teaching staff of the schools and sets fo-th the need of larger salaries to meet the rising cost of living. The salaries were increased a few months ago by the board of educa tion on an average front $5 to ?25 a month over the salaries paid last year. As no provision was made for funds to pay a second increase It .is not probable that the advance will be granted. Under the present scale the lowest salary paid teachers here is $80 a month. VOTE IS FROM AFRICA Oregon University Alumnus Ballot Travels Far for Election. UNIVERSITY OP OREGON. Eu- O-P n Oct 11 .Snclal l i o- n action here yesterday of the national ! ,,.. ... . .. . ... . . . ....... 'alumni are scattered throughout sev eral nations, but they still retain their laterest In the university 4nd itf the (Concluded on Pace 3. Column 1.) adjustment commission of the United States shipping board,', which refused to grant an increase in .tne coast wise . longshoremen's . scale from .8 ents to (1 an hour. The coastwise longshoremen's strike if made effective, it was stated, would add at least 16,000 to the total num ber of strikers. Employes of all the Hudson river ferry lines and. all the railroad company tug lines with the exception of the Lackawanna struck suddenly last night, tying up the tugs and ferry-boats. FRENCH SENATE RATIFIES Feace ireaty ana Defense Facts Now Up to President. PARIS, Oct. 11 The French senate today ratified the peace treaty and also the Franco-American and Franco- Eritish defense treaties. The vote on the peace treaty with Germany was 217 for ratification, none against, and one abstention that of Senator Delahaye. The vote for the adoption of the ratification of the two defense treaties was unani mous, all of the 218 votes being cast in its favor. Only the formal act of the French executive now is required to bring into effect the second ratification of the three required ratifications by principal allied and associated powers, Great Britain having already com pleted its ratification. aiumnl association .as shown In the returns which Miss Charlie Fenton, alumni secretary, received In the re cent election for council members. It took six weeks for the ballots to reach the university office. The greatest distance from which a vote traveled was from Cuma, Angola, Africa. This ballot was sent by Mrs. Merlin W. Ennis (Elizabeth Logan) '02, whose husband is a missionary. Alumni wrote also from Canada, Alaska and the Philippines. Many of the former Oregon students are now In Washington, D. C, doing govern ment work. Bills Will Become Laws in 10 Days but Democratic Leaders 'Will Block Objectionable Acts. TWO, USING BEER, FINED Astorians Admit Home-Brew, but Deny Knowledge of Whisky. ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 11 (Special) F. J. Desmoers and Jack Weems of Delaura beach were found guilty in the justice court today of illegal pos session of intoxicating liquors. Each paid a fine of $25 and $10 costs. The arrests were made last night by State Agent A. T. Cassidy and Of ficer Entler. who found a bottle of whisky, two bottles of home-made beer and a flask containing a small quantity of raisin wine in the de fendants' home. The defendants ad mitted making the beer, but denied knowledge of the whisky. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Hope that President Wilson soon might regain his normal health and resume fully the duties of his office was swept away today by his physicians, who announced it would be impossible for him to leave his bed "for an extended period." The announcement, made after consultation between Rear-Admiral Grayson and the three other phy sicians, said there had been no inter ruption of the president's slow im provement, but emphasized . that he still had a long road to travel before he reached complete recovery. Although In keeping with the pro gramme of rest originally planned for Mr. Wilson by .Dr. Grayson, the physician's announcement brought home to officials the possible effect of the president's illness on public af fairs and renewed discussion as to what expedient might be adopted should the press of executive business reach a point demanding more atten tion than he could give it. Sitnation Cansea Comment. The disposition on all sides seems to be to refrain from raising the ques tion of the president's disability to act under the constitution, but of ficials are known to have considered it one of the . possibilities of the situation. : ,'! The constitution provides that In case of the presidents -aisaoimy- the vice-president ehall act as chief executive, but therevlr,no precedent for such a transfer bf authority and official opinions are divided as to how It might be brought about should the necessity arise. The physicians' announcement was not taken to mean that Mr. Wilson would be prohibited from sitting up in bed and it was considered entirely possible that he might be permitted to siarn a few important bills and orders each day as his progress con tinues. Four Physicians in Attendance. That will be a matter, however, which those attending him must de cide as time goes on and the dispo sition of officals seems to be to let any question of his disability solve itself as specific cases arise. Four physicians have been in close touch with the patient's condition for more than a week and they were said to be unanimous In their agreement that an extended rest from the worries of the presidency is necessary. None of the physicians would be more specific in predicting the ex tent of the president's confinement, nor would they say whether he might be permitted to give any attention to legislation and other matters await ing his action. For several days Dr. Grayson's pro- (Concluded on Pas 7, Column 1.) Seattle Labor Refuses to Handle Munitions in Compliance With Shipping Board