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8 HURT AND MEN AND: WOMEN RUSE FOR OPEN AS
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ALLIED COAL
IS ACCEPTED
German -Delegation. Gives In to
- Demands After Four-Hour Ses
sion and After Serious Dead
lock Had Threatened Hearing.
Bpa. July 16. (I. N. S.) The - Ger
man delegation signed the allied coal
"ultimatum at 8:45 tonight after
having been in session with the al
lied statesmen for more than four
: hours. A serious deadlock developed
early in the evening, but the Ger
mans suddenly collapsed in their op
position to the allied terms.
By Newton C. Parke
- Spa, Belgium, July it. -(I. N. S.)
Kewi counter proposals dealing
with the delivery of coal by Germany
to the allies were ' presented to the
allied statesmen by - the German
delegation early today.!
After the meeting of allied premiers
. broke up it was announced that the new
German counter plan had been refused.
A fresh proposal providing for the ac
ceptance of German coat at the German
- market price was then presented to the
Germans. ,The allied statesmen were
said to be in complete agreement that
the military occupation j of Germany
would be extended to the i Ruhr basin if
- Germany delivers less than 8,000.000 tons
nf nulilMfars November 1. ' Premier
'Delacroix of Belgium said; that Germany
must give a final decision before, the day
is over. ;;.; . V y 'i'y-'y
Confusion and some mystery have sur
rounded the coal """"discussions . 'ulnee
Wednesday night when 16 was reported
that the Germans, under threat of an
allied ultimatum, decided; to accept the
allies' terms providing for the delivery
of 2,000,000 tons of coat monthly. The
allied ultimatum was said to have threat
ened the occupation of the Ruhr district
unless the Germans accepted the allied
terms by noon Thursday, s The Germans,
in the meantime, made ai counter offer
to the allies accepting the allied terms
under certain i conditions.! It was de
clared last' night that the Germans had
again been given an extension of time
until noon today to accept the' allies'
terms. The fate of the German condi
tions -was not made -plain.. . Then fol
lowed the latest development the new
counter offer by the Germans early to
day. There are Indications that dissen
sions have developed in the German del
egation over the allied coal protocol,
which' may have Influenced the allies In
granting the Teutons more time for dis
cussion among themselves. - - ;
The talk of an ultimatum bas dwin
dled since Thursday morning and Dr.
waiier von simons, tne, German ror-
- eign secretary, denied that any ultl
' ma turn had been handed! the Teutonic
- delegation. )
GERMANS PROPOSE COUNTER
OFFER; I,IMIT IS UP TODAY
- r By A. K. Johntoa
Spa, July 18. The new; German pro
posala to settle the question of delivery
of coal to the allies, received by the pre
miers at Thursday's meeting as an an
swer to the allies' ultimatum, are hedged
with conditions. ;. - :
She proposes to furnish i 8,000,000 tons
of coal monthly as against the 2,400,000
which the allies had demanded, but in
order to obtain this amount. Fehren
bach Insists that a mixed - commission
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FRUSTRATES COUP
OF MEXICAN REBELS
? By Ralph . II. Turner
.Mexico' City, July . 16.- (U. P.)
Th d la Hucrta government frus
trated a projected coup d'etat with
capture of Generals Pablo Gonzales,
Carlos Garcia and Jose Santos, who
were preparing to execute a well-
planned maneuver for overthrowing
t the present regime, it became known
todayi - ,-. i
Despite Dead Calm Air Handicap
Journal Seaplane ; Makes Delivery
; Seaside readers of The Journal
-had their' copies of the first after
noon edition Thursdays at' 4 p. m.
as a result of The Journal's seaplane
express delivery system. Despite
' delays in -starting from Lewis and
Clark-fields the papers were at the
beach vfcours : before', copies -of .other
. afternoon papers - had been- dis
patched to the 'coast. -
, '' A dead , calm prevailed over the-.nver
There May Be
Slipton Between
Cup and Lipton,
Ring 'Declares
By Ring W. Iiardner
New - York, July 16. The first
heat went to the Shamrock, but
theys many, a slipton between the
cup. and line Up
ton. I didn't know
if that gag's been
used before, but
it's my own idga.
