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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION f , Gathering the Returns The Journal has for lotnt time been marshaling tu election night forces for the early and accurate compilation of election return, so that It will be In posi tion to civ the latest resulta first while the ballots are being counted after the battle. CITY EDITION r A1 r anf All Trite ' THR WBATHER Tonight and Friday, , fair ; northwesterly winds. Minimum temperature Wednesday: Portland 4 New Orleans ... It Helena 21 New York ..."... bs Los Angeles .... 60 St. Paul 60 Portland, Oregon, Thursday evening,! October 21, 1920 twenty pages VOL. XIX. NO. 193. Ehterwd u gennd-Clui Hatter I'ortoffW. rortlaod. Oresoa PRICE TWO CENTS ?TM07V.5".BAVr. f T RUCK S L AS HE PLAYS Peter Kuhn Meets Tragic Death in Front of Albina Homestead School; Driver Unable to Stop in Time to Avoid Accident. Playground romping during recess had a tragic ending this morning when Peter Kuhn. 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kuhn of 929 East Eighth street north, was crushed to death under a motor truck at the Albina Homestead School. The driver, Dan Shea, employed by the school district, could not stop his truck In time, as the lad dashed from the playground directly in' the path of . the machine. ' DRIVER IS POWERLESS Young Kuhn was being pursued in play by Karl Snyder, 421 Shaver street. Snyder was only a few feet behind Kuhn when the latter dashed into the street The front wheels of the truck knocked Kuhn to the pavement and a wheel crushed the lad's head. He was dead when Principal William Parker carried !hlm into the building. School Director George B. Thomas and Purchasing Agent W. L. Palmer, who were at the school superintending the delivery of supplies by Shea, reported the accident to. the police and called a physician, though death had probably been Instantaneous. Dr. Butler said a basic skull fracture was the cause of death. The echoed is at Mallory and Ecech streets. Shea was Just driving up to the Mallory street entrance of the build ing with his load of supplies as the morning recess period filled the grounds with shouting, laughing children. Wit nesses Raid Shea had almost brought his machine to a stop and was not moving faster than three or four miles an hour. Investigation was conducted at the school by Captain H. A. Lewis, Invesi- gator Frleberg of the traffic department and Leo Ooetsch, deputy coroner, and resulted In the exoneration of the driver. JANITOR SAW ACCIDENT Several boys who were playing with the Kuhn. boy at the time of hla fatal injury testified that the truck was go ing at a very slow rate. Charles East- man. Janitor of the school, saw the accl-i dent and cried a warning to the driver and other boys. The machine was stopped within five feet from, where the boy waa struck. Principal Parker told the police the boy waa dead before picked up. He was taken Into the principal's office and the police and coroner's offices were no tified. The body waa taken to the morgue pending disposition. Goetsch stated that no inquest will be held and verified the statement made by Dr. Butler that death was caused by a fractured skull. WOUND AND KILL Cleveland. Ohio, Oct. 21. (U. P.) One bandit was reported killed and two wounded when eight auto ban dits attempted to hold up the Bed ford branch of the Cleveland Trust company, late today. ' The remain ing five robbers were reported sur rounded by a pbsse of citizens in a nearby barn. Two employes of the bank were wounded, according to reports, when they opposed the bandits, and several cit izens.' members of the posse, were shot and wounded while pursuing the fleeing thugs. SCHOO BAND S ZN My Word, Says Sales Lady Hat They're Not Easy Any More By Alexander P. Janes (United Nwi SUff Correspondent) Chicago. Oct. 21. The taffy haired saleslady in the dlshe- de partment parked her grum. "Good Lord, here she cornea again," she mumbled Irritably. The plump lady coming up the aisle smiled a weary smile in greet ing. The saleslady had been right about her not being able to fill out an incom plete English pattern set of dishes some where else, it seemed. None of the stores could supply English patterns. They weren't being Imported. So she wanted more information about domestic ware. She got it. But Still she wasn't satis fied. Maybe she could do better on price. She would look around a bit longer. She moved away. The saleslady watched her go and sighed heavily. "Talk about getting back to normal." she exploded. "Take me word for It, we're there now and then some. Hon estly, you simply have to hit 'em in the head to sell, nowadays. What a change ; t a change !" HET AOBBE WITH HER Department store managers, floor walkers, elevator boys and even bankers . agreed with her. The days of the bargain counter rush are back. The high art of shopping, lost in the golden days of not long1 since, is . an art regained. , Sales people have ,' shaken that heavily bored air, that game UI - - . f. JS4 HARDING OFFERS REWARD FOR THIS INFORMATION