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CITY EDITION: f. A er and C AM Tru 7 THB WEATHER Tonight and Tues- day. 'rain; southerly winds. , M ax 1 room temperatures. Sunday t ' ' Portland New Orleans.,. ,.74 Bolaa T New York.....; ft Loa Angeles.... J4 St. PauU. ....... Jl CITY .EDITION : iv.v, Louis Seibold's Articles h en the latest Ssrslopmente ot the politic! a campaign, win be published In g"he Jour nal on Mondays. Wednesdays and Satur daya These articles, by the political; ex pert of the New York World are aa au- .,' thoritatlve aa they are interesting. VOL;; :;XIX , NO. ;178. fll2fne "p-tiS w PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY : EVENING, OCTOBER , 4, , 1920.--FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE TVfO CENTS S?.' V, C V Stress Put on Necessity of Com mercial Routes Before North west Can Attain Competitive Basis With Rest of Country. Warning that the. Northwest must pull together in development of rail and water facilities since coopera tion and transportation have been adjudged the life of trade and trade the basis of community wealth, was the keynote of the opening session of the Northwest Rivers and Harbors Congress In the Multnomah hotel assembly hall this morning. From every community in Oregon, Washington and Idaho delegates gathered for the, congress. Registration reached 110 at, noon. ' Enthusiasm was avldenced on all sides. Or KATOXAL IMPORT Early promise was given that the con gress would assume national importance, aa every section of the country felt thel need' of similar development. Among early registrants were prominent nation al authorities on waterway and commer cial development. Included in this group were: Marshall Shackelford, field secretary of the National Rivera and Harbors con gress, and Blank Everett of the United States Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington. D. C : Ahsel R. Clark of the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce of; New Tork. Included in this group were Senators Charles L. McNary and George Chamber Iain of Oregon and W. I Jones of Wash ington and Representatives C. N. McAr thur and W. C. Hawley of Oregon. ART DECLIHE8 Charles Hall of Marshfield was se lected as temporary head of the organ isation and. Alfred A. Aya of. Portland as temporary secretary. Senator Mc Nary was nominated -by C C Chapman to head the body, but declined. Immediately' after selection ef tempo rary officers a committee on permanent organisation was flamed to incruoe jr. C. Knapp, chairman i Kenneth C Kerr or ' BeatUs. O. . W. Osgood .pt-Tacoma, q. c. Chapman, Portland, and W.'H. Clay, KvereU.''v'v' ' Decision waa made to appoint a reso lutions committee and: C. W. Hodgon, Portland Clement Scott, Vancouver ; K C, Beach, Lewlston : Garrett Fisher, .Ta oorrva. ; J. J. ponegan. Burns; Dr. G. H. Douglass, Crescent City, and J. B. Camp bell, Spokane, were selected aa the per sonnel or this committee. The keynote address of the convention was delivered by Hall who stressed the value of combined efforts and pleaded (Concluded oa Face Two, Column Fear) COUP THRILLS N. V. New York; Oct. 4. (I. N. S.) All. the thrills and gunplay of the wild West accompanied the holdup of a Lenox avenue restaurant early to day when (2 men and women were lined up against a wall and relieved of Jewelry and money.. While one of the bandits stood guard, another menaced the patrons with two pistols while a third went through their clothing. The arrival of the police waa followed by a gun duel with the robbers In the street outside of the restaurant Many shots were fired, but no carual ejea were reported. The robbers got lira in casn and jewels. Lowly Oyster Turns On His Tormentors; Two Thumbs Out San Francisco, Oct 4.t-(U. P.) Emergency hospital surgeons expressed the belief today that the lowly oyster is turning on his tormentora At exactly 5:27 a. m. today J. W. Lapolnte and M. Carnlglla arrived at the hospital. Both are restaurant keep ers. Both came to have their left thumbs sewed back on. In each case a knife had slipped while opening an unruly oyster. Yet the two men were from restau rants 17 blocks apart Heney Speaker for Cox and Roosevelt San Francisco, Oct' (U. P. Dem ocratic Western headquarters announced today that Francla J. Heney would leave Los Angeles October 1 for a speaking tour of New Mexico and Colorado In behalf of Cox and Roosevelt after which he would go .East to campaign until election. It waa also announced that Solon Fleldman. New York labor leader, would arrive In the State of .Washington October 26 to campaign there. Gasoline Shortage ; To Be Investigated " ' .--'- esaMswassMMMM ' ' San Francisco, Oct 4.