CITY 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ; -.
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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.