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SectionOne Pages 1 to 24 lOO Pages Eight Sections VOL. XXXVIII XO. 48. Entered a t Por 1 1 a n d (Ore(ron Postoffice as Scond-Ciass Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVE3IBER 30, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS U.S. JURY. INDICTS PROPERTY OF SLAIN MEN ABOVE MILLION CITY WIVES IGNORE SUFFRAGE SESSION VAHIII IWniAHO LMI 1 ! SEATTLE TO ISOLATE TROOPS ORDERED MEN ENTOMBED TWO NEW MOONEY DEAL HELD IMPOSSIBLE inyui mLMMHO (ILL 200 CARRANZA TROOPS HIGH OFFICERS ALSO SLAIN" IX AMBUSCADE AT OXAVAS. 'SLEEPING SICKNESS' WEEKS ARE RESCUED TO PERIXGER AND BURGESS ES MORE Til AX 50 CASES OCCUR TWO VICTIMS OF IDAHO MINE AND 6 DIE IX 6 MONTHS. SLIDE IN FAIR, SHAPE. wwmmmi. MICHIGAN 5 KANSAS v K V Mewberry Accused of Election Corruption. 133 OTHERS ARE INDICTED Spending of $500,000 to De feat Henry Ford Alleged. VOTE BUYING CHARGED Scandal Extending From Detroit's Populous Center to Indian Reservations Uncovered. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 29. Truman H. Newberry, United States senator from Michigan, was indicted by a United States grand jury today for corruption, fraud a:.d conspiracy In connection with the election by which he obtained his seat in the sen ate, defeating Henry Vord. his demo cratic opponent. With Newberry, 133. other persons were indicted by the grand jury on the same charge. The names of all but 12 most prominent were withheld from publication by Judge C. W. Ses sions, presiding, until warrants could have been served on them. Among these named were H. A. Hopkins, St. Claire. Mich., principal legislative clerk of the United States senate; John C. Newberry, brother of the senator, Uetrott. and Taul H. King of Detroit. King was manager of the Newberry campaign committee. His Sum Alleged Spent. The others named were: Allan A. Templeton of Detroit, president of the Newberry committee: Frederick Smith, Detroit, manager of the Newberry estate; Charles A. Floyd, De troit; M. P. McKee, Detroit; Judd Yelland, Escanaba. Mich.; Milton Oak man. Detroit, formerly county clerk of Wayne county. Harry O. Turner. Detroit; Frank McKay of Grand I.'anlds: J. B. Bradley, Katon Rapids, I iMch., and Gladston Beatie, Paw Paw,, Mich., and Gladston Beattie. Paw Paw. the evidence before the grand Jury disclosed the fraudulent expenditure of between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in connection with the election. Government officials asserted that the testimony presented to the grand Jury had revealed a political scandal that in many respects was without parallel in American annals. They said it extended from the most popu lous wards of Detroit to the Indian reservations on the shores of Lake Superior, where aborigines were voted according to the behest of the Newberry campaign organization. General Corruption Charged. It was alleged that voters were bribed, election boards corrupted. editors subsidized and moving picture theaters bought up in the endeavor to defeat Henry Ford, first in the primaries of both parties, and later, when he had won the democratic nomination, in the election itself. Officials were a bit secretive as to how the alleged conspiracy was un covered, but a general outline of their methods was made available. A corps of investigators was sent into the state under direction of Karl J. Houck, who with Frank C. Dailey, special assistant to the attorney general, was a central figure in the election fraud cases of Terre Haute, (Concluded on Pawe 4. Column 1.) TATES AMOXC LARGEST. N Interests Held in Land Operations, Banks, Sheep Company, Store, Mill and Oil V'enture. PENDLETON. Or., Nov. 29. (Spe cial.) The estates of the late George E. Peringer and J. N. Burgess, slain in Portland a week ago by highway men, inventories fo which were today filed here for probate, are the largest that have been submitted for years. The Peringer estate is estimated at $400,000 In real property and $50,000 in personal property. W. S. Ferguson, brother-in-law of Mr. Per inger. and H. W. Collins will admin ister the will. Aside from a benefac tion of $20,000 in! notes and the rents from a part of his large ranch, which are to go to Mrs. Peringer, the prop erty is divided equally between Mrs. Peringer and their two children. Mr. Burgess left no wilL His estate will be administered by Mrs. Burgess and W. L. Thompson, under bond of $600,000. Among his property is listed & half interest In the farm operations in which he and Earl Thompson were partners, valued at $50,000; stock in the Cunningham Sheep & Land com pany, valued at $130,000; $40,000 in stock In the First Bank of Pilot Rock: $10,000 in the American National bank of Pendleton, $5000 in Alexander's store and the Collins Flour mills, $6000 in the Battle Creek Sheep com pany in Idaho, $200 in Kansas oil stock and about $10,000 in government securities, bonds, notes and cash. The total of these items is $253,000. VICTIM R0LLSHALF MILE Robbed or Auto, Bound Hand and Foot, Man Vet Travels. