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day, fair ; f reeling- tonight ; easterly wind.
Minimum temperatures: ;
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Pocatello-. 22 New York 24
., Los Angeles .... 48 St. Paul 20 ,
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PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1921. EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE TWO CENTS ZSVVV ESS
rte((iee. Portland. . Urecoa
HIDING UNTIL
Portland Chinese Members Cower
in -Fear of Death Blow, After
Outbreak in Three Coast Cities,
in Which Three Are Killed,
Disquiet refgrned in Portland Chi
natown ioday following the killing f
three Chinese and wounding of five
others ift three coast cities. ;
Humbles of the tons; troubles in
California," cities reached Portland
Tuesday: night long before the tele
graph wires carried- the , Bombre
story of killings and ambushes and
mysterious plots. Police heard about
the troubles in the south first when
an excited Chinese voice , over the
telephone pleaded for an escort. r
Detectives were sent o a north end
Chinese , restaurant where some half
dozen tongmen were biding, afraid to
venture ion the street, and piloted the
fearful td their homes. . r -VVOKD
18 FLASHED
. How the news reached members of the
Portland Chinese colony has not been
discovered, but it came," and its char
acter - was such that early today few
Chinese were to be seen on Second street
and North. Fourth street, -usually so
thronged with the yellow people.
. Inquiry .among the leaders of tong
activities developed nothing but silence.
So interlocked is the diplomacy of the
Chinaman, with his friendly tong and
his hostile tong,-the friend of his friend
sometimes being the enemy of some other
friend, that those most in interest are
taking no chances with conversation.
The police. , while they are watching
the situation that is now' so ill-defined
locally, are not anticipating : any out
t break . here. At the. same time, ' they
realize "you never can tell when s it
comes to the vaearles of the Chinese
( Conrlialsd on Pase Fotir. Colnma Threat
RoseSPiesta Dates
June 9, 10r 11; Show":
, To: Set New Record
Da Vps fer the Hose Festival have been
officially set for June S, 9 and 10, it was
announce! this morning by O. W. Mielke,
. president jof the festival board of direc
tors. The 1921 festival will be made the
greatest success in the history of the
annual fete despite Multnomah county's
failure to give financial, aid, . Mielke
. stated. I - " . . 4 : j
The services of Harry W. Kent of the
; Portland 'Service league have been ob
' tained as chairman of the floral parade
committee and it was announced that
the league would cooperate with the
board to make this year s show the most
elaborateever held. . - "
Plans will be perfected for the show at
" the meeting of the directors February 24.
A campaign will then be started to get
the business men of the city to give their
support to the event that has become one
of the principal attractions of the town,
to tourists. v
"Ttoe festival : has become known
throughout the United States as one of
the features of Portland," Mielke said,
"and we must make good or we shall be
guilty of breaking faith in our adver
tising." : ' i '
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Tapa Shot Mamma,,
Baby Tells Police
Chicago, Feb. 18. (L N. a) Four-
vear-old Sam Buis is today the lone ac
cuser of his father, Roy Buls, after police
had . found the dead body- of lus wire,
Helen, last night. She had been shot.'
. "Papa shoot mamma." the child lisped
7 to the police. The father, two brothers
and a sister-in-law. however, declare
- Mrs. Buis had committed suicide.; BuU
is being held.
j Ad Expert Asks and Answers
9t t ' t " K K SStj K H K
Home Goods Lack Publicity
By Marshall X. Dana
In the audience whichday by day
Kstens, to the appeal for support of
home industry are many thousands
of consumers who. confronted with
the : choice,- decide 1 for- themselves
whether, or not a fair share of their
patronage is to keep the wheels of
Oregon enterprise turning, i ; -
. A smaller, number of technically
trained people listens more critically. The
architect . puts it up to himself whether
: he is just to home industry when his
specifications are written in mich man
ner as to bar the home product. The
contractor decides whether, he is fair
when his- raw materials all bear the
Jabel of distant manufacture.
.ADYEBTISrSG MAX QUERIES' f".
