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VOL. XIX. NO.' 298.
PORTLAND; OREGON. SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1921. SIXTEEN PAGES
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LEGISLATORS
WILL RESUME
GRIND MONDAY
Ample Deliberation Necessary to
Do Justice to Constructive
Road, Reapportionment, Mar
keting, Anti-Japanese 'Measures
State House. Salem. Feb. 19. The
house will adjourn today until 11
o'clock Monday moraine, as soon as
the ways and means bills have been
Introduced by the - committee and
sent to the printer. The Benate will
also a4journ as soon as it clears up
its calendar or reaches a good shop
ping place.
By practically unanimous vote the
house decided that when it adjourns to
day it will adjourn to 11 o'clock Monday
Morning, so that the business of the ses
sion may be concluded in an orderly and
business-like manner.
SSXffY BILLS PESDISO "
Speaker Bean gave a summary of the
business in hand at the opening of this
morning's session, showing that there
are yet in committee hands 33 senate
bills and 40 house bills ; that 31 bills are
on third reading, and that there are 124
bills and other measures now before the
house.
He stated that the . senate has 168
measures still pending, making a grand
total of 288 measures yet to - be acted
upon.
Speaker Bean urged that it would be
better business and reflect more credit
on the assembly to hold -over into next
week and complete the business in an
orderly manner. He called attention to
the rush acts of previous legislatures at
the closing hours, when bills were passed
which later cost the- state thousands of
dollars to correct.
TO PRINT MEASURES
Representative Gordon of the ways and
means committees stated that the work
of this committee would not be com
pleted until this afternoon but that the
appropriation bills will be printed and
on the members' desks Monday morn
ing. Practically all of the older mem
bers of the house expressed the desire
to stay oyer and close the work in a
proper manner. ;
- There yet remain to be considered and
disposed of the road program bills, the
reapportionment tangle, the appropria
tion bills some 60 in nuynber, the coopera
tive marketing bill, the Japanese ex
clusion bill, the moving picture censor
bill, and a long list 1 of others which
are not so Important but all of which wllj
require time.
The reapportionment bill is Just now
the storm center of the bitterest fight
of the session, worse, even, than the
teachers' tenure bilL It will eat up a
lot of time in the senate and cannot,
under any ordinary procedure, get to the
house before Monday morning.
It now seems most probable that the
Japanese bill mill be killed by the sen
ate, though It will undoubtedly die
fighting.
The Roosevelt highway bill seems
doomed to die in the house, but it too
will not go down to defeat without a
battle.
The road bills are now practically all
ready to go to vote, and the money bills
will come into the house Saturday morn
ing. - - - .
The rest of the session has narrowed
down to the road bills, the money bills
and reapportionment. These are the big
things left and it seems to be the senti
ment of both houses that it will be bet
ter to take adequate time to settle them
right than to Jam them through in an
effort to adjourn Sunday morning.
25 ARE INJURED
IN FIRE PANIC
Detroit. Feb. 19. (I. N. S.)
Twenty-five persons were injured In
a panic that followed a fire which
broke out in a streetcar at St. Aubin
and Adams streets today. Eight
persons are In a receiving hospital
in a serious condition.,
District President
Is Ordered to Call
Off Strike in-Mines
Pittsburg, Kan., Feb! 19. (U. P.)
Alexander Howat, district' president of
the United Mine Workers, "has been, or
dered by the industrial court to call off
the strike in Mackle mines "H" and
"J" that drew him a year's ajajl sen
tence for contempt et court.
At the same' time the industrial court
removed the causa , of the strike, by
nettling the controversy; over the age' of
Karl Mishmash and ordering the com
pany to pay the boy about $225 in back
ly. ' ; : . . . - .
1 low at said he presumed the men
would go bark to work when the Mish
mash boy was paid.
"I believe the operators and the in
dustrial court worked together to pull
the operators out of a hole and make
It appear the industrial court is effec
tive," Howat concluded.
Legislative Scorf
In Sunday Journal
A complete list of the measures
that have passed both houses of
the Oregon legislature up to the
time of adjournment tonight, will
be published in The Sunday Jour
nal tomorrow.
