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Section One Pages 1 to 24 96 Pages Eight Sections PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XL NO. 49 Entered at Portland iOrjron PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY .MORNING, DECE3IBER 4, 1921 ARBUGKLE JURY- iATTACK PREVENTED BRITISH PROPOSALS REJECTED BY EGYPT MILITARY DISPOSITION IS DE CLARED OCCUPATION. FEDERAL AGENTS 34 AUTOS RESCUED FROM HIGHWAY SNOW 5330,000 IS SLICED FROM CITY BUDGET Tax Body Adds $70,000 to Estimated Income. GERMANY WOULD PAY WITH RUSSIAN TRADE CONSORTIUM VITII ALLIES IS SUGGESTED BY FINANCIER. ; U rrofits to Be Made fty Commerce With Soviet Would Be Used to Meet Reparations Demands. SHIPPING BUS NESS BY HUGHES' SUCCESS IiOMB FAILS TO GO OFF AT ARMS PARLEY. IS KEPT fVT TASK OF CITY .-IS ACTIVE 19 Vessels Loading and PROBE BIG STEAMER J. N. TEAL BRINGS MACHINES TO PORTLAND. C Court Refuses State's flea for Dismissal. 24-HOUR SITTING FRUITLESS Judge Indicates Balloting May Last Over Monday.' STRAIN SHOWS ON ACTOR Verdict . Slay Be Returned at Any Time Under La w, Says Court, Even on Holidays. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. S. Judge Louderback. trial Judge in the man slaughter trial of Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, today refused a request of the prosecution to dismiss the Jury, which has been deliberating on the case since 4:15 yesterday afternoon. The dismissal was asked for on the ground that the Jury was "tired out and that it would be coercion to keep them balloting further." The Judge ordered the Jury taken to dlnper and returned to the court room at 8:30 P. M. Tho prosecution's request came after the Jury had been out more than 24 hours without an Indication that It had reached a decision of any kind. The Judge said that in the event there is no decision tonight, he would go to court at 10 A. M. tomorrow and decide at that tlrne whether the bal loting should be continued tomor row or Monday. The Jury had failed to reach a ver dict at that hour. The restlessness of counsel, court officials and spec tators was somewhat apparent at that hour. The time of 'actual delibera tions was up at 4 P. M. Crowd Gradually Growi, District Attorney Matthew Brady did not appear in the court room dur ing the day. A portion of the day, however, he sp.ent in his offices on the floor above the courtroom. The crowd In attendance started from a mere handful and grew until the courtroom and the surrounding cor ridors were filled. Despite the drag ging hours the .crowd clung to the little courtroom expecting . momen tarily the rap on the Juryroom door that would announce the return-of the Jurors to the court. Arbuckle's mood changed through out the day, but it could be seen plainly that the strain was telling on him He spent most of his time chat ting with counsel and other, friends. Late in the day Stephen E. Hopkins, the thirteenth, or alternate Juror, who was excused when the Jury retired to deliberate yesterday, appeared in the courtroom and was greeted with handclapping after a bailiff Jokingly announced his presence in a loud voice. Hopkins and Arbuckle shook hands and chatted a few minutes to gether. Defease Grows Impatient. Defense counsel remained in the courtroom throughout the day and Mr. McNab expressed his impatience on more than one occasion. He said he had been reliably Informed that the Jury stood 11 for acquittal, to one for conviction and that the one Juror who was "holding out" was a woman. Ho expressed the opinion that the Jury would not return its findings un til Monday. , ' The Teport that the Jury stood 11 to one for acquittal persisted through out the day, although there was an other report that the balloting had witched to nine to three for ac quittal. Trie Jury caused somewhat of a flurry at the noon recess when it announced that it was ready for lunch and then paused to take an other ballot. This ballot was as in effective as the 16 which were said In (Concluded ?D Pane 2, Column 1.) - OrtotM lAYt "t-o Wit FoLE. i PARIS, Dec. 3. (By the Associated Press.) Germany's latest plan for meeting her reparations obligations Includes formation of a consortium for economic .exploitation in Russia to be participated in by Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States, according to an article pub lished today by the Journal des De- bats. The newspaper declares this is whe plan on which Hugo Stinnes, German industrial magnate, and ex German Minister