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Newspaper Page TextSection One Pages 1 to 24 96 Pages Eight Sections VOL. XL NO. 51 Entered t Portland .Oregon iw. Pomofflro Bfrond-CI... Mutter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY 3IORNING, DECE3IBER 18, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS SPECIAL TOY MAKERS WANT BENEFACTOR KILLED, NEW PLOT TO BOMB EXCHANGE RUMORED THRILLS OF WALL STREET EX PLOSION ARE REVIVED. PLOTTERS' TRIAL WHEAT PROSPECT FOR NEXT YEAR IS GOOD SESSION 1DSH1PPR0P0SAL RAIL IS EXPECTED TO RATIFY TREATY Differences Threshed Out at Long Session. GERMANS KEPT OUT AMERICAN' INDt'STKV FACING BODY STUFFED IN BIN OPENS T NOT FROM PARIS - E MONEY SAVED FOR PARTY FOR ARGENTINE CROP EXPECTED TO BEAT 1921 YIELD. ItllX, IT IS DECLARED. VETERAN SON IS STOLEN. OMORHOW GERMAN r Way to Finance 1925 Fair One Problem. TO SAVE ROADS, IS OTHER Short Legislative Meeting Is Expected. EVERYTHING IS READY atu on Highways to ISo Presented. Several Proposals Made on Exposition Tax. Called to special session to consider ways and means of financing the 192& fair and of enacting laws to save the highways of the state from destruc tion, the legislature of Oregon will assemble In the state house tomorrow morning-. . With Christmas but a week away, the session is expected to finish its labors by Thurfday or Friday. There are a few members who talk of ad journing until after Christmas or New Year's and then reassembling In Sa lem and functioning for anofher week. By and large, however, the averago member wants to be home for Christmas and remain there. Insofar as highway regulation is concerned, this big subject will be handled with dispatch. The chief center of interest in what gives prom ise of being an exceedingly lively ses sion will be the 192S exposition and the best method of financing that undertaking. Lobbying Already Marled. Providing , the legislature limits Its action to the fair and highway mat ters, excluding the flood of ex traneous measures which are prom ised or threatened the business of the assembly can easily be disposed of in four or five days at the outside. Sentiment is growing that the legis lature should confine its considera tion to the subjects specified In the call Issued by Governor Olcott, but already lobbying is being carried on In the Interest of several tentative measures which will be introduced If the prospect of passage is auspi cious. The special session of 1920 saw about 100 bills Introduced, many of which were passed, and most of these encountered the gubernatorial veto. History may repeat itself in the spe cial session of 1921. Fair In In Favor. It may be stated broadly that the legislators are favorable to the 1925 exposition. There may be a few Iso lated exceptions, but these are rare. Being practically of one mind that the fair will be a good thing, opinions differ as to the most suitable system of financing the enterprise. The fair cost is estimated at J6.000.noo Of this amount $1,000,000 is promised by private subscriptions; Portland has pledged itself to contribute J2.000.000 by direct tax and $3,000,000 Is wanted from the state. If the $3,000,000 from the state Is raised by property tax Multnomah county will pay one third, so that of the total $6,000,000 the people of Multnomah are con tributing $4,000,000, leaving $2,000,000 to come. from all the other 35 counties of Oregon. The exposition committee has pre pared a proposed constitutional amendment which specifies a prop erty tax to raise $1,000,000 a year for three years. The chairman of the Multnomah delegation has been se lected to Introduce this measure by request. In passing it may be ex plained that Portland's $2,000,000 Is contingent on $3,000,000 coming from the state by a general tax and not by an Income or poll tax. Tax on Property Akrl. Thus, the fair committee is request (Concluded on i'affe H. Column 1.) Krs.r - A I v -a?l, f w . k - i ..... - . . i tAs - rVl. HoM. XYMVX- WOvA "- " Sx Japanese Would Be Included In Exclusion Act Plants Close and Trade Drops 50 Per Cent. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec 17. American manufacturers of .toys and dolls asked the senate finance com mittee today not only for protection against German and Japanese com petition but also for the exclusion of these articles which are the product of child labor. They asked for a duty of 40 per cent of the value of the toys and dolls based on tho prices prevailing: In the American market. Spokesmen for the manufacturers piled high the committee table with toys ranging from wooden letter blocks to the electric train to support their argument that they had revolu tionized the Industry by coupling the educational with the amusement fea ture. They had been able to build up the Industry here during the war, they said, and had turned from the "flimsy, namby-pamby' things Im ported before the war to substantial toys. German competition Is the most serious factor, they asserted, and Im ports from that country are seri ously felt. The American industry has slumped 60 per cent. It was tes tified, despite price reductions rang ing from 25 to 60 per cent. Doll making has been even more seriously affected, the wltneses declaring that of the 134 doll factories In the coun try a year ago, only 12 of the leaders remain. E. M. Johnson of New York, speak ing for American manufacturers of Imitation pearls and specialties, urged that the duties on these articles as proposed In the Fordney bill be re tained. He exhibited Imitation arti cles manufactured in this country and. gave the wholesale prices, re marking that the retailers "get the profits." "As usual," said Senator Smoot, re publican, Utah. Asking for a cut of more than 50 per cent in the duty proposed In the Fordney bill on novelty jewelry, D. J. Gallert of New York city told the committee that the Jewelry indus try was so well established in this country that it needed little protec tion. A duty of 25 cents a gross Instead of 6 cents, as proposed In the Fordney till, on matches in small boxes was asked by Fred Fear of New York, speaking for the match manufactur ers' bureau. EDISON MEDAL AWARDED Work of Eastern Electrical Expert Is Recognized. NEW YORK, Dec. 17. Cummings C. Chesney, manager of the Pitts field (Mass.) works of the General Electric company, has been awarded the Edison medal for 1921 for de veloping commercial apparatus for transmitting high electrical currents, It was announced today. The Pittsfield Works recently de monstrated apparatus for transmis sion of a current of 1,000,000 volts. The Edison medal, founded by as sociates and friends of Thomas A. Edison, Is awarded annually for "meritorious achievement In electrical science, electrical engineering or the allied arts." CITIZENS TAR BOOTLEGGER Florida Man Punished for Selling Liquor to Boys. SAN FORD, Fla., Dec. 17. A young white man named Kehrer was ta'red and feathered here last night by un identified persons. Rrhre." was sent down tie main busln-,s street bearing ot. his bacii a placard stating that he had sold liquor to b ys. WEEK TO BEFAIR, COLD No Rain Is Predicted for Puciric Coat States. WASHINGTON". D. C. Dec. 17. Weather predictions for the week be ginning Munday are: Rocky mountain and plateau re gIon, Pacific states Generally fair and cold. ---3r ' Pjr " S' HAVING JOE. -0 Experts' Plan Submi' j Without Appro'" PARLEY TAKES NtW TURN China and Japan Near Settle ment on Shantung. RAILWAY DETAILS LEFT Full Agreement Depends on Action In Itegard to Return of Rail way to Pekin. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 17. (By the Associated Press.) Conference developments took a new turn tonight when It became known that the French ten-ship building plan was submitted without the approval of the Paris government and that di rect conversations between China and Japan had brought the Shantung con troversy near a settlement. Naval subcommittee action toward a five-power pact on naval limitation awaits an answer from Premier Biland on both the ten-ship project submitted by French, delegates here, and upon the joint counterproposal concurred In by Great Britain, the United States, Japan and Italy that France accept a capital ship strength of 176,000 tons, as compared to her present 164,000 tons in dreadnoughts. A three-hour session of the sub committee today was .argely taken up by Albert Sarraut, head of the French delegation. In presenting views of French naval experts now here. IluKhe' Reply Is llrirf. Secretary Hughes made a brief re ply tending to stimulate good feeling among the committee members. The official communique, however, would admit nothing beyond the facts that the committee met, talked, adjourned and would meet again. Settlement of the Shantung problem apparently depends on satisfactory arrangement of a few details involved in the Japanese return of the Tslng Tao-Tsl Nan Fu railroad In the Klao Chow leasehold. Further Instructions were received today by the Japanese delegates and, although their exact nature was not disclosed, there was evident tonight among both Japanese and Chinese a feeling that a final agreement was