IS ATTACKED
THE Right Honorable Lord
Chelmsford, viceroy and
governor general of India,
whose train :was held up by
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REBELS ATTACK
London, Feb. 19. (U. P,) Indian
rebels attacked the special train of
Viceroy Lord Chelmsford, near Alla
habad, forcing the vice-regal party
to abandon its efforts to reach Cal
cutta, according to advices received
here today.
The party left Delhi with the intention
of going to Calcutta. As the train was
approaching Allahabad,' an important
railway junction, 450 miles northwest of
Calcutta, it slowed up. Almost imme
diately It was surrounded by hundreds
of extremists who swarmed over the
locomotive and" cars. They were driven
off with difficulty, but the military es
cort deemed it advisable to return to
Delhi.
The advices, which were fragmentary.
did not indicate whether there had been
an actual clash or whether there were
any casualties on either side. Some
fear was expressed here for the safety
of the" Christian population of Allaha
bad, numbering about 10,000 of the city's
200.000 inhabitants.
Storm Brewing in
North Pacific Ocean
May Visit Portland
Another storm has teen brewed in the
North Pacific ocean weather pot, which
has been boiling and seething steadily
during the winter. The new storm is
scheduled to hit the Washington coast
this evening and Southwest storm warn
ings were ordered up at all Oregon and
Washington coast points at 11 :30 o'clock
this morning. ,, ,
The weather bureau has been watching
the formation of this new storm off the
British Columbia coast for several days.
It is expected to bring with it fresh to
strong Southwest gales tonight. Port
land probably will feel a portion of
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Mexican iBusiness
Leaders to Include
Portland on Tour
Washington. Feb. 19. (I. N. S.)-
Eleven members of the Chamber of
Commerce of Mexico City will leave on
February - 5:5 for a tour of the United
States to invite American industrial
leaders to attend the International Con
gress of Merchants to be held In Mex
ico City. June 12, the state department
was advised. ; .
The delegation will visit El Paso,
Loa Angeles, San Francisco. Portland,
Tacoma, St. Paul. Seattle, Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, at. Louis, riew Orleans,
Houston. Dallas, , San Antonio and La
redo, Texas, as well as a number of
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Julia Marlowe to
Get Honorary Degree
Washington, Feb; 19,-(L N. S.) The
honorary degree of doctor of letters will
be conferred on Julia Marlowe, famous
Shakespearean actress, wife of K. H.
Sothern. the actor, by George Washing
ton university at the centennial convoca
tion to be held. here next Tuesday, ac-
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JAPAN TRYING
TO RENEW HER
BRITISH PACT
Using Every Means. in Her Power
to Bring About Treaty With
England; Threatens Union of
Colored Races Against Whites.
By Frank V, Marti nek
Former IntIHenc, Officer of Astetio Fleet, V.
S. Nary, Who l TborcrainiJ auU Witb
the .Orient
(Published by The Journal by Arranjement)
(Copyright. 1821. by Chicago Daily New Co.)
Because of its manifest successes
in Manchuria, Korea, Eastern Si
beria, Mongolia, and because of. the
action of the peace conference in
ceding Shantung province," the mili
tary party of Japan has become ex
ceedingly egotistic in its aspirations
for Far and Near Eastern power. It
is seeking for Japan now not only
territory in its immediate vicinity
for colonization purposes, accompa
nied by the cry of over-population,
but it is reaching far afield; Into the
Far East India, Ceylon, Egypt.
Englishmen say that there is an im
aginary! liae in the Far East which Ja
pan does not dare to cross. But some
day the Japanese is liable to step across
that line and up the tail of the British
lion.
That Japan has been reaching for the
lion's tail has been quite apparent. She
wishes a renewal of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance, and this alliance, to the mili
tarists of Japan, means only one thing :
That Japan shall, be recognised by the
power of the Western seas. Great Brit
ain, as the protector of the East ; that
Japan's armies shall be called upon by
Britain to quell troubles arising in those
countries.