-MU. P.) The recent gasoline shortage, which waa acute in California and at some points in other Pacific coast states, will be laid before the federal grand jury here, If "final reports of Investigators bear out 'present indications, United States ; At torney Frank' M. Silva said today.-.-: -r f. ''V' '.''. ' ' i ''- vtVv. : S"'.v.' Amendment to Charter to Be at By a, vote of three to two, the, city council today decided to submit to the people at the coming election a charter amendment which would empower the council to transfer city properties to the proposed consoli dated port and dock commissions. The latter measure Is on the state ballot. and Its provisions make it necessary for the council to trans fer such property, providing the act Is passed by the people. The measure as adopted by the coun cil Is an enabling act for the council to exert If the state measure passes, not, the amendment Is Ineffective. Mayor Baker and Commissioners Mann and Barbur voted for the measure ; Commissioners j Pier and Blgelow against LEFT TO PEOPLE The mayor, In casting his ballot, took the position that the people have the right to decide what they, want; that the council itself la but a clearing nouse for the people and cannot presume to decide their wishes without guidance. He was tree to state that the measure on the state ballot did not have bis entire support If the state measure passes and the council falls now to provide for such a contingency by preparing the way i to act as Instructed by that state-wide vote. It would be necessary to call a special election at considerable ex pense to vote on the very enabling act now proposed." said the mayor. "I am certain we should allow the people to . nave ineir say ana noi anempi " i block their wishes, whatever they may be." WHY PIE OPPOSES The opposition of Commissioner Pier was expressed because: "I do not favor the proposition aa outlined and ! presented , by the Committee of 15. The crying need at this time is to in sure a waterway in the river, but the measure on the ballot la not the man ner In which to create such a water way. I do not think we should ac quire other properties, however, at this time, as it places too great a burden on the taxpayers." Commissioner Blgelow expressed the opinion that if the council passed the measure . unanimously - at this .. time it would be taken by state voters to mean that the eity'e representatives were In absolute :.accordlth.t the. measure used as a "campaign' gun." ' " ; MAHS AGREES WITH MAYO Commissioner. Mann, voting in favor of passage, expressed a like opinion with Mayor Baker. '"The people have a right to decide what 'they want ; we cannot usurp their powers; to fail in acting now would. If the state measure passes, place additional burdens on the taxpay ers. We must trust to the people. I be lieve they will vote for what they want and If they kill the measure, we have done nothing here but prepare for their action." Commissioner Barbur. In voting for submission of the enabling act said per haps all members of the council failed to agree in entirety with the plan as sub mitted on the November ballot a state ment which met with nodding approval from each member, but felt as the may or and Mann that the "people should de cide." INITIAL DAY OF THE With practically all exhibits in place and the livestock features' par ticularly strong, the Multnomah county fair was opened at Gresham today. First crowds were satisfac tory and with prospect of clear weather, a record week is antici pated by Manager ,C. D. Minton. All departments are unusually well- represented. Interest in the combined fair and land products show, with the manufacturers participating, being most gratifying. The fair will continue throughout the week, with strong racing cards each aft ernoon. All White Sox Team Excepting Indicted 8 Given Bonus Checks Chicago. Oct. 4. (I. N. S.) Every member of the 1913 White Sox. except the eight members of the club under Indictment for conspiracy to ."throw" the world s aeries last fall to Ctncin nati. today was handed a check for the difference between the winner's and loser's end of the aeries. The amount is approximately J1500 for each player. The players who received the money are Urban Faber. Byrd Lynn. Ray 8chalk, Richard Kerr, R. H. Wilkinson. E. T. Collins, John Collins, Harvey Mo Clellan. Harry Liebold and Eddie Mur phy. Manager Gteaeon also was given check equalling In amount those given each of the players. The money was given the players by Charles A. Comlskey. owner of the club. Gore Out of Race; Moves From County Salem. Oct 4. Because of the i moval of George A. Gore from Co lumbia county, automatically