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i CITY EDITION CITY EDITION David Lawtence Letters David Lawrence gives a complete pic ture of the Washington situation from day to day in his news letters which appear exclusively in this field in The Journal. It's All Here and It's All True THE WEATHER Tonight and Friday ; probably rain ; southeasterly winds. Maximum Temperatures Wednesday : Portland 64 New Orleans. ... (I Pocatello 48 New York....... 38 Los Angeles 66 St. Paul . .... 38 VOL. XVIII. NO. 220 S:SSS&mSSS PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1919. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS Jt,.B:,"",A,5 PRESIDENT IS TO UP HIS FIGHT FOR TREA TY WILL BE '-SUBMITTED A T NEXT INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE CALLED FOR PEACE; SESSION; KEEP i RE DECEMBER 1 it"" i-. t 'a : NEW BOARD TO TRYANDCHECK E Seventeen-Members of Industrial Conference to Be Called De cember 1j Appointed by Wilson Commission to Seek Causes and Remedies for Economic Ills Which Now Afflict Country. Washington. Nov. 20. (I. N. S.) President Wilson today established a new Industrial conference. , The White House made public the names of 17 members of the new conference which is to be headed by Secretary of Labor Wilson aid which Will discuss industrial unrest and geek to find the remedies which the old industrial conference failed to find. . The .conference will meet in Wash ington December 1. The members of the conference are follow: Secretary of Labor Wilson. Thomas W, Oregory, former attorney 'general ; George W. Wickersham, New York, former attorney general; Oucar A. Straus, New York city, former sec retary of commerce and labor ; Henry M. Robinson, Pasadena, Cal. ; Profes sor Frank W. Taussig-, Cotult, Mass. ; Samuel W. McCall. Waltham, Mass., former governor of Massachusetts : Her bert Hoover, New York city, former food administrator: Martin H. Glynn. win UNREST , AlbanyiN. Y., former governor; Henry tU. smart, cuts uaraen, va. ; ur. vy. Vl, Thompson, Ohio State unlvaai.yr?e-' lumbus. Ohio ; Richard Hooker, the Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. ; John T. Blade, St. Paul. Minn. ; Julius Rouen w aid, Chicago; Owen G. Young, New York city ; N. 3. Watters, Manhattan. Kan., and Stanley King, Waltham, Mass. President Wilson has sent the following letter to Secretary of Labor Wilson and to each of the, conferees: Whit House, Washington, Nov. 19. My Dear Mr. Secretary: In con currence with the suggestion given me by the public group of the recent industrial conference, '! am calling a new body together to carry on this vitally Important work, and I trust you will give me the pleasure of naming you as one of its members. Uuided by the experience of the last conference, I have thought It advisable that in this new body (Concluded on Pae Two, Column Three) E Imperial Potentate Kendrick Gets Rousing Reception; Served Cabbage Breakfast. Portland Shrlners gave glad and cproarous welcome today to Free land Kendrick, biggest Shriner of them all, who arrived fron Phila delphia In a special train to see about the 1920 Imperial convention and help start some 400 neophytes across the burning sands in a big ceremonial at Tho Auditorium to night. Kendrick is Imperial potentate. He was accompanied by other potentates and viziers and nobles of big and little degree. Al Kader temple, as host. turned oat en masse, discarding the modern automobile for the antiquities of stage coach and horse-pulled cab. Seized by the Portland Shrlners, the distinguished visitor was hustled to the driver s seat of the old stage coach. Then, with blare of bands, the pro cession started from the Union station. It included Shrlners from Seattle, Spok ana and Portland, besides the bizarre- looking anachronisms of the ancient hacks, which were labeled "Al Kader Cab Service. At the Multnomah hotel the potentate (Concluded on Pita Seventeen, Column Oni) May Call Conference On European Credits Washington, Nov. 20. It was learned today that the federal reserve board, .