Demand. - SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 11. (Spe cial.) As the result of a final re fusal today by the members of the Seattle local or the International Longshoremen's union to handle the shipment of Russian mission rifles to be loaded on the shipping board steamship Delight for Vladivostok, Si beria, the International Stevedoring company at 1 o'clock today assembled gangs of men not connected with the labor organization to put the rifles aboard the vessel. The Delight is at pier 5. The stevedoring company Is acting on orders from the shipping board to get the rifles aboard the ship. "No longshoremen available for this job," was the sum and substance of the longshoremen's union's reply to the ultimatum served on the organi zation yesterday by the Seattle Wa terfront Employers' union. The ulti matum expired at S o'clock today. The union longshoremen refused to handle the rifles on the ground that the shipment involves a "national is sue." There is no strike or walkout in the regular sense, the refusal to work affecting only the shipment of rifles. The weapons are being han dled by the shipping board for the Russian mission of ways and commu nications.' Five carloads were I switched to pier 5 several weeks ago and there are 35 cars in the storage i yards. Nation Crossed in Less Than 25 Hours. KIEL HAS"20-SEC0ND LEAD Major Spatz Loses Race by Landing on Wrong Field. CAPT. DRAYTON MISSING KOLCHAK CLAIM ALLOWED Russians to Get War Material Cap tured by Germans. PARIS, Oct. 11 (Havas.) The su- i preme council at its meeting today accepted in principle a demand pre sented on behalf of Admiral Kolchak and General Denikine, asking that Russian war material captured by the German army during the war should be turned over to them for the use of their armies. The inter-allied commission of con trol in Germany will supervise the execution of the measure. The council further approved a re port regarding the formation of an international commission sitting at Berlin, which will have charge of the interests of Russian prisoners still in Germany. Aviator Bound for San Francisco Is Somewhere in Desert Between Reno and Battle Mountain. Lieutenant E. C. Kiel, eastbound, and B. V. Maynard, westbound, were the winners of the first leg In the transcontinentai-and-return air derby' yesterday, Kiel landing at Roosevelt field at Mlneola, N. Y., at 6:35:10, and Maynard at San Francisco at 1:12:57 P. M. Kiel landed just 20 seconds ahead of Major Carl Spatz, who had dropped to earth a few minutes before at Hazel hurst field and taken to the air again but too late to be the first In. Spatz had a lead of eight minutes when the two left Bingham on the final lap of their trip to the east coast. - T REDS RULE FRENCH CITIES Flags of Anarchy Are Waving in . Brest and Marseilles. PARIS, Oct. 11. A serious situa tion exists at Brest, where disorderly demonstrations by strikers are taking place.. Four thousand men employed at the arsenal are on strike and they paraded the streets thii morning car rying red and black flags. Uniformed officers have been as saulted by the strikers, who have opened the hydrants in ' various streets, flooding areas in the lower parts of the town. The general strike at Marseilles was renewed this morning. All th traffic of the port is at a standstill, but there is no disorder. 1 DEAD, 5 HURT IN RIOTS Mayor Calls for Help in Suppress ing Disorders. CHESTER, Pa., Oct. 11. Race riots broke out here today. . One man has been shot and killed and five others injured, some of them probably fatal ly. The dead and injured all are white. Mayor McDowell has asked the sheriff for assistance in controlling the situation. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11. First Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, lead ing the field of transcontinental fly ers from both the east and the west, arrived at Presidio field here at 1:12:07 P. M. today, after having com pleted the 2701-mile flight from Mineola field, N. Y.. In the unofficial time of 24 hours E8 minutes and 63 M: seconds. Captain Drayton Mixtng. Tonight his nearest westbound com petitor. Captain H. C. Drayton, was somewhere between Battle Mountain and Reno, Nev. Captain Drayton, flying a De Havlland four, the same type of machine as that in which Lieutenant Maynard made his flight, left Battle Mountain at 3:11 P M. to day, and .at 6:30 he had not arrived at Reno, the next control, 169 miles west. Lieutenant L. S. Webster, in a De Havlland four, and Captain J. O. Don aldson, In an S. E. five, arrived at Salduro, Utah, three minutes apart, this afternoon, the former at 4:09 and the latter at 4:12. Lieutenant Alex Pearson, Jr., in a De Havlland four, arrived at Salduro at 5:22:55 P. M. The last word received early to night from Captain Drayton reported him over Imlay, 150 miles east of Reno, at 4 P. M., and fears were held at Reno that he may have made a forced landing in the desert. Generals Welcome Flier. Lieutenant Maynard, army flier and Baptist minister of Kerr, N. C, was welcomed upon his arrival here by a throng of army officers and others, among them Lieutenant-General Hun ter Liggett, commanding the western department of the army: Major-General O. J. Menocher, chief of the army's air service; Colonel H. B. Arnold, head of the service In the western department, and representatives of the city government. Both Lieutenant Maynard and Ser geant W. E. Klein, his observer, lit erally were pulled from the fuselage of their machine by their welcomers. "It was a great trip; I enjoyed it immensely," Lieutenant Maynard said (Concluded on Page 2, Culumn 1.) CARTOONIST PERRY GIVES PICTORIAL IMPRESSIONS OF EVENTS IN THE WEEK'S NEWS, sir wr .v r 1 1. r- SVAKU OP' WtCK1. VACW TN How oo v6 " v . w r m i r n m a. m 7 y Afcowr t! t: Hv""- I zl Tut VHtiTWlft-lWt J - X V.fvUN 1 4 at