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CITY EDITION CITY EDITION ie All Here m W All True THE.WEATHER Tonipht and Wednes , day. rain ; winds. moaUy westerly.' Minimum temperatures Monday: " If All Her and IfV. All True GOLDFISH AND CHAMPAGNE then ' love. Tat'a the-title cl story, in Tbe Sunday Journal Magasine, relating- the -wild antics of the caar's renegade officers at a wine-tipsy party, it is one of nu merous Interesting features. , Portland ; , 4 . New Orleans .:. 0 1 Boise .... ..L . S New-York ,,",..' 12 St. Paul .....; SO Los Angeles .....4S 5 VOL; XX. NO. 240. PORTLAND; OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING; DECEMBER 13, r 1821. TWENTYFOUR PAGES. ftrtotitM, poruaad. On turn. PRICE. TWO CENTS Where Seattle Family Was Buried by Mudslide rnWO' photographs showing JL' "atrI -ouuc .-, c upper picture snows wnexe nine iiremen ana street aepartrcent employes were caught in a second . slide after an earlier one had crushed the home of Mrs. Samuel C. Andrews, carrying her and her two stepsons to their deaths. Rescuers were caught while attempting to recover bodies from the wrecked house. The lower picture shows devastation P xx t 'kiA'w t kiwi. ' fxfc wvv-w-jisa I it On DEAD IN SOUND -. Seattle, Wash.. Dec IS. (U. P. Work of cleaning up Hood wreckage and searching for bodies of victims or land slides and-washouts In Seattle and West ern Washington was In full swing today: The bodies of Mrs. Samuel C Andrews and her .two small sons. Tommy j and Jack, burled m mud at the foot of the tide" that wrecked their home in West Seattle, are still un recovered. j j Added to the death toll is a 12-year-old girl drowned at Yakima, making the tptaj known dead in the storm li. : W. I lx belle, rescue worker, is mlss- .tns.-.-H was helping in attempts tO re cover the bodies of Gerald Willis. eigtn eer. his wife and daughter, and H. Olson, logger, front the wreck or a logging train at Melbourne, near Montesano. , j County i Engineer Beeman haa ordered motorists , to stay off county roads in order not to hamper the work of clearing alides and mending washouts. j , , The record rain storm for this locality erased suddenly yesterday afternoon;. In 41 hours t.37 inches of water had fallen. Xtaln gave way to gales) on the coast. Southwest storm warnings are displayed today along the "coast north of Cape Blanco. " S.AIX CEASES IN CEWTBALIA I I ; DISTBICTl l'LOOPS SUBSIDE i Centralla, ' Wash,. Dec. II. With the geoaaUoo of rain aboat ( o'clock Mon day evening, the first relief from wind and rain experienced by CentraUaj and trorrounding vicinity -for five days and itlghUt, was ' felt Although the Skoo komcbocki river and China ditch con tinue to rise, a drop occurred In small (Ceacloded.ea raae Tvmty. Coluaa JToar) i i - STORM TOTAL 11 damage caused by slides m Seattle yesterday when several were v. s? i ' ' i 11 YiTi "7"iiii'i;MifcB Tortured Vets Decry War Gas ? ..: s ? - r Prefer Lead to - ByWu. K. Hatckiason Washington, Dec. 11- I. N. S.) The voice of America's shattered manhood, back from the war with wounds, rose from, the beds of Walter Reed hospital today with an appeal for the abolition of poison gas warfare. A score of shell-torn veterans, some modeaUy hiding medals, bitterly con demned chemical warfare as too in human. All of them went through the "mists of death" on the fields of France. Some , still coughed from gas-seared lungs. , ; One man, sans leg, sans arm. but still dead game, spoke for a dormitory of suf fering Yanks. r , "Gas Is thlnavfrom hell." he said. German Captain Who Sank Merchantmen Commits Suicide -Berlin. Dec. 13. (I. N. S. ) Captain Berg, who commanded the- German sea raider Appam.. which put Into Newport News, Va after sinking a number of merchant ships, has committed suicide at Hamburg in a fit of despondency, said a dispatch from that city- today. Berg returned to Germany two years ago to find his homeland. Schleswig. had been awarded to Denmark. He re turned to Hamburg where, be - secured a bumble Job, but be waa- unable te maka both, ends meet. v y v. ' . - ' '.,, .4 'Death Mists' with conviction. "It was born of a thirst to torture. These boys (with a sweep of his one good arm)' went through it. They'll say. "Cut out the gas r " With a roar, came back the answer from the invalids. "We'll Ra-r no P Some of the veterans, wearied a little irum .inree years m no? pi til beds, were bitter toward all war. "What does it matter what ia used, so long as there Ik war T was their hopeless question. ; "I'd face bullets any time sooner than gas again." said Frank: Babbitt of Pitts burg. "It's too horrible even for war." "I saw men 'droop like parched Cowers in gas attack. Let the conference rule It out." declared Ralph ShorteU of Sllf North Twenty-fifth street. Philadelphia. N. P. Trains Detour Owing to Ploods in : Washington State Because -of continued flood troubles in Washington, the Northern Pacific Railway company began .detouring IU passenger trains via Vancouver and the 8. P. A S. to Spokane today. AD pas senger trains of the Great Northern have been detouned over the North Bank road for three days and : wiU probably continue to operate over indi rect routes for several . more days as adv!e has bees'-received by. the -local effices that three' Una hrirfM hmn boon washeifout on Great Northern lines. drowned when caueht in mud -HPaotoi bj Webster V Stevens. Seattle. 2 V-iV,. ' PACTCOINGt IN By Earle C Beeves ; London, Dec 13. i N. &) The three cornered fight in London, Ulster and Dublin over the Irish peace treaty swung swiftly toward its climax today. A meeting of the highest prelates of the Roman Catholic 'church in Ireland waa held at Dublin. In view of Cardinal Logue's public defense of the peaoe set tlement, it was expected a resolution would be adopted recommending its raU fication by Dail Eireann. , Both Dail Eireann and the British par liament will assemble tomorrow for ac tion on the treaty. Fiery bursts of ora tory on both aides are expected. Premier Lloyd George, who will make a-personal appeal to the house of com mons to approve the pact, has completed what his friends believe will - rh i greatest speech of his long- and gpectacu- r puuucai career. ; yWhlle., Llpyd George, Is leading the fight for ratification in. h Rritiah n.r. Uament. Arthur Griffith will-be making a similar appear to Dail Eireann-at Dub lin.' --t,: : . While It la admitted that P,mnNn V. Valera, leader .of the opposition in Dail "rrann. Haa-a- targe personal following, advice from DubUa said there waa ap parently no reason to change the origin al prediction, that tbe treaty would be ratified by a safe majority. . . ! Lister. wiu nave no direct nart in K fight tomorrow, except as the Ulster Unionists in- the British bouse of com mons apeak- against ratification. Thai Ulster cabinet, beaded by - Sir James (Concluded aa Pt Twenty. Coimaa Thfaal PAMNTS OREGON Bl BILL IS COURT RULES Justice Harris; Hands Down Opin ion as Result of Friendly Suit Bonds Will Be Issued January 16 5 First Bonus in March. Salem, Dec. 13. Oregon's bonus bill is sound. ' World war veterans eligible for bonus under its stipulations will begin receiv ing their cash or home loan funds by March 1. Action by Harry Brumbaugh, execu tive secretary of! the state bonus com mission, to get the money ready for the veterans was taken today Immediately following an opinion by Justice Harris of the supreme ibench that the bonus measure, as . constructed and as passed by the state legislature, is immune from legal attack. The supreme court opinion is the out come of a friendly suit brought by Thomas Henry Boyd of the Portland post. American Legion, against Governor Olcott and members of the state World war veterans' commission to test the technical construction of the measure. POrNTS EXPLAINED Among points raised by Boyd, and re garded as the principal contention in the attack against the bonus act. was one to the effect that failure to enter the amended house jjoint resolution No. 12 in full on the journal of the senate in validated the amendment. In overruling tis contention. Justice Harris . points out .that an identifying reference to the resolution in the senate journal was sufficient to satisfy the requirement of the constitution. - Again, the opinion points out, it was impossible for the senate to have acted on anything other than the resolutio ( Condudad on Pica Twenty. Catalan Two) T IS SLAIN WITH AX Molalla. Tec. :' tl -Suspicion was di rected at an 18-year-oldybay i last seen with Everett Tl Davis, murdered Molalla homesteader, as a result of a coroner's inquest held - here today. The boy has hot been seen fn this vicinity since neighbors last saw Davis, about Novem ber 18. - ! Molalla, Dec. 13. His head cut in two places by a sharp ax. Everett E. Davis, overseas lieutenant, 26 years old, was found dead Monday in his bed in his homestead cabin, eight miles .southeast of here. He had apparently been struck while - asleep. Beside him on his bed was his purse, open and empty. A hunt ing ax, believed to have been the mur derer's weapon, was found fbout 40 feet from the cabin. : j Davis was found by neighbors who became curious when he failed to call for his mail. He was last seen here about Armistice day. 