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Section One Pages FTTW S6 Pages Eight Sections. VOIj. Xlr XO 3. Entered at Portland iOreon PoBtofrlce a Second-Class Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS BOMB ROCKS CHICAGO - y RESIDENT'S STOGIES i IMPORTER BELIEVED IS RIDDLED MEAL FOR 15 CENTS BRITISH ATTITUDE DOWN-TOWN DISTRICT UNPOPULAR IN SENATE TO HAVE GONE DOWN OFFERED IN GOTHAM BY ASSASSINATION BY E EXPLOSION IS ATTRIBUTED TO SOLON'S PUFF DILIGENTLY, FLOATXNG LUMBER IS SIGHTED FILL OF BEANS OR SPAGHETTI LABOR TROUBLE. BUT WITHOUT JOY. AT REPORTED LOCATION. PROMISED CUSTOMERS. PROSPEROUS ERA IN SHAKEN MOB MACHNE GU HARDENS JUST 1M OFFING Portland and Northwest Come Back Strong. EYES OF WORLD ON CITY Dawn of Tremendous Busi ness Revival Seen. ONWARD RUSH STARTED 1925 Kair Adds Impetus to Ex penditure of Millions for Xciv Industrial Enterprises. BT W. H. WARREN. Portland la on the eve or a mighty forward step. Oregon is coming into Its own and the entire northwest looms as the moat prosperous eection In the United States. With a world's exposition of huge proportions sched tiled for 1D25, focusing the eyes of Christendom upon it, this city stands out pre-eminently as the one munici pality with men of vision and courage sufficiently great to undertake such an Herculean task during the day when even the most optimistic of our financiers did not actually know what was coming out of the overcast Indus trial skies. But their faith has been Justified and will be visualized during the coming four years. While there Is still much to be desired in the way of a clearing of problems incidental to full recovery from war-time difficulties and while unemployment Is among the features which must be reckoned with, never theless, there is ample reason for a far more optimistic feeling on the part of the people of this section. Timber Deal Inspires Optimism. There Is a much better feeling in lumber circles and that Is one of the most significant things In this section of the country. Nothing in a long time has done more to create a favor able impreasion in this regard than the closing of a deal last week where by 27.000 acres In the Nehalem dis trict, owned by the Oregon American Lumber company, was transferred to the Central Coke & Coal company of Kansas City. Mo., of which Charles Keith, one of the world's largest lum ber operators, is president. The fact that Mr. Keith. Is an operator and not a speculator, Is a significant feature of the deal. The consideration was 17,000,000. Immediately following the closing of the deal here, announcement was made that BOO men would be employed at once to work on completion of the United Railways line to the proper ties, significant of the fact that the purchasers will proceed at once to take out the big timber and cut it into lumber, and that will ultimately mean construction of very large mills at a big financial outlay by the com pany itself or In co-operation with some other contemplated plant. Project Makes Prosmi. In this connection It may be stated that the magnificent new projected plant of the Peninsula Lumber com pany, of which F. C. Knapp is presi dent. Is going ahead nicely. It is to be located Just north of the present mill, which is about one-half the size of the proposes one. There will be an outlay of capital on this plant of approximately 250,000. Mr. Knapp has always had the fullest faith in Oregon's future and has associated with him men of vast means who will stand with him in his projects to the limit. . There Is no doubt in the world that the lumber business of this tec tion is due for a revival on a very large scale, for It cannot be other wise, considered from the viewpoint of necessity to be brought about by renewed business activity throughout the whole country and the rapid de (Concluded on Fuse 2, Column o.i vs as V -r cry- Blast Breaks Hundreds of Windows in Business Section, but Xo One Is. Injured. CHICAGO. Aug. 28. A bomb ex plosion In the Columbia theater short ly after midnight shook the entire business district. The theater was empty at the time, not yet having been reopened for the season. Sev eral persons were reported, however. to have been injured by flying glass. According to the police, the explosion was due to labor troubles. The explosion took place at 12:10 A. M. The bomb had been placed at the entrance .to. the stage door in an alley. The force of the blast shat tered the heavy' steel door and broke hundreds" of surrounding windows. The interior of the theater itself was not damaged. "The Columbia theater is a burlesque house, on what is known