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Investigators Refuse t V-cn
Tn ffie Tflstimnmr
i Today
HENENSTOCK SAYS
STRAUSS THREATENED
Ikid of Simar Trust Contra
. diets Evidence Given by
I Spreckels
Northwest Mills Must
Increase Spruce Output
Portland, Or., Dec. 18. Mills of the
northwest must be allowed to incrrf.se
their spruce production over 100 per
cent if the demands for straight grain
ed spruce for airplane construction is
to be taet, declared Colonel B. P,
Bisque, commanding the signal corps
spruce production division today.
Governmental red tape, and the rush
of the government and allies for lum
ber of all kinds, with no order given
as to what shall take precedence in
overtaxed saw mills re the conditions
causing the shortage, aocording to Dis
lie. He savs northwest mill men are
operating in every way possible.
vi WARNINGS ARE
POSTED ALONG COAST
Prospects For Severe Weath
er Late Today Coast
Storm Is Heavy
Portland, ,Or., Dec. 18. Storm warn
ings arc still posted along the Oregon
and Washington coasts, with prospects
ot as severe weather late today as ex
perienced last night and this morning.
Wind and rain continue, and several
joints are out of contact with the
world through damage to wires. Swell
ing stronms in many places are inun
dating lowlands and stretches of high
way, but the damage thus far has been
slisrht.
No vessels have been driven ashore
yet by the hi;h winds. The tug Agnes,
after a three hour battle near the uti-
pa harbor bar, was compelled to aban
don a raft of spruce logs when the galo
threatened the little crntt. loos bay
districts ar isolated intermittently by
telephone and telegraph wire damage.
At Hood River, the high stage put the
power plant out of commission. Lin
coln county reports several washouts
in highways. Incoming vessels tell of
choppy seas and a strong gale off the
coast.
TWO THOUSAND CARS
Statement Is Issued by Public
Service Regarding
Conditions
Washington, Dec. 18. The senate su
gar investigating committee again to
day refused Herbert Hoover's request
for an immediate hearing.
Hoover, through lils counsel, Judge
umtis jjiiuuey, usKeU to be allowed to
t"itit'v t"dny because ho had to go to
jKew York on business.
"-We'l hear Mr. Hoover when he gets
l:uk from New Xork," ruled Senator
Peed, committee chairman. "He will
be iu town more than Bomo other wit
nesses. ' '
In five minutes testimony at the
opening of today's session Herbert W.
I'.ienenstok, New York grain and pro
vision broker, said Louis Strauss, Hoo
ver's secretary, had threatened to
"steam roll" A. II. Lamborn, a sugar
broker, "if he isn't careful." --
"I offered my services to Strauss"
wiid Bienenstok. "In the course of the
conversation Straus asked me if I knew
any New York food dealers. I men
tion A. H. Lamborn. Strauss said he
was sorry I had done so.
"He said that while Hoover had the
highest regard for Lamborn personally,
yet Lamborn had better be careful or
the steam roller would run over him
and roll his guts out."
"What did Strauss mean by that!
Do you know?" asked Reed.
"I have no idea," replied the wit
ness. "Strauss didn't tell you why Lam
born was to be steamrolledf " asked
(Senator Vardaman.
"No, he just said what' I have told
you," said Bienenstok, who was then
excused.
