THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ' 17," 1920.
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LIMBLESS BODIES
LITTER STREET AT
MORGAN'S OFFICE
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' V By Westbrodk Ttglcw '
' ' (Called y SUM Cefreaeonocnt)
: New York. Sept. 17.-A great bal
loon of black smoke, the roar of
an explosion, a flash of flame that
eared everything within Nr yard
4eft Broad and Wall streets, heart
Of th world's financial district, a
shambles at noon Thursday.
1 Ter'g full minute, it seemed, after the
terrible blast, there was absolute silence
la the. two busy streets. - Not a living
Mil was to be seen. Dead and wounded
lay In their blood on the steps of the
Ualted States subtreasury on the richest
corner In the world. Young. Thomas
Joyce, chief clerk of 3. P. Kforgan as
Co., lay over his desk amid a litter of
plitter, twisted window gratlnge and
burning papers dead.
TAMP OW VfOMKS
Then people rushed to the streets. By
thousands they tumbled down .the stairs
Of giant office buildings and spilled .onto
the sidewalks, stumbling over th bod
ies which lay there. Screams pierced the
crash of glass as thousands of plate
glass windows fell in fragments to the
ground.
from Broadway, from Pino street,
Ksssau street Exchange place and Wil-
llem street a rushing tide of humanity
swept toward the Morgan corner. In
William street somebody shouted : "flo
back : for God's sake, so back. There's
another esploslon coming." ,
; Instantly the ' owd's curiosity turned
to terror and the Ude ebbed with a
frantic runh to get out of range. Five
women went down under the feet of
the mob and men stamped upon them.
STOr BL'MH OF MOB
Dr. Colegate Moore, with an office In
Pine street, stood up against the front
rank and smashed a wild-eyed imp
square In the jaw. The man staggered,
recovered and smashed another one.
The panic was stopped. Together these
two men stood In the center of William
street, beating men balk until the wild,
dangerous flight slowed to an orderly
retreat
Wall street for a block, from Broad
to William, was spattered with blood,
Fragments of human bodies lay about.
A woman's blue straw hat, with a bine
bow, twisted out of shape, lay at the
feet of Georse Washington's statue.
8omeone.-ame up with a bucket and
sanded the smear of blood. Ar you
walked down the street you smelled a1
peculiar odor that soldiers came to know
In .France. It made your stomach con
vulse. CLOTHES STILL AFLAME
There were for dead In front of
Morgan's office on the -Wall street side.
The police had just covered them with
burlap, but by the shoe sticking out
you could Lee they were men. A burnt
hand protruded from under one burlap
sack. Across the street, in front of tha
shattered facade of the United States
uu. Afftre. iilic more dead lav under?
burlap sacking. I thought I saw. two;
pairs of women's shoes . among this
group. In the street Just there an o;d,
mangy horse, smashed into a horrible,
repulsive mess, lay amid a scorched. Ut
ter of harness and, shafts -.ntl , wfeeol
hubs. A Hupmobiie touring car, over
turned on its sldet.was smouldering In
front of Morgan's offices.
The crowd recovered from Its panic In
a few seconds. Those who rushed out
of the big buildings fronting Broad and
Wall dropped to their knees and stripped
the burning clothing from the wounded.
One man fell with a leg carried away by
a chunk of scrap iron.
WISDOW WEIGHT M YSTERY
Morris Whitman, an automobile brok
er, returning from lunch with a young
Woman, a fellow employe, was knocked
down, the girl with him. They staggered
to their feet, pelted by Jagged pieces of
glass falling from Immense heights.
Whitman lifted the man who had lost
a leg and put him In a taxi that had
not been damaged.
"Something hit me," the m An said.
Then he died. Whitman picked up the
bloody Iron bar. It resembled a window
a eight. Later the police found other big
slues of metal similar to this one. There
l. mm injiAnnHn. for thm v.t Th.
Ztrn fti. t.uldln.a In Wall street
do not have old fashioned welgnu in
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the windows, and anyway the weights
would not have been blown about the
street even If they had been in use.
BED WAU03T h5
it of an ambulance from Broad Street
hospital at it skidded around the Sub-
Treasury corner into wan street, xne
nearest casualty was a man who lay
on the Bub-Treasury steps with a leg off.
There was nothing he could do for the
victim. Death' was only a matter of
seconds, still the man told him of hav
ing seen a red wagon coming up Wall
street from the direction of the East
river. It drove- In close to. the curb
In front of tha assay office and one
wheel bumped the curb. Then' came the
flash. That la the story of only Sne
vtetim, however. There are other sto
. riea.
