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iff SectionOne Pages 1 to 20 Eight Sections VOL. XL NO. 17 Enters at Portland (Oregon) PoBtofflry as Scond-CUm Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS LIQUOR WAREHOUSE EUROPE'S POLICIES FIGHT IS LAUNCHED ON GENERAL EDWARDS SUICIDE IN DIARY RECORDS, BOMB PLOT NY READY COMET MAY SHOWER DOORS OPENED BIT EARTH WITH METEORS NEW OFFER SPENT Oil ROADS BAX OX WITHDRAWALS Br DEMOCRATS PREDICT BATTLE OX SEXATE FLOOR. WALL STREET EXPLOSIOX COX FESSIOX IS LEFT. TAIL OF ASTRAL WAX DEREK DRUGGISTS MODIFIED. INTERESTS SCIENTIST. 9Q Pages ii nr in BASIN CASE I 1 so 73 ORDERED FORMED IN SECRET WITH Portland, Rate Differen tial Is Confirmed. PUGET SOUND IS DEFEATED Interstate Commerce Com mission Denies Petition to Grant Rehearing. HEW SCHEDULES RETAINED ;AII Grain From Snake River Basin Is Affected by Prescribed Rates. v WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23 The interstate commerce commis sion today denied the application of the Puget sound cities for a reopen' ing of the case on rates on grain from the Snake river basin. Schedules recently prescribed by the commission increased rates 5 jer cent to the Puget sound cities and decreased them 5 per cent to Portland. The commission's order, after re viewing the title of the case, read in full as follows: "Upon further consideration of the records in the above entitled proceedings and of petitions for re hearing filed on behalf of the public service commission, state of Wash ington, on behalf of the port of .As toria, Astoria chamber of commerce and the city of Astoria, and on be half of certain Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, Wash., interveners, it is or dered that the said petitions be,- and they are hereby, denied by the com mission." That Portland and Vancouver, Wash., have won a final and sweep ing victory and that claims to lower rates have been established fully and conclusively by the act of the interstate commerce commission in denying a rehearing to Puget sound and other Washington interests and Astoria, was the declaration of men who have given the subject the most thoughtful consideration and who have had to do with the case since its inception. "This ends a long and hard-fought tattle for supremacy in rates," said W. D. B. Dod.on, general manager of tho Portland Chamber of Com merce. "The great Columbia basin territory, rightfully belonging to Portland, finally and officially is declared to be ours." "The denial of the petition for rehearing is a very great victory for the state," said J. O. Bailey, Portland attorney, who represented the state in the preparation and presentation of the case. "From an engineering standpoint, it estab lishes a new and most vital principle that of a community's paying for the service it obtains. We were en titled to a lower, rate because of the natural advantages that are ours. That has now been proved officially, and has been sustained by the in- Prohibition Commissioner Kramer Announces Xtw Regulations Will Take Effect May 1. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 23. Modification of the ban against with drawals of liquor from warehouses tc permit wholesale druggists to withdraw liquor from bond and from tree warehouses, effective May 16, was announced tonight by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer. The modifi cation does not include wholesale liquor dealers. . An arbitrary limit of 4?i gallon of beer and three gallons of wine as the maximum a physician may pre scribe at any one time has been ee In new prohibition regulat'ons which await the approval of David H. Blai the new commissioner of internal revenue. In making this announcement. Pro hibltlon Commissioner Kramer said that while Under Attorney-General Palmer's ruling the amount of beer or wine prescribed by a physician ove a given period could not be limited, it was believed that the amount of in dividual prescriptions could be 11m ited to a reasonable maximum. It would not be practicable, he said, to require a patient for whom two or three bottles of beer a day might be prescribed to obtain a prescription for each day. Issuance of beer and wine regula tlons, Mr. Kramer emphasized, will depend entirely upon the decision of the incoming internal revenue com missioner. World Shut Out by Briand and Lloyd George. FOREIGN PRESS ACCEPTS ALL OURISTS TO BE CLEANED Second and