THE SUNDAY OltECONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 21, 1920 .
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BUSY DIGGING OUT
Situation Bad One but Not
Altogether Hopeless.
NON-PARTISANS CRUSHED
Question Arises "Whetlier Senator
Nugent Will Be Able to Regain
Power Lost by Defeat.
BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 20. (Special.)
Since the disastrous defeat of Novem
ber 2, when the entire ticket was lost
under the repuoiican landslide, the
democrats of Idaho have been struggling-
to extricate themselves and
casting about for solid ground on
which to start anew. Their situation
is a bad one, but not altogether hope
less. For its own preservation, the
republican party has no desire to see
the democratic party become extinct,
for that would mean the formation
of another party which might in time
prove decidedly more dangerous than
any the democrats might have.
Both democrats and republicans
agree that the last election definitely
eliminated the non-partisan league as
a party organization in this state.
That they are satisfied with this re
sult goes without saying. The league
failed to elect any of its candidates,
either state or legislative, and lost
ground when it withdrew its candi
date for senator and threw- its sup
port to the democratic candidate, who
also went down to defeat.
No League Candidate Elected.
Not a league candidate was elected
to the legislature, although there
were 15 in the race. The republicans,
too, walked away with that, leaving
the democrats very poor seconds.
If the league expects to be a factor
fn Idaho's political arena again, it will
have to show decidedly more strength
in the future than it has in the past.
Conservative party leaders who have
studying the league's activities the
past four years have come to the con
clusion that the league is about
through in this state and will not at
tempt to carry on its organization
work on so extensive a scale, which
means disintegration and ultimate
loss of force.
Many of the more prominent demo
crats are inclined to the belief that
the defeat at the last general elec
tion is not so serious from a party
standpoint as it first appeared. They
honestly express the opinion that the
league hereafter will not be a factor
and because of that fact reorganiza
tion work can start with a view . of
brfnging solidly together all of the
factions within the party.
Leadership Matter of Doubt.
Just who will Ue the leader in the
reorganization is not clear. State
Chairman J. P. Pope has started the
movement to organize for the 1924
campaign and at his suggestion a
club was perfected in Boise with that
object in view. Pope is classed with
the Nugent faction of the party. It
is expected the supporters of United
States Senator Nugent will be active
in the reorganization work.
This brings to the front the position
Senator Nugent is left in since his
defeat by Frank R. Gooding, repub-
lican. Will Nugent seek to regain the
power he has lost, or will he retire
in preference to another leader as yet
unnamed? Nugent has been active in
the party for years, but he has bitter
enemies in the party just at he has
staunch supporters. It is considered
more than likely by those democratic
leaders willing to discuss the subject
that Nugent will attempt to regain his
lost power and that he will again be
the party's candidate for senator. It
-will be four years before ha can take
up the senatorial fight. In the mean
time a number of things may happen,
including the development of a new
party leader to replace Nugent. Much
depends on the success met with in
the reorganization movement.
Democratic Daily Talked Of.
An effort is being made to establish
a democratic daily paper in Boise as
one of the links in the reorganization
plan, but the impression seemsto pre
vail that it will hardly succeed, as the
establishment of new papers now is
venturesome, to say the least, and
takes a great amount of capital.
There also seems to be a we'l-estab-lished
opinion that papers run ex
clusively for politics are not a profit
able investment.
Former Attorney-General T. A.
"Walters, defeated democratic candi
date for governor, in a letter to governor-elect
Davis, congratulates him
on his victory and wishes him success
during the next two years of his ad
ministration. While Walters attacked
the commission form of state gov
ernment, claiming that it has greatly
increased taxation, he did not make
his attacks personal, but declared that
he felt only the most kindly feeling
for the man who defeated him.
Utah Governor Pays Visit.
Tho cabinet form of government
which has been in force and effect
now almost two years is to have two
years more to operate. Within that
time- Governor Davis holds it will be
proven conclusively that it is a great
improvement over the older form of
government. In that' the state will
be operated at less expense and at
the same time there will be greater
efficiency.