'Since then his I automobile' had been standing In front of bis home., He was a traveling salesman for a rubber " company in Montana territory before he resigned to make final proof on his -homestead: Before he went into the army in 1917 he was a principal In one of the schools of East Helena, Kriends from Portland, called on him from time to time but he had but few acquaintances here. He had a substan tial account in the Molalla bank. Davis, according to information found ( on papers in his pockets, had been em ployed at one time by the B. P. Goodrich Tire company in :Portland. His father lives in Indiana. Everett E. Davis went to work for the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company in Port land in the fall of 1919. In the fall of 1920 he was transferred to Butte, Mont. He returned in the early fall of 1921 to prove up on his homestead near Molalla. In passing through Portland he visited the Goodrich offices. Employes of the company recall jthat he .was accom panied by another ex-service man, whom Duvia took south ' to assist him on the homestead. On November 8 he made his last visit to Portland, and on that oc casion he told his friends that he had discharged the ex-service man helper, remarking that he: was "no good." Nation-Wide Thrift Savings Bank Drive Government's Plan Washington, Dec. 1J. L Ni S.) The government is about to undergo an en ergetic nation-wide thrift j campaign which will make trie federal' treasury the savings bank of the small investor, it was learned officially this afternoon. The treasury department will shortly announce the issuance of millions of dol lars worth of "thrift bonds" in denomi nations of g. 50 and 1 100. These can be bought at $20. f to and (80. f It la planned to have the bonds mature in five years and there will be a pro vino that if the bonds are disposed of before maturity the investor can collect X per cent Interest1 on his Investment to the time of sale. I Storm Area Moves ; l Inland; Rain Clouds Still Threatening . The Storm area Iwnir n nrmlkd p the Northwest for several days has moved inland with the result that the barometer is relativelv hirh at Port is nH today. ' But B. U Wells, district weather forecaster, said this morning that. It waa not quite high enough to prevent a little raw lenient ana Wednesday. : - . - , I - - i - VA VET HOIS FADER RED PEPPER Two Thousand Relatives of "Rump" Strikers Mob Mines in Southern Kansas, Forcing I Nearly (BOO Men to Walk Out jGirard, Kan.. Dec 13. (U. P.) An "Amaxon army," throwing red pepper, bricks, stones and lumps of coal, swept through the Southern Kansas coal fields today, mobbing six mines and forcing nearly 600 miners to quit work. Skirts and shawls flying, the women, wives and relatives of "rump" strikers, swept down on the mines and In many instances put working miners to flight with their fists. WOME5 ITSE TEETH Fiercely, like tigresses, the women clawed and in some instances used their teeth on miners who failed to heed their warning cries of "get out of here you dirty traitors." Several miners were bruised by mis siles, others were almost blinded by the shower of red pepper. Four Jackson-Walker mines and an other near Mulberry were "cleaned out." The women.