.)lf
Tm: vr..Tin:i:.
Rain in west, snow in oast portion;
Tbe State man receives tk
InMd wire n-rt of tbe As
sociated Prs. too greatest
V
strong
,so u 1 1 h:i r ; t 1 I y v i in I h.
and most relublo press
eociarlon In tbe world-'
MATY-NINTI! YKAH
iSAi.K.M, opi:;on. riimw moknim;, ihx fmiikk ij 'jui.
PKICK: HVK CK!iT.
FINAL VOTE
ON RAILROAD
ACT DELAYED
Doubt Expressed That Cum
mins Bill Will Be Passed Be
fore Holiday Recess Fifth
Night Session Fruitless
SUBSTITUTE FOR STRIKE
. CLAUSE IS REJECTED
Anti-Walkout Provisions Most
Bitterly Contested Por- '
tion of Measure J
WASHINGTON. Doc. j 18 The
senate held iU fifth night session on-
the rajlroatT bill tonight, with grave Philadelphia the entire supply of
doubt in the minds of the leaders ! steel plates, anchors, . bars, chains
that the measure could b pas.sed inland other equipment left over from
time to permit beginning of the holi-lstce! shipbuilding throughout the
day recess Saturday.
The labor clauses. ' including the
anu-smice provision or the cummins dent or the firm, tomght.
measure, were under discussion dur-j The transaction will aggregate be
ing the day; culminating In the re-itween $11,000,000 and $21,000,000.
Jection by a vote of 25 to; 4 6 of: the
proposal of Senator Stanley. Demo
crat, Kentucky, to eliminate the
whole section. Efforts towards a
compromise ensued. '
. No l!tw.s Till Adoption.
During the debate an agreement
was reached by senate and house ma-
Jority leaders not to permit a holiday
recess until the measure is adopted
by the senate and sent to conference.
Their conference, however, Snator
RLodee and Representative Mondell !
agreed to suspend house business Sat
urday to permit members of the
house to go home for the holidays,
even if the senate 13 held by delay J
on the railroad bill. Beginning Mon- I
day, house, sessions will be perfuunc-
tory under," gentleman' agreement
vf to transact, no business until January
6, but to adjourn irom day to day
until the" senate recess.
. ABtKStrike IroTLiIrtn Stticken.
-The anti-strike provisions -were in
turn attacked and defended today
twtlie conferences were held looking
"to a compromise by modifying the
clause imposing criminal penalties
for strikes or lockouts..
After -defeat of the Stanley motion
' to strike out the entire labor section.
Senator McCormick, Republican, Il
linois, offered a substitute plan, sim
ilar to the 'Canadian system, to pro
hibit strikes lor 60 days after decl-
( Continued on Page 6.)
At Pr. 45c
Black and White .only, 12
button length In sizes 5?
to 9. The pre-war price
was 75c a pair, think of
It!
is
At Pr. 65c
Itlark,- white, navy, "as
sorted browns, ingee and
pink, 10 button, 5fc to
8 J4, pre-war price was $1,.
now.. . . .5c
W w
FOUR IN FAMILY GASSED
INFANT AMONG VICTIMS
. .
NEW YORK HOME SCENE
.NEW YORK, Dec. 1 8. Monoxide
gas poisoning caused the death or
four persons whose bodies were"
found today at the home of Rei
ner Herdoiin, at Sheepshead Bay.
according to Edward Martin, medi
cal examiner tor Kings county who
inxe.stigated the tragedy tonight.
Mrs. Berdoun, her two days' old
baby, her daughter aged four, and
a liurse, Alice Sheridan, were
found dead. .
