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O.AllKNCK JOHNHOX HIlOt'GIIT
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AJiASKA TO FACE TRIAL
CONFESSES TO THE OFFICERS
Aunla That He Una Afraid Bene
fxtrrai) WiMild Return I Urn to
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t'orllund. Ore,, Oct. 2 1 . -Clarence
Johnson, brought back from Noma,
Alaska charged with the murder of
Mm. Kunlce Frwmin, W. C. T. 17.
worker and his benefactress ' hare
last AiiKUMt, told newspaper mon
here todny that- he was prompt'ed by
four that Mm. Freemun would 'have
htm neat' back to Sun Quentln for
breaking his parole. Nome police
men mid that Johnson confessed the
murder there also.
Johnson said that Mr. Freeman,
who won about CO year of ago, was
Jealous of his attentions of another
woman. Ho aald he waited over an
hour to klU the other woman also,
hut failed. Then he fled to Seattle
and later Alaska.
Portland, Oct21. Clarence John
no n, who confessed to the murder of
his benefactress, Mrs. Eunice W.
Freeman, at her home At 424 Fourth
street, August IB, will arrive In
Portland thfs aftornoon 1n the cus
tody of City Dptectlvs John A. GolU
and U'atrolman R. U Phillips.
Johnson was arreated In Nome.
Alaska, where he fled Immediately
aftt'r the murder. Portland police
bit leers left for the northern port
8"ptemlier 16. armed with extradi
tion 'papers, A measage received
from Detective OolU yesterday an
nounced tbolr arrival In Seattle.
The murder of Mrs. Freeman,
which was effected by the use of a
two-fbot pas pipe. was one of the
most 'brutal In, local police annals.
Johnson has been Indicted for the
crime, and has confessed 4o the au
thorities In Nome, according to a
cable received here. The police say
that his trial mill be speeded as
much a possible.
'ALL SORTS' OF MONEY
OVER IN JUGO SLAVIA
Belgrade, Sept. fi, via Paris Sept.
20. Tot the least ot the ilia that
beset Jugo-Slavla la the scrambled
condition of its paper currency. The
paper money of half a dozen coun
tries Is In circulation In various parts
of tho kingdom of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes. , In Belgrade Itself the
"krone" ot Austrian ancestry Is still
the unit in which all commodities
re priced.
The situation Is turther complicat
ed by the fact that the ratio of ex
change between the different moneys
varies from day to day.
HIS HIDE IS NOW SAFE
Amerongen, Oct. 21. Jt is re
ported that the former German Em
peror has so far recovered from for
mer fears of molestation that, when
he moves into his new house at
Doom, the IDutch state police, who
vhave been constantly on guard about
. the Den Muck castle here since his
arrival, will be relieved of duty.
There are no valla or moats ahout
the house of Doom, which in risible
and easy of access from the main
highway. 1 i
MURDERER
MR
FREEMAN
CIVILIAN LIFE TOO
TAME FOR HE
Groat M ar Produced Many "Soldiers
of Fortune'' W ho Are IteJuctaat
to Volt the ;ume
I .on don, Oct. 21. Home of the
soldier who served In the treat war
are finding the humdrum life of the
civilian too monotonous to endure
and offering to risk their live In
campaign anywhere, or in any ad
venture to escape the tedium of of
fice or whop life. An example la
shown in the following advertise
roont which appeared In the London
paper the other day;
"Young ex-soldier, three times
wounded, will risk life for 200,
tired of life and all alone, write"
etc.
Inquiry d lclod that the adver
tiser was formerly a stretcher bearer
In the Royal Army Medical Corps,
who won the inlHtary medal at Mar
Unqulch and later at Ypres won a
bar to the medal. After his discharge
he obtained employment as civilian
clerk in the Royal Air Force,
"I am paid S a! week he told an
Interviewer but I am ashamed to
take It. For weeks I have not done
a atioke ot work. IMng nothing all
day !t getting on my nerves. I can
not Msnd It, 1 want action. Per
il un son. cinema firm might want
ronebody for a particularly risky
Job."
Recently four officers adverted
theiiM'ves as ready to enlist In any
capacity lit any campaign for ny
country, provided there was "some
f'Khilng to be done."
AMOTIIKIt W.I Kit HOMK.
San Francisco, Oct. 21. Captain
Lowell Smith arrived here In the
trans-contlneivtal derby today, lie
Is the first filer who started from
San Francisco to return.
