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CITY; EDITION; 1 CITY .; EDITION? ' To Journal Reader , . .. . Every effort baa been made to deliver this copy of today' Journal to you at the earliest moment- If delivery is late, please ' consider the carrier boy and the handicap , to prompt delivery imposed by snowbound -treeta and highways. ' ' 1 ? IfiAU Hmmi m All Tra THE WF1A.THKR TonlRht and Thureday, now, probably turning -to rain- ? . ji Minimum Tempera turea Today : !, BUUnga, Mont... -11 " New Vork.,,....- H ' Ioa Anselea... 4S ' Boston M - . vol. xvin. no. "fs..rssssr'ssz:. PORTLAND, OREGON 'WEDNESDAY . EVENING, " DECEMBER 10, V 19ia.FOURTEEN - PAGES. PRICE tWO CENTS I f SrVISa'Vi V oKItS COAL STRIKE IS SETTLED IConservativcs, Who Appear to Be I: in Control of Situation, Today Seek -to Force Acceptance. f Administration Offer of 14 Per , . Cent Increase Basis on Which $M: Onion Leaders Are Fighting." I If ffl lp Indianapolis, Dec 10 (I. , N. - J&.) Attorney General Palmer announced thU after- noon that the coal strike was 'i settled.' . , y IndlahapoHa, Ind., Deer 10. -(IS . P.) After two hours' debate, union . " chiefs of the coaL.ininers adjourned J -: fer lunch shortly after noon today without reaching an agreement on . -President Wilson's proposal to end y, the coal ' strike. They were tot re- eonyerie at 1:30 p. m. ' , - "We, probably will reach an . ? agreement today acilng President ' John L. Lewis said as he left the f meeting".' Indianapolis, Ind.. E-ec. 10. (I-N. S.) -Their battle lines strengthened and a well defined plan of attack formulated at numerous confer; i ences during the night the conserva tive element of the represent4tlves ci tha , United Mine Workers of ( 'America were ready to fonce accept- (Cocclodd en Pua Ten, Column Flrt) DELEGATES LEAVE Departure Of CommisSioners frohllbeavy rains' for the past sererai days. Paris Virtually' Ends the Supreme Council. !f Paris, Dec. IS. (I. N. 8;) As sistant Secretary of State Frank L. ' Polk, Henry White and General Tas- ker H. Bliss, former chief of staff of the-American army, sailed for home today.' v - k General Bliss, a typical .officer of the old ' school , American " type, established . ; a new precedent in Franco-American re. '' latlons during the farewell ceremonies in ' Paris when he kissed Marshal Foch on " both cheeks in real French fashion. :. . General Pershing and other departing - Americans had received kisses from French dignitaries, but they did not re 1 spend to the French custom. Marshal Foch merely shook hands ' with Mr. Polk and Mr. White, as did Premier Clemenceau. A big crowd at - Tthe ttation gave a noisy ovation to the departinjg American peace delegates. The departure of the American i dele gation ..practically ends' the supreme - - council. The French, British and Ital ian delegates will sit occasionally and exchange views, but it is believed no 'business will be negotiated. Hugh Ik Wallace, the United States ambassador, will not have authority to 'negotiate any business,' but will merely .act as .intermediary between Paris and Washington. ALL k , I t 'Fir ? T ' - ' f -r ;'-f L lX , v v r xvTf : r . o v SCHOOL'S OUT TILL MONDAY SAYS BOARD GITY schools are to be closed antU Friday, probably till Monday This was decided vpon, following the recommendation of Superintendent Grout to the school-board. Directors George P, Thomas, George ' M. ' Orton and A- C. Newell were reached and Tolced : their approTal of the plain. . 1 . , , ' in some of tile schools this morning only a handful of pu pi la were present" and In many cases only one or two teach ers 1 appeared. Sessions in the elementary grades were discon tinued In practically all of the schools of the city. , ' - Superintendent" of Plant in Ala bama Sends Message; Prop erty Damage Heavy. Montgomery, Ala., Peot ,10. (S. N. S."She's .gone and Tm going toe, was the last word hetird from the Montgomery , Light A .Power company's plant at.Tallalasee, Ala., 80 miles northeast of here, spoken ever the, telephone by the superin tendent of that plant as the great dam across the Tallapoosa river gave Way about 6 o'clock last night, under pressure of what la said to be the highest water stage in history. Grave fear U felt for the dam of the Falls Manufacturing company, five miles south of Tallahassee, where when last heard from last night at 7. o'clock, the water stood eight feet in the plant proper. ' ' ';; ; . Property damage will .run into mil- lions, the Tallahassee dam alone costing over, $l,000,0Oa.P However, no great loss of Ufa Is feared, as. inessengers were sent out by efery. avaUable jpbea&s hours bore the