DREAM1 TO 2TE RACES
Men prominent in British thought in
Asia have told me that Great Britain
might renew the alliance on a permanent
basis if certain clauses, regarded now as
I Concluded on pace Foar.otamn Four)
RED CROSS FINDS
OFFICER'S GRAVE
Chicago, Feb. 19. (I. N. S.) The
story of how an Illinois officer of
the A. E. F. played the part of Na
than Hale so that America's first
great offensive might be successful,
was told here today for the first
time by the American Red Cross.
Its narration was made possible by the
discovery by the Red Cross of an un
marked grave behind the lines once held
by German forces at Cantlgny, and an
investigation following the discovery of
the body of an American lieutenant in
the grave.
CAPTtBED BT GERMANS
It was on May 25. 1918, that First
Lieutenant Oliver Julian Kendall, son of
an old Illinois family for which Kendall
county ' was named, first took his place
in the jumping-off trenches directly in
front of Cantlgny. He was in command
of the advanced party and as he waited
for the order to advance, strange noises
came from "no man's land."
With an enlisted man Lieutenant Ken
dall started to investigate. They had not
gone far when the noises grew louder.
Ordering the private to remain behind.
Lieutenant Kendall went forward. He
never was seen again.
SHOT S SPT
That night German raiding parties,
seeking information, attacked ' the ad
vanced American lines. Thanks to Ken
dall, the men who held them were alert,
and when the Germans were repulsed sev
eral Prussian officers were left behind
as prisoners. From them it was learned
an American lieutenant had been cap
tured in "no man's land" shortly before
the raid.
Later It was learned that Lieutenant
Kendall, although in uniform, had been
shot as a spy when he refused to divulge
information regarding the American
troops.
The official records and the report of
the Red Crops reached Mrs. Frank Ken
dall, the mother, here today.
Wine Gone, Beer Not
Near Enough. Crew
Walks Gut Midsea
New York, Feb. 19. (U. P.) Water
was made- to float ships on, not to
drink, ; the crew of the freighter Zui
houa decided. So they "walked out"
right In midocean.
It's a long tale, mates, but the editor
said "keep it short," so here goes:
When the Zuibona recently tied up in
Brooklyn the crew demanded a swim
ming pool, daily shore leave, newspapers
delivered aboard and discharge of the
chef and baker because the food was
too plebeian. . ; -
A week later, the ship sailed, for
1 rientn. Two days out ' the wine sup
ply became exhausted, the crew got
unruly and the captain had to turn
back. tThe company agents sought fed
eral permission to place wine aboard.
When it was refused thfy compromised
on near-beer. ;
A wireless received from the crew
today 60S miles at sea declared the
beer wasn't near enough and that they
had resigned although, of coarse, they
would work their passage to Trieste,
Alter pondering the temperamental out
bursts of the tars the company decided
it should worry. r r
Outlay of $7
Nets $300 to
Bootleggers
Get rich quick schemers and graft
ers have nothing on the wily boot
legger, according to Assistant United
States Attorney Austin Flegel, who
discovered to his surprise this morn
ing that from an original deposit of
$7, the dispenser of illegal liquids
derives a minimum of $180 and
sometimes as high as $300.
Flegel announced the discovery follow
ing the arrest of T. Peterson, proprie
tor of the Peterson Barber Supply com
pany, 111 Third street; Frank Zinz. a
clerk ; L. C. Smith, secondhand bottle
merchant at Water and Clay streets;
and an expressman named Hall.
In the arrest of Peterson, Flegel be
lieves he has found the source from
which Portland bootleggers have been
procuring their alcohol. Peterson has
been getting a 0-gallon barrel of grain
alcohol each month upon a permit issued
by the internal revenue department,
which was supposed to be used in his
barber supply department for making
toilet water and hair tonics.
LEARNS OF SALE .
Friday afternoon Flegel learned that
Peterson was going to make a sale of
the alcohol. Government agents say
Zinz put the alcohol in a five gallon oil
can and put the can in a box marked
"X," and set the box by the elevator
door. Hall is said to have called for the
box and delivered it to Smith. After
the delivery the four were arrested.
Smith is said to have disposed of the
alcohol to bootleggers.