The advertising man wonders i I home
Industries' are sufficiently aggressive in
their sales and advertising- policies. Here
is a lettep from one of the ablest adver
" Using men in Portland. Hfs questions are
prompted -by .the S. O. S. appai to main-
lain payrolls and prosperity by reason
able support to Oregon industry.
, "Do these industries have regular ad
Avertising budgets? ; f
"Io they set aside a certata percent-
.ige of their. "annual overhead or annual
' gross sales for the purpose - of , intro,
ducing or advertising their products?
"I believe that if you . will study the
Fire Up; Cold
WaveHeaded
For Portland
Do not be misled by the glorious
sunshine that greeted you this morn
ing. . ..- .ft :: - u: w
Wrap up the water pipes and put
a few more sticks of cordwood in the
fire tonight. '
; This is the cold weather warning sent
out by the weather bureau early today.
A oold wave which is centering in
British Columbia is sweeping toward the
coast and an east wind, will bring below
freezing temperatures to Portland and
other cities in the North Pacific states.
:- E. Tm. "Wells,; weather forecaster at the
local bureau, predicts, a temperature of
2$ degrees tonight.
In the state of Washington and in
Eastern Oregon the cold wave was being
felt this mornlng.i Temperatures of IS
degrees were reported at Baker and at
Spokane, while Tacoma reported 26 de
grees. The official temperature at Port
land this morning was 34' degrees.
The cold wave probably will last only
a few days in the opinion of Wells, but
the thermometer may drop below 26 de
grees during the snap, . . ;
NORTH DAKOTA IX GRIP "
OP BLIZZARD; WIRES DOWN
Fargo. N. D.. Feb. 18. U. P.) Sum
mer weather of j yesterday was bup
plan ted today by the most severe bliz
zard of the winter. .
Practically all of Northeastern North
Dakota was cut off from communication.
Snow, driven by heavy gales, swept all
of North Dakota i and Northern Minne
sota, according to reports here. Railroads
were tied up.
BODY UNCOVERED
IN GERANIUM BED
Chicago, Feb. 16. (I. K. S.)
After hours of digging, reporters for
the Chicago Herald and Examiner at
daybreak this morning unearthed the
body of Mrs. Nancy M. Chamberlain,
91 years oldC from its burial place in
th garden in the rear of an apart
ment;' building; where the .aged
woman had , lived with Mrs. Ruth
Townsend. her daughter, and Miss
Miriam Townsend. her granddaugh
ter. v : '
EarileC in - the ' -night . Miss -Miriam
Townsend had confessed that she and
her mother had buried Mrs. Chamber
lain in the garden. ' Miss Townsend said
her grandmother, had died a nrtural
death. Later Mrs, Townsend made a
similar confession. - - .
Peter Hoffman, coroner, declared he
would make a rigid investigation of the
cane. The vital organs of the dead
woman, he said, might be removed and
analyzed in an effort to determine the
exact cause of her death. Hoffman ar
ranged to impanel a coroner's jury at
once. . ; .
CASE BAFFLED POLICE
The finding of Mrs. . Chamberlain's
body followed a search that has baf
fled the police ft nd detectives since Mon
day. Until she told her story to a
Herald and Kxaminer reporter. Miss
Townsend. and her mother also, had
steadfastly refused to tll anything
whatever about what had happened to
Mrs. Chamberlain. Both women would
only . say that Mrs. Chamberlain was
"happy in love, .
Suspecting that the body of Mrs.
Chamberlain was concealed somewhere
near the building where the Townsends
had lived, police yesterday began dig
ging in the yard. : Miss xownseno, How
ever, revealed that the body had been
buried in a geranium bed, and it was
there that the body was found early
today. -.. .
DID SOT KILL HER
We did not kill grandmother," Miss
Townsend said. j"She was not murdered.
She died a natural death on a cot. We
buried her under a geranium bed in the
rear of the apartment building where we
lived. Our motives were the highest in
the world. Neither the death of my
mother's mother, nor the method of the
disposing of her body, could interest any
body in the world except us two.
"Grandmother died one day in June.
I do not remember the exact date.