Michael Kerwin, ex-private, Seventy
ninth division. National army,, was at
work behind the counter., of a cigar
store not 30 yards from the wagon,
when it ' went off. In a sudden gust
the plate glass front of the store came
tn upon hlra. Boxes of cigars knocked,
hln down.
CtJT OFF CLOTHIHG '
"I grabbed for my hat and put' It on
like my old -tin hat- In rrarwe," said
Michael. "Wasn't that a foolish thing
to dot A woman came running down
the steps from an office. Moat of her
clothing was burned off. I climbed out
of the wreck and ran across the street
to Morgan's office, where a fellow was
burning up. I cut off his burning clothe
with my pocket knife. Two other men
were burning, so I cut their clothes off.
too." t .
Dwight M. Marrow-, a member of the
J. P. Morgan firm, came down the steps
of the building with. tears on his cheeks
to announce the death or young -Joyce.
The boy's father. T. W. Joyce, has
charge ofc. all- the Morgan gold ship
ments,' An oM. gray-haired man waa
' lad down iThe steps with a man holding
hlra up by each arm. His head Waa
covered with, a turban, of bloody ban-
'Everybody hss a.: want some
want tomthing--other want v
to dispense '-'with something.
. Lots and lots of people use. The t
" . Journal classified' columns to ad
w ertlse 'these Wants and: Don't
i, Wants. Youll . enjoy reidinf
these little wants. of'the people r
Just turn to the fclassified col
umns. You'll find them awfully
Interesting.' " v ,'!" ! : - ,
I' yoa thonld want to bny of tell wmetblni s
null "AV.nt" - inrtd In The .Joanwi mi
bant XX wa u a ot of onJr tm- cimui
aright Paeoblr kujr ec U that eaoMtains for
Today
dape and there was Mood on the breast
of hia shirt I was pale and hia nenres
were shattered. But he seised himself
to brace up when Itttle Red Cross alrl
cave hlra a gentle hand Into her tmbu-
8AYBD BT CCKTAUT J .V.X .
Junius Spencer Morgan, son of J. P.
Morgan, was at his desk on the' Broad
street side ef the building-' when the
financial district seemed to blow tip. He
waaxmt on the hand by a piece of R-laaa,
Fear' partners of the firm .Thomas W.
Lamont Oeor, Whitney, llott Bacon
and Morrow were la conference on the
second finer, Broad street side; a war
from the explosion. They were not hurt
Hour husky young giants always stand
Just inside the vestibule of Morgan's to
sift out the customers and turn away
those who come oh minor business. They
were always ready to tackle bomb
throwers or cranks of any kind. Here
was a situation that no man could
handle. I oouldn't find out what had
happened to these strong-arm men
whether they were dead or alive. Wound
ed or well.
Rlcharg Campbell, doorkeeper of the
Stock Exchange, across from Morgan's.
In Broad street, saw the wagon before
It blew up, saw It blow up and saw all
the horrible aftermath. He was not
certain whether the wagon was moving
or standing still. Anyway, he saw the
puff of black smoke and the dead blown
against the-walls.
One thing saved the lives of many on
the floor of the exchange. That waa
the providential lowering oS the Im
mense yellow silk shades over the two
story high windows to keep out the sun.
These windows all went out and many
chunks went through the curtains. But
th curtains turned" back most of the
glass and stopped the force of that
which went through.
E
IS PART OF RED PLOT
(ConUnaed from Ptse On)
and (he residenoe of J. P. Morgan in
this city under heavy guard, a nation
wide search Is being made to run down
the plotters. The clock works are be
ing studied by experts to determine their
manufacture and source.
TWO 8CSPECT8 DISAPPEAR
' The men who drove tha one-horse
truck, carrying the most powerful In
fernal machine ever devised irt this
country, disappeared In the Wall street
crowds as completely as If the earth
bad opened and swallowed them up.
The police have learned that warn
ings of a catastrophe in the financial
district were received In advance by at
least two persons.
One of these warnings came to Lieu
tenant Araaud, chief of the French high
commission, on Wednesday. ' The other
was received by George F. Ketchledge,
an enyiloye of the brokerage firm of j
B. K. Schwarts A Co.. at No. 2 Broad
way, at noon Wednesday.
dam AGSjjjs n,ie,eoe
' While soldiers with fixed bayonets
paced up and down in front of the
United States sub-treasury building
throughout the night feverish search
was made of the debris In and around
the Morgan offices for additional dead
and bomb evidence. The original esti
mate of 24 dead was increased to 38
by deaths of injured, and it was re
ported today that this total may be
increased, as some of the wounded are
In serious condition. The property dam
age from the blast is put at $2,500,000.