JUNK PURCHASE
TOTALS MILLIONS
7
PjBrtlanJ Finn Buvs All Steel
Scrap of Shipbuilding
Throughout Country
PORTLAND. Dec. 18. M. Barde
and Sons., Inc., Portland wholesale
1 .1 C t 1 - 1 . ' A. t "..J"'-. L K
in in iwaimg in sieei ami macninery.
today purchased at public auction at
t'n.ited States, according to a tele-
gum received by J. X. Barde, presi-
it was stated, and is considered to be
th-e largest purchase of "junked" Ir
on and steel in the jhistory of the
world. i
JAPAN TABOOS
PICTURE BRIDES
WQ Pasnnrt tn he TctrtPrl Af.
ao iporwIO De ISSUea Jl-
ter February 25 to Women
Married by Mail
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18. On
and after February 25 Qe Japanese
government will accept no applica
tions -for passports for women who
have b"en married to Japanese resi
dents in continental United States
through exchange of photographs, it
was announced today by T. Ohta.
Japanese consul general. According
to advices received by Mr. Ohta ap
plications for certificates necessary
to obtain passports for such women
will not be received by the Japanese
authorities after January 25 because
at least one month is required for
th.-j applications to reach the proper
Japanese officials.
"Niagara Maid"
Silk
In A Very
Special
Sale
If you were here to see
and feel the quality of
flt('se Long Silk Gloves you
: 'wouldn't stop with one
vdr you would buy in
ample numbers for future
use. Thiiwc of Kenine
"Niagara Jlaid" Silk
(f.loWa-W pre-war quality
at inieh Jess than pre-war
price. 5
These well-known Gloves
have double linger tips
and come in 12 to 16 but
ton lengths. They ean not
possibly la$t long at these
prices prices that are. ab
solutely no measure of val
ue. ! s"
At Pr. 95c
A very high grade black
and white only, 16 button, II
them, feel them, it's the
old .time quality. -
3C
Gloves
NEWS TRIAL
FOR MURDER
COMMENCES
Mother of Freda Lesser Tells
of Devotion of Defendant
;. ior Daughter Witness is
Hysterical on Stand
COURT DISMISSED FOR
WOMEN TO REGAIN CALM
Police Detective Relates Sur
render of Young Man After
Alleged Slaying
LOS ANGELES. Dec. is. Twelve
men, all but two past the meridian of
life, were sworn late today to try
Harry S. New on the charge that ho
murdered Freda Lessee, his sweet
heart, last July. Neither state nor
defense permitted women to pass the
peremptory challenges, although. sev
eral were passed for cause.
Formal proof of the alleged crime
was introduced and then with set
face and motionless body. New lis
ud while Freda Lessee's mothe
Mrs Alice Lesser, tdld "between in
tervals of byrteria of her danrhe 's
love for New and his for her.
Mother of f.Ir-I Faints
Mrs. Lesser xis taken to the court
room from her home in an automo
bile by county detectives and as rhe
wjs led to the court room dor she
fell in a faint., When she was re
vived, her piercing. hysterical
screams penetrated the hall of Jus
tice in which the court room :s sit
uated and. several women in the
court room Womine hvsterical. Su
perior Judge Gavin W. Craig ordered
a short recess until quiet had been
rest-rrd.
Mrs. Lesser entered the room rn
crutches, aided bv detectives. She
was helned into the witness -stand.
She sobbed for 9 short time before
raining sufficient composure to tes
tify. .
Con Mdi 1 1 Told Of
Mrs. Lesser testified thit her
aauent-r was In her twentieth year'.
at the time of her death and that she
had been courted for some months J
bv New. They had been fell our em- !
ployes in a Los Angeles bnslnesf
house. New and Miss Lesser fre
quently went on long automobile
trips and sometimes Mrs. Le?er and
a neighbor woman accompanied
them.
Two days before the alleged mur-
! der. Mrs. Lesser said. New told her
he wished to marry her daughter on
the day which afterward proved the
last of her life. Sh? urged him to
wait4, she said, but he insisted that
he desired to marry as quickly as
possible. .
On ihe day after this conversation.'
recording to the witness, she. her
daughter, a neighbor woman atd
New went on an' automobile tide re
turning to tbe lesser home in the
aftenoon. New and Miss Iesscr
then left again and that was the last
Mrs? Iosser saw of her daughter, she
said.
New Love Apparent
"He teemed to lover her nnd I
know she lived him' said Mrs. Les
ser. "He said he would bring her
back in me but he never did."