A. H. Lninborn and company are the
ngents iu this country for the British
Torsi commission which hns chnr.""e of
the sugar purchases for Prance and Bug- The report issued by the Public scr-
., ,,i . I vice commission shows there is a car
Contradicting Clans A. Spreckles'shortago on all roads in the state ot
charge that the food administration ; 2000 and of these 1401 are short on
"created" a sugar shortage, Earl D. he Southern Pacific. The same state
Babst told the senate sugar investigate nent shows that for the week just end
ing committee today increased consump- ,d ears were held equalling 09 days
tion, inadequate supply and delayed dis- one car. It also shows the worst of
tribution, combined, caused the famine. if,,!!"Jers m, th" lln,e are the PS
Babst, head of the "sugar trust ",,lPP"s who hold the cars, paying de
and a member of the Hoover sugar com- inurrage rather than go to any ex ra
mittec, stoutly denied SpreekloV claim .pensote unload them So long as this
. i , , f, , , js permitted the car shortage will cou-
Mat- there is a big surplus of Cuban 1 and thfl remcdy is the hands
B"ffiV - i . . , t of the shippers themselves, who by
lorexgn buyers have cut down tn-l. eaTl.0T storage prevent others
roi nnn' Sup),'-?f C.bn w maT aa& also themselves getting cars when
50,000,000 pounds, " said Babst. needed
"The great preserving campaign last, Mr Corey's Statement
summer took 900,000,000 pounds more The ;,,,.,.,, of this state have been
than is usually consumed m the can-' onfronted w;th an acute car shortage
mug period." or a lleri0(i of ab0ut two years, fhe
A demand that the food ndmimstrn-i,mlmij0r totaling at times more than
tion use its influence to force a raise in 'e.-joo cars on all lines, due, no doubt,
the price of sugar beets was made to n the main to the unusual conditions
Herbert Hoover this afternoon by rep-'.that now obtain throughout the Ufffted.
lvsentativcs of the beet sugar grow- states- Notwithstanding this fact, nu
ers of California, Utah, Idaho, Color- imerous complaints have been made to
ado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Tumor- ithis commission that shippers frequent
low they will meet with Chairman Keed ly exact from the railroads more than
of the senate probers. the so called "free time" for the load-
The growers say Babst 's company has ing and unloading of cars, which ag
depressed the beet sugar, they claim to!gravates this condition unnecessarily,
have statistics showing his company j We are advised that 72 of our leading
ran increase the price from the present business firms have recently delayed
figure, 7.23 a ton to $12.00 and still jears 639 days overtime. If the shipper
make fifty per cent on the investment. who needs cars and is unable to get
' users at all other stations in his imme
diate section who were taking from
two to thirteen days to load or unload
jears when it could and should be doue
in as many hours, no doubt there
would be a speedy reformation among
car users. No ear user has any moral
right to detain a car one hour longer
than is necessary to load or unload it.
Every shipper holds this view when it
is someone else who is detaining the
car.
Car users who detain the ears thru
carelessness, indifference or ignorance
of the meaning of "car shortage" and
"congested terminals" are few. The
.eo!le responsible for car detention
are that vast body of highly intelli
gent business men who fiud it more
profitable to use cars for storage pur
poses than to provide other storage fa
cilities. It is not good business to use
for storage space that which costs as
much as freight cars and which can
earn so much more as suen man. as
warehouses. Storage space does not
need costly truckj, steel underfr.ime?,
automatic couplers and air brake
equipment. Shippers guilty of such
pia"tices are derelict in their duties to
their country, whose transportation
needs now are paramount to their pri
vate rights.
t This commission, in prescribing de
murrage rules effective in this state.
"Don't tried t impose demurrage charges fif
th ' non !
ATTEMPT HADE
TO DYNAMITE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Bomb Blows Away Portion
of Governors Mansion at
Sacramento
PRO-GERMAN AGENTS
AND "C C Cw SUSPECTED
Governor Has Been Active In
Patriotic Work and Op
posed Mooney Gang
Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 18. An at
tempt to dynamite the governor's man
sion and to kill Governor William D-
Stephens and his wife, was made early
today when a chargo of explosive set
off in the southwest wall of the build
ing. The rear porch was blown off and
a large hole was torn in the brickwork
of the building. Although Governor
Stephens, his wifo and the servants
were asleep in the upper floor, of tho
building, nobody was iniured and the
damage was confined to the exterior
wall of the building.
1 ro-uernian agents or sympathizers
are blamed by tho police for the ouf
rago. Governor Stephens returned cnlv
last- night from Los Angeles where he
had delivered au address in which he
advocated sterner methods in suppress
ing enemy agents and enemy propagan
da.
The principal clew, on which tho en
tire, police frco of Sacramento is work-
ng, was furnished by Key. Frazer
Laugford, a Baptist minister living in
the vicinity. He declares that for sev
eral months he has seen ft man, whom
he-believes to be German; hirking in
the viciuitv of tho governor's mansion
and apparently examining its construe-
tiou. .4.IU3. muu, ho said, vamsued less
than v week ago and Rev.' Sir, Lang
ford -believes he was responsible-
The police threw out a dragnet early
today and rounded up a number of sus-
ucious persons but have not yet lo
cated the man wanted. Governor Ste
phens was calm immediately after the
explosion and assisted the police in
their investigation.
