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! Habit A dam a, i
Portland aid vicinity Hasdsy, falrj
gentle triads, mostly easterly.
Oregon Ssaday- falrt (tails winds,
neatly easterly.
WaaslngUta Monday, fair, except rala
ear the coast Increatlar toutherly
wlids.
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For Boys aid Glrla Section t, Far
Chrlttlss Seleses Lectin Section S,
Page 7.
VOL. XVII. NO 36.
CITY EDITION
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BANDIT
IMPLICA TING TWO OTHERS;
BANDIT CAPTORS
TO DIVIDE REWARD OF $18,50
A T LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION
CONFESSES.
60,000
i
ENTER
GATES
STOKHOW
AWAY BEYOND
- EXPECTATION
General Manager Plummer Esti
mates Attendance by Closing
Time Today 60,000 Persons.
Vast Exhibition Space Is Found
Too Small; Plans Made to In
crease Arena Seating Capacity.
Sixty thousand persons will hae"
seen the ninth Pacific International
Livestock exposition when it closes
late this afternoon, according to an
nouncement Saturday night of Gen
eral Manager O. M. Plummer. Its
success so far exceeds expectations
that Plummer is already planning
for building alterations to take care
of next year's exhibitors and specta
tors. Even before the present show opened
last Sunday, it was known that thi
great building, covering 7 acres, was
too small to take care of all exhibits.
But that the seating capacity In the
big arena was too small only developed
Wednesday night
i3 This year's show was beyond all e-
hpectations," Plummer declared Saturday
mgni. in money nrougni into me oox
office. In number of specatora and ex
hibltors, and In diversity of exhibits
our plans were overshadowed."
t,'nlt construction of the big pavilion
win easily enaoie necessary alterations i
trxr mil vr Aa entr1a',lW'ltW
for next year. As entrlestSHWtertlr
a month before the show opens. It will
be known Just how large to make the
building to hold 1920 exhibits.
LOADING CARS TO BEOIN
The pavilion need not be Idle until
the tenth annual exposition, according
to Plummer. It Is available for the
automobile show, the apple show, land
products and manufacturing exposition,
Billy Sunday or anyone else.
Early this morning loading of cars
with livestock for Montana, Nebraska,
Minnesota. California, Idaho, Washing
ton, British Columbia and Oregon points
began. It will take 14 hours to clear
(Concluded on Fae EleTen, Column Two)
Conflict of Interests
At Paris Conference
Rages About Wilson
American Executive Swamped W ith Work That Demanded Most
Painstaking Effort if Justice Was to Be Done
All Dis putants.
By Ray Stannard Baker
(Copyrifht, 1919, by United
o1
Ray S. Baker
upon him incident to his great position, was truly a mystery. Sometimes
when I went up to see him in the evening he looked utterly beaten, worn
out, but the next morning he would appear refreshed and eager to go on
with the fight. I fancied sometimes that he had discovered the mysteri
ous formula for unlocking the hidden inner energies about which Professor
William James wrote so persuasively in his essay on the "Energies of
Men."
In these days, although he occu
pied the very center of the world's
great stage, with the eyes of all hu
manity watching every ' move he made,
listening for every word he said, he
lived almost the life of an anchorite. For
ays. In late April, he saw almost no
body not intimately connected with the
Bftiml hmtlnesa of the conference. Ha
''had no social life at all, no recreation.
scarcely any exercise. Sometimes in the
evening I used to find him In the study
of his house: a dark, richly furnished
room looking out upon a little patch of
walled garden with an American sentinel
pacing up and down the passage way.
A .prisoner could not have been more
watchfully guarded!
VS THE PRESIDENT'S STUDY
. But the prison cell itself was a charm
ing place. The French owner of the
fOiouse had been an art lover and there
hung in this room a number of rare old
pictures s- an Interesting Rembrandt, a
Delacroix, a Hobbema, aeveral Goyas. I
wondered sometimes what Rembrandt
would have made of "A Sitting of the
v0ur If he had been there to paint it !
Tackaberry and
Phillips May Get
$18,000 Reward
For Bandit Haul
Effort Will Be Made to Have
Pension Board Waive Rule in
Favor of Two Inspectors.
Eighteen thousand dollars In re
wards posted for the apprehension
of the slayers of Jasper N. Burgess,
state highway commissioner, and
George E. Perringer, wealthy Uma
tilla county rancher, will be di
vided between Police Inspectors
Tackaberry and Phillips if the pen
sion board of the police department
will set aside its rule against ac
ceptance of rewards.