On the assumption that the Wall street
explosion was the beginning of a wave
r of. Red terrorism, public officials have
been Warned to employ bodyguards.
. Picked men, ftom the police depart
ment re guarding the homes of public
officials. Wall and Broad streets, the
"financial capital .of the world," is like
an armed camp with soldiers, policemen
and special armed guards on duty. The
stock exchange building and the great
banks in the Wall street district are
picketed. A new police dead line has
been established,
MISSIS O TRUCKS NOUGHT
A general police alarm has been
sent out for missing or stolen one
horse trucks, such as that In which the
tme bomb was carried to the Morgan
bank. The broken parts of the wagon,
which was . demolished by the detona
tion, have been pieced together aa well
as possible, and .the police are now try
ing tf find the owner of it.
That the plotters have an efficient or
ganisation, with secret sources of in
formation, is Indicated by the fact that
tha explosion occurred Just 24 hours
a,ter "Pedal bomb squad operatives
r; - "'Vfc.rr"T,...r;r
Lmi the. MAllrta w.
drawn from the financial district
Lists of all the known dangerous an
archists in the United 8tatea are being
carefully checked over by the govern
ment sleuths. The federal end of the in-
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head of the United States secret service,
who Is on the ground in person.
POLICE ASSIGNED TO CLUES
Police commissioner Enrlght has di
vided the police investigation along the
followlna" lines :
1-tTracing the writers of the warning
letters, which are now In the possession
of the police department.
2 Searching for the owner of the one
horse 'wagon In which the bomb was
carried to Wall street
aHunting for an automobile rn which
the men who drove tha wagon are said
to have fled a few. momenta. before the
exnloslon
4 Tracing the source, or me ciock
which was used to set off the bomb at
on minute af ter 13 o'clock inursaay
noon.
8 Hunttnsr for - the) source of - tha
"TNT" or -other explosive that was used
In the 'construction of the infernal ma
chine. a Ascertaining where the bomb was
constructed, and. how many persons
were Involved m the conspiracy.
WARNING NOT MAILED
Tha warnlns- letter sent to Lieutenant
Amaud did not arrive through the malls.
Itas dropped through the' slot In the
door of the commission's office at 65
Broadway -Wednesday mornlnsr. The
letter was written with pen and Ink and
opened with the word "Greetings." ,
It waa contained te a small whit -en
velope. But Amaud did not take the
warning seriously. After reading It, h
tore tha letter into bits, dropped It Into
a waste paper basket and f orzot all
about It until after the Wall street dis
trict 'was rocked by "the most ghastly
explosion tn New York s history. Then,
he secured tha" Utters, pasted them to-
aetner ana rave. nnt tn th wit
The letter Intimated that "certain per
sons "who, had grievances" would get re
venge by settlnr off a hlrh hk
between .3 o'clock and 3 :80, but the exact
date of thd explosion waa not given. The
writer said he had the TUndest feelings
for Prance and for the members of the
French high commission, which aoonunt.
ed itor hia wanting. He suggested that
ine cotnmisBian s oinoes t closed and
that tlM.flcIals stay away from Wall
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LETTEH. jrB.OJC TORONTO..-:"
The letter received by Mr. Ketchledge
was mailed, from Toronto. Canada. Mr.
Ketchledge at first refused tn mk
public, but later, gave it out the con
tents, "whlca are brief, follow r . ...
'Oreetlnas : -Oet out of Wall street oa
the gong strike of 3 o clock Wednesday,
' -f Sept 1 Good luck to you. Ed
Fischer." ' v.--;-
.xw JUsrber well, but I did not 'put
POLICE SUR
much stock in his warning," said Mr.
Ketchledge, "He waa a lawyer by pro
fession.' but! was unable to practice his
profession for many years on account of
recurring attacks of paranoia. Ha had
been committed to Institutions, but was
released when cured. He had aa Intense
hatred for Wall street That .was the
form his mental illness took. So far as
I know, be never suffered any financial
reverses in Wall street. I do not believe
that Fischer has any Intimate knowledge
about this dreadful disaster. He was not
a member of any radical organisation.
It is pfobabte that ha was suffering from
one of bla periodical mental aberrations
when he seat tha warning ; and the fact
that the explosion occurred about, that
time waa a coincidence."
bomb or ,iee rouNDS
Eighteen of the dead in the explo
sion were taken to the morgue. They
Included four women and a boy. Med
ical official who examined the bodies
reported to. District Attorney Edward
Swann there waa no doubt that death
waa caused! by a bomb of tremendous
power. It Is believed . that the infernal
machine weighed more than 100 pounds.
