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I on mount hoqd frfl CITY EDITION It's All Here and It's All True THE WEATHER? Tonight and Wednes day fair. Westerly winds. A page photograph showing party on the snowflelds of ML Hood will occupy the front page of the Magazine NEXT SUNDAY II I -A 1 mT WTTT NO 164 QZDS Second-elm Mitter VOL. AVAli, AW. " Portoftic. PortUnd. Oregon PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919. -TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NtW STANDS riVI CENTS PORTLftHD 1MQPIRPQ I 111 U I III LIT President Wilson Urges That America Follow Paths Along Line of. Salvation for World. Executive Today in Home State of Senator Johnson, but Finds Populace Offering Welcome. By Jolin Edwin Ncvin Medford, Sept. 16. (I. N. S.) President Wilson wan greeted here by a crowd that filled all the stand ing' space and cheered him enthusi astically as he made his appearance on the car Mayflower. The president was apprehensive for the safety of about 100 children who had crowded very close to the train and he waved the older per sons in the rear backwards so that the children could see him and shake hands without being in dan ger of being crushed. On Board President's Special Train En Route to San Francisco, Sept. 16. (I. N. S.) President Wilson uttered a new creed today in a few " short addresses at points along the route between Portland and San .Francisco. The president said: "Let us, every one of us, bind our selves in a solemn league and cove nant of our own, that we will let.no man stand In our way of leadership, and that in leading we must lead not along the paths of national ad vantage, but along the lines of human rights and the salvation of the world." The creed originated late last night in Portland, where, under the inspira tion, of an audience that cheered his every utterance to the echo, the presi dent demanded united action in de manding that the senate ratify the Ver sailles -treaty as it stands without any amendment that would require the re- submission of the treaty to the signa tory powers. The presidential special left Port land at 11 o'clock Monday night. To day they spent speeding southward through Oregon and California. Oak land will not be reached until Wednes day morning and San Francisco an hour later. But already there have been Indications of the welcome that may be expected when the city of the Golden Gate is ' reached. The little towns through which the special passed today did their best to show that the president of the United States is wel come. The crowds gathered to cheer as the long train passed through and where brief halts were made for water . and to change locomotives the people gathered around the end of the train (Concluded on Pie Six Column One) ITALY TO INVITE TROOPS TO LEAVE Appeal Will Be Made to Induce D'Annunzip's Followers to Give Up Fiume. Rome, Sept. 15. (Delayed.) (U. p.) The .government's first move toward the suppression of Gabrielle d'Annunzlo's adventure In Fiume will be directed by General Badagllo, deputy chief of staff. An official statement announced today that immediately upon his arrival In Flume he would issue a proclamation inviting d'Annunzlo's followers to re turn to their regiments. D'Annunzlo's forces total 2600, It was stated today, most of whom automati cally followed their officers because they were told the government approved the Flume coup. Government officials said today that several of the poet's followers already had returned to their regiments. The garrison at Flume, it was added, has refused to join d'Annunzto. Information received by the govern ment today said that in an' effort to excite public feeling, the agitators at Fiyme had circulated leaflets declaring , the Nittl cabinet had resigned. British and American troops have em barked from Flume. The French con tingent has returned to its base. Intimation Voiced Salem Police Head May Lose Position Salem, Sept. 16j An intimation that Chief of ' Police Varney might be de posed for failure to deliver complaints filed some time ago against plumbers, who had failed to procure the required city license, was voiced at a meeting of the city council Monday night by Alder man Gerald Volk. An attempt to Increase the salary of City Recorder Race fifty dollars a month .: as compensation for the duties of pur- , chasing agent, which have recently been f Imposed upon htm, was killed by in V definite postponement, ., , f I, . - - . . " , PRESIDENT TELLS LOCKLEY HE IS SURE OF OREGON By Fred Ixckley If you had Just five minutes to talk to President Wilson what would