only a question of hours. Admiral Frames Proposal. As to the French proposals for a new fleet of ten 35.000-ton capital ships, which stunned conference cir cles when they first became known yesterday. It was learned that they were framed here by direction of Ad miral De Bon, chief French naval expert, under his authority from the delegation to present the views of the French naval general staff. Premier Brland and ex-Premier Vivian! both had left before the proposals were framed. The Paris government has been Informed by cable of the situa tion. It was evident tonight that the 175.000-ton capital ship limitation for France was proposed by the American delegation originally. Italy's spokes man in the sub-committee. Senator Schanzer, replied that Italy accepted the American point of view as to ton nage and would be satisfied with 175,000 tons. If France accepted that figure. Two principles Maintained. The position of the Italian delega tion as It Is understood to have been developed Is that Italy had two prin ciples to maintain in the naval ratio discussion, one that the Italian navy should be on an equality with that ot any other power in the Mediter ranean, and two, that the Italian ratio should be as low as possible for Co icluUed i l'Ke -. Column li. ) CARTOONIST PERRY GIVES " - STi m orou .Tnlin Arfhuf OTdnnnr Wlio Cared ' tot Many Derelicts Murdered by One He Befriended. John Arthur O'Connor will not greet his soldier son on the return of the lad from service with the American forces in Germany. Though he sold a team of horses for $30, with which ho Intended to celebrate the event, the homecoming at Christmas will be surrounded with heartache and tears. The father Is dead, elain for that $50, which aroused the cupidity of a hobo to whom the old man had offered shelter. The body of O'Connor was dis covered by Deputy Sheriff Bert yes terday morning, doubled up and forced to the bottom of a potato bin in the lonely shack In which the old man had lived, about one-quarter of a mile west of the Interstate bridge approach to Hayden island. The head had been crushed with an ax and the throat slashed from ear to- ear. A blood-smeared butcher knife was at the side of the corpse in the bin. O Connor had been dead almost a week. A kindly old man, who believed In human brotherhood, and whose mean home was a refuge for many derelicts as they halted in their wanderings, O'Connor was liked and respected by those on the Island who had become acquainted with him during his two months' residence there. He had come from The Dalles, neighbors believed, and before that had lived in Astoria and in Vancouver, B. C. He was about 55 years old. For many days the old man had been In a flutter of excitement at the impending return of his son. The boy. John Arthur O'Connor Jr., had written that he was to be discharged and might be home by Christmas. A scrawny team of horses was sold for $50. It was to be spent in making the boy's Christmas with his father a happy. one. In his gladness, O'Con nor told many people of his plans and often displayed the $50 with which he was to buy happiness. He told his hopes to one of his tempo rary lodgers, a lean, sneering in dividual with rat-eyes, a man about 35 years old. At 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, a week ago, O'Connor last was seen by John Bohlen, a neighbor on the island, when he borrowed a saw with which to make some changes in the interior of his home In anticipation of a permanent boarder. When days passed and nothing more was heard from O'Connor, Bohlen, who usually saw the old man every day, became worried. Together with L. P. Ellson, watchman for the Hayden Island Im provement company, they went to his home and found doors and windows locked. No one answered their knocks.' Finally, Elison reported to Sheriff Hurlburt's office that the man was missing. Deputy Sheriff Bert entered the shack yesterday morning and found the body in the bin, buried beneath several sacks of potatoes. Deputies Chrlstofferson and Schirmer rushed to the scene. A blood-covered ax and butcher knife were found. Signs of a scuffle were evident, blood spotting the floor around the bed, which was in disorder. A pair of blood-soaked corduroy trousers, evi dently property of the murderer, was thrown under the bed. The son from Coblenz and a daugh ter living In San Francisco, whose name is unknown, are the only rela tives of O'Connor of which the au thorities have any Information. KANSAS ROOSTERS TALL Chicken Runs of Sunflower State Controlled by Eugenics. NEWTON, Kan.. Dec. 