A ' piece of metal and an iron slug
weighing a pound, believed to have been
part of the bomb which wrecked the
Morgan bank, were found on the roof
of the United Btates sub-treasury
building today. They were found by
Deputy Assistant Treasurer Grant, who
turned them over to the police.
"In several of the bodies were, found
pieces of iron and these have been
turned over to the police," said Chief
Medical Examiner Charles Norrls. "They
appear to have been made from window
sash weights that were sawed into small
pieces. There is no doubt that a bomb
caused the explosion. The nature of
the wounds shows that"
William J. 3 urns, whose detective
sgency is employed to guard the Mor
gan building, said he believed that the
bomb mechanism was similar to that
used In the McNamara dynamiting
cases when cheap alarm clocks were
used to sit off the explosion. It was
the Burns agency that ran down the
McNamara dynamiters.
"The time clock was probably set for
12 o'clock in this Instance," said Bums.
"It is possible that the plotters hoped
to stop their wagon directly in front
of the Morgan bank, but ifere delayed
by heavy traffic and were compelled to
pull up 'In front of the United States
sub-treasury building across the street.
8TBEETS ARE CROWDED
"There were great crowds in the
street at the time, as it was in the
midst of the lunch hour. I believe that
the conspirators purposely chose this
time, knowing that It would be easier
for them -to escape In the crowded
street. They could not have been far
aay when the blapt went off. So far
as we can learn, the wagon had halted
only a few minutes before the explo
sion. Immediately after the, blast the
sir was filled with the fumes dl picric
acid."
The authorities have discarded the
theory that a robber band hoped to
wreck the Morgan bank and the United
States sub-treasury and loot the vaults
under cover of the general panic and
excitement. It Is admitted, however,
that such a plot It successfully carried
out would have yielded a rich harvest.
There was $900,000,000 In gold bullion
stored in the vaults of the United States
assay office, and $1,000,000 more in the
United States sub-treasury. The amount
of gold bullion and coin in the Morgan
bank and the nearby Bankers' Trust
company Is not definitely known, but is
very large.
With dawn today the army of investi
gators on 'the scene of the catastrophe
was reinforced. Renewed efforts were
made to ' gain information as to the
Identity of the terrorists through the
horse and wagon which had carried the
bomb. The carcass of the dead horse
was minutely examined. It was found
that the animal was newly shod and
that it had recently been clipped.
BLACKSMITH 8HOFS CHECKED
Detectives have been assigned to can
vass all blacksmith shops In New York
to check up the owners of horses shod
within the past few days. Detectives
are making a similar investigation on
Long Island and at various places In
New Jersey, where anarchists were
formerly known to Rather.
The poljoe department gave out the
following description of the bomb ve
hicle: A one horse affair of the "rack" vari
ety. The body was enclosed in a net
work of slender poles and rails. It was
painted yellow.
Regular explosive wagons sre painted
red, are entirely covered, carry a red
flag and are emblazoned with big warn
ing placards.
All the injured who are able to talk
are being examined in hospitals and
their nomas by federal and municipal
oetectlves. They have been able to
give Information of some value, but
the most of them said they had noticed
nothing until they were knocked down
by the earthuake-like explosion.
TRINITY STRIKE 8, BLAST SOUNDS
Those who were In the Immediate
vicinity cf Broad and Wall streets said
that the chiming of the clock in Trinity
tower had barely ceased when a muf
fled roar like a blast of artillery broke
lortn. Buildings rocked and the air
waa Immediately darkened by smoke
and flying wreckage. A sheet of flsme
leaped through the windows of the Mor
gan bank and the sub-treasury. This
name naa we appearance of coming
from the bank and It waa this nhe-
nomenon that led to the original report
mat tne explosion had occurred in the
Morgan bask.
The echoes of the blast ransr throuo-h
uie canyon-iike streets between the tow
ering buildings. A pall of thick, oily
yellow smoke. 'rose as the streets rattled
with the crash of falling glass. A great
shout arose from the panic-stricken
people. Men and women aroused to
frensy by fear began running aimlessly
through the streets and above their
shouts rose .the screams of the injured.
In the excitement no one thought to
look for perpetrators of the outrage. In
fact St was not known at that time that
an Infernal machine had caused it
$10,600 REWARD OFFERED
FOR CLUE IN BOMB CASE
New Torki Sept. 17. I. N. S.) A re
ward of 110,000 was offered by the board
of estimate today, at the request of
Mayor Hylan, for Information leading
to tha arrest of persons who caused
yesterday's. Broad and Wall streets ex
plosion. Aft additional $500 waa offered
tor information leading to the discovery
or tne owner of the "mystery wagon.'
