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' . 5250 aRCULATION (25,000 BEADEB3 DAILI) Only Circulation ia Sclera Guar anteed by the Audit Bureaa cf escalations. FULL LEASED WIRE DI&PATCHE3 SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY NEWS SEEVICE rt A ft . Weather Eeprt Oregon: Tonight fair; Wedr aesday fair ami cmht, g. ut aorthwesterlr in. Is. VV USA I ! i i ! i ! M I 11 FORTY- SECOND YEAR NO. 170.-EIGHT PAGES. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAIN'S AND KlAi stands nv ct-vtm Mm f I ,1 A t .?!.!, II JiNi r - CY r - 1 . - IIP ROOF 200 Clerks Trappyby Flames of Machine and Lining Gasoline Have Cje . 'Brush With Death Chicago, July 22.-Twelve dead and 26 injured was the final count today of casualties in Chicago's most mod ern tragedy the fall of an aircraft through the skylight of a metropolitan business building. Late yesterday a 160-foot dirigible fell blazing into the counting room of the Illinois Trust and Savings company. Milton 0. Norton, aewspaper photo grapher, aboard the Goodyear com pany's "Wingfoot" when it fell bend long into the Illinois Trust Savings bank hero, died of injuries today. Nor ton descended in a parachute, landing heavily in Chicago's "Wall fciicet'" La Millie. O i recovering his senses his first winds were: "Where nro my plates?" Coroner Hoffman's jury first heard eve witnesses tell of the spectacular ae cident. W, 0. Young, tlio Uoodyenr's representative with the "blimp," re fused to testify, his attorney advising that he might incriminate himself. Two members of the "Wingfoot" ex press and nine employes of the bunk were among the dead. Most of (hem weie burned to death when the Rns bag with its heavy fusolr.ge burst through steel and plate glass and spread burning gasoline in all directions. A score of, investigations headed by the rnrnnar and the state's attiwney opened today. Seventeen men, mostly employes of the Goodyear Rubber company, owners of the "Wiugfoot," were held for exr.mi i ation. Two hundred N clerks, bending nrei their ledgers yesterday in the daily rush to close their books thought of nothing but their prosaic daily labors. Tncro was a subdued hum of high pressure work . A shadow floated across the big sKt li.ght, two floors above. Then a crash,' 8 blinding light and K detonation. A shapeless mass hurtled through the glass and fell fatly to the marble floor. It was a man's body! Heavy machinery followed and blinding white flames be can to lick the marble pillars and the twisted steel beams of the monster which had tnrned a quiet counting room into a burning inferno. Screams arose immediately and as the f 'nines leaped up or flowed along the floor In rivulets of gasoline, hysterics broke loose. A terrifie rash for tbc two innii exits followed. Tt was n long jump to the street but women took it. Some of the twenty thousand specta tors attempted to catch the jumpers but guceeded only in breaking their falls. Strangely only a few wero in jured In those leaps. Iuside a few remained, too terror srt"i rniiAiip ATKiirp. ituraunt'siKint ISVWVSa WS UIV ISVIfSa OFFICIALLY EKDEDj OF MEXICAN POLICY Central Committee Orders AlLStand Taken By U. S. Ia Re- Coast Workers To Return To Jobs. Sun Francisco, Cal., July 'i2. The coast-wide telephone strike, in progress for more than a month, will end at 1 o'clock - this afternoon. The central strike committee, meeting this forenoon adopted a resolution ordering telegrams sent to the various mss meetings to be held this afternoo i, saying the strict! is ended. The derision to return to otk came a result of desire to conform to regu lations of organized labor. Wila the. linemen and operators returned to work in the northwest, Los Angeles and a few other California eities, the central com mittee oppooens of the order mainly 8a a Fraarisco. Oakland, ricramnto ai'd Martinez workers decided it would be fully to roitlnne opposition. Official announcement of te commit tee's decision will be made at the mass meetings this afternoon. Workers will pioliably return to their old jvbt tomor row. Tlie old city rt.