of Reconstruction Rathenau have been negotiating in London. As outlined by the Journal des De bats, the plan includes these stipu lations: The, United States, England and France would supply Germany with capital necessary to transport rarw materials sufficient to assist a Ger man monopoly in supplying Russia with manufactured products. The Russian Industries would be re stricted to the production of raw ma terials sufficient to repay Germany for the manufactured products trans ported Into Russia. Profits thus real ized from Germany's exploitation in Russia would be divided among mem bers of the consortium to insure the payment of Germany's war repara tions. Meanwhile, Germany would be allowed to benefit by a moratorium, permitting a test of the above plan. FREEZING STOPS FLOOD Danger of High Water as Result of Storm in King County. SEATTLE. Wash., Dep. 3. Freezing temperatures in the foothills and- low lands caused flood waters in all the valleys of King county to recede rap- Idly last night and practically averted all danger from floods, according to reports to County Engineer Beeman today. The White river at Kent, south of here, where floods occurred Thursday and yesterday, was again within its banks this morning, but back water still covered to a depth of several feet portions of the valley highway between Kcnt and Auburn. GRIDIRON JS DEFENDED Cliargo That Football Produces Profanity in Players Denied. BOSTON, Dec. 8. J. J. Tigert, United States commissioner of educa tion, speaking today before the Mas sachusetts Teachers' federation, de fended the gridiron against charges that football is productive of much profanity among the players. Mr. Tigert, who acted as an official at the Harvard-Centre game, asserted that in this contest not a word was spoken which could, not have been said with propriety in the presence of the players' mothers, sisters and sweethearts. FUR TRADER LOSES LIFE Frozen Body Found When Dogteam Reaches Portage Unattended. THE PAS. Manitoba, Dec. 3. Re turn of a dog team, unattended, to Cranberry Lake Portage, Manitoba, led to the discovery of the body of Evan Richard, a fur trader, in the bush 75 miles north of here. Rjchard had been trapping and is believed to have become exhausted and lain down to sleep without cov ering. He had frozen to death. OCCASIONALRAINS BILLED Normal Temperatures Will Prevail for Week, Says Forecast. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec 3. Weather predictions for the week be ginning Monday are: Northern Rocky Mountain and Pla teau Regions Temperature near or above normal and generally fair ex cept for occasional, rains or snows west of divide. Pacific States Normal temperature. occasional rains. Wt taa VrOtA -xA Vussbte ye5T to 'we. SO VOU CAVA. Discharging in:rbor. FRESH JRJ'yiS EXPORTED Foreign Vessels Predominate in Portland's Trade. COPRA IS UNLOADING HERE Large Volume of Commerce Han dled hj American, Japanese, Brit ish, Norwegian, Banish Craft. ' Nineteen ocean vessels, actively en gaged in foreign and noncontinuous coastwise traffic were hi Portland harbor yesterday, loading or dis charging their cargoes at the docks between, the Morrison bridge and mu nicipal terminal No. 4, or preparing to loadj The fleet included eight American vessels, six Japanese, two British, two Norwegian and one Dan ish, and is typical of the tonnage car rying Portland's Imports and exports. The number of deep sea vessels in port for many months past has hov ered between 15 and 25, rising as one flock of carriers arrived and falling as another roup departed. Five Are Skipping Board Craft. Of the eight American vessels here yesterday, five were big steel ship ping board steamers engaged in the oriental trade. These were the steamer Coaxet, unloading ' copra t the plant of the Portland Vegetable Oil Mills company, and the steamers Vintta, West Cayote, West Kader and West Nomentum newly arrived from Asiatic ports with-inward freight. Be sides these five, the steamer Willsolo, an lntercoastal freighter, which ar rived Friday night with general cargo from the Atlantic, was reloading for the return trip. Two sailing vessels were numbered among the American foreign traders in port the six masted schooners Oregon Fir and Oregon Pine, both of which are under charter to carry cargoes of lumber to the orient. The Oregon Pine was loading at terminal No. 4 and the Oregon Fir awaiting her turn at the port drydock to be cleaned and paint ed iu readiness for the voyage. Freak