Asa Keyes, depufv district attor
ney, at this point asked Mrs. Lesser
to identify a Dicture of h.-r daughter
"Oh. I can't look at it. I can't oil
at it!" cried Mrs. Iesser. asain
breaking down and covering her f;;v
wih a handkerchief.
lender cross examination Mrt.
Lesesr said New had always hen
kind to her daughter and also had
been very considerate nf the wincs.
"I never saw a nicer young man."
she said. "I had overy confidence
in him." '
Detective Ilelates Surrender
Mrs. Lesser was preceded on the
stand by E. A. Davidson, a police de
(Dotivi Tho wifneaa anirt he wa on !
dutv. acting as desk sergeant at en -
ral police station here on the morn
ing of July Z when the defendant
entered and handed him a revolver.
No effort was made to introduce
confessions New is alleged to have
mpde to Davidson and others.
Davidson said he and another po
lice officer and two newspapermen
went outside and saw within a closed
automobile in which New had driven
to, the station, the body or a vo'inz
woman he afterwards learned was
Freda Lesser. It is the theory of
the prosecution New killed hi? sweet
heart In Topango Canyon a few miles
from here in a burst of anger be
cause of her refusal to marry him
and then drove with the body beside
him to the police station to surren
der. Borden to Retain Post as
Prime Minister of Canada
' OTTOWA. Dec. 18. It is officially
announced that ' Sir Robert Borden
N to retain the post of prime minis
ter and that he will take a long rest
to recover his health.
CASCADES ARE CROSSED
HARDSHIPS SUFFERED
EUGENE. Or.. Dee. 18. L. ) .
Williams and family, who were be
lieved to be lost in tbe deep snow
at the summit of the Cascade
mountains while attempting to
cross into eastern Oregon with a
four horse team, were successful
in getting over the summit, ac
conmig to a telegram received to
day . by Sheriff Stickels from the
telephone operator at Lapine. a
few miles east of the summit., who
said the party had passed Fort
Rock, not far from 'there, suffer
ing great hardships on the way.
BIG BULL ELK
WILL DIE TODAY
ii i. inn. i
"Wild Bill" at Fair Grounds
Must Answer for Crimes
Against His Kind
"Wild Bill." the big buii elk at
the state fair grounds, will die by the
bullet of the executioner early today
because of numerous crimes against
his kind and attacks he has made on
persons entering his pen. A. II. I.ea,
secretary of the fair board, will firti
the gun that ends Bill's life.
Bill's latest escapade was Wedn. -day
night when he attacked and kill
ed a baby elk at the fair grounds and
lacerated its mother with his antlers.
Iater he attacked Ueorge Sclionk.
his keeper. Several weeks ago he at
tacked .Mr. Lea who was able to get
out of his way barely in time to
escape with his life.
But Bill's most spectacular offense
was a number of months ago when
he attacked a full grown deer, killed
the animal by running hi.i horns en
tirely through its body and then
threw the body twice high into the
branches of a tree.
It was necessary for Mr. Lea to ob
tain permission from Carl D. Shoe
maker, state game warden, to
kill the elk. The meat wil!
be placed on sale at the Steus
loff meat market if permission for
this is received from Mr. Shoemaker,
and the funds will be turned over to
the Red Cross.
HOUSE PASSES
DEFICIT BILL
rVfoatrrr farriMa PrAnnafinn
for War . Risk Insurance
Patients
WASHINGTON. Dec. IS. The
first appropriation bill for the reg
ular session of congress which is an
urgency deficiency measure carrying
$3,110,000 to meet requirements of
the employe's compensation commis
sion and for the care of war risk in
surance patients was passed by the
bouse today with a record vote. The
compensation commission asked for
1.250.000. vTiich was pared to $1.
100.000. while the public health
service asked Jfi.OOO.ooo of which I
$2,000,000 was granted.