Senator Harding, in speech Wednesday, offered to "give a re ward" to anyone who would produce specific evidence of a change of position since he accepted the Republican nomination for the presi dency. The following quotations reveal some of Harding's Bhiftlngs: Marlon, July 22 (Speech of Acceptance) I can speak unreservedly of the American- aspiration and the Republican committal for an asso ciation of nations cooperating In sublime accord to attain and preserve peace through Justice rather than force. ' Marion, Aug. 28 It Is not uncommon for the advocates of the League of Versailles to contrast unfavorably The Hague tribunal upon the ground that the tribunal "lacks teeth." Very well; then let's put teeth Into It. s . Same Speech If the league has been so entwined and Interwoven into the peace of Europe that Its good must be preserved in order to stabilize the peace of that continent, then It may be amended or re vised. Marlon, Sept. 6 (Statement to the Press) Undoubtedly there Is much that Is good In the covenant of Versailles. 1 have no desire to fling that all aside. Marlon, Sept. 6 We are all agreed now that amendment or revision or reconstruction is possible and vastly better than reservations. ' Marion, Sept. 21 If I can have my way we will never enter a fra ternity that is founded on force. Baltimore. Sept. 27 I am without a single program constructive In character about an association of nations. The first thing I will do is to try to find a plan for an association of nations behind which all Americans will stand. Des Moines, Oct. 7 I do not want to clarify those obligations. I want to turn my back on them. It Is not Interpretation but rejection that I am seeking. Marlon, Oct. 11 I am unalterably opposed to going Into the League of Nations. Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 16 France has sent her spokesman to me in formally asking America in its new realization of the situation to lead the way for an association of nations. Marion, Ocl:18. I am sure that my words could not be construed to say that the French government has sent anybody to me. RAILMEN VOTE TO STRIKE 3y Karlc . Reeves London, Oct. 21. (I. N. S.) Brit ish railway men have decided to strike immediately in sympathy with the coal miners, according to the Manchester Guardian today. The Guardian said that the represent atives of the National Union of Rall waymen had overruled J. H. Thomas, secretary of th unionj and leader of the conservatives and voted "on a light ning sympathy walkout" It is reported that London papers' have received Identical information, but up to noon it had hot been officially con firmed, j . . V-SV'' w,. Accord! to the Pall? MAS . -Gasette. leaders of the strlkevot $h Tnhiejjfiave rebuffed all attempts of other labor wad er to bring about mediation. The min ers' leaders are said ' to have declared that they will not stand for, any outside interference. . Rioting was renewed today at Ton-Y-Pandy. Wales, which was the scene of similar outbreaks Tuesday and Wednes day. The rioters began looting prop erty, but were dispersed hy tne police, who used their riot sticks freely. Former Love Affair Kept Up, Says Mate Montesano. Wash.. Oct. 21. After less than three months of married life James Edwards of Aberdeen has filed suit for divorce from Grace Edwards. They were married in Montesano, August 9. Edwards alleges his .wife continued a clandestine courtship with a former lover. Nettle Holman asks a divorce from A. A. Holman, alleging drunken ness and desertion. They live in Ho quiam. Export Embargo on Wheat Is Demanded , Washington, Oct. 21. (I. N. S.) De mands for an export embargo on wheat are being received In large numbers by the department of agriculture from all parts of the country, especially the Northwest, It was announced today at the department. of easy, sales and disregard for price. They are back in the selling game and find the going hard. John M. Mitchell, chairman of the Illi nois Merchants' Trust Banking group, gave one explanation of this condition. "There being no standard of values, everyone will find it profitable to shop around," he said. "The public is grow ing market-wise and doing this. In some Instances I know a saving of 50 per cent can be made by shopping about, as new goods are 'selling lower than older stocks." ANYTHING FOB AJTYTHIWO There was a big demand for commodi ties ; merchants bought wherever they could get goods and paid whatever they had to; then they sold to customers for as much as they could get. Thus there has been no percentage or standard of profit. Now people are not buying more than they have to and are not willing to pay high prices. On the word of a veteran buyer for one great concern, however, some of the merchants are attempting to get out from m under the burden of the high priced old stocks still on their shelves by pushing .'them in preference to new fall stocks. "Our new fall clothes, for Instance, are priced lower than our left-overs from last year." he satd. We have very few ready-to-wear men's suits In our new stocks priced over $65. We