- the treasury department and the depart ment Of commerce had been requested by President Wilson to exprss opinions 'as to the advisability of summoning an International conference on the matter of European' credits and foreign exchange. The treasury department and depart ment of . commerce have submitted Answers, and it. is expected that the federal reserve. board. will also make t reply shortly. SHRNERS Glv LEADER WELCOM HUNS HAVE CHANCE AT 750,000,000 WASHINGTON, Not. 20. (I. " N. S.) Failure of the sen ate to ratify the peace treaty may cost the United States gov eminent $750,000,000 worth of German and Austrian property seized daring the war, it was stated at the department of Jus tice this afternoon. The peace treaty validated the acta of tho alien property cus todian, and it was stated today that It would now be possible for Germans and Aostrtans to bring action to recover their property, with the government on the defensive. Attorney General Palmer ex pected a flood of these cases and officials today were taking steps to defend the government's seiz ures. TWAS GREAT DAY Alternative for League of Peace Is Preparedness for New Wars, Says Chicago News. (Bj the United Preas) Following is typical comment upon the defeat of the peace treaty, taken from papers throughout the country: H Indianapolis News : "Politics, com plicated with personal and political an tagonism, undoubtedly blocked the rati fication. Neither side is free from guilt. "About the only thing that can be said about the action ot the senate yesterday is that it was a great day for the Reds, for the radicals, for the Bolsheviks and for all the intranslgeant horde that is trying to remake the world along im possible lines." Chicago Post: "The United States is not. In its heart, repudiating its obliga tions to the world. Those who so read the events in the United States senate misjudge the American people. What ever the upshot of the matter, America can be depended upon to do her part if the world needs her again." Chicago News: "Defeat of the peace treaty as modified brings the na tion to a point where the public must de mand a rational compromise. The alternative to a league of peace is some system of alliances wtth extensive prep arations for new wars and tremendous military and naval budgets. The people of the United States will not ac cept, this alternative." New York Evening Sun : 'The defeat of the treaty with all that it carries with it, of defeat for personal government. for autocratic rule in' this country, is an unmixed triumph for national free dom and constitutional survival." Police Seek Woman Suspected of Thefts In East Side Homes Police inspectors this morning started out in search of a woman burglar who they believe may have been the central figure in dozens of thefts of apparel and jewelry from east aide homes during recent days. . Mrs. P. K. Morse, 495 East Forty- seventh street north, reported that when she returned home Wednesday after noon, she found a woman picking the lock on the back door. Just as Mrs. Morse rounded the corner of the house. the stranger got the door open. A mad chase through the house followed, the intruder beating Mrs. Morse to the front door and getting it open in time to dodge away. The "lady burglar" Is described by Mrs. Morse as being SO years old, five feet five inches tall, weighing possibly 125 pounds and wearing a small hat with long mixed gray coat. The entry to the Morse home was the same as employed by burglars at other east side houses robbed recently. Insists on Eelease Of American Consul Washington. Nov. 20. (L N. S.) Strong representations were made to the Mexican government by the state department today for the release of Wil liam O. Jenkins, American consular agent arrested on a charge of conspiring to discredit the Mexican government in connection with his being kidnaped by Mexican bandits. Peace Treaty Will Be Effective Deo. 1 Paris, Nor. 20. (U. P.) The peace treaty will become effective by Decem ber 1, the supreme council decided today. Nations which have accepted the treaty will exchange '.. formal ratification in time for the pact to become effective on FOR REDS is ye that date. . " 1 - I FOUR INJURED TWO MAY DIE Sellwood Trolley Car Strikes Big Furniture Moving Van on East Thirteenth Street. Robert G. Welch and Fred Keller, Driver and Occupant of Truck, Probably Fatal Ty Hurt. Four men were Injured and two will probably die as a result of an may die as a result of an accident at East Thirteenth and Bidwell streets at 11 o clock this morning, when a two-ton furniture moving truck was struck by a Sellwood streetcar trav eling south on East Thirteenth street. The list of injured follows: Robert G. Welsh. 