you ask him? Last evening I had a five min ute talk with President Wilson. In the forenoon I went to Crown Point, , where C. S. Jackson intro duced me to Mrs. Wilson. And you will go far before you meet a more gracious lady. The first lady of the land wins you at once, with her smile and her gracious manner. You feel at once she is natural, kindly and genuine. TRIES TO SEE PRESIDENT In the evening I was one of the for tunate ones to hear President Wilson's address at The Auditorium. Returning to The Journal office. I took a bunch of papers fresh from the press1 and went down to the Union depot. The man at the gate shook his head and said, 1orry, but I can't let you through." I handed my card to him and he said, "Oh, that's different," and with a smile he added, "Maybe you can get an interview wl'th the president." I Btepped up to the Mayflower, the president's car, and a very pleasant but business like young man asked me what I wanted. I said, "My name is Fred Lockley. I want to in terview the president? What Is your name and who are you? Maybe you can help me to meet the president." He said, "My -name is Joseph E. Murphy. I am assistant chief of the United States secret service. I'll see what I can do for you." He sent one of his assistants through the train to locate President Wilson or Admiral Grayson. Within five minutes he said, "Here comes the president, with Admiral Grayson." Ad miral Grayson recognized me and greet ing me with a cordial hand clasp, said, "Mr. Lockley, meet the president" WILSOX SHAKES HASDS President Wilson shook hands cordially just as cordially and with as warm a HOLD' WOMAN IN Letter Found in Room of Dead Greek Strengthens Other Evidence Found. Circumstantial evidence strengthened by a letter which they found in the room of Mike Apostolu, Greek, who was murdered Monday morning at 28 North Fourth street, prompted Inspectors Tack eberry and Gordon to arrest W. E. Johnson at the North Bank station Monday afternoon and to go to Salem and arrest his wife, Mrs. Elsie Johnson. Both are being held incommunicado in the city jail, awaiting the action of the district attorney. Police officers ques tioned both man and wife Monday night, but both" are said to have professed ig norance of the crime. According to Tackaberry, Mrs. John son admits that she went out with Apostolu, who lived under the alias of "Pappas," a few times. She is said to have done this "to straighten her hus band out." Tackaberry found a letter signed by W. 15. Johnson, in which he warned the Greek to let his wife alone. Near the close of the letter Johnson threatens Apostolu with death when he says he will shoot him on "site." "This Is the strongest evidence we have against Johnson," Tackaberry said this morning. "Johnson says he was in Salem at 7 a. m. We know that he was in Salem at midnight Sunday and at 10 a. m. Monday. What we have to find out is whether or not some chauf feur brought Mm to Portland during the early morning hours." Johnson is a brakeman on the Oregon Electric. Brother trainmen are said to have told the police Monday that John son 'had mentioned something to them about family trouble over another man. Tackaberry also reports that the landlady In the Chicago hotel, where Apostolu lived, told him a white man had called at the hotel several times recently asking for Pappas. Two More American Aviators Are Lost on The Mexican Border San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 16. (I. N. S.) Two more American army aviators are missing today as a result of a pa trol along the Mexican border. Con siderable anxiety for their safety Is felt at army headquarters. The missing men are Lieutenants L. S. Andrews and S. M. Perkins. They left Eagle Pass Sunday morning at 9 o'clock and expected to be gone but two hours. Since that time no word has come from them. Several airplanes (searched the border country today without finding any trace of them. Ransom Paid Bandits Returned by Mexico San Antonio, Sept. 16. (I. N. S.) The Carranza government today author ized payment to the American gpvern ment ,of 10,000 pesos, representing the amount which Captain Leonard Matlack of the Eighth United States cavalry bad to pay - to Mexican bandits as ransom for American aviators. President Car ranza directed Acting Governor Ortiz of Chihuahua to make payment. If 1 iiiltlvt MURDER MYSTERY handclasp as though he had not shaken hands with 10.000 other people during the past few days. I said : "Mr. President, I want five minutes of your' time. 1 want you to give me a message for the people of Oregon. From what you have seen