elimi nating him from the race for district attorney, the- Republican county cen tral committee Monday submitted to tne i secretary of state's office the name of Joha L. Foots of 8t Helena to fill the vacancy caused' by Gore's wnaarawai. jonn , 1. storla i of St Helens ; w , the .. jTemocrattei .candidate. ' Submitted Novembervote FA R DRAWS CROWD HARDING IS Candidate to Be Formally Told That Neither Republican Par ty Nor American People Will Stand for Any Kind of League. Washington, Oct 4. Senator Borah, of Idaho, leader of the Re publican "Irreconcilables" who re cently cancelled his speaking en gagement for Ahe national commit tee, will serve formal notice on Sen ator Harding In a speech tonight that neither the- Republican party nor the American people will stand for a league of nations under any name or in any guise, it was learned here today. The Republican nominee, is strongly suspected of being in favor of an In ternational court alo the lines sug gest ea Dy mnnu koo. Such a court Is regarded In many quarters as being a lean-ue in a.' wllcrhtlv different, thoueh eTe, mOTtl arhitrarv. form. senator Borah has selected Danbury. r.. wh.r. k. .n.ka m twhaif of Senator Brandegee, another irreconcll able, as the scene of what he styles "the test of the Harding league stand." In his speech, which virtually amounts to an ultimatum to the nominee, the senator will dare any individual to turn Rniihllrfln awav from the creed which admits of no compromise where Amer lea's sovereignty is ' concerned. Thta challenge, it Is expected, will bring an unequivocal statement as to where he stands from Mr. Harding. It is Senator Borah's contention that British proponents of the League of Nations Viscount Gray, for instance, whom Senator Harding has been quot ing of late are not- so much concerned as to how the United 8tates gets into the league as they are with the fact of Its entry. 'With or without reservations this League of Nations ties us politically to Europe for all time," Is one of the fav orite arguments of Senator Borah. (Coodadad ea Pate Two. Uoauas Tbrea) TO WET PAVEMENT Oregon City, Oct. 4. The sudden application of brakes and a wet pavement caused serious injuries to Fred Wolfer of Hubbard and Adam Garren of Woodburn. when an auto mobile driven by Wolfer turned ?ver north of New Era Sun da after noon. s The men were posting notices of sale about the county and were en route to Oregon City. Garren attempt ed to stop suddenly when he met an other car driven by a man whom he desired to see. His car skidded and left the pavement overturning. Wolfer suffered internal injuries ane hls leg was hurt. Garren was also In jured internally and cut about the face. The men were picked up by H. J. Big ger of Oregon City and brought to the home of Garren a sister, Mrs. H. A. Bauer, 1316 Madison street Oregon City. Garren is an ex-service man and is recovering from wounds received in France which made him lame. Geo. Summers' Body Found m Wreck; He Was Portland Man Butte, Mont, Oct 4. (U. P.) While clearing away debris of last Wednes day's wreck on the Milwaukee at Pied mont, workmen yesterday found a body, thought to be that of George Summers of Portland. Discharge papers found in the pockets showed Summers had en listed at Portland and was discharged at Wales. April. 1919. He Is believed to have been beating his way to the coast Discovery of the body brings the wreck death list to eight with three In jured. -, V Yaqui Indians Kill Women and Infants San Antonio, exas, Oct 4. (L N. S.) Fourteen Yaqui Indians on the war path in Northern Chihuahua today mur dered two women, two baby girls and an aged man at Janoa. SO miles south of Hachita, N. M., according to reliable reports received here today. All the victims were Mexicans. Wilson's Statement Boosts Odds on Cox New Tork. Oct 4. IV. P.) - Odds aaainst Governor Cox beoomlnr presi dent were lowered today in Wall street betting. President Wilson's League of Nations statement waa credited . with lowering the betting from J .to ltO; 4 to X against the Ohio governor. Cuban Haw Sugar Is Sold at 71-2 Cts, New Tork. Oct. 4. U. ' P. Cuban raw sugar sold here today at 7 cents the lowest price quoted this, year, - A New Tork operator paid that price for 15,000 bags for immediate shipment The lowest price ' previous, was cents, paiayaarjisiv.v TOBESMOKED OUT BY BORAH Tinn imiinrn niir iniUmilrf'HI llllr- I IIU IMJUULU, UUL Cereal Drops 20 Cents a Bushel ton Local Merchants' Exchange) Cut Is Biggest on Record) Winter Wheat Goes to $2. A cut of as much as 20 cents, a bushel was made Monday in the bid prices for wheat on the Portland Merchants Exchange. This is the greatest