1675 East Sixteenth street, driver of truck, spine and inter nal injuries ; in serious condition. Fred Keller, 492 Bidwell street, occu pant of truck, fractured skull; will probably die. Frank Beatty, 492 Bidwell street, help er on truck, painful cuts, bruises and minor injuries. George Fogg, motorman of streetcar. injured knee and bruises. All the injured were taken to the Sellwood hospital. The truck also carried G. W. Ap- plegate of 1675 East Sixteenth street. but he escaped injury by jumping from the machine before it was struck. The truck was going west on Bidwell street and did not have a chance to escape, according to witnesses. It was intimated by Motorcycle Policeman Kelly, who was sent to the scene of the accident, that a warrant would be sworn out for the motorman of the car,, who was one of the injured. According to eye-witnesses, the truck was moving at a moderate rate when hit. The front seat was occupied by Applegate. Keller and Welsh. Beatty was on the back of the truck. The entire front end pZ the streetcar was demolished. The conductor was W. H. Duncan. After striking the truck the trolley car went 150 feet before stopping. The truck was tossed upon a lawn on the southwest corner of Thirteenth .nd Bid- well streets, about 75 feet from where it was hit. STOCK AUCTIONED OFF First Sales of Guernseys Ever Held in the West Takes Place at Exposition. The first sales of 'purebred Guern sey cattle ever held in the West scheduled for today lent additional color to the program of the Pacific International Livestock exposition. Thirty head of Guernseys were auc tioned in the dairy breed pavilion. At the same time, a Shorthorn sale was in progress at the beef breed pavilion. Both events were to begin at 10 a. m. but were postponed until afternoon. Thursday is stockmen's and bankers' day at the exposition. The Progressive Business Men's club of Portland arrived in a body, adding to the exposition's roster of honor guests. So popular has the night horse show become that greater crowds than even were expected are visiting the huge exposition pavilion. Tonight an ex ceptional program has again been ar ranged. A feature will be R. L. English's Bounder jumping over a full set dinner table with a number of guests seated. Bounder is a wonder horse, experts de clare, and his jump tonight will be the biggest so far attempted at this show. Doris Oxley McCleve. 14-year-old daughter of James McCleave, Victoria, B. C, is gaining rising popularity through' wonderful horsemanship. She is a sensation, and her nightly appear ances on several horses is a boom. Fighting Poet's Son To Attempt Flight From Italy to U, S. Chicago. Nov. 20. (I. N. S.) Captain TJgo d'Annunaio, of the Royal Italian artillery and son of Gabriele d Annunzio, Italy's fighUng poet, wiU shortly at tempt an airplane flight from kts native country to America, using a tOOO horse power, eight engined triplane. Captain d' Annunzio left Chicago today for New York. "I am returning to Italy at onoe to complete plana for the flight," he said before leaving. IN CAR CRASH PUREBRED Technical Issue On Jurisdiction In Pittock Will Contest Argued Question of Equitable Matters Being Settled in Probate Raised on Motion. Technical discussion on the juris diction of the probate court was completed today in the contest of the will of the late Henry L. Pittock, filed by Mrs. Caroline P. Leadbetter, on motion by counsel for the trustees to strike from the petition certain subdivisions of the contest alleged to be matters of equity and beyond the powers of Judge Tazwell to settle when sitting in probate court. Attorney W. M. Cake, representing the petitioner, insists that the ques tions raised were not extraneous, and that all matters incidental to the ad ministration of the estate were under the jurisdiction of the probate court. He mentioned that the unlimited dis cretion granted by the testator to the trustees, that the alleged contravention of public policy because of the direc tion to the trustees to vote the stock of the Oregonian Publishing company for themselves as directors and the in sufficient specification of the benefi ciaries were matters to be settled in pro bate court without delay. It was argued by Attorneysi John F. Logan and C. H. Carey for the trustees that the only question was whether the testator had anade the will, stating that if he did so and it was duly executed without the influence of undue pressure. then it should be admitted to probate. Carey said : d'The petition before the court is a pe tition not to probate the will, and the sole and only question is that of the undue influence alleged to be used.'