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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON . .IUR3DAY, OCTOBER 3. ISZO. E INVOLVES POLICE I. A Corrupt practices within the Port fiand police department, and especi ally In the detective bureau, were charged ofct the witness stand In the federal cotprt this morning by Police Inapector W. H. Hyde. Hyde testified in the War Savins Stamp case In which are 1 elng tried Robert La Salle, former police in spector; Fred Peterson, ex-convict, and Angello H. Rossi, Dave Stein, W. E. Smith and W. E. Brenner, mer chants. Hyde, whose dally routine was" to visit pawnshops and look for stolen property, admitted that he failed to make a return "on the largs number of stamps he found in the store of Oorge Randolph in the Morgan building-. "My suspicions were aroused at so large a number of stamps," , he said, "especially when they had no mucilage on the back of them." Hyde . added that he did not make a report of the sale to his superior officer, as is required by police regulations, because his brother officer. La Salle, had sold the stamps to Randolph, and because he thought La Salle was able to solve his own difficulty. Hyde also said he was informed by Randolph that the stamps were "no good." HYDE DEXIEg KNOWLEDGE Hyde told the Jury this morning he knew nothing of the robbery of stamps from six Willamette- valley banks and that he paid but little attention to prop erty received In pawnshops here from other cities, unless directed to look for it. He visited about 160 pawnshops each day. He stated that under present po lice regulations It was possible for pawn brokers to withhold reports from the police, and for that reason he" relied upon the honesty of the merchants whose stores he was supposed to inspect. Foreman P. A. Young of the last grand Jury took the stand and told of the anxiety of Rossi, Brenner and La Salle to testify before them. One at torney for the defense endeavSred to obtain testimony about secret proceed ings within the grand Jury room, but Judge Wolverton wonld not allow Young to answer the questions. He also tried - to get Information concerning a letter of censure, which the grand Jury la said to have sent former secret service agents Walters and Olover, but was unsuccess ful. Assistant United States Attorney John Veatch charged the lawyer with attempting to use this trial to gather Information to be used in a prospective later trial. It ia . generally known among federal employes that Glover has taken exception to published accounts concerning the activities of his office. SO BEPORT MADE Under Instructions from 'La Salle, Randolph said during Wednesday's session he violated the city ordi nance by not posting the sales In his hooks as Is required by law. "If I had followed La Salle's instructions there would not have been any entry there at all," he told the court. Randolph said Hyde told him he didn't have to report War 'Saving Stamp transactions to the police department, although he was re-,- quired to report the purchase of all other government securities. Randolph told of buying stamps from , La Salle on March 11, and 148 stamps on March 17 and that he made a third purchase of $1400 worth m few days later from a man who said I-a Salle had sent him with the stamps. Randolph did not get this man's name, but booked the stamps to La Salle's ac- count under date of March 17. Upon the advice of a friend Mrs. Ran dolph is said to have burned the entire package, so as to destroy all evidence. Rossi was promised immunity by Secret Service Agents Walters and Olover, according to testimony offered by Special Agent Bryon, if he would re veal the names of the persons actually engaged In the alleged conspiracy. Rossi Is said to have been shielded until Bryon .. got into the case. . PARSONS PLACES PEACEOVER PARTY iCooMnnrd From Pits One) arbitration for war. Governor Cox said: 'I favor arbitration !' Where Senator Harding stands, nobody knows. TL'MTED FOR DECLARATION That is the reason I left the Re publican party. I waited, waited, waited, for something from Senator "Harding indicating that he would enter the league. I wrote him a letter. I got my answer at Des Moines when he said: 'It is not interpretations, iti is rejection I am seeking.' "Taft, Hughes, Root and Wlckersham go to the people of the United States and tell them they will get a league under Harding. Johnson and Borah go i to the people of the United States and tell them there will be no league under i Harding. The candidate then trims and straddles.