The original gallon of alcohol, costing
$7. is said to have been diluted with
water to make three of "whiskey,"
which was flavored with "oil of Scotch"
or some other oil to make it taste like
real whiskey, and then colored with
caramel. This mixture was put in 12
quart bottles and sold for $15 to $25
a quart, Flegel has learned. The bottles
are said to have borne the counterfeit
Canadian revenue labels which were
seized several days ago when nine al
leged bootleggers were arrested.' ,
HALL IS IXIfOCENT PARTY
As Hall is said to have been Involved
in the transaction innocently, he was
not held in jail. Bail for Peterson and
Smith was set at $1000 and for Zinz at
J100. For the present the four men are
charged with conspiracy to violate the
prohibition act, and each man except
Hall is charged individually with the sale
of alcohol for beverage purposes. Flegel
also has information that Smith has been
selling the fake revenue stamps to boot
leggers, but as yet he has not learned
the name of the printer who made
them. Flegel said b knew there were
other alcohol leaks" in the city, but as
yet the prohibition agents have not
found enough Information to warrant an
arrest. .
Peterson Is said to have been selling
from 15 to 20 gallons of alcohol each
month.
TD RUSH TARIFF
Washington, Feb. 19. (I. N. S.)
The emergency tariff bill was sent
to conference today by the house by
a vote of 190 to 132.
This action by the house' came after a
vigorous fight lasting over three hours.
By this action the house friends of the
legislation facilitated action on the bill.
It is expected the conferees will meet
Monday. The house conferees will yield
probably to most of the senate provis
ions of the bill and report an agreement
by next Tuesday.
The house conferees named were Ford
ney. Green and Longworth, Republicans;
Rainey and Hull, Democrats.
The bill as passed by the senate was
brought before the house under a spe
cial rule from the house committee on
rules, which provided that it be sent
to conference without immediate con
sideration by the house of changes made
in the bill by the senate."
Debate on the bill developed a split
in the Republican ranks. Treadway and
Loos, staunch New England Republicans,
led the opposition to the bill, supported
by the Democrats. Green of Iowa and
Tincher of Kansas, midwest Republicans,
fought for the bill as a protective tariff
measure.
"This bill will close every wool in
dustry in the East," said Treadway.
PRESIDENT MAY NOT VETO
TARIFF, TREADWAY FEARS
Washington, Feb. li. (U. P.) Presi
dent Wilson may surprise the Republi
can leaders ,in congress by signing the
emergency tariff bill. Representative
Treadway of Massachusetts, Republi
can, told the house today during De
bate on motion to send the Fordney
emergency bill to a senate and house
conference. ;
"There is now, I believe, a great
probability that this measure will be
come a law if it Is passed by congress,"
said Treadway. "The word has been
passed around on high authority that
the president will veto. That may be a
trap. Personally, I don't want to take
a chance on his vetoing it."
Treaffway declared that the bill would
close the mills of New England shortly
after it became a law.
"You propose to put a tariff of 40
cents a bushel on wheat, or $1.80 a
barrel on flour," raid Treadway. "But
you overlook the fact that other sec
tions will paralyze Eastern industry,
which is now in Just as bad condition
as the Western farmers. The bill. I
was reliably informed today, will close
every Industry in New England. Then
where will your farmers find customers
for your products?"
Typothetae to Cut
Wages of Printers
Chicago. Feb. 19. (L N. &) The
weekly pay of union printers, here will
be cut $4.65 on February 25 the Chi
cago Typothetae, associated printing
houses, announced today. It is con
tended living costs have- shrunk that
much on the union scale of wages. The
typographical union will discuss . the
proposed cut on Sunday and demand
arbitration
HOUSE DECIDES
WASHINGTON
LEGISLATORS
FOR PROJECT
Assurance Given Umatilla Power
Site Association Delegates'
Memorial to Congress to Give
Plans Attention Is Passed.
Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 19.
Following recommendations to the
Washington delegates to the meeting
of the Umatilla Power Site associa
tion that the Washington state leg
islature take an action similar to
that of the Oregon legislature in
calling the attention of congress and
the federal power commission to the
Umatilla project, mem bees of the
Joint house and senate committee pf
the Washington legislature present
announced that their respective
bodies had already passed such a
memorial.