As I couldn't
stand the excite
ment of continu
ously watching the
two catboats ; as
ft I AJ they sped forwards
t ' in the teeth of a
3-mile calm I happened to be. down
in I. T. ; Annotyn's room-when the
Resolute done a Willard.
Word was rushed In that the rest
of the race would be a monologue,
aa the Resolute's sails had flopped
and I 'couldn't help from feeling
sorry for "her as I went to an even
ing dress suit dance one night and
broke a suspender.
-1 went out on the porch and asked one
of the. newspaper boys how it could of
happened and -; he sed she had broke a
gaff, you know bow a woman feels these
days when she breaks a gaff at the pres
ent price of gaffs but anyway I wVnt and
seen Captain Norton of our destroyer
that use to play football at the navy
In Annapolis and made all American but
treated us fine and be said he didn't
think It was a broken gaff but he thought
tt was a broken' throat halyard and may
be she had died of tonsilitia. ' .
Well I would of been satisfied with the
broken throat " L diagnosis only - Lieut
Comm Dawes i said he thought it was
a-; combination" of broken' gaff Jaw and
a busted spinnaker. Personally I come
to the conclusion that 1 might as well
use my own judgment as I once rowed
a row boat out on lake .Michigan. So I
borrowed a pair of opera glasses off of
(Concluded on Paa Two. Column Three)
TEAL WARNS OF
J. N. Teal warned Portland, busi
ness men to prepare for sharp ad
vances in both freight and passen
ger ' rates in j an .exhaustive discus
sion before the Portland Traffic and
Transportation association Thursday
evening, of jwhat he : termed ' ths
"billion dollar rate'J hearing before
the interstate commerce commission.
Teal has just returned from "Wash
ington, where he attended this hear
ing, representing Northwestern lum
ber interests, some of the California
lumber manufacturers and the gen
eral interests of the city of Portland.
' The railroads ask for an increase in
net revenue of $1,017,776,995. of which
amount $352,893,265 is sought from the
western group of carriers. f
i He suggested that the Columbia basin
rate decision will be .deferred by the
commerce commission until it has passed
upon the general application for in
creases. - : v e : .,'
That large i Increases in rates, es
pecially on the percentage basis pro
posed, would have the effect of stimu
lating plans for increased use of water
transportation between the two coasts,
was another of the rate expert's sugges
tions, "i 1 - -
He was frank to declare that the future
operation of the railroads of the nation
is at stake in the - issue and he urged
that shippers, transportation men and
the public generally cooperate in the full
est possible measure In order to. con-
(Concluded oa P Two. Column Two)
France to Recognize
Reds if Peace Comes
Paris. July U6. U. P.) Newspaper
dispatches from Spa today confirmed the
report that France had decided to resume
relations with. . Russia ' providing .- th'er
Russo-Polish armistice proposed by
Great Britain was signed.
Thursday and several pilots of the Ore
gon. Washington & Idaho Airplane com
pany started out with the papers, but
were unable to get into the air. It final
ly remained for Captain F. K. Harding
to take the F-boat and set f orlh. He
finally got started at MS and at 2 :45,
after running through fog at the river's
mouth, landed In the.Xecanlcum. '
Captain Harding returned from the
coast with a passenger, leaving up at
5 :20. For almost Tin hour he sailed
around in the fog off the mouth of the
river but finally emerged over Astoria
and had clear sailing on through to
SHARP ADVANCES
ACREAGE IS
LACKING BUT
Total Wheat Production Will Go
Below 1919, ; but Acre i for
Acre Yield' Will - Be -Recorded
as Most Remarkable in Years.
KORTHWEST GRAIN CROP ESTIMATE
Kumtieltf
Wheat. U.
Or. 21.43.000 : 8.000.OOO
Uuh.. 34.813.000 : a.OOO.OOO
Ida. .. 1 4, T l(i,0 ' B.OOO.OOO
Barley.
