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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.
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NEWYORKSTUDIES
IN D
KILL!
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SDVIET PROBLEMS
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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.
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SHIP ON ATLANTIC AFIRE
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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