have N em In our stocks up to J 125, however, and the prices are not being cut. Some of these old stocks Will have to be sacri ficed because the people won't buy or pay as they did last year." BRITISH ITU CASUALTY, IS JOHNSON S VERS ON (Br United Newt.) New York. Oct. 21. In direct contrast to the pronouncement of Elihu Root on Tuesday regarding Senator Harding's position on the League of Nations issue, Senator Hi ram Johnson of California In a speech at Hoboken Wednesday night, de clared flatly that the Republican candidate "Will not take the United States into the League of Nations." Johnson declared that Senator Hard ing stands for' outright rejection of the league, . and that there has never been anything An. nu, remark JMnoe-he, was made the "nominee the party that could fcc termed ambiguous or misleaxllns. I1XDS LEAGUE ISSUE "The lBsue today," said Senator John son, "Is the League of Nations as pre sented by President Wilson, which Cox says he will take the country into, and which Harding says he won't "I speak, of course, from the public ut terances of our candidate, and th?se ut terances make plain beyond cavil that when Senator Harding is president he wiil not take the United States into the league." "I am not a member of the Senate oligarchy," said Johnson. "Iam a cas ualty of the Republican national conven tion." At which the crowd cheered and yelled las : He declared that, under sporting rules, the police had a right to step in and stop any fight that became "brutal," and that, according to these rules, they should step in at once and stop the pres idential campaign. "At the convention," he said, "I desired one thing. I was primarily Interested' in one great thing. For more than a year some of us in Washington had dedicated our lives to that thing. We were deter mined that our party should take its position on this great question. There were some others who took the other side. But finally we succeeded in deal ing with this issue in a manner which ia very, very plain. "We are going to bury the League of Nations." Commons Defeats Motion to Inquire Into Irish Affairs By Webb Miller London. Oct. 21. (U. P.) The British government having passed safely one at tempt at censure in parliament, faced another vote today on the labor situa tion. After a long debate yesterday on the Irish situation, in which the government was attacked. for Hs "policy of repres sion,' . a motion for an investigation of Irish affairs waa voted down in the house of commons last night by a big majority. Heavy Eun of Fish Is Reported; Jack Salmon Numerous Residents .of Tillamook are being treated to one of the greatest runs of sea fish this season,, according to tele phonic advice received this morning by Captain A. E. Burghduff. state game warden, from a warden at the coast city. Sllversides, sea trout and jack salmon are said to be entering the coast streams In large numbers. The deputy reported to Burghduff that Wednesday 200 jack salmon weighing from two to six pounds each were caught by men fishing from the Trask river bridge within the city limits of Tillamook. Police Called to Stop London Riot ' y . "j London, Oct 21. (L N. S.) The third demonstration of unemployed this meek occurred this afternoon In the Hackney district when a procession marched upon York House. Leaders announced their I intention of "breaking Into York House. Police were rushed to the scene. ,.; GERMAN SOP DRIVES VOTES 10 COX GAMP Red-Blooded Americans Resent Separate Peace Slogan Which Is Sweeping Teutonic Districts,' Women Turning to League. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 21. Separ ate peace with Germany if the Re publicans take office and reject the League of Nations, is the slogan em ployed by Republican campaign speakers in Iowa, Nebraska and South. Dakota whenever they visit a German community. The result has been a turning away of all Ameri cans from Republican ranks in these communities. Bismarck, Neb., and Hamburg, Iowa, two German s-locall ties, are especially good examples of this type of propaganda. A straw vote taken in both places early in July showed Cox in the lead 800 to 700. Cox can hardly get a vote now. The effect, however, has been any thing but beneficial to the .Republican party in the upper Missouri valley. Moth ers' clubs In many cities and towns in South Dakta and Iowa are coming out for the League of Nations. In many in stances the women leaders are the wives of men who are staunch Republican standard bearers. MERCHANTS BOYCOTTED At Edgemont, S. D., the women of the community refuse to do their shopping with any merchant who displays the pictures of Harding and Coolidge in his windows. In all its history Edgemont never knew a Democratic office holder. The same Jias proved true of a number of small towns in Western Nebraska. Straw votes taken by the Sioux 'City Journal, a rabid Republican daily, from their territory over Iowa. Nebraska and South Dakota, where they have a large circulation. Shows the following: Harding (Republican) 800 Cox (Democratic) '. 