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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
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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
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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
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