- He ii trying to fool some bodywho, nobody knows." Mr. Parsons told the audience of war days In Europe. He read letters he received from parents of dal soldiers, grieved beyond description by the death of thetr. gallant sons, but glad that the end of war was Iff sight. He told of regiments that wept to the front and of the radio messages that came back . of how the first message would say ,t There are 50 of us" ; the next would tell of 15, the next of five, and then no more messages. He told how 1800 soldiers went Into battle and of how 144 was the average coming out, and ' of how the betting was even that every man would be killed not wounded, but killed. r WHY DID WE FIGHT! There wers no youths left In France . whenwe went over, and no youths left in England , In fact, no youths left In Europe." Parsons told his huge audi ence. "And were they really fighting . to end war. or were they not?" f Mr. Parsons said in part : What the future has in store for us We little know. This we do know how. ever, the United States has had six wars in 124 years since the declaration of Independence in 177J, four of them with European nations. We have had .a war every 23 H years. In 1890. while - a student at Yale. Professor Sumner. , a predecessor of. Professor Fisher of our : party. In the chair of -political economy :.at Yale,. startled us by skying, "w . will have" a war soon. We have on . about every SO years." It was a time of profound peace. There i was not a sign of war on the horlion... The army of the United States numbered onlv . 25,000. Yet within eight years we had the war with Spain and within 21 years we wers fighting In Europe and send , Ing 2,000.000 men 3000 miles across the t sea to rive their lives, if needed, to win. War is certain again unless civillsa I tlon stirs Itself to a great Step forward and substitutes by enforced agreement .other methods of settling International - disputes. The covenant for the League INSPECTOR YD IN STAMPS CASE of. Nations ia the 'product of the experU end and wisdom of all mankind. Forty three nations of the world are-members of the league. Outside are Russia. Tur key, Mexico and the United States. We who claim to be a great peace-loving nation have not yet Joined. Our. par taking ended the world war ; it was our spokesman who formulated the princi ples that became part of the terms of the Armistice, Included in which was the idea of a League of Nations ; yet, now we hesitate to Join. HOW IS TIME TO ACT i If we I refer to us of this genera tionare going to do anything, we must do it now. You and I will doit now or never. It is what is close to us that concerns us. ' Many give alms to the crippled beggars they pass on the street who give nothing to relieve the starva tion of millions in Europe and Asia. War Is still close to us. Not as close as it was. The exalted days of 11S are no more. Yet we still are near enough te be readily reminded and made sensible of its horrors. When the time of another national election comes around, tt will be different. Many things will have intervened. War's butchery and destruction will be recorded In books, but not engraven on our hearts. So it Is now and orily now, while we are still close to it, that we will be con cerned If ever to deal with it, to set up machinery to lessen or prevent It. If we are going to do our part to pre vent war. we must bepractlcal and avail of what Is at hand. We must go Into the present league or we will get into none. The public interest will not continue keen enough to try the experiment of getting up a new one. The present league ia woven into all the peace trea ties. We have the statement, moreover, of our ambassador to England, John W. Davis a lawyer whose word no court doubts that, "No responsible statesman in Europe who has the burden and the care of government in his hands has any thought whatever of abandoning or scrapping the present League of Na tions." Senator Root, speaking in the same clt; y a week or so later, aid not it. He could not. His speech frainsav snored enored tne laea tnai any oiner was nnnnihle. He spent, the summer in Eu rope working -on the plans for the per manent court of international Justice called for by Article XIV of the cov enant for the League of Nations. Hard ing's new league or association of na tions belongs in the realm of fiction with Dr. Cook's discovery of the North Pole and the newspaper story of the 100,000 airplanes that we were to have In France. SENATORS REPUDIATED When the Republican national conven tion met It did not take the position of the more than two thirds of the Repub lican senators who voted for ratification with reservations, as did Harding. In political parties the seductive influence of the harmony cry is all persuasive. The platform had fine words about peace. No one knew what it meant about the league. Pro-leaguers supposed