2.ia.eoo
s.noo.ouo
27SejOOO
7,790.000
in roo ooo
1920
into
1918
70.9fto,6oo Ta.oob.oob
8oi425.000 . 24.100.00O
58.000.000 25.401,000
12.230.000
By Hyman It. Cohen "
Oregon, Washington nd Idaho's
1920 wheat crop will not show, the
greatest total production that the
three Pacific Northwest states .have
ever produced, but it is a very good
crop and acre for acre compares very
favorably with the best that this sec
tlon has ever grown. i;. yy v-.l j .
The lack of acreage Is all that kept
the three states from breaking alT pro
duction records for the season. i-The
year will go down into wheat crop his
tory as: one ot tne mosi remarwoio
that the Pacific Northwest has ever
produced. - '
It has been a remarkable crop in every
particular. Facing the most acute short
age of sown acres as compared with the
previous year that the three states have
ever known, there was in sient up k a
very ; short time ago prospects for the
greatest total production.
For 1920 the present prospect is for a
crep of at least ; 70,998.000 - bushel v.ol
wheat for the three states as compared
with 80,425.000 bushels a year ago.'. First
glance, at these figures would indicate
that the season has not been nearly as
good as initial remarks would indicate
but that ia not. actually the case.
Fact of the matter Is thaff'the T920
wheat crop, of the Pacific Northwest naa
faced most unusual conditions. Owing to
war conditions it was absolutely
necessary that a large percentage of
the previous acreage be eliminated : this
season, or In mother words much : area
irr summer-fallow. The planting with
its serious decrease was the first ad
verse condition, v. Then followed ex
tremely dry weather for a long period
which compelled growers In many sec
tions to DUt .their seed in dost with the
consequent rapid ; growing of mustard
and other weed. '
Then followed very severe weather con
ditions, the cold being so intense in lead
ing producing centers that fears were
expressed that the greater bulk .of the
area must be replanted. r This ; cold
weather extended so long that the crops
clearly showed Its effect by turning yel
low. k; - : ; ! : y I
Real growing weather appeared late
in 1 the spring and this was continued
until the end. It was the very liberal
June precipitation In most of the dis
tricts that gave to the Pacific Northwest
the excellent prospects, recently shown.
Had it not been for these timely sh wers
there is not the slightest doubt but that
(Concluded oa Pace Sixteen, Column One)
TO
ACCEPT ARMISTICE
London, July 16. (1. N. S.) The
Polled council of - defense has de
cided to accept Premier Lloyd
George's armistice proposals for a
cessation of hostilities on the Rusao
Polish battlef ront, according i to : a
Warsaw dispatch to the Evening
News this afternoon. .
Paris Gets Glimpse
Of. Mary and Doug.
Paria. July 16. (U. P.) Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Fairbanks arrived here practi
cally unnoticed today. News of their ar
rival spread, and in a few moments a
crowd had collected in front of the hotel,
seeking a glimpse of the screen stars..
Portland, reaching the landing basin at
1 o'clock.- t
In reporting the criticism pilots make
of Eastern Oregon cities which are not
provided with landing fields, the name
of The Dalles was prominently men
tioned in The Journal , Thursday. , The
city-where Pilot Archie. Roth1 had trou
ble in rising from the ground was Pen
dleton. ' Roth damaged hia plane , while
trying to get away from a field 3 miles
from Pendleton, the 1 nearest available
field to the city.
Although The Dalles can be reached
by hydroplane, it baa no landing field.