"I. am grateful that the affair was
not more serious," he said. "The rea
son for the crime is a complete mys
tery to me, as I have received no threat
ening letters of any kind- Personally I
believe the bomb was thrown from the
alleyway at th rear of th'. house, af
ter the watchman had passed the point
of explosion on his rounds."
Police, however, do not agree with
this theory. They believe the bomb was
of the clockwork variety and was tim
ed to explode shortly after midnight.
They believe more than a dozen sticks
of dynamite were in the bomb.
The explosion shattered a number of
windows in the house and in residences
for several blocks around, breaking
bric-a-brac, and dishes, but did no oth
er general damage.
Had the force or the explosion gone
toward the front- of the mansion the
governor and his wifo would undoubt
edly have been killed and the building
completely wrecked. As it was, howev
er,
ley at the rear of the building. It blew
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AUTOCRACY MUST fIRST BE SHOWN
th oinR FiminY of its claims to
POWER OR LEADERSHIP IK THE MODERN
WORLD 'HM UNTIL THAT HAS BEEN DONE.
CAN RIGHT BE SET UPAS ARBITER AND
PEACEMAKER' AMORS THE HATI0N5.
BUT WHEH THAI HAS BEEHBQHE-A5,
m 60D yyilUXfi jT MEDLY WILL BE-
-i.fi k turn .. . . .
t infill be jklE TO base peace qn
OFTHt VICTORS: ' R T
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wmm rule
OFRIISS TOTTERS
TO All EARLY FALL
Maximalist Faction Is Losing
Grip In All Sections of
Late Empire
"WHAT DOES HE SAY, HIGHEST?"
"HE SAYS YOU MUST BE WIPED OF THE MAP."
PETROGRAD REPORTS
ANYTHING BUT RELIABLE
Cossack Revolt In South
Grows Stronger and
Kerensky Looms Again
COSSACKS TAKE EOSTOFF.
Petrograd, Dec. 18. The Cos
sacks reoccupicd Eostoff today.
Heports received here declare
they .disarmed the red guards
of the Bolsheviki, - -
Bostoff-on-the-Don, is one of
the most important commercial
cities in southeastern Hussia. It
is in tho territory of the Don
Cossacks, first of the Cossack
tribes to declare their revolt
against tho Bolsheviki. Last
week the Bolsheviki claimed to
hold the city "safe."
ROCKEFELLER LOSES
FOIST HILL HOME
BY MORNING BLAZE
loss Estimated at $100,000
-He Will Never Return
to Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio, Dee. 18. Fire, be-Iie-ed
to be. of incendiary origin, early
today destroyed John D, Rockefeller's
Forest Hill home at East Cleveland, at
an estimated loss of $100,000. The fire
was discovered iu a bed room that
Hockcfcllcr always occupied while here.
Few of the rich furnishings of the
house, which was built by the oil king
forty years ago, were saved. Firemen
today were searching in the ruins for a
valuable oil miintinir nf John T 1im.
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valuable paintings and art treasures
were removed two years ago when tax
officials levied an assessment of sev-
the main force went across the al-eral million against him.
lhe belief of officials that the fire
PROHIBITION NOW
GOES UP TO STATES
AS SENATE CONCURS
Forty - Seven Senators Vote
Yes and Only Eight Opposed
House Changes
out most or the windows or an apart
ment house immediately across the al
ley. The windows of the governor's
bedroom were entirely blown out.
Up to noon today the police had no
definite clew.
was a touch off was strengthened when
watchmen declared there was no fire in
Wet states now target for fin
al prohibition:
California, Connecticut, Dela
ware, Florida, Illinois, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Nexadn, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hhode
Island, Texas, Vermont, Wiscon
sin and Wyoming.
Thirteen of these can prevent
the prohibition amendment from
making tho United States a dry
nation.