IFOR PORTLAND YARDS
M. O. Evans has accepted the po
sition or trlvoltng solicitor for the
Portland I'nlon Stock Yards com
pany. This position has been very
capably filled for the pant ten years
by C. M. McAllstcr. Mr. McAllster
resigned two months ago to engage
In 'business for himself.
'Due to his knowledge of agricul
tural conditions and wide acquaint
ance. Mr. Evans was selected from
a number of applicants for the. posi
tion. He is a graduate of Cornell
university and a former student of
agriculture at Corvallla. ' During
1913-1914 he served as supervisor ot
school and home garden work for
the PorJJand public schools. Fol
lowing that tor two and one halt
years he was assistant state leader
ot county agents for the extension
service oi the Oregon 'Agricultural
college. JDuring the past two years
Mr. Evans served as supervising
farm help specialist tor the U. 8.
department ot agriculture in the 11
western elates. ,
E OF U. S.
Naples, Oct. " 21. Tens of thou
jan (In ot checks amounting to mil
lions of dollars each month are being
ent to relatives here iby the Italo-
Amerlcrns who served In the Ameri
san army Therefore the money re
vived from American sol Hers' al
'otmenta. "War risk insurance bene
fits, ami United' States government
?ompensnrlon constitutes one ot the
thief sources of income for southern
Uly at the present time. Of the
thousnnds of ItaJo-Amerlcans In the
rerlcan nrmy, the great majority
were from southern Italy, which has
'urnisbcci the bulk of Italian eral-
u-nn's to the United States.
GRANTS PASS, JOBETHETB COTJSTT, OREGON. TCE80AV, OCTOBER SI, 1919.
REDS FIGHTING
ET
LAST DEFENSE
ii:TEh.mik to defend pkt-
lUXatl) TO LAST IHTfM; WTIIA
MOLD YAHTAb HrXJIOX
MM TO HAVE RETAKEN OREL
IkdkhetMs Threatening Hear of
YudeniU'h'a Army Dispersed;
May .Mark Oty's Fate
(xindon, Oct. 21. Orel was retak
en by the bolshevik!, who also de
feated 19 regiments of General Mal
ontoff 'a army outelde 'Voronezh, ac
cording to a soviet wireless dispatch.
Unofficial reKrt from 'Petrograd
state that the soviet forces are being
slowly driven bark to their last de
fenses In front of Petrograd.
Yudenitch captured Pulkova, sev
en miles south, and Lomova, eight
miles southwest of Petrograd.
The ibolshevlkl troops are stub
bornly contenting the ground along
the Petrograd-Lumpaakav railway.
The soviet forces seem to toe still
holding the coastal region west of
Petrosrrad. ,
Helslngfors, Oct. 21. The bolshe
vlkl forces concentrated at Gdoff, on
I-ake tPetpus, which constituted the
iirottt serious threat to the rear of
Yudenitch, have lieen dispersed.
This removes the menace of advance
against communication of the anti
bolshevist forces now before Petro
grad. which Trotzky recently .de
clared would decide the fate of the
city.
WAKKHV HUOS. AFTER
MHVY" IX 8TATK FI'MtS
Salom, Ore., Oct. 2i; For "ser-
v(es' thrust uon the state, which
have neither been -Invited nor recog
nized by the state highway commis
sion which. In fact, have been Ig
nored utterly by the highway depart
ment, the AVarren (Bros, company,
which claims patents on bithulitic
pavement, lias placed before the
commission a claim of 40 cents a
square yard for all bithulithic. laid
on state highways during the present
year.
It the commission refuses to pay
the claim, then the demand of the
paving trust is turned into an ulti
matum and it threatrens to sue the
state for twice the amount, or 20
cents a square yard. In royalties.
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HEIR
BERLIN SINKS TO LOVESTVICE LEVEL;
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Berlin, Oct. 21. Under the cap
tion ot "The Murder of Berlin," the
Boersen Zeitung, one of the ablest
German newspapers, says the fate of
the city is in the balance and that it
is, perhaps, too late to save It from
becoming a city of the second class
in every respect, with the removal
of the capital and the activity in a
business and political sense to some
Rhlneland city. It is a theory that
haa been gaining ground lately and
causing Berlin to lose sleep.