- Governor-elect Mabey of Utah spent
several days here last week going
over the Idaho system and studying
it- He may recommend a similar
form of government to the next Utah
legislature. The general impression
secured from Governor-elect Mabey
was that he was impressed with the
Idaho system, although he made no
statement as to what recommendation
he would make to the Utah so Ions.
E IS
HCSBAXD, 53, IS SEPARATED
FR.OJI 1 6-YE.YR-OLD WIFE.
Moral Xcpcr Is Term Judge Calls
P, G. McLean, Who May
l"ace Xext Grand Jury.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) Phineas Gourley McLean,- 53-year-old
actor who persuaded 16-rear-old
Mary Parker to marry him
so he could win a bet, waa styled a
moral leper today by Superior Judge
K. P. Shortall, who annulled the mar
riage upon petition of the girl.
After he had heard the girl s story,
Judgra Shortall ordered a transcript of
the testimony prepared and asked the
Bins attorney to present the case to
the grand jury. He advised the girl
to return to ner rootner in Chicago.
wcuean ana trie marker girl are
touring tne i,oew circuit In different
acts. They recently appeared In Port
land.
-Br his So-called marriage this
moral leper has not only grievously
wronsed. lhX youns Sir, hut ho has
outraged all laws of decency, de
clared Judge ShortalL "If she had a
father or brother he should give Mo-Lean-
an excellent beating.
"There certainly - should be some
way to punish a man who outrages
public- morals by treating the sacred
institution of marriage in this light
manner. The large number of di
vorces that come before our court ts a
sad reflection on our national life,
but I hope the lime has not . come
when a man can perpetrate such a
crime in San Francisco and. go un
punished. The testimony is that he
persuaded the 16-year-old girl to com
mit perjury in swearing that she was
19 years old when they applied for a
license. Upon that point I think the
members of the grand jury can act."
The girl said she left Chicago with
a vaudeville trope. This waa with
her mother's consent. Six weeks ago.
in Yakima. Wash., she was Introduced
to McLean by another member of the
company. She said, he had paid no
particular attention to her and had
never made any declarations of affec
tion for her until last Sunday.
FLAMES FATAL TO NINE
EVERY MEMBER. BUT ONE OF
THREE FAMILIES DIE.
Apartment House Fire Sweeps Up
ward Through Stairways,
Halting Escape.
NEW "TORE. Nov. 20. Nine, per
sona, consituting every member but
one of two entire families, lost their
lives here early today in a fire which
destroyed a five-story apartment
house. Fourteen other families es
caped or were rescued by firemen.
Originating-, fire- authorities say,
in a batoy carriage on the first floor
of the brick structure, the fire swept
upward through open stairways, cut
ting off escape through the halls.
Nearly a hundred men, women and
children, clad in night clothes,
swarmed to the fire escapes. Some
made their way to the ground, while
others huddled , terror-tricken on
platforms in mid-air until carried to
Safety.
All the dead were found on the top
floor after the flames had been con
trolled. UNION HIGH SCHOOL OPEN
Matin and Shasta View Districts in
Klamath Combine.
MAL1N, Or., Nov. 20. (Specials)
Klamath county's first union high
school opened here last week with
the two upper classes attending in
the stage part of the Bohemian Na
tional hall, mainly used for dance
purposes.
The districts uniting- to form the
school are Malin and Shasta View,
and the two lower classes at present
are taught in the public school build
ing at the latter place. A. W. Mc
Comb, graduated with the 1920 class
from the Oregon Agricultural college,
is principal of the new school.
Plans are under way for the erec
tion of a stone building- for the union
high school, to be finished in time for
school next year.
WRANGEL TALKS FIGHT
General Says His Forces Are Ready
for Another Campaign.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 19. (By
the Associated Press.) ' General
Wrangel declared today - he and his
army and navy were ready to recom
mence fighting immediately, but that
his future course had not yet been
determined. General Wrangel's ship
is anchored in the Sea of Marmora,
but he has refused to debark.
General "Wrangel expressed his
thanks to the American nation for the
aid given him by the American Red
Cross.