797 Debs (Socialist) 106 Christensen (Farm Labor) 42 Watkins (Prohibition) 11 Four years ago the "straw vote" re turns made by papers in the upper Mis souri valley states fan about In this ratio : Hushes (Republican) ... 450 Wilson (Democratic) Debs (Socialist). .-. 86 -W1 WOMEN ABE FACTOBS In those days neither Iowa,' South Da kota, nor Nebraska had woman suffrage and the first two states went Republican In the national election. The entire territory from which this. ballot Is taken Is normally Republican. All political leaders admit that the votes for Debs, Christensen, and Watkins are drawn from Republican ranks. These ; votes are to be found among the work ing men who are displeased with the candidacy of Coolidge because of his attitude relative to the "no strike laws" and among the farmers who blame the Republicans for dropping the bottom out of the corn market. It was noted that in every instance where a woman marked a straw ballot she voted for Cox. With the majority of women voting for Cox and at least a third of the men taking the same stand while the laboring class and the farm ers vote for their candidates, the Dem ocraths possibilities in the upper Mis souri valley states are taking on a bright aspect. In Harding county. S. D., a place that seldom has a Democratic candidate on the ballot, a straw vote shows three times as many votes for Cox as for Harding. The reverse was true four ( Concluded on Ptre Two, Column Koarl San Francisco, 6ct. 21. (U. P.) A cure for botulism poisoning was today announced by Dr. Jasper J. C. Geiger of the United States public health service, following the state ment of pathologists that botulism was the cause of three deaths In Oakland yesterday. All three died after partaking of a dinner at which canned beans were served. The serum by which the cure la ef fected was rushed to St. Anthonys hos pital, Oakland. It was given to Nellie Russell and Steve Wendt, who, according to doctors at the hospital, were dying from the poison. They are reported to day to be out Of danger as the reseult of the Injection of the new serum. Lieutenant Found . Short in Account Seattle, Wash.. Oct 21. (X N. S.) Lieutenant Walter Wilson Jr. is under arrest at the Puget Sound naval station today charged with financial irregular ities. It is said a naval auditor found shortages of $4000 to (5000 in Wilson's books. Wilson- a a member of the board of appraisal and sales at the naval sta tion. Bandits Overrunning . Haiti Is the Eeport Washington. Oct 21. So overrun is Haiti with bandits and so incapable of self government are its people, that the United States will be compelled to oc cupy that island for at least a genera tion to come, according to an official statement from jSear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, made public by Secretary Daniels. , - - - - . BOTULISM CURE DECLARED FOUND British Columbia Votes 30,000 Strong to Bring Back Liquor Vancouver,' B. C. Oct. 21. (U. P.) British Columbia yesterday abandoned Its prohibition policy after four years of trial. By a majority of 30,000 far more than the fondest of the yfetJ had ever dreamed of the electors de cided In favor of a pTan to sell liquor openly - from government stores to be located In every city and town in the province. No more will doctors' prescriptions be necessary for ecurlng liquor. There will be no return of the bar, of course, but the country has gone wet in the sense that liquor in limited quantities will hereafter be always obtainable. Vancouver city decided for a change by a majority of more than 10,000. Out of 400 polls not more than a score voted dry. In the whole of Vancouver island only one village refused to join the procession. One reayn for the change of senti ment is the prevalence of scandals and the por administration of the dry law. First the prohibition commissioner ap pointed by the government sold out to the bootleggers and was sent to jail. More recently physicians have been found issuing prescriptions at the rate of 4000 a month. The people became sick of the farcical manner In which the law was administered. British Co lumbia and Quebec will now be the wet oases of the Dominion of Canada. T MISLEADS VOTER In furtherance of a campaign to secure the passage of the Swan island or port consolidation bill on the November ballot, Oregon news papers are being flooded with ad vertisements signed by the "Oregon Port Development League." The feature about the advertisements which startles those intimately familiar with the port bill Is that they contain statements exactly contrary to the present representations of the commit tee of fifteen which 'formulated the port legislation.' a, . - t STATEMENTS TART The com mi tee of fifteen issued a statement Wednesday that all proposed under the Swan Island scheme is the dredging of the west channel around Swan island and the purchase of enough, land to serve as a repository for the spoils of dredging. The adver tisements, however, stat : "The primary object of this bill is to' furnish the means to Insure the opening and maintaining of a 30-foot channel from. Portland to the