It was their opinion that if a hydro
electric commissioner were appointed to
act with Governor Olcott of Oregon
in bringing the matter before the fed
eral power committee,1 it would be Dan
Scott, new director of development and
conservation under the 'new code omis
sion of this state.
The recommendation to the delegates
was made by former Senator Fred
Steiwer of Pendleton, chairman of the
legislative .committee of the Umatilla
Power Site association.
The meeting opened with an address
of welcome by Mayor Ben' F. Hill of
Walla Walla and Vice President J. M.
Crawford of the Power association. Re
sponses were made by Mayors George
Hartman of Pendleton and C. A. Flem
ing of Spokane and Gilbert Phelps,
president of the Power association.
Mayor Baker of Portland was unable
to be present and sent his regrets. .
Mayor Hartman and President Phelps
urged the feasibility of the project and
assured the delegates that data was
available to prove it, while assurance
was given by Mayor Fleming that Spo
kane is more than willing to take her
chance on the beneficial results reach
ing up to her and concluded with the
siatement: "Spokane is for the project."
Fonner Judge Stephen A. Lowell of
Pen3,eion opened the discussion of the
possibilities of the project with a review
of the federal water power act and
showed ho It applied favorably to the
Umatilla project.
He was followed by H. W. Rands of
Portland, consulting engineer, represent
ing the Oregon State and the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, who gave fig
ures showing that the project would
not only open up a vast acreage to Ir
rigation, but pointed to the possibility
of furnishing power to cities as far dis
tant as Seattle, as well as the open
ing up of the Columbia river to naviga
tion to an extent hitherto unknown
through canalization of the river at
Umatilla and the removal thereby of
the last serious obstacle to heavy ship
ping on the middle river.
He concluded his talk with the state
ment that the Umatilla project is the
one available on the Columbia which
Portland Interests should back, and
said : "Not to do so is for the citi
zens of the city to sin against them
selves.
Between 75 and 100 prominent men.
representing practically every city and
town in the Inland Empire, are here
today , attending the meeting of the
association.
Representatives E. F. Banker of
Okanogan county and M. M. Moulton
of Benton county and Senators O. T.
Cornwell of Walla Walla county and
J. C. McAuley of Kittitas and Chelan
counties arrived this morning from
Olympia as a joint house and senate
committee to represent the Washington
state legislature. They are here, they
said, to ascertain the spirit of the meet
ing and to report back to the legisla
ture whether or not the state can be of
any assistance to the project.
Umatilla county is represented' by a
delegation of " 30, headed by President
Phelps of the association. Among prom
inent members of the party are former
Judge Stephen A. Lowell and Mayor
George Hartman of ' Pendleton.
Mrs. Marshall Field
Sponsors Wrestling
To Help Cripples
Chicago, Feb. 19. (U. P.) Mrs. Mar
shall Field III, sponsor of the society
wrestling program to be staged, for the
crippled children of Chicago next Tues
day, was introduced to the sport last
night. She saw Johnny , Myers, middle
weight champion, defeat Paul Prehn,
wrestling Instructor at the University of
Illinois.
Mrs. Field Was favorably impressed
with the wrestling matches, but she
didn't care so much for the smoke which
filled the Coliseum.
'But then I could watch a great many
wrestling bouts and inhale a great deal
of smoke for charity," she said.1
1000 of Fair Sex
Scorned, and Then
'Fireworks' Start
New York, Feb. 19. U. P.) If It's
true -that ' "hell hath no fury like a
woman scorned, how about a thousand
of themT
Promoters of a fashion school adver
tised for 200 models and abottt 1200 re
sponded last night. They made - the
tactical error of trying to do the accept
ing and rejecting in the presence - cf
others.
Employes of the Hotel Pennsylvania,
where the show took place, were 1 rtill
engaged today In picking up hairpins,
shreds of clothing, wisns of hair and
bits of complexion from the remains of
the roof garden. -
PLAN TO JOIN
Josephine Senator Declines to
Vote for Reapportionment Pro
gram in Upper House, Affect
ing His County and Jackson.