Groom Shoots One
Of Charivari Party
: The Dalles. Sept 17. Jack Norton,
member of ja charivari party which on
Wednesday jnight attempted; to serenade
ueorge n. saaajiater of Dufur, waa shot
by the Uttar.through the arm when he
refused to atop the serenade. McAlister
and nls bride, who were 'married 10
days ago, recently went to housekeeping
10 miles west of Dufur Wmm..
night the serened ers appeared and re
fused to stop. McAlister, It lg said by
witnesses? then fired into the group,
breaking ' Norton's- arm. Norton was
brought to The Dalles tor treatment.
COX BATTERY OF
ORATORS IS TO
By Ward A. Irvine
A battery of, Cox speakers is soon
to be Invading; ' all the counties of
Oregon. Milton A. Miller will open
the campaign In an address at As
toria Friday before tha newly or
ganized Cox-Roosevelt club. Fol
lowing: the visit of Miller to Astoria,
other prominent Cox men will be sent
to all parts of the state to set forth
the Cox stand on the issues of the
day.
It is known that the campaign of
the Cox backers wlU be carried direct
to the farmers ' of Oregon. It is. to. the
men on the soil that they have a
rather substantial appeal due to the
respective stands of Senator Harding
and Governor Cox In the past.
TO DEIVE FACTS
Whereas the ultra-conservative Ohio
senator has opposed the agriculturists
on more than one occasion, and now
has the onposiUoa of the farmers of
his own state to overcome, his vigor
ous opponent has a record of unbroken
fidelity to the interests of the farmer.
The Cox speakers will bore into the
speech by Harding in the senate, in
which he declared for dollar wheat On
this point Harding said :
"In this latter day farming has be
come an occupation for profit and I
happen to know" that under normal
conditions dollar wheat makes It a very
profitable occupation."
They will also attack Harding on his
speech In the senate in which he op
posed the farm loan act. On this he
said:
"I will not assume to say that con
ditions in Ohio are altogether like those
in other states in the Union, but I be
lieve I can state an absolute truth when
I say that there is no more need for a
measure of this kind for the agricul
turists of Ohio than the government to
step in and take charge of all our in
dustrial and productive affairs in that
state."
COX RECORD BEACON
The speakers, on the other hand, will
point to Cox's record In Ohio. During
his administration a law combining all
agricultural activities under Jurisdiction
of an agricultural commission was es
tablished, provision was made for study
and establishment of a farm credit
plan, a produoer-to-consumer market
bureau established, a labor shortage on
farms was met by the state placing
5000 tractors into the ( fields and a trac
tor school waa conducted under the su
pervision of experts. Cox was also re
sponsible for provision against sale of
untested fertilizer, for a pure seed law,
for lifting the loss from cattle destroyed
because of disease from the farmer to
the state, and for a system of main
market highways.
OF COX TRIBUTE
(Oon tinned Fraie Pas On)
which he has made throughout the years
against reaction. He fought it with
Roosevelt and he continued consistently
the contest which began in 1912, through
the primaries and the convention of
1920, Just as Roosevelt would have done
had he lived. ,
JOHXSON KO BLACKGUARD
"As an Ohloan, I give to you the as
surance that the observation made by
a distinguished citizen of our state to
the effect that Hiram Johnson was a
blackguard and unfit to associate with
decent men is not the view of our peo
ple. I go further and make' the state
ment that if Hiram Johnson had been
a candidate before the Republican pri
maries in Ohio this year, he would have
carried them.
WARS 8 AGAINST REACTIONARIES
"The best guarantee of the future in
this - country will be the prevalence of
progressive principles in th.e policies of
the two leading political parties. But I
am convinced that if the reactionary
senatorial oligarchy gains control of the
government in this campaign it will so
manipulate the power of patronage that
the progressive Republicans will either
be compelled to Join another party or
to form one of their own. In clinging
naturally to the Idealism of Lincoln and
Roosevelt It will be compelled to sur
render the banner to the official repre
sentatives of big business. Senator
Harding himself said that If the pro
gressives of 112 came back to the party
they would, have to come on "hands and
knees.'