SHA10CKIV
LOOKS SPEED Y
CONNOLLY
When Green Boat Glides Smooth
ly Over Line and Catches Up
and Slides by Resolute, Sea
Writer Says, 'There Goes Cup.'
fHera ia Jamea B. Connolly's atorv nf the
'first day out on the race course jurt. off New
I ort, wnere tne two treat yachta lougut -their
first encasement for America's cup. It ia fuU
of the HM.lt tanc of the ocean. It sets down to
the real spirit behind the real contest, and it
U-written in the famous virile style of Amer
ica's greatest writer of sea stories.' It tells you
what you want to know about the race but
it also aiTes you the picture from the stand
point of a man who knows and lores the sea.
and who knows and lores all ships, from little
dancing, frail racing machines, such aa Keso
lute and Shamrock, to the great liners plowing
their way past the . sporting arent, bound lor
porta across the sea.
i . By James B. Connolly
'(Copyright, 1020)
' New York, July 16. Tne government
requirement of lifebelts, lifeboats and
rafts for passengers may have held some
craft in the harbor Thursday, but none
of us who followed the race took notice
Of it. Iv: . )., - - , - j - y y- :y -
They seemed to be all there the good
old harbor jSteamers with their ginger
bread topsides. the ocean fteamers, the
big steam yachts, the little ateam yachts,
the sailing; craft of the kind you see
anchored off Bar Harbor, and the other
kind - that you wonder why they ever
left their little old. moorings to come
as far away as Sandy Hook.
SCARES OS LOOKERS
The war craft there, the destroyers
and revenue cutters, as of old, and the
aub-chaaers these " last making their
first appearance on.; any race course
anL not a . biassed one -of tfaetw forgot
to whistle while the two yachts were
crossing between the- yellow lightship
and the black official tug. J
There was the usual fiddling around,
tacking back and forth to get advan
tage of position, no doubt ; but they both
seemed to go over the line when the
time came. Much to her own satisfac
tion, the Resolute crossed first, taking
the southwesterly breeze, ; such breeze
as there was, over her port bow. The
Shamrock may have been a minute and
a half behind, seeming to be in no great
hurry before crossing, .but looking to
have important business before her after
she got over she went right after the
Resolute, caught up with her. slid by,
and kept sliding by. and most of us
looking at her did not like it at all.
More than . one, i watching . her In that
first 20 minutes, said: "There goes the
cup!" "' ' -
HIDDEN- I1C DRIZZLE
. She was to the leeward of the green
boat, all this time, and . kept working to
leeward, but' she was sailing with so
much more of full that it looked as
if they were satisfied to go to leeward,
so that they got over the water. Then
came big blobs of rain, and a drizzle
which hid them both from us. From
our- destroyers we could ' see the Sham
rock dimly, j the . Resolute not at all in
the drizzle, and thought of nothing but
how far ahead the green lady would be
when next we saw them clearly.
But when the time came for them to
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BULLET SENT AT
J. G. VON HERBERG
Seattle. Wash., July 16.(I..N. S.)
John G. Von-Herberg, treasurer
of the. Greater- Theaters company,
owning and . operating " string ; of
moving picture houses in Seattle,
Portland and ether Northwest cities,
was fired on while in front of the
Liberty theatre here today. ' '
E. E. Richardson, 61, who says' he
is a landlord, was arrested in a room
ing house, across - the street and. , ac
cused ' of firing the shot. -Richardson
denies the : shooting. The bullet missed
Von Herberg by two feet.
A strike of musicians and moving
picture operators has been' in force In
all ' the Greater Theatres company
houses for several days. -
C. S. Jensen, senior member of the
Jensen & Von Herberg firm of motion
picture theatre - operators. , bad not
heard of the attack on - Von Herberg
until advised by The Journal. The five
local "theatres controlled by the' com
pany Jhave " been operating with , non
union help for the last s week, machine
operators, stage bands .and musicians
having walked: out week ago In
sympathy with Tacoma union men who
are striking for an increase from
85 cents to $1.25 an hour - All Jensen
& Von Herberg theatres in Seattle",
Taklma and other Northwest cities are
affected. -! ... . . : . . ,
Secretary to Soviet
EnvoytoBe Deported
London, July H. L N. S.) Santrrl
Nuorteva, secretary of Ludwig Martens.
Russian soviet envoy - in the United
States, who. has been arrested here, will
be deported to Russia Joy the British gov
ernment, according to the Daily Herald
TO
LUNACY
BOARD
FIDS WOMAN
FULLY SANE
Mrs. A. A. Math us, Charged With
Assault and . Battery on Chil
dren, Declared Competent by
v Doctors; Aid Offered Babies.