"I have done all humanly possible
and my conscience is clear," General
Wrangel said. "My troops were over
powered by the desperate onslaughts
of six soviet armies."
PASCAL GETS LIFE TERM
Man AVho Kidnaped, and Smoth
ered Coughlin Boy Sentenced.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Nov. 20. Au
gust Pascal, alias Pasquale, "the
crank" in the Coughlin kidnaping
case,' was sentenced to life imprison
ment today by Judge Swartz. Pascal
had pleaded guilty- to second-degree
murder and kidnaping for extortion.
He stole Blakeley Coughlin, the 13-months-old
baby of Mr. and Mrs.
George B. Coughlin, from their home
near Norristown. June "2 last, and
smothered the infant under his coat.
Pascal was sentenced upon the kid
naping charge and sentence was sus
pended on the second-degree murder
charge.
LIQUOR POURED IN RIVER
Vancouver Officials Unbosom Flood
Gates of Forbidden Beverages.
VANCOUVER, Wash", Nov. 20.
(Special.) Should the salmon and
other fish in the Columbia river act
queerly tomorrow In their journey up
and down the stream, fishermen may
learn why. Hundreds and hundreds
of gallons of moonshine, beer, wine
and other intoxicants were released
into the sewers at the courthouse to
day by Sheriff Johnson.
Two truck loads of various and
sundry varieties of liquors were given
their liberty, after having been re
strained pending trials of those who
made it, or had it illegally.
NOTED HOTEL MAN DEAD
Leopold Michels Passes Away at
San Francisco Home.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. Ar
rangements were made here today
for the funeral of Leopold Michels,
wholesale clothing merchant, capital
ist and former lieutenant in the Con
federate army. He died here last
night at the age of 70.
Michels was one of the owners of
the St. Francis hotel here and also
was interested in the Bowman hotel
system and the P.itz-Carlton Hotel
company of New York, London and
Paris. He was president, of the Win-
nemucca Water & Light company.
PREMIERS TO MEET SOON
Britain and France Concerned
Over Xear-East Situation.-'
PARIS. Nov. 20. Premiers Georges
Leygues and David Lloyd George of
France and Great Britain probably
will meet in London soon because of
the serious situation in the near east.
The conference will determine upon
joint action relative to the defeat of
Premier Venlaelos in Greece, the ad
vance of tha Russian bolshevik! in
the Caucasus region and the conse
quences of the defeat of . General
Baron Wrangel In south Russia. -
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AIR-MAIL COSTLY
Iff TOLL DF LIVES
Congress May Be Asked to
Weigh Value of Speed.
SERVICE HELD SAVING
Postoffice Department Says Risk
Is Little Greater Than That
of Railway Hail Clerk.
THE OREGONIATf NEWS BUEEAtT,
Washington. Nov. 20. Although It
may save a few hours In the -delivery
is the air mail worth Its cost In hu
man lives?
This question Is one that the future
must settle. Since the airplane was
introduced In mail transportation on
May IS. 1918. 18 lives have been sac
rificed, according to the records of
the postoffice department, as follows:
C B. Smith. Dllot. Elizabeth. N- J De
cember 16, lit 18.
A. Thiele. mechanic. Xrannellen. N. J-
January 1, 1919.
F. KcC uaker. pilot. Cleveland. Ohio, May
25, 1919.
C. W. Iamboro, pilot. DIx Son. I'm, July
19, 191S.
L. W. Doty, pilot. CatonsviUe, Mr., Oc
tober 15, 1919.
J. P. Charlton, pilot. Long Valley. N. X.
October 30, 1919.
C. W. Stoner. pUot. New Paris, Ind..
March 10. 1920.
It. C. Sherlock, pilot. Newark. N. J.,
March SO, 1920.
Stapleton, clerk, - Newark, N. J., April
II. 1820. ,
R. W. Wright, -pilot, Newark, N. J.
April 11. 1920.
W. J. McCandless, superintendent, Os
kalooea, Iowa, May 12, 1820.
