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7ff 1 city EbiTioiSf h;n;l OREGON COUNTRY LIFE I rJI M'Vlh I IK II CSNTh - KM kl f?" ie AU Hmrm and te All Trum pFJT7T?irTVATVlONAL LIVE- I ' A V" " 1 K f I IUJ 1 Vl J- (1J ViJL Pi l ' . THE WEATHER Tonight, rain, warmer; -'J t f SlFJw-?iiX5v ... wA. . .I H I W fX-S V - JL Vi I A AXi f V vM KSrS V VLM V. a , l V. V 1 Friday, ran; southeasterly winds. t , I llfe'-thw H C i VOCA. 21aU3yg . L X"f j Minimum Tempearturea Wednesday: '.Sf 1 Fully llluetrated-every Saturday. Q V A CCOC7 "ggS" SVyT . LWlS".".: M BLP.....:: ? ' VOL. XVIII. NO. 214 2" PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1919. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ON TWAINS AND NtW' STANDS ri V I OINT" PRICE TWO CENTS LEGION THREATENS TO OUST CENTRALIA CHIEF: ' AMBUSCADED . W. W. GIVES BA TTLE TO PA TROL; -T DISQUE EXHIBITS FREAR IN HUMILIA TING LIGHT mm FREAR PELS Disque Tells Committee Chair man's Hands May Be Slightly Soiled With Selfish Interest. Former Chief in Spruce Exhibits Letterhead Showing Frear Is Officer in Yaquina Company. Washington. Nov. 1 3. W A S H INOTON BL'KEAU OK THK JOl'R NAL) Testimony indicating ihut Chatrnixn Frear inay have come into the spruce inveHtigatlon with hands that were soiled becuus of selfish interests enlivened the hearing be fore the sub-committee investigating aviation when General Disque took j the chair: to conclude his statements. Disque produced a photograrihed copy of a letterhead of a lumber company owning stum page in the Yaquina district, showing the name of Chairman Frear as vice president. KKKAR DICKS FACTS "That was 12 yf-ars ago," protested Frear. "I never realize! a dollar from it." "This letterhead was used for a letter written October Z'J this year," rejoined Disque. Frear later made a Statement for rec- j ord concerning his lumber 'company In terests with the governor and other prominent men of Wisconsin, lie took shares in It. he said, but his position as an officer was honorary, and if he is still an officer he did not know it He never made a cent from It and the In vestment was h "sad spol in his life." It made no difference anyway, he as serted, because. It could not affect his acts as an Investigator. ROAD MIGHT HKI.P FRFVR tlsque replied that the railroad route chosen In Yaquina might make a dif ference in land values. The company in' which Frear holds an Interest ap parently is east of- the ridge and north of Toledo. Disque decided against building into that tract because, he said, he was sure the stumpage was poor and scattered. He recently received a re port of a cruise from Benson, he testi fied, which shows only 22,000,000 feet of low grade spruce in that, section. To have built there would have been ruin ous operation, he asserted. HIGH EXPLOSIVES General Disque introduced high ex plosives all through his testimony. Per sonal encounters seemed imminent more than once during the protracted hear ing. "I think a good deal of your state ment is bunk." commented Congressman Magee. a member of the committee, as Disque was summing up. "I won't stand for that." shouted Disque, bringing his fistwith a great whack on a table as he wheeled his chair and faced Magee. who sat almost within arms' length. Magee and Disque talked at once, Magee declaring he was not "scared" and Disque reasserting that the committee had been unfair. Immediately Disque fell into another Seated controversy with Chairman Frear over a map introduced In evi dence during the hearings in New 'York. COWDIJf HAS HIS SAY Anolher witness, John Cheever Cow- (Ooncuided on Piii Two. Column Three) INDICT EX-KING Ferdirtand, Now With Ex-Kaiser in Exile, Is Blamed for Fore ing Nation Into War. London. Nov. 13. (1. N. S.) Bul garia has demanded the extradition of former King Ferdinand for trial on the charge of forcing Bulgaria Into the war, the war office an nounced today. v- Iq addition, Bulgaria demands that ex-Premier Radoslavoff and 200 other former state officials, many of whom are already under arrest, be brought to trial Ferdinand abdicated and fled from Bulgaria after the collapse of the cen tral powers. He was last reported liv ing In Switzerland in the colony . of de posed kings. Former Premier Radoslavoff was in power in Sofia in 1914 when the war began. He was a Gerrnanophile and worked to line up Bulgaria on the side of Germany. Since the armistice was signed the Socialists have gained power in Bulgaria and It was recently reported -that Boris, former crown - prince, jwenld seek elec tion to the Bulgarian .parliament on the Socialist- ticket. t ? - EMBARRASSED BULGARIA WOULD Union Record of Seattle Is Seized By U. S. Agents; Editors Arrested Action Follows Centralia Massa cre; Editors Accused of Aid- irig