. Two offers of assistance reached
(the Oregon Humane society before 9
o'clpck Friday morning for little
Edna and Verna Felton Ross, - res
cued, from the home of Mrs. A. A.
Mathus Thursday, after having been
beaten black and blue' The little
boy, Ernest -White, . was taken j
charge by hia grandmother, Mrs
T. Fxiel, Thursday.
in
j.
A lunacy commission composed of 'Dr.
Sarah Whiteside and Dr. S. E. Josephl
Friday found , Mrs. Mathus perfectly
sane. .; Vv;i::."p ' i-"h-.-'y-yyy.
' One woman telephoned the humane so
ciety i early, Friday,, offering to - take
both the ; Roes children into her home
and also to take the mother into her
business and thus help her financially
to support the babies. Mrs. Ross had
placed the children In charge of Mrs.
Mathus while she tried to : obtain em
ployment in! a" department store. -
Another woman offered to take the
yourfgest baby . Into her-home and not
adopt her, but care for her and give her
a home until the mother is able to care
for her. . j . . ;.-"yy, r ; y .?.
Ernest White was, o have been.; re
moved from the Matthews . home
Within a' vfew days. The mother, who
is attending business college, had placed
the,chl)d tn -,the. home so-that . he -might
be ?nert her- jA.-. visit -t--h-' Matitul
place - a week ; ago convinced her, how
ever! fhat 'he' should be; removed, and
she Wrote her mother, who arrived in
the city Thursday for the express pur
pose of taking the baby home with her.
Mr. . MathiiM : 1 rA tr cH irk f Vi a s MHmt
aiUrefused to make any statement Fri
day morning. Groaning and moaning-,
with her hand 1 held continually to the
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JOURNAL TOUR TIT
UNTOLD WONDERS
Towering . peaks and vast snow
fields the great out of doors in Its
most i enchanting garb flower-clad
stretches ' of i wonderland! These
are the pictures that will appeal
to the visitor at Rainier national
park, first stop ' of The Journal's
initial "See America First" tour,
which leaves Portland July 31.
- With all the grandeur of Rainier, Gla
cier and . Yellowstone national parks
listed for the inspection of The Journal
special car party under the direction-of
an experienced tour manager and guides,
Oregon folk .are flooding The Journal
travel and information bureau with in
quiries about the 16 day trip.
And -those who know the charms the
trip holds in store are foregoing inquiry
and making actual reservations. Eight
persons , bad secured space in The Jour
nal's (Special car up to Thursday night.
Only 26 tourists can be accommodated
on the initial tour. -
Mount Rainier and the national park
are only a single feature of the 16-day
sightseeing tour planned by The Journal.
From that wonder spot The Journal tour
win. go, to "Yellowstone and Glacier na
tional parks,, speding five days in each
and seeing every , point of interest-; -r
All inquiries regarding The Journal
tour may . be addressed -t personally, . by
telephone, or by mall, 4 to-, Dorsey B.
Smith, manager; of The Journal travel
and .information ' bureau. Literature de
script! ve of the trip is available aj. The
Journal office.
Girl 15 Years Old
Drowned in Creek
-White in Swimming
Albany. Or.', July 16. Vivian Griffin,
15-year-old Thomas girl, and daughter
of Mrs. Henry Preever. was drowned
Thursday in Thomas creek, while swim
ming In company with her sister. The
sister summoned help and the body waa
recovered three; quarters of an hour
after ; the girl had uttered ; her first
screams for help.