17. (Special.) Roosters grow tall in Kansas and Kansas poultrymen intend to keep them growing that way. Eugenics has reached the chicken runs of the sun flower state A rooster exchange wag established here today where chicken breeders can trade, exchange or bor row roosters to improve the breed of their broods and Inject new blood into devitalized strains. Only hard working roosters of un excelled character and reputation are accepted, however. HIS IMPRESSIONS IN vfHE.fTHt William J. Burns Says Warsaw Arrests Will Clear Up Mys tery Surrounding Case, f NEW YORK, Dec. 17. The thrills which New York experienced in Sep tember of last year, -when Wall street was rocked by a bomb explosion which killed nearly two score persons, wcro revived tonight. Coincident with the arrest of a sus pect In Warsaw and the arrival from Washington of William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of Justice, to take charge of the case, there were circu lating rumors of a new radical plot to blow up the stock exchange. Local authorities, while admitting special guards had been placed around the exchange and other build ings, professed to attach no great rmportance to reports that threaten ing letters had been received by brokers. ,. Mr. Burns added nothing to h's statements in Washington, that the arrest in Warsaw of Wolfe Llnden feld. ex-representative In New York of Lenineand the third Internationale, and later In the service of the depart ment of Justice, would clear up the jnystery which had surrounded the case. During the investigation which resulted in the arrest in this country and Canada of a score of suspects, who were subsequently discharged, Mr. Burns had maintained that the explosion was the work of the third Internationale. Mr. Burns regretted, he declared, that the Warsaw police had permitted Llndenfeld's capture to become known as It had been the Intention to with hold the information so that the investigation might bo unhampered. It was through Lindenfeld, he said, that the Burns agency learned prior to the Wall-street explosion that "something was going to happen." but he added that the exact location could not be determined. He refused to state whether suspects were now In this country, asserting that the number of persons Involved might be anywhere from 12 to 300. WARSAW, Dec. 17. Further state ments relative to the Wall street bomb explosion have been made by Wolfe Lindenfeld, arrested by the Polish police yesterday on suspicion of having been implicated in the ex plosion and who made a full confes sion, giving the names of the ring- eadere and other Information. These statements are being translated Into English. According to Sylvester Cosgrove of the American department of Justice, at whoso request the arrest was made, Lindenfeld has avoided questions con cerning hi whereabouts on the day of tho explosion. He has admitted, however, he was In Manhattan, and to the direct ques tion of "Where were you at the time of tiro explosion?" ho made the re Ply, "Uptown." The suspect, the American agent asserted, has not toid all regarding his New York connections. His move ments fttnee he left New York have been fully traced, except for one month, on which he is silent. One admission made by Lindenfeld was that In August he went to Mos cow, passing: six weeks there. KINGSHIP STORY SCOUTED HciMrtcd Offer of Albanian Throne to Uothamite Denied. NEW YORK. Dec. 17. (By the As sociated Press.) C. A. Chekrezi, Al banian commissioner to the United States, today Issued a statement de nying that his country was "in the market for a king," or that the throne had been offered to Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte of this city. Referring to reports published yes terday that the offer had been made to the great-grandnephew of Napo leon by "commissioners of the Alba nian government," Mr. Chekrezi said: "Being the only commissioner of the Albanian government in the United States, I wish to say most emphatically that neither I nor any one, as far as I know, has ever been commissioned by the government of Albania or by any party to open any negotiations or make an offer of the crown of 'Albania to any one." SKETCHES OF SOME RECENT TOPICS IN THE AmT XT'. THvXtAorATC 3 Leaders of Old Kapp Coup Before Bar. EVEN JUDGE IS FRIENDLY Titles Are Used In Speaking to Petted Prisoners. DECISION NOT DOUBTED Maximilian Harden Says Flight Was Joko and Everyone Knew Where ' Rebels Were. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. Germany's Foremost Publicist. (Copyrlxht, 1921. by The OreBorAin.) BERLIN, Dec. 17. (Special Cable.) Almost two years after their nearly successful attempt to overthrow the German republican government, the three chieftains of the famous "Kapp Putsch" are at last on trial. Whether the result Is acquittal or mild punishment, the world has lost Interest except as It reveals Into what depths of confusion the moral Judg ment of nations has fallen. The world has almost forgotten that March morning In 1920 when the Prussian general, Luttwitz, with the connivance of Kapp and other royal ists, rode into Berlin at the head o( a revolutionary army. Their coup enjoyed a brief success. President Ebert and his government were frightened into a burlesque flight to Stuttgart, but then the monarchists were frustrated by their own collos sal Incompetence for the task they had undertaken, and by the general strike of industrial workers. Old Hnunta Vlsltrd. The legend Is that .after their de feat the Kapptsts fled into hiding. As a matter of fact their whereabouts has been er:j rybody's secret. They regularly visited their old friends and co-conspirators at their country homes, unmolested by the police, who simply entered "unfindable" against their names on the complaint regis ter and let it go at that. The government, though it has al ways shown Itself miserably weak toward the wretched military politi cians and adventurers of the Lutt witz type, ought at least to have had the courage to liquidate the affair at once, whether in a stern or a mild manner. But t that time the prisons were full of condemned communists and extreme socialists and aj a result the 330 political murders which lie at the door of the nationalist party have gone unpunished. Some Kxamplc A'eeded. But some example had to be made. The millions of German worker would have regarded the non-prosecution of the Kapp revolters as a grave class injustice and so the gov ernment blundered Into a half und half policy only the advisers and ac tual leaders were brought to trial, while the "misled" followers were amnestied. Ths explains the present absurd farce at Lelpsic. Two Junkers, one a favorite of WU helm II, the other an Agrarian and the third leader, a writer, have been placed on trial. All pretend that the'y never intended to follow Kapp be cause he was attempting to over throw the government, but on the contrary, they wanted to have every paragraph of the constitution carried out to the letter. Yet Ludendorff par ticipated in all the conferences with "Chancellor" Kapp, which were held dally for weeks. ' Dentist Is Ringleader. An obscure dentist named Schnitz ler was the subterranean spirit of the whole plot, but he has not been accused only called to testify. He swears he knew nothing of any treasonable intent on the part of those now on trial and extols Lutt- (Conclurtfd ca Page S. Column 1. Department of Agriculture Gives Out Report of Unofficial Grain Predictions. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 17. An Argentine wheat crop of larger yield to the acre than last year was indi cated in unofficial estimates rocclvcd today by tho department of agricul ture. "Official estimates for tho current eeason in Argentina for the area of wheat," the department said, "are 13.927.000 acres, or 92.8 per cent of 1920-21; the area of oats for 1921-22 Is 2,105,000 acres, or 102.2 per cent of 1920-21, and that of linseed for 1921 22 is 3.892.000 acres or 111.7 per cent of 1920-21. No official estimate for the 1921-22 production Is as yet avail able, but an unofficial estimate gives the probable yield of wheat as .13.3 bushels an acre compared with 12 bushels in 1920-21, that of oats 32.1 bushels per aero compared with 23.1 In 1920-21, and linseed 9.9 bushels per acre compared with. 12.3 in 1920-21." m Prospects for the current Austra lian wheat crop, the department said, are very good and almost equal to that of last year. The preliminary official estimate for the crop is 146, 614,000 bushels, or 99.9 per cent of last year. The winter wheat crop has entered the winter In good condition In Can ada and some increase Jn acreage is rtported, the department said. The total area estimated as sown to fall wheat for 1922 is 842,400 acres as compared with 792.000 acres sown last year and with 720.633 harvested acres. COLD EXPECTED TODAY Official Tempera Cure Lust Night Only SO Above. At ( o'clock last night tho official weather bureau thermograph, on the roof of the customs house, where no one goes but weather observers, reg istered 34 degrees, while down on the ground floor, so to speak. In most parts of the city, still