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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1921)
94 Pages Eight Sections SectionOne Pages 1 to 22 VOL. r) Entered at Portland iOreon) '" " Ponffir as Sfrand-Clm Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1921- PRICE FIVE CENTS MOUNT ST. HELENS OPENINjG OF CONGRESS TO LIVEN UP SOCIETY McNARY WILL BOOST MEMORIAL PARK PLAN T 13-CENT MILK QUART ' HEAVES UP CINDERS DRIFTS OF BLACK. DUST FOL SOUGHT AS STANDARD GOES TO PRISON if IIS, DIB COIIFQI MOUDAY G11S HATRED BANK PRESIDEN TERMINAL PUNS THREATENS WOHLD PUT UP TO CITY s ' Railroads -File Map for $2,000,000 Project. . WASHLVGTOX BALL FOR CHLVA . TRAXSFER OF OLD POSTOFFICE DISTniBUTOR-PRODUCERS TR1' TO FORM ORGANIZATION. LOW HEAVY STORM. RELIEF IS BIG AFFAIR. " I TO BE URGED. Workers Suddenly Yield and Conference Is Set. PEACE DECLARED NEARER Premier Makes New Proposa to Men and Prospects for t Settlement . Improve. LABOR RAPS ITS LEADERS Sank and File . Disgruntled Over Threat to Call Walk out Without Ballot. I.OXDOX, April 9. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The coat mine strike, tvhich threatens to carry with it a etrike of the railway men and trans port workers, seems to be in a fair way of settlement through nego tiation. After ail-day conferences and Interviews, when it was supposed that all efforts to move the miners fcad proved ineffectual, it was sud denly announced that the miners Jiad yielded and that a conference with the coal owners had been arranged for Monday. Notices were sent to the mining districts urging abstention from action that would interfere with measures for the safety of the mines. The only explanation available as to what induced the miners to assent to steps assuring the safety of .the mines is the statement of Frank Hodges, secretary of the miners' union, that 'the conference was arranged unconditionally." Reasons Not Explained. Why the rumors that the govern ment is willing that the wage ques tion should be adjusted on a national basis may be held to explain the chango In the situation is unknown. If, as Mr. Hodges suggested, ' the government and mine owners have agreed to an unconditional confer ence, that woftld be sufficient to induce the miners to yield the pumping point. In any case, the unexpected agreement gives the live liest - hope that a country-wide struggle will be averted. Arthur Henderson, labor leader, although not personally concerned in today's meeting with Premier Uoyd George, tonight was confident that there will be no general strike Tuesday. The executive committee of the triple alliance after a conference with the premier issued this state ment tonight: "It has been agreed that the government summon a conference of representatives of the miner's fed eration and the coal owners Monday and the miners' federation shall issue notices to the federations' branches, urging miners to abstain from action, interfering with meas ures necessary for insuring the safety of the mines or necessitating tiie use of force by the government." Hope for Peace Revives. J. II. Thomas, secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, said the statement was the result of negotiations between the railway- n'or.cluded on Pare 4. Column 1.) row. ',. SV XX ' s?.'S,S.A 111 - JinCiRl '.III r"" a r X a , . in s s s s s s 1 - . 1 1 1 . Ka 1 h Trapper Reports Volcanic Disturb ance, When Skies Darken and Xond Rumblings Are Heard KELSO, Wash, April S. (Special.) Stories of a volcanic disturbance on Mount St. Helens on the afternoon of March IS, when the skies suddenly darkened and heavy rumblings were heard, were brought to Kelso today by 'Mr. and Mrs. Claude Crumb, who have made their headquarters at the foot of Mount St. Helens, where Mr. Crumb has been engaged in trapping. Mr. and Mrs. Crumb said that while they were In their cabin the after, noon of March 18 there was a ter rific electrical storm, accompanied by heavy rumblings. As the skies light ened toward evening, they said, they thought nothing unusual bad bap pened. Three days later, however, while Mr. and Mis. Crumb were visiting their traps, they said they found the north and northeast slopes of Mount St. Helens covered with black, cinder- like dust and that drifts of cinders appeared in ravines. A heavy storm the following day obliterated the cin ders. Mr. Crumb added that the snow at the lake level yesterday was eight