Mother and I were both at her side when
(Concluded on Paee Four, Colnma Vont)
you will agree that most of these in
dustries do not make a regular sys
tematic practice oft calling attention to
what their- products are. -EDUCATIONAL
FLAK URGED
"It seems tome some educational plans
should be contemplated . in the work of
the Associated Industries of Oregon (the
writer means not education of consum
ers in which the association is now en
gaged,', but education of manufacturers
in advertising and sales promotion), and
it might be worth while for these in
dustries in the future to push their goods
m the local s markets. ' They might ap
peal to the Associated . Industries or to
the Portland Ad club for assistance in
outlining- good; advertising campaigns.'
Kvery enterprise must make a begin
ning. , It is natural i that youthful i in
dustry should regard plant and equip
ment as .chief essentials and advertis
Ing not as an investment, but as ex
pense. .
WHY TSOt PUBLICITY!
But the truth of the matter la that
nearly ail the householders who respond
in writing to this, series of articles ask.
"Why do the manufacturers not put their
brands before us?" , ,
One Portland business man came in
personally to offer this valuable sug
gestion s
- fLet the manufacturers of each class
or -kind of goods clothing, foods, can
dies and so forth take turns in pub
lishing their names and brands. All the
COOPERATIVE
Senate Passes Measure Guaran
teeing Legality of Associations
and Putting in "Teeth" to
Guar-d Against I Outside Foes.
State House. Salem, Feb. ; 16.
With only, four votes opposed, the
senate this morning placed its stamp
of approval upon senate bill 284,
which commits the state of Oregon,
as a definitely stated policy, to the
encouragement of cooperative mar
keting and places the teeth in the
membership agreements of cooper
ative. marketing associations j which
will withstand the undermining ef
forts of the foes of the cooperative
movement.1 '
Senators Ellis and Hume, who signed
the minority report adverse to the bill,
were joined by only Senators Kdwards
and Moser in opposition to the bill on
roll call, which determined that the bill
should be placed on third reading for
final passage by the. upper house.
ATTACK IS LAUNCHED
Senator Ellis opened the attack on the
bill by characterizing it as an attempt
to constitute the producers a trust worse
even than the present existing trusts.
It was, he declared, an attempt to union
ize the farmer, to which he was opposed.
The, bill. Senator Hume declared.
would tie the farmer hand and foot and
leave him entirely at the mercy of the
cooperative association. He insisted that
he held no . brief : either for the dairy
men's league nor the distributors, both
of whom, he declared, were bleeding the
ultimate consumer to the limit.'
Senator Hare countered the . attacks
of Kills and Hume with the declaration
that the producer was entitled to the
protection afforded by the cooperative
movement as made possible under the
provisions of this bill.
" The state, he insisted, should either
legalise cooperative - marketing or else
brand it as a trust and as wrong. -
The issue presented to, the senate, ac
cording to Senator Dennis, was how to
liminatd the .tremendous profits which
attach to the products of the farm and
ranch between the time it leaves its
( Concluded on Pas Four.. Column five)
BETTER MEAT AIM
E
Dr. E. E. Chase, chief inspector of
the meat division of the city health
bureau, threw a bojnbshell in the
fanks of the butchers and meat deal
ers when . his ordinance was intro
duced ! before the city council this
afternoon.
Dr. Chase's ordinance calls for a rais
ing of - the sanitary standards under
which meat .must be handled and pro
vides the health bureau with authority
to reject any meat not so handled.
The ordinance is in three clauses, the
first granting authority to reject meat
that has been slaughtered in an unsani
tary place or handled in an unsanitary
method ; the second prohibits the manu
facture of sausage or cutting fresh meat
in basements that are unsanitary or
poorly lighted. The third makes it nec
esaary to treat the meat either' by freez
ing or by heat sufficient to kill the
parasite trichinae.