it meant the league, but let the irre concilable opponents down easily, Irre concilables claimed it scrapped the league. The speech of acceptance of the candidate was awaited to tell what the platform meant. The speech was even more vague than the platform. The can didate said he was for "an association of nations cooperating in sublime accord to . attain and preserve peace through Justice , rather than force If men call for more specific details I remind them that moral commitments are broad and all Inclusive, and we are contemplating peoples In the concord of humanity's advancement." What that meant, I did not. know. I wished to be sure. I had-been for a League of Na tions before we entered the war. I was for THE League of Nations after it was formed. I did not wish to cast my vote rnt far tha lensnie Ainrdlnelv On August 19. I wrote the Republicans candidate as follows : August 19. 1920. Hon. Warren O. Harding. Marion. Ohio. My Dear Senator: Can a person who believes that the League of Nations offers the one practical opportunity to tnis generation to unite the nations in an effort to prevent war and effect dis armament, vote for you with justified expectation that you will seek to have the United States join the league, which in the senate you voted to have it do? Very truly yours, Herbert Parsons I framed the letter carefully. I did not ask him if he would seek to have the United States enter the leaarue in the form in which the president brought it. but as he had voted for it. The answer "rip" came in his speech of August 28. Later, at Des Moines, he said he was for rejection. He is still talkinar about an association of nation a "wise" one, he said this week. What "wise means, he did not say. PERMANENT COURT Harding is against' Article X. What else is he against?. He said only three days ago he did not believe in very much of the president's league. What does he believe In? Nobody knows What are the war-preventing provi sions of the covenant. othe than Arti cle XT There are others which some advocates of peace consider ever more practical. The covenant has an agree ment for the reduction of armaments, something greatly In the lntere: of peace and of vast economic advantage to the world. It would reduce taxation throughout the world and help to lower the cost of living. Cox is for tt Root, Taft and Hughes are for it. Bora.i and Johpsr;n are against It. Where stands Harding? No one knows. t The covenant provides for the estab lishment of a permanent court of Inter national Justice under the League of Nations. Cox Is for it. Root, Taft and Hughes are for it. Borah and Johnson are against it. Where stands Harding? No one knows. The covenant requires members of the league to submit disputes between them to arbitration, or to inquiry by the coun cil ; it contains their agreement In no case, to resort to war until three months after the award by the arbitrators or the report by the council, and not to re sort to war against a member of the league which carries out the award or ronows the recommendations of the re port upon the Inquiry. Cox is for this. I Ta". a?d. he ar!5?JT.lhif a-" aim tfuuiiovu Cbl c ex& S,4iioi l. Where stands Harding? No one knowa POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY The covenant provides that no treaty is valid unless made public and filed with the secretariat of the league, thus putting an end to secret treaties. Cox is for this provision. Root, Taft and Hughes are for this provision. Borah and Johnson are against Jt. Where stands Harding? No one krfows. The covenant provides for an economic boycott of the nation that violates it. Cox is for this provision. Root, Taft and Hughes are for this. Borah and Johnson are against it. Where stands Harding? No one knows. Why is Harding not definite? The answer la a atmple, political one. There ia an Irrepressible conflict within the Republican arty. Root. Taft and Hughes are for going into the present ifBUR monniHi as io Article a. uoran and, Johnson are against going Into the present league. Harding wants the votes of both elements. He wants the votes of large elements who want the him to have it "scrapped." He also wishes to secure that splendid moral vote In the Republican party Which is for the league. The only way for him to do It la to face both ways, be con sistently indefinite and trust that each iue wiu loinK ne is in xor its view. Bach of the opposite Bides in the Re- publican party is building D a cause in tne event mat Harding is elected. Morah and Johnson are campaigning for xiaraing ana nave been decorated by him with public expressions of apprecia tion. Root. Taft and Hughes joined with others in a letter Harding was for the present