61 ARE ADDED
TO RED COLONY
Ellis Island Population Wait
ing Deportation Is In
creased NEW YORK. Dec. IS Hllis Is
land's "soviet c lon" was increased
today by 61 anarchists. I. W. W..
communists and Federation of Ttus
sian Workers. brought frim the west
em states on a special irain for de
portation. The total now in the col
ony, which includes Emma Goldman
and Alexander Ilerkman. is said to
be 14". Department of Justice agents
termed the train the "anarchists'
special." The members came from
Seattle. San Francisco. St. Ixnis.
( Chicago and Pittsburgh
SHADE OF KING SOLOMON DESCENDS ON COURT
"LOVE 0! MIKE", FOUNDLING, IS EXHIBIT A
TWO WOMEN CLAIM BABYREAL MOTHER WINS
NEW YORK. Dec. 1 S.-The shade
of King Solomon sat on the children's
court bench today when Judge Levy
tried to decide ho was the mother
of little "Love O'Mike" claimed by
two women Mrs. August Wentz as
her kidnapped son. and by Mrs. Iena
Liza as the baby she had planned to
abandon to the mercies of Mrs. Eliza
beth Seaman t Nellie Rly for his
own happiness, and because' she
could not support her little family
of three herseir, the baby and three
year old William, on the $12 a week
she earned. The' Infant was found
in the Grand Central terminal with
his note pinned to its clothing:
IN BUILDING
IS ALLEGED
Senate Sub-Committee Charg
es Housing Corporation
With Innef ficiency and Mis
management of Affairs .
EXCESSIVE PAYMENTS
ON CONTRACTS CITED
Civil Suits to Recover Part of
Funds Expended Are Rec
ommended WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 Ineffic
iency, carelessness nnd a disregard of '
... , , , , (capes. The coast guard cutter Man-
ihe provisions of the art under which 1 ninR ,amld ReVfn ,urTlTor, of ,he
it operated were charged against Ihel hip. including Captain Uheron. four
I'niled States Jionsing corporation J members of the crew, two Chinese
by
he senate public buildings and!na llu; bwl' 01 Clitnese.
grunds Investlrrating sub-committee
today in a report recommending
that step. le taken to recover many
thousands or dollars alleged by the
sub-committee to have been expended
improperly by the corporation.
Mismanagement bv the corporation
the rejort a3 submitted 10 the "71
ate cnargen. resulted in us laliurc
to have reody f-r occupancy a singly
building until almost two months ztt
ter the armistice was "igned. or eight
months after the passage of the ap-l
pronrlation act. J
AJthou-: citing specific expendi
tures sufficiently erave t warrant
the government in entering civil
suits for restitution, the report ex
oro.ares the opinion' that in most of
these case. the persons who profited
will restore voluntarily unearned
portion.
1 "Over bend" Kx revive
Other recommendation made by
j h( sub-commit te provide that.ar
I rlute-t vr)n. it is charged. wre paid
j Tfes's'velT: for "0-erhead" expense
1 hf crlled noon to give the committee
! n exart statement of the amount of
! their overhead expenditures.. These
jemnloves of the corporation, the
1 enmmiMee believes. wer- not parties
I tt intentlonsl violation, of the law,,
I The amount the sub-commit tees con-
Iders recoverable from this source
is rlaced t $30,000.
Civil suits to recover $30,000
soent for "extras" and $15.000
charred to snb-left'ng of labor bv a
contracting firm, also were recom
mended by the committer in the
evnj of a failure to return the mon
ev v-duntarily.
The "extras" were charged as In
cident to the construction of the dor
mitories in Washington for women
war workers.
Regularity f a loan for a half
miHic dollar mnde to the Spring
field Water company of Philadelphia
also. iuesti-med in the comiuittee'j
renort. toethr with "other loans to
railroads. stnt railways and utili
ty companies."
Had Mflnigement FmpIiAsSieil
Charge of inefficiency and bad
management were more prominent
in the report than references to over
oavments
Tiaeticallv all buildings erected by
the coriwration were of a permanent
character, the commiMee reprte.i.
notwithstanding tbe provision that
they be of a temporary character
Resignation of Foster of
Reed Announced at School
PORTLAND. Dec. 18. Formal an
nouncement of the resignation of Dr.