as the Co ulmbia "wheel." Recently t has been covered with "unfair" notices as a result, it was said, of trouble with the musicians' union. The head quarters of the Columbia "wheel" is in New York and it operates a chain of theaters in a score of cities, mostlj in the east. The theater is located in the heart of the business district and the sound of the blast attracted thousands to the scene. A special detail of police was called to clear the streets and aided firemen in keeping back the crowd. After a hurried investigation it was announced that the bomb, apparently a steel cylinder, had contained black powder. Farts of the casing were found imbedded deep In the walls of surrounding buildings. The damage to the theater was declared slight, the interAe"? being untouched. As a result of the explosion a guard of police' was placed about the Colum bia and several other theaters which have also been involved in labor dis putes. TAX BILL TO HAVE LEAD Committee Decides to Put Measure Ahead of Tariff. WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 27. The senate finance committee deeded today to put the tax Dili ahead of the tariff. Consideration of the revenue measure will begin next Thursday, by which time hearings on the tariff al ready schedule will have been con cluded. Chairman Penrose announced that it was the li?pe of the committee to 1 are the tax bill passed by the house ready for submission t .- the senile when it reconvenes September 23. He did not make known whether hearings on the tax question would be held. He also announced that the hear ngs on the sugar schedule of the tariff measure would be indefinitely postponed. GRAIN NOW COMING FAST Records Broken in Movement of Wheat to Portland. Wheat is coming from the interior to Portland in greater volume than ever before. In the week Just ended receipts were 1.504,100 bushels, which breaks all records for this market In the preceding week the receipts, then the largest on record, were 1.327,300 bushels. The arrivals for this week of last year were. 439,400 bushels. Since the beginning of the grain year Portland wheat receipts amount to 7.156,500 bushels. This is 4.100.200 bushels more than the combined re ceipts of Tacoma and Seattle in the same period. CAMPERS HIT BY TORNADO Children Blown Against Barbed Wire Fence and Hurt. DENTON. Tex.. Aug. 27. Two chil dren or a party of campers were blown from their wagon against barbed-wire fence and seriously in Jured by a tornado which swept the Navo community, northeast of Den ton, yesterday afternoon, according to word received here today. Property damage was estimated at jlOO.000. iv medico vs mm ., ' ' 1 I 'olitical Murder Is Held Blow at Nation. RICE RIOTS CAUSE FEAR Demonstration by 40,000 Persons Held in Munich. STORM SIGNALS SEEN Enberger's Friends Declare Death Carries Irony Because of En mity to Chancellor Wlrth. BERLIN, Aug. 27. (By the Associ ated Press.) No single event in post- revolutionary Germany has unleashed partisan fury with such vehemence as the assassination of Mathias Erx- berger, which is discussed in Berlin in degrees of passion-that apparently know no restraint. President EbtTt has authorized the government to offer a reward of 100. 000 marks for the apprehension or information leading to the arrest of the assassins of Erzberger. Demonstrations in Munich against high prices and the alleged reaction ary methods of the Bavarian author! ties have added to -the government's disconcertment. Mnrdr Held Political One. The assassination of Herr Erzber ger, which is viewed here as an ao horrent political murder, and the situation in Jtunich are regarded as having the aspects of storm signals. the results of which cannot be fore told at this hour. The government has given public expression of its repugnance at the killing of the ex-vice-chancellor; who not only was a personal friend of Chancellor Wirth, but also was a close party colleague of the chan cellor. Herr Erzberger generally was counted as attached to the left wing of the clerical party, in opposition to ex-Chancellor Fehrenbach, Dr. Peter Spahn and other centrist veterans. who never disguised their political differences with Herr Erzberger. Enbcrgtr Threatens Wlrth. ' That the latter, in the event of his reappearance In politics In support of the present government, threat ened, by reason of the bitter political enmity to him in many quarters, to become a menace to Chancellor Wirth's administration, was com monly conceded. Irony Seen in Mnrder. Friends of the chancellor are quoted as privately commenting that the murder carries a certain irony in