Government Defiance. Seattle. Wash., Nov. 18. (I". P.) Agents of I lie I'liiuxi States gov ernment invaded the offices of tlie l iilon Retard, official orgun of the Central Ijalior council, here this aft ernoon, seized the plant, and this afternoon were serving warrants for the arrest of the following members of the taMr's control board, who are charged with "helping to defend, en courage and incite resistance to the Urilted States government," In con nection with the Centralia massacre of war veterans: K. B. Ault. editor-manager. George B. Listman. delegate to the Central Libor Council. F. A. Kust. delegate to the Central l.alor Council, and secretary-manager of the Labor Temple association. At the same time offices of 4e Kquity Printing company, where the Interna tional Weekly, an alle- 1 radical paper, is published, were taken over by federal agents, who had a warrant for the arrest of Walker C. Smith, editor. The Ihiion Record, it was announced, win be permitted to continue publica tion under eovernment censorship. Deputy Marshal Tobey was the first to enter the Record office. He ap proached Kriitor Ault and said : "I seize this plant in the name of the I'nited States government, and order 't closed." All workers were ordered out of the composing and press rooms with the ex ception of one person .eft in each de partment to take charge under direction of the marshal. That the seizure of equipment will prohibit publication of the Cnion Record was the statement of Assistant United States Attorney B. L- Moore. "liuards are being placed In charge of the linotyies, presses, typewriters and documents." he said. "!'o .one will be permitted to use this equipment." DEFECTIVE BRAKES BOOST DEATH TOLL Police Records Show That Motor; Cars, Beyond Control of the Driver, Are Menace. By Ward A. Irvine A man beyond the pale of 50 years was crossing Second and Wash ington streets recently. A heavy motor car appeared, sounded its siren, and crashed headlong into the pedestrian. He was picked up 20 feet distance with blood gushing from an ugly gash in his head, and taken to the hospital. For a time it was thought he would bleed to death. The automobile stopped at Second and Stark streets. Police found that the car had been purchased the day before. The driver couldn't answer for the accident. He didn't "know what was the matter." Investigation showed that defective brakes caused the accident. Faulty brakes are frequently the cause of, mutilated body and limb. They nre in part responsible for the death that occurs in Portland every 10 days from preventable accidents. The 20 umashups that we have every day and the three injuries are accounted for. in many instances, by loose brakes. They figure in accidents that one of every four cars in Portland has yearly. REDS OF CITY ARE TO WORK ON ROCKPILE TMMEDIATE steps to open the A rock pile at Kelly Butte that work can be given to the large number of anticipated I. W. W. inhabitants of the county Jail was announced this morning by the Multnomah county commis sioners. "We haven't the money on hand to do it," said Co mmlsai on -Holman, "but, in view of the ex igencies of the occasion, and that necessity of rounding up all undesirables to prevent repeti tion of the crime at Centralia, the rock pile will be pat in shape at once." . It is expected that, prisoners can be. pot to work next week.? ": LEGION SAYS E CHIEF IS TOO LAX Officer Releases Prisoner Who Is Known to Have Taken Part, in Murder of Warren Grimm. Captain Lloyd Dysart, Head of Central Committee, Threatens to Take Over Police Powers. By Fred H. McNeil. Journal Staff i 'orrp-jpondent Centralia, Wash.. Nov. 1 3. Aroused by what he termed the criminal inefficiency of Chief of Po lice Hughes, Captain Lloyd Dysart, in charge of the American Legion's and citizens' unified central commit tee, threatened to take over the tf fice in the name of the committee this afternoon. ' If you don't show more interest in the work of hunting up these criminals and stop releasing Important prisoners whom we arrest you'll have to get out of the police work," Captain Dysart told the chief. Hughes, who Is a typical small city police officer, seems unable to handle the situation that has arisen here. He has already released several suspects, the most important of whom Is said to be Sergeant KnowleS, arrested Tuesday night as a suspect in the shoot ing by American 'Legion members and who now is believed to be the man who drove away three of the alleged slayers in an automobile during the excitement immediately following the shootings. SSOWLES IS EX'SOLBIER Knowles was a top sergeant with the 42d division, was six years in the regular army, is an overseas man and is badly wa iled by the central committee in charge of hunting