individual decline ever noted in the history of the local market. Bid for hard winter wheat was down to $2 a bushel Portland delivery. while 11.90 a bushel was bid for northern soring and red Walla varieties. DECEMBER WHEAT PRICES DROP 10 CENTS IX CHICAGO Chicago, Oct 4. (U. P.) December wheat fell 10 cents on the Chicago board of trade today. March w.heat was off 9 c Other grains declined from c to 2c Heavy cash selling and considerable liquidation by seaboard interests were bearish influences. A report that -India, shipped 112,000 bushels of wheat last week also aided in forcing down the market? JAVA SUGAR TO TEAR UP PRICES By Hpnan H. Cohen All the way from trye' island of Java, north of far off Australia, sugar refiners and growers are hur rying their crops to the United States in order to find a market be fore the bottom drops completely out of the price. f . Java sugar Is already being offered to the t)ipdblio:Dd ne. prices are forcing the hand, ol fheVWgiKWtfn ot this scotmtry, who-have held consumer up and' forced them to pay for many months the highest prices In the world. Sugar from Java is being offered In the retail markets at even lower prices than the wholesale prices for. the Amer ican or Hawaiian product " Sales of Java sugar are being made by retailers as low as 13 1-6 cents a pound, while the wholesale price of best domestic sugar Is 16 cents a pound. . J AT A PBODUCT SWEETER Java sugar is not as finely ground as the American product but It is sweeter. It Is preferred by manufacturers to any other sugar in the world because of a flavor that is peculiar to the product of the island. While some retail butchers are slowly trying to meet the decreasing prices reached in the wholesale trade, many are still holding out for the highest valuea known here. Claims are made by some of them that there has in real ity been no lowering of the wholesale price but the facts are the reverse. The wholesale price or beat steer Deer the No. 1 kind today stands gener ally at 17 cents a sound by the carcass while the high point was reached some time ago at 22 23c a pound. MEAT PRICES DOWH Wholesalers are offering heifers of the best quality down to 14 cents a pound while the previous high point was 4 to cents a pound beyond this. Best cow meat la being sold at whole sale in carcass lots at 13 cents a pound compared with 18 cents as the high point Lambs are selling at 18 to 80 cents a pound while 25 cents was asked a short time ago. Yearling wethers are 12 H to IS cents a pound or 4 cents below the extreme prices asked. Packing houses are asking 23 V4 to 24 cents a pound for hogs, as compared with as high as 28 and 29 cents a short time ago. Front street is selling Its best hogs around 20 cents a pound, compared with 24 to 25 cents a short time ago. CALVES REDUCED Front street Is selling Its best calves to retailers at 20 to 21 cents a pound, as compared with 25 to 26 cents some time ago for the same class of goods. Bakers are asking Just as much from average consumers for their bread as they were when the price 'of flour and cooking materials was far in excess of present figures. They some time ago advanced their price on cakes and dough nuts quite materially because they claimed that the price of . cooking fats was Aigher. Now that fats are below the previous levels, they have forgotten all about changing their quotations to the lower figures. Grapes and Pears Sold at Cost to Bring Prices Down Chicago. Oct 4. (U, P.) Prices were given another Jolt here today. Grapes and pears a whole shipload of them arrived here to. be old at cost The shipment was paVt of a par chase by the city of Chicago from Michigan . fruitgrowers In an effort- to force prices down. Six more shiploads have -been ordered. Justices to Consider Wet Lawyer's Plea .i " ' i . Washington. Oct 4-L, N. R A conference of the justices of the su preme court will be held this . week to take action on the petition of EHhu Root and William Guthrie for a rehearing on all the decisions effecting the prohibition act wv ww vvieieavo an,'. - Wilson Letter Urges To Keep And Save League By John Gletasner (Caited Hs Staff Comspoedeat) Washington, Oct 4. The sick man In the White House, witnessing the close of a political campaign which threatens to submerge the Institution out of which he sought to bring a new world order, and for which he all but sacrificed his life, again has appealed to the people' of the coun try. . . As in the stirring days of war, when 100,000,000 people looked to him foe guidance, the president . appeals to "hli fellow countrymen." Weak from Ill ness which followed his effort to take his message to the! nation verbally, and