These specifications the doctor States
are modeled after those of the United
States government and can be put into
effect without any great expense. They
also safeguard - the public health, he
'says, s
' Duo to the complaints of the butchers
and meat dealers the ordinance will be
held up until next Wednesday, when the
dealers will appear before the council
for "a hearing. -The butchers claim that
bakers are allowed to make bread and
pastry in basements and fail to see why
they must be forced to improve sani
tary conditions for meat. ; i
Doctor Removes Own
Appendix Without
Taking Anaesthetic
Kane, pa., Feb. 16.-ML N.I S.) That
he might exemplify in his own case that
dangerous anaesthetics were not. neces
sary in an operation for the removal of
the appendix and that those affected
with heart or other troubles might be
saved from-the dangers of a general an
aesthetic. Dr.: Evan O'Neil Kane, aged
SO, one of the most noted surgeons of this
state, yesterday; calmly sat upon an op
erating table and cut out his own appen
dix while doctors and nurses stood by
and watched him. He applied only a
local anaesthetic and carefully performed
the operation. His case was chronic. ! .
The operation was an extremely intrl
eate one, and was one which in surgery
was termed an .interval operation. Dr.
Kane carefully dissected all tissues as he
went .along, closing up the blood- veins
until the appendix was located. He
then pulled it out, cut it off and bent the
stub under to prevent infection.
Stockyard Builder
Killed at Caldwell
Caldwell. -Idaho. Feb. 1. (U. P.)
Charles TurVrer. builder ' ef the .stock
yards at th 1 city.- was . instantly killed
when, strucv- by a train on the Oregon
Short Line near here- this afternoon.
Mr. Turner, who waB 60 years old, was
OFNE
wORDNANC
Tar iff. Bill
Passes Today;:
Says Penrose
By J. Bart Campbell
Washington, Feb. 16. (I. N. S.)
Once agarh, . the emergency tariff
bill, staggering under the weight of
"57 ; varieties" of amendments, en
gaged the attention of the senate to
day. .-;- " - . '
Senator Penrose (It., Pa.) professed
the utmost confidence in the fulfill
ment of his prediction that the bill would
be passed by nightfall.
Senator Underwood, Alabama, the
Democratic minority leader, was. not so
sanguine. - He 'Said the measure "prob
ably" would be passed by nightfall.
It was the intention of Senator Mc
Cumber (TL, N. D.) to keep the senate
in session- until midnight, if necessary,
in order to force a final vote, he an
nounced. ,
Many amendments are expected to be
acted upon before a final vote can be
taken and some Republican leaders were
exerting every possible pressure to get
rid of the bill in the hope of breaking
the existing legislative jam, and there
by get early action on some of the still
pending appropriation bills.
RATESRETDRNING
TO EQUAL
Import and export rates on freight
moving over transcontinental rail
lines, which have handicapped Pa
cific porta since rail freight rates
were Increased August 26, 1920, are
beginning to break toward an equal!
zation basis, according to advice re
ceived this morning by E E. Louns
bury, general freight agent of the
O-W. R. & N.
Before the rail rates were increased In
August, export and import rates were on
an equalization basis, so that products
could move to and from Interior points
on an equal ' rate- to and from either
Atlantic. Pacific or Gulf ports.
OJfE EXCEPTION NOTED
After the . increase in rates, the West
ern railroads made every effort to equal
ize the rates to their former basis so
that Pacific ports might fairly compete
with ' porta of the ' Atlantic coast and
Gulf.,- ,
Every effort of the" Western lines to
equalize the rates met with 'defeat, be
cause lines, east, of the Mississippi river
rerusea to concur in tne taruis issuea
by the lines west of the Mississippi.. One
exception ' occurred two months ago,
when an equalized rate on export of iron
and steel; from Birmingham to Pacific
ports was granted by the railroads.
In the meantime, much of the freight
which had formerly been moving through
Pacific ports was - being diverted to
Atlantic coast and Gulf ports because of
more advantageous rates.
OTHERS MUST FOLLOW
This morning rates of $1.05 per hun
dred on vegetable oils and X per hun
dred on copra to Cincinnati were agreed
upon by the Union Pacific in conjunction
with the Louisville & Nashville and
Louisville. Henderson & St. Louis rail
roads.
This new rata will equalize the import
rate for vegetable oils and copra moving
through Pacific ports to Cincinnati.
In the opinion of the rail traffic off!
cials here, lines competing with the L.
& N. i and L. H. & St. L. will have to
break to the - equalization rate agreed
upon by these two lines with the Union
Pacific. Otherwise they will be unable
to get any of the business.