State House, Salem, Feb. 19.
Senator Smith of Josephine "dyna
mited" the reapportionment program
of the senate organization of which
he has been a consistent unit this
morning when he arose to a question
of personal privilege and announced
that he would not vote for the bill
as It stands. i
The bill now on tho calendar for final
action throws Jackson and Josephine
counties into one Joint district. Under
the existing classification Jackson county
has a senator of its own, C. M. Thomas,
whose term is expiring, while Josephine
has a senator. Smith, who was elected
last November and therefore has another
session yet to serve.
DENIES CHABGES
The combination of the two counties
Into one district would leave Senator
Thomas high and dry, with no chance
to run for reelection because, under the
law. Smith would become the Joint sen
ator for the remalhlng two years.
It was this circumstance which threw
Thomas Into such a rage yesterday
afternoon when the report of - the re
apportionment committee came up for
adoption and Eddy made his futile ef
fort to amend that report by putting
the Jackson and Josephine districts back
into their present status. ,
Arising to a point of personal privi
lege at the opening of the session this
morning Senator Smith emphatically de
nied charges of "double crossing" which
had been made against him in his ab
sence during consideration of the re
apportionment bill Friday afternoon.
OPPOSED TO BILL
"Coming from Senator Thomas, who
Is an expert in this line," he declared, "I
leave it to the members of the senate to
draw their own conclusions. y
. Referring to his attitude toward -the
reapportionment program. Smith con
tinued :
"1 am opposed to the reapportionment
bill as it now stands. I am and always
(Concluded on Pure Two, Column Two)
FOOD PRICES SHOW
21.5 PER CENT DROP
By Ralph F. Coach
Washington. Feb. 19. (U. P.) Food,
is now 21.5 per cent cheaper to the con
sumer, than six months ago, Ethelbert
Stewart, government price expert, an
nounced today.
"The decline seems to be a really sub
stantial development In the general price
situation," said Stewart, "and not based
entirely on seasonal changes, which are
so often deceptive. It Is impossible, of
course, to predict how long it will con
tinue. "Food prices six months ago reached
the peak, of the period In which markets
have been Influenced by the war. Since
that time the level of retail food prices
as shown by the data collected by the
labor department has fallen steadily
month by month."
Stewart's announcement is based on
price data collected by the labor de
partment 'continually from 51 big cities.
The department each month geta price
quotations on nearly 50 articles of food
from these cities. Once each month the
prices are averaged and Stewart makes
up what is referred to as an index
figure. The decline of 21.5 per cent
which he announced therefore is ' an
average. Some foods have declined in
price more than this. Potatoes . and
sugar, for instance, slumped more than
30 per cent each.
Hume Is Defeated
For Second Time
In Fight for Bill
State House, Salem, Feb. 19. Senator
Hume again met defeat this morning
when he tried to resurrect from the ta
ble his bill prohibiting the wearing lo
the public schools of any garb indicating
affiliation with a religious order. This
bill was introduced on the first day of
the session and laid on the table on
January 26, following a lengthy ora
torical battle centered about a divided
committee report on the bill.
Once before when Hume tried to take
the bill from the table his move was
defeated. . Today he insisted on putting
the members on record on the question.
Roll call shows 15 members opposed with
14 favorable to resurrecting the bill. ,. -.
Poeschl, Slayer of
.Attorney Schnabel,
Denies Act Willful
Joseph Poeschl, who fired the bullet
that killed Charles J. Schnabel In a corridor-
of the Multnomah county court
house , on February 4, this -morning
pleaded not guilty to' a charge of mur
der in the first degree.
' Date for Poeschl's trial has not been
set and probably will not be designated
until a commission appointed to examine
Into his sanity baa renoited.
Tax Viewers
Decided Upon
By Go vernor
State House, Salem, Feb. 19.
Governor Olcott will name Freder
ick V, Mulkey, R. I Sabin and L.
J. Goldsmith the tax supervision and
conservation commission under the
authority of the Gordon bill, when
that act becomes effective, according
to the announcement of the gover
nor, made in a letter to Representa
tive Gordon given out by the execu
tive office this morning.