league called bv them "th nmtvul U.n. Harding said a kind word for them as 'notable and influential friends of "the league"? "the proposed league" ? n. iiu u n association or nations." The pro-leaguers in order to have a claim to influence in the event of Hard ln?" el?ction must prove they got him votes. ..They are. therefore, backing the proposition that the way to get us into the league la to vote for Harding vote for Harding, who says he vii not for .Hi i"' o as to get us in! They should have told us to fiehr wtn many so as to defeat (rnn mtixn.. and to fight asalnat tht Hummn.!.. m.7Ui- T - 8 lo democracy. J3frd,n,K j 'opling someone. He is fooling Root. Taft and Hughes and peo are. Pro-league, or he Is roofing wiirS-.1!! J?rah and ihe people who rh" ih! areat issue don't give him a chance to fool you. Don't vote for a ?r.t.tn,I!na!:k: Vote for Cox. who' is Falling Limb Kills Worker at Burley Burley. Or.. Oct. 28. Ed Richardson, timber taller, employed by the Dodson Lumber company, was Instantly killed Tuesday when a large limb fell upon him and crushed his head. Little is known of the deceased as he had been at work here only two hours when killed. He was about 45 years old and letters indicated he might have come from Vancouver, Wash. WHITTLESEY PUTS " (Con tinned From Put One.) mangled and dying, without blankets, without food, without bandages or med ical sttention, and he said: I have come out of that with no sick ening sentimentality about war. When you have seen brave men die, as I have seen them die, you will say, as I Bay, that you will do everything In your power to stamp out war. I feel only hatred and contempt for system under which nations settle their disputes by slaughtering men. I beljgve that if America does not enter the League of Nations and make that system impossible, we must prepare for war on a larger scale than ever before. I have no sympathy for the senti mental woman who says, 'I did not raise my boy to be a soldier;' and who does nothing to prepare for peace. TAFT INDORSED LEAGUE Before the league issue became dis torted by partisan politics. President Taft said, 'I believe we must enter the league. It does not give us all that we want Iwish H had more teeth in it.' "America does not want to enter the league, sneaking In by the back door like a pettifogging lawyer. I would rather fight and die for the league than to live like those old cynical and dis honored senators who are trying to keep us out of it. "We have here the first genuine ex periment in the history of the world for bringing about permanent peacfe. With out it there can be no disarmament. If we do not join, Europe cannot disarm. and I say to you as a soldier. If you can gain control of the armaments you have a stranglehold on war. "As an independent voter, who is not a member of the Democratic party, I believe that the .League of Nations is a practical issue which must be judged by one practical test only : Will it re duce or increase the likelihood of war? The means wnich It provides for prevent ing war the reduction of armaments, the use of an economic boycott against an offending nation, compulsory arbitra tion and its other varied safeguards, are constructive, powerful and. In my opin ion, effective means of producing per manent peace. "As a soldier, the first of these in strumentalities, the reduction of arma ments, appeals to me as the most practi cal and forceful weapon that society has ever grasped for combating war. 41 NATIONS JOIN "A commission has already been ap pointed by the league to report on the means of commencing this reduction of armaments among members of the league. Forty-three nations of the world are already pledged to this en deavor. And. unless America joins hon estly and Immediately Jn this great ef fort, how can the members of the league risk the kind of experiment in disarma ment which they are now genuinely seeking? We must either back this cause sincerely, or we Inevitably damage ana aeiay it. "Will this league prevent war? Pres ident Taft, Senator Root and other bril liant leaders of the Republican party know that It will prevent war, and they have outspokenly indorsed the League of Nations. "But today. In this political campaign, they criticize Article X, which, they cun ningly say, may involve us in quarrels abroad with which we have no concern. I ask you ex-service men to note the evasiveness of this position. Governor Cox has said plainly that he will accept this league with any reservations and amendments to Article X that the sen ate may desire. Senator Harding has announced definitely that he is unalter ably opposed to the league with or with out reservations. SOLDIERS, NOT POLITICIANS tenator