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VOL. AVAli, AW. " Portoftic. PortUnd. Oregon
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919. -TWENTY-TWO PAGES
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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