A similar break was reported to
Lounsbury this morning on hemp and
sisal import rates. The Chicago & Wa
bash railway has agreed, in conjunction
with the Union .Pacific, to place in ef
fect equalized rates of 85 cents per hun
dred , on movement of this commodity
from Pacific ports to Welland, Ontarif.
simuar DreaKs in tne rates on impor
tant commodities moving to and from
Pacific ports and eastern centers are
anticipated by traffic officials here.
Wherever a break occurs competing lines
will be forced to . adppt the equalized
rate or lose that particular business.
Eddy Bill Regulating
Dealers in Securities
Passes Both Houses
State House, Salem, Feb. 16. The
house gave its approval to senate bill 60
Tuesday afternoon with only.-14 dissent
ing votes, i notwithstanding the valiant
efforts of Representative Franklin K.
Korell to have it tabled until house bill
341 on the same subject was considered.
Both have reference t j the regulation of
dealers engaged in the sale of bonds. The
senate bill puts such dealers under the
jurisdiction of the corporation commis
sioner while the house bill would have
placed them under the bank superintSnd-
ent. The house bill was tabled. -
Senate bill 60, commonly - known as
the "Eddy bill, has the approval of the
majority of the Portland bond dealers.
who, since the failure of Morris Bros-,
have been desirous of some regulatory
legislation -that Would provide adequate
protection - to investors, especially to
holders of interim certificates. '
Talk by Steffens
Is Not Wanted by
Eoseburg Legion
Roseburg, Feb. IS. Announcement that
Lincoln Steffens, alleged radical agitator,
is to appear here Monday night. -caused
a furore? at the meeting of the local
American Legion post Tuesday night and
strong ; resolutions were adopted and
forwarded to Mayor W. S. Hamilton rei
questing ' that he refuse Steffens .the
chance' to . speak, here. -The "advance
man" -for Steffens -'was here- Tuesday
making arrangements.
sfei
Steffens was denied the Tight to sfeeak
in Portland by Mayor Baker, but a court
order by Circuit Judge Robert -O. Mor
row issued late in'the afternoon ofl the
day on which Steffens was scheduled to
AS
PROPAGANDA
BOTH SUBTLE
Japanese Employ Press, Religion
Wireless and Racial Prejudice
in Campaign to Make United
States Unpopular in Orienty
By Frank V. Martinek 1
Former InUHiienoe Officer ef Asiatic Fleet. TJ.
8. Navy.- Who la ThoroniWy Familiar W1U
UM Orient.
(Copyright, 1821, by the Chicago Daily News Co.,
Publiaoed bj The Journal by Arrangement. J
Two things hold the Japanese to
their government: Their intense pa
triotism and their proud desire- to
obtain and maintain a position sec
ond to none among the powers , of
the world. These two qualities anl
mate the foreign agents of the em
pire in their relations with the home
government as propagandists or In
formants. Propaganda, following
our experience in this country with
real, semi-real and imaginary Ger
man propaganda, has become an un
popular word, but there is really no
word that tells as much in as few
letters, and indulgence for its em-.
ploymentjhere must be begged.
Wherever Japanese aims are to be fur
thered. there is to be found propaganda.
It is founded upon the German system.
but unlike the in genius Teutonic sys
tem, it has not that quality of elas
ticity or facility of fitting into the sit
uation that made the German bureau
so effective. The Japanese propagan
dists are crude, almost to the point of
childishness at times; but again very
subtle.
Like the German system of informa
tion, the Japanese information and prop
aganda work can be traced to one cen
tral governmental source. Like the Ger
mans again, every Japanese agent go
ing abroad, whether military, commer
cial student or what not. reports such
information as ne oeiieves vaiuaue to
his government ; reports it to one central
bureau. : ' whence it Is distributed ' to
army, navy, state or commercial depart
ments according te- its value. Her ageats
and propagandists are established . not
only throughout the Kast and in Kurope
and in the Pacific and Orient... but Jn
the United States as well. In this coun
try are some persons, - supposed to be
loyal Americans,, who are consciously or
unconsciously furthering the propaganda
of Japan. There even are organizations
in this country designed for this pur
pose. PROPAGANDA IS CHAMiELEOJT.