. . The Situation that has arisen comes from the fact that Tazwell, who is a circuit judge, is holding probate court, The question under discussion Is whether he can Invoke equitable powers, since he is a circuit judge, in this petition and' in the probate of the will. BRITISH KEEP EYES Possibility of Fugitive Bolting to Germany to "Start Some thing" Considered. London, Nov. 20. The possibility of another flare up of warfare if the former kaiser flees across the Dutch border Into Germany was pointed out today by the Daily Express in the following editorial: "Will the Pinchbeck Napoleon of Amerongen bolt across the Dutch fron tier at an opportune moment and at tempt another 100 days' campaign as Bonaparte did after his escape Irom Elba? But could Germany stand even a campaign of 100 days despite the fact that the allies have disarmed and de mobilized her armies V Sir Gordon Hewart, the attorney gen eral, has returned from Paris where the first steps have been taken towards bringing the former war lord to trial. In commenting upon the like lihood of an early trial for the German war maker, the Times declares that monarchist activities in Germany have been strengthened by the demonstrations over Field Marshal von Hindenburg. Minister of Defense Gustave Xoske is accused of "acting consciously" as the "warming pan" for monarchist plotters. Events in Berlin, where pan-Germans were reported to be making a supreme effort to rally all reactionary elements around Field Marshal von Hindenburg to the embarrassment of the German republican government, were receiv ing close attention in official circles in. London and Paris today. The peace conference, it was learned, is keeping in close touch with the Ger man situation and is preparing precau tionary measures in view of the present Hindenburg demonstrations. The British attorney general has re turned from Paris- after a discussion with the peace conference upon the British plan to bring the former kaiser to trial. Ariton Taken to Check Hindenburg By Karl H, Top tVlegaad Berlin, Nov. 20.-In the face of the strong nationalist sentiment developed in Berlin, largely the result of Hlndenburg's coming, in which the Socialists see "re action rearing Its head," and endangering (Concluded in Pae Sixteen. Column One) ON FORMER KA SER Hungarian Premier Forced to Resign Budapest. Nov. 10. (I. N. S.) Premier FYedericb of Hungaria has re signed because of pressure from the entente. Karl Hulsar today undertook to form a new cabinet. The allies re fused td" recognise the Frederich min istry, claiming that it was supported by- Ute-monaxcbisfaB. - ' V , t- . . . ! LODGE S RULE OR RUIN PLAN KILLS TREATY Arrogant Massachusetts Senator Packs Foreign Relations Com mittee and Politics Slays Peace McNary and "Mild Preservation ists" Play Into His Hands and Accept His Leadership in Crisis Washington, Nov. 20. (WASH INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR NAL.) As regards future action on the peace treaty, Several courses lie open to President Wilson. In ad ministration circles it is hinted that the fight will be renewed with fresh vigor. It is felt that after the sen ators have had an opportunity to in terview their constituents some of them may become more conciliatory The president may resubmit the treaty at the regular session next month, or he may appeal from the present senate and ask the country to elect a new senate that will ratify the treaty. Insofar as the present senate is concerned, Lodge has had his way, Peace has been slain to make a po litical holiday, and the League of Nations lies prostrate for the time being because it 01endsfue4t danca -oht the Jtact vie pwfc Lodge laid down for them. This final result is the consummation to which events have tended from the time Lodge at tha opening of the extra session packed the committee on foreign relations. Reservations were placed in the keeping of the Borahs and Johnsons, and Lodge entered upon a campaign to prevent any solution being reached ex cept upon his own terms. The senate bedlam of Wednesday was a fif ending for this grim purpose. Ar rogantly, imperiously and irritably, Lodge pursued his way, taking advan tage of every legislative turn which would serve his purpose. He was splen didly aided in the final stages when the mild reservation Republicans accepted his leadership and declined to negotiate with Democratic friends of the treaty ex cept through him This power he used re lentlessly to stab the every effort at compromise. BEPCBLICAJfS SUSTAIN LODGE Lodge had behind him 50 votes to overrule the decisions of Vice President Marshall, which would have kept the treaty before the senate until the voice of compromise could find full expres sion. In this parliamentary battle which