William T. Foster, president of Reed
rolleee. Portland, was made tonight
by the board of trustees in a state
ment saying that the resignation had
been accepted and will become effec
tive at the end of the present month.
It is understood that President Fos
ter, who is now in Los Ang Jes. wil!
be elected to the superintendency ot
the public schools. of that city.
"For the love of Mike, take care of
this kid I can't."
Mrs. Liza, brokenly and through
h"r tears, told how she had schemed
to have the infant left where Mrs.
Seaman might notice and adopt it.
She narrated her trembling anticipa
tion of the news after the deed had
ben done, of heartache when she
read that it had arrived at Rtllevue
hospital by way of a police station
and of her panic when Mrs. Wentz
claimed-it as her own.
When she had concluded, h?
small frame shaken with sobs, the
judge witli obvious emotion, ordered
the baby returned to her.
The woman cried aloud with joy
and hugged the baby to her breast,
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED
ROBBERY IS ALLEGED
AGED JANITOR WITNESS
PORTLAND. Or.. Dec. 8. John
Mears. an asred janitot. today caus
ed a warrant to be issued here for
the arrest of Dr. W. I Cameron of
Astoria on a charge of roJbbtr.
Mean told the police that Cameron
had pie vailed upon him to take a
druu. and that the next he knew
was when he awoke an dfound be
bad ben robin d of 3Cj In cash
and securities. '
7 PERISH WHEN
SHIP CAPSIZES
Sunbeam Turns: Turtle Off
Virginia Capes-7-Survivors
Are Landed
NORFOLK. Va.. Dec. . Two
members of the crew and five Chi
nese perished Wednesday when the
Cuban schooner Sunbeam turned tur
tle at sea. 135 miles off the Virginia
here today
According to the surviTor. the
Sunbeam lost her sails in a violent
storm Monday night.
DOCTORS PEDDLE
DRUG IS CHARGE
Two Physicians Indicted, One
on 82 Counts, Other on
66 Counts i
T A COM A. Wash.. Dec. IS. Dr.
James R. Harvey and Dr.- David M.
Angus. Tacoma physicians. Iwere in
dicted Ly a federal grand Jury here
today, following an extended investi
gation of charges brought by the
government 'some weeks ago-alleging
that the physicians had been dispen
sing drugs in violation of the Harri
son anti-drng act.
There were 2 counts returned
against Dr. Harvey and CC against
Dr. Ansns.
27LW.Y.ARE
GIVEN SENTENCE
Terms Range From Three to
Nine Years on Conviction
of Conspiracy
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 1.
Federal Judge J. C. Pollock late to
day passed sentence on 27 members
of the I. W. W. found r"Hy today
by a jury in tbe federal district
court of Kansas City. Km., of con
spiracy against the government. The
sentences ranged from 3 to 9 year
in thy federal penitentiary at Ieav-
enworth. Kas.
FRUITHEARINGS
ARE COMMENCED
Apple Growers Seek Cancella
tion of 25 Per Cent In
crease in Rates
PORTLAND. Or., Dee. IK. Hear
ing was begun here today before
Examiner F. A. Kddy of the Int-r-state
Cmmerce commission, on the
application of apple growers of Ore
rcn and Washington for a cancella
tion of the per cent increase in
tie fr-ltht rate on green fruits pro
vided under the schedules promulgat
ed lat year.
LOGS CARRIED
AWAY BY ROOD
Two Million Feet Go Down
Cowlitz River When Ice
Goes Out
TOCOMA. Wash.. Dee. IS. Two
rUHn feet of leg wcr swept down
the Cowlitz river and Into the Colum
bia todv when an Ice jam near
Uliv Point, two miles above Kelso.
Wash . went out. a stecial Cispatcb
to the Ledeer tonight says.
The water was raised 13 feet at
0rtnder. Watdi.. the dispatch says
and wh-n the jam went out at 1
o'clock today, it carried everything
before it.
The Silver Lake Railway and Tim
ber company, the ..Ostrander Mill
company asd Robert Barr of Kelso
are reported as the heaviest loseit.