- mostly foreigners, jerseyed. shawled and picturesque, then turned their attention to another Mulberry mine. ! PARTICIPATED "We'll run every Lewis traitor off the job in Southern Kansas," their leaders shouted. ' About 2000 women participated in the riots. Virtually every coal mine in the South ern Kansas fields will be closed tonight as) a result of tha trouble. Reports to Sheriff Gould's office were that the women had eeased mobbing mines tem porarily and had gathered at Franklin for a mass meeting. The feminine mob is beyond all con trol, Gould, who is in .the mine fields. telegraphed his office. !The women at noon announced their Intention of continuing their fight on working miners after the mass meeting arid it -aa believed that most men now at) work " would quit through fear of this wildly charging "pepper and brick brigades." Sf ATE MAT BATE TO ACT Ht XXSSkSXOJU FIEIB TROUBLE Topeka, Kan.. Dec. 1J. U. P.) The state will undoubtedly have to take action, if conditions remain as they are in the Southern Kansas coal fields. Ennmett George, secretary to Governor Henry J. Allen, said today following continued mobbing of working miners by an "Amason army." State ' officials were plainly disturbed over the prospect of sending state-troops into the field, with a possibility that the guards would be forced to quell riots by women. Warm Kains Melt Much Snow Which Obstructs Highway The warm rains Monday did more to clear the Columbia river highway be tween Mist Falls and Eagle creek than a thousand men could have done, accord ing to County Roadmaster Eatchel, who went over the highway Monday to see whether he had better keep a crew of men at work with shovels clearing the roadway. fThe rains are doing more than we coald do," he said, 'and for the present I don't think we will try to help nature along. The two viaducts are both prac tically clear and entirely out of danger. "?When the rain falls on the snow and icej it gradually soaks in. This was slojw at first, but it is very rapid now. Miniature streams run down from the highway. The ice rots rapidly." Roseburg Forgery Suspect Is Held in Jail at Los Angeles Los Angeles, Dec. 13. (U. P.) J. P. Hardy, alleged bad check passer, is held In Jail here today pending the arrival of Sheriff Starmer from Roseburg, Or., to take him north. Hardy was alleged to have passed W 000 in worthless paper on local banks since his arrival, and to have bad $8000 more in "souvenirs," prepared for fu ture use. He was to have been . married here December 22. The man boasted a record of t-hree jail breaks in Oregon. Roseburg, Dec 13. J. P. Hardy, ar rested in Los Angeles, is suspected of passing three spurious checks, bearing the' forged signature of County Treas urer J. E. Sawyers, on Los Angeles and San Francisco banks. The checks used were apparently stolen from Sawyer's office, XMecovery came when the county books were experted. The name "used 1n the) check wag "J. D. Cameron" and the) check were marked "road bond funds." The checks were for $1500, $268 and $18- Instructions Issued To Reopen Yap Cable, Asserts .State Dept. " Washington. Dec 13. iT. v si i. atractions have been issued: for the reopening- of the Tap-Guam cable, tbe state 'department : announced late this afternoon. , This cable, which has been closed since It ' Was Seized from German ilnrfnw th war. is to be opened under a temporary agreement ; between "the United States and Japan, who- holds a mandate for IN COAL RIOT Irwin Lifts . Ciirtain on Future Wat Will Irwin -lifted the lid -off hell" at The Auditorium Monday 'night and gave the people of Portland a look into the contents thereof. Graphically" the fa mous war- correspondent showed how In the World war the science of killing waa advanced over all previous struggles and how in a possible future war human life would fall before the improved agents of destruction as ripened grain before a scythe. j , "The next war will ! see the profes sional soldiers in the background." aaid Irwin, "and the conflict being waged by chemists. You may picture the pos sibilities of the use of Lewisite, the gas the Americana bad ready to' use when the armistice was signed, a few tons of which, according i to experts, could have destroyed -all animal and vegeta ble life in Berlin. Then, according to British scientists, there- will be deadly Invisible light rays and bacilli to be used. DEADLY DISEASE CEBM9 "Even as the armlnke was signed Germany had a disease epidemic ready, and probably-withheld it only because England served notice that she would bombard the Rhine and coast towns with the deadly anthrax germ." . "The time has come for armaments to go. Once It was only the nut who advocated scrapping of ships. . Now those hard-boiled soldiers, Pershing, Halg, Maurice and Dubonnet, are say ing that the quickest way to get into war Is to arm to the teeth. The races must halt wars If they are to endure. This suicide of the whits races which has been going on for cen turies