-rf kade in Seattle, for mer home of many drunks, is to lie lorn down. Mayor Hn ha derided the eiir needs a new one. DROPS T101I FROM SitY: 12 ARE DEAD stricken to move or slow to realize the danger. Some dived to the big vault and swung Its door as fur shut as they safely could. Men slid under their desks to escape the spraying liquid f no. Th flames caught them and drove them out through other rivers of fire. Within a moment white marble pillars were blackened, marble floors were jammed and there were blood prints where seared bodies rubbed walls t-nd doorways. Those who died in the bank were pin ned by the heavy motors or framework of the dirigible. Firemen, called whoa tha dirigible first burst into flame, rushed into the building at once to (irng back those fallen on the edgo of ths blaze. Some of the rescued were o browned or blackened by the fire that they could not be recognized. It was h matter of minutes from the time the shadow floated across the light until the quiet bank building had been turned iuto a furnace and men and wo men had porished. Chemicals quieted the flames shortly and the bodies under the wreckage were taken out. The girls were partially identified. Their hats wore those remaining in the clonk room unclaimed. The dead are: Carpenter, Jacob, 16, bank messenger. Ilcrgcr, Helen, bank stenographer. Davenport, Karl H., publicitv man, in the "blimp.". Florence, Maiiu, bank clerk. Oallagher, Mary, bank stenographer. Miles, Irene, bank stenographer. Meyer, Evelyn, bank stenographer. Muuzer, Edwin, bank clerk. Otto Carl, bank telegrapher. Scaulaii, Joseph, bank messenger. Weaver, Carl, mechanic, in the dirigi ble, Akron, Ohio. A. W. Hiltabidel and F. I. Cooper, tellers, thought first of the securities cluttering their desks. While blackened and blazing forms rushed past thein they fully collected their pnpuis, made them safe and then climbed through windows to the street. One girl leaped at s window, seven feet above the floor. Her fingers caught, slipped and she fell back iuto the lath of liquid firoj "I don't know just what happened," the dosed victims suid hours after the (Continued on page three) hoikf opfns prorf gird To Outrages To Be Investigated. Washington, July 22. The house be gan today what is expected to be a com plete investigation of the Mexican situ ation. , The object of the investigation, Be U'''ciu Leader Monde!! said, would be to establish a definite Mexican policy for the future. Henry P. Fletcher, am bassador to Mexico, was to be the first witness. , A preliminary investigation will be held by the rules committee. It i ex pected the work then will l,c turned over to a special committee appointed ny the speaker. Npeei;;l points to be established 1; the inquiry, which will take in condi tions as far back as 1910, arc: What policy the t'nited Hates lias adjpted ia pressing claims for damage. brought by American citizeusi What asursnea the coveromeat ha" ,'iveu foreign aations that tucir elain and property will be piotecled. What measures are now being taki fi to protect American property sin lives and what sur-i,ce has Mexico fciven !ht it will cfioperste in si.i - prtee tion. Gil bank Senate Foreign Relations Committee Refuses Wilson By L. C. Martin I.'uited 1'resa Staff Cui respond- . eut.) Washington, July 2. Tho senate foreign rolations commit- tue today refused l'resideut Wtl- St &n rAnlLKl fnr annrnv.l nf Ilia rit H appointment of provisional American member of tho allied reparations eouiission. The com- V wittte stood eight to seven. The committee had before rk Senator Williams' resolution, granting the president's request and the Knox and Harding sub- stitutcs, refusing. Chinese peace delegates, head- ed by Shaochu Wu, nUh to ap- pear before the committee to protest against ths Shantung clause. Korean and. Iruh aa- tionulist delegates also wish au opportunity to But their view before the committee, It was learned. By that vote it substituted a resolution by Senator Kuox for one pesented yesterday by Sen- ator Williams, granting thu, ap- proval ashed by Wilson. The Knox substitute not only withhold approval of the ap- potntmont but iu effect denied President Wilson's right to make the appointment until the ts'eaty has been ratified. if Knox's resolution stated that "it is the judgment of the com- ( ndttee that until the treaty is ratified in accordance with its terms no power exists to execula anv of its provisions, either pro- visiunally or otherwise." MORECAUTIOUS AS G WM GOES ON Defendant In Million Dollar Libel Suit Takes Stand' Agab Today. Mount Clemens, Mich.. July 22.