feet deep and that it had been un usually heavy all winter. ' MAN RATED DEAD, ALIVE Woman Who Believed Herself War Widow Hears From Husband. YAKIMA. Wash., April 9. After mourning for two years for her hue band. S. R. Cutler, reported by the United States war department as hav ing died in France, his wife, a tele phone operator here, today received a a message from him at Minneapolis saying that he was alive and leav ing at once for this city. Mrs. Cutler last saw her husband three years ago in Los Angeles, when he left for Camp Lewis. She believes that, due to shell shock or other in jury, he lost knowledge of his 4den- tity, which also was unknown to the war department. " Mrs. Cutler has received from the government Insurance on her hus band's life for the last two years. No particulars were given in the mes sage. , . . FLEEING MAN IS WOUNDED Sheriff Shoots Coos County. Resi dent; Finds Liquor on Premises. MARSHFIELD, Or'., April . (Spe cial.) Carl Webber of Delmar was shot through one leg and injured in the other by a bullet from Sheriff Ed Ellingsen'g revolver when he failed to bait while running away from a possa of" officers who were search ing in the vicinity for licuor. Web ber was taken to Coquille hospital for medical treatment. The officers found a gallon of liquor on the prem ises from which Webber was fleeing. , Two other men were arrested last night by the officers near Coqulrfe and were caught running moonshine from a still. Two gallons' of liquor were obtained at the L. P. Branstetter ranch, where the men were operating a still. . SHIPPING PLAN CHANGED Farm Bureau to Save $50 a Car in Marketing. . MEDFORD, Or, April 9. (Special.) The farm bureau co-operative ex changes of Jackson. Josephine and Douglas counties, through their re spective managers Roland Flaherty of Medford, C. N. Cully of Grants Pass and C. E. Banning of Roseburg as the result of a conference just con cluded here byi the managers will hereafter handle shipments of live stock to' market together, sending only one man from here to handle the simultaneous shipments from each exchange. This method, with other shipping improvements planned, including the manner of marking hogs, will result in the saving of .950 to a car, the managers stated. 3wk . J New Penalties Merely Fan Growing Flame. DISTRUST OF FRANCE GROWS Concessions by Both Nations Held Only Solution. U. S. ATTITUDE IS SCANNED Maximilian Harden Says America Has Right to Demand Voice In Settling Reparation. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany' foremost publicist, bpeciai wireless unpaid to -no (Copyright. 1921. by The Oregonlan.) BERLIN. April 9. (Special 1 by wireless.) Distrust and hatred . are racing furiously between France and Germany. . Never during the time oi the war was haired toward me French so marked in Germany as now, in the third year of peace. The sanctions, and the notification and expectation of new punishments tend only to fan the hatred ol uer- many. This is a condition which cannot exist. It paralyzes the whole of Eu rope. It menaces not only the eco nomic situation but perhaps even the peace of the white .world. What can be done against it? Ger many must acknowledge her obliga tions more definitely toward France. nd France must learn to know what is possible and what Is not. lalted States Attitude Is Cite. In the midst of all this, between heavily padded reports regarding local communistic plots of all kinds and Hungarian rhapsodies about ex- King Charles' automobile ride for throne, the news bursts forth that the United Sta'es is willing to take np the reparations . question on the ne hand and will Insist that the al lies respect her rights tn yap ana an other German possessions to be dis posed of under the treaty of Ver sailles. . Immediately nine-tenth;, of every thing that filled the newspapers until then was forgotten and for the first time the stock exchange ,, registered "fair weather." Genuu Are Aroaset. Americans living in Germany, who do not feel high prices much because of the increased value of the dollar, were proudly conscious that however softly their country might speak, Eu rope would listen with bated breath. However, as far as Germany is con cerned, orly slightest suggestion of good will can be recorded. '. ' Germans talk- about American ."in tervention," but this' is as foolish as the tactics and clumsy assertion' that American ' diplomatic