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Section One Pages 1 to 24 102 Pages Eight Sections VOL. XXXVIII XO. 4G. Entered at Portlamf (Oregon) postoffic1 a- Second-CIas Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS CONGRESS PLANS TO QUIT WORK SHORTLY ADJOURNMENT BEFORE DE CEMBER 1 PROBABLE. OREGON IS VICTOR OVER HARDY Oil POSSES BATTLE REDS AMBUSHED IN TIMBER MINERS "TIRED OF 20 I. W. W. TAKEN IN TILLAMOOK ROUNDUP JAIL IS GUARDED TO PREVENT VIOLENCE TO PRISONERS. SENATE, BRIDLED. RECEDING' LEWIS GETS INTO ACTION FJTSIIiADE KEEPS MAX. HUM- ERS FROM AIDING WOCNDED. RED CUES MURDER PLOT Roberts Describes Fart in Firing on Paraders, PLANS LAID IN ADVANCE Prisoner in Signed Statement Names I. W. W. Gunmen in Attack. DEATH EXPECTED IN FIGHT Weapons and Ammunition Carried to Room in Suitcase. 40 Suspects Examined. BY BEN HL'R LA.MPMAN. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 15'. (Special.) The first release of an authentic signed confession from any participants in the Armistice day murders in this city, when marching ranks of the American Legion were fired upon by members of the I. W. W., with four deaths of e.x-service men resulting, is that of Lauren Roberts, who surrendered himself to the authorities early Friday morning. In a room in the city jail, declaring both his contribution for the crime and his fear of the vengeance of the radicals, because of his confession, Roberts made a complete statement of the Armistice day outrage and named the conspirators that were known to him. At the close of the penciled docu ment he set his signature, "L. Rob erts." The confession was drawn 'forth and witnessed by Robert Jack- ton, Centralia police officer, and G. H. Lewis of Portland, a member of the American Legion. Men Stationed in Hills. "We started planning this three weeks ago," runs a portion of Rob erts' confession. "We expected to all be killed, and we done this with the intention of protecting our hall. I do not think we got orders from the outside." The confession declares that Rob erts, with two other men, one known as Hanson, and the other unknown to him, were stationed on one of the low hills that fringe the town, armed with riflei and with instruc tions to shoot when the signal came. From this point of vantage they sent a stream of whistling lead into the vanguard of the armistice parade. Five shots were his contribution to the fusilade that caused four deaths, confesses Roberts. It is understood that County At torney Herman Allen, and Assistant Prosecutor E. D. Cunningham, have obtained a more detailed confes sion, signed and attested, from Rob erts than the preliminary confession t , i tj i 11 1. i y wnicn ne acKnowieageu on uie mgnt iConcluded Dn Page 14. Column 1.) Kks csovwi-ro shl p Js Wt verier un ' rvvfvr w j is House to Knock. Off on Passage of Railroad BUI and Senate on Treaty Disposal. WASHINGTON. Nov. 15. Tentative plans for sine die adjournment of the present session of congress were made today by senate and house re publican leaders. By resolutions in the two bodies it Is proposed that the house shall be permitted to adjourn upon passage of the pending railroad bill expected next week and the senate upon disposition of the peace treaty. The resolution would give each body authority to adjourn independ ently of the other at any time be tween now and December 3. Before adjournment of the special session congressional leaders agreed tonight to adopt a resolution extend ing to January 15 the government's control over imports of dyestuffs. Without the legislation, according to its proponents, Germany would be able to flood the American market with dyes as soon as the peace treaty has been ratified. REST KEEPS PRINCE BUSY Ten-Mile Walk, Swim, Golfing and Dance Occupy Day. . WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va., Nov. 15. The prince of "Wales spent the first of his three days of rest here by walking 10 miles, spend ing: an hour in a swimming: pool, golf ing: three hours and dancing: for three more. At the conclusion of this pro gramme he seemed to have recovered considerably from the fatigue of his strenuous four-day visit to Washing ton. The prince won his golfing; match, played with Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private- secretary, and again proved his title as an athlete when he turned a somersault from a platform 12 feet high Into saven feet or water in the swimming pool. - APPLES OFFERED AT COST Salem Canner Has Several Car loads for Consumers. F. A. Kurty, a Salem canner. has notified the state dairy and food com mission that he has several cars of apples on hand over his requirements, which he wants to dispose of to con sumers at cot. . Hi. isuis to get in touch v. ith some consumers' organization which will direct the distribution of the apples. Tliey can be sold by him without profit at 1 a box at the railroad