This statement was made by Chief of
Police Lee V. Jenkins Saturday night
following the capture of the Claremont
tavern robbers, the confession of one
of them and the Identification of David
Smith as the midnight murderer.
A number of police inspectors, as well
as Chief Jenkins and Umatilla county
officers, shared In the glory of the cap
ture. But Jenkins awards credit for
the "headwork" to Phillips and Tacka
berry and declared that he would be
followed by every man who participated
In refusing absolutely to accept a cent
of the reward that should go to the two
leaders.
The pension board, composed of police
department men, has a rule that re
wards shall not be accepted by members
of the department. Mayor Baker, Chief
Jenkins and brother police officers will
Insist, they declare, that this rule be
set aside in the present case.
seven thousand dollars was added
- "r ii ma ; i.. . . .
a meeting of Pendletonttes Saturday
afternoon. The city council headed the
list and private subscriptions made up
the total. Mayor Vaughn advised Mayor
Baker in a wire.
Saturday morning the city of Port
land offered a reward of $1000, followed
by a similar offer by J. M. Keeney
of Pendleton. A $5000 reward offered
by W. I Thompson of Portland and
Pendleton people swelled the total to
$7000 before Simon Benson announced a
$3000 reward In behalf of the highway
commission. Governor Oicott offered
$1000 on behalf of the state id the $7000
raised In Pendleton brought the sum to
$18,000.
8Ut Feature Srndicatc.)
kF ALL the important decisions at the peace confer
ence, none worried the president aa much as those
relating to Chinese-Japanese relationships and of the
Shantung peninsula and none, finally, satisfied him
less. Not one of the problems he had to meet at Paris,
serious 'as they all were, did he take more personally
to heart than this. He told me on one occasion that
he had been unable to sleep on the previous night for
thinking of It.
Those last days before the treaty was finished in late
April were among the hardest of the entire conference.
How the president bore up under the continual strain
of his task at this time, with all the other demands
It was a curious room, this study, seem
ing to have only one entrance, but one
day I saw the president step to the back
of the room and open and go through
what appeared to be a solid, well-filled
bookcase into a passageway leading to
his bedroom beyond. It was a concealed
door cunnnlgly painted to look like a
case filled with books.
Mrs. Wilson's sitting room was oppo
site the president's study, with a small
reception room between, and her sunny
window opened also on the little grassy
court, and above the wall, across the
street, one could look into the upper win
dows of the house occupied by Lloyd
George. Some day there will be writ
ten an account of the incalculable help
and comfort that Mrs. Wilson was to the
president in these trying days. In every
difficult situation in Europe Mrs. Wil
son comported herself with fine dignity
and with genuine simplicity and gra
clousness of manner.
SO TIME FOB EXERCISE
The president got almost no exercise
during thla last hard spurt in April, for
(Concluded on Pace Eixht. Column Oae)
KEEP TREATY
I
QUESTION OUT
OF CAMPAIGN
This is Trend of Political Wise
acres Despite Lodge's Stand
That Pact Be Republican Issue
Signs Are Apparent That Some
of Senator's Colleagues Fear
His Plan 'Will Cause Split.
Washington. Nov. 22. (WASH
INGTON BUREAU OF THE JOUR
NAL. ) Opinion is strongly Inclined
against the peace treaty beipg car
ried into the next presidential cam
paign, in spite of Senator Lodge's
pronouncement in favor of making
his pet reservations the Republican
issue.
Lodge's declaration has pleased few
amuK of irreconcllables. Republicans
moderates still declare they want the
treaty ratified as Quickly as possible,
and expect a compromise to be reached
j early next year.
! On the other hand, Lodge's political
! plan Has provided new revelation of
I his purpose during the late session.
which many had not before perceived.
All summer he labored to get drastic
reservations labeled with his name and
. he finally achieved success In an effort
. to have the senate Republicans follow
; hi).. Into the last ditch to prevent a
compromise.
Aa soon as he was assured of thia he
save his now famous Interview declar
j Ing that unless the Democrats .accepted
; his program the treaty was dead "fs-
There are signs at some of ' his
; colleagues are tiring of his leadership
; which threatens to split the Republican
party. Lodge la showing traits of pet
ulance of old age. and is scornful to
ward those whd advise greater caution.