Root and the Republican sup porters of the league mean simply this: we Know that this league s neeeiwarv but we hope that we can bring it about through the Republican D&rtv in unit of opposition within the party : and we are willing, for party purposes, to Jeopardize the peace of the world and to suDject this great experiment In the his tory of mankind to the risk of destruc tion. These former advocates of the League of Nations are supporting the repuoucan party, wnich bids for votes among my friends in the East on the ground that the Republican party will us into uie league the Republican party which in the next breath bids for votes in the West on the ground that the league means war. "I ask you ex-service men who fought in France, whether you would trust an on ice r wno could not tell you what a a is r- LEAGUE ABOVE PARTY 1 army be was fighting for ; Would you have trusted men to lead 'you ia battle who put their own selfish advantage above the success of the array T You and X fought te this war, not as Repub licans or Democrats; we fought as Americana And in this great world struggle for peace we will not tote rate trickery and partisanship that seek to debase America's honor for the benefit of political party.' POWER TRUST OUT TO CRUSH CHAM (Coo tinned From Pace One) vate holdings, the value of which would be Immensely enhanced by irrigation. It was planned, under one contem plated project, to build an immense di version canal from Keno, 15 miles be low Klamath Falls, lead the water of Klamath lake around to the upper por tion of Shasta valley and there let 'is drop over a precipice through an electric plant there to be installed, and, after use through this plant, to distribute it over the Shasta valley for irrigation pur poses. The elevation at Keno is about 4000 feet; that of the upper end of the Shasta valley from 2200 to 2S00 feet TO RUIN SOLDIERS' LANDS It was also planned, under another project, to lead the water from the reg ulating dam across the thirsty lands of Klamath county and into Siskiyou and Modoc counties for use there. The construction of the regulating dam would have raised the level of Klamath lake from two to three feet, resulting in the submergence of from 5.000 to 20. 000 acres of the most fertile land in Klamath county land that Is now open to .entry and sought by veterans of the World war for homes. Chamberlain protested against the Lane permit, but it was granted by Lane nevertheless. He renewed his protest before John Barton' Payne, Lane's suc cessor as secretary of the interior, even after the work on the regulating dam was well under way, and Psyne or dered the work stopped. Soon after that Montaville Flowers was sent from Okla homa into Oregon and directed by his employers to stay here throughout the campaign to wage ceaseless war on Chamberlain. DIRECTORATES INTERLOCK J. D. Grant is the son of the Grant who organised Grant-Murphy A Co. of San Francisco and who left an Immense fortune when he died. J. D. Grant is a member of the board of directors of the Bank of California and one or two of the other large banks of California. He is a member of the board of directors of Pacific Gas & Electric company. He was a member of the board of directors of Northern California Electric company. He is president and a member of the board of directors of California-Oregon Power company. John D. McKee is vice president of Mercantile National bank of San Fran cisco, vice president of Mercantile Trust company of San Francisco, a member of the board of directors of Pacific Gas & Electric company. He was a member of the board of directors of Northern California Electric company. He is vice president of California-Oregon Power company. Both Grant and McKee are closely allied with the Fleishhakers of San Francisco and the Northwestern Electric company of Portland. FINANCIAL POWERS ANGERED When Senator George K. Chamberlain stepped between the plans and projects of the California-Oregon Power com pany and its allies on the one hand and the best interests and welfare of Ore eon citizens. Oregon war veterans and Oregon development on the other, he put himself in the path of a financial Jug gernaut. -It is seeking to crush him and is asking Oregon people to repudiate him because he fought for Oregon and Oregon's advancement. Over 2 Billion Gold In Federal Coffers Washington, Oct 28. (I. N. S.) Uncle Sam's stock of gold amounts to $2,194 000.000, and of this huge sum there is held in the vaults as an absolute guar antee against panic $1,196,000,000, labeled as the gold settlement fund, it was shown by figures compiled today at the treasury department. The united -states now holds about one third of the world's mon etary stock of gold. Gold bullion worth Jl.899,000,000 and gold coin amounting to 1294,000,000 listed in the treasury assets. Snow Falls In Chicago Chicago. Oct. 28. (I. N. S.) A light snow, the first of the winter season, be gan falling here at 4 :05 o'clock this aft ernoon. FIRST SPIRITUAL SCIENCE CHURCH will give HALLOWEEN DANCE and CARD PARTY FRIDAY EVENING, October 29th. Church benefit. Good music. Refreshments free. Every. body welcome. 