constitutes a real yellow peril. PRAISE FOR COXFEBEIfCE - "The limitation of armaments confer ence at Washington has surprised us all. It has taken the first step to free the world of the menace of extermination of the peoples upon it And incidentally tt has. done 3 something to reduce the burden of armaments, which is three times what it was in 1914. "The world is actually In a state of anarchy. The nations have no laws amonfc- them. ; That is tha real need. And until this lack is supplied limitations of armament will be only- temporary relief. A league or association of nations is the need, and it is coming, because the peoples want It." . - A resolution approving the general conduct of tbe armaments conference was passed by the audience at the con clusion of the lecture, and will be sent to the president , HUGHES' PLAN IS TO BE MODIFIED By Carl D. Groat , Washington; Dec! 1J. The naval pow ers are In "general agreement" over the naval holiday, Britain's semi-official spokesman Indicated . today.. This agreement carries 4ut the spirit of the Hughes 19 year naval vacation, but he indicated that 'ome modifica tions might be - necessary." There is still talk that the Mutsu will be conceded Japan, whereupon America could probably retain the West Virginia and complete another modern vessel, while Great Britain would have the right to build, one or two Hoods. The speaker indicated Britain would only be content with a paring of the French and Italian fleets. ' , Britain is bearing in mind her policy of having a fleet equal to the next two continental - navies. In these circum stances she is wary of any upward trend for France and Italy. For In stance, if France were given the right to a fleet as great as Japan's, that is 60 per cent as great aa America's dr Britain's and Italy forced through its claims for equalling France's, then the time might come when France and Italy would actually build up to ' tb 60 per cent basis. i That would mean that under a pos sible entente, they would have a fleet 120 per cent as great as Britain 'a Britain looks for no Unking of the two against her but the British statesmen and naval strategists , are taking no chances on the future, - The British will oppose, too, France's aim for more submarines. The British drive for a submarine cut .is on. New Tariff Draft, Fixing Lower Rates On Lumber , Received Advance copies of tariffs covering new reduced rates on lumber; which will become effective on shipments to East ern territory December 24, were received today by W. D. Skinner, traffic man ager of the S. P. & S., who is making preparations "to handle" heavy lumber shipments eastward during the last week of the year. The new. rates for which the lumber Industry of the Northwest has been waiting for several months provide - a rate of 90 cents to- New York and New England territory as against $1.03 at present Other new rates are 88 cents to Pittsburg and Buffalo territory against 93V& cents at present arid 15 cents to Detroit and. Cincinnati territory against 88 cents at present A' pro vision is also made for a rate 3 cents lower to i astern territory 'from Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon. Shingle ratea feave also heen reduced. Skinner said today that the lumber In dustry has been held in check for some time because oif the pending adjustment of j-atea. f He Is of the opinion that the new rates will igreatly assist in bringing about a revival of the industry. Girl Has to Sue to Get $22,000 Verdict Lincoln. Xeo.V Dec 12. (Li N. 8.) After waiting 22 years to marry Louis Henry Howe . jof Humboldt, and then suing him for failure to wed. Miss Jen nie Fellers cannot collect 'the $22.0000 awarded her by the t state supreme court Mis Fellers is now cuing Howe's 0 y ear-old mother for that amount' alleg ing that. Howe has made over all his property to bis parent . ' , , ,-": s. - v "J ; : . - , ' -' WSk IS CONFESSED Pool Room Man's Dying Words Free Innocent' Suspect; Cow boy Admits, Crime and Says He Conspired to Shift All Blame. Ontario, Or., Dec IS. Dramatic events surrounding the killing of Biilie Hicks, ' poolroom proprietor, during a drpnken brawl In a house in the rear of Hlln' poolroom, were revealed today by the he fired the bullet which caused Hicks' death. Nichols was arrested Saturday. Nichols confession completely absolves Jim Mills, who was