closed the door of settlement, Lodge was supported by all Republicans except Mc Cumber and had the constant support of three Democrats Gore, Reed and Shields. Four times the senate voted on some form of ratification and on two roll calls ratification mustered 41 votes. This was the highest vote it had, eight less than even a majority and ' 23 less than needed 'to ratify. This was an amazing result In a senate containing not less than 75 professed friends of the treaty, and the failure is due to the grip Lodge finally seized over his political associates. McCumber was the lone Republican who declined to swallow Lodge's rule or ruin policy. He gave his vote for the unreserved ratification proposed by Underwood, but no other Republican crossed the line. Gore, Reed. Shields, Smith of Georgia, Thomas, Trammell and Walsh of Massachusetts, Demo crats, voted against unqualified ratifi cation. McXABT TOTES AGAINST TREATY While the Democrats were outwardly more divided than the Republicans, the fact is otherwise, as behind the Repub lican front there is unexampled bitter ness between the absolute rejectionists and those who wanted the treaty rati fied on one basis or another. Senator McNary followed the Lodge program throughout Wednesday's vot ing. Senator Chamberlain occupied the opposite side on each roll call, follow ing Hitchcock's leadership in the effort to ratify shorn of . the Lodge reserva tions. McNary today expressed the belief that -the peace treaty, including the covenant of the League of Nations with reservations substantially like those of Lodge, which were defeated last night, will be ratified by February 1. The date would be earlier, be explained, ex cept that the railroad bill will first re ceive consideration by the senate. He bases his expectation on the feeling that after having lime to "cool off senators wiU be better able to compromise their differences and that sentiment will de velop for ratification with only modifi cations in the form of certain reserva tions which were defeated. This pre supposes resubmission of th treaty by the president and a renewal of negotia tions for compromise when the next ses sion opens. THE CAT AND THE CANARY BIRD ABOVE, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, leader of the "irreconcilables," who has succeeded in kill ing the peace treaty and America's participation in the League of Nations for the time being, at least. Below is Sen ator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, leader of the "mild reserva tionists," who expected to bring Senator Lodge's crowd in the senate around to his views, but who, in the final day's voting, helped Lodge kill the treaty. EX SOLDIER RELIEF Portland People Contribute $9381 for Distribution Under Local Red Cross. To be used exclusively in Oregon for ex-soldier relief, $9381 has been raised by the Portland chapter American Red Cross, through the following private subscriptions since Tuesday, announced Mrs. Florence R. Mosby, executive secretary, today: Meier tc Fnink Co $ 2!W Atiyeh compu; 10 James Con ley 5 Henrietta E. FiUne 100 Robert Farrell 20 Mr. M. F. Fttzgenld 2 A R. A. LHter " 5 Manhall-Well Co 100 Orerteck Cooke 20 A. A. Rosenthal 6 Ben Selling 100 Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Dever 125 Mr. and Km. Alrord 2S Mr. Cake 5 Mrs. K. U Corbett 28 Mrs. Josephine Jlirvh n Llebes Co. . 25 U B. Menrfee 250 Orermeyer A McLKucaU 42 C Ij. Samuel 6 E. N. Strong 5 !end 250 Unknown friend 1000 P. 8. Brumby 10 William Comfoot 100 Mary V. Failing ' 100 Tom Farrell ao H. H. Holland 8 W. A. McRae 10 Miteal Co 50 Peninsula Lumber Co 250 M. Seller 6 S. Benson 1000 A. Cm. Long 100 Charles Berg 5 Mia F. Eggert 5 E. W. Lumber Co. 250 8. B. Houston 5 L Mayer Co 25 Richard W. Montague 10 Phoenix Iron Works , 10 Seelejr Dreseer 10 Warren Construction Co, 50 Otis B. Wight 50 I N. Fleischner 60 Ladd A Tilton bank 1000 Northwestern National bank 1000 Will Knight 10 V. . National bank 1Q00 Canadian Bank of Commerce 250 lUbemia Saringa bank 200 Rosenthal Co. , 20 Boston Packing Co 150 Allen Lewis 350 M. II. Ho user 500 State Bank of Portland . , 100 A. L. UUll 250 British Fleet Will ' Leave Baltic Soon London, Nov. 20. (L N. 8.) Premier Lloyd. George anounced in the bouse of commons this afternoon that the British I fleet will not resume control of the Bal - kll.- Ulb IU(, . 8TO km- r7 jj it : 'Si'.:-.?'.- y. -S FUND RAISER FOR ' - . 1 i i i r i " ft ..vi f .x-::L-:-i.iM'.-:'S..:-,4. y -.-jSC w """"" 's-?:i-:i3r::v.'