willing but unable now personally to face the voters, the president pleads with them for vindication in a letter written with his old-time vigor and style. APPEAL IS SOLEMX He has watched the rieir.g tide of opposition to his league and to his i policies through long months or ill ness, and has seen the mantle of lead ershlp fall from his shoulders in Ajner-i lea and In the other nations of thet world. Now he Issues a final appeal to the voters of the country. They are to give a sovereign mandate to i their representatives. If they say qcC the league is dead. The president himself says so. The "great ana solemn refer endum" is realised. To his mind the issue is above all others and is the most momentous ever presented to the country. He rejoices that the voters must decide and ex pressed faith in their verdict His arguments are simple. The peo ple have been misled. The opponents of the league would create for America a policy of "isola tion and defiant segregation," sacrificing an opportunity to lead the world to better thing. They would sacrifice all benefits of the greatest war and the things for which we entered it KEEP FAITH WITH DEAD They would break faith with the dead. and with the world. Article X woald not allow us to be led Into wars without consent of congress. Assertions to the contrary are "absolutely false." The president's letter is briez. pernsps 400 words in length. It repeats simply. in short sentences, arguments which he has made so many times before in his advocacy of the league. There is per hat less of the polished phraseology than, inhume Mhk Mtjswjo!cXJiJ eOrne from xhe'Wiison pen. Ana Tners is a note of appeal wnichiha not al ways been present. . ' , The letter marka the beginning or an effort; to force ths league Issue to the front as the presidential contest near Its end. Governor Cox wanted it so. President Wilson made no effort to help until his help was sought and until emissaries from Cox had assured him they wanted him to make an effort to reassert his old leadership. 4 CASE LOOKED FOR Pittsburg, Pa.. Oct. 4. U. P.) Florean Zelenska, 29, of Brooklyn, today told police, they said, that enough dynamite was secreted in New Tork to "blow up the whole town." ' Definite clue that may Uad to. the arrest of. those responsible for the Wall street explosion September 18 were be lieved by police to have been un earthed through the arrest of Zelenska. Six sticks of dynamite, about 25 feet of fuse and a number of detonating capa were found in a yellow suitcase the prisoner carried when arrested. Purebred 'Jersey And Her Calf Are Passengers in Auto Denver, Colo., Oct 4. (U. P.) Dolly Lees Neskowin and her three months old daughter. Argonne, left Denver to day for Pomona, Mo., in a specially ar ranged automobile. 6 They arrived here yesterday from Nes kowin. Or., and are in perfect condi tion, their owner, Charles Parsons, de clared. Both the passengers are of pure bred Jersey stock and are said to rank among the aristocrats of cattledonr. The cow and her calf are valued at $7500, and. fearing injury should they be sent to Missouri by rail. Parsons had a motor truck fitted out and is making the long overland trip In It Charles - Parsons left Neskowin six weks ago on hia cross country Jaunt with the cow and her -calf. At the time he left he fixed a trailor and truck at tachment so that the animals could be transported during the day time and lie in pastures at night He expects to locate at Pomona. Mo., on arrival there in another month. Airplane Landing on Alpine Peak Planned Geneva. Oct ,4.-rL N. 8.) A landing place for airplanes is being constructed upsn the summit of Matter horn, one of the highest peaks in the Alps. It will be Just below the spot where Lord Fran cis Douglas was killed in the first ascent of Matterhorn in July, 1885, . PqUsli-Lithuanian 2 Armistice Signed London, Oct vReeter's Warsaw cor respondent la a dispatch Sunday, de clared an armistice has been concluded b Poland and Lithuania. Voters Pledg ARRESTS IN BOMB r I Text of Wilson's Message President Wilson appeal for the league: My Fellow Countrymen The Is sues of the present campaign are of such tremendous importance and of such far reaching- significance for the influence of the country and the development of Its future relations and I have necessarily had so much to do with their development that I am sure you will think it natural and proper that I should address to you a few words concerning them. Everyone who sincerely believes in government by the people must rejoice at the turn affairs have taken in regard to this campaign. This election is to be a genuine national referendum. THREE QCE8TIOXS . The