and heard, do you think Oregon is for' the League of Na tions?" "I certainly do," responded Mr. Wil son. "I believe Oregon is almost unani mously in its favor. Did you notice the audience at The Auditorium tonight? It was a very unusual one. it was me type of audience I love to. address. There was vrt-y little applause. They had no time to applaud. They paid me the vastly greater compliment of eager at tention. I watched their faces. I saw not only interect but agreement." WEST DEM OUST RATI VE "Is the West stronger for the league than the East? Here in the West we are more adventurous more willing to take a chance. Are we not more willing to adventure in peace as well as in war, than the East?" I inquired. "The West is more demonstrative, more outspoken, than the East." re sponded the president, "but 1 believe the sentiment is as strongly in favor of the League of Nations in the East as it is in the West. "Py the way, Mr. Lockley, I read that article you had in The Sunday Jour nal about my visit here in May, 1911, and your report of my speech here at that time was very much as I remember then. YouY memory served you well. What I said then is equally true today. I believe in the people. I believe they will not be swayed from the path' of duty or justice. When you appeal to the heart, the soul, the conscience of the people as well as to their intellect, you will be justified in your faith in their will to deal justly. I am confident that I 6hall not appeal in vain to the conscience of the American people. East and West, North and South they are for the League of Nations." WILSON MAKING FRIENDS President Wilson is making countless friends for the League of Nations wher ever he talks, for It is inconceivable that the people of the United Slates do not want this v:ar to be the end of war for all time. Tou can not meet President Wilson and talk with him without be ing impressed with his spiritual quali ties, by his sincerity and by his earnest ness. PRESIDENT FINDS OREGON FOR PACT Lawrence Says Sentiment Here Is Behind Covenant in Spite of Political Differences. By David Lawrence Sentiment in Oregon Is unques tionably in favor of a League of Na tions. Even so staunch and influen tial a newspaper as the Portland Oregonlan, whose Republicanism is beyond a doubt, and whose support of the Republican presidential tic ket in 1912 and 1916 certainly re veals no especial desise to advance the political fortunes of Woodrow Wilson, is fighting vigorously for the ratification of the treaty and did not hesitate recently try criticise Senator Lodge's report on the ground that it picked flaws in the treaty and did not have anything to say about its affirmative value. The Oregonian sees no objection to reservations but as between a peace treaty and league to which no reserva tions are attached and none at all, its desire would appear to be unqualified adoption of the pact. The Oregon Journal, which Is owned by C. S. Jackson, who was the president's host in Portland, is sup porting the covenant, and the Portland Telegram, the third daily of importance, favors the league but wants reserva tions. Not long ago one of these news papers conducted a straw vote and. 28,000 people voted for the league as against a few hundred against. Senator McNary, Kepublican, has from the outset expressed himself in favor of the league and i one of the leading members of the socalled "mild reservationist" group whose friendliness to the league has been steadfast through the controversy. Senator Chamberlain. Democrat, is standing by the president. Both of Oregon's senators, therefore, are following pretty closely on the trend of opinion in their state and it is the judgment of unbiased men who know Oregon affairs -thoroughly that if the reservations proposed in the senate mean any amendment or prolonged negotiations to get the acquiescence of other powers, the people would generally favor the unqualified adoption of the covenant. The impression prevails that it should not be difficult to brine the Fu-vean (Concluded on Pago Five, Column Four) Erwins Lease Comer At Glisan and Sixth For Five-Year Period A tract 100 by 100 fee in area at the northwest corner, of Sixtb and Glisan streets was leased Monday afternoon by the owner, Chas. O. Sigglln, to W. L. and T. B. Erwin for a five year period. Plans are being prepared for the erection of a one story concrete building on the site. The front half of the. building will be used by the Erwins as a retail store for the sale of bicycles and auto accessories and the rear portion will be fitted up as a machine shop. The