LIKE
Japan's propaganda is mobile to the
extent that it is designed to fit in with
conditions, political or otherwise, in what
ever country ' it is employed. In Siberia
the propaganda was monarc rustic, in
tone, supporting the monarchists; anti-
Bolshevik most of the time ; sometimes
pro-Bolshevik always, antl-American. In
China, Korea. Manchuria, Mongolia, etc.
the propaganda has taken the form of
(Concluded on Pace Four. Column One)
By George R. Holmes
St. Augustine, Feb. 16. (I. N. a)
The conferences In progress this
week between President-elect Hard-
ihg and Republican party managers
here, constitute the final weeding out
process in the cabinet garden.
While it is now -virtually certain that
there will be no announcement of the
new cabinet until March 3 and quite
possible not until March 4, the president
elect hopes within another week to have
matters so adjusted that" he can make
public his selections If such a course is
then deemed expedient. There is no In
dication, however, that such a course
will be considered advisable.
Today Mr. Harding had appointments
scheduled with Alfred H. Smith, presi
dent of the New Tork Central railroad
Colonel Arthur Woods, former head of.
the New Tprk police department ; T. V.
O'Connor, president of the longshore
men's union, and George Sylvester
Viereck, former head of. the German
American alliance. '
It is understood that Smith took up
with' - the - president-elect' the financial
condition of the . railroads and stressed
the need for congress immediately vot
Ing them the government guaranty
funds. This bill making available these
funds had struck a snag In congress and
the railroads are insistently urging ac
tion. 3 '-".
Colonel Wood came" to St. Augustine
at Mr, Harding's request, it is under
stood. ' He has been suggested as pos
sible assistant secretary of war. He
filled a .similar position during the war
and has been strongly recommended to
reassume those duties In the new admin
Miration..:'"'- . .
Is Pearson Dead or
Alive? Is Question'
Of. Searching Planes
San Antonio, Texas. Feb. It. (L; N.
S, A big Caproni. assisted by airplanes
from the. border and Kelly field, is today
combing a 100 mile strip of land lying
between h the Pecos river ? and Howard
creek,' in Crockett coustn to establish
whether Lieutenant Alxtider; Pearson
.Jr. is dead or: alive. . -J , -j'.Si w s-
. Army fliers today , admitted, rUnoffl
cially. that they had (practically given
up hope of finding Pearson alive. They
HARDING SIFTING
CABINET NAMES
pre m reality row pparchine for- th
FAMOUS SINGER IS BETTER
ENRICO CARUSO, possessor of the greatest'voice known
to opera, who has rallied after a nearly fatal collapse last
, night. Caruso has been ill since December 9, when he was
stricken while singing in "PagliaccL" "
'.:.:-:-:vWX--x-Tg:
BILL AFFECTING
LAKE BEDS LOSES
State House, Salem, Feb. 16.
Bennett's lake bed bill asserting the
ownership by the state in the beds
of ' meandered lakes, ' went ' down -: to
defeat in the house this morning by
vote of 30 for it and 26 against,
one short of the constitutional ma
jority needed to pass. . Bennett led
the fight for the bill and Pat Gal
lagher the opposition.
The bill was prepared by the' attorney'
general's,' office . and - sought to declare
the policy of , the state in reference to
the .ownership of the beds of Malheur
and . Warner . Valley lakes, -, among
others. - . .
COHTEXTIOX' IS 'BITTEK
For a long " time there has been bit
ter contention concerning the ' owner
ship of ' these lake - beds, - the riparian
owners along, the banks, claiming that
their holdings extended into the. center
of the lake.'- In i all more ' than 40,000
acres of land-are involved in the Mal
heur lake controversy, and a vast tract
in the Warner Valley section. , .
' Suits have been u filed, by numerous
settlers on both the Malheur and War
ner Valley lakes to establish their titles
to all accretions to their original hold
ings : made, by the recession of - the
wafers belqjv the established meander
line, and it was contended by Gallagher
that the . question of title should . be
settled by , the courts rather than ,: by
the legislature. . ,-f .
Bennett" contended that under ; the
general theory of the law the stale was
the. real - owner of the - lands involved,
and that the bill was Intended - to : de
clare the, ownership for the benefit of
the irreducible school fund of the state.