determination of a great pol icy upon which the Influence and authority of the United States in the world most depend Is not to be left to groups of politicians of either party, but is to be referred to the people themselves for a sovereign mandate to their representatives. The chief question that is put to : vou. la. of course, this: Do you want your country's honor vindicated and the treaty of Versailles- ratified? Do - you in particular approve of the League of Nations as organised and empowered in. that treaty? And do vou wish to see the United States play its responsible part in it? You have been grossly misled with regard to the treaty and particularly with the proposed character of the League of Nations by those who have assumed the serious responsibility of opposing It PERSONAL DEFINITION They have gone so far that those who have spent their lives, as I have spent my life, in familiarising them selves with the history and tradi tions and policies of the nation, must stand amazed at the gross .ig norance and impudent audacity which has led them to attempt to invent an "Americanism" of their own. which has no foundation what ever in any of the-authentic tradi tions of the government Americanism, as they conceive it, reverses the whole process of the last few tragical years. It would substi tute America for Prussia In the pol ity of isolation and defiant segrega tion. Their conception of the dignity of the nation and its interest Is that we should stand apart and watch our opportunities to advance our own interests, involve ourselves in no re sponsibility for the maintenance of right In the world or for the con tinued vindication of any of the p , . POLES CAPTURE 50,000 RUSSIANS , - Warsaw,- Oct4 N, 8.)Cap furOeoles ers tn the great battle" raging far the great rail head of Llda, was an nounced by the Polish war offibe today. , Great stores of materials also were taken from the Reds, who had 18 divisions engaged in the battle, the statement avera. Governor Praises Justice Bennett In Formal Letter Salem. Oct 4. In acknowledging re eeipt of the resignation of Justice A. 8. Bennett from the Oregon supreme bench; Monday and- formally accepting it, Governor Olcott pays high tribute to the outgoing justice and to the per sonnel of the bench generally. "It is a source of gratification to know that the people, by election of such men aa v yourself, keep the per sonnel of the bench up to the high est standard, and while I realise the circumstances which force you to leave your duties with the state, I am cer tain the people of Oregon as a whole have a- deep appreciation of the serv ices which you have rendered," the governors letter to Justice Bennett reads. A telegram received from Attorney General Brown, who (s In Pendleton assisting In the prosecution of Rathle and Owens for complicity In the mur der of Sheriff Taylor, accepts the ap pointment to the bench, but declares It necessary to complete some Important matters before resigning aa attorney general. 9 Hurt, 2 Perhaps Fatally, in Crash Oakland. Cat. Oct 4. (L N. S.) Nine persons were hurt two perhaps fatally. when a fast Berkeley ferry train crashed into the rear of another train standing on an Incline at the Sixteenth street station of the Southern Pacific here this afternoon. The impact was terrific es the strong steel cars of both trains were badly smashed. Dr. Edward Bump , Dead in Auto Crash Madison, Wla, Oct 4. t. N. &);-Dr. Bdward Bump, former University of Wisconsin football trainer, is dead and Miss Alma Haendel, his office assistant. Is seriously Injured as the result of an automobile accident late yesterday. Walker Boy . Missing; $500 Reward Offered The police have been notified by Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Walker of St Johns that 8500 reward is offered for information as to the whereabouts of their 'son, Myrl, 18 years old. who disappeared from! his home May 29. t Autos Kill 1, Hurt 19 in Sound City Seattle. Oct 401. . P.)