cost of the proposed structure is estimated at $30,000. Negotiations for the lease ere handled by the Metzger-Parker-Feg-uson company." ! AUDITOIIIUI CONFIDENCE SPEECH 15 MASTERPIECE Serious, Sympathetic Audience Hears President Expound Prin ciples of League of Nations. Over 7000 at the Meeting De lighted With Wilson's Logic and Explanation of Treaty. By Ralph A. Watson President Wilson told the people of Portland the story of the world cry for a lasting peace at The Audi torium last night. Clearly, frankly, impassioned at times in his earnest ness that the people should know and realize the stupendous issues in volved in the final determination of the controversy now raging around the treaty, he drove the points ne made home with the clear and force ful logic and diction of which he is master. It was a wonderful address, what the people had been waiting for, clear in its logic, forceful in its dic tion, illuminating in its treatment or the great question now confronting the American people and the world. Long before the time came for the doors of The Auditorium to open, the crowd began to gather about the police lines drawn around The Auditorium, and as the doors were thrown open, an aval anche of people flowed down the aisles, stopped at the front seats and swiftly filled the seating capacity, row by row, until standing room only was left. Then the vacant spaces were overflowed by the "no-seat" crowd, and the packed auditorium settled back to wait for the president, not due for an hour or more. AVDIECE IS SERIOUS It was a great audience, evidently come with a serious purpose-to hear the co-author of the world treaty and of the covenant of the League of Nations tell the story of that treaty and covenant. It was patient during the long wilt ; through it the hum of conversation buz zed, scattered with, bursts of laughter, as some optimist joked his aching joints in the standing room section of the house. Throughout the longji3bjiJ4e,or-J gan rolled various ana varied selections out to fill the time and hall, for the people were wanting Wilson more than music and so the time passed until it drew near time for the president to ar rive. Half past seven came and passed and the organ began on "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," while the vast audience scrambled to its feet to stand while the (Concluded on Page Five. Column One) LEGION READY TO G REETROOSE VELT Distinguished Leader Expected to Reach City Wednesday for Con- vention of Organization. One hundred American Legion delegates from recently organized posts in Oregon cities will meet at the Multnomah hotel Wednesday for a three day convention. Theodore Rcsevelt, who organized the legion, will be present. Roosevelt will arrive aj 7 :20 a. m. Wednesday, with Barge E. Leonard, temporary vice chairman of the Amer can Legion. In addition will be Chester P. Wolfe of Indianapolis, a former navy man. Ashland. Medford, Klamath Falls and Roseburg delegates to the state con vention will also arrive with Roosevelt. Officers will be elected for the legion at the convention. The legion delegates are sure to stage a fight against anti-American tendencies and demand that slackers be deported besides losing their jobs. Roosevelt will be guest of a banquet at the Multnomah hotel at 6 p. m. Wednesday. The distinguished guest will speak to the public at 8 :15 p. m. at The Auditor ium. There will be no admission charge. Wednesday morning he will be served with a game breakfast at the same ho tel. Bear meat and venison to be pro vided by Lester Martin of Newport will be on the menu. Woman Is Painfully Injured When Struck Down by Motorcycle Struck by .a motorcycle driven by F. Nogle, 424 Graham street, Sunday night, at Union avenue and Russell street, Mrs. L. A. Hohoman, 412 Sacramento street, was painfully injured. She was taken to her . home and a physician called. Nogle reported the accident soon after it happened, but he had failed to procure the woman's name or ' address and it was unknown to the police who had been injured or how badly until late Monday afternoon, when Mrs. Hoho man's husband reported to the traffic department. Crossing .the street at First and Al der, L. Hill, 28, was hit by a machine driven by H. CL Lee. 20 First street, about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. Hill was' taken to the Good Samaritan hos pital, where it is reported .that he has a fractured leg. OF WORLD PUT IN AMERICA President Wilson Emphasizes Re sponsibilities Resting on Amer ica and Obligations to Be Met. Says American Spirit as Typify ing Freedom