85 H Fifth street. Manchester Building, 6th Floor. mmm. MADAME PEACOCK The Life Story of a great actress. NOW PLAYING RLAIN m THOUSANDS ATTEND U BURIAL By William L. MaUabar London, Oct, 28. (L N. S.) Amidst heartrending scenes of emo tion funeral services were conducted today at St. Georges Roman Catho-. lie cathedral, Southwark. for the lata Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, who died in the seventy fourth day of his hunger strike at Brixton jail. Early in the morning numerous workers, mostly clerks, postal employes, telegraphers and telephone operators who had visited the church for devotional services. joined in a dirge for the repose of the soul of the dead patriot. More than 10,000 persons filed past the coffin before the doors of the cathedral closed at 10. o'clock. A dramatic incident occurred in the cathedral Just before Archbishop Man nix of Australia opened the services. Four men, who had made their way to the altar, threw off their long cloaks and .stood before the catafalque attired launlforms of the Sinn Fein army with swords in their belts. A second funeral service will be held at Dublin, when the body arrives there en route for Cork, where it will be burled on Sunday beside the Sinn Fein volun teers who "fell in action." MacSwineys body win lis. In stats at Dublin for 24 hours. It will be taken to Cork on Saturday. N Albany to Hare Mara Albany, Or., Oct 88. A requiem mass will be sung at St. Marys church In Albany, November 2, for the repose of the soul of Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, according to Msgr. A. Lane, pastor of the Albany parish. r .if , I ? v -St V - " . V . - r-; i 5 ' ' is , ., I 'J 3-Mills Tax Lvy " ; Debate Hot; Gavel Stops Free-f or-All Although -the debate upon the charter amendment reauthorizing the three-mill tax levy, which was held at the Chamber of Commerce at noon today, was orig inally scheduled to be between Jay Stev ens, former fire marshal of Portland, and Herbert Gordon, candidate for mayor, the argument resolved Itself Into a near free-for-all, only stopped by the chairman's gavel. . Stevens, arguing passage of the meas ure, declared that Portlanders cannot afford to weigh dollars with human lives. He said that the Elton Court fire was an example of what might reoccur in the future if insufficient men were employed to offset the fire hazard. He contended that passage of the measure was necessary to keep a sufficient force employed In both the fire and police de partments. Gordon cited figures to support his contention that the city could be run with less expenditure. Following the re buttals a general discussion took place In which City Attorney La Roche and others were called upon to straighten out the tangles.. SPEAKER FOR COX (Continued Praia Pas Ch) ond. what is the alternative if we do not go in? The supreme purpose back of our president's labors at parts was. we all know, to secure some sort of interna tional .combination which would prevent war. That was the identical purpose back of the League to Enforce Peace. "The provision for time for discussion FIERY REPUB CAN ENID BENMET "HER HUSBAND'S FRIEND" In twin beds! In the same room! In a hospital 1 Registered as man and wife! And they're not married at alL Fact is she just hates him ! And now in two minutes good heavens ! Can you im agine the mixup? ' . COMEDY LIBERTY NEWS KEATES JND THE GIANT ORGAN AND THE THOUSAND POUNDS OF HARMONY PORTLAND'S BIGGEST FUN SHOW CONSTANCE TALMADGE BUSTER KEATON IN o IN "THE PERFECT WOMAN" "ONE WEEK" STARTING SATURDAY before aa act of war is committed, for an economic boycott, for the use of arms as a final resort were' all part of the plan to enforce peace and actually proposed by that league before the presi dent went to Paris." Mrs. Shoonmaker asserted that the opposltion to the league had rather been 1 V, V B NEW SHOW TODAY If a husband neglects his wife and denies her the affection she has a right tor expect what would YOU have her do? to centered upon . the details" of how - these provisions should be enforced. Quoting Article X, against which, she said most of the attacks had been leveled, she pointed out that territorial Integrity was guaranteed only against external aggree- slon. Mil M 'HHMMMWlill nl. Y ; ec L; - -