Washington, Dee. 18. The senate to
day concurred in the house amendments
the furnace last night. A large crowd to the nation-wide prohibition esolu-
wuicn witnessed tne blaze was held on't;on
mo cugu oj. me esiuie vy a nign iron
Vlrs. E. R. Pavne who lives
apartment house across the alley
picket fence, which borders the entire
fro:
an property.
Friends of Rockefeller today declared
.
Abe Martin
a
a rirl with
- nrry." is th
producer.
straight flush J
official slogan o!
park.
the governor s mansion says that lm- the fire made certain that he will not
mediately follow? the blast she look-! return to Cleveland,
ed out of the window and saw a man . The estatl! surrounding the burned
?M2eln'l a in the alley. !,lomc consiitg of 12(J0 a(;re8 and it lia
"What's the matter?" she scream- been rumore,i that Rockefeller intended
ed. Then, sho declares, she heard some ;: ;t pt pia,...i.,.i ...i.n..
nnn tav Arc Vfin niirTf7' nnn thp man " . .
ran from the alley into Sixteenth
Chief Anderson caused surprise
when he advanced the theory that ac
cumulation of gas in the pipes of the
'aundrv and kitchen might have caused
the explosion. - ... . . , .
Detectives, believing there may be. faKl 18 amt. "spended on the
some thing in the fire chief's theory. '"amette, this tune by the alleged
and that the explosion might have been da8 boats Pacing the bridge,
accidental, are making full investiga-! .Ttat 18 the reason advanced by Cap
tion of this angle. They say that if taln Graham of the Oregon City Trans-
examination shows the o-a. r,i.rf under ' portation company immediately alter
Boat Traffic Is Held
Up by the Bridge
A rising vote was taken. Forty seven
senators voted for the house amend
ments and eight against them.
The senate's action today transfers
the fight to the state legislatures. Three
fourths must ratify the amendment to
make it a part of the constituion.
One year after sucTl approval "the
manufacture, sale or transportation of
intoxicating liuors within, the impor
tation thereof into or the exportation
thereof from the United States and all
territory subject to the jurisdiction
thereof for beverage purposes," will bi
prohibited.
The drys have already laid plans for
(Continued on page three)
the gVound are shattered, the fire
chief 's contention may be correct.
Mooney Gang Accused
San Francisco, Dee. 18- That mem
bers cf the so -called "C C. C. " gang
were responsible for the attempt to
immediately
the Grahamona had passed under the
bridge yesterday, lhe steamer lJoniona
will make the trip as far as Ht. Paul
today, to clean up freight on the land
ings and after that she too will be
withdrawn. A brief cold snap would do
aav witl, all flonua. Kut tl.nvti iu -inut'
dvnamite the governor's mansion at : now no indication of this arriving. High j
Sacramento, was the opinion expressed , water and the swift current are causing
bv postoffice officials here today-'the trouble, and these may be remov-
Jlembers of the same gang are believ
ed to have sent Senator Johnson, white
he was governor, letters threatening
his life in a manner similar to the at
tempt on Governor Stephens early to-
iv. These letters are now in the hands
of handwriting experts and they are
said to eontain finger prints of mem
bers of the gang.
Parsons interested in the defense of
er1. over night by a drop of the mercury.
Wants Fifty Million
to Help Livestock Men
U jf
(Continued on page three)
Washington, Dec. IS Serious condi
tions in the western livestock indus
try owin? to drouiht were cited by
Thomas Mooney and other defendants Representative Baer, North Dakota, in
in tne han rrancisco preparedness pa- introducing a bill appropriating toll.-
rade dynamiting cases expressed the O00.000 for government purchase of
livestock feed, to ba re sold to farmers
at cost and on credit.
JOIN THE RED CROSS TO
DAY IT'S A DOLLAR THAT
BEINGS MORE THAN INTEREST.
(Continued on page six)
AS EMERGENC Y FLEET
CORPO RATION HEAD
Chairman Hurley of Shipping
Board Says Change Will
Not Cause Delay
' Washington, Dec. 18. Charles A. Piaz
of Chicago, was today appointed gener
al manager of the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration to succeed Read Admiral Fred
erick S. Harris, resigned.
In making this announcement Chair
man Nurley of the shipping board de
clared that the latest shake-up in the
government's shipbuilding personnel
would not delay the program.