and Self Govern ment Is inspiration to Nations. It will not be forgotten that Presi dent Wilson at The Auditorium Monday night warned the vast audi ence there that if the peace coven ant goes back to the council board it must also go back to Germany. Nor will it soon be erased from the pages of memory that at the lunch eon given in his honor by C. S. Jack son at the Hotel Portland. Monday afternoon, the president offered the thrilling assurance that the nations of Europe, with faltering confidence In their own governments, have such confidence in the United States they are willing to let this nation be both leader and umpire. "Leader and umpire" in the issues of peace through a league of nations, and the president asked if America, with such high dignity offered her, would prefer to slip into the great show like a boy sneaking unaer tne canvas leni or the man who saves an admission fee by peering from the bank. In his "Leader and Umpire" address (Concluded on Page Four. Column FiTe) T MANIA FOR SPEED Grief Enshrouds Presidential Special as Friends Place Blame for Allen's Death. By John Edwm Kevin On Board President Wilson's Spe cial Train En Route to San Francisco, Sept. 16. (I. N. S.) There was deep sorrow on President Wilson's special train today. The laughter and joyousness that has prevailed for the last two weeks was missing. As the train moved swiftly south ward most of the men on board sat quietly thinking. Occasionally they would speak, but when they did there was the trace of a tear in their voice. For one of their number, big, whole-hearted, honorable "Ben" Allen had been left behind, the victim of the speed mania 6f the day. And another member of the party, Stan ley Meade Reynolds, more quiet than Allen, but with all the human char acteristics that go to make up a real man, had been left In a Portland hos pital suffering from the effects of the same accident that had cost the well known Cleveland correspondent his life. And on the train, badly shaken up and bruised, but still able to travel, was & third member of the party, Robert T. Small, who also was in the automobile that turned over in Portland, killing Allen and the driver. The hard part of it all, to the men who missed , theft companion, was that chance once again had played a material part in the accident. The three Injured men had been .assigned to an auto that should have been well to the front of the party. But other persons, residents of Portland, had crowded Into the car and they had to take seats in a car In tended for another purpose. And because they were so far in the rear of the party few of their companions knew of the ac- (Concluded on Pace Two, (Qumn One) Senator Johnson Leaves Des Moines For Sioux FalisJ Des Moines, la., Sept, 16. (U. P.) Ratification of the League of Nations covenant may mean establishment of a British world, according to Senator Hiram Johnson. The senator, after speaking Monday night from the same platform from which President Wilson argued for the league, today was to resume the ' executive's trail at Sioux Falls, S. T. A crowd of 8000 heard Johnson. The prolonged cheers which have greeted him before were silenced in tears last nlfrht Johnson's theme was Bolshevism, which the president here urged should be cured by the covenant. "When men In power violate the con stitutlon they become breeders of Bol shevism," he continued, asserting that the purposes of the military activity in Russia were unknown. Senator Borah, who. was scheduled to speak here with Johnson, was recalled to Washington by Senator Lodge to aid in the fight on the peace treaty. Schall Refuses to Thank Pershing Washington, Sept 16. (I. N. S.) A resolution conveying the thanks of con gress to General Pershing, the members ot his staff and the A. E. F. for their part in. the world war was passed by the ' house this afternoon. There was one "dissenting vote tjat of Repre sentative Bcnau or oiiiuiesota. A N LAD Text of Wilson's Portland Speech President Wilson In his speech before the Immense crowd In The Auditorium Monday evening spoke for exactly one hour. The speech was about 5000 words long. The president said: Mr. Chalrmaa, Mr.