dam bro, sua owing to the which has flooded the entire lowlands, it is thought that persons living in low lands had already prepared' to move to higher -ground.' Citizens living in the northern "part of Montgomery have been warned to vacate. Railroad service is .practically at a standstill. Telephone and telegraph service is badly crippled, Tillamook Finds 18 I. W. W; Guilty; To Get Year in Prison Tillamook Dec 10. Judge George ft Bagley has just completed a short ses sion of the circuit court, during which all but two of 20 I.W. W. pleaded guilty to violating the criminal, syndicalism law. Their sentences were in most in stances $1000 fine 'and one-year in state prison. County officials are determined to bring' into court every L W. W. who can be located. , - . Republicans to Meetin Chicago Washington, Dec 10. (L N. SO Chi cago has been selected for the Republi can convention in 1920. " The convention meets June 8. PORTLANDt"MUSHES" TO T u v 5 ' ' j, - - - ' -x i 4 FIVE MILLION SUM NEEDED FOR SUB BASE Special Board Makes Estimate of Cost for Development of the Naval Station at Tongue Point Additional Land Deemed Essen tial, and Early Acquirement of This Area Is Urged by -Board. Washington, Dec 19. (I. N. a Five million dollars for the devel opment of a submarine, destroyer and aviation base at Astoria, Or., is recommended today by the special board inspecting naval bases for the Pacific coast. This is but one item In the total recommendation for an expenditure ef S1S7.7S8.350, which the hoard would (Spend for the naval development of ihe coast. Included are developments at Bremer ton, the establishment of a naval .base on San Francisco' bay,, development of Bah Diego aviation base and a sub- fmarlne base at San Pedro. In its recommendation for-an exten sive base at Astoria, the board says : ' The. tongue point site at Astoria, Or.. Is the best site both strategically and tactically. The board recommends the site in the locality chosen, but tnat a larger area, "including all the shore front between tfle railroad and the pier head line extending fsom the western point where Tongue point peninsula joins the mainland around -and including Tongue point and along the shore lirie to the mouth of John Day river, is. essential. The board recommends that this area be .secured-; at the earliest date prac ticable, either by gift or purchase ; that Its development J to a capacity for the successful maintenance and operation of a minimum - of 12 submarines.' six de stroyers and the necessary aircraft for the patrol of water in the vicinity of the mouth f tha Columbia river be pro ceeded with at oncer that the project be planned to be completed 'within . three Spokane 'Judge Delivers Severe Blow, on Ground Members Are Anarchistic. . Spokane, Wash., Dec. 10. (TJ. P.) Judge Webster today . signed a temporary injunction against the I. W W. .which 'will legally bar all members from continuing as adher ents of the organization and forbid the existence of the organization In this county. ... -' Any man in future found to be a mem ber of ihe L W.' W. will be arrested and tried, for contempt of court, Joe Linds Iey. county prosecutor, announced, fol lowing1 the Injunction proceedings. The temporary restraining order was signed on the theory that "the I. W. W. is an anarchistic organisation designed to overthrow the government and jirlng about a condition of lawlessness and violence wherein neither life nor prop erty would bA-eafe." No 4ate has been fixed for a hearing on the permanency of the order. .. i iw tw i V - .... , .'-a Old Timers Tell off Snow Storms of 1861 and '84 Ice Over River Flakes Began Falling Early in December, Says G. H. Himes; Remained Until April. The present snowstorm ranks but about third in the historical snows of Portland, according to old' timers. It Is nothing but a bagatelle compared with that of December, 1861, says George Himes, secretary of the Ore gon Historical society. In that year the snow commenced early In De cember and kept coming all winter long. For the next two months from 12 to IS feet of snow' fell and lay on the ground until after March. Clearer in the memories of Portlanders Is the big snowstorm of December, IS Si, when Christmas shopping was knocked sky high, Himes .says. Front street was the business street of the city, and the snow scooped off the awnings and roofs blocked- the, sidewalks and formed banks all along from four to six feet high. Frederick V; Holman also recalls the snow of 1884, which started in one night and paralysed everything. The " gas lights of which the city boasted were put out of commission, and Jenny