water was freezing "-wherever it stood out of doors. The lowest temperature officially recorded at Portland during the 24 hours ending at 5 o'clock yeVterday evening was 30 degrees, the highest minimum recorded In the state. Ba ker and Medford were tied for low at 10 degrees, and ftoseburg regis tered 26. ASTORIA, dr.. rec. 1 7. (Special.) Astoria was visited tonight ly the first snowfall of the season. The Wind shifted to the south and the ba rometer was falling. Milder weather before morning was the foreeast. TURKEY PRICE 40 CENTS Hoxcburg and Oakland ;rovcrw Make Heavy Sules. ROSEBURG. Or., Dec. 17. (Special.) The turkey market closed tonight at 0 cents with the cash market get ting the Lu'.k of the birds. The pool took a large number t turkeys at Oakland, but locally I he majority were disposed of for cash. Outside buyers accepted the 40-cent price this morning and bought heavily ail day, with no change. The price was acceptable to the greater number of growers who killed heavily. The number of turkeys brought in is estimated to be about the same as last year. The turkeys are of beter quality than has been noted for several years. ZITA ARRANGES FOR TRIP Ex-Empress of Austria lo Visit Son in Switzerland. FUNCHAL, Island of Madeira, Dec. 17. Announcement was made today that former Empress Zlta of Austria Hungary expects to start for Switzer land December 26. She was recently granted permis sion by the allied council of ambassa dors and the Swiss government to make the trip on account of the Ill ness of her son. NEWS. PENITENTIARY SENTENCES MANY WISH TO GIVE VIEWS Approve Pact at Once, Is At titude of Public. PUBLIC SESSION MONDAY Flnul Action Is Not ConsidcrccT Likely Before Wednesday. Peace Favor Is Gaining. DUBLIN. Dec. 17. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Dail Eireann re mained in secret session until late to night In an endeavor to thresh out personal political differences among its members. There was a prospect" that they might come out Into public session on Monday, reconciled at least to the extent of presenting a solid front In their attitude toward the Anglo-Irish treaty. There appeared to be no question that tho treaty would be ratified, but because many members wish to pro claim their position. It was considered unlikely that a final vote could be taken before Wednesday. If reports from other parts ot Ire land may be accepted as correct the general Irifn public would like to see the Dall quic kly ratify tho treaty and let the leaders of the opposing fac tions . settle their political fi&hts afterward. A public session will be held Mon day for formal presentation of a mo tion for ratification, but It Is expected that the drliate will continue until Wednesday at leant. Today's prolonged private sitting was a surprise, as 11 was supposed the la!l's sole I'U.-lnt-ss would be III preparation of the agenda for Mon day's session. ENGLAND IS STILL CONFIDENT liiitillciKiidi of Treaty by Dull by Narrow Margin Expected. LONDON. Ie 17. (By the Asso elated 'ress ) There was no diminu tion of confidence here today that the Anglo-Irish treaty will bo accepted by the Dal! Klreann or by the Irish peo ple If a rife rendu m should become necessary. But the unexplained pro. Ionization of the secret debates In Dublin has begun to cause some anxiety. Uneasiness was Increased today by rumors of Important modifications of the treaty to he sUKKested from Dub lin, entailing possibly new negotia tions. Should th's course be adopted', no body here seems to known how the government would meet It. In debato on the treaty In the house of com mons Premier Lloyd George declared that an attempt by parliament to modify the treaty would destroy it and necessitate a new conference. Serious modifications by the Dail would have the same effect. There was much political gossip In the lob bies of parliament yesterday after the votes were taken concerning the gov ernment's reason for not proroguing parliament, many members apparent ly not being concerned by the govern ment's explanation that it was not necessary to wait for the Dails do cislon. Lord Birkenhead has charge of the government side in Irish affairs, now that the premier will be engaged with M. Briand on German reparations. It Is beginning to be belioved that the Dail will ratify the treaty. If at all, only by a narrow margin; gos sip puts the number of those known to be pledged to ratification at 64 Should the decision, as feared In some quarters, be for Important modifica tions of the treaty, thire Is a srow- Cnrludd on l'aK ft. Cnlumn 2.)