yards. Mr. Kurty classes them as good winter apples. BERGER OPPONENT NAMED Ex-State Senator of Wisconsin to Run Against Socialist. MILWAUKEE. Wis., Nov. 15. Ex- State Senator Henry Bodenstab was today selected to make the race lor congress against Victor Lr. Berger, socialist, who is a candidate for re election in spite of the fact that he was denied a seat by the house of rep resentatives. Bodenstab was the united choice at a conference of democrats and re publicans. He will run on the repub lican ticket. LETTS ENCIRCLING MITAU German Diplomatic Staff Said to Have Started Home. COPENHAGEN-, Nov. 15. Dis patches received today say that the Lett troops are encircling .Mitau, where the headquarters of Colonel Avalof f-Bermondt are located. The German diplomatic staff has left Mitau for Germany. Superior Play Results in 9-to-0 Triumph. STEERS SHINES ON OFFENSIVE Defensive Work of Elevens Rated Nearly Equal. THRONG CHEERS PLAYERS Defeat of Cougars by U. of XV. Puts Lemon - Yellow In Running for Coast Championship. BY HARRY M. GRAYSON. HAY WARD FIELD. Eugene. Or, Nov. 15. (Special,) Coach Bill Har- giss' Oregon Aggies had little chance against Oregon this afternoon, when "Shy" Huntington's lemon-yellow squad won the 23d annual clash be tween the two great Institutions, 9 to 0. outplaying the Corvallis team in every department of the game. W ith the victory goes the state In tercollegiate championship and. In view of Washington's 13-to-7 win over Washington State, the varsity is again placed in the running for the Pacific coast intercollegiate cham pionship, although there is some talk of a battle with Stanford. Those two great Oregon quarter backs who differ as does a whale and a tadpole proved to be the biggest thorns In the sides of Harglss' heavier outfit. It was the same combination which played havoc with "Jump" Hunt's University of Washington crew two weeks ago. Steers Bis Ground Gainer. The 180-pound Bill Steers, one of the greatest backfield men in the his tory of the western game, made most of Oregon's yardage up until the time he was knocked crazy as a loon dur ing the latter part of the third quar ter. He was succeeded by the won derful 128-pound "Skeeter" Manerude. the smallest player In the conference, who immediately commenced to run the lemon-yellow players so fast and heady that the Ae-.tB could not get set. Coach Huntington and Trainer Hayward had planned to shoot Steers back in the game for the final period, but Manerude behaved so well that It was not found necessary. ' Better football won Oregon's 9 to 0 victory over O. A. C. on Hayward field this afternoon. To nothing but su perior playing can be attributed the lemon-yellow's success. Huntington's lads carried the ball more consistent ly, -showed better field judgment. made better use of their kicking abil ity and showed a much greater apti tude In using the aerial route to gain ground. Defenses About EqoaL Oregon's defense, while strong In the pinches, lacked punch at times, and the Aggies are to be rated as almost the equals of the Eugene ag gregation in the matter of defensive line work. Greeted by a deafening ovation and the strains of "Mighty Oregon," the Oregon team took the field at 2:50. Steers, trying his boot, sent long high spirals down the field. The Aggies followed three minutes later and got an equally hearty wel come from their supporters. They immediately started signal practice. Hollis Huntington scored the lone touchdown of the game after eight minutes of play in the second quarter (Concluded on Page 20, Column 1.) EVENTS Reinforcements to Be Sent Today From Centralia to Bring Back I. XV. XV., Dead or Alive. CENTRALIA. Wash., Nov. 15. (Spe cial.) Two posses of approximately 20 men engaged I. W. W. fugitives in battle this afternoon near the head of Hannaford creek, 18 miles northeast of -this city. One posse returned late tonight with one member missing. During the exchange of shots, in which the clash In the heavy timber and deep brush assumed the nature of a genuine battle, one man was seen to fall. The posse returned with one member missing, John Haney. Reports vary, several having seen a man fall in the fight, and it is not known whether Haney was struck or whether It was one of the I. W. W. who received the ballet. In the Han naford creek timber near the head waters was known to be the hiding place of at least three I. W. W. who are thought to have been members of the gang which fired on the Armis tice day parade. Bert Bland is be lieved to be among the trio with an other named Hanson and an unknown third member. It is certain that these, says Captain Lloyd Dysart. are the radicals who fought the posses this afternoon. Expert Woodsmen In Posses. All members of these two posses are expert woodsmen and riflemen, versed in the topography of the Han naford creek country. Haney who is missing, is said to have a cabin In that