WHAT KOOSEYELT CHARGED
"Let me recall to your minds a par
allel between the campaign of 1912 and
1S20. Eight years ago. Colonel Roose
velt charged that the nomination was
made by reactionary forces, both with
in and without official circles. In de
fiance or the will of the rank and file
as expressed at the preferential pri
mary. In 1920, precisely the same thing
was done and Senator Johnson waa hu
miliated the same aa Colonel Roosevelt
To his neighbors, when he returned
home from the Chicago convention thia
year, he expressed no bitterness and
said plainly that he would rather come
back to hia home state defeated than
to have been nominated In a room of
a Chicago hotel by representatives of
big business. Hia further observation
was: 'A few men have set for naught
for the time being the American pri
mary system.' It is true, and it would
be futile to deny it that 'there are
many Cranes, 8 moots and representa
tives of Morgan A Co. who arrogate to
themselves the right of selection of can
didates, notwithstanding what may have
been decreed by the people themselves.
The sneers of these gentlemen for the
expression of the people have never
been concealed and their contempt for
the mandate of the rank and file of the
party they have ever expressed.
BARNES ON Pl&ATB SKIP
1 am unable to see by what process
of reasoning the political party which
has given Boss Barnes of New York
a distinct status of leadership in thia
campaign can ' expect the progressive
friends of Theodore Roosevelt and Sen
ator Johnson to gtve it support Barnes
was the captain of the pirate ship. In
the language of Roosevelt be "was the
connecting link between crooked busi
ness and crooked politics. Doubtless
the return to Barnes' ia Smother evl
donee of going back to. normalcy.' Since
the time of Hanna and- of Boss Tweed,
when public, officers surrendered them
selves as puppets to financial Interests
because of service rendered during a
campaign, never were so many obllga
ttona to designing Interests being as
sumed by the party of reaction as in
this campaign. Under the belief that
disturbed conditions following 'the war
make political' victory certain, methods
STUMP
OREGON
jOHNSQN
SUBJECT
Pistol Smashing
Bee Is Planned
By Police Chief
There will be a- grand smashing of
pistols and revolvers at police head
quarters In the near future if an ordi
nance now being prepared in the
mayor's office becomes effective.
Chief of Police Jenkins notified the
mayor Thursday that SS weapons.
seised ia arrests and held as evidence
against the defendants, had served
their usefulness, and were cluttering
up the vault at headquarters. The
chief asked for an order to destroy
the guns, and tne mayor is getting
an ordinance .ready authorising the
action. The guns have been ac
cumulating for five years.
are followed uifbtushlngly and 'without
concealment
"In this great Western Country, where
I have been now for two weeks, I find
many evidences of resentment I am
conislnced that the current of independ
ent 'and progressive thought will be
running so high by November that un
holy enterprises will have been com
pletely engulfed."
RESERVATIONS APPROVED
BY COX IN LKTTKK TO YALK
Reno, Nev., Sept 17. Governor Cox
will make any reasonable concession'
In the way of reservations to bring about
ratification of the League of Nations,
he declared In a telegram to Professor
Irving Fisher of Yale university. Dr.
Fisher, who is head of an independent
voters organisation interested In ratifi
cation of the treaty of Versailles, asked
the Democratic presidential candidate
for a statement on the assertion by
former President Taft that the election
of Governor Cox would mean an un
yielding and uncompromising altitude In
relation to ratification of the league.
The governor's reply follows:
"1 am determined to secure the earliest
possible entrance into the League or
Nations with the least possible delay
and with the least possible reservations
needed to accomplish that result. The
platform adopted by the convention at
which I was nominated permits reserva
tions which will clarify and reassure
our people, and is opposed only to res
ervations which would .nullify and de
stroy. I have no doubt that Republican
and Democratic senators alike will loyal
ly fulfill the people's mandate which
my election will signify. I shall en
deavor to meet all reasonable desires
for proper reservations which are of
fered In sincerity and not merely pre
sented aa trumped up for political pur
poses. "My heart is in this fight and I will
put forth all effort and make any rea
sonable concessions to win It that we
may secure membership In the league
for America."
INDUSTRIAL PEACE PACT IS
CRYING NEED, DECLARES COX
Reno, Nev., Sept 17. An industrial
and international treaty of peace are the
great needs of the country. Governor
Cox declared on Thursday night In an
address devoted largely to labor and cap
ital, which wound up a dusty trip across
Nevada.
"As in our International relations, in
our industrial relations at home we
must have a treaty of peace,' he said.
Cox said It must be a procedure based
upon reasonable principles which have
been sanctioned by public opinion. To
continue the present Industrial contro
versy, he declared, will mean impossibil
ity of attaining Industrial stability and
prosperity.
UNIONS RECOGNIZED
Cox pointed out the peace treaty pro
vided these labor principles :
Labor is not a commodity or article
of commerce.
The right of collective bargaining is
recognized. t
Equal pay for women doing the same
work as men.
The 48-hour week.
Payment of an adequate living wage.