"Roports show that construction
work is progressing as fast as human
(Continued on pago six.)
By Joseph Shaplen
(ynited Press Staff Correspondent)
Stockholm, Dee. 18. The Maximalist
regime is slowly but surely riding to
a fall.
Information from travelers reaching
here as well as antl-Bolsheviki news
papors smuggled via Hnparanda indi
cate even ' the Petrograd garrlsan no
longer supports the Leniiie-Trotsky ring.
Twenty-six of Russia's provinces and
territories have formally refused recog
nition of the Bolsheviki "government".
Every Bolsheviki claim from Petrograd
must be heavily discounted.
Tcrroism reigns in Petrograd. The
intriguers of the old Russian regime are
aiding tho extremists in playing on the
minds of the ignorant masses of the sol
diers by fairy tales that thore will be an
immediate revolution in Germany.
The dato set for tho opening of the
constituent assembly was the occasion
for a monster demonstration in Petro
grad iu favor of this meeting.
Not only was the meeting suppressed,
but tho Bolsheviki have not permitted
any news of it to be sent out. The dem
onstration expressed strong condemna
tion of the Bolsheviki efforts to wreck
the assembly.
That the Maximalists feel they can
no longer rely on the Petrograd garri
son, once their greatest source of pow
er, is indicated in notieo that Lettish
troops have been ordered to supersede
them nnd arc now policing the city.
Such known German provocateurs as
(Continued on page three)
SANTA CLAUS WILL
COME TO WAR ZONE
AFTER THREE YEARS
By W. S. Forrest
(United Press Staff correspondent)
With the French Armies in The Field,
Dec. 18. The little Jesus is coming
back to devastated regions of France
this Christinas. ,
For three years the little Jesus has
stayed away. .
Six year old Jean Dupont, in his home
in the ruined village of Audiguicourt,
explained to me today why the "petite
Jesu" who takes the place of Santa
Claus for the little French children,
has shunned Audiguicourt for three
years.
"Ho didn't like ttuj ttermnns, jean
confided in a halting Voice. "The 'petit
Jesu" wouldn't come when the Germans
were here."
Jean could scarcely withhold his ex
Jean is keeping his knowledge ;
cret. The American lady told him to
because even Jean's mother doesn't
know. The village cure he knows. Be
cause he's been talking to tho Amer
ican lady.
Last Christmas the Germans would
n't permit the "fete do la noel" in
the church. They were using the church
for other purposes and the Germans
didu't have much faith in the "petit
Je3u". They thought only of their San
ta Claus who brought packages from
Germany. To Jean, Marcello and the
little sister Duponts, the German San
ta Claus meant nothing.
But miraculously the. plaster of paris
image of the Christ child, which repre
sents Christmas to them, has lived safe
ly through the destruction of Audigni-
citcment at prospect "of putting his tiny ( court, buried away with the now faded
wooilen sandals before tne rirepiace on nuio ui unsei.
Christmas eve. He is also looking for- Therefore, the petit Jesu will again
ward to visiting the battered village be in the manger of Bethlehem on
Christmas epe. After tooKing long ami
marveling greatly at him and to what
the cure has to say about his wonder
ous birth, the little Duponts will go
church in which he faintly remembers
seeing the "petit Jesu witn a tinsel
halo above his head, lying there in tne
manger just as he did at Bethlehem
Jean's little brother, Marcelle, aged I home and put their wooden shoes before
3. doesn't believe the "petit Jesu" the fireplace. After praying to Him to
would come. Marcell's mother said he
wouldn't. But Jean's information
comes from an American lady who came
today in an automobile nmt delivered a
brand new bed for the bar room in
which Jean, Marcelle, the three sisters
and mother have slept pinee returning
from another destroyed village where
they had lived after the Germans had
brinir back their father from a German
prison camp, they will wake up to find
the American Santa Clans of whom they
know nothing, has deputized the Ameri
can lady to fill up th'6 sandals.
"Bab's Matinee Idol" is a whimsi
cally funny story of a boarding house
girl's first affair du coeur, as Bab
retreated in March and blew up Audig- grandiloquently calls it herseir. Mar-.
nieourt. . I guerito mara, oi course, piny, u4