that it freed the chancellor of menacing political incumbrance. The government apparently Is more than apprehensive in reepect to the ramifications threatened in the Bava rian situation, which now is resolv ing itself into a final test of strength between Premier Kahr and his faith ful chief of police, Poehner, on the one hand, and the labor elements on the other. In political circles here, however. It is considered that the Bavarian officials will have to work out their own salvation, as the cen tral government In Berlin, for vari ous reasons, has not felt it possible to come to their rescue. In this con nectlon. moreover, political observers point out that Berlin and Munich governments have not given indlca tions of over-affection for each other 40,000 Take Part in It lot a. The demonstrations in Munich against high prices and alleged re actionary methods of the Bavarian authorities were participated in by 40.000 people. One man was killed and one wounded in the process o dispersing the demonstrators, whlc was effected by the police and sol diers without serious trouble. Th (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) NEWS EVENmji OF WEEK ARE PORTRAYED BY CARTOONIST PERRY. 1, i, mm! , i , rfeXuy;- 4Ji - Economical Tobacco Pleasing Only to Mr. Ha riling and Secretary Mellon of Pittsburg. WASHINGTON, D. C Aug. 27. (Special.) President Harding is fac ing a real revolt in the senate, more serious than peace with Germany or Joining the league of nations. The row is brewing over the brand of White House cigars. Senators who have gone to the White House to transact business or swap information in the tobacco smoke of the president's office have been seen coming out with a stogie stuck between their lips, puffing diligently. Senator Sutherland of West Vir ginia went to the executive offices today to discuss the mine situation He emerged with a crooked 'stogie and no sign of smoke. Standing on the steps he wasted a box of matches. "I do-n't seem to be able to light this cigar the president gave me,1 he muttered regretfully. Mr. Harding and Secretary Mellon, the multi-millionaire cabinet member, seem 'to havd no difficulty with theit economical form of using tobacco. Mr. Mellon is from Pittsburg. FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED Normal Temperature Forecast for Pacific Coast States. WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug. 27. Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monday: Rocky mountain and plateau re gions and Pacific states Generally fair and normal temperature. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature 78 degrees; minimum, 53 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; northwesterly winds. departments. Editorial. Section 3, page 6. Dramatic. Section 4, page 3. Moving picture news. Section 4 Real estate and building news. page -. Section 4, page 8. Music. Section 4. -page 7. Churches. Section, 5. page 6. Books. Section 5, page 3. Automobiles. Section 6. Chess and checkers. Section page 6. Women's Features. Society. Section 3, page . Women's activities. Section 3. page 8. Fashions. Section 5. page 4. Miss Tingle's column. Section 5, page 4. Madame Richet's column, becllon . page 1 Auction bridge. Section a. page o. - Special Features. - Where gold rush history was made. Maga zlne section, page a. Hard rock gang lives In luxury Maga flction zlne section, page Th. Ilnnu) That StOOd Back." -feature. Magazine section, page 3. News of the world as seen by the camera. MAeazine section, page . Taking discontent out of Jobs is Frankel'n 1ob. MaKuzine section. Yankee photographer -tells of Prince of Wales. Magazine bctuuh, . Miss Lulu Bett. Magazine section, page 7. James J. Montague feature. Magazine section, page 7. Hill's cartoons, "Among Mortals. - azine section, page s. , News of resorts. Section 4, page 4. American line promotes northwest prod ucts. Section 4. page 6. Statue of woman rules solitary Section 4. page 7. New plot developed In "Tangerine.1 woods. Sec- tion 3, page 1. Farm research work of benefit. Section 5, page 2. Ait .i jubeii l.a-r .. . . a, page 3. Darling's cartoons on topics of the day. Section 5. page 7. Many varieties of hawks found In North America. Section 5. page 8. Electrically equipped furniture new. Sec tion 5, page 6. Foreign. British attitude on Ireland hardens. Sec tion 1, page 1. Mob In India riddled by British machine guns. Section 1, page 1. . Germany is shaken by Erzberger assassin ation. Section 1, page 1. Paris oueens " select hefty man as their - Adonis. Section. 