sea and of building and establishing port fa cilities at the city of Portland suffi cient to handle the foreign and coast wise shipping of that port." Under the committee of fifteen'sIat est statement, addressed to the people Of Portland, it is asserted that an ex penditure of but $10,000,000 is contem plated. $40,0HMHt PL A 5 The plan of dock construction Indi cated by the advertisement would be the $40,000,000 expenditure which those who have studied the bill state would Inev itably be necessary for even a partial development of the plan. The channel from Portland to the sea, tt is observed, could not possibly be included as . its deepening and maintenance is a direct responsibility of the government. The port's responsibility is for the channel from Portland to the mouth of the Wil lamette. Such work as the port does on the channel below the mouth of the Willamette is in course of voluntary co operation with the government Insisting upon a position which critics of the Swan Island measure declare puts Portland in a false light, the advertise ment conveys the suggestion that Port land la eager for a grant of authority by the state at large to bond the property of the port, which means the city, for It further states : POBTLA5D IS GOAT , 'The cost of this Improvement will be met by the people living within the boundaries of the Port of Portland. "When you go to the polls November 2. vote S10 Yea and give to the Port of Portland .the power to maintain Its SO foot channel to the sea and to build ade quate port facilities to handle all of the great products of the interior of r the state." Investigation as to the membership and finanelal support of the "Oregon Port Development league" was without result. The secretary of the league, whose name Is signed to the advertisements, did not possess a list of the members. He did not know who were contributing to the coat of the campaign. He had never attended any meeting of the league. He had merely received notice, he said, that he was to act as secretary. One Woman Burned To Death; Two Are Seriously. Injured Los Angeles. CaL, Oct 21, (L N. 8.) One woman was burned to death, another woman and two firemen were seriously Injured and a score of firemen and citi zens were overcome by imam and slight ly . hurt In one of the most spectacular fires In recent years here, which -today swept through a five-story brick business building in South Los Angeles street While the fire raged many reports were current that other women were missing and were believed to have per ished, but this afternoon Tire Chief Scott announced that a thorough search had failed to reveal any more. Hiss L. E. Hepburn, a bookkeeper era ployed by the Coast Envelope company, which occupied the upper floors of the structure, perished la the flames. ? 4 PROPAGANDA STREET GAR KILLS CITY Thomas Birchard Struck by Wood stock Car at He Is Prying at Blocks; Man Instantly Killed; Car Going Slowly, Is Report. Thomas Birchard, aged 49 years, waa struck by an eastbound Wood stock car on Hawthorne bridge and instantly killed at about 2 o'clock this afternoon. Birchard was employed by the county on repair work on the bridge. He lived at 587 Alberta street. According to witnesses of the accident he was endeavoring to -pry loose a block in the pavement with a crowbar when Woodstock car R. 5, in charge of con ductor No. 1652, passed across the bridge. The car struck the end of the crowbar and threw Birchard to the ground. His skull was fractured and he was dead before the arrival of the ambulance. The body was taken to the morgue and an inquest wlH be held tonight. Witnesses stated that the streetcar was traveling at a moderaU rate of speed. TO T Lowering clouds that sadly shed a fine mist over a cold gray landscape waa the weather man's early morn ing unenthusiastic greeting to of ficials of the Union Pacific system as they rolled from their berths in the special train at ' the Union station this morning. r i j n i ii.i l a I t, , " LrVl. I. . morning filtered through the mist short ly after :30 o'clock. President Carl R. Gray, highest paid railroad official in America, stepped from his private car. Several Portland officials were near to greet him. . But the usual smile of 1 He looked at his watch. . Then he ex plained the reason why he was not in the best oflhumor. He was an hour late getting up. He forthwith apolo gised. 