Classwork Opens
At Willamette IL;
Registration 376
Willamette Uni-wersity, Salem. Sept
17. Regular classwork for the year
opened Thursday In the college of lib
eral arts and school of music with a
total of 3TC students and 23 faculty
members. An increase of 60 students
over the number registered for the first
day of school a year ago Is shown and
four additional instructors have been
added to. the faculty.
The first chapel service of the year
was held In the new chapel in Waller
halt complete except for the new chairs.
Registration has not becun in the
Kimball school of theology and ia not
complete in the colleges of law, music
and liberal arts. Many new students
are expected In the next two weeks.
Lausanne hall is ready for occunencv
and the girls are moving In. One hun
dred girls are accommodated In the new
dormitory. All rooms were reserved
before the opening of school.
"HUMORESQUE
A Boy's Genius and
a Mother's Love
SPECIAL MUSIC
-'Portland Roses'
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Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy addressed
a large audience at Vernon Presby
terian church 'Thursday evening; on
the occasion of the W. C. T. U. con
vention. She spoke briefly of the work carried
on In the reclamation station at Leval
lols. the story of which is complete tn
her .book. "The House of the Good
Neighbor." :
Dr. Love Joy touched a chord of eym
nathv in the hearts of her iisteners
when she cited the example of the great
progressive, who was not content with
things aa he found them. Dux laoorea
"to promote the general weuare
his people.
REPUBLICAN S WILL HOLD
of
0 CONSTTTtSriON MEETINGS
Constitution day meetings will be held
at nine different places In the city ro
dav nlcht under the ausptces of the Re
publican county central committee. The
principal meeting will be held -at Central
Library hall, where Judge Guy C H.
Corliss will be the principal speaker.
The list of meetings and speakers la as
follows
Central Library baildiac. Jade Gay C H.
rvt.tf. .nt Mm. W. J. HHktni.
Alblns breach ttbrarf, Kaon street, joost
Joha P. KiTinaufB. .
Rt John branch Ubrarr. Joose wen
Ttirkur.
Ltnnton. Senator B. B. Button ana eanuwa
McDonald. .
Vernon eehoel, 88 ut Twentr-aeeond and
Wmunt (treats. Judce Jacob Kanxlar and . 1
Rom City Para erabbotue. Jaos
Camant and HamUtoa Jonnatona.
Lutrrn Multnomah club. Uretnam. teorgt 0
Gleaaoe aebeol. Batnont aad Kaat fiftieth
trMtrn. f&rla H Iiodd.
Lenta school. Charlei K. coenran ana nepre-
entatiT C. M, atcArtbur.
HARDING-COOL1DGE MEETING
PLANS BEING COMPLETED
The program Is being planned for the
Harding-Coolldge ratification meeting
Saturday night at 'The Auditorium, when
Governor William Lloyd Harding of
Iowa will be the principal speaker and
deliver the keynote speech, of the Ore
gon Republican campaign. The doors
will be open at 7 p. m.. and while the
crowd is gathering campaign songs by
quartets and glee club singers will en
tertain. W. R. Boone will be-at the or
gan. Chairman Tongue will prealde.
Rev. "W. T. McElveen Will give the in
vocation and R. N. Stanfield, Repub
lican nominee for United States senator.
will Introduce the speaker. Governor
Harding will be met at the Union eta
Uon at 7 p. m. by a reception committee
of Republicans and former lowans.
DR. LOVEJOT GIVES SPEECH
AT POMONA GRANGE MEET
Df. Esther Love joy was the guest of
Pomona eranae at its meeting Wednes
day afternoon at the Grange hall on the
Columbia highway, where dinner waa
served. After dinner Dr. Lovejoy ad
dressed the grange, telling of her ex
perlence and observation in Europe
durlnr the war. Her audience, which
consisted of about 200 persons and was
very appreciative, particularly when she
touched on the question of the League Of
Nations, which she contended was neces
sary to bring about permanent peace,
and make a repetition of the recent war
impossible.
Dr. Lovejoy also discussed special leg
islation affecting the' farmer and hia
problems, in which the audience was
particularly Interested. '
SENATOR BELL WILL TOUR
STATE FOR SALARY DATA
State Senator John Bell of Eugene,
chairman of the special legislative com
mittee appointed by the last session to
make a statewide survey of state and
county salaries, Is planning a tour of
the various counties of the state, accom
panied by the other members of the com
mittee. It is the Intention of the com
mittee to secure data as to the salaries
paid by all the counties, and from this to
compile a harmonised report for submis
sion to the 19J1 legislature, which will
form the basis of a general salary, law.