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Nov. 29. Tied hand and foot and gagged by robbers who tvirew him out of his automobile and stole it, J. W. McManus rolled half a mile on a frost-covered road to seek help. His time was two hours flat. Reeking wet from his exertion, but with frost-covered clothes. McManus rounded a front porch, rolled into position and thumped his feet against the steps until the residents came out. Released, he telephoned the sheriffs office that as he had driven toward Long Beach early today with four young men who had gone out with him to try the car with a view to purchase they had pinioned him and departed with the car, his watch. stickpin and pocketbook. SUFFRAGE SESSION SET South Dakota Governor Calls Rat ification fleeting. riERRE, S. IX, Nov. 29. Governor Norbeck tonight issued a call for a special session of the South Dakota legislature to meet Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock to take up the matter of approval of the federal suffrage amendment. This action is taken on an agree ment signed by a majority of th members to attend such a session at their own expense, and the session will be one without any expense to the people of the state. SOME RAIN IS FORECAST Nearly Normal Temperatures Are Predicted for Vck. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Weather predictions for the week beginning .Monday, issued by the weather bureau today, are: Northern Rocky mountain and plateau regions Occasional snowi probably with nearly normal tem peratures. Pacific states Occasional rains ex cept fair in southern California; near ly normal temperatures. TlhH. TVNV irotf Little Interest Taken in Calling Legislature. REAL BENEFITS QUESTIONED Canvass Made of Represent ative Portland District. 'WE'RE TOO BUSY," REPLY Several Housewives Show More Interest in Restoring Capital Punishment in Oregon. WHAT PORTLAND HOUSE WIVES THIXK OF SPECI AL LEUIStLATIVE SESSION. Thirty-six take no interest in it. Eleven have given no thought to it. but favor suffrage. Five favor special session. One opposes plan in any cir cumstances. Total 53 consulted in house to house canvass. Other Results of Canvass. Fifteen do not vote and do not care to. Fourteen make no special ef fort to get to polls. Only one out of 63 had given any thought to special session before being questioned. Eight oppose special session on ground of expense. What does the average woman think about calling a special session of the Oregon legislature to ratify the na tional woman suffrage amendment to the constitution? The answer is simple. She doesn't think about it. The proof lies, not in the ballot of a group of clubs Tior In the expres sions of suffrage leader from this state and from the east, but in an actual house-to-house canvass in an average Portland residence district Friday was a dismal, rainy day, an Ideal one to find the housewife at home and in a conversational mood. willing to talk about politics or take a whack at the weather. Homes Are Visited. Having in mind a personal eolici tatlon. a representative of The Ore- gonian set out to visit each home in a certain fixed territory. Taking the Broadway car, sne roae as far as East Twenty-fourth street and walked east. . At East Twenty-seventh she began ringing doorbells, stopping at every house on each side of the street as far as East Thirty-third. Schuyler, Hancock and Tillamook and all cross streets between these boundaries were covered, with the exception of one block of about six houses, which was omitted when darkness ended the canvass. The district in which the experiment was conducted is distinctly repre sentative, as it is what might be classed as abungalow neighborhood. A number of the houses are occupied by workmen from two furniture fac tories' nearby. There are several for- (Concluded on Page 12. Column 3.) SHOWING HOW CARTOONIST PERRY CAUGHT Clash "With ' Federal Soldiers at Eastern Border ol Sonora Re ported by Xosrales Consul. NOGALES, Ariz., Nov. 29. Two hundred? soldiers and several high of ficers of the Mexican federal army have been killed in a recent ambus cade by Yaqul Indians at Onavas, south of Tonichl, on the Yaq.ul river, near the eastern border of Sonora. ac cording to advices received tonight by Francis J. Dyer. American consul at Nogales, Sonora, opposite here. The state department of the United States, It is reported, will take steps to notify American mining operators in Sonora of the southward march of the Yaquis who for some time past, however, have allowed citizens of the United States to go unmolested. The Yaqul band was reported to re turning toward the Yaqul delta from the vicinity of Sahuaripa, in the Naco zarl district, where a number of fed eral troops were guarding American mining companies from expected de predations. The federal troops were marching through a mountain pass when am bushed by an overwhelmingly supe rior force of Yaquis. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, I degrees; minimum, iio degrees. 1UDAY s Rain or warmer: moderate southerly wlnda. Foreign. Retreat of Omsk army is continued. Pace Japanese demand Impeachment of Premier nr. aecuon l, page JO. National. Garfield says he will fight any effort of operators to use crtis as means of breaking back of labor. Section 1. page 2. State department draftlntr what Is he- neea to ne last note to Mexico on jenKins case. section 1, page 2. Domestic. , 500 trainmen sLrike without authority. Section 1, page 3. Troop- ordered to Kansas coal mines. Sec tion l, page l. New drive in behalf of Mooney useless, says governor ot California. Section 1, page 1. Senator Newberry of Michigan Indicted. bection l, page 1. Pacific Northwest. Advance in Hood River valley telephone rates allowed by Oregon, commission. Section 1, page 20. Mrs. W. P. Hawley Jr. now blames her "in-laws" for part of her domestic inata. oeciion i. page im2. t-roperty or murtlered I'matilla ranchers vaiuea at s.ou.unu. Section J. page 1 Seattle to isolate "sleeping sickness." Sec tion j. page I. Washington to uje every reou-re to pro duce coal. Section 1, pag 3. Illllsbnro banker charges three at Ph. halls with conspiracy to defraud powr company 01 iwuw. ecuon , page 20. Non-partisan league loses ground in Idaho. sseciion x. page at Two miners entombed two weeks are res cued. Section 1. page 1. Sports. Navy field goals defeat West Point. 6 to 0. Section 2, page 2 Kendall hunts opponent for Jimmy Tarcy. for Milwaukie boxing show. Section 2 page 6. Wahingtnn claims to northwest football title refuted. Section 2. page 3. College men turn out for basketball. Sec tion 2. page 6. City high school all-stars picked. Section 2, page 2. Grayson picks mythical all-star eleven. Section 2, page 1. Willamette eleven closes successful sea son. Section 2, page 3. Portland and Vicinity. Major Swan lauds American soldier for clean habits. Section 2, page 7. George M. Trowbridge, editor of Journal, ts dead. Section 1. page 18. Mont Oregon legislators to run again. Sec tion 1, page 15. November business better than in 1918, bank clearings show. Section 1, page 18. Drive in behalf of big Massachusetts school started on Pacific coast. Section 1. Page 16. Mrs. labey unable to prove pension right. Section 1. page 19. Three boys confess seven city holdups. Section 1. page 15. Slide hits Oswego train, injuring five. Section 1, page 21. State prosecutors favor death penalty. Section 1, page 14. I rvi t no Health Officer Says There Is No Cause for Alarm Disease Form of Infantile Paralysis. SEATTLE, 'Wash., Nov. 19. (Spe cial.) Isolation of all cases of so called "sleeping sickness" was or dered Saturday by Dr. H. M. Read, city health commissioner, who said 30 cases of the baffling disease bad been reported to his office since No vember 15. In all there have been 50 odd cases and six deaths in the past months. Strict measures are necessary. Dr. Read said, to prevent spreading the malady which, after investigation, he has concluded, is communicable from one person to another. - Only two deaths have occurred, he said, out of the 30 cases reported dur ing the last fortnight. Cultures ob tained from the blood of the patients are being used in the health depart ment laboratory In the public safety building to develop. If possible, a cure. Dr. Read said he had come to the conclusion that "sleeping sickness. so-called, or "lethargic encephalitis is really infantile paralysis of "group number 2." "Group number 2," he ex plained, is the spinal cord and base of the brain. The effect ot an attack on this group, he said, is that the patient is left in a state of coma from which he can be aroused to consciousness and which does not neecssarlly Bffect the brain so far as thinking, hearing and speaking are concerned. All cases will be isolated, but not quarantined. Dr. Read said. As treat ment, he advises use of the serum used in treating Infantile paralysis. "There is no cause for alarm," Dr. Read declared. "The disease has not yet become epidemic, and probably will not." PRESIDENT TAKES AIRING Executive Spends Hoar on Portico of White House. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Despite inclement weather today. President Wilson spent an hour on the south portico of the White House and after the weekly visit of Dr. Francis X. Der- cum, of Philadelphia, his physicians reported continued progress in his condition. Mr. Wilson will send his message to congress Tuesday, it was said. He was expected to express his views on the peace treaty situation and discuss a wide range of domestic problems, in cluding the industrial situation. , The president has been working on trie message for the last two weeks. SHIPS COLLIDE AT SEA Large Hole Torn in Side of Uniden tified Steamship. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. An unidenti fied steamship was in collision late to night with the schooner Elizabeth, 100 miles at tea, according to a wireless message received here. A large hole was torn in the steamer's side. The wireless message was indistinct owing to static interference, but the few words picked up indicated the damaged vessel was trying to make Newport News. GOLDMAN CASE NEAR END Enforcement of Deportation Order Approved by Labor Bureau. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. Assistant Secretary Post of the department of labor approved today recommenda tions of the Immigration bureau that the case of Emma Goldman be closed and that she be deported. . The bureau has recommended de portation to Russia, which the de partment Is expected to approve. THE SPIRIT OF SOME r I Volunteer Coal Miners to Reach Fields Tomorrow. 6000 MEN OFFER SERVICES Various Cities Report Serious Fuel Situation. TRAIN SERVICE TO BE CUT Families in Many Places Face De privation Conservation Cur tails Public Aclivitcs. TOPEKA. Kan.. Nov. 29. Eighteen hundred state and federal troops have been ordered into the Kansas coal fields in connection with the proposed plan to reopen the mines next week under a state receivership, it became known tonight. Six hundred troops will be regulars and 1200 guardsmen. It was said. Governor Allen late to day Issued the necessary proclama tion calling out the state troops. The federal troops. 300 from Fort Riley and 300 from Fort Leaven worth, are expected to arrive In Pittsburg, center of the coal district. ate tonight. The state troops will begin entraining tomorrow. They will be conveyed in four special trains, it was said, which also will carry volunteers, who will work in the coal fields. Diggers to Be Transported. Transportation of the volunteer diggers to the Cherokee-Crawford counties coal field will begin Sunday night, it was announced by Governor Allen today. Special trains for the volunteers will be provided. Their schedule calls for their arrival at the coal field early Monday morning. The workers wil include 25 trained steam shovel crews, a number of experienced miners and probably 200 students. The list of volunteers today climbed to more than S000 men, i was de ciared by the governor. It is planned to Increase the corps of workers gradually until the daily output of the strip miners reaches 100 carloads a day or more. Each of the special trains will carry members of the fourth regiment. Kan sas national guard. Public schools here are to remain closed Indefinitely on account of the coal shortage. The supplies on hand at the various schools will be par celed out to tne coalless homes in the city. PITTSBURG. Kan.. Nov. 29. Kan sas union miners are being instructed by district officials of the United Mine Workers of America not to in terfere with the volunteer workers the state recruited to dig coal to pre vent suffering in Kansas, it was an nounced tonight. DES MOINES, Nov. 29. Iowa mine operators took steps today to offer the miners the 14 per cent wage in crease to which Fuel Administrator Garfield announced the men are en titled. BOONE, Iowa, Nov. 29. The last carload of coal released to Boone Was reached today and scores of families were left absolutely without fuel. By Monday fuel administration officials (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) RECENT NEWS FEATURES Entire Resources of Coeur d'Aleucs Devoted to Saving Pair; Story of Black Hours Told. WALLACE. Idaho, Nov. 29. After being in the Gold Hunter mine at Mullan since Saturday morning, No vember 15, when they were entombed by a slide of earth, P. P. Grant and Emil Sayko. miners, were taken out at 3:15 P. M. today. Both are in fair ly good condition and they are now in a hospital at Wallace, where they will remain for several days. Grant and Sayko had been impris oned more tnan 14 full days, or 271 hours and five minutes. Ever since the cavo-in the fight to reach the men has been in progress. A week ago Friday two other men were imprisoned as they were rush ing work to get to the pair. Afte.