M. C. MontlB, mechanic, Martin Field.
III. , June 7, 1920.
Charles NaniGta- helper. Checkerboard
field, August 7, 1920.
Robert Gautler, pilot, College park. Md
August 22, 1920.
Max Miller, pilot.' Morristown, JJ. J.,
September 1. 1920. -
G. Rlerson, mechanic, Morristown, N. J.,
September 1, 1920.
-W. K. Stephens, pilot, Toledo, Ohio, Sep
tember 14, 1920.
Thomas Russel, mechanic, Toledo, Ohio,
September 14. 1920.
F. A. Robinson, pilot, Harrisborg. Pa.,
September 28. 1920.
Jobn P. Woodward, Laramie. Wyo.. Oc
tober. 1920.
Risks Are RrlHtlrd.
Congress, it is expected, will have
its attention called to this long line
of fatalities when the honse and sen
ate postoffice committees get down
to framing the new postoffice ap
propriation bilL . While Postmaster
General Burleson is responsible for
the extension of the air mail service,
he could not have developed mail
transportation to its present propor
tions without the authority of con
gress. It was by the authority of congress
that the air route was established be
tween New York and San Francisco.
Whether the tragedies heretofore
enumerated are greater than those
for the same amount of rail trans
portation is controversial, the post
office department arguing that the
hazard of the pilot in air mail serv
ice exceeds by little, if any, the risk
of the railway mail clerk.
Possibly it is the horrible character
of some of the deaths in the air mail
system that has aroused the public.
The spectacle pictures of a pilot and
a mechanic burning to death in mid
air in a gasoline explosion over Mor
risiown. . j., on September 1, un
doubtedly made a profound impres
sion on the country and started the
reaction against the new fast system
of mail transportation that has been
so noticeable of late.
It is significant that the loudest
protests have come from communities
which benefit directly from this more
rapid scheme of mail delivery. The
communities benefit ng appear to be
In doubt as to whether it is just to
ask a few hours' saving in postal de
livery if the improved service is to
be paid for in human life.
Every tragedy brings renewed Cut
bursts against a continuance of the
air mail lines. The most recent death
was that of John P. Woodward, whose
magled body was found recently in a
rocky crevice near Laramie, Wyo.
His plane had been driven into the
side of a mountain.
It will be noted that 14 of the 18
deaths in the air mall service have
occurred within the first 10 months
of this year, the much higher death
rate beins due to the extension of the
system and particularly to the estab
lishment of long routes to the middle
west and far west.
Some Killed on Land.
Notwithstanding the fatalities
which - have resulted, the postoffice
department insists that the service
is practicable and that the airplane
eventually must bear a much greater
burden in the efforts to accelerate
delivery. The department points out
that of the 18 lives sacrificed only 13
were pilots killed while actually fly
ing, the others being mechanics killed
at the landing field.
Whether the public will be ready to
differentiate between deaths on eland
and in the air so long as they are
due in any manner to the new, and
what some regard unnecessary, trans
portation system is a question to be
settled when congress takes up the
discussion of, the air mail items in
the next appropriation bill.
"Economically, the air mail has
been Justified as a flying proposi
tion," says the postoffice department.
"Not only has the cost of operations
kept down far below what the orig
inal friends and supporters of the air
mail had anticipated, but bv reason
of the operation of the service be
tween Washington and New York,
there has been a saving to the gov
ernment at the rate of $42,500 a year
and a saving between New York and
Chicago at the rate of more than
$100,000 a .year.
Planes Held Cheaper.
"That means that in carrying first
class mail matter, which requires dis
tribution on the trains, the air mail
operates more cheaply than do the
distributing cars on trains, wherever
there is a large quantity of mail to
dispatch." Arguing the point of the
safety of the air mail service, the
department continues:
The air mail has developed a staff
of excellent aeronautical mechanics,
the result of whose work is seen by
the records of some of its pilots. One
notable instance was that of a pilot
who in eight months made 106 trips
with- but a single forced landing, due
to mechanical trouble. On the Chicago-Cleveland
division in 1919, 205
consecutive trips of 325 miles each
were made without a forced landing
for any cause whatsoever.