Fruit Exported. The six Japanese, steamers in port were without exception loading car goes of- wheat, flour, lumber and other commodities purchased here by the Japanese. Every one of the six will take a capacity cargo from the Columbia river to the orient. Unusual interest attaches to the two vessels flying the British flag in Portland harbor because both are taking fresh Oregon apples to Eu rope in their refrigerated holds. The direct 'exportation of fresh fruit in this manner from Portland has come about only within the last few months. The two Britishers are the Woodarra and the Nebraska, both loading at municipal terminal No. '. Norwegian Vessels Here. The two Norwegian vessels In Port land ' harbor yesterday were the Er viken, here for a Cjirgo of grain, and the Niels Nielsen.. The latter is one of three such steamers chartered by Dant & Russell on a year's contract to carry lumber from Portland to Japan and China. She is loading at the Southern Pacific open dock below the Burnside bridge. The lone Dane In port, the motor ship Chile, brought a large shipment of glass from Antwerp, and having discharged this cargo Is now loading lumber for the orient. A general Idea of the volume of commerce handled by the vessels call ing at Portland may be gained from a review or a week s arrivals ana departures in the offshore trades as recorded in the files of the customs (Concluded .on Page Column 1.) CARTOONIST PERRY'S IMPRESSIONS T 7" Country Declared to Be Deeply"Tm pressed, Especially by China Japan Negotiations. . THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, Dec. 3. (Special.) This week's developments in the arms conference have been more im portant for what did not happen than for what actually took place: While it is a fact that notable progress has been made in the last few days, both of the Issues involved in the naval holiday proposal and In the settle ment of the far eastern question, the setback received by the opponents of the conference Is the outstanding event. riiir, -ht were to have roared to day in bombardment of the Harding conference were silent and the reason was that on every hand It had to be admitted that no statesman who re garded his political future as wortn while dared criticise because of the practical results obtained so far by Secretary Hughes and his three able assistants. Root, Lodige and Under wood. At least one heavy blast was to have been set off today 'by the enemies of the conference. When the time came to fire, the gunners had not deserted but the charge failed to explode. Press representatives who awaited outside the door of a certain great statesman were told that he would have nothing to say today and probably at no time. The reason that thisbreakdown in the opposition jlans Occurred, it be came known, was that Incidents of the last few days proved that Secre tary Hughes had scored new successes and that results so far announced had impressed the country deeply. The enemies of the conference thought they had found an issue a few days ago when somebody evolved the dull-day story that Harding schemed to bring about an association of nations. The story gained wide currency -and soon brought to the s,lde of the opposition all those brave and bellicose statesmen wno are ir reconcilably opposed to hands across the sea, though protesting their an tagonism ,to war of any kind unless It would be with England. Neither President Harding nor Sec retary Hughes went t the trouble to deny the story at once, but a member of the American delegation denounced It In private conversation as ridicu lous. This delegate said that neither the president nor Secretary Hughea-had ever mentioned such a proposal as an association of nations in theii talks with the delegation and that he felt sure no sue, proposal was considered. Furthermore, this dele gate added. President Harding had not attempted to dictate the course of his representatives In the confer ence. ' In his speech at the opening of the narlev. he voiced America's aspira tions but has left the details to be worked out by Mr. Hughes, Mr. Root, Mr. Lodee and Mr. Underwood, It was said. In the president's behalf, it is pointed out that he has purposely avoided any interference with the work of American members of the conference, trusting it to them to get the desired results. "The announcement that China and Japan had been brought together in negotiation of itself created a pro found impression, and in every other hni been evidence