The letter follows:
"I regret, with you, that a ' senate
amendment to bouse bill No. 9 resulted
In the bill apparently becoming uncon
stitutional and void.
"In response to your inquiry will say
that if the unconstitutional feature is
removed by return of the bill to Its
original form, the men who had been
designated by the legislature would be
very agreeable to me. it being my object
and desire to assist and not hamper con
structive legislation. They are all men
of capability, high worth and Integrity
and I am satlf led well able to handle
the trust thus. imposed In them.
"It has been a pride with me to take
particular care in the selection of P-,
pointees and had tne mil come to me in
its original form, I believe I could and
would have made selections satisfactory
to the people of Multnomah county and
the state. But, as Indicated, the men
designated in the bill by the legislature
would be very acceptable to me in, event
the bill comes back to this office so
amended as to relodge and replace the
appointment here."
The bill has been remedied and la once
more in the possession of the governor,
FOR COAST URGED
By Harold D. Jacobs
New York, Feb. 19. (U. P.) Di
version of European immigration to
Pacific coast ports was urged today
by P, H. W. Ross, president of the
National Marine league, in an in
terview with the United Press.
Ross declared that such a move would
result in the following advantages:
Better distribution of foreign labor.
Relief of congestion in eastern cities.
Furnishing of western states with
higher class labor thn the present Ori
ental and Mexican elements.
BETTEB TYPE WA5TED
Greater opportunity to the better typo
of immigrants, c - ' .
Ross suggested that it privaiely-owned
shipping companies were not inclined to
cooperate In such a plan, government-
owned vessels operated by the . United
States shipping board could be employed
to carry immigrants from Europe to the
Pacific coast, through the Panama canal.
In this connection, he said, the best
way in which the Leviathan could- be
employed would be to place her in com
mission as strictly a steerage passenger
carrier. He pointed' out that the huge
vessel? rapidly disintegrating at her
berth In, Hoboken, is costing the govern
ment thousands of dollars a week. To
refit her as a first class passenger liner
would cost millions of dollars. She could
be used for transporting immigrants
practically without attt-ratlon.
CLIMATIC ADVANTAGES
"Aside from the economic advantages
to be gained from diverting our Immi
grants to the Pacific coast for a while,"
Ross said, "there is the question of
acclimatization. , Immigrants from the
Mediterranean countries would feel per
fectly at home on the coast, while those
from Central and "Northern Europe
would fit into the lire of the Northwest.
"Immigration has pned up along our
Atlantic coast for several reasons. One
of the big factors has been the prohibi
tive railway rates which would have
prevented them from moving westward
even had they desired to."
Senate Passes Immigration Bill
Washington, Feb. 19. (IT. r.) The
senate today passed the Dillingham Im
migration bill. The bill, as amended,'
restricts immigration for one year so
that 3 per cent of the nationals of any
country now resident in the United
States can be admitted.
Bandits Beat Woman,
Rob Her of $2000
St. Louis, Mo., Feb, 19.(L! N. S.)
Two young bandits held up a woman in
the heart of the South St. Louis in
dustrial district, beat her with their, fists
and escaped with $2000. The woman,
Mrs. Anna Gastch, was taking the money
to her husband, a saloon keeper.
MM GRANT LABOR
Wilson Has No Further Word
X X ' tt - $t t at
"Let Acts Stand," He Says
By Robert 3. Bender .
tTnited New Staff CerTMpondnt.
(Cogrricht, 1021. by Caltad Nw)
Washington, Feb. 19. President
Wilson, according to those Immedi
ately about him, has uttered his last
statement to congress or the people
as chief executive of the nation. His
prime Interest now is in his fight to
recover his health.
He will make no statements and do
no writing for some months, at least.
To the repeated urging of his friends
during the last few days that he give
some Indication of his mental reflection
on bis administration and a word as to
the political and economic outlook for
the next four . years, he is quoted as
having consistently replied: ; J
"I have said, my final word. " What
has been done or said must stand as
it Is." - ... -GBEATLT
CHANGED MAX
Charles Swemm, for many years con
fidential stenographer of the president,
and who, it was thought, would remain
C.E.