Llnd, who sang in an old theatre where now stands the Morgan building, had candles for footlights. The river was frosen over and the steamers could not get up from Astoria. A train was stalled In the snow a few miles beyond Cascade Locks for several weeks. Snow shovels were unable to plow themselves In to the passengers, so food had to be carried in to the people on foot. Ed Lyons, now superintendent of the union station, was conductor of the train. The coldest weather was in 1883, says Himes, when the thermometer registered four below aero. This is quite comfortable and healthy weather," says Himes, "and It Is good for eastern people who think it never does anything- but rain here." Retrial in Holdup Case Scheduled to Commence Today , feetrlal of Julius Smith Ward -ea a charge of complicity in the robbery, of Jack Grant's club- last April was sched uled to commence this afternoon before Circuit Judge Wilson. The ease was to : have "begun this morning, but was postponed owing to the absence of wit nesses for the defense. The Jury in the first case, which was heard before Circuit -Judge Morrow, dis agreed. -Their vote was eight for con viction 'and four for acquittal. $50 000 Is Won by England to "r Australia Flight Port Darwin, South Australia, Deo. 10. (I. N. S.) Captain Ross Smith, Australian aviator, arrived here today, winning -the SS0, 000 prize for the first flight from Enir land to Australia." The England-to-Australla air race Was the most spectacular and thrilling eon- test ever attempted. The prize of $50,000 was offered by the Australian govern ment. Captain Ross Smith left the WORK TO'DAY IN DRIFTS wi hwii mimiwuiii epsmn wftSMWnrfeae 1 1 -::- . . -V---' s.T: :&y: ;oev:?f .-: Vi Service Is at Standstill on the : Southern Pacific; 0-W. R. & N. and S., P. & S. Trains Late. S. P. Electric Attempts to Main tain Traffic! Freight Business Suspended to Aid Passenger - Railroads In Oregon experienced the most general tleup in their his tory this morning. j All freight service was suspended and officials were concentrating their efforts to rush relief to stalled passenger trains on the O.-W. R. A N. and Southern Pacific lines. Final reports on passenger operation up until noon . today show that eight trains are stalled in snow drifts, 21 have been annulled and no report has been received on three trains on Oregon rail roads, ; "Southern Pacific, electric and steam Nog. 14, 16 and 54, still snowed under in the aiaraette valley. Nos. 13 and 63 of Tuesday and 15, this morning an nulled. A California train may leave Portland this evening, All other service annulled. Oregon-Washington line Tuesday's No. 6 in at 12 J30, No. 11 In at li t m., Tuesday's No. ,17 in at 9 :10. No reports on 19 :54 and today's No. 5. 8. P. A S. No. 3 left Spokane on time. No. 5 stopped at Fallbrldge. 26 stuck at Goble, 32 stuck at Ranter, 28 annuled. 24 and . 82 awaiting arrival of other trains. Outbound trains were No. 4, left at 10 :10 a. m. ; No. 21, stuck at Goble ; 25, annulled; 27 and 28" will leave on time, and No. 8, probably annulled. Oregon Trunk No. 103 only one oper ating, no report. - 'Oregon Klectric Outbound annulled (Coaetakd on Face Two, Oolamn Foot) Ban Johnson Wins In American. League New Tor. ; Dec 10. TX P.?ti-aa Johnson wins by a knockout. By action of the American , league magnates this afternoon the csar" was formally de clared to have been elected president in 1910 for a period of 20' years. At the same ' time the "insurgents" were completely eliminated from the board of directors and thrown out of the vice presidency. Hounslow aerodrome near - London " on November , 12 on the 11,500 mile flight. He crossed Europe and Asia, flying over France, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Per sia, India, Slam and Java. One. of the Conditions was that the flight must be accomplished In 30 days. When . India was reached, the flight developed into a thrilling contest between Ross Smith end Etienne . Poulet," a ; French - flyer. They were 45 minutes apart when Ran goon, India, was reached, but from there on the Australian Outdistanced bis com petltor. - sTP- - 'fc j .ot --i. J jffiaitialS 4M:1 Heaviest Snow in 20 Years Entirely Stop Industry m Trains Are Blocked and , Mills Shut Down by Unprece dented Storm. Salem, Dec. 10. Snow fell here to a depth 6f 20 inches during tha past 48 hours and it was still snowing this morning. Operation of all trains on branch railroad lines out of Salem has been abandoned, while main line trains are arriving here from the South, from five to 15 hours behind schedule. Train No. 14, due to leave here for Portland at T:45 o'clock