1. page 4. Berlin exalts war as separate peace Is signed with America. Section 1, page Bright spot seen in Irish situation. Sec tion 1, page 7. National. Bill dooms great gaming institutions. See- tlons 1, page 8. Plans of democratic management - hang largely on action of congress. Section 1, page 6. President's stogies unpopular in senate. Section 1. page 1. Railroads now owe government $700,000,- Ouo, but are paying Interest. Section 1, page 4. Armament parley to attract hundreds. Section 1. page 10. Domestic. ' jSIrl stops congressman's contest for wife. Section 1. page o. r. A rry Steamer Canadian Winner Declares Doom of Disabled. Freighter Apparently Is Spelled. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27. Doom of the Canadian Merchant Marine freighter Canadian Importer, disabled for more than a week, 623 miles southwest of the Columbia river light ship, apparently was spelled by lum ber floating about at her reported po sition, according to a radio message received here tonight from the steamer Canadian Winner, which had gone to the aid of the disabled vessel. The Canadian Winner s message said: "Arrived at scene. Lumber scat tered over surface of water. Think It part cargo Canadian Importer. Our position latitude 39 degrees. 41 min utes north; longitude 137 degrees, 39 minutes west. Visibility poor. Mod erate sea. Have been searching all day and will continue tonight." The United States coast guard cut ter Snohomish late tonight reported her position as 70 miles west of Trin idad Head, and said she was speeding to the scene of the wreck, in the hope of picking up survivors. ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 27. (Special.) What caused the disaster to the British steamer Canadian mporter. which has been drifting helplessly at sc . since Friday, August 19. Is a mystery which Captain C. V. Wester lund. master of the Cordova, arriving (Concluded on Page 3. Column 3.) Domestic. Meal for 15 cents offered in New York. Section 1. page 1. Swindle suspect's claim is disputed. Sec tion 1, page 3. Bomb rocks Chicago's downtown district. Section 1. page 1. Steamship company accused of fraud. Sec-tion-1. page 18. Pacific Northwest. Captain Westlund of Steamer Cordova says Canadian Importer Is afloat. Sec tion 1, pugu 1. Race for governor launched In Idaho. Section 1, page 9. Egyptian tie order stirs up Canadians. Section 1, page 8. Exhibitors assure great Oregon slate, fair. Section 1, page a. Airs. Stubbs. alleged murderer, says police lded her escape. Section 1, page 11. Slight concession made to gas users. Sec tion 1, page 10. 1925 fair meeting to be held in Portland September 8. Section 1, page 10. (Sports. Gridiron standards have upward .trend. says Camp. Section -. page 4. Seattle swimmer wins marathon, but Port land boy furnishes thrills of race. Sec tion 2. page 1. Pacific coast keenly interested in coming .motor boat races at Detroit. Section 2. page 3. Berkeley expects powerful eleven. Sec tion 2. page 3. Portland Gun club will hold northwest shoot in September. Section 2. page 2. Pacific Coast league results: Portland 7, Oakland 8: Vernon 7. Seattle 3; Sacra mento 7, San Francisco 'J: Los Angeles 4. Salt Lake. 1. Section ". page 2. Baseball playar. of old days are cue wizards. Section 2. page 2. Club owners seek alibi for poor showing of their teams. Section 2, page 5. Peninsula park wins city playground meet Section 2. page 4. Douglas Nlcol wins Gearhart golf tourney. Section 2, page 1. Commercial and Marine. Exporters buy wheat freely at country points. Section 1, page 19. Chicago wheat higher with foreign de mand. Section 1. page 19 Slump In rubber stocks unsettles Wall street market. Section 1, page 19. General prosperity impossible until pro ducers get better prices, says West. Section 1, page 18. Three steamers chartered by Portland firms for export trade. Section 1, page is. Portland and Vicinity. Paroled forger abandons automobile at sight of sheriff s star. Section 2. page 22. Portland man receives letters from nephews, telling of bolshevik tryanny. beciion page Yeon declares truck load regulation must be enforced. Section 1, page li. Attractive clothes strong weapon for worn, en, says Parisian expert. Section 1, page 12. Agreement made to enable street cars to use Hawthorne bridge during progress oi repairs, section 1. page 14. New tax commission inspires city officials to make economical budgets. Section 1. page 1 1 . Questionnaire on exposition site Is pre pared, section 1. page 10. Heavy death rate charged to Ignorance. Section 1. page 12. Old King Kleagle abandons Oregon. Sec tion 1, page 16. Eyes of world focused on Portland, where