.The drowning occurred at a point
nearly a mile above where Thomas creek
enters the Santiam river, eight miles
from Albany. -; A physician from Sclo
rushed to the scene and futilety applied
first aid. He took the body to Albany,
where a pul motor waa used without re
sult. . . ,: . ;- "'
Austrian Treaty of ,
" Peace Is Effective
Paris.- July 16. (IT. P.) The Austro
Hungarian peace treaty ; became effec
tive today with final exchange of ratifi
cations. . X '
Poling of Oregon
May Be Nominee
On Dry Ticket
For Presidency
..William; Jennings Bryan la to be
drafted aa a presidential candidate
by the Prohibition party at its na
tional convention to be held at Lin
coln, Neb., July 21, 22 and 23, if he
will consent to being made the npm
inee. -'; Should Bryan refuse to take
the leadership It ia expected that
Dan Poling, born in Oregon and now
for some time the acting president
of the World's Christian Endeavor
with headquarters at Boston, will be
given the nomination. . t .
The leaders of the Prohibition party
are dissatisfied both with the platforms
and with the nominees of the two major
parties. They bad planned to indorse
thVplatform and the candidacy of either
the one or the other of those parties In
the event that a dry plank and a dry
candidate, had been put up at Chicago
or at San Francisco. But both Conven
tions passed that question by, and as a
result the Prohibitionists have called
their convention to meet at Lincoln, "nom
inate a presidential and vice presidential
candidate, adopt a platform pointing to
the crisis which they say now confronts
the bone dry cause and again go forth
to give battle to the friends and sympa
thisers, of the Demon Rum w-herever
they may be found or suspected to bev v..
Oregon will send two delegates to the
Lincoln meeting, Mrs. Ada Wallace. Un
ruh. executive secretary; of the' state
committee and the Rev. ; Hiram Gould,
pastor of ' the Montavllla Methodist
church. The two delegates wlU leave
Saturday night t for the convention; city.
In : addition Dr. Clarence True , Wilson
will be" at the ton ventton and will bave
a seat there as an Oregon delegate. -
The state committee under date of July
12 sent out aj call , f or funds- to,' aid In
fitsancing i-thev- Oregon delegates b-tha
convention. ' -The call. waa modest In the
amount sought to be raised, fixing the
minimum needed at $300, but It banded a
wallop both to the Republican and to the
Democratic candidates for the presidency.
i The call said that Senator Harding
was "almost an unknown quantity and
an ; acknowledged owner of brewery
stock," while Governor Cox, it said, was
"a notorious 1 wet sympathizer." ' Both,
It contended were "running on plat
forms ; that evade - or - straddle ( every
moral issue", and it 'charged that both
candidates were "named by conventions
that spurned urgent appeals to Indorse
the cause of prohibition.'! This set of
facts, the call" sets out, has caused a
"general feeling that great numbers of
our best citizens are practically disfran
chised and. without opportunity to ex
press their convictions -. .or support a
satisfactory candidate in the coming
election." . !- - - -' ; " . ;; ;- - . . ,. . - .-
It is because of this situation r as
viewed by, the party leaders that It has
now been determined to put a national
Ucket in the field, which will be headed
by Bryan if 'he will serve or by Poling
Bhould Bryaav refuse. ,.
TACED BY WOMAN
"Corvallis, July 16. Frank E.
Seits, Alsea creamery' station mana
ger, who was shot Wednesday - by
Mrs. Zina . Peters, died Thursday
afternoon at his home in Alsea. The
bullet penetrated his abdomen. Mrs.
Peters faces a charge of murder. She
is calm and apparently without re
gret. "" i
Jealousy - of another woman and fail
ure . of Seits to marry he caused the
tragedy, Mrs. Peters asserts.
Mrs. Peters told District Attorney Ar
thur Clarke that after she shot Seits he
seized the revolver and walked away, but
fell after a few steps.' She said she ran
away, but was suspected because she
had borrowed from Deputy Sheriff
Shough the revolver with which Seits
was, shot. She was arrested three miles
from Alsea. .
N That she intended to commit suicide
was Mrs. Peters' statement, being pre
vented because Seits took the revolver
from her. Seits and Mrs. Peters were
childhood friends. He was 42 years old
and singlet Mrs.. Peters is 40 years old
and has three daughters, the youngest
13 years, old.
Cox to Arrive , at
Capital Saturday :
To-See President
. By Frank A, Steson.