He represeenta only a fraction of his
associates In desiring to -carry his res
ervations "Into the campaign with him
self as "great I am."
Even-minded men are disposed to be-
j lieve that the basis of the compromise
! will be found between 44 Democrats who
j voted to ratify with the Hitchcock res
I ervations, and 35 Republicans who voted
I to ratify with the Hitchcock resolutions,
i even though Lodge himself Joins the
j irreconcllables where his uncompromis
J ing attitude Indicates he naturally will
i go In the end.
I Hitchcock's declaration today that
' reservations are inevitable Is in line with
the trend of Democratic sentiment to
accept reasonable reservations, such as
were offered In closing days of the late
session, but became impossible because
of political arrangements Lodge had
made to force acceptance of his program
or nothing.
News Index
Today's Sunday Journal u Complete In 8 Sections
Editor! tl
Section 2, Pig 4.
Foreign
Murder of Crr ProTed Section 1. Pe 8.
Art Eiliibit la Paris Section 2, Pe 2.
Nations
Treaty and Politic Section 1, Ptto 1.
Coal Operators Object Section 1," Paf 4.
Domestlo
Vegetables in Alaska Section 3, Page 5.
Prince of Wales Starts for Home Section 1.
Page 3.
Portland
Tarern Bandit Confesses Section 1, Page 1.
DetectiTes to Get Eeward Section 1, Page 1.
Stock Show Big Success Section 1, Page 1.
Reckless Driving Blamed Section 1, Page 15.
Northwwt
Samuel Young, Pioneer, Dead SecUon 3.
Page 6.
National Guard Complete Section 3. Page 5.
Clackamas to Vote Section 1. Page 9.
Land Lease Draws Protest Section 1, Page 12.
83.000 Autos Registered SecUon 1. Page 12.
Buslntaa Nawa
Roal Estate and Development Section 3. Pagea
1 and 5.
Finance Section 8. Page 14.
Markets Section 3. Page 15.
Marine Section 3, taga 16.
8porn
Section 3. Pages 6-9.
Automotive
Section 6, Pagei 1-8.
On the Finer aid
The Week in Society Section 4. Pagea 4-8.
Women a Club Affain SecUon 4, Page 2.
Fraternal Section 4, Page 9.
Drama and Photoplay Section 5. Pagea 1-4.
Realm of Music Section 5, Pagea 6-7.
Feature
Ring Lardner's Letter Section 5, Page 8.
For Boys and Girl Section 5. Pag 8.
For the Gardener Section 8, Page 8.
Christian Science Lecture Section 5, Pag 7.
The Lite of Henry Adams, a Roriew SecUon 5.
Pag 7.
Magazine
Thanksgiving SecUon 7, Pag 1.
Elinor's Indiscretion SecUon 7, Pag 2.
Mystery of Stateroom 480 SecUon 7, Paga 8.
Big Hips and Tight Waists SecUon 7, Pag 4.
Brainy Men and Friroloua Wives Section 7,
Pag 5.
The absolute Eye Section 7, Page 4.
The Lease Breakers SecUon 7, Pag 6.
Health. Beaaty and the Home SecUon 7. Page 7.
A Trio of Dance Dresses By Lady Doff Gor
don Section 7. Pag 8.
Com)
SecUon 8, Pagea 1-4.
FOUR IMPLICATED BY OGLE CONFESSION
MEN who are accused of taking part 'in robbery of Claremont tavern and murder of J. N.
Burgess and G. E. Perringer in sensational midnight holdup Friday. Above: House at
Emerson and Gay streets in the Peninsu la district, where crime was planned, from which
the thieves are said to have started and in which they sought refuge. Below at left: David
Smith, identified as bandit who killed Burgess and Perringer. Center, right, above:
Walter Harbert. ex-convict, alias "Dutch" Herman, alias Walter Banaster. Center, right,
below: R. A. (Harry) Travers, alleged bootlegger, said to be implicated but to have had no active
part in me holdup. Below: .James Ogle, ex-convict, who made and signed a complete confession.
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Posse From Centralia Brings Back
Word Radical Is Said to Be
Cornered Near Bordeaux.
Centralia, Wash.. Nov. 22. Bring
ing six "Wobblies" and the report
that another part of the posse had
Ole Hanson cornered near Bordeaux,
the other members of the big posse
which started out this morning for
the 'camps 0 the Mason Logging
company, near Bordeaux, in response
to a challenge from a group of I. "W.