'One day," the financial paper
adds, "there wtll bey a fearful awak
ening It the problem that confronts
Us is not recognised and solved at
the 12th hour. The problem is to
save 'Berlin from destruction."
The paper then cites the January
riots by the Sparta'ciets, from the
wounds ot which Berlin has never
recovered. Then came the March dis
orders, 'followed by the July trans
portation strike, which threw Berlin
into a ohaotio state. The ' strikes
then ensued one after another in n
INDUSTRIES LEAV
AT
OF FIFTH
STRIKE p
IIOTH KimS MARK TIME A YD
(LAW (JAINS; HOMK Mil AM
ItrXXIXO FlMi TIMK
Kays riuch a Move la Prenent -Cane
"Would Sacriflco Principle;''
Gomers Is I H appointed
Pittsburg, Oct. 21. Wlth both
employers and union leaders mark
ing time, the steel strike situation
in the Pittsburg district was prac
tically unchanged today, the Initial
day ot the fifth week of the walkout
The only statement relative to the
strike came from the Carnegie Steel
company. This report declared the
Homestead works turned out 35,000
tons ot ingots last week, this being
only few thousand tona under Che
record week ot 1918, when produc
tion was hastened because of the
war, the statement added. '
Other mills of the concern were
said to be operating at nearly 100
per cent capacity.
Washington. Oct 21.-Arbitration
of the steel strike, demanded by the
labor group, should not be consider
ed by the national industrial confer
ence,. Elbert H. Gary,-chairman of
the board of the United States Steel
corporation, and a member ot the
public group, told the conference to
day. Judge Gary had scarcely finished
reading his statements before Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Ijabor,' and chairman
of the labor group, was on his feet
to express disappointment ot labor
at the pronouncement ot the steel
corporation.
"I believe In conciliation, coopera
tion and arbitration, whenever prac
ticable without sacrificing principle"
said Judge Gary.
"I am ot the fixed opinion that
the present strike against the steel
industry of this country should not
be arbitrated or compromised, nor
any action taken by the conferencel
which bears upon that subject.
"Also that there should be main
tained in actual practice without in
terruption, the open sllop as 1 un
derstand it namely, Ithat either
man, whether he does or does not be
long to a labor union, shall have the
opportunity to engage in any line of
legitimate employment on terms and
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endless succession. The uncertainty
of the economic situation led to al
most a boycotting ot Berlin as the
chief work cen t of Germany, tor
industry had to be sure of quiet and
order In Its search' for labor, and
Berlin daily was the opposite.
Despite the huge expense, one in
dustry after another left Berlin for
quieter, steadier fields. (Now the
winter months are 'coming, already
full ot threats of uprisings and
strikes.
Merchants, politicians and indus
trial leaders have predicted that the
transfer of the assembly ' or -reich-stag,
would inflict a severe blow up
on (Berlin, especially it it should lead
to the choice ot another capital.
The label "Imperial capital," and
its enormous labor possibilities have
been Berlin's chief claims to super
iority. It 'has been the industrial
heart of the empire. Yet, say man
ufacturers, labor is now systematical
ly laming Industry and destroying It
DEADLOCK
END
MAY LOSE CAPITA
EVERY STATE VILL
E
America to Pull Herself Out of the
Mud by Federal Government
Cooperating With States
Portland, Oct. 21. '"Until we get
busy at both ends of the highway
job national as well as state and
county we will continue the almost
criminal policy ot lessening the pro
fits of industry and increasing the
cost of living by millions of dollars
annually." ' '
"Roads today are more than local
Institutions."
"Creating a' federal highway com
mission, and the construction of na
tional trunk lines is but another step
in the principle, of cooperation which
now exists between state and na
tion." . .
These were some of the statements
made today by S. M. Williams, chair
man ot the federal highway council.
before members' forum of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Williams arrived in Portland
today on a tour of the Pacific coast
in the interest of the Townsend bill
which provides for a federal high
way commission of three members
appointed by the president which
will take over the management of
all highways frost the department
of agriculture, and build up m sys
tem of federal highways extending
through every state hi the country
to link with the state highways. It
provides for an extensive plan ot co
operation between the federal and
atate governments In constructing
and maintaining good roads.
One of the vital provisions of the
Townsend bill, according, to Mr. Wil
liams, Jjjbe one which provides that
no fewer than two or more than four
federal highways shall he feullt in
each state affording Ingress and
egress from each' state, at not less
lian three points and connecting
with highways forming part of the
national highway system in adjoin
ing states.