Third-Class Passengers Affected by Order. (Copyritrht by the New York World. Pub- usnea by Arrangement.; LONDON, April 23. (Special cable.) All American tourists traveling sec ond class toward home will be re- ulred to undergo an examination be fore embarkation to ascertain if they are afflicted witn vermin, according to the interpretation by American officials here of an order conveyed to the steamship companies today from Assistant Surgeon-General Blue. The order stipulate! that all second- class passengers, irrespective of na tionality, shall be examined for vermin before embarkation, and that all third- class, passengers, regardless of nation Ilty, shall be deloused. Dr. Blue has ust concluded a week's survey of the Dissenter trantc situation in mis country. A wail of protest is expected from Americans as a result of this latest edict, and also a clamor from English third class passengers, ., ho have here tofore not been subjected to the de- lousing process. MAN IS LIGHTNING-PROOF (Concluded on Pair S. Column 1.) Rancber Hit, Burned, Unconscious 1 5 Honrs, Recovering. TACOMA. Wash., April 23. (Spe cial.) Charles Wick ham, struck by bolt of lightning which left him un conscious for 15 hours, is getting along well and doctors say he will be able to return to his ranch at North Bay, Wash., in a few days. The bolt that struck him shattered a tree which literally buried George Curtis, who was following close behind Wickham. For many hours after reaching Tacoma - hospital Wickham's chance for life seemed small. The lightning burned and ripped the skin on his back, but his strong vitality overcame the burns. MORE RAIN IS FORECAST Weather Predictions for Week Put Temperature .Near Xormal. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 23 Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monday are: Northern Rocky mountain and pla teau regions Temperature near or below normal; rains at beginning of week and again Thursday or Friday. Pacific states Temperature near or somewhat below normal; fair in Call forr.ia and occasional rain in Wash ington and Oregon. I Clumsy, Old Diplomacy Seems to Satisfy Public. WAR APPROACH DENIED Apologists Declare Any Xcw Mili tary Measures Do Xot Xeccs ' sarily Mean Hostilities. BT WILLIAM BIRD. (Copyright. 1821. by Tn Gregonlan.) PARIS.- April 23. (Special Cable.) Germany's appeal for American me diation in the reparations matter and an announcement made here that the United States will participate in the next meeting of the supreme council of the allies have placed an entirely new aspect on the international sit uation. The exchange of notes between Berlin and Washington seems to mean that if the United States does sit in the next meeting of the su preme council, Germany may accept any decisions then reached as to a reparations settlement. There has been animated discussion here as to whether or not Germany's offer to abide by a decision of the United States would restore America to its position of the predominant in fluence in the peace councils of the world a predominance which Presi dent Wilson bartered for his cov enant of the league of nations. Treaty Revlal'oa Discussed. There is speculation which goes so far as to intimate that the present opportunity may be seized to bring about an entire revision of the treaty of Versailles, to make it accord with the ideas of the republican adminis tration at Washington. However, all of these recent events may produce a curious parallel In American and allied relations. The United States, It will be recalled, en tered the war without ascertaining the terms of the secret territorial understandings among the allies, and this oversight proved somewhat em barrassing at the peace conference, particularly regarding hantung. Now comes the announcement, as forecast in these dispatches a fort night ago, that Piesldent Harding Intends having an American represen tative Join In the session of the su preme council. Brlaad and Lloyd George Meet. The president may discover that during America's absence important decisions have been made among the allies. Prime Minister Lloyd George of Great Britain and Premier Briand of France are meeting in cloistered se clusion. They blithely announce that not a word of their secret decisions w'll be published. The European press makes no com plaint about this fashion of deciding world destinies. As for European public opinion, it is apparently