VOTERS ARE "3fAMET
Those voting for. the' bill were:
, YEAS Acheson,: Beals, Belknap. Ben
nett, t;arner, carter, isoert, runer,
Plint. .Hammond. Hookms. Hubbard,
Hunter. Hurd. Johnston. Kay. Kinney.
Korell, Kubli. Leonard, Lynn Marsh,
Martin. - McDonald,' McFarland, Miller,
Pierce. : Richards. Roberta. Sheldon,
Shiria. stone, westcott. wooason so.
NAYS Allen. Burdick. Cary. Childs,
tavey. Fletcher. Gallagher, , G r d O n
(Multnomah), Gordon (Lane). Hind man,
Hosf ord, . Hyatt, Laf olette. Lee, Looney,
Miles. North,, Overturf. Perry, ' Powell,
Shank, Sloan, Tern plejipn, Wells, Wright,
jaean 2o,
Mrs.;W. McElroy Is
Promoted to Deputy
-" Mrs. Willametta McE3roy,- who . has
served in the city attorney's office since
early in 1910, and. has for several years
held the position ; of. law clerk of . the
city's Jegal department, was promoted to
deputy city attorney today.-. ;
Four Workers Killed
; ih Mine Explosion
Princeton. Ind.. Feb. 1. (U, P.) Four
coal ' miners were killed In a dust and
ra explosion which wrecked the New
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By Clara Wold
Former Portland Woman AcUt in Snffrac Work
New York,' Feb. 16. -(I. N. S.)
Feminists in America are threaten
Ing 'to startle the country by saying
out loud, the things they have been
thinking to themselves for the past
decade. '."''' V . .'7. -
Gradually, but surely even the deeds of
the militant suffragists 1 have . become
passe t them. 1 One hears -whisperings
of what the American feminist might
say if , she. once started talking, about
woman and man. .
CHURCH' ICOT so popular '
Not' that' she" would be at' all antl
male. " But she' wouldn't waste anytime
discussing ' equal ' laws for men and
women and she wouldn't dwell on wet
fare bills or mothers' pensions.
"Anybody believes . In those reforms.'
say the young feminists, "but what the
American feminist is going to' say the
real feminist Is something startling."
The ' -English feminist leader," Mrs.
French, ' may thrill London and get on
the ' front ' page with" threats of with
drawing from' the church and reorganiz
ing the Christian religion, or ' rewriting
the Bible, but American feminists won't
even discuss the church. I
"Why, 'I doh't even know anyone who
goes to church. any. more. "-said Miss
Bessie Beatty, a magazine editor, to
day, "except a lone man I met the other
day, and I can't Imagine feminists get
ting excited over church discussions.
RETURNED DISAPPOINTED ,
"I Suppose that -women in America,
like those ' in , -England, will - continue
suffrage work, but the feminist leaders
have -already . put into practice many
things that other feminists are still talk
ing about. . For a long time we have
compared the mass of American women
with the feminist leaders of England or
Finland or i Norway. ; Of course,- we
seemed Hke mere babes. But when you
compare the leaders -of this country with
those of England, for instance, you will
find that we have gone past the suffrage
state of mind. i
"We were also anxious to 1 get the
suffrage fight out of the way eo that
we could take up larger and more concrete-work.
. r
."Many of us rushed off to .Europe
to find out what feminist 'movements
were doing In other countries. We
found a lot of people ardently continU
ing the fight for equal opportunities for
(Concluded on rc Four. Cola out Two)
Police Take Coat
Holding Moonshine
The police have discovered something
new4 in the illicit whiskey Une-so they
say. It is the "coat pocket bar room."
Tuesday -night they, raided a soft drink
place at 249 Couch street. In a coat
hanging on the wall they found two pint
bottles of moonshine. When they started
to arrest the proprietor of the poolf hall-
soft, drink place,, he, objected, declaring
he knew-nothing about. the coat. Iwhich
must have been left by some customer
who came to play pooL The police na
to content themselves with confiwatir.g
Ss NEAR
DEATH'S DOOR
Oxygen Resorted To to Keep Vic-.
tim of Pleurisy Alive; Feared in
Early Hours of Morning That
End Had Surely Arrived.