district, and hope is entertained that he did not fall, but became sep arated from the posse and went there. Timber and brush are dense at the headwaters. As the posses reached the danger ous territory they deployed in skir mish order and advanced into the tan gle. ShotB greeted them ana tne posse answered fire. Scores of shots were exchanged and the members of the posse saw a rifleman reel through the brush and fall. Whether friend or foe. they could not determine. The two posses of eight and 12 men respectively, left Centralia In automo biles this morning. The smaller posse is that which returned tonight. Cap tain Dysart stated tonight at 10 o'clock, when word of the battle was made public, that a large contingent of armed ex-service men and volun teers will leave early tomorrow morn ing for the Hannaford creek head quarters to take up the issue and bring the fugitives in either way; dead or alive. Clash Narrated by Dyssrt. In declining to permit an interview with members of the posse which re turned, . Captain Dysart gave a second-hand version of the clash, saying that the authorities considered it best for the present to withhold the direct account of posse leaders and mem bers, i "We had reason to believe," said Captain Dysart, "that Bert Bland and at least two other 1. W. W. had taken refuge In a hunter's cabin eight miles from the head of Hannaford creek, just across the line In Thurston county. The country there is a jun gle of timber and undergrowth and the cabin I speak of Is often used by hunters, trappers and cruisers. "Our present information is that only one of the posse was engaged. As they were advancing toward the cabin, about 200 yards distant, the first shot eounded. Whether it was fired by a member of the posse or by one of the radicals we do not know, as our men were deployed in the ad vance. The order had been to take cover if a fight started, every man for himself. The men dodged behind tree trunks and logs and returned the fire. At least 30 shots were ex changed. Posse Unable to Reach Man. i "One man was seen to fall when the firing was at its thickest. The man fell as though mortally wounded. Believing It to be one of their own (Concluded on Pace 2, Column 1.) OF THE WEEK-AS DEPICTED BY CARTOONIST SECRETARY GLASS TO TAKE SEAT IN SENATE APPOINTEE TO SUCCEED LATE THOMAS S. MARTIN. o Acceptance by Head of Treasury Announced by Aide to Vir ginia Governor. RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 15. Appoint ment of Secretary Glass to the United States senate to succeed the late Thomas S. Martin, and the acceptance of Mr. Glass were announced tonight by Leroy Hodges, aide to Governor Davis. Mr. Glass is secretary of the treas ury. Senator Martin had just been re elected and his term does not expire until 1925. The election of senators by popular vote, however, leaves the governor power to fill the vacancy unitl the electorate can do so. Mr. Glass is a newspaper publisher. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. o decrees; minimum. 47 decrees. TODAY'S Rain; fresh southerly winds. Foreign. Germany's move In Poland warlike. Sec tion 8. Page 2. Early rout of bolshevik! In Petrofrad held Inevitable. Section 2, pace 3. J ohn F. Stevens overcomes obstacles In aeveiopinj Siberian railway. Section 3. Pace 2. Dalmatian port of Zara Is captured by ntiuiiiu. oecnon j, rage a. National. Adjournment of congras before Decem ber 1 reported likely. Section 1. pan 1. Coal miners demand justice at hands of government, section 1. Pace 1. Senate, with bar on talk, does surprising day's work. Section 1. Page 1. Senate blocks debate and adopts treaty i cscrva nons. section J, pace 4. Domestic. Secretary Glass to take late Senator Mar tin's seat. Section 1, Pace 1. Palmer declares reds use law loopholes. Section 1. pae 1 Posses battle Centralia I. W. W. ambushed in timoer. Section 1, pace 1. Centralia murder plot confessed. Section . page i. Pacific Northwest. Brown says laws can curb radicals. Sec tion i, page iu. Borah defends vote against dry bill. Sec tion a, pace a. Twenty alleged I. W. W. jailed In Tilla- mooK rouna-up. Section 1. page 1. Fire destroys historic church in Oregon City. Section 2, page 24. 