representatives were the ones to take the initiative in the recent exchange of notes' be tween the German foreign minister and the American secretary of state. Washington statesmen surely will not charge to the debt account of Ger many these bad manners left over from the kaiser's time.' Genua Mistakes Cltel. ' It would have been better if noth ing of the trans-oceanic discussion had ' become public as this cannot be helped now, and as France's point doubtlessly has been effectively taken care of in the United States by her best speaker, Rene Viviani, It must be shown, more Impartially than is the cutom in official memoranda, how the Germans view this import ant afair. s ' Honest persons cannot deny three principal . German mistakes. , This first was that instead of working out in the 3C months since the war a (Concluded on Pase 9. Column 1.1 CARTOONIST PERRY UftKS T?QUX GRK;s ; Jy pg jp Mrs. ' Thomas Walsh's Dance Also Is. Real Function at Capital President and Wife Entertain. " . ' BY BETTY BAXTER. ' (Copyright, 1921, by The Oregonlan.) WASHINGTON, D. C April 9. (Special.) Although the spring, so cial season 'has been a gay one, so ciety really gets under way in earnest with the coming to town of congress tomorrow. Already the new and old members and their friends and fami lies are here. The city is fairly buzzing. The charity ball for the benefit of the Chinese fund was one of the func tions this week in which real social Washington took a prominent part. Of course the charity ball was not the only affair of size of the week. There was Mrs. Thomas Walsh's dance tonight, also the recently organized Washington Cotillion club's first party Monday rfight at the New Wil lard hotel. . ' The Cotillion parry included the vice-president and Mrs. Cooiidge and many prominent residents from Bal timore, Philadelphia and New York. The party was formed by permanent capital residents, while a limited num ber of diplomats and officials with temporary residence in Washington were taken In as associate members. The diplomatic and residential set (Concluded on page 18, column I.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum, 7s degree minimum, 6S; cloudy. TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds. 1 Departments. Automobiles. Section 6. Music. Section 4, page 6. Books. Section 0, page 3. Schools. -Section 3, page 7. Editorial. Section 3, page 8. Dramatic. Section 4, page Churches. Section 3, page 6. Moving picture news. Section 4, pane 4. Cbem and checkers. . Section 3, page lz. Real estate and building news. Section 4, ' page 5. Wemen'a Features. Society. Section 1, page 2. Fashions. Section 3, page 4. Auction bridge. Section 4,' page 7. Women's activities. Section 3. page 10. Miss Tinale's column. Section 5. page 5. Child welsare colunra. Section 5. page 8. Madama fiichet's column. Section 5, page 4. ' Mukclal Features. Benson student) take up printing. Sec tion 3, page 111. '. Stories about prominent -i"9rtiar.drs. Sec tion 3, page 11. V Albany community house unites farmers and merchants. Section 3, page l Forest rangers devise plans to light tires. Section 3. page James M. Montague feature. Section 3, - . page 12. - . George -Ade fable. Section 4, page 5. Oklahoma congresswoinan gets loads of mall. Section 4; page J. Abused dresses, mean health. Magazine seetlon, page 1. The kaiser's Suppressed letters. Magazine section, page -'. Intimate diary of Margot Asqulth. Mag a sine section, page 3. . News of world as seen by camera. Maga zine section, page 4. "The Mother." fiction feature. Magazine section, page 5. Days of sail made hardy race.-. Magazine section, page 6. What will society do next? Magazine section, page 7. Hill's cartoons. "Among Ls Mortals. Magazine section, page 8. Home tullding and decorating. Section 5, page 1. Oregon set fast pace in war preparations. Section a, page 2. Darling's! cartoons on topics of the day. Section , page S. Foreign. Peace In coal strike seems nearer. Section 1, page 1. Queen of England takes a flyer "in trade." Section 1, page . Japan's "Tdress gets story of Corean's as sassination, section l, page xu. Peace OTworld declared still distant. Sec tion 1, page 8. America expected to join lit conference. Section 1. page 9. . Germany's hatred threatens world. Sec tion. 1, page 1.