,- Washington, July 16. (L N. S.) Gov
ernor James M. Cox, Democratic nomi
nee for the presidency, , will arrive in
Washington at 1:20 Saturday afternoon
for his conference with President Wil
son at the White House Sunday morning.
-The -candidate -will be accompanied by,
George White of Ohio, one- of bis canw
paign managers, and will be the guest
while here ' of - Judge Timothy T. Ans
berry. Judge Ansberry has long been
one of Governor Cox's most en thusiaa
tic auntxirtera and as. a member of the
district of Columbia delegation at Saifl
Francisco, i bad the honor of - placing
Franklin D. Roosevelt in nomination as
the govenor's runnfhg mate.
MURDER CHARGE S
Water Mains Are Damaged; Small Fires MenaceCommunity; All
Places of Industry Are Emptied of Employes; Thousands Go
From Heart of City to Parks and Open Spaces; No Buildings,
So Far as Known, Give Way; Falling Brick and Glass Injure.
Los Angeles, July 16. -(I. N. S.) -Damage to water mains, not regarded
as grave, and damage from two small fires, with, four persons Injured,
industrial houses'closing business to allow women employes to go to their
homes until Monday, and general demoralization of business are the re
sults in Los Angeles today of three severe earthquake shocks which rocketl
the city at 10:08, 1:27 and 1:29 o'clock. .
' Nearly every, business building , in the city ; is empty this afternoon.
People poured into the streets by thousands and made for open places.
Pershing square, a downtown park, in the heart of the city, la a milling
mass of tumanity, harboring thousan'ds who rush there to seek shelter
from possible falling debris. '
' -' However, as far as can be learned,
not a single building In the city gave
way under the shocks and the dam
age, unless that to the water mains
proves more serious than present In
dications show,,-appear to have been
chiefly superficial and of a minor
degree.
The emergency hospital began re
ceiving - calls for the ambulance
shortly after the second and third
quakes - subsided Four . more pe
6ors, making a total of eight injured
thus far, were brought to the hos
pital suffering from; minor cuts and
bruises sustained from falling brick
and :glas "V;- ;-s ;C:y yy .yy yy
TRAFFIC DEMORALIZED
Traffic' was practically "demoralized.
. Several downtown buildings suffered
damage to cornices and mortar ' work.
The Industrial district of the city
seemed to feel the temblors with greater
Intensity,, it was reported.
' Persons from - that section ; said that
almost every window in that district is
shattered.
. A stone pedestal was hurled from the
top of the county courthouse and plunged
through the balcony below where a num
ber of persons were assembled, but none
was injured. A number of cracks la
the courthouse caused by other temblors
were split wide open. ":-
TEMBLORS APPEAR LOCAL
According to the. best survey possible
at this time the later temblors appeared
again to be local.
The building occupied by v the Zeller-
bach Paper company caught on fire, but
was quickly extinguished. This was the
scfurce of the first fire alarm.
The water supply in several buildings
la reported to have failed. , -
DA3IAGE 31 AY BE 8ERIOCS
Early reports Indicate damage from
the two shocks this afternoon was pos
sibly more serious than from the shock
this morning.
The front of a jewelry store and pawn
shop on Broadway collapsed.
Reports to police headquarters already
hare detailed several Instances, where
bricks were shaken from cornices and
ledges of buildings. - No , instances of
buildings collapsing have been found, al
though many, Including the old court
bouse and the city jail, have suffered
heavily, from plaster being shaken off
the ' walla " Some rooms In the court
house' are said to be-nearly devoid of
plaster. :': "
MA5'8 LEO CRCSHED ;
. The laat quake injured at least one
man whose leg was crushed by bricks
falling from a building near Second and
Hill streets. He is at the receiving hos
pital, as yet unidentified. ;
Telephone service again is uncertain
but indications are that the quakes this
afternoon were felt only slightly beyond
the limits of this mornifig's shake. " .