New Tork, Feb. 16. -Enrico Caru
so, who has cheered and entertained
thousands with his golden voice.
which has been termed the most per
fect tenor ever known, was hovering
between life and death today, a vie-'
tim of pleurisy, ' -
I "Mr. Caruso haa rallied from a very
serious collapse," said a bulletin issued
at 11 :30 a. m. by the physicians attend
ing the singer.
I "His present condition Is not satis- -
factory, but there is some Improvement
concluded the statement. -
At 3 o'clock he was "resting quite com
fortably." At the .same hour it was an-;
pounced that if the singer lives through '
the next IS or 20 hours he will be on the
road to recovery. It was stated that his
condition is still very grave, however.
Two fresh tanks of oxygen were taken
Into the, Caruso suites shortly before'
noon.'.'
CONDITIO CBITICAL
With five doctors Jn attendance and
all the known " remedies and scientific
aids to combat death at-thelr disposal,
Caruso, who so often haa taken the
tragic and heroic parts in the mimic life
of the opera stage, was fighting for hi
life this afternoon.
Apparently his first grapple with grim
death early ' today, when the lant rites
of the Catholic church -were adminis
tered, left him very weakr for during the
morning ' he again lapsed into semi-'
consciousness and at intervals could not
recognise his dearest friends.
- The statement insued at noon by the
(CoDoloded on Pas Poor. Column Hi)
Mystery Surrounds
Identity of Victim
Of Traffic Accident
i The. police were notified by telephone
this morning of an accident which hap
pened at 7:15 Tuesday night at Union
avenue and Stanton streets, in which a
pedestrian was said to have been badly,
injured. The name of neither the driver
nor the victim of the accident was given
to the polce. S. G. Tornence, fi9 Web
ster street, told the police he saw an au
tomobile . bearing Washington licence
125819 going north on Union avenue at a
high speed rate strike a man as it paaoed
a standing street car. The man wan
dragged CO feet. by the automobile, which
ran another CO feet after the man had
fallen to one side. The roan was appar
ently seriously Injured. The witness
said the driver of the automobile picked
up the victim and carried him away. The
address given by the driver as the place
he was taking the victim was 231 Mor
ris street. There Is no such address ac
cording to Patrolman W. S. Tully.
'Love Pact' Scented
In San Francisco
Murder and Suicide
San Francisco, Feb. 16.-(1. N. H.) .
Police this afternoon sought to learn '
whether a "love pact" had resulted in
the killing of Miss Vera Peterson, 25, a
pretty blonde stenographer, and the sui
cide of Dr. Carlos Willalms.
The double shooting took place in an
apartment occupied by Miss Peterson.
After he had shot arid killed the girl,
Williams turned the gun on himself.
Police investigating found that the
apartment had been rented in the name
of Mr. and Mrs. William PeteSbon, al
though the young woman was known
as "Miss Peterson" at a downtown office
where she was employed as a stenog
rapher. 0 "
Oswego Favors New
v Oregon City Bridge
' Construction of .the Oregon City-West
Linn bridge as proposed in a bill sub-.
mitted to the legislature by Senator
Ryan and Representative Hammond, has
the official sanction of the Oswego city
council, according to a reaolution which
has been passed by that, body urging
passage of the bill. The bill provides
that Clackamas county shall pay to the
state 105,000 for the bridge construc
tion. The resolution is signed by A. -O
Hess, mayor, and D. B. Fox, recorder of
Oswego. .
Tokio War Office '
Reports on Killing
r Tokio, Feb. 16. (U. P.) It Is under
stood here that the war office haa re
ported its findings in the caaa of the
killing of Lieutenant W. H. Langdon,
U. & N.. at Vladivostok, by a, Japa
nese sentry, to the cabinet council for
consideration.
New Does Not Favor
G. 0. P. Chairmanship
Whlnirtnn. Feb. IS. tV. V.
7
ator Harry K. Js'ew. Indiana, wr
the cha.irmannhip of the Repul.
tlonal committee unwillingly, v
Mew tiaid today In commptuin
ports that he will f'jn 1 V,