- Unbiased arbitration of Indemnity declared needed. Section 1, page 10. Domestic. ' Roy .Harris held on open charge In Elwell murder case. Section 1, page IS. Action of Tennessee governor- on suffrage amendment upheld by supreme court. Section 1. page 16. Prompt government action necessary to save railroads from ruin. . Section 1, page 8. World worse off In 1S48 than now. Sec tion 1, page 11. MAKES LITTLE CARTOONS ILLUSTRATING SOME NEWS PHASES. -(sews TtLtn) Bill Turning Building and Grounds Over to City to Be Intro duced Tomorrow. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington. D. C, April 9. Senator McNary will offer in the senate Mon day a bill to turn the old Portland postoffice building and grounds over to the city of Portland to be convert ed into a public park as a memorial to the soldiers of the world war. The bill appropriates $250,000 for the pur chase of a new sUe for a federal courthouse. Senator Jones will . reintroduce Monday the bill known as the China trade act, which is being urged by the Portland Chamber of Commerce ar.d other commercial organizations on the coast. The postoffice department an nounced today the acceptance of a pro posal submitted by Cooiidge' & Mc- Lane, bankers, for the lease of new postoffice quarters at SUverton, Or. Representative McArthur as been advised by tha. bureau of yards and docks of the navy department that deeds of transfer for the Tongue i'oint naval base site have been sub mitted to the department of Justice and that formal approval of the de partment Is expected within a few (Concluded on page 18, column 2.) Natlanal. Republican and democratic caucuses pre pare for house organization. Section 1, page 6. Western congressmen will confer over Jap anese problem. Section 1, page 2. McXary to urge transfer of old postoffice and grounds to city. Section 1, page 1. Opening of congress to liven up capital society. Section 1, page 1. Co-operative plan' is sweeping nation. Sec tion 1, page 10. Mr. Harding guest at Gridiron club dinner. Section .1, page 4. Dam 500 feet high to curb Colorado. Sec- - lion 1, page 3. " Pacific Northwest. President of defunct Jacksonville bap It is sentenced. . Section 1- page 1. V. Trapper reports volcanic disturbance on Mount St. Helens. Section 1, page X. McMinnv"le Home phone economical sys tem, section 1. page 13. 1921 bridges in Oregon to cost 1,05,200. section x, page 4. Fraud In weights reduced in Oregon. Sec- Lion page a. Senator Gooding urges Idaho to fight for lower ireignt rates. Section 1. page . University of Oregon students win high grades. Section 1, page 2. Reduced cargo rate has no effect on Brit ish Columbia lumber market. Section 1, page 20.. 8Mrts. Pacific Coast League results: San Fran cisco a, Portland 4; Los Angeles 6, Se attle 4; Salt Lake 8, Oakland S; Sacra mento 5, Vernon 4. Section 2, page 1. Dempsey-Carpentler battle to be July 2 in xsew jersey, section 2, page 2. Two stellar bouts on Friday night's card. section z, page 3. California oarsmen outrace Washington. Section 2, page 3. Big league season to open Wednesday. section page 4. Americans strong in golf conquest. Section , page . r a tier's base swipe amusing Incident in Daseoau. section 2. page 24. Stanford loses first ball game of 1021 ser ies wan California. Section 2. page 24, Plnkston, San Francisco, wins fancy div ing Honors. Section 1, page. 18. Commercial and Marine. California demand may clean up surplus oi potatoes in Oregon. Section 1, page zi. Chicago wheat higher, owing to forecast ot xreezlng weather. Section 1, page 21. Ralls and industrial stocks are under pressure. Section 1, page SI. Financial world concerned about outcome of labor crisis in England. Section 1, pago 21. Winners are picked in marine contest. Sec tion 1, page 20. Lower wages for salmon fishermen Inper- ative, packers say. Section 1, page 20. . Portland and Vkinlty. Movement started for' establishment here ot world s greatest rose garden. Sec tion 1, page 11. Big Easter freeze in east means millions to coast states. Section 1. page 14. Community chest drive to continue. Sec tion 1, page 10. Railroads submit terminal plans to city. section l. page l.