1.IXE8 BEING INSPECTED The president, who is accompanied by most of the official family of the sys tem, is making his annual Inspection trip oyer all the lines of the company. More than a week ago the party left Omaha, all travel being made In day light Completing a tour of the O-W. R. & N. lines In Eastern Oregon and Washing ton, the special arrived in Portland at 11 o'clock Wednesday night Leaving at 7 o'clock this morning the party was scheduled to visit Centralis and Grays Harbor today and will pend the night In Tacoma. Friday a vmit , will' be made to Seattle and Saturday morning at 6 o'clock the party will return to Portland to remain for three or four days. Because he rose late. Gray had little time to discuss railroad affairs before the special train pulled out of the sta tion for the north. The president did have time to ex press his enthusiasm, however, over gen eral road conditions of the Union, Pa cific. He referred to the system as "a real road" and a "great system." He said that the physical condition of the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line units of the system needed no apologies and that the O-W. R. ft N. was in ex cellent condition considering the great amount of wet weather experienced this fall. Between problems of road betterment. Improvement of service and readjustment of rates Gray said that the railroad offi cials had not found time to Investigate the S per cent limitation clause of the Esch-Cummings bill, no had no reason to express dissatisfaction. , ' "Improvement of service, property and equipment and general rate revision will precede any attempt to gain a readjust ment- of government regulations, said Gray. ADJUSTMENT NEEDED , "Application of rates under the In crease recently granted the roads will need much readjustment, but a satis factory arrangement for all shippers should be evolved before long. "Another- great problem confronting the Union Pacific, as well as other roads, ia the maintenance of a proper amount of equipment Three thousand refrigerator car are scheduled to go into service on the system this month and 2000 coal cars should go Into service in November. The boxcat supply of the company always has been good, the only (Concluded oa Pm Two, Colons F1t) DO KILLED IN London. Oct. 21. (L N. &) Four hundred persons were killed In an explosion tn a coal mine at Tong Shan, according to a Central News dispatch from Tokio via Pekln. Chinese Aviatrix and Fortney Are Killed Redwood City. CaL. Oct tlHV. P. Miss Frances Lee, wen known Chinese aviatrix, and John Fortney, aerial pilot, were killed lust before noon today, when an airplane In which they were riding BRIDGE MAN GRAY ADJUS MINE EXPLOSION crashed to earth here. ; -. ' . - - i Pacific Coast Must Bid at Once for Trade Of Manchuria German business houses at Har bin, Manchuria, have become so ag gressive In capturing the trade of Siberia that American business must become active immediately If It wishes to participate. This statement was made this morn ing by Boris P. Milovich, commercial attache of the consulate of Russia at San Francisco, who is spending the day here in an effort to gatn support of Port land merchants to a plan of sending an American commercial exhibit to Siberia. "The people of Siberia have gone from war to actual commerce. We have un der consideration the sendingof a mov able exhibit of the products of manu facturers of the Pacific coast to Si beria. "Orders could be taken during the trip and goods could be sent In the spring. Germany is striving to" corral the trade completely, but American goods may save the trade to the Pacific coast, the natural supply house for Siberia. Concerning the ability of Siberians to purchase goods, Milovich said: "I might suggest that business houses could be more liberal with their merch andise and divide such goods Into small allotments, so each would be valued at not more than 1100 or $200. Then even the poorest merchant could purchase. Large consignments could be sent and could be split up on arrival." Milovich asks that merchants Interest ed in his plan 'make known their 'desire to the foreign commerce department of the Chamber of Commerce. STAND PAT,' By Raymond Clapper Rochester. N. Y.. Oct. 21. (U. P.) --Senator Harding today challenged anyone to draw up a parallel column of his utterances on the League of 'Nations and fmjl statements not in accord. ; Speaking at Convention hall here, the. Republican candidate insisted that he has held to one . positron ibroughoiit JhU campaign and again refused to outline in detail his con ception of an association of nation. Lusk Solves Riddle; He Knows When Steer Has Become Heifer When does a steer become a heifer? When It's Hereford steec. This conundrum was solved by As sistant United States Attorney Hall S. Lusk today and as a result two Indians who were freed on a charge of stealing a heifer, will again have to face trial on the charge of stealing a Hereford steer. In the first Indictment Willie David apd Levi Barney, Klamath Indiana, were chaffed with stealing a heifer from Herbert "Nelson, another Indian. The Indictment read "heifer." says Lusk. be cause Nelson always referred to his calf as "my heifer," meaning his Hereford calf. , The case was recently argued before Judge Bean at the Med ford term of court and the defendants were freed be cause the wrong gender was used In de scribing the animal. David and Barney are said to have admitted that one of Nelson's calves "strayed" Into their herd while they were driving them to the slaughter house on the road past Nelson's ranch. SAYS HARDING Pilot Opposes s It K rri n ! e l urnmg -Basin "Buncombe," is the term applied to the Swan island or port consolida tion measure on the November bal lot by Captain W. H. Patterson. Pantnln