HUGHES
SNAmEDFOR
CABINET POST
Formal Announcement Is Made by
President-Elect at St.' Augus
tine; Hughes Is Given Right
to Talk for Self at AH Times.
By Kaymond Clapper
i St. Augustine. Fla., Feb. 19. (U.
P.) Formal announcement of the
appointment of Charles E. Hughes
of New York as secretary of state
In President-elect Harding's cabinet"
was made here today. by Harding.
Harding announced that the policy of
the state department under his admin
istration would be to let the secretary
of state be his own spokesman Ha asked
to be excused, so Hughes could talk alone
to the newspaper men, adding as he
started for' the door : .
III GHKS I)OK TALKING T
"I will let Mr. Hughes do-his own talk
ing. That is going to be my policy from
the beginning. The secretary of state
Is going to speak for the state depart
ment under my administration."
Hughes said he regarded It as a very
high honor to be invited to become sec
retary of state.
"I regard it as an imperative obliga
tion to accept," he fald. "It is a call no
one could well refuse."
Hughes made It clear that he did not
mean this to reflect In any way opon
the -.recent declination of former Gov
ernor Lowden of Illinois to accept a
cabinet appointment.
WILL TELL PUBLIC
In an informal talk with the corre
spondents then, the next secretary of
state announced that It would always
be his policy to take the public into his
confidence regarding the nation's for
eign affairs to-the pullest extent consist
ent with propriety and the public welfare
(Continued on I'ue Vout. 4'olumn F1t. )
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IN RUNNING DUEL
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 19. (TJ.
P.) Two men, believed to have,
robbed the mail car -of -the North
Coast Limited on the Northern Pa
cific of $300,000, were captured at
Little Falls, Minn., early today after
a running revolver fight with depu
ties. -
One of the deputies and one of the
alleged : bandits wre wounded in the
fight. C. K. Strong, a mall clerk, was
wounded when he attempted to resist
the bandits. 7 "
Deputies In automobiles met the two
men at the outskirts : of Little Falls.
They opened fire when ordered to halt
and the gun fight lasted while the auto
mobiles raced over a mile. The loot
was not recovered. A mask and sev
eral weapons were found In the auto
mobile in which the two men were at
tempting to escape. ;
The accused men gave the names of
Boh Allen and Bob Kord.
The train was held up at Baileys,
Minn. Tho bandits had boarded the mail
car at St, Cloud. Mail Clerk Strong was
forced to bind the other two clerks and
then was locked In a. locker. When
Strong attempted to break out of the,
locker he was shot and seriously
wounded.
Other members of the crew did not
know of the robbery -until the train
reached Minneapolis and the mall clerks
were found bound. The bandits had left
the train at a suburb of Minneapolis.
4000 Workers to Be
Added to Ford Force
.Detroit, Mich., Feb. 19. (U. P.)
Four thousand men will be added to the
working force at the Ford Motor com
pany's Highland Park plant, it was an
nounced " today. This will bring the
total working force to 14,000 and the
average production to 2500 cars a day.
with him after March 4 to assist htm
In bis literary work, will not be re
tained. He has accepted a position In
Chicago.
It is stated positively the president win
not enter Into any contemporaneous dis
cussion of either local or international
issues, at least for a considerable time
after he leaves office. He will con
tinue then, as he Is doing now devot
ing a. maximum of attention to getting
well and a minimum to work.
' Only those who in the past have had
continuous opportunity to watch tbe
president actively at work, his rugged
appearance and strong and rapid watte
about his office and home, can appre
ciate to what a pitiful extent his llttiese
has marked hlra. Four years ago he
would conclude a conference with his
cabinet or senators by rising suddenly
from his chair, saying "Well, gentlemen.
I guese that Is all today," and strike
rapidly out of the room.
Today he lifts himself slowly and
carefully from a sitting .posture, his
face drawn with the lines of suffering
and worry, and supported by hi canw.
BANDITS TAKEN
(Concluded on T roar, Cahusa Bis)