- Trvlne, my fellow countrymen : . Mr. Irvine has very eloquently slated exactly the errand upon which I have come. I have come to confer, face to face, with you on one of trie most sol emn occasions that has ever confronted this nation. As I have come along through the country and stopped at station after station, the first to crowd around the ' train have almost always been little children brigUt-eyed little boys, excited little girls, children, all seeming sometimes of the same gener ation, and I thought as I looked upon them from the car platform tliat, after all, it was they to whom I had come to report. I had come to report with regard to the safety and honor of subsequent generations of America, and I felt that if I could not fulfill the task to which I had 6et my hand I would have to say to mothers, with boy babies at their breasts. "You have occasion to wtsep ; you have occasion to fear the past as only a prediction of the future, and all this terrible thing that your brothers and husbands and sweethearts have been through may have to be gorm through with again." TASK HALF FINISHED Because, as I was saying to some of your fellow citizens today, the task, that great and gajlanf task which our soldiers performed, is- only half fin ished. They prevented a great wrong. They prevented it with a spirit and cour age and with an ability that will al ways be written on the brightest pages of our record of gallantry and of force. I do not know when t have been so proud as an American as when I have seen our boys deploy on the other side of the sea. On Christmas day last on an open stretch of country I saw a great division march past me with all the arms of the service; walking with that swing which is so familiar to our eyes ; with that sense of power and con fidence and audacity which Is so char acteristic of America, and I seemed to see the force that had saved the world. But they merely prevented something. They merely prevented a particular na tion from doing a particular unspeal able thing to civilization. : Their task is not complete; only we see to' it that it has not tot be done over again, unless we fulfill ftie promise which we made to them anB to ourselves. QUOTES SEXATOR LOUISE This was not only a war to defeat Germany, but a war to prevent the re currence of any such wrong as Germany had attempted ; it was a war to put an end to the wars of aggression forever. There is only one means of doing that, my fellow citizens.' I found quoted In one of yovr papers the other day a passage so appwsttr that Recognition of Union Is Demand ed; All but 3 Local Institutions Are Declared Unfair. Recognition for their union Is de manded by Portland laundry work ers, chiefly girls, who are on strike against all but three of the import ant Portland laundries, and who. were joined this morning by added numbers, including engineers and washers. 1 According to the statement of E. V. Velders, business agent for the union. following the walkout of several score of girls this morning, a conference with employers had been planned for Monday night. Employers failed to appear at the meeting and the walkout was staged this morning. Velders de clares that in many Instances relatives and close friends of employers are-doing the work in Portland laundries today. Sixty workers, including washers and engineers, the chief of whom lately re turned from overseas service with an engineer regiment, have left their work at the National laundry. The Liberty, Very Best and Mechanics' laundry are the only three In the city declared fair by the union after having, signed the recognition agreement, Velders has re ported. Velders Is emphatic In his denial that police were called to quell strikers at the National laundry on Monday and declares that union strikers sent for the Dolice to control a strikebreaker who was using abusive language toward union members. When the union threat ened to swear to a complaint against the girl, she is said by Velders to have been quieted. YVOlUUillC lU A Greet McAdoo iir City of Round-Up Pendleton,. Sept. 16. Cowboys, Indians and stage coaches will be massed at the O-W. R. & N. station Wednesday noon to welcome William G. McAdoo and his party of eight, coming to attend the 1919 Round-Up The welcome has been placed in charge of J. H. Sturgis and all the city has been asked to take part. The Pendleton Round-TJp. Cowboy band. Indians and all the cowboys and .cowgirls here for the performance will join the Round-Up directors in the dem onstration. McAdoo will be "shot up.M captured and taken to' the cow camp, where luncheon will be served to mem bers of the party. , Several stunts are promised for the welcome aad Mr. Mc Adoo Is to be asked to take prominent part In the Round-Up. which opens of ficially Thursday. Sheriff T. D. Taylor, Round-Up presi dent, and members of the directorate, will officially welcome Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo, Bill Hart and others hi the parry. C. S. Jackson of Portland is also