down the 1. W. W. leaders. Captain Dysart accuses Knowles of being in the Queen rooming house, on the opposite corner to the Roderick hotel, at the time of the shoot ing. A posse left at noon to try to recapture Knowles. The central committee men shortly be fore noon, recapitulated results already obtained, and drew plans for future op erations in the man hunt that will not er.dn until southwestern Washington has been ridded of the revolutionary element. American Legion members all over the state have taken up the gauntlet thrown down by the radicals, as is shown by the (Concluded on Page Twerty-one. Column Two) ELECTION VICTORY FOR TAX E City Measure to Provide Needed Municipal Funds Adopted by Good Majority. . Portland voters Wednesday sus tained the city council's appeal for a larger tax levy to carry on the busi ness of the city under the "higher cost" emergency. At the special election called to pass upon the in crease of the authorized tax levy to 11 miils, the 380 precincts returned a majority of 2694, in a total vote of 16,376, one of the lightest in the; city's history. The completed totals show the follow ing : For the increase 9535 Against the increase 6841 Majority for 2694 PRECICT RETURKS SHOWIf The highest number of votes cast in any precinct was precinct 168. A total of 85 votes was cast there, 47 being yes and 38 no. The lightest voting was in precinct 31. only 6 votes being polled. Five were yes and one, no. The greatest majority in favor of the measure came from precincts 40 and 140H. where the majority is 30 to 1. Each precinct had 30 yes votes and 1 no vote. Precinct went hard on the measure, 9 voting yes and 27 no. At precinct 211 some voter cast his ballot wlth6ut marking it, making a blank vote. At precinct 240 another voter marked his ballot in both spaces, making his vote void. ' CITY'S REQUIREMENTS GRAFTED Outcome of the election makes pos sible an increase in the revenues of the city which is deemed vitally necessary in the conduct of public business on the basis of the increased costs of personnel and materials. It will afford income sufficient for one year's continuance of Improvement work, and provide ade quate police and fire protection and give the other departments of the city ad- : CeattuMd Xwa. . Caluoui On-) NCREAS CENTRALIA I. W. W. HEADQUARTERS AND WIDOW OF ONE OF VICTIMS RODERICK hotel in Tower avenue, Centralia, as it looked Wednesday morning after citizens hacj torn out the front of the I. W. W. headquarters, destroyed the furniture and contents of the hall and set fire to the front of the structure. It was from the second story windows of this building that part of the deadly rifle fire which killed four men and wounded several others was poured. Below is Mrs. Warren Grimm, widow of Lieutenant Grimm, Centralia attorney, who was killed. She is holding their 8-month-old daughter. Photos by Ekman studio, Centralia. iv ...v FROM AMBUSH -miui; iioiiii-n-itj z sxr um inn Mlll,lu"wm" $ v TT. j .. J jCi y ,ir)lfr .J- t ..pn--rr' " -X 4v vs ' k ' ' ' r z- " L'l'im'., v ' , jzzj , z : jLLtesJ x - it1 - f m iv : " : 4f r.n)i)iiiii m....-.....,.... t .-i ' .1n ), ,, ' ' - - ' " " ' --wvw -'- j MtimmnV': IM1J -m- ww- m r ' , ' . - " s mm0, . '""" 1 f m. : ' t. i j , , J V j,.... : : -..ii.:,..i-..v n : :": .-(..i I I '"' 'm',"" J 7 ' w, . " "''',''' ' ' ""L' I y 'ill '.Tf.J ' 'nl : f" .7m "" . : TuZi rii. i .- ,,,. : :. 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I I II- llllll II I II II II II all I IUU I UI1L III II1MII1M miff .yll-.yyy'mf I IV I1IIIL IIVUUULU Portland Post Will Uiscuss yues- 4T; WS " 'X Centralia Prosecutor Acts as Cit- tion at Next Meeting; Local XTEr ' T1 'zens ut to eet a'" Radicals Detained. , J lenge Hurled by I. W. W. Restoration of capital punishment In Oregon, a demand reflected from the I. W. W. outrage at Centralia. will be discussed at a meeting of the American Legion at Central library londay night. In the meantime Portland war vet erans will attend the funeral of the victims of the massacre at Centralia. The legion here is said to be aroused, and is urging stringent measures for the control of rad ical ifin. Following the quizzing process con ducted by a special agent of the depart ment of justice Wednesday, it was an nounced" this morning that the 57 men arrested Tuesday night at a radical meeting on Second street would face trial in municipal court at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Charges of vagrancy have been placed tentatively against most of the defendant's. ; Immigration Inspector R. P. Bonham expressed the belief this morning that deportation of all the aliens netted in the raid might prove impossible unless it can be shown that they are undesirable persons. Simple attendance