- belng entombed for a little more than a day they were released, little -.ho worse for their experience. Grant and Sayko are both will from the effects of their long Slav underground. Sayko said tonight that the only time the entombed men felt completely discouraged was when the second cave-in came and the work stopped for a. few minutes. There were black hours until they heard the water trickle, and they went al most wild with delight when the diamond drill broke through from above. They were given food and stim ulants tonight and declared they were comfortable. The "break through" came early this morning, but It was not until afternoon that the rescue crews got a hole big enough to take ttvem out. They are being ket in dimly lighted rooms and even their families are not permitted to stay for more than a few minutes with them. The acci dent is declared to be the most re markable in the historv ot the Coeur d'Alenes. Every mining operator in the dis trict offered or gave aid in rescuing them. A government man with a geophone was brought here from Salt Lake City and all work in the mines was suspended to help get them out. TAX RISE IS VOTED DOWN Drastic Retrenchncret Policy Prom ised by Klamath Falls Mayor. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Nov. 29. (Special.) A drastic retrenchment policy has been promised by the city administration as the result of a spe cial election yesterday, when an over whelming vote defeated the proposed Increase in the tax rate from 15 to 28 mills, an increase In next year's budget from J66.000 to ?S9,000 and a general rise in salaries. In order to make the present funds cover the city's needs the mayor and council declare it will be necessary to economize in every direction. These officials say they will start by re ducing the police, fire and street de partments to one man in each de partment. I. W. W. STILL GO HUNGRY Food Not Tasted for 7 2 Hours, but It Is Still Offered Reds. TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 29. Twenty- Itwo alleged members of the Indus trial "Workers of the World, held In the city Jail here, tonight were enter ing: on the fourth day of their hunger strike. Both the noon and evening1 meals were refused by the men. making 72 hours since any of them had touched food. "We will continue to place food be fore them," said Chief of Police Harry Smith tonight. "FurUier than that 1 do not see what we can do." Case Is Closed, Says Cali fornia Governor. GUILT HELD FULLY PROVED Labor Is Advised to Purge It self of Mooneyism. ; HONEST UNIONISM LAUDED Convict and His Companion De clared Unworthy or Support or '. Patriotic Organizations. 1 SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Nov. 29. No executive clemency for Thomas J. Mooney and Vv arren K. Billings. conT victed in connection with the San Francisco preparedness day bomb ex. plosion, may be expected. Governor William D. Stephens Intimated In a letter to Paul Scharrenberg, secretary of the California State Federation of Labor, made public at the ne governor's office late today. The letter was in reply to a com munication from Scharrenberg in forming the governor of the appoint ment of a committee by the American Federation of Labor to appeal on be half of organized labor for release" of Mooney and Billings. If new evidence exists the commit tee can best submit it in writing, the governors letter Faid. "If you have nothing new to offer but are merely joining in the 'drive' on behalf of Atooney and taking part in the re markable but unwarranted propa ganda in his behalf, then I beg re spectfully but definitely to inform your committee that so far as I am concerned the case Is closed." Guilt Held Folly Proved. The governor added "of Mooney's guilt there is in my mind no question." The letter follows: . "Dear Mr. Scharrenberg: I have your letter of November 14. wherein you advise me that President Gom pers of the American Federation of Labor, has notified you of the ap pointment of a committee of "five California trade unionists' to wait upon me and 'urge that a pardon be granted to Thomas Mooney and War ren K. Billings so that they may have their freedom or at least a new trial on one of the indictments pending against them." "'In reply I beg to say that under our state constitution the governor cannot act on a petition for clemency for anyone twice convicted as Bill ings has been of a felony, until after our supreme court has definitely rec ommended clemency in his behalf. "As regards the case of Thomas J. Mooney. now undergoing life senT terwee in San Quentin prison for mur der, kindly permit me to advise you as follows: "If your committee has any new evidence to offer, presentation can ba made more satisfactorily and effect ively and examination and review thereof made with greater facility and thoroughness if you will submit it in writing. New Drive la V:seleaa, "If you have nothing new to offer, but are merely joining in the "drive" on behalf of Mooney and taking part in the remarkable but unwarranted " (Conceded on Page 2. Column 2- ..