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PORTLAND. Sepi,. It?— For Fie;
first time, Presid at Wilson n *
speech he-e last night, mentioned Sen
ators opposing the League o' N ‘ * ■’’* •
“The League of Nations, s; d th
President, “ca-r » r th
suggestions made by Senator Lo**ge in
IPj5 saying the nation must unite as
men to preserve peace.
**Kvery suggestion made by the
Foreign Relations committee was
made after my return from Paris and
after repeated efforts to secure some
tiling from th*1 Senate of the Unit !
States, and no that the eovenatr »
have been formed and agreed to by
other nations, the Senators make v*ha.
they believe are improvements.”
IVe-id* nt Wilson spoke to 7.000 last
Wighi in the Auditorium and he was
frequently nteivupt*d by cheers.
[’resident WiNon said that if Am
erica stays out of the League it wid
in an ih< maintenance of a great ar
my an i navy and will thus violate tin
mo ;d into **sts ot* the country.
Yesterday the [’resident took f.
drive over the Columbia highway,
tuning the trip, one car overturned
killing the driver and P»on Allen, cor
respondent for the ( level* od Plains
denim*. Three other newspapermen
were injured.
The President left here during til'
night for San Crancisco where he i
due tomorrow forenoon.
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PORTl.AXP. Sept.. 1G— lWoi-*
his departure for San Francisco. Pro
ident Wilson discussed his visit at
Seattle and said he would never to •
get that all of the Seattle newspaper
were with him.
The crowds on Second Avenue, last
Saturday nigh*, he said looked •
New York throng . Th« n ept
accorded in Seattle was a tremendous
one. Thousands stood outside of the
arena, where he made his speech, try
ing to catch some of his remarks, am
shouted “We want \Vilsou.“
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WASHINGTON. Sept.. 1ft— Chair
man Good, of the House appropr iation
committee, says the treasury faces ?
deficit and declares the government
committed expenditures for the year
ending June. 1020, of nearly eleven
billion dollars while the revenues are
estimated at only eight billion dollars.
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WASHINGTON. Sept., IT*— S na
tor McCumber has submitted the min
ority Republican report of the foreign
relations committee urging rejection
of all pro|H»s d amendments to the
treaty.
. Senator McCumber says the major
ity of the proposed amendments arc
-elfish , immoral and dishonorable.
They seek to isolate America and
abandon our Allies.
“The amendments are voiced in a
discourtesy and overbearing manner,”
.-aid the Senator's report ‘and the
e am m it tee's amendment to Article No.
10 intends to take America out of the
League of Nations. The amendment
would kick Japan from the Leagu**
and probably los. 'Shantung to China.'
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STOCKHOLM. Sept.. 16— Hernia
Lindquist. Chairman of the Federation
of organized Labor in Sweden, assort
ed today that Swedish workmen air
not likely to be officially represente,
at the forthcoming labor Congress ir.
Washington unless Germany and Gei
man-Austria is officially invited t(
send delegates .
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WILL ACCEPT PEACE
BERLIN, Sept., 16— The letvia L:
thuania has also decided to accept th<
Russian Soviet peace offer according
to infoimation received here today.
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DKSM OINKS, Sept., 16— Senator
Johnson in his address last night, de
scribed the League of Nations as a
giganOc war t.ust. He spoke* in the
same hall where the President spoke
• last week. Senator Johnson said that
| England wants a war with Americ.
I anti the League will bring it about an*!
Arr.erha’s blood will pay . America.
' saul the S' nator, is the only non-pro*
i Citing nation and is expected to boar
the burden of protecting the enormous
allied gains in European territory.
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WASHINGTON. Sept., 1G— Son i
| tor Sherman, of Illinois, declared in
i the Senate today that if the Senate
1 ratified the League’s covenant as
i drafted. American mothers will but
cradle the sons t? fill the muster rolls
of the armies to give their lives in
foreign wars.
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VKYV VOKlv Sept, 16— A small
riot between negroes and whites brok'*
\ here 'asv n gi t and one negro was
killed, t\V) r • •£ root? aud one white l*tv
u / injure’ The police restored orl**r
T VXDS ARK NOW Dl K
( ‘v taxes arc now due and C't v
Tree. :r r Hugh Dougherty can be
found in his office daily between the
hours of 0 o’clock in the morning and
five o'cWk in the afternoon. Mr. Dou
gherty’s office is in the clerk’s office
in the basement of the Harriman Na
tional Hank building.
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TACOMA, Sept., 10— Secretary of
the navy Daniels expressed regrets
today that he would be unable to visit
Alaska with the Pacific Fleet. The
Secretary said the fleet is going to
Alaska * because the arrival of the
fie t on the Pacific coast is to cause
im moments to be made in Alaska
harbors as necessity arises.
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PARIS, Sept., JO— The Lejournole
tod: y says Premier Lloyd George •>
dot<Tin*nod to have it settled that the
pea e conference demand from Hoi -
land'the handing over of the former
Ka’ser. The newspaper says the Pre
mier is planning to leave Paris durin:1
k xt 24 hours and he will insist on
action before his departure.
PARIS, Sept., 16— It is reported j
a crisis is--imminent in Italy a> a re- j
suit of D'Annunzions action fn occu
pying Fiume.
I: is said that the American detach
m eU at Fiume have gone aboard
ships while the Rrjtish and French 1
troops are barricaded in their bar
racks to forestall any clashes.
PARIS, Sept., 16— Twenty six
thousand Italian troops are now in
Fiume.
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NEWS WRITERS STRIKE
NEW HAVEN. Sept., 1G— News
w fit era of three afternoon dailie> have j
struck for an increase in wages. Re
porters outside of the news write)s
union are endeavoring to issue the*
papers.
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KEY ENCE COLLECTORS ARE
now on Torn of alaska
Charles C. Jones and Dan l . Hi!’,
internal revenue collectors with head
quarters at Tacoma, are now touring
the Territory looking after income
taxes. Mr. Mill is now in Anchorage
having been a passenger cn the Ala
meda. He is expected to come to Sew
ard within a short time.
JACKSON, Minn. Sept, 10— Presi- j
dent Townley, of the National Non- |
Partisan League, and Joseph Gilbert,
former organization manager, were
today sentenced to three months in the
county jail following their recent con
viction on the charge of conspiracy to
teach disloyalty.
The Judge excorciated the two men
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for their disloyal acts and said he
wished he could give them a longer
sentence on the evidence submitted
and upon which they were found guil
ty.
A stay of execution of the sentence
has