--(United Tress.) Taking the stand for his seventh day of grilling iu bin mil lion dullar libel suit against the Chi cago Tribune, Henry Ford wai today even more cautious than yesteidjy. Ford wore a smile when ho entered the court room today. For the second time he is a grandfather, a son having been born yesterday to Mrs. l',dct Ford, wife of the 25 yea, 0ld president of the Ford Motor company. Attorney Stevonsou, for the Tubuuc, asked Ford if Jt was aot true that when the allied coinmissiauers visited this country to negotiato a war loan he suid they should bo "canned" out of the country. The manufacturer admitted he had made such a remark. His memory failed him when asked if he had auid bo would withdraw his deposits from uay bank that subscribed to such a loan. "When you heard of the sinking of the i.u.iitsuia, Mr. Ford, did you say 'the people having been warned had r.e business on board.' " "I have no recollection of saying that." An interview Ford had with Willis J. Abbott, writer, was read, but little of the article was remembered by tho wit ness. Abbott quoted Ford as saying he had not been ia Stockholm twu hours befure he became convinced that the only way to attain permanent peace was to crush Germany and that American would be required to aid in the war for pcrma nent peace. The point made by the de fense was that this was several months before Ford's aiti aiilitariilic advuekt isis. Ford said he did not go "to Stock ho'ra, did reach such convictions and did not remember making any tuck sm'cmeiiu to Abbott. Ford was takes on fuHher literary excursions whea he took tha stand this afternoon. His own pc.'e advertising, Lincoln's speeches, the Monroe doe'rioe and oth er wririiis and documents, were dif cusvd with the urging of Tribune at torneys. During this Ford expressed tbt opinion tfcaf the bible probably would be clear if it we rewrites.. "Mr. Ford," said an attorney, "by refusing t read exhibits I hand you, yiu have created the impress-oa that you cannot read. On you wish that im pression to stsadf" "I'm a- a fast reader aad I have (Coivtiatied oa pajje thres) FIRE SIMM IIE1 SPOKIE GETTING VISE 'flW Blazes Start WHle Filt ers BareiT Hs!J Ovn WilhOIi an hold a GREEN TIBER, REPORT Expected Labor Troubles Along line Avoided; L W. ' . W. Quit Camps, Spokane, Waaa., July 22. With for est firos In northern Idaho, northeast Washington and northwestern Montana leaping divides, new fires starting and old blazes barely held, the situation appears to be steadily getting worse. No rain is falling anywhere in the burning areas according to reports today and only the absence of strong winds ia pre venting a dozen holocausts. The fighters are sticking to the lines around a score of fires, according to su pervisors reports today and the I. W. W. strike on the li'ncf has failed to ma terialize. Some I. Wi W. have goue out in the lumber camps, however. The. Pack river fire, north of Sand Point, is steadily gaining iu green tim ber despite All efforts of sevciul hun drcd men to stop it. ' This blaw covers more than 43 square miles but a great portion of it is in burned over lend. A new fire broke out in the Sand Point district near Grouse creek. A crew is fighting this. Xo labor trouble is 'reported on the lines around Sand Point, although some I. W. W. hate quit isrtho lumbtr camps. An uncontrolled blaze ha leaped over tho crest of Cook ' mountain, three miles west of Newport, Wash., but the town la surrounded by fairly open coun trv a id is not in great danger. The old blaze nearer town la now under con '.ru. The Hnlfwav fire on the' Priest Lake road is under control today but no news from the Round Top fire on top of the divide has been received. The moun tain is wreathed in a dense pall of smoke. Crews arc successfully fighting t.it Jordau creek and Steamboat fires in tho Oner D'Alene district and conditions wero reported as "fairly good." The Bear creek fire, near Helloes, is still burning fiercely, eating into white and yellow pine. About 150 men arc trviiia to stop the fife, which covers about 500 acres. A calm night hetped check the spread of the flames. The situation was declared today by forest service officials to be "extreme ly serious." Only a rain, they stid, could prevent disaster. High