Patter. r son ha piloted f' more ships In and fT '' out of the Colum- 0 bia river than ? ' any other man. He has been Columbia river than 80 years and $ active in port! He was a member of the port of Portland commission1 from 1115 to 1119. During the past J years be has been piloting the big tankers of the Associated Oil company-In and out of the Columbia' river. ' "The Swan Island or port consolida tion bill ahould be overwhelmingly de feated." he declared, FBOJECT CHSECES8ABT "It is not necessary to the develop? ment of the port. It will handicap the development of the port because It di verts publie funds and port energy from channel Improvement to real estate dealings. I"- - :: ; "Why load upon the taxpayers ethe burden of -Swan island. Mocks .bottom and Guilds lake in the name f creating the west channel around Swan island T "Why propose a turning basin down there when every pilot who comes Into this - port knows . that we ' can handls mm Supposed Republican Strongholds Flock to Hear Democratic Nom inee, Who Finds Independent Thought Is Leaving Harding. A League Would Have Prevented Great War, Declared Earl Gray If in the critical days of July and August of 1914, I could have met the statesmen of the great, powers in conference for nine days, or NINE HOURS, the world war would have been averted. Earl Oray, British secretary of foreign "affairs, 1ft 1914. By HcrVrt W. Walker En Route With Governor Cox, Wilmington, Del.. Oct. CI. (U. p.) Governor James V. Cox, as he be- ' jgan his stump campaign In Dela-. . ware and Maryland today, declare! political events -have taken such a decided turn within the "last two weeks that "there are incipient man ifestations of a landslide" for his candidacy. "If I am any judge of crowd psy chology." he said, "the undercurrent of independent thoughl is growing so rap Idly since Senator Harding declared at Des Moines for rejection of the League of Nations covenant that It la engulfing the party wall." KECEPTION IS JOTOCS Cox' optimism was due In some meas ure to the receptions he received during the last two days in New Kngland, gen erally considered 'a Republican strong' hold. Only two set speeches were on the governor's schedule today, one here and one In Baltimore. Cox, was expecting a reply from Ellhu Root In response' to a telegraphic de-' mand that the former secretary of state retract a recent statement that "lit . Cox ' declared he will insist upon the treaty Just as Mr. Wilson negotiated it" DECEIT OR IGNORANCE Such a statement. Cox sald. elthr r shows Root has not read the newspapers since the campaign started or that he at tempted to deceive the public. , "I have invariably slated In my sd dresses, end I restate here, my whole hearted desire to make the United States a member of the League of Nations and to secure that consummation of the pur pose of America when she entered the war," Cox wired Rfeot. In his speech here Cox reiterated em phatically that he would arcept a reaer- ( Concludad on Pace Two. Column Two) DEBS' RELEASE IS Waahington. Oct. 21. (I. N. S.) Release of Eugene V. Debs from prison is one of the conditions which soviet Russia has named as desira ble before Americans now held in Russia are released, Under Secretary' of State Davis today disclosed. Port Bill - st "Useless" HELD AS RANSOM our ships without any such turning basin T . "I am In favor of creating the west channel around Swan island. It ought to be IS feet deep . and 500 feet wide. ' But you don't have to load everything -else in the world on with the measure. -it would be a lot cheaper to dredge out ' the west channel and give the dJrt to the property owners alongside than go Into what they call a $ 10,000.000 proj ect' that wourd cost at the very, least three or four times that much, " : r ' BRIDGE 18 HANDKUF ' r "Let the shoemaker stick to his last -and the port commission stick to Its , Job of channel Improvement If the ' west channel Is dredged, there will be eight miles of good waterfront for dock 11 purposes on the west side of the Wll . Ismette clear down, to Willamette slough. The docks ought not to be built - -at Swan Island above the railroad bridge. They ought to be built below. . Ship owners don't want to handls their ships through the bridge. The oil com panies put their docks in below the- . bridge because they have to move their -ships In and out at night, : in ' thick y weather and at every other time when the pilot can see at at). . rCBLIC INTEREST FIRST ! ;; . "It Is s big mistake to talk about : - . building great ocean terminals at Bwan island and In Guilds laks and Mocks , bottom. Why not create the channel . and let private interests be responsible , for -their developments Instead of ask-" ' -Ing the public to pay then bill for project that couldn't help but be a failure? - "We have publie and ' private docks ' and dock sites In Portland now te meet ' -our needs for M years to come. Let's . ' get this property Improved and make a " real harbor before we squander mil- - -l . ' lions of dollars ' of publie ,. money 'for ' ' I a hopeless scheme.