W. members to "come and get us,"
returned to Centralia tonight.
The posse left here at 6 o'clock this
morning and reached Bordeaux about
7:30, closing In on all of the camps of
the company at the same time. The
party which returned was the one
which swept through Camp 4. Three
men found with I. W. W. cards -id
literature were brought in and will be
grilled tonight in an effort to learn
what connection or knowledge if any
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Judge James A. Fee Says Ranch
er Slain by Bandits Best of
Farmers of Umatilla.
Pendleton, Nov. J2. George Per
ringer, murdered Friday night by
Portland bandits, was, without doubt;
the most skillful, scientific wheat
farmer in Umatilla county, if not
one of the best in the Northwest, in
the estimation of Judge James A.
Fee, long a persona) friend.
He could estiamts more closely and
accurately tho value of a piece of wheat
land, the cost of Its operation and its
probable yield than any farmer in this
section, the judge said today.
"Perringer was the first to discover
the value of deep plowing and the true
possibilities of the county's lands,"
Judge Fee said. "He was one of the
most progressive farmers and waa al
ways first to add new equipment or
take np new methods o? operation. Many
of the successful wheatgrowers of the
v.v.-, . .
Thieves With Truck
Steal Crated Onions
Beaverton, Nov. 22. Robert Johnson
& Sons, onion growers, living two miles
north of here near Cedar Mills, lost 40
era tea of choice onlona Friday night,
taken by thieves with an auto truck be
tween 1 and 2 a. m. Henry Johnson
waa awakened when his little girl cried.
He heard an auto truck starting up near
their onion house. This morning the
onlona were mi sing. They were valued
at f 100. Last week two men from Port
land with a truck sought to buy soma of
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claremont
positively
y SLAIN
E. P. Marshall Recognizes David Smith as
Member of Gang Who Shot George Per
ringer and J. N. Burgess of Pendleton.
James Ogle, One of Prisoners, Confesses, '
Implicating Two Others Arrested in
Sensational Raid by Police Saturday.
Positive identification of David Smith as the bandit who shot and killed
Jasper N. Burgess and George E. Perringer while two conspirators wer
robbing 25 guests at Claremont tavern on the Llnnton road Friday night,
was offered late Saturday night by E. V. Marshall, companion of Bur
gess and Perringer, who escaped the bullets.
Marshall appeared in Chief of Police Jenkins" office with Pendleton
friends of Burgess, state highway commissioner, and Perringer, Umatilla
county rancher. He was taken to Smith's cell. As Smith" peered between
the bars Marshall exclaimed: 'That's him! I'd know those eyes any
where."
Burgess, Perringer and Marshall were in a private dining room at
Claremont with three women companions when Smith entered the door
and commanded them to raise their hands. Marshall and the women
complied. Burgess took the command aa
a Joke and told the bandits to f'.re. Bur
gess started to rise from the table
when the first ahot struck him at the
left side of the noae. Marshall told Chief
Jenkins. Ha collapsed on the table. An
other Bhot, fired almost Immediately,
pierced Burgess' heart, although the
first shot had probably killed him in
stantly. Perringer was behind the door
to the room when Smith tilled him, Mar
shall declared.
Six men are In jail as a result of a
spectacularly successful raid on the ban
dit headquarters at 163 Emerson street,
late Saturday afternoon.
OGLE COSt'E88E8
James Ogle, former Inmate of two peni
tentiaries, and one of the three men
who took an active part in the midnight
robbery and murder, has signed a com
plete confession implicating Smith and
"Dutch" Herman, alias Walter Banas
ter, alias Wallace Harbert, as his ac
complices, and branding Ii. A. (Harry)
Travers as a moonshine still operator.
These four, with Frank Starr, an alleged
accomplice, are held Incommunicado at
the City Jail. Smith, Ogle and Herman
are to be charged with murder. Travers
will be held for federal authorities and,
after the Saturday afternoon arrests,
seized a double still at the bandit head
quarters, which Ogle says was operated
by Travers. Starr la held for investi
gation. HELD FOR IJTYESTIGATIOIT
The sixth man arrested is Vincent D.
Murphy, aged 34, who is held for Investi
gation. He ia the owner of the house
at the corner of Emerson and Gay In
which the bandits were captured. Mur
phy is said to have harbored the bandit
crew in the same house with Travers,
the bootlegger, and Mrs. Murphy and
her 7-year-old son. His connection with
j ravers operations as a wnisney manu-
racturer win be investigated, tie is
held at the county jail.