- 13-cent milk quart sought as standard. Section 1, page 1. -- Red Cross clean-up week proclaimed. Sec tion 1, page 14. Auto dealers plan exhibit of pictures. Sec tion 1, page 13. Routes of seven highways within city to be designated. Section L page 13. Home of luxury recalled by cell inmate. Section 1. page 16. Johnson Gets Indetermi nateTerm of 10 Years. QUICK SENTENCE SURPRISE Jacksonville Official Off to , Penitently. GUILTY PLEA IS ENTERED C. ll. Owen,, Declared to Be Mas ter Mind in Failure, Returned' to Medford for Trial. MEDFORD. Or.. April 9. (Special.) William H. Johnson, ex-president and cashier of the Bank of Jackson ville, today received an indeterminate sentence of ten years when he pleaded guilty to four of the 30 indictments against him. , Another surprise was sprung when Johnson, in custody of Deputy Sher iff McMahon, drove up to the depot just before the northbound train de parted and the two started to the penitentiary at Salem, where Johnson tomorrow will begin serving his sen tence. The other outstanding event today in the progress of the hearing of the Jacksonville cases was the return to Medford of C. H. Owen, .who was ar rested in Salt Lake City about a week ago. Oiwi Declared Benefited. Owen was said by the prosecution to have benefited greatly by the fail ure of the bank. It had been supposed that Johnson would be kept here as a witness at least until the Owen and other re maining cases had been tried. John son was bidden good-bye by his wife and two young sons at Jacksonville. Only Johnson, the county prosecu tor and the court and sheriff office attaches knew of the swift and unex pected action that marked the day. Sentence Is C expected. Johnson was sentenced ofl one of the four indictments to which he pleaded guilty, the rett being held in abeyance. It was known generally that he would plead guilty but it was supposed the leading figure in the financial crash would not be sen tenced before the May term of court. , When sentence was pronounced the court made no comment, neither did Johnson. "I knew I had it coming to me and was prepared for It," he told friends afterward. When the last term of court was over Johnson, wearied of county jail life and the strain of testifying in criminal and civil actions, expressed a desire to be gin serving his sentence. He recently recovered from a siege of influenza. ' Net-Guilty Plea Chanced. Johnson entered court with his lawyer, Herbert K. Hanna, and changed his plea of not guilty to guilty on the four indictments against him. County prosecutor Moore was in court to represent the state. It was evidently the intention of John son to avoid a large crowd being present when he was sentenced. The indictment under which he was sentenced charged that Ire made a false repor'. of the bank's condi tion to the state banking superin tendent. The other indictments to which he pleaded guilty were as follows: For certifying a check for a customer when there was no funds in the bank: for publ'shlng false reports of the bank's condition; for receiving de posits knowing the bank ttbe in solvent. ' Rest Are Ramifications. The rest of 30 indictmen's were ramifications of these four charges. The Bank of Jacksonville failed in 1 Concluded on Puge 2, Column 1.) Dairymen's League May Cut Price s on Product Sold llirousU Grocery Stores, An effort has been inaugurated to organize the milk producers-distributors, who supply more than half of the milk consumers In Portland, ac cording to reports yesterday. The ef fort thus far has been successful. The purpose behind the move was to bring about a uniform price of'l3 cents a quart for milk distributed by the producers, a price which the distributor-producers declared was the lowest possible at this period of the year for high-grade milk. . Prices ranging from 13 to IS cents a quart . have been charged by the producer-distributors. Various prices ranging from 11 to 14 cents have been charged by the milk distributors. There was declared to be some pos sibility that the officials of the Ore gon Dairymen's league would make another cut in the price of its milk distributed through grocery stores. bringing such milk to a retail basis of 10 cents a quart. The stimulated consumption of milk caused by the reduction of price, ac cording to the league officials, has resulted In the shippient of far mora milk to Portland than has been re corded in several years, and the pos sible reduction to 10 cents would be, if made. Tor the purpose of absorbing thls-alditional surplus. Albert S. Hall, general manager of the league, stated yesterday that thj sale of the league's milk through gro cery sto es was on the Increase. WEDDING HELD ON RAFT Crowd at Pool Watches Ceremony and Merchaos Make Gifts. BAKER. Or., April . (Special.) Frank