gales in northwestern Montana are fanning five fires in the lilacifoot forest, located at Ashley Lake, Sqttaw .Meadows, Techuk, Illuesky and Bald Butte. Another bad blaze is at Wolf ceek. The Hannon Oulch fire In the Lewis and Clark forest has crowed the dividu and is burning fast. The state forester has ghen lip the Landers Fork fire as hopeless, lot Cap tuisi Cook and 10 men of t.ie forest (Continued on paga three) Another thin' we noticed about a dry town is that th' feller that's gum' t' be back 'in a minute is usually oa U ' dot. ABE MARTIN Lr.fe Bad wuz showia' a dollar around t'dsv that he saved from last week' salary. Washington Race Riots Hang On In Scattered Districts With Police WaateUtgton, July 22-(United PreaB) Secretary Bafcsr announced today ha had ordarad a "substantial number" of regulars: from Camp Meade, Kit, to hflla prerent further race riota in Wash tog too toolfht E refnsed to say defi nitely how many troops would be tier Washington, July 22. Additional re-j inforsomruts will be rushed to Wash ington today ia an effort to control rioting between white men and negroes which baa lasted three nights. ' Ia street fighting last night four per sona wra killed, two seriously injured and thirty others wounded and attend ed at hospitals. Scores of others were hurt but hobbled or were assisted iby frienda from the scenes of the clashes. Four hundred soldiers and marines, reinforcing the 700 police of the na tional capital, were unable to cope with tho mobs. While they were fighting rioters at one place, another outbreak would be reported from a quarter of the. eity several blocks distant. The negroes, better armed than the white-s appeared to have, the best of several encounters. Early this morning automobiles, crowded with yelling blacks, many of them armed, were dashing; about streets in the residential part of town, defying the whites to "come on." Tho coming of daylight and a terrif ic thunderstorm which deluged the City put an end to the fighting. Hut police heads fear it will be resumed tonight. The dead roported thia morning were IVtoctive Sergeant Harry Wilson, Ken neth Oral! and two negroes. Detective Sergeant B. W. Thompson and Private Albert Luck of the murines wero be lieved to he in a dying condition. Of the othor casualties five were police men. Major Pullman, chief of the Wash ington wlico, conferred with military authorities today and it was expected that a result of this conference tonight would see the national capital practic ally an armed camp. "There wiU .be no parleying with the elements of disorder," said Pullimtn. "All the power of tho federal govern ment is Ivehin the police'-department and these combined forces will see to it that order is "restored." Two hundred persons were under ar rest today, according to police esti Chautauqua Patrons Given Pleasing Musical Treat In Fillion Company Concerts The Ffllion Concert company, one of ths tfiar Itf actions of the Ellison Wh.'to chaulauqua to appear upon the platform yesterday, was reduced to two members, through tho illness of the so prano; but if there had been forty in the company it Is doubtful if they would have contributed more to the pleasure of the audience than was be stowed by the two artist;, Ferdinand Fillioa and M.is Hilmars, with their piano snd violin numbers. Mr, Fillion is a rare genius, for he combines the typieal dash and brilliancy of the Frenchman the poise and precision of the Englishman; consequently he gives the impression of producing iniiaclcs of melody and bewildering iinpotsibili tid of technique without any effort. Possibly there may be greater virtuos os than Fillion, but that rhaiitaiiqua audience was very well wtified with him, and if they could have had their way with him they would have kept him on the platform until midnight. It would be difficult to conceive of any thing more faultlessly exquisite and be witching than his rendition of the third movement of Mendel.sohn 's Concerto in K minor, As for teelintque in ren dering the transcription of gjl'sy mel odies by Haiasale he appeared to ex haunt all the po'silrlitios of the violin ta the weird melodies. Miss Hilmars proved herself a wor thy companion srtist, both ia her ac companiments and her piano solos, which displayed the utmost degree of finish along writh a auperb