90 I. W. W. charged with conspiracy. Sec- tion 1, page 19. Pender's pardon asked. Section 1, page 11, I. W. W. cleanup made in Aberdeen. Sec tion 1, page 7. Sports. Portland Gun club to hold turkey shoot ounuay. section z, page 3. E. H. Philbrook return from big game nuni in AiasKa. Section 'Z, page 6. fred WInsor touts Ridley a comlnr bantam. Section 2. ag 5. University of Oregon di-'eata O. A. C. foot ball team. & to 0. Section 1, page 1. Hadley-Silver quintet leads city bowling league. Section 2. page 4. Jefferson In finals for city championship. Section 2, page 3. Alumni flock to Eugene to see game. Sec tion 2. page l. University of Washington wins from Washington State college, 13 to 7. Sec tion 2, page 1. Cue artists start pair of tourneys. Section 2, page 4. Tenth horse show to open tomorrow. Sec tion 2. Dag 4. A. A. U. to award swim events; sessions open tomorrow. Section 0, page 0. Princeton surprises football followers by defeating Yale 13 to 6. Section 2, page 2. Commercial and Marine. Advance in hop market is brought to halt. Section 2, page 23. Corn weakens at Chicago with resumption of movement. Section 2, page -3, Steel ships soon to be delivered here re named. Section 2. page 24. Trading In stock market slows down. Sec tion 2, page 23. Portland And Vicinity. Al Kader temple. Mystic Shrine, to enter tain imperial potentates on Thursday. Section 1, page 16. Highway commission authorized to start new projects. Section 1, page 21. Success for Wood candidacy acouted. Sec tion 1, page 15. . Portland street car fares likely to rise. Section 1, page 17. Northwest building owners fear L W. W. menace. Section 1, page IS. City emergency fund will be held to $150,- 000. Section 1, page 18. LInnton lumber mill loss, $25,300. Section 1, page 16. Democrats offer to pay for ratification ses sion; women angry. Section 1, page 21. Stock show doors will open today. Section 1. page 22. Orders pour in on mills. Section 1, page 3. De Valera pleads for Irish freedom. Sec tion 1. page 23. "We Submit in Hope of Justice' Says Chief. BAD FAITH CHARGES DENIED Impartial Enforcement of Law Is Demanded. OPERATORS HELD OUTLAWS Head of Miners' Organization Calls Attention to Alleged Wrongs in Many Sections. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. Accept ance without qualification by tne mine workers of Secretary of Labor Wilson's proposal for negotiation of a nation-wide wage scale agreement was announced at the conference to day by John L. Lewis, actine presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America. Speaking on behalf of operators outside the central competitive field. F. W. LuKens, president of the South western Interstate Coal Operators' as sociation. proposed returning to the old policy of allowing the basic scale to be negotiated by the operators and miners in the central competitive field. Bad Faltk Charges Denied. President Lewis early in the hear ing sharply denied charges of bad faith over the coal strike and the negotiations, and William Green, sec retary-treasurer of the mine workers' union, took exception to Secretary Wilson's statement of Friday that a 60 per cent Increase in coal miners' wages was impossible. Green said that the federal government should see that the miners got that much increase to allow them an American standard of living.- "We come ia good faitlrln an hon est endeavor to reconcile difficulties.' President Lewis said, "and you, Mr. Secretary, representing the govern ment, propose a plan which we accept. not because It is the best plan, but because the public has been told for weeks that it is the plan the opera tors wanted." Lewis Challenges Statement. "The charge of bad faith comes with particularly poor grace from the mine workers," Mr. Lukens retorted "while the country Is tied up with a strike which the government says In volves a violation of agreements by the mine workers. They have struck. not only in districts where there was a possible question concerning their agreement, but they have also struck In districts where there was no ques tion that they had valid and binding agreements." "I deny that statement," President Lewis interrupted, "and I challenge tbe truth of your assertion." Cries of "let's have your proof" from the mineworkers" representa tives followed and Secretary Wilson called for order. Operators on Defensive. "It is one thing to make a state or a district contract," Mr. Lumens con tinued, "and another'and a more diffi cult thing to make a national agree ment. The peqple of the United States would freeze to death before a na tional wage scale agreement would be made, as Mr. Lewis well knows. His statements are Intended to cloud the issue and hoodwink the public The operators are acting in good faith. That is shown by the fact Concluded on Pace 10, Column 2.) PERRY. Cleanup Follows Conference of Sheriff and Citizens, WiLh As sistance of Lesion. TILLAMOOK, Or.. Nov. IS. (Spe ial.) A general round-up of I. W. W. in this vicinity was made today, re sulting in 20 alleged members of the organization being brought in to jail here by sheriff's deputies with the assistance of members of the Amerl can Legion. Tonight the sheriff is keeping a jail guard of trained men to prevent any violence which might rise from the feeling about here against the radi cals. The round-up resulted from a closed conference at which Sheriff Campbell, a number of well-known business and professional men and American Legion members were present. It was de cided to clean up the vicinity. Lleven squads of men. fully armed, with instructions