grappling with Hicks -when the fatal shot was fired, and in criminates in a treacherous plot Tom Hayes, who with Nichols, according t3 the confession, agreed to put tha blame on Milla BELEA8ED 03f DTI50 WORDS . As a result of their pact Milla waa ' arrested . On the dying statement - of Hicks that Mills did not kill him. bow-, ever. Mills was released. Prosecuting Attorney Robert D. Lytle obtained the confession, which 'revealed a vivid pic ture of the'killinr. aiter a coroner's inquest- " Nichols. Hayes. Mills and Hicks had been drinking for several hours, during" which spasmodic quarrels arose. . As the result of one of the squabbles. Hicks and Mills came to blows. A revolver belonging to Hicks lay on a table. Hicks ' and Mills swayed back and forth and finally crashed to the floor, Hicks on tOP. " ' v"- - .r "Then," said Nichols, "I shot at Hicks with my own revolver because I didn't want to see him hurt Mills," according to Lytle. - y ..... GOT TO FIT PLOT According to his confession, : Nichols placed Hicks' gun on the floor, so u : would appear as though either Hicks or Mills had been using If. Hayes, he said, agreed to indicate that Milla did the shooting. t After Hicks was shot, he arose and walked across the street to the home of Mamie Hubble and, telling her he had been shot asked If he could lie down for a: while.' His death' followed. Hicks, who was 28 years old, had ltved all his life In the Jordon valley country, - . ... By A, L. Bra4rer4 Washington, Dec. 13. (U. P.) The four great powers of the world today affixed their .signatures 'to a treaty : which scraps the AngloJapanese ajli-' ance and solemnly pledges all to pre serve peace across the vast expanses ' of the Pacific ocean. With typical American simplicity, the " great document considered one of the most important in the history of tbe world, was signed in the office of Sec retary Hughes. Only the plenipotentia ries of the four powers were present The pomp and ceremony which- usually la attached to such important events was entirely absent Just as the signing, of the treaty Was completed it was learned, on highest authority at the White House . that President Harding does not intend to submit it to the senate for ratification until after the close of the arms con ference. RESERVATIONS ALSO SIGNED . All the delegates also formally signed the two American . reservations to the V treaty ne on Yap. the controversy over which was settled yesterday, and one to the effect that the treaty shall not be construed to interfere with American domestic questiona After signing the treaty the delegates -of various countries : were kept busy for nearly half an hour nignlng photo graphs, both of the plenrry sessions and of themselves. The treaty now goes to the respective governments for ratifications by legisla tive bodies, and will he put Into effect when deposit of such ratifications la made here. That action will formally cast Into i ht scrap heap the Anglo-Japanese al lience, which this country has long con sidered a menace. ' HVGHE8 SIG5S FIRST - Secretory of State Hughes, admittedly the dominant figure in the conference, . was the first to sign the new pact af fixing his. signature In behalf of the United States. Other members of the American delegation followed. Then came Balfour and other members . of the British delegation. , Vivlanl led the French-delegation to the signing table. Admiral Baron Kato and the Jap- ' anese delegation were the last to affix their- signatures, - The signing of the treaty started at, 11 :18 and was completed at 11 :28. None of the delegates seemed to fear tCooeiude-o pass Two. Column rwl . Aged Storekeeper ; - - Choked and Robbed ; MarshfielL.' Dec' I. George "Chard. an old roan who conducts the Delroar ; store, was choked and slugged by rob-v bers today and his till robbed of $13. V The store is east of Marshtield and is directly on the Marshfield-Coquille high--way. No one happened to be about at the time but a passenger automobile passed few minutes later .and the -driver learned of the holdup.- Two men . entered ? the store and, pretending to purchase bread, attacked Chard. He was wounded on the head and choked aa he was not strong enough to put up f a fight , The men took an the money in the till and several loaves of .bread. ' disappearing In the woods. Tha rob bers were not masked.,- .;- i t Seaty