that Mr. Hughes is still driving ahead with the energy ana pusn inai. cnaracier Ued his introductory remarks at the first session of the parley. Leading democrats avoided any crit icism whatsoever of the conference, regarding it as non-partisan with the democratic leader of the senate, Mr. Underwood, sitting in on all the de liberations and participating in the discussions. , BOTH HANDS CRUSHED Widow With 4' Children Crippled for Life in Laundry. SILVERTON. Or., Dec. 3. (Spe cial.) A . Mrs. ' Amstead of Mount Angel was brought to the Silvertor hospital after a serious accident In a laundry where she was working' a mangle, and lost both hands. Mrs. Amstead is a widow 4vith four children. At present the oldest son. a lad of 17, is trying to find work at Silverton. roil 103 Plans for Abandonment of Protec torate Are Not Considered Sat isfactory by Delegation. LONDON. Dec. 3. (By the Associ ated Pness.) A British government "white paper issued tonight regard ing negotiations with an Egyptian delegation on the abandonment of the British protectorate, over Egypt, shows that the Egyptians rejected the proposals of Lord Curzon, foreign sec retary, chiefly owing to the military provisions. " The reply of the Egyptian delega tion stated . that the proposals re served to Great Britain the right t maintain her military forces through out Egypt and to control'communl cation, which "constitutes occupation pure and simple, destroys every idea of independence and suppresses even internal sovereignty." The reply also said the British proposals regarding Sudan were also unacceptable, as they failed to guarantee to Egpt the sov ereignty of Sudan and the control of the Nile. The "white paper" contained a com munication from General Allenby to the Egyptian sultan in which the for mer regretted Egypt's rejection of the proposals. "Neither the present condition in the world nor the course of evenr In Egypt since the armistice," says Gen eral Allenby's communication, "per mits a modification in the disposition of the British forces, Egypt is a part of the empire's communications." RAINFALL 12.32 INCHES November Precipitation at Hood River Greatest'on Record There. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec (Spe cial.) November's total rainfall, iO' cording to the records of Co-operative Weather' Observer Chfids, reached 12.32 inches, unprecedented since weather data, have been tabulated here. Except for a half Inch, the en tire precipitation prevailed after the night of Friday, November 18, when th mid-Columbia heavy storm of sleet and snow began. Fifty hun dredths of an inch of the precipita tion was In the form of light snow and 8.12 Inches fell as dry sleet, which with the snow piled up to a dept of approximately three feet. The val ley's record 'precipitation of 4.05 inches prevailed during the 24 hours of 'November 21, when sleet fell steadily. Mr. Childs says the fall of sleet was the heaviest that has ever been reported in this district. EMPLOYERS ARE WARNED Permits for Persons Undefr 18 Must Be Obtained. SALEM, Or., Dec. 3. (Special.) Be cause of several cases reported to the state Industrial accident commission involving fatal and less serious in juries sustained by minors employed In hazardous occupations without first obtaining a permit from the bu reau of child labor, the commission today sent out letters to employers callin.g their attention to the law providing that the age limit under which a permit is required has been raised from 18 to 18 years. The act extending the age limit from Is to 18 years was enacted at the 1919 session of the legislature. A penalty of not more than 8500 may be assessed against the employer if lack of good faith is shown. GOLFING TO COST LESS Reduction of War Tax on Sporting Goods One Reason. CHICAGO, Dec. 3. Golf will, cost less this year than It has for several years, partly on account of the re duction of the war taxjtm sporting goods. - A leading manufacturer today an nounced that the price of higheet grade golf balls would be reduced January 1 from SI to 75 cents, the pre-war price. It was Indicated that the price of golf clubs and bags also would come down. OF SOME RECENT NEWS SUBJECTS. IT Investigation Made by Commerce Body. ' SECRET INQUIRY IS MADE Officials of Wasco County Are Kept in Darkness. CAUSE OF WRECK CLEARS Conductor Allison of Train No. 12 Said to Have Admitted Not Asking for Orders. THE DALLES, Or., Dec. 3. (Spe cial.) Inspectors , of the interstate commerce commission held an investi gation of the wreck which occurred at Celilo Thursday, with a death toll of at least seven lives, to which Wasco county officials were hot invited, was the statement made today by Coroner Burget, following the protest of O.