deaf, dumb and blind. After all the bitter lessons of the war, humanity in this part of the world seemingly Is as ready as ever to let its fate be di rected by the clumsy fumblings of the same old fear-stricken diplomacy. Farther Waste Foresee. Of course, the apologists for this tate of affairs are busy in declaring that any new military measures de cided upon do not constitute war. The names do not matter. What is about to happen, if present plans carry and if the new exchange be- ween Berlin and Washington should prove fruitless is that some 200,000 men will be withdrawn from useful ork to shoulder guns while the toil Military Committee Votes , Over whelmingly for Confirmation of Dismissed Commander. WASHINGTON, X. C. April 23. Despite some democratic objection to Brigadier-General Clarence R. Ed wards, the senate military committee today voted to recommend confirma tion of the 12 major and 14 briga dier-generals nominated recently by President Harding for promotion. General Edwards, who commanded the 26th New England division over seas until relieved by General Per shing and returned home, was the only nominee on the list under fire. The committee vote on his name was reported to have been 12 to 3. Those said to have opposed General Ed wards included Senators Hitchcock, Nebraska, and McKellar, Tennessee. Senators Robinoon of Arkansas and Myers of Montana, democrats, were reported to have Joined the republi can committee members in support ing him. Democratic opponents of General Edwards, whose name headed the list of nominees for major-general, inti mated they would carry their fight to the senate floor. No filibuster, it was said, would be waged, but a rec ord vote at least, it was said, would be demanded. Republicans predicted that the entire list of general offi cers would be ratified, thereby pav ing the way for many other promo- (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) Other Development During Day Is Identification of Man Seen With Death Wagon Driver. NEW YORK, April 23. Two sharp developments today marked the search for the perpetrators of the Wall-street bomb explosion last Sep tember. In Scranton, Pa., Tito LIgi was posi tively identified as a man seen talk ing to the driver of the death wagon shortly before the tragedy by Thomas J. Smith of Brooklyn, employed in the legal department of an Insurance com pany in Manhattan. The other incident that caused un usual police activity was the suicide of Adolph La Sar, 57 years old, in his furnished room in Brooklyn. In an incoherent diary mentioning half a dozen names of men in New York and Chicago was written: "They furnished the wagonload pf T. N. T.-with which I blew up Wall street." Close examination of the man's ef fects and inquiry into his habits while in the Brooklyn house convinced the police tonight that the suicide was mentally deranged and none of the evidence associated him with the crime. . Three wills leaving his clothing and a few personal effects to persons who could not be located were among the papers. In another note to his land- Answer to U. S. Note Is Reported on Way. . CABINET MEETING IS HELD (Concluded on Pace 2, Column 1.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS Party Leaders Hold Secret Session With Simons. CRISIS SEEMS IMMINENT railurc of Government to Consult Rclcbstag Before Plea to Harding Causes Trouble. (Concluded on Pmgre 2, Column S.) Tho Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temprature, 61 degrees; minimum. 89 degree. TODAY'S Occasional rain; northwesterly win us. Special Features. Oregon dons her blossom crown. Magazine section, page 1. Denby, from "leatherneck" to secretary of navy. Magazine section, page 2. Intimate diary of Margot Asquith. Maga zine section, page 3. News of the world as seen by earners- Magazine section, page 4. The eye of Cleopatra. Magazine section, P&ge o. Kisses and how they are made safe. Mag azine section, page 6. The kaiser's suppressed letters to Bis marck. Magazine section, page 7. Hill's cartoons. "Among Us Mortals." Mag azine section, page a. Departments. Editorial. Section 3, page 8. Dramatic. Section 4, page 2. Moving picture news. Section 4, page 8. Real estate and building news. Section 4, page 8. , Music Section 4. page 5. ' - Churches. Section 5,' page 6. Books. Section 5, page 3. Schools. Section 5, psge 7. Automobiles. Section 6. Women's Features. Society. Section 3, page 3. Women's activities. Section 4, page 6. Fashions. Section 5, page 4. Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 4. Madame Rlchet's column. Section 5, page 5. Auction bridge. Section 5, psge 8.., Child welfare column. Section 5, page 8. Speclal Features. George Ade fable. Section 3, page 7. Oddfellows to celebrate founding. Section 8, page 8. Daughter of English lord now chorus girl. Section 3, page 8. Luetic Atcherson may be made secretary of embassy in Paris. Section 4, page 7. Home building and decorating. Section 5, page 1. Oregon men prepare for battle. Section 5, page a. Darling's cartoons on topics of the day. Section b, page 8. Foreign. British to stand by French until Ger many pays. Section 1, page 8. Secret diplomacy continues to rule world. Section 1, page 1. German problems reach new crisis. Sec tion 1, page Q. France waits and prepares for eventuali ties. Section 1, page 8. Australia shuns idea of war with America. Section 1, page 15. Germany Is ready with new offer. Sec tion i, page l. j Reichstag split over plea sent to Harding. Section 1, page 13. National. Fight is launched on General Edwards. Section 1, page 1. Colombian treaty ends long wrangle. Section 1, page . Reopening of Columbia basin rate case la denied. Section 1. page 1. J. B. Campbell appears more likely to land commerce post. Sectioa 1, page 2. Democratic spirit, long banished, now prevails at White House. Section 1, page 7. Rent law decision is worry to labor. Sec tion 1, page 8. Congress Is ready to plunge Into legisla tive programme. Section '2, page 24. Liquor warehouse doors set bit ajar. Sec tion 1. page 1. Domestic. Indians spurn British citizenship. Sec tion 1, page 4. Comet may shower earth with meteors. Section 1, page 1 Poet's' daughter weds in old. rite. Sec tion 1( page 11. Suicide's diary confesses Wall street bombing. Section 1, page 1. Pacific Northwest, Girl, 14, marries boy 17 years old. Sec tion 1, page 16. Jay Hough, ex-bond broker, found guilty or rorgery. section 1, page Z. Ochoco dam boon to central Oregon. Section 1, page 8. Idaho Technical Institute may lose $30,000 appropriation. Section 1, page 10. Sport. Four world's records broken by Paddock. Section 2, page 1. Washington wins annual relay carnival Section 2, page 1. Pacific coast baseball results Portland 3, Salt Lake 4; Seattle 3-5, Sacramento 2-3; San Francisco 2, Vernon 1; Oak land 4. Las Angeles 8. Section 2, page 3. Northwest trap shoot tourney to be held May -9. Section 2, page 2. Politics may put crimp- in Dempsey-Car-pentler battle. Section 2. page 2. Rain delays gsmes of Interscholastic league. Section 2, page 8. Ruth now leading last year's home-run record. Section 2, page 3. Joe Gorman has many bids for his serv ices as boxer. Section 2, page 4. Thye-Yokel match involves middleweight wrestling championship.' section A page 4. Kline bowlers to tour California. Section 2, page 4. Penn relay opens 1921 track season. . Sec tion 2, page 5. Waverley greens improved by club. Sec tion z, page a. Grammar schools' track classic set for May 20. Section 2, page S. Waverley will send strong team to Seattle in Burns trophy golf tourney. Section 2, page 8. Commercial and Marine. j Bottom evidently reached in domestic hide ; markets. Section 1, page 19. j Grain prices at Chicago move within, nar row limits. Section 1, page 19. Railway stocks strong feature of Wall street market. Section 1, page 19. Financial situation Is declared, to be on mend. Section 1, psge 19. Java Pacific line sends Dutch steamer Me- rauke here. Section 1. page 18. Grain exports set record for Portland. Sec tion 1, page IS. Portland and Vicinity. Power resources of country tributary to Portland held unsurpassed. Section 1, page 14. Federal land available for entry Includes grazing areas. Section 1, page 14. Mr. Boalt may get place in Uruguay. Sec tion 1, page 12. Prospects In Alaska never so bright as now. Section 1, page 17. (828,173 ordered spent on roads. Section 1. page 1. . . Meier & Frank company tomorrow cele brates firm s anniversary. Section 1, page 13. All-day parking of cars costly to mer chants, says Captain Lewis of police force. Section 1, page 13. Concessions at Crater lake to be put in shape for tourist season. Section 1, ; page 11. Health bureau to be reorganised. Section i 1, page 12. Ex-Vlce-Presldent Marshall asserts loyalty j to Hardin. Section 1, page 18. BERLIN, April 23. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The German note in answer to the recent American com munlcation on the reparations ques tion will be forwarded to Washington tonight, it was announced this after noon. The German note, it was tinder stood, will embody the German coun ter proposals on the reparations ques tion. The cabinet met during the after noon to make a final draft of Ger many's answer to the American note and it was understood the proposals would be embodied in this communi cation. Consideration of the note was com pleted at a meeting of the German cabinet last night. Party leaders met with Konstantine Fehrenbach, the chancellor, to hear a report from Br. Walter Simons, foreign minister, and to express their opinion on the pro posals sent to President Harding. The meeting was secret. A cabinet crisis appeared Imminent here as a result of the discontent aroused by the government's failure to consult the reichstag before asking President Harding of the United States to mediate. The position of Dr. Walter Simons, foreign minister, was particularly im periled. . DEMAX'D FOR GOLD BODGED Rermairr Neither Refuses 2or Agrees; Offers Different Plan PARIS, April 23. (By the Associat ed Press.) Germany, instead of either agreeing or refusing to transfer the eold reserve of the ueicnsoanK 10 occupied territory in the Knineiana, as the allied reparations commission had demanded, has offered to agree not to export or permit the exporta tion of gold from Germany before October 1. Germany's note in the reply to the reparations commission, delivered to tho commission today, in which this offer is tendered, said "her proffered agreement would adequately protect the allies, who had aemanaea me transfer because the second para graph of article 248 of the treaty of Versailles, prohibiting the exporta tion of KOId' becomes Inoperative May 1. The note was signed by Dr. von Oertzen for the war burdens commis Ion. It pointed out that the removal of the Reichsbank gold .would act further to depreciate German ex change and, furthermore, that the gold reserve was not directly under the control of the ministry of finances, but was private property. The transfer, the note contended, would not serve as a guarantee for reparations payments, as the com mission seemed to think, as the de preciation In exchange growing out cf it would result in a general eco nomic weakening of Germany. The second paragraph of article 248 of the peac treaty reads: "Up to May, 1921, the German gov ernment shall not export or dispose of and shall forbid the export or dis posal of gold without the previous lirilliant Display Predicted for June 21 if Combustibles Trail In "Wake. BERKELEY, Cal April 13. A meteoric shower may take place about June 27, if the Pons-Winneeke comet, at present approaching the earth, has meteroic material in its wake, it was announced today by Pro fessor A. O. Leuschner of the astron omy department of the University of California. Although the shower may bo some what spectacular, Trofessor Leusch ner said, the comet itself will be too faint to be seen without the aid of a telescope. At its greatest brilliancy, about June 12, the comet will be of the eighth or ninth magnitude, he said, and will be In a position for ob servation for several months. The comet Is a periodic one, moving about the sun with a period of ap proximately six years, according to Professor Leuschner. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 23. Winneeke's comet, which, according to Dr. Crommelin, a British astronomer, will approach very near to the earth in June, is increasing gradually in brightness, but is still much too faint to be seen with the naked eye. Word to this effect has been received at the Harvard college observatory from Professor A. O. LesChner of the stu dents' observatory of the University of California at Berkeley, Cal. ' The comet will approach nearest to the sun June 13, when its distance from the sun will be nearly the same as that of the earth. According to the computations of Professor Leusch ner, who has made a detailed study of the comet's orbit, the exact dis tance from the sun will be 1017 times the mean distance of the earth from the sun, or about $3,000,000 miles. It is estimated that May 5 the comet will be about two and one-half times as bright as when first detected, April 10, but still visible only through rairly large telescopes. COAL CARS DEMAND Business Increase Reduces Xumber - of Idle Carriers. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 23. An increase in the demand for coal cars reduced the number of idle freight cars throughout the country from 607,427 for the week ending April 8 to 499.479 for the week ending April 15, the Association of Railway Execu tives announced today. The number of cars remaining .idle other than those used for coal remained about the same, It was stated. Idle cars of all kinds Increased In the eastern and northwestern territories. 77 Miles of Highways to Be Improved. CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED Paving to Be Finished From Asforia to The Dalles. ROUTES TO BE INSPECTED Commissioners AVill Vli-lt Various Parts of btatc and Confer Willi Local Officials. OPERA TRIUMPH SCORED Chicago Company's Coast Engage ment Pronounced Success. SAN' FRAXCISCO, April 23. The Chicago Grand Opera company closed here tonight what was characterized as the most successful two weeks' season ever experienced from a finan cial and attendance standpoint. Receipts for the 14 performances approximated 1250.000, company di rectors announced. The aggregate at tendance was more than 85.000. x doi.vcs ok highway com- jiissio:. J , Awarded 77 miles road work, J aggregating $823,173. J Will select section of The t Dalles-California highway. In Jefferson county, for advertls- f lng in May, Survey ordered of first sec- (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) SOLDIER BODIES COMING Belgians Honor 60 Americans Who Fell at St. Mihiel. NAMUR, Belgium. April 23. Sev eral boats carrying the bodies of 960 American soldiers who fell at St. Mihiel. passed Namur today. They were covered with flowers thrown by people living along the Mouse. The bodies will be taken to Ant werp, where they will be placed on a steamer for New York. BOMBS PRECEDE BALLOTS Several Lose Lives in Pre-Election Riots in Flume. FIUME, April 22. Feeling Is run ning high in connection with the lo cal elections to be held Sunday. Four bombs were exploded today. Injuring several persons. tion of Sherman highway. T. Agree to eight-foot roadway i to Oregon caves In forest re serve. Guarantees 1150,000 to Wasco county in next two years on The Dallea-Caiitornia highway. Offers to finish John Day highway through Wheeler coun- j ty on 50-50 basis. Roud programme in Polk J county still In abeyance pending , decision of county court on co- J operation. i Commission will visit Coos t bay and eastern Oregon. t Expects to close deal on Y Mount Hood loop and Oregon . City bridge before end of next t i week. t I mmmmmat - - - From Astoria to The Dalles the distance is 197 miles. The lust 12 miles to be paved was placed under contract yesterday by the stale high way commission, this section bring from Mosier to The Dalles. The Hood niver-Mosler section was con tracted for hard surfacing two weeks ago. With the hard surfacing of the rlvi-r highway disposed of, the com mission yesterday began preliminaries for Improving The DalUs-Culifornia highway. It assured llic n usi o county court that at least tISO.OOM will be spent on a 50-JO basis for developing the highway in that county. Also the commission directed State Highway Engineer N'uiin to se lect a section on which to pcnd $100,000 and advertise the gectinu for the May 26 meeting. The section Mr. Nunn will pick will cither be the eight miles north of Mndras, in Jef- ferson county, or a section ut the Waseo-Jcfferson county line, work ing north and south from tho boun dary. Thon, In the adjoining counly of Deschutes, the commission plans co-operation on the highway from Allen's lane, south of Bend, to the Klamath county line, about 17 miles. Sherman to (irt :.V(.0O0. Sherman county has I250.000 avail able for the Sherman highway, which Is to Join The Dalles-California road. The commission ordered a survey made on tho first section which i to be Improved. The survey will be followed up as rapidly as possible by advertising for grading. Early in May the commisionri s will go over the John Day highway as far as Prairie City, then croxs over to Baker and swing down to Ontario and other points in Malheur county. The object of this trip will be to see what can be done about ex pediting the John Tny highway (I'oncluded on Pure 0. Cnlumtl 1.- PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS BY CARTOONIST PERRY ON SOME TOPICS IN THE NEWS.