to take no chances. but to shoot to kill If resisted, were sent out to visit all Shown haunts of the I. W. W. members. No resistance was attempted by any of the score of men who were taken into custody at camps and sawmills. . Word has been spread abroad that the sentiment of this community is for .war in deadly earnest until the radicals have been disposed of. WHICH WIFE? JUDGE. ASKS Rich Broker Must Make Choice of One of Two Mates. lhil'AGO, Nov. 15. Max Spiegel. an insurance broker, today received his choice of two wives the one he left in New York IS years ago, moth er of two children, or the other, mother of three. That Spiegel had prospered financially and also ac quired another family was learned by his daughter Ethel, a lace clerk and her mother, a New Tork scrub woman, from a traveling saleswoman judge flnley gave Spiegel until Monday to disentangle the marriage coils or to go to Jail for non-support of his first wife and children. RAINY WEEK FORECAST Weather Man Expects Nearly Nor mal Temperature. . WASHINGTON. Nov, 18. The weather forecast for the week fol lows: Pacific states Frequent rains ove northern portion and fair weather over southern portion, with nearly normal temperature. Washington and Oregon Sunday, rain; moderate to fresh southerly winds. Idaho Sunday rain in north, fai in south portion. CONVICT MAKES ESCAPE Notorious Train Robber Hides in Box of Shirts. RAWLINS, Wyo., Nov. 15. W. W. Carlisle, notorious train robber, wh was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1916 for robbery of three Union Pa cific passenger trains, today escaped from tbe state prison here hidden in a box of shirts shipped from the prison shirt factory. Posses are searching? for him. JUDGE ALLEN ACQUITTED Verdict Is Second ever Charges of Violating Liquor Law. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 15. Judge Clay Allen of the superior court of King county, indicted July 12 on charges of violating the liquor law, was acquitted by a jury here tonight. Two grand jury Indictments were returned against Judge Allen, both resulting In verdicts' of not guilty. Bar on Talk Galvanizes Garrulous Old Body. DAY'S WORK SURPRISING ONE' Bunch of Peace Treaty Res ervations Put Through. VERBOSE SENATORS DAZED Success of Cloture as AstonUhins as Unexpected and Effect Is Almost Revolutionary. OREGONIAN. NEWS, -BUREAU. Washington. Nov. 15. Shoving the Lodge treaty reservations along un der a cloture rule, invnicerf aw fully for the first time in the history of the United States senate, it was demonstrated today that the average senator does not care to talk at all unless he can talk for more than one hour. The success of the cloture, cominc by an overwhelming vote today, was unexpected because it was not be lieved that the staid old senate would ever put an inhibition on that heaven- born right to talk forever. And when it did come its effect was revolution ary. Senators who heretofore have takm advantage of any and every flimsy excuse to taiK rrom there to 19 hours sat back dazed and wondering if it could be so. It seemed almost un canny when a reservation which would entirely change or qualify the meaning of a section of the treatv was read and not one senator arose. on occasion after occasion, to point out either the benefits of iniquities of tnat particular proviso. Record Day's Work none. "Vote, vote," several voices would shout; town-meeting-fashion, the bell would ring four times and the roll call would be under way. Bowling along for six solid hours after the lid was put on which limited each senator to a total of one hour's de bate on all questions yet to be con sidered in connection with treaty rati fication, the senate today did what might be about six months' business under the regular rules. On two occasions there were gen uine thrills. These came when 11 democrats joined with the republicans in adopting reservation No. 5, which reserves to the United States exclu sive control over its domestic ques tiens. Some entertainment was provided when this reservation was reached, S nator Johnson ofCalifornfa reading from a Canadian newspaper the state ment that Canada proposed to submit to the council of the league of na tions a boundary dispute over certain territory r.ow embraced in the state of Maine. Hale somenbat Agitated. Although the status of this terri tory was long ago . settled by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, Senator Hale of Maine showed some mental agita tion and offered an amendment to provide that all boundary disputes should be considered domestic ques ts ns by this country. The amend ment was adopted with the usual ma jority vote and many smiles. The democrats Joining with the re publicans on reservation No. 5, besides Gore, Reed. Shields and Walsh of Mas saclusetts, who have supported every majority reservation, were Chamber Concluded on Pane 3, Column 1.)