boldness and brilliance. The two will be mark ed "somber I" on many a Chautau qua list. If anyone entertained a vane regret for tb absence of Edward ' F, Trefz. from the program, it was abruptly for goftea in the substitute lecture of Cap tain Hiadler, who proved himself both the orator and profound thinker in bis lectore ''America at the parting of the ways.'' IValing with a heavy and ore or less sombre ubjcct, he Suc ceeded ia injecting enough humor and epigramalie dash into it to keep bis audience smiling and applauding. Capt. Hindley has traveled widely, mixed with political leaders and observed keenly ia America, and he gave hit hearers an analysis of the present and future conditions in this country that will kecip them thinking. He dealt es pecially with the problems of immigra tion, education, Americanization and la dustrial readjustment. He pointed to the need of radical action in restrict ing immiTTStioa, declaring that ws ksd Near Helpless mates. Tho worst outbreak occurred ia the early evening at Seventh and T streets, in the negro quarter, A mob of 1000 negroes started to in rack toward the I'olico and soldiers charged them. They refused to disperse aad the troops charged, backed by the police. Many residences of the whites, of the ritoers started shooting with re volvers. The fight lasted half aa hour, during which negro women hurled bot tles and other missies, from the win dows and roofa of houses. Several large mobs of white, formed in the downtown district and tried to invade the black bolt, but a cordon of cavalry was thrown around that sec tion after midnight. Aside from tho main clash between armed mobs, or between troops, polios and crowds of whites and nogroca, there was almost continuous guerrilla warfare. RESOLUTION A8S8 WILSON TO PROCLAIM MARTIAL LAW Washington, July 22 (United Press) A resolution asking President Wilsbn to proclaim martial law in the District of Columbia because of continued riot ing between whites and negroes was in troduced today in tho house by liepre- sentativg Emerson, Ohioi Senator Harrison, Mississippi, intro duced a bill to require the District of Columbia Traction eompn-iiie to oper ate separate cars for whites and nc groea. Representative Gark, Florida, asked that a special house committee be named to investigate the race riots, nis resolution asked what police were doing to stop the disorders, which have grip ped the national capital for three nights resulting in four deaths and scores of Injured. Ho said it was tho "solemn duty of the federal government to take Immediate action" to restore order, Coincident with congressional de mands for action, Washington police were tryiug to prevent sale of fire arms and ammunition in Maryland and Vir ginia as well as in the District of Co lumbia. ' ' - Requests to prevent such sales, citner to whites or negroes, went out to Haiti more, Alexandria, Va. Hyattscille, Md. and other nearby communities. room for 100,000,000 more real Ameri cans, but not for a single bolshevik. He pointed to the defects in our na tioniil rtiieationii! system, a shown by the fact that there were in the Ameri can army during tho war 70,imm) boys who could neither read 1ft write.' He stronvlv endorsed the national educa tion bill, and stated that we might well copy after (jermany in this respect, for it was the Germaa system of educa Hon that enabled them to keep ths world at bay for four years. He would nationalize our public school system, and then compel every child of any rare, or color or creed to attend. He declared there should b only one "ism" In this country and that is Am ericanism. Touching upon the Industrial situa tion he showed tho de!perttte need of getting together In peace a' we got to get her in war for the adjustment of labor difficult, for there is ill this country a foment, of unrest, uncertain ty and resentment that threatens indus trial chaos. Referring to the peace cove nant and the league of nations, he dc dared that with all Ms defects the doc ument that President Wilson brought home from Versailles was the greatest document ever drawn up by man, com bining within Itself the essence of the Mosaic law, the Mernmn on the Mount, the Golden Rule, tho Magna Charta and the constitution of the I'nited States. H reminded his hearers that it had taken the Almighty