TRIP WAS REVELATION
Highly elated over the revelations
of their tour through southern Ore
gon, with the Portland Chamber of
Commerce special, ate Kenneth D.
Hauser and JT. K. Clarke of the Blult
nomah hotel, . who returned Sunday
morning. "The trip was an eye-
opener, through a land of milk and
honey," said Mr. Clarke. 'A northern
Oregonian, iwho has never made a
trip through the great southern em
pire of his own state, little realizes
what the ' completion of . the road
from Klamath (Falls to Bend means
to this city, local financiers wouldn't
stop until they had guaranteed the
amount needed to finish the project.
from the end ot the Strahorn exten
sion, north from Klamath Falls,
about $1,500,000. None ot the big
eastern cities would pass up such an
opportunity, that's certain." Ore
gonian. v
GREAT APPLE CROP AT
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Hood ttiver. Ore., Oct. 21. The
Hood River apple crop has surpassed
p re-season estimates, both as to qual
ity and quantity. The yield will ex
ceed 2,000,000 boxes, and the apples
are running more than ever before to
the extra fancy grade and desirable
sizes.
Orchardists have never taken bet
ter care of their troe and the fruit
is clear of scab and worms this sea
ion, county fruit inspectors said to
day.. It :s liklv h&t the average
of the valley will go well beyond 90
oor- cent extra fancy stock with hut
a tmall percentage In the C grade.
PAVED ROADS
WHOLE NUMBER 2801
Fin ON THE
fllHIC PUL SB
THREE BIG PROBLEMS IP:
STRIKES, VTHE TKEATx, AXD
LMHSTKIAL. COXFAfi
WRITES i NOTE TO CONFEREES
In Shaky Hand Signs "ame to 600-
Word Message; Treaty Compro
mise Loom Up .Better 1
Washington, Oct. 21. .President
Wilson haa been kept informed re
garding the threatened bituminous
coal miners' strike, the treaty situa
tion and the national industrial con
ference by (written reports from Sec
retary Tumulty. The president had
a letter yesterday from. Senator
Hitchcock, administration leader la
the treaty fight.
The president, despite his Illness,
is understood to he preparing to
take a hand "in the national Indus
trial conference, trying to avert the
break threatened as a result ot the
inability of the capital and labor
eroiiDs to reach a satiaf&etorv ajrree
ment on collective bargaining.
The president did not sleep so
well last night but showed no signs
of fatlzue this mornina:. His Droa-
tatic condition Is the same.
Washington, Oct.- 21. The presi
dent today dictated & letter to Sec
retary Lane, presiding at the indus
trial conference, to be used if the
danger of breaking up becomes acute.
The president sighed 'the letter with
a pencil, in a somewhat shaky hand.
Washington, Oct. 21. Declaration
ot the imperative necessity of holding
Che national industrial conference to
gether until it accomplishes .the pur
pose 'for which it was called is under
stood to form the keynote ot the
600-word letter the president has
sent to Secretary Lane. .
Those -whb saw the totter describe
it as an "extremely powerful docu
ment," written in the rigorous style
which characterized his writings he-
fore his illness. Some of the con
ference leaders said a (week's
might he taken to give the groups a
chance to work out a new program
and reconcile the differences between
Pftnftnl Anil InlwW vw,inA CAtMlamr
1 . Huu " " c.vut'o. vnvvi4j ,
Lane approves of the movement.
Washington. Oct. 21. The oosat-
biUty of a compromise between sen
ate advocates and opponents of re
servations Is reported to have re
ceived serious consideration 'by the
democratic leaders conferring today,
after Senator Lodge had called a for
eign relations committee meeting for
tomorrow.
Senator McCumber of North Dako
ta, a republican, introduced - seven
"compromise reservations."
RETVRXS INDICATE
ONTARIO GONE '1KY,
Toronto, Oct.' 21. Election re
turns today indicate that Sir Wil
liam Hearst has been elected pre
mier and that the conservative gov
ernment has been swamped and On
tario gone "dry" by an overwhelm
ing majority.
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Portland, Ore., Oct, 21. J. J. Gu
hen, former circuit Judge of iPoca
teflo, Idaho, shot and killed himself
While taking a waflk this morning.
He was a patient of the Portland
medical hospital and was suffering
from a nervous "breakdown, it is
believed that he regarded his case
as hopeless.