expected to be in the receiving line. A new Round-Up bucking horse haa been, named in honor of McAdoo and another for Bill Hart. ; STRIKE UN AMONG LAUNDRY WORKERS I do not know that I can do better than read it as the particular thing that it is found necessary to do : "Nations must unite as men unite. In crder to preserve peace and order. The great nations must be so united us to be able to say to any single country, 'You must not go to war.' and they can say that effectively when the country desiring war knows that the force which the united nations apply behind isoce Is Irresistible. In differences between Individuals the decision of a court Is final, because In the last . resort the entire force of the community Is be hind the court decision. In differences betwen nations, which go beyond the limited range of arbitral questions, peace can only be maintained by putting be hind it the force of united nations deter mined to uphold it and prevent war." COXCTRS WITH LODGE That is a quotation from an address said to have been delivered at Union college In June, 1915, a year after the war began, by Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. (Laughter and ap plause.) I entirely concur in Senator Lodge's conclusion, and I hope I shall have his cooperation In bringing about the desired result. (Laughter and ap plause.) In other words, the ony way we can prevent the unspeakable thing from hap pening again is that the nation of the world should unite and put an irresist ible force behind peace and order. There is- only one conceivable way to do that, and that la by means of a League of Nations. The very descrip tion is a definition of a League of Na tions, and the only thing that we can debate now Is whether the nations of the world, Jiavlng met in a universal congress and formulated a covenant as the basis for a League of Nations, we are going to accept that or insist upon another. I don't find any man, anywhere, rash or bold enough to say that he does not desire a League ofNattons. I only find men here and there saying that they do not desire this League of Nations. And I want to ask you to reflect upon what that means. And In order to do that I want to draw a picture for you, If you will be patient with me, of what oc curred in Paris. WORK IX PARIS Irf Paris were gathered the represen tatives of nearly 30 nations from all over the, civilized globe, and even from some parts of the globe which, in our ignorance of it, we have not been in the habit of regarding as civilized, and out of that great body were chosen the representatives of 14 nations, represent ing all parts of the great stretches of people of the world, which the confer ence as a whole represented. The rep resentatives of those 14 nations were constituted a commission on the League (Concluded on Pag Four, Column One) OF CITY UPHELD Justice Johns Hands Down Opin ion in Cases Brought Against Traynor and Kitchen. Salem,. Sept. 16. The right of the city of Portland to enact and enforce an ordinance requiring the inspection of all public places deal ing in food stuffs, is upheld in an opinion handed down this morning by Justice Johns of the Oregon su preme court. The opinion is based on the cases brought by the City of Portland against P. J. Traynor and against Catherine Kitchen, both cases being identical and the one opinion covering both. Justice Johns in his opinion upholds the de cision of Judge Robert Tucker Qf the Multnomah county circuit court, who had found the defendants In each case guilty, and sentenced each according to the provisions of the ordinance. The appeals were filed by the defendants. ' Under Its charter the city of Port land had a legal right to adopt the ordinance heerin involved," the opinion reads. "It Is not for this court to decide whether or not the measure "should have been enacted ; that is a legislative and not a judicial question. The charter also'' makes the duty of the bureau of health to enforce such an ordinance and vests it with power to make the necessary rules and regulations for its enforcement. There is no evidence that the requirement of the bureau of health are arbitrary or unreasonable or that there was any discrimination In their enforcement." Attorneys' fees cannot be collected in a proceeding brought by the state to condemn land for use as a public high way, according to an opinion handed (Concluded on Pg Two, Colnmo Two) Neill Resigns Post; Eephart Successor Salem, Sept. 16. In order to enter pri vate mrk, Will T. NeilJ, for a, number of years engineer-examiner with the Oregon Public Service commission, to