-W. R. & N. oficials that the investigation which was held Friday afternoon was public "Wasco county officials knew noth ing of the investigation to fix the re sponsibility for the wreck, held yes terday afternoon by the interstate commerce commission Inspectors until after the hearing was over," Coroner Burget said this afternoon. "Francis V. Galloway, district attor ney; Attorney Bradshaw and I were in my office at about 9 o'clock Friday evening, when General Claim Agent Wilson came in and told us of the meeting In one of the private cars," said the coroner. "We all went over The Inspectors were eating. At about 10 o'clock H. H. Corey, commissioner, and C. H. Packer, engineer, of the Ore gon public service commission, arrived. We Indulged in general conversation until about 12 p'clock. No evidence was taken at this time. , Testimony la Promtaed. "The interstate commerce commit sion inspectors promised that they would send me a copy of the testi mony taken at their hearing In the afternoon. I agreed not to hold an Inquest until after the copy had ar rived. Then, I agreed, I would give this copy to the Jury, which was em paneled and sworn in Friday, and al low them to base their verdict upon It. TheJury can, however, if it sees fit, call additional witnesses and take additional testimony. The copy of the testimony then will be filed In the courthouse." According to information released today, however. Conductor Allison of train No. 12 is understood to have shown, by his own admissions, that he departed from the junction at the south end of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle bridge without specific orders from the dispatcher's office in The Dalles. ' Conductor Gets No Order, From questions by the inspectors and head officials of the system, as shown in a transcript of the evidence. Con-, ductor Allison had admitted that, after leaving the North Bank brjdge, he did not descend from his train and telephone the dispatcher before Leav ing for the east. Pilot Conductor Clark testified that he talked with the dispatcher's office In The Dalles, when It was discovered that No. 12 was heading west fro-m Biggs on the east-bound main while No. 12 had just pulled out on the same track east bound. The dispatcher asked Clark, the lat ter testified, if he could stop No. 12 and he replied that It was too late. A few minutes later word went over the wire of the collision, which was about 1700 feet east of the block at the east end of the Celilo yards. Allison Follow. Precedent. ' The reason for going on through, Allison said, was because on the pre vious trip made by detour over the (Concluded on Page 2. Column 1.) WE S.OV A IBS' ?4 WING A tArH A OOVi TAAV V 25 Owners Busy Since Monday Getting Cars to Cascade Locks for Shipment. When the steamer J. N. Teal dokced at the Taylor-street dock last night it had aboard 34 motor cars which had beenj-nowed in at Eagle Creek, on the Columbia river highway and 25 of the happy owners. The steamer went yesterday to Cascade Locks, where the cars had been taken, and there loaded them aboard. y Since last Monday the 25 car own ers, he-lped day and night by Albert J. Wesendanger, forest ranger, had been digging o'ut the cars and taking them to Cascade Locks. The work proved very difficult. After the care were dug out of the Ice and snow it was necessary to cut out 1500 feet of drift and Immediately after to lay out a path 450 feet long on top of a drift. It was then com paratively easy to tow the cars which could not go under their own power into Cascade Locks. "We left five cars whose owners we did not know at Eagle Creek," Ira Reynolds,' one of the csr owners, said last -night. "None of the cars was stripped, and considering the weather, they were in good shape. There are now no cars on the high way between Eagle Creek and Cas cade Locks, and very few left any- where on the highway. Twelve of the cars dug out were owned by men from other states than Oregon." LEAGUE IS GOING CONCERN Anns Conference at Washington Is . , ' Not Considered Rival.' ROilB.'Dec. 3. Sir Eric Drummond, secretary -general of the league of nations, addressing the press club today, assertea that the' league was still in existence and that Its useful ness had