last night, did not reach Salem until nearly 10 o'clock, and had not continued its Journey north at 10, o'clock this morning. Oregon ' lectric train due in Salem at 6 :25 o'clock last night, did not arrive here until this morning, while north bound trains on this line suffered equal inconveniences. The Falls City motor, which became stalled in the snow, some distance from Salem last night, was sup planted by a steam train. -' Street car service, which was maintained on an irregular schedule up to late last night. was abandoned early this morning. Re sumption of this service, however, is ex pected later in the day. Farmers and orchardlsta do not anti cipate any injury unless the snow Is followed by intense cold. SNOWFLAKES "Now, back where I came from" the man from Kansas remarked, as he sauntered out through the drifts to wind up his flivver this morning. ' Back where he came from the snow- plows would have helped a long suffer ing public to make light of such a mild snowfall, but "out here where w live" things are different. The "back where I came from club" lost three members in a four foot drift on Mississippi ave nue this morning, when they attempted to tell a. Jsagular Oregonian from Pied mont what they used, to do back home. A premium was.put upon burlap sacks in the Peninsula district early in the day, when workers confronted with the necessity of coming into the city dis covered the anti-skid ; qualities -- when wrapped around mora conservative foot wear, ' .' ? - ' - - !.- - j.. I- -4'.-y " i -4 I Tha trial of the iypo-are many,-, and sometimes merry, as evidence is' the case, of The. Journal staff of night com positors, t After -i they ; bad completed their labors in the wee ama' hours they found themselves snowbound. , But the' typo is undaunted if nothing else. Those to whom the snow proved a barrier. Including all those, it is said. who didn't come from Iowa, curled up under their overcoats on sundry tables in the proof room and - spent the re mainder of the night in absolute con tentment. "Back la 1893 I was in Portland when the snow was four feet deep." says W. B. Day, -who Is at the Seward from Redmond where he practices law. That was the deepest I ever saw snow here. The next summer there was a flood, and boats were sailing along Third street." Redmond was never more prosperous than at, the present time, he says. Even the dry farmers are all buying auto mobiles, and on a busy day one cannot get through the streets of Redmond, they are so blocked by cars. , K Reed - college was snowbound this morning. Some 40 "day dodgers" stu dents who do not live on the campus were unable to get home Tuesday night after, a dance because of the drifts and had . to stay all night at the dormitory, sleeping four in a bed with the "dorms." When they scanned the landscape today they decided to make their residence Indefinite. Unwilling to negotiate .the mile of drifts between the college and the Sell wood carline the Woodstock line being three feet under the students (Concluded oat Fit. Elavra. Cotama V1t PacificNorthwest THAT PARALYZE CAR TRAFFIC . . . X ' - yy tf'i t ? sy" - . - , . iV ' AIK' J '" ' -'l,y-n Street Cars Stalled on Tracks and Out-. . sideDwellers in Some Cases Trudge! It Many Miles to Places of Employment . ' . , . ..''!" . '' 1 - i Down-to(wn Hotels and Rooming Houses , Crowded by Wayfarers; Weather Man Predicts Continuance of Big Snowfall, With the storm still raging, . but with lessened Intensity, Portland to day began the task i reorganising itself from the complete tleup occur ring as a result of the Montana-like blizzard that enveloped the city In Its wintry embrace for more than 36 hours. ' . A world of strange fantastic shapes and hugs snow drifts was the sight that met shivering Portlanders when they scratched peep holes on the frosty panes and gazed forth this morning on what had been familiar scenes. Snow fell to a depth of more than- a foot according to the weather bureau, but swirling madly before the stinging northeaster, it piled into drifts that completely paralysed railway and street car traffic and brought business to s standstill. MORE SltOW PROMISE Promises of relief from the extreme cold, but not from the snow, are held forth by District Forecaster Edward U Wells. Snow tonight and Thursday, turning to rain, are forecast, and it will "Drobablr" not be so cold tonight. South easterly winds shifting to the southwest are .expected. - - .. Vatorm" warnings ".were -also pasted along the coast this morning. . An east erly gale along the ' Washington eosst and -a - southeasterly gate shlfwag to aoathwsstertyiw anticipated 4 for the Oregon Mast in weur snipping xorecis Old Boreas MlanghedN at th weather man rand his prediction Tuesday that rising . , , temperatures - would probably turn the snow Hakes to rain.