day handed in his resignation to become effective November 1. Neill will be succeeded by C. I. Kephart, who has been electrical and railway engineer with the commission since W. D. Clark resigned to enter army service. Portland to Have Army Retail Store Washington, Sept. 16 The war de partment today announced the cities in which army retail store will be bpened September 25. . Included in the Wist is Portland. Ore. J FOOD 0 0 HUE HAD: 1SA1S HOMELESS Terrfic Tropical Storm Wipes Out Town of Port Aransas and Severely Damages Coast Towns Corpus Christi Under Martial Law; Damage $3,000,000; City Without Lights, Water, Gas. Austin. Toxus, Sept. 16. (I. N. 8.) -In a tclcgrum to Governor Hobby this afternoon, Brlfrodlcr General Wolters of the Texas National Guard reported that there are more than 1000 bodies strewn nloiiK the bank of the Nueces river und In the Corpus Christi area. Brigadier Generul Wolters stated that this Information hus been re ceived in Houston and he believes tho sources reliable. '. t San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 16. (L X. S.) Five hundred persons a re de nd at Kobstown, 15 miles front Corpus Christi, in the wake of tho disastrous tropical storm, according to a telegram received here today from Brownsville. "the telegram 1 said that SO bodies had been recov ered. A military relief train carrying 60,000 pounds of flour, 30,000 pounds of sugar and general supplies In five cars' left Brownsville today. More supplies are needed. Seven light Curtlss planes left Kelly field today to visit the vicinity of . Corpus Christi and search for survivors of the sMirm who may have been ma rooned on the many keys along the Gulf coast Dallas, Texas, Sept. 16. (IT. P.) Re ports filtering In from the five stricken counties in the heart of Sunday's hur ricane and tidal wave late today in dicated the disaster may be the worst in the history of the Texas coast since the Galveston storm of 1900. Accurate estimate of the total dead was Impossible. A long distance telephone message from Corpus Christi this afternoon said that not more than 100 were drowned In that district, which is the most thick ly populated of the stricken, area. It was generally believed the estimate of Brigadier General J. F. Welters of the Texas National Guard, made in a telegram to Governor Hobby at Austin, was based on unreliable Information. General Welters said at least 1000 were dead. Carefully checked reports to ' the United Press from Corpus Christi. Sin ton and nearby towns, indicated 78 bodies have been recovered and that the probable death toll is arround 100. The section of the coast where the storm Btruck hardest is sparsely popu lated, with the exception of the immedi ate vicinity of Corpus Christi. Governor Hobby at noon today issued orders for the immediate movement of 150 Texas National guardsmen to Cor pus Christi to assist In the work of re lieving the sufferers. Additional state ' troops will probably be ordered to the stricken coast country during the after noon. Ranger have already been sent to Corpus Christi. The town of Port Aransas was com, pletely demolished. Rockport and Ar ansas fans were severely oamagea. Rescue work is continuing. It is be lieved the death toll may mount well past the 100 mark, as many bodies were washed for miles. Due to" a lack of rain, dust is eight inches deep on the roads. There were scores of thrilling escapes. Several survivors, who had been washed clear across the bay. clinging to wreck age, were rescued at Odom. A group of soldiers from the army convalescent camp performed with utmost heroism, helping in the work of rescue and pre venting looting In the wrecked district. Fifty persons, including 85 soldiers in a convalescent camp, are missing at Corpus Christi. n . Property damage In the Corpus Christi district is estimated at 13,000.000. One unconfirmed report received in (Concluded on Page Thirteen. Column One) IN SEPARATE PACT State Department Hears Mon golians Have Declared In dividual Peace. Washington, Sept. 16. (I. N. 8.) China has declared a separate peace with Germany. The government of China issued a mandate to this effect yesterday, the state department has been ad vised, Acting Secretary tt State Phillips announced this afternoon. 150,000 Steel Men t ' To Strike Monday ' . r , ., Chicago, Sept. 16. (U. P.) Order for members of the Steel "Workers' unions in the vicinity of C a lea go - to strike next Monday at 6 a, ' m. were received by local unions today. About 150.000 in the vicinity of Chicago will strike, according to - union . official CHINESE AND INS