The air mail has come to New
York from Washington and from Chi
cago in gales and snow storms which
tiea up narbor snipping. It has ar
rived in Cleveland and in Chicago
when it was the only means of trans
portation operative. During the re
cent storm which passed -over Ohio
and Illinois, in which 103 persons
were killed and the buildings in
cities and villages wrecked, the air
mail made its flight through that
storm and arrived safely with the
i mail Chicago."- . -
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26 JAILED IN JftP PLOT
ALLEGED SJTCGGLIXti PAIR
ARRESTED IX SEATTLE.
$1700 Was to Have Been Paid
Oriental lor iDelivery of 7
Laborers, Say Police.
SEATTLE, Wash., 'Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) United States immigration, of
ficers announce two more arrests
today of alleged agents of an inter
national smuggling plot to slip Jap
anese laborers into the United States.
The men held are Motogi Miyagi
shiml and KaLsuzo Miyagishimi,
manufacturers of coy-bean cheese.
Total arrests in the Japanese smug
gling cases in the last three, weeks
now number 26.
Motogi Miyagishimi, officers say,
was to pay $1700 passage money to
Saijiro Hatta, now held under ar
rest, for the delivery of seven labor
ers brought to Seattle this week on
the steamship Arizona Maru. .
Hatta, waiter on the Arizona Maru,
is alleged to be an agent who has
operated for some time on trans
Pacific steamships as an agent of a
smuggling ring. Miyagiohimi is un
der investigation as an alleged of
fender in receiving smuggled lavorers
in Seattle.
SEATTLE ADDS POLICEMEN
Crime Epidemic Causes Appoint
ment of Special Squad.
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 20. Chief
of Police Searing today announced
the addition to his department of a
special stick-up squad" to devote its
entire time to rounding up highway
men who have been reaping a harvest
here the past six months.
It is planned to put extra police
men on duty until the so-called crime
wave has been checked. The stick
up squad will be scattered through
out the residence district.
Season's Close Celebrated.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Upper Valley apple har
vesters celebrated the close of the
season yesterday with, a luncheon In
the community packing halL Eric
Gordon, orchardist of the district.
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The packing season has been one
of the most successful in the his
tory of the" district.
PROJECT MAY SUSPEND
Lack or Funds May Stop Work on
Skagit Power Development.
SEATTLE. Wash., .Nov. 20. Work
on the $3,000,000 Skagit hydro-electric
power development project may
be suspended entirely for lack of
funds with which to carry on the op
erations, according to City Controller
Harry W. Carroll today.
Mr. Carroll's report on the work to
date stated that operations, had been
reduced about 75 per cent because of
shortage of funds. Several millions
in bonds still remain available, he
said, and must be sold soon if the
work is to continue.
Thus far, according to Mr. Carroll's
report, f 1,698.769.01 has been spent,
creating a deficit of $45,756.55.
Market Action Abandoned.
OLTMPIA, Wash., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) D. C. Coates, secretary of the
farmer-labor party for Washington,
who earlier in the. week filed an ini
tiative to the legislature providing for
city-owned markets, Friday notified
the secretary of state that owing to
lack of time in which to obtain sig
natures . no further steps would be
taken on that measure.
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Californian Says He Refused; So
viet Grants American Syn
dicate Concessions.
LONDON, Nov. 20. Washington D.
Vanderlip of California, who recently
announced the granting by, soviet
Russia of important concessions in
Siberia to an American syndicate
which he represented, was met
shortly after his arrival here from
Russia by a demand from the Hritish
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FARMERS TELL LOAN NEED
Bankruptcy Declared Faced Un
less Credit Extension Given.
LAUREL, Neb., Nov. 20. Farmers
of the country will be forced into
bankruptcy unless the federal reserve
board arranges emergency credit ex
tension, according to a petition cir
culated by the Laurel Commercial
club and signed by hundreds of farm
ers and business men.
W. K. Westran, secretary, says the
petition is being circulated in all
parts of this and surrounding states,
and will be forwarded to Governor
Harding of the federal reserve board.
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