A two-karat diamond ring stolen from
B. J. McCauley Of Aberdeen, Wash., In
Carelessness and Its
Chief Aide, Ignorance,
Cause Auto Accidents
Education, It Is Hoped, Will Reduce Number of Casualties in This
City Just as Fire Prevention Campaign Has Cut Down
Losses to One-Seventh of Amount They Were.
Education will reduce the number ot
automobile, accidents in Portland. Just
aa the fire prevention campaign reduced
losses to one-seventh of the former total, 1
an accident prevention campaign per
sistently applied In the school and homes
of Portland will eliminate the careless
ness that in the last analysis. Is re
sponsible for practically every amaahup.
People are driving cara who haven't
the slightest conception of the destruc
tive agency of a high-powered automo
bile. Ita murderous possibilities are not
sensed until It crashes savagely into
another car or a pedestrian. Many
drivera do not realize that they must not
only handle their own car but must anti
cipate the course of another automobile
dashing into the intersection or darting
out from behind a streetcar. Many
approach car tracks without a thought
of cars, and they do not look for a
careless pedestrian to jump into their
path from behind an automobile, street
car or woodpile. An educational cam
paign would impress upon drivers that
they are compeued by the exigencies of
safety, to not only have complete con
trol of their own machine, but to, anti
cipate the mistakes of other driver and
GUI AN IS
IDENTIFIED
MEN'S FRIENDS
the tavern holdup Friday night Was
found in the flush tank in the lavatory
at the Emerson street house by a po
lice Inspector. The atone, valued at
$1850, had been taken from its gold and
platinum settlnga. Other jewelry atolen
Friday night, as well aa rings identified
aa those worn by victims of the robbery
of the Idle Hour pool hull and several
guns and revolvers, together with aev
eral hundred dollars In bills and silver,
ware recovered.
G5E AHWAII.KD GIRL
The captured bandit trio la said to
be the same that held up the Piedmont
car barns recently, when they made
away with $100 after shooting Patrol-'
man Pratt In the arm. Jewelry recov
ered indicates to the satisfaction of ths
police that Smith. Hermann and an ac
complice also robbed patrons of the Idle
Hour pool hall last week.
Inspectors Tackaberry and PhllHpS
say "Putch" Herman is the left-handed
man who has been robbing women on
the peninsula nightly in a cowardly
fashion. Phillips declares the youthful
bandit Is the one who mishandled Mlas
Mabel Obleson In front of her home
at 438 Going street last Sunday night,
after robbing her of j -oney and a ring.
Herman is said to be the short left
handed gunman.
Ogle's complete confession waa ob
tained and signed In the presence of
Deputy District Attorney Klchard Dlech
and Inspectors of the police department,
lie started to tell his ctory immedi
ately after he was arrested In the same
room with Smith, Herman and Travers,
where most of the robbera" loot was
recovered from dresser drawers, and
from the top of the dresser.
"The Jig's up!" shouted Inspector Bob
Phillips, as be raised hia hand Inside hla
overcoat pocket and leveled his sun on
j Herman, Smith. Ogle and Travers.
, -stick your hands up and sit down on
thll, b-d , B. oulck about it!"
1 (Concluded on Tais T-o. Column Two)
Then there la the problem of educating
the driver to the necessity of having
faultless brakes, how a defective brake
means murder and a sound brake safety, '
how the fraction of a second in con
trolling a machine may mean the sav
ing of a life. And brakes are only one
part of the machine ; the other parts
must be fUwlcsa.
The pedestrian must be taught that he
cannot, with safety, cross the atreet at
all places and in all directions: that hs
cannot run from behind a woodpile,
tree or car into a much traveled thor
oughfare, talk with friends Jn the center
of traffic or cross with an umbrella over
the eyes.
A campaign of education would Im
press parents with the folly of allowing
children to play on traffic ridden streets.
Many a collision between an automobile
and a child la the result of parental
negligence m permitting children to pis
In the path of automobiles.
IGX0BA5CE IS STARTLING
In a trip the writer took to the seen
of the accident In which Oustav John :
lver a
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(Concluded on Pas Trat OMaasa roar)
(Oooel'Jded ea Paga Ftfcu. Column Om)
(Concluded on Pag Thirteen. Column Two)
the onions.
of pedestrians.