-One, dead and It Injured was Sunday's auto acci dent toll here. things for which we entered the war. The conception of the great creators of the government was absolutely op posite , to thia They thought of America as the light of the world, aa created to lead the world In the as sertion of the risrhts of peoples and the right of free nations ; aa destined to set a responsible example to all the world of what free government is and can do for the maintenance ef ' right standards, both national' and international. This light the oppon ents of the lesgue would quench. They would relegate the United States to a subordinate role in the affairs of the world. . DEFEAT FRTJSStAiriSM Why should we be afraid of re sponsibilities which we are qualified to sustain and which the whole of our history has constituted a promise to the world we would sustain? This is the most momentous Issue that has ever been presented to the people of the United States, and I do not doubt that the hope of the whole world win be verified by an absolute assertion by the voters of the country of the determination of the United. States to live up to all the great expectations which they created by entering the war and en abling the other nations of the world 'to bring It to a victorious conclusion to the confusion of Prussian I am and everything that rises out of Prus sian! am. Surely-we shall not fall to keep the promise sealed In the death and sac rifice of our incomparable soldiers," sailors and marines who await our verdict beneath the sod of France. Those who do not care to tell the truth about the Leasue Na tlons tell you that Article X of the covenant of the League of Nations would make It possible for other na tions -to lead us into war, whether we willed it by our own independent judgment or not Thia is absolutely false. WHOLE WORLD WAITS ' There Is nothing In the covenant which in the least Interferes with or impairs the right of congress to declare war or not declare war, ac cording to Its own Independent judgment, aa our constitution pro vides. Those who drew the coven ant of the league were careful that It should contain nothing which In terfered with or impaired the con stitutional arrangements of any of the great nations which are to con stitute Its membership. They would have been amased and indignant at the things that are now being ignor antly said about this great and sin cere document . The whole world will wait for your verdict in November as It would wait for an Intimation of what Its future Is to be. WOODROW WIL80N. MAN WOUNDS 10; LIFE ENDS IN- CELL Scott,, blacksmith and owner of ranah near Keno, at 1:10 Sunday morning shot and seriously wounded -his stepson. Theodore T. Jones, and Jones', wife. Ada Jones. Ah hour later dcott was found dead in his cell in the city jail. The cause of his death has not yet been .de termined. Scott has been separated from his wife, Mrs. Anna Scott for about three weeks and has been trying to get Jones' aid in bringing about a reconciliation, but without vuccess. Saturday Scott wrote a seven page letter. In which he blamed all of his troubleywlth his wife to the Interference of his' stepson and his step- daughter. Mrs. Grerory of Blsson, Cal wife of a wholesale produce dealer of that place. PROPOSES A YISIT Soott wrote in this letter that he was going to kill his wife. Mrs. Scott Jones and his wife and Mra Gregory, and then commit suicide. He also wrote a letter addressed to the Odd Fellows and Masons requesting a simple funeral funds for which would be found on his person. Sunday morning at 8 o'clock Scott called at his stepson's apartment at the Baldwin hotel and asked him and hia wife to go with him to his ranch Jones a freed to go and J9cott went out to have breakfast returning to find that Jones had decided not to go. Bcott drew a amall British bulldog type of re volver and shot Jones In the back, miss ing the heart by a few Inchea .His sec ond shot graced Jones' scalp. The next shot . went wild. PILLS MAY BE POISONOUS He then turned the gun on Mra Jones. Three bullets lodged In her arm and hand. Jones, although his right arm waa paralysed, got the gun away from Scott and beat him over the hekd with the butt Scott ran from the apartment and fell down a flight of stairs, breaking hia hip. Jones then set upon Soott with the butt of the run. and was only prevented from beating him to death by Will Baldwin, owner of the hotel. It la alleged that Scott's death In the prison an hour later may have been caused by the beating administered by Jones on by poison, as a small bottle of black pills waa found on his person. An autopsy to determine the cause of Scott's death will be held. Scott was 81 years old. Goldberg Detained For Inquiry About Early Moaning Fire "Fatty" Goldberg Is held at the police station, pending Investigation of the causes of a mysterious fire on the mes sanlne floor of the New Scott hotel. Broadway and ' Bumslde. . Goldberg has a key shop on the hotel messanine floor and he sleeps . in the shop. About 8 o'clock this morning fire waa discovered there. When the fire de partment arrived Goldberg rushed out carrying g bunch of keys. Nick Arnstein and 6 Others Indicted Washington. Oct -t LN'. 