S. Barton and Grace Wickam were married tonight on a raft in the natatorium swimming pool as a fea ture of the Baker Automotive show and Merchants' exposition, Rev, E. Temple Starkey officiating. The na tatorium lobby and balcony were crowded with persons, who applauded the odd spectacle. The newlyweds. both popular Baker young people, will receive a number of presents donated by local mer. chants. These include a weaning cake, wedding dinner, the wedding gown, furniture, groceries and a room with bath at a local hotel. The li cense and the minister were likewise donated by the merchants. Because of the success of the ex position and the large crowd attend ing, the show will be extended over Sunday. STILL BIGGER EGG LAID Portland and Salt Lake Hens Out done by Ogden Bird. OGDEN, Utah, April 9. Apparent ly aroused by Associated Press dis patches which announced that a hen in Portland was laying eggs meas uring 7 Inches in circumference and the later statement that a Salt Lake City woman's hen had gone the Port land egg one-fourth inch better, a mixed-breed blddie on the farm of Holke Borger near here laid a single yolk egg yesterday which measures exactly eight inches around the tips and six and one-half Inches around the middle. The hen's owner has the egg on exhibition here. FAIR WEATHER ON SLATE Occabional Rains Predicted Along 'or(h Coast. WASHINGTON, D. C. April . Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monday are: Rocky mountain and plateau re gions, fair; temperature near or above normal. Pacific states, normal temperature; fair, except for occasional rains along north coast. TOOK AN INTEREST tN THS-OVENtNG Of STREET VACATIONS ASKED $500,000 to Be Spent as Soon as Authority Granted. NINTH WILL BE IMPROVED Council Is Eipcctcd to Submit Question of Vacations to Voters at June Klcctlon. FACTS RKOARDIVO roUT LA.ND'S NKW t.MO. TERMINAL. Railroad officials submit plans and file formal appllca- J tlon with city for vacation of streets necessary to project. I Immediate outlay of $300,000 for first unit, trackage, round- J house, etc.. at Guild s laVe will . ' w " s'mwmb vi ancci vaca- 4 ttons. 4 Estimated total expenditure J for completion of fully modern terminal, to which all freight entering city over railroads will go for "breaking up" and dis tribution, is 12.000.000. Opening and Improving of Ninth, from Hoyt to Pront street, by railroads is officially confirmed as part of plan. Within few months Spokane. Portland & Seattle and Great Northern locals, including Seaside-Astoria trains, will use Villon station, placing all pas senger steam service there. In conformance with the promise made by Carl R. Gray, president of the. Union Pacific system, when he was lu Portland two weeks ago, that the railroads Interested in tho unifi cation of the freight terminals here would file their plans "within 30 days," maps outlining in full detail the proposed project and a letter re questing consideration of tho same were submitted to the city council, the commission of public docks and the Port of Portland commission yes terday. The letter was signed by J. P. O'Brien, president of the Northern Pacific Terminal company, of whlcli the Union Pacific. Southern Pacific and the Northern Pacific are tenant members, and by L. C Oilman, vice president of the Great Northern, and W. F. Turner, president of the Spo kane, Portland & Seattle railway. The two last-named roads are Jointly Interested with the others in eon tracts which have Just been signed, and which are to run for 12 years. Project Only Large One. So far as Is known by local railroad officials, this terminal project, which will require an outlay of approxi mately (500.000 for the first unit, to be constructed Immediately at Guild s lake providing the voters pass fa vorably upon the vacation of certain streets involved, ls the only -large piece of construction work under way by any road In the United States at present time. Eventually,' when the volume of business grows as It ls ex pected to do within tho next few years, an additional expenditure reaching $1, 00,000 will be necessary, according to well-posted men. Incident to the situation, now rap. Idly developing, ls the announcement that It will be but a few months be fore the Astoria-Seaside trains of th (Concluded on pairs 12. column 1.) l G" NOT TO NAME. I iTs; "TO VV0fV t-y M13G)T MrXVlNV.- .hjc-'f- c-c rrar.fcit HI ' s m& 1 V