May Yohe Relates
Hope Diamond Curse
Through marriage a poor American
girl found herself a member of s the
British tilled aristocracy, with all the
future seemed .V) promise weaUh,, title,
social positionScastles, estates, jewels
then tnere came Into her life a sinister
influence that ruined everything. -yy
- Was It the "curse" "of the great, the
famous,-the malevolent Hope diamond?
Can a gem, can an Inanimate object,
cast a spell, a curse, over a human life?
Our ; intelligence tells us "No." May
Tone's intelligence told her "No," ' she
writes in the second installment of her
life story and of the Hope diamond, in
next Sunday's Journal Magazine, "and
yet, in the years I have pondered ' this
strange question, - something , within me
always stirs me to think that there may
be veiled forces at work which we do
not understand and which influence o ir
lives."1 ' y '-
May Tohe, once an international -celebrity,
Is well known locally, having lived
In Portland for some years not so very
long ago. and -on Sunday July 25, The
Journal Magazine feature of "The Hope
Diamond Mystery will be accompanied
Pasadena so far Is the only addition
to the list of nhaken cities this after
noon. There the quake- evidently was
heavy.
The property damage consisted chiefly
of toppled chimneys and broken window
panes. Several plate g!aa show win
dows In downtown buildings were shat
tered. Plastering from ceilings and
walls of some of the taller buildings
cracked and crumbled to the floor.
FOtXIt AltE INJURED WHEN
FIIIST SHOCK HITS CITY
Los Angeles, Cel., July IS. (I. N. S.)
-Four persona are known to have been
Injured,' V'fth several others unreported,
and considerable minor damage was done
to property here, as the result of a ee
vere earthquake which rocked Los An
geles about 10:08 a, m. today.
The injured are:
Kathryn Varnedos, 11 years old, waa
struck on the head by a small piece of
brick which fell from a roof gutter. A
three Inch laceration.
Mrs. Emma Ryan, aged 45 ; lacerations,
fainted and fell on broken glass.
Mrs. Fannie Flcks, 36. of San DleKO :
sprained left ankle, falling down a small
flight of stairs while running from the
house.
Mrs. Nettie Snyder, treated for bruises
and, hysteria ; hit by falling brick.
QUAKE COMES SUDDENLY
AS SINGLE VIBRATION
Los Angeles, Cal., July 16. -(U.
P.) Buildings In Los Angeles were
rocked violently at 10:11 a. m. today
by an earthquake shock of brief du
ration. J" The quake appeared to be one sin
gle violent shock followed by leu
(Concluded on Page Three. Column Four)
OREGON MAN V II I S
IN DISCUS THK
Harvard Stadium, Soldiers' Field,
Cambridge, Mass., July 16, (U. I)
Two Junlor championship records
fell today when athletes from all
parts of the United States took part
in the annual. Junior championships
of the amateur athletic union for
1920.
Bartlett of the University of Orepon
won the discus throw with a heave of
136 feet ',4 inch, breaking the previous
record of 129 feet 3 inches, made in 191.1,
by A. W. Kohler of the University rf
Michigan. R. G. Walker, New York
Athletic club, finished second with 133
feet 7tt Inches. - ' i
by an illustrated article on the Portland
angle of Miss Yohe's career.
Another feature of the Sunday Journal,
day after tomorrow, will be Marshall N'.
Dana's personal observations of the Co
lumbia River basin irrigation project,
written following his trip through the
district with a party of Northwest news
paper men. This project involves .ome
l,7C0,00a acres and its bearing on the
future prosperity : and growth of Port
land and Oregon will be graphically set
forth In Dana's article.
A half page of pictures of Governor
Cox and. Franklin' D. Roosevelt, Demo
cratic candidates for president and vice
president, and of their families, glvo n
intimate "human Interest" touch to their
activities. v
In addition,: The Sunday Journal will
Include a number of other Illustrated
features In the Magazine; the usual de
partmental weekly reviews, and up-to-the-minute
developments In the "spot"
news o. Portland, Oregon, the nation nd
the world. ' -'
The Sunday Journal remains the n:
InJprice 5 cents the eery.