8. Jules "Nickey" Arnstein and six .others were indicted by the federal grand Jury here this afternoon as alleged principals tn the recent 85,000,000 bond-thefts from New : York brokers. The charges made here rare in - addition to those lodged sgalnst the alleged conspirators In New x ora. l. ..... -. ; i",- -: Time Allowance in Ship Safes Granted After Local Protest j Chamberlain Displeased With Policy Making Firm Sole Bidder With the stamp of Senator George ' Chamberlain's disapproval- on ' E their methods and the echoes ot loud protests from "froten out" bid- ders ringing in official ears. United States shipping board officers have been advised from Washington of a 15 -day extension of time on the gale : of approximately 88,000,000 worth of the properties of the division of sup ply and sales. I New bids will be Opened October IS at 11 a. m., and "all" previous bids are cancelled. "All" la the bid of the Bards V Industrlsl company. BARDE BID HAS O. K. ' At the same time, with "84.000.000 knocked off the original appraisal of the value of the division's vast holdings, the " bid of the Barde company, the only ene received and. perforce, the only one con sidered, is at Washington with a local O. K. upon It H. B. Miller, director general of the division, todsy denied a report current In shipping circles of the dismissal of ''' J. II. Wood, local assistant district di rector In charge of materials, and J. Hamilton, assistant in charge of sales, c through whose offices the Barde - bid necessarily traveled on Its way to Wash ington. Hamilton is on "leave of ab sence," MDIer said, and Wood Is work - l"f- : . - It Is said that M. Barde, who is largely. the Barde Industrial company, colncl- dentally cams west with wood . end Hamilton and if he was not their travel-,; ing companion he was close upon their trail while they appraised the board's properties at San Francisco, Portland and Tacoma. Heaped upon the Barde bid' that ' passed through their hands is a furors : of. protest from; those .who say they would have bid had they been offered opportunity, the d Issstls faction of senator Chamberlain t aaa the rsaig- : nation and dismissal of several Seattle -: attaches of the shipping board. CHAMBERLAIN , HWPlHASJtW'n Recalling a protest meeting held In ' his office Friday afternoon, et which ; H. B. Miller, director of the division .of supply and sales, and his assistant were - present wjth A. C Caitan, Independent and "frosen out" steel operator, and a number of other Prospective bidders;. 'Senator Chamberlain said today: I do not like the way this whole thing has been going. " The best Interests of the govern- ment will not be served, I am confi- dent in the present course. The gathering' in Senator Chamber- Istn's office Friday was the result of the discovery by Callan and a number of . other operators that on September I the bid of the Barde Industrial company 1 en 88,000,000 worth of government war-' time properties had been, accepted and sent to Washington. They had also discovered that the. (Concluded ea Pats Tee,, Colons Thru) Chicago, Oct. tf.jl. S.)Re publlcans who fear that the factional fight between Governor Frank O. Lowden and Mayor William Hale Thompson, of Chicago, for control of the state O. O. .P. machinery, will pave the7 way for a Democratic vic tory that would mean the loss of" Illinois' electoral votei to Harding and Coolldge, are working today to effect a compromise that would unite the part in this state.' John Maynard Harlan, who has filed as ah Independent Republican candidate for governor, has ssked Pboth John O. Ogles by, candidate of the Lowden fac tion, and Len Small, the Thompson can- -dldate who, on the face of unofficial re tarns, won the-nomlnatlon ln the Sep tember primaries, to withdraw. Harlan himself has agreed to withdraw if the : others will get together and agree ilpon a candidate that they wilt be acceptable all Republicans of the state. Oglesby forces are said to be unyield-' Ing In their determination to go before Judge James T. Burns today and de-, mand that the ballots cast in some. 100 precincts In Chicago that gave a big' vote to Small be thrown put because of alleged fraud. - . , 1 . - Steamer Burns; Crew Made to Swim Ashortf Evansvllle. Ind., Oct 4j 0. P,) Ths ; Ohio river passenger and freight packet steamer John L. Lowry burned in the Saline river. IX miles above Shawns- ' town. 111., today, with a loss estimated , at 878.000. Members of the crew were asleep when the steamer caught fire and were forced to swim ashore. r Russ Gold Shipment. To Be Investij Washington. Oct 4. (L N. SL Attor ney General Palmer this afternoon, or dered an Investigation "of the sources and uses" of 8180.000 In gold reported to have arrived In the j United States from Russia last week.' t?-F G.0.P.IMEAL ILLINOIS WOUNDS V"; ( ,