Itbres years to make America retUiM her responsibil ity for the bloodshed la Europe, and it is unthinkable that we should return now to the policies and conditions be fore the war. This afternoon and evening tho most popular aUractioa is the l-cwn Mili tary quartet a group of singers who represent the quintessence of all the musical latent among the thousand of soldiers at Camp Lewis. They are mea who have seen years of work in graad opera, oratorio and concert singing, and whether they turn loose with cl icking camp songs or present the high est type of clastic projection, they will reach the hearts of their audience. Along with the concert this evening goes a dramatic rending by the inimi table Edwia M. Whitney, who will pre sent in monologue form the laugh stir ring little story "Turn to the right" a story that carries a lot of serious thought "along with the laugh. In this production Mr. Whitney impersonates a dozen different characters with per fect fidelity, It will b great evening. H'iJARY FAVORS . liETEIITIOI! CF TENTH MIL Oregon Senator Declares lis Wl Oppose Any Mis;! MOSES SAYS TEEMS 0? TREATY ARE DAKGECIS Proyidons Of Pact HclJ As Worse For United Stales Than League Corcsat Washington, July 22 (United Press) Announcing that he will vote against any attempt to strike arlitU tea front the league of aations covenant, Senator McNary, Oregon, republican, today a swered in a senate speech objections to this provision by league opponents. " Ho served notice he. will aot ota for reservations which will send tho treaty bark to the other powers, but taat he is willing that purely ex pU-oatory res ervations be adopted. "We have been told that by thisj treaty our sovereignty has bcea dangvr ously diminished, the Monroe doctrine endangered, that we have surrendered our control over certain vital domestic matters; that we could be plunged into war without a declnratioa by congress,' said McNnrjr. "Xot one of these statements, la be lieved by the advocates of ths leagus) to have a foundation in fact. However, by the avenue of reft rations ia tha form of interpretations, thew qviestioa could be placed beyoad th pl of con troversy. Actioti of this ehsraetef would-not need ratification by tha other powers, as it would constitute only a re statement. " Me Nary 's statement on rtrvatoa was made following a conference with resident Wilson at the Whito Housa luat week, at which interpretative res ervations wore discussed at length. McNary asserted that the lime will undoubtedly show how' the covenant should be amended and predicted that witliii this leaguu will on a new coda of international law and justice." In his first speech to the senate the peace terms with iSeruteny, HemsrM Moses, New Hampshire, declared: "That the terms of the treaty ar) (Continued on page f out y BRiTIi APPROVES TREATY WITH eitHY House Of Commons Recom mends Ratification, Vot ing 163 ta 4. London, July 22,-(irosf Britain to day had placed its approval on thi r-eftee treaty with Oerwany. The bill ' reeommen I'rg latiticatiol was passed last night by the house tt commons, on its third reading by vote of l3 to 4. An attempt to defeat tho treaty the basis f Mi' Irish qutioo iutrodi.e ed by Joswph Ievliu nationalist from Belfast, was voted down ty ! ho' Devlin proposed th- treaty be rtjeet'd because of Premier Lloyd George a Irish policy. Replying to Devliu's dc for lleWite for Ireland, the pt.u.i.er de clared he had Hespa'rrd of any set, la . B ,h. Ti'!h .1 .'. l- Ttntll (lie lr oh people B2rced tV'SMet'Vr. Hi. said the governm- t mm im.i iiiidv to amdy the principle f self - teimiaation bv meai.s of the ttiih . .! hat tie nV'jVtiirt ww d v;ded. The premier dU-ed "I'liter moreover, E i n mmm determination." s Lloyd-George pointe' out that f land wsa not one natios ia iae, re ligion, temperament or anything re stituting the essentia1 f a stK. treaty debate, urged the USA f tha ti laiscr in a neutral couatry. " What right have w to aswomo that -.ny aeetral count v die to be ths scene of such a tral.'" tha preau.-r The allies had eoi fidxaca, he "a", that whoever was put cs rnat ia Great I'.ritnin, "would rcecwe a lr ;"' h. Mtthest tra if " I f thi Bi.t- ish nation." I The bill for the r Vsliir. of ' Angio-Frencb, which ;L was p for consideration, was i-td third .(.thont objection.