dawn of tremendous business revival 1: seen. Section 1. page i. I British India Is Made Military Area. CASUALTIES THOUGHT HEAVY Attack on Railway Halted by Armed Force. LOOTING IS REPORTED Police Station at Charapalcbary Is Burned During Rioting by Mohammed Inhabitants. MADRAS. India. Aug. 27. (By the Associated Press.) The Malabar dis trlct of British India, has been pro claimed a military area. This action was taken because of the serious aspect which the rioting; by the Moplahs, or Mohammedan in habitants of Arab descent, had as sumed in the district. During- the last week there have been several cases of lootings and burnings. On Monday last Magistrate Batty, with an armed force, proceeded to Pattambi, where a mob of Moplahs marching on the railway was en countered. Machine Guns Used. The mob came rushing on and ma chine guns were fired. It was be lieved the casualties must have been heavy, although the number is not known. The police station at Charapalchary has been burned, the treasury a Periatalmanna looted and the cour there burned. concentration or the necessary troops In the disturbed area of south ern India has been completed, said an official communique issued today and those sections' which have been occupied by the military were re ported quiet. The total number of military casualties since the outbreak were given as one officer killed and two of the ranks missing. " The steamer Nawab is expected to arrive at Calicut from Bombay Sun day with supplies.. LONDON. Aug. 27. Owing to the serious character of the riots in the Malabar district of British India and the possibility of a general spread of the disorders, the Daily Telegraph today said it understands the govern ment of India, with the concurrence of Edward Spencer Montagu, secre tary of state for India, has decided to take action "against the prominent personages held responsible for the greater part of the recent troubles in India." Patience Limit Held Reached. It is felt, said the newspaper, that the limit of patience has been reached by the Indian government. It is un derstood, it adds, that the authorities are fully prepared for fresh efforts to quell .disorders, should the pre ventive action now being taken not meet with success. Just who the "prominent person ages" alluded to in the foregoing may be is not clear. It seems pos sible, however, that leaders of the native Indian nationalistic movement, of whom Mahatma Gandhi is the chief, may be meant. The movement headed by Gandhi, however, is con ducted along lines of avoidance of violence, the method advocated being that of non-co-operation with the British regime in India, or the vir tual boycott of all things British within the Indian realm ER.VAD TREASURY; IS LOOTED Prisoners Are Released; Moha ru ined an Faith Forced on Two. CALICUT. British India. Aug. 27. Rioters looted the treasury at Ernad (Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.) INOER. V Restaurateur Declares Tht Even Tlrose Without Money Will Be Furnished Willi Food. NEW YORK. Aug. 27. Chronic habitues of New York's park benches today were uttering praises of their newest and most beloved benefactor. West Thirty-fourth street restau rateur: Coincident with the opening of the doors of the new bean emporium there was an elaborate display of the sign painter's art, bearing the fol lowing magnetic phrases: "All the beans you can eat for IS cents." "All the spaghetti you want for 15 cents." ' "All the coffee you can drink for a nickel." "If you're hungry, come on in any way. "People ask how we do it. The an swer Is. "We do'.' " The proprietor said the restaurant was a great success. "There are few," said he. "who haven't 15 cents. Those who haven't are such good walking advertisements that it Is a Joy to see "em eat." AIR ACROBAT SUCCUMBS Douglas T. Clark Dies of Malady Which Mystifies Doctors. THE DALLES. Or.. Aug. 27. (Spe cial.) After having defied death thousands of times in acrobatic stunts so daring that motion-picture companies filmed them for exhibition all over the world, Douglas D. Clark last night died in The Dalles from a mysterious malady which local doc tors were unable to dia&nose. The disease that caused Clark's death is new to local doctors, ac cording to Dr. A. B. Stone, who, with two pther physicians, treated the case. Death was brought about by paralysis of the vocal chords and throat muscles. accompanied by a swelling which filled the throat and brought about strangulation, accord ing to Dr. Stone. Clark was also known on the Pacific coast as the human fly because of his ability to scale city skyscrapers with