BIG PACKERS
COMPROMISE
IN LAWSUIT
Five Meat Firms Agree to Cut
Out Side Lines Holdings
in Other Business to be Sold
in Next Two Years
PALMER SAYS ACTION
IS COMPLETE SURRENDER
Officials of Companies Claim
Action Was Taken For
Patriotic Reason
WASHINGTON. Dee. ?8 The
government's anti-trust suit against
the great meat packer.-, b-'n at"
President Wilson's direction last
summer as part of the fivht on the
high cot; of living, ha iwu com
promised under an agreement by
which the packers mil! eon!. 'tie
themselves hereafter to the meat and
provision business.
An In .action decree to which the
packer Le acceded, will b en
tered in the federal courts to jnakt
the agreement binding. l'nder Its
terms tbe big rive Swift, Armour.
Morris. Wilson and Cidahy have
agreed to divorce their raea: packing
industries from their other commer
cial activities and to sell their hold
ings in public stockyaM railroads.,
terminals, market newspapers and
similar side!ine.,
Two Year Circa J
Two years are ivn to couiplr
with the decree which affects eighty-
seven corporations and f-my-nine in
dividuals. "In general,- said Attorney Gen
eral Palmer's official annocaremeat
tonight, "this decree prcven' the de
fendants from exercising any ftrther
control over the marketing cr live
stock. It forever prevents them
from any control over the retailing
of meat products.- ?t eliminates
them from the f!j cf meat substl-
vim iu" erepiion OI f f
batter, poultry uu cheese, which are
left for future consideration and ac
tion: and. therefore, tlm prica of
mca' is within the control ot the peo
ple themselves. It places tbe con
duct of these great aggregations of
ramtal immediately under the eye of
a federal court with reference to
their business practices.
rrfnclple Is Established
"Pnu greater thin all. it estab
lishes the principle that no group of
men. no matter how powerful, ean
ever attempt to control the food ta
bleof the American people or any
on. of the necessities or component
parts of l.
"The -lepartment of Jtstice hav
ing in nf.nd tbe necessities and In
terests, of the whole American peo
ple in his ri it leal re-construction
period, .'e-ls tbat by Insivt'cg upon
this surrender n thi part of pack
ing Int-re.-ts '. has accomplished
more for hc American people than
could hav je.i hoped f.r as the re
sult of a ln; drawn-ont legal bat
tle.". S jrmt'Ier leviel .
Whil- Mr. PjIw vUws the raek
ers ubmb-t.-n 'e government's
contention ah n :.i reader Henry
Veeder. court-! fo.- Swift an-1 com
pany. annvi-ic.i th.-t th step was
taken at the suggestion of the de
partment of :j tn avoid any ap
pearance of ant nlzin the ,ov
ernment nJ ' rrmovi causes
friction with livesue prjdners ard
food distribuiTv. KTphaticaliy, Mr
Veeder 'sii.nI 'hs: the decree ws
not to be .o-i-n-d an admission
that Swift an! ctmoanf had violated
any law.
"The company feels fiat the tame
spirit which eaus-d th hnslne men
of the conni'V to submit to petsn.l
sacrifices to win the wa-. he Mid.
"it Is just as essential during tb!
period of re--mstr-ictron then,
and therefore It meets the require
ments of the government for he
sacrifice of its own Interests. The
company has consented to the entry
of a decree for injaactlon that it
should tin In so many words. recie
that th- -lecree does nt adjudicate
tht the company has violated any
law of the Vnlted States"
Parker ve In ay Pa'mer
.Vtorner General Palmer said the
overtures for a compromise came
first from the packers, altar the de
partment of Justice had place! Its
evidence before a grand jnry In Chi
cago. 0
Alcock, Trans-Atlantic Flier,
Hurt in Crash in Normandy
I.CNION. Dec. 1. Captain Sir
John Alcock. who made the first non
stop airplane night across the At
lantic ocean, has been seriously in
jured, according to a Lloyd's dis
patch from Rouen. His plane crashed
near Cottevrard. Ia the department
of Selne-Inferiore, Normandy.
t