at a radi cal meeting proved nothing, he said, as many might have gone out of curiosity. SCSPECT IS ARRESTED Michael Kleiner, said to be secretary of the German branch of the Labor Cummunist party and a member of the I. W. W.. was arrested late Wednesday night after federal operatives heard that he had celebrated the Centralia massacre with a party. First believing that Kleiner was the author of a letter found Tuesday night in a raid on a hall at 128 Second street, and which mentioned Der Klassenkampf, a secret German propaganda paper, in highly commendatory terms, operatives detained him for investigation. A special agent of the department of Justice, who led the police ,in their raid on Kleiner's home, 208' Fourteenth street, declared that Kleiner appeared to be one of the most dangerous radicals recently arrested. However, the prisoner was released early today after a se vere grilling. He is a German and 42 years of age. RADICAL LITERATURE FOUND Inflammatory literature, and radical publications were seised at Kleiner's borne and will be sorted today. He de nied being an I. W; W. when arrested, but later a membership card of that or- . Concluded on Fw. laea, -Column Taie . fL.' Rv Frd "' Me.Nrtl. vilT , : - y ; jffifcfic 'lj$?J$i Journal Staff 'rrnpnnlent frri$FZ& 'H th Centralia. Wash.. Nov. IS.-Com- Policeman Saves George From Cold Ducking in River Rescued from at ducking in the chilled waters of the Willamette only after he had been hilariously tossed in a blanket in the hands of husky shipyard workers, George Colidac, 32, a Russian, is resting this afternoon at polioe headquarters awaiting investigation. jThe Russian, without thought of the rigors of his Informal reception", invaded the Columbia River Shipbuilding cor poration plant Ithis morning and opened an oratorical exposition of the wonders of L W. W.tsrri in a jargon of "English as she Is spoke." aad his native tongue. About that time Colidac found h'mself ascending from a blanket After merrily disporting themselves with the alleged "Wobbly," shipyard workers carried Colidac to the bank of the river and were about to toss him In when he was rescued by William Keller, chief of the plant- police, who transferred the Russian to the police station. King Albert, at Home Delighted Over Trip Brussels. Nov. IS. (I. N. S.) King Albert and Queen Elizabeth arrived here today from Brest Both were in splen did health and spirits after their long American trip and-enthusiastic over the new constructive iileas ther had ao- Quired abroad, .v s-V .,.,'.,.. -. w 1- Woman Is Knocked Down in Street and Injured by Auto Sister Exeta of St Mary's academy, accompanied by two young girls under her charge, was knocked down and in jured Wednesday night by an automo bile driven by L. M. Thomas at Jeffer son and Sixth streets. According to the report made by Thomas at the police station which was investigated by Motorcycle Policeman George Kelly, the machine was traveling west on Jefferson. Thomas claimed that 9 he was unable to see Sister Exeta be cause of her dark costume, but did man age to avoid striking the two girls, whose lighter clothing he could see. Sister Exeta was taken to S Mary's academy, where her injuries proVed light Youth Thrown From Automobile May Die Francis Strauss, 11 years, old. 1173 East Thirty-ninth street was seriously Injured Wednesday afternoon when he was thrown from the run.il.ig board of a machine In a collision with a street car at Forty-third and Woodstock etrae. He was taken to St Vincent hoe - pltal, where it is reported hs may have a fractured skull - - " , , w - Ry Krrd II. McNeil. Journal Staff orrrrmn1rnt Centralia. Wash.. Nov. 13. Com plaints charging at leust nine men ! with murder and conspiracy will be filed with the clerk of Iewls county at Chehalis by Prosecuting Attorney Herman Allen late today as a result of arrests already made and infor mation gained in connection with the Armistice day outrages in this city. , Twenty-six other members of the I. W. W. are being held on charges that later may be changed to murder. The rest will be turned over to the government for prosecution as members of the. rev olutionary organization. Hundreds of men of Lewis county and the adjoining country. Including mem bers of civilian police organizations, the national guard and volunteers, are searching today for men wanted, and who. according to latest reports, are in hiding nearby. Shortly before noon a posse was sent to the woods south of the city at the (ConrlurtKi on Pa Elrren, Column Two) Talk in Favor of Centralia Radicals Costs Good Jobs Pendleton. Nov. 13. Two men. one In Pendleton and one In Echo, who uttered sentiment in sympathy with the radicals who caused the Armistice day tragedy in Chehalis, lost good