-:Ti:3f,- W9 f si PEDESTRIANS GET SHARE OE BLAME Automobile Accidents Not All Due to Carelessness of Drivers of Cars. By Ward A. Irvine Automobile drivers are not always at fault in collisions. Pedestrians are culpable in 80 per cent of the cases In which they are Involved, Captain Lewis, traffic chief, insists. They often walk directly in front of a moving automobile, stop . to chat In the middle of the stree.t, step from behind a machine or car and plunge into the path of destruction while thinking of other matters than their safety. Not long ago a Chinaman was Wiled at Fifth and Alder as the result of his own carelessness. He walked to .the intersection holding an umbrella. With scarcely a glance in either direction he sprinted Into the street, umbrella over his, eyes. The Inevitable happened machine ran him down and he later died in the hospital. An elderly lady repeated the perform ance at Third .and .Washington-street. sbtt had alighted from a streetcar and J J (CosMladed esv Tsge Btitsen, ' OohUtt Torst) 'w. svw ' .y 9 w .iv. 1 u V C "v U w SON chaos ahead FOR WORLD Victory for Germany and Bolshev ism Won in Senate Yesterday; German-American Alliance Fear President-Expected to Resubmit Treaty at Next Session of Con gress and Renew the Fight. Ry Hugh Baillio Washington, Nov. 20. (U. P.) The nation's attention was riveted on the White House today for the next move in the peace treaty battle. Friends of President Wilson could not believe he would swallow defeat on the treaty and the League of Nri tions, in the interests of which he has already sacrificed his health. day believes that chaos confronts the world as a result of the treaty failure, and that it Is a victory for Bolshevism and Germany. The president has decided to reserve. comment on the defeat of the peace treaty unlll he Rends his message to the regular session of congress, opening . December 1, It was learned authoritat ively at the Whjte House this afternoon. Secretary Tumulty and the president had a long conference today, at which this decision was reached. The treaty situation will remain as It Is at present, it was learned, until Wilson puts the treaty before the next session. ! Wilson is working on his message to congress now. j AWAITING WORLD'S REACTION Peace, through treaty ratification, is 'arther away than ever before. It seemed, he only chance of the wets was that the president would Issue a proclamation of peace and lift the wartime prohibition ban, regardless of consequences, but this seemed hardly probable. The administration today was anxious (Concluded on Page -Twenty -seren, CeJnma Sis) 22 ALLEGED REDS. F County Grand Jury Returns In dictments Based on Criminal' Syndicalism Law of State. Thirty-two Indictments were re turned by the county grand jury to day, 22 of which were on charges of criminal syndicalism against men ar rested Armistice night at a meeting in the hall of the Council of Work men, Soldiers and Sailors at 128 ft Second street. The Indicted Reds all held cards show ing membership in the I. W. W. Among them were Joe Laundy, reccrlt candidate for the presidency of the Central Labor council, and Terry "Mcdovem, an I. W. W. organizer. The list Includes Jack Tsylor, Richard Hefnlg, Walter Doughty, Harry Seleceekl, John Know leg, Elmer Randolph, John Howell, William Rock--wood, Tom Burke, J. E. Williams, Arthur Oulmet. James O'Brien, Tom Waldron, L A. Sorelli, James O'Connor, W. F. Lyon and W. Coffey. The remainder were secret indictments. Ralph Stephan, who has confessed to 10 burglaries, was Indicted for having robbed St. Davids church, October 80, when it Is alleged he secured a quantity of War Havings Htamps. McGovern, Rocxwood, O'Brien and Randolph were among those haled before the municipal court Wednesday, drawing down sentences ranging from two to six months and fines from f 100 to 1500. Ball was fixed for 11000 and $1000 for syndicalist offenders. Thieves, in Kaiddn QRMALLY ACCUSED Residence, Steal Valuable Clothing Burglars entered the home of D. H, -Watson, 7J3 East Forty-fourth street north. Wednesday. Tney packed two 8100 overcoats and two English worsted suits in a fancy leather traveling bar and left. Neighbors told the police they had seen two well dressed men leave) . the house early in the afternoon. When M. Auit of 84 East Nineteenth street north arrived home Wednesday he found his home ransacked. Two "gold watches, chains, rings and lavalliers are ..: among the missing articles. A email savings bank, crepe waist and ring were stolen from the rooms of Mrs. L. C. Walker la the Lambrook apart ments,