but mea ger footholds. He is survived by his father. W. H. Clark, of Chico. Cal. GIRL HELD AS PATRICIDE Suspect and Mother Are Accused of Murder at Home. BEARDSTOWN. Ky.. Aug. 27. A warrant was Issued here today for the arrest of Allie Nolan Vance, i4-yeiT-old daughter of Charles Vance, who was shot and killed in his bed at the Vance home near here August IS. A coroner's Jury held the girl and her mother "culpable of the act." No warrant, the authorities said, had been Issued for Mrs. Vance, whose status, it wa3 announced, would bo determined later. The girl was, not placed In Jail, but Is in the custody of a guard. The girl and her mother testified at the inquest that just previous to his death Vance chastised his daugh ter because she, persisted In receiving the attentions tf a young man to whom Vance objected. MRS. HAWLEY ARRESTED Complainant in Sensational Divorce Ca-c Booked as Traffic Violator Mrs. Marjorie Hawley of Oregon City, best known In connection with her sensational suit for divorce last winter, wa? last night cited to appeal before Municipal Judge Rossman to morrow to answer charges of driving through the city with glaring head lights. She was arrested at 10 o'clock by Speed Officer Pierre of the traffic department at the corner of East Twentieth and Division streets. Dis may crossed her face when the offi cer stdpped her car. "Oh. please keep it out of the papers. I don't want any notoriety, she said. We KNOW Negotiations Are Now at Critical Stage. PRESS ANALYZES SITUATION Time Declared at Hand to ' Get Down to Business. VALERA'S STAND VAGUE English. Meet D-ifrieuIty in Trying to Find Just What Repub lican Leader Means. LONDON, Aug. 17. (By the Assc elated Press.) The Irish negotiations now have reached the critical stage, in the British views, as mirrored by the great majority of newspapers, ln- eluding those previous supporters of home rule and those advanced liberal newspapers such as the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian, which In the past have gone almost as far 8Ts the Sinn Fein. They think the Sinn Fein declara tions of general principles have gone iar enough and that the time has come for droDDlne derl a rn t Inn a nf principles and getting down to the business of arranging terms, if the Sinn Fein proposes to nezotiata tho proposals which the government of-, fered to set forth In detail in Prime Minister Lloyd Georse's first letter Valera Expected to Act. The general belief expressed Is ttiat Eamonn de Valera, the Irish re publican leader, having said all that Is necessary to assure Irishmen of the Sinn Fein's theoretical standpoint. will do this. The British find It difficult t'o ana lyze Mr. de Valera's exact Dosition from whatever light his latest notes throw upon It. There is the belief, or at least the hope, that the policy of the Irish republican cabinet will be. while constantly affirming Ireland'! claim to Independence, to negotiate at the same time terms for dominion status under the new watchword of "consent of the governed'' In other words, that, while clinging to the as sertion of the inherent right to inde pendence, the cabinet will "consent" to accept dominion statues, bargain ing to the last ditch for the nearest possible approach to lndeendence. Referendum la Hoped. It is hoped here that the final solu tion may rest upon a referendum of the Irish people. The New States man, which is the most solid organ of the labor movement and a consist ent and well-informed friend of Ire land, has asserted that four-fifths of the Irish people would vote for ac ceptance of the British terms. Every observer in Ireland. It eaid, agrees that the people are tired to death of guerrilla fighting ,and are finding rare enjoyment of freedom to live their normal lives which the truce has given them. If the Irish republican cabinet eventually refuses the British terms, a referendum of the British people probably will follow in the form of the British government resorting to a general election to give the country a chance to reject or confirm the government's policy. Sentiment Ik Hardening. Judging from the newspapers again, there is a distinct hardening of Brit ish sentiment in the direction of co ercing the Irish with more force than hitherto has been used. British sen timent, they declare, would approve this, based on the feeling that the government has offered very gener ous concessions and that the seces sion of Ireland could not possibly be permitted. Ulster apparently is giving no helj to a compromise and Mr. De Valera (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) HAM Atio zoi