Johnstone td Address Club
The Sellwood Republican club will hold
a rally Monday evening at the Com
munity house. Hamilton Johnstone will
be the speaker of the evening, and in ad
dition to his address a musical program
has been prepared.
FORGEB-NAME, IS BELIEF
(Controued From Pne One)
of the Bank of Jacksonville, but that
during the latter part of April the same
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LBV OY
BONOS VANISH
BANKER
J -T TJ
bonds bad come back from Ladd A-Tll-ton
bank. This was the extent of the
record so far aa the Federal Reserve
bank waa concerned.
HK DID HOT INDORSE THEM
Ftck is positive that he never indorsed
the bonds for conversion, or authorised
tneir indorsement and contends that he
knows nothing of the transaction. -
Kegistereo government bonds cannot
be transferred out of the ownership of
the person In whose favor they are regis
tered unless and until they are duly in
dorsed for transfer and the Indorsement
Is certified to by a duly acredlted offi
cer of a bank. , ,
The records et Ladd ft Ttlton's bank
show that Fick's bonds came to them
during the latter part of April last hav
ing been sent down by the Bank of
Jacksonville for purchase. They were
bought by Ladd A Tilton and sent to
the Federal Reserve bank to be convert
ed into coupon bond. The records of
the Portland banking house do not show
th state of the Indorsement upon the
bonds, but officiala of the bank say that
they must have been, on the face of the
transaction, regularly Indorsed and certi
fied by an officer of Jhe Bank of Jack- r
sonville; otherwise they would neither
have been accepted for purchase by the
Portland bank, nor would they have
been converted by the Federal Reserve
bank at San Francisco.
FOBGEBT PROBABLE
It Is apparent then, if circumstantial
evidence has any potency, that Johnson,
or some other officer of the Bank of
Jacksonville, forged the Indorsements of
George Kick upon his bonds, certified
them aa having been made by him, and
theo sent the bonds down to Lsdd &
Tilton as belonging to the Bank of Jack
sonvllle for . sal by it to the Portland
bank.
This transaction is on a parity with
others of a more or less similar nature
put over by Johnson before the bank
closed. Johnson acted as the agent for1
various fire insurance companies and
since he has been in jail several in
stances have come to light where he
received money for the premium pay
ments on various Insurance policies,
which payments he failed to remit to
the companies.
AMOUNT OF CASH OOOWJC
Johnson was the treasurer of the city
of Jacksonville, and as such hsd the
custody of Its cash and securities. These
he kept in the Bank of Jacksonville.
Investigation by the city officials since
the failure of the bank has disclosed that
Johnson put up with the county treas
urer aa collateral security for the coun
ty deposit S5000 of the Improvement
bonds of the city of Jacksonville, which
had been purchased, by th water board
for the water bond sinking fund.
The city also had approximately S1900
of county warrants and Liberty bonds,
together with the Interest acrued upon
them. In the bank at the time it was
closed. It ' is supposed to have had
cash on hand amounting to approxi
mately $1700, though thia cannot be def
initely known until the city's books
have been written up, as it was found
when they were taken over after John
son went to jail that he had made no
entries or done any posting subnequent
to January 12, 1920, the date of his last
official report as city treasurer.
Marriage Licences ,
Vancouver. Wash., Sept. 17. Marrisge
licenses were Issued Thursdayto Joseph
Thompson, 46, New York, and Maud
Hillyer. 32. Tampa, Fla. ; John Nichols,
Special
Release
of. the
Latest
Record Hits
Delight for every hearer is in numbers
included in this release:
2970 A Young Man's Fancy
1 1.00 In the Gloaminj; Waltz
2973 The Love Nest from "Mary" Frank Crumlt
11.00 Down the Trail to Home Sweet Home Hnry Burr
J 972 Tell Me Little Gypsy Fox Trot. .Art Hickman's Orch.
1.00 La Veeda Fox Trot Art H!ckmairs Orch.
6165 let the Rest of the World Go By. .Columbia Orchestra
ii.25 The Love Boat Waltz Columbia Orchestra
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Portland ( Edwin' Jackson. 21. and Mar
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Edith Dun woody, 40. Portland; R. C
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Cberk Passer Arrested
Vancouver, Wash., Sept 17. A, la
Laaswell was arrested Thursday oa a
charge of passing a check without suf
ficient funds In the State bank of Bat
tie Ground. Th amount of the cheek
was S50.
Last Laughs
TODAY
No scandal but mc
and "The State
Hand" and May
Allison and "The)
Cheater" are going to
leave town tonight.
In the meantime you
can see us at the
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Fox Trot
....Art Hickmsn's Orchestra
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