been proved by the solu tions of the Albanian, Sileslanv Llthu anlan and Aland Islands questions. Alluding to the Washington confer ence, tie said: "I know too little of what has ben done at the Washington conference to express any definite opinion, but it is clear that the conference cannot and must not be regarded by the league's supporters as a rival." OREGON LOANS APPROVED Farm and Livestock Advances' of $6,500,000 Agreed Upon. WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 3 Ap- proval of advances aggregating more than 86.600,000 was announced today by the war finance corporation. Ag ricultural and livestock loans of 86,420.000 were distributed among 24 states. Including Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona. New Mexico, Oregon, Iowa, South Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Texas. , The corporation also announced that yi new UveHtock"loan company had been established In Montana with an authorized capital stock of 8500,000 and will be doing business within ten days. FIRE INSPECTION HELD Horace Sykes. Portland, Makes 1 Suggestion for Fossil. FOSSIL, br., Dec. 3. (Special.) Horace Svces, deputy fire marshal of Portland, has made an official visit to the Fossil public school and ad dressed the different grades from the first to the eighth. He made a minute examination of the school building in regard to fire prevention and safety. He made sev eral suggestions to the school board regarding Improvements to the build ing. Fall Crops in Good Shape. WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 3. The fall-sown cereal crops of the northern hemisphere are generally entering the winter In a fair to good condition, with the exception of some areas where drought has followed seeding jjd germination, according to reports today to the department of agricul ture. , SALARY SCHEDULES NEXT Reductions in Pay Expected to Result Tomorrow. SURVEY IS COMPLETED Everything Except Personal SerT ice Already Considered Po lice Bureau Curtailed. nnsiLTs oaixkd by tax 81'PEHVISIO.V COMMISSION OX PORTLAND Bl'DUKT. Made total cuts in the budget amounting to approximately ted I 8330.000. Added 870.000 to estlma revenues, taking this amount from city's tax levy. Cut 872,000 from budget of the police department and rec ommended adoption of new pa trol system. Slashed 865,000 from fire bu reau budget, eliminating pro posed purchase of three new pumpers " ' Reduced 1922 Improvement programme to 81.550,000 and cut about 832.000 from budget of tpe department of public works. Salaries of city employes to be considered at session tomor row. Approximately 8330,000 was slashed from the budget of Portland by the tax supervision and conservation commission and 870,000 was added to the estimated receipts of the city, bringing about a total reduction of 300,000 In the sum to be raised by taxation. This was accomplished in a session which began on Friday and was concluded yesterday. Tomorrow the commission will be gin consideration of salary sched ules and it Is practically certain that some reduction will result. Th commission has completed the survey of the entire budget with the excep tion of personal service. Overestimate la F.llmlnated. When the city's budget was file with the commission, the requests made for expenditures for 1922 were about 8183,000 In excess of the amount that can be raised by the 11 mills authorized by the charter and the voters of the city. Not only has ths tax commission eliminated this over estimate, but It has trimmed the bud?et about seven tenths of a mill In addition. The large cuts Included 872.000 Ira the police department. 852,000 In the department of public works and about 86LO0O In the bureau of fire. While the commission is not em powered to dictate to the city as to how money shall be spent, having only power to curtail budget amounts and the tax levy which is made for municipal purposes. In making the reduction In the police department It outlined a new patrol system which could be adopted as the meansvof cutting tile expense of the bureau. If this" is, not done, the police depart ment can rely solely on a curtailment of forces. Booth System Proposed. The patrol system recommended by the tax body, and which was said to have the approval of Chief of Po lice Jenkfns, is known as the booth system. It would provide for a foot patrol on the west side of the river, except in South Portland. Fulton and Willamette Heights, where booths Coicludtd on Pa. 4. Column 1.) rL I