jobs Wednesday. They are alleged to have carried Red cards. Others who are reported to have made similar statements are being sought Resolutions calling upon Oregon's del egation In congress to stand for enact ment and enforcement of law against such outrages as the Centralia massa cre, were wired Wednesday night by the executive committee of Pendleton post, American Legion. A wire express ing sympathy -and offering whatever ad possible was sent Centralia post at the same time. Applications for .Legion membership poured . in to local headquarters follow ing the reports from Centralia. vDosens 1 of returned . men "declared .themselves j ready for a showdown on -the sids- of 'tVMre'r - ., iPATROLFIRED BY I. W. W One Bullet From Gunman Pierces Clothing of George Paxton as District Is Being Combed. Service Men Dislodge Assassia From Covert an-d Hand-to-Hand but Ineffective Duel Follows. By Kr1 H. McNeil Journal 8Uf( ('orreiix.iidml Centralia, W'ash.. Nov. 13. Oeorgs Paxton. ex-service man and membsr r of the patrol guarding the old mili tary road to Chehalis, narrowly es caped death this morning when h and two companionH were fired on in the dark by a man hiding on ths banks of the Chehalis river. One bullet of the half dozen that wer fired passed through his clothing J wltVimtt Vi o r m i r tr him T"Vi a U nib 1 escapea. J Psrtnn witH T n U.n mn n .nil ri.uM Is' -v.r Mosnman, all , ex-service men, .wens crossing the Chehalis river bridge In th course of their patrol duties at 3 o'clock this morning when they saw a move ment in the brush on the river bank, not 10 feet from where the body of the I. W. W. lynched the night before had been fished from the river. They made for the spat.' Taxton lead ing, lie flashed an electric torch into the brush. A man jumped np, turn-j ing a six-ahooter point blank at Paxton, and began firing. All three' of the posse returned the fire, but the man escaped.' This morning a posse of 10 men Is beating the brush in the vicinity of the Chehalis river bridge In an effort to find thj supposed I. W. W. What the sheriff's office believes to be one of the most important arrests yet made is that of William R. Haynes, a young American, who was taken this morning at the logging camp of the East ern Railway A Lumber company, 15 miles eattt of here. Haynes is said to be a "red tleket" man of the I. W, W., and is said to be one of three men who were posted on Seminary ridge and wbO fired into the parade as it passed down j 1 V " V I H . V .IV..., V More nosses are workiii- todav In! I the Mendota district where some impor-f tant arrests were made Wednesday aft-t ernoon. The mining claims In that re glon are suspected of being a hotbed of radicalism. i it ARE ARRESTED . ! The raid on the Idle Hour .pool room J at 116 Tower avenue last night by aj posse of 50 armed citizens was con-1 ducted in true wild west style. Mores than 100 men in the big hall were lined! up against the wall, their hands over! their heads, while members of the posse; searched them. Of the IS arrested nonsi was an American, Russians, . Finns and! Austrians being among those held. Allj those arrested are accused of being ''red) ticket" men of the I. W. W. j All last night the fcody of the I. W. W. 1 variously known as "Brick" Smith and Ernest Everetts. who was lynched Tues day night, lay In a cell In the Centralia Jail, in plain view of the 22 X. W. W. suspects still held in the Jsll here. Rid-1 died with bulletholes, the neck, cut byf the rope, sodden after Its hours In thei Chehalis river. It wax a terrible object! lesson to the prisoners. I PRISONERS DIG ORATE This afternoon four of the accused I.j (Concludod on Pf Tw Mity-t-o, Column Two) f Hundreds Registering .at San Francisco Following Offer of Macy Wage Scale. San Francisco. Nov. 13. (U. P.)? Striking shipyard workers ar registering today to return to work.; At the Union Iron works a United Press representative saw an average of about one man per minute befog! registered at noon today. ft An average of 200 men had signed atf":r each of the six big yards by noon to-t day, according to a statement of thai ; California Metal Trades assoclat!on.f Over 500 workers had registered at on yard, the statement said. t ".: Small groups of workers were gath- ered outside the various plants this: , morning. Opinion generally expressed: ' among them Is that each day" will seal . increasingly large numbers of the strik- ers accepting the Macy wage scale of- fered by employers. The proposed scale is the same that was in effect before the strike was called on . October . p. The union leaders declared today their men would not return to ' wor. AS mating of the Iron Trades Council bac ' bein called for tomorrow aifht. v 1 SHtPWORKERS SIGN TO RETURN TO JOBS