- Instead of moderating It grew steadily cower au during the day and njgnt. -i. . And as nlKhtfall wore on the anew fall increased and the east wind howled with still greater intensity. - The streets were deserted. , Venture-eoi-s street care sought to buck the gale and the drifts on east side hills ana lied, lftsrally ; in their tracas. EirOUTES ABB fTAIXBD Switch engines ' hooted their .swan songs and also succumbed. River boats were driven to shelter from the blind ing sweep of winter's forces. And by 10 o'clock at night the city gave up. Even policemen had seemingly deserted the streets. Rooming houses were crowded to more than capacity and would" be seekers of shelter and beds, unable to get to dis tant homes,' want back to their offices end shops, stoked Up the fires or turned on the radiators and slept on the table. Guests in thd hotels slept on cots in the balls -and . even pool , tables) wooed more than" one - stormbound wayfarer into slumberlsnd. At 11 o'clock ' at night the wind reached Its greatest 'velocity, 27 .miles aa hour, straight off the tea that gorges the Columbia at The Dalles. By S o'clock it bad died down considerably, and the thermometer 'registered 16 above, a new mark for the year, and one of the lowest December tempera tures on reco'rd. The snowfall was the greatest for any consecutive period that, the weather bu y , 'r v ) m; - q reau has. yet recorded. At t o'eloek ' this morning the depth was a fraction over 13 Inches, according to the regis- - ter at the customs house. ; The storm In many - ways ' resembles the one in December, IffQS, which, until ; now, held weather bureau records. Like the one now on, the storm of 10 years ' ago followed a long period of cold, clear weather. Beginning on December- 6, the storm Usted four days, but the total snowfall was only 10 Inches. - The silver thaw of January and Feb- - ' raary, 1916. is generally considered Port- . land.s greatest winter storm. From -January 25 to February ft, 23.1 Inches of snow fell, but the maximum depth St any time was 10 Inches. The snow storm approached the ocast Monday afternoon end presents some curious meteorological features. For Instance, at Roeeburg. only traces of snow have been registered, and this . morning the lowest temperature was 40 degrees above sere, t BAKER WARM SPOT ' " 'It was much wanner at Baker than here, a minimum fitfO degrees being re ported with a slight snow fall; aod at'' Boise, where the mercury has been seek -tag the bottom of the bulb for a week; the' minimum was 34 .degree above. Evidently a Chinook Is sweeping across the plains of Eastern ' Oregon and Washington, - : ' Conditions were generally moderating -today. At North Head the temperature establlihed ahoiher new mark Owr Tuesday' regtassatlsn- of 84 above, wWh, 20 above. . Ught snows were repartod-at Beattle and Taooma, where the tempera ture was, respectively, It and 11 degrseft ,' above zero, i There was 24 inches of . snow at -Albany, according to the offi cial report, 10 Inches at Eugene and al most 19 Inches at Oregon City. -A heavy gale is raging along the coast . It is especially violent off Puget Sound, and 68 miles of wind was blowing at Ta toosh Island, this morning. . - . In some respects the tleup of traffic was the greatest ever witnessed here, , although conditions were worse for a longer period of time during the mem orable silver thaw of I916. i - , ; t , . , ATJT0M0BLIE8 ARE ABAKD03TED ' Along every" line this morning" were to . be seen marooned street cars, drifts piled up to their windows, their motors and air pumps silent and with only a lonesome and cold member of the crew within to watch.- Automobiles were abandoned to the drifts in scores, and one had to be on the leeward side to see that it really Was an automobile and not a huge drift in the " street . -i . With the tleup so complete. It was up to those who would get to their occupa tions to resort to the most elemental -form of locomotion and walk. Naturally these streams of pedestrians gravitated ' to the beaten paths, and these beaten paths were the street car tracks, as the sweepings of the night mads the snow . less deep there than .elsewhere. '. -TH0USA9DS JdtJSH TO rfOBK v ' Union avenue, Williams avenue and r Mississippi avenue brought thousands of workers from the nortS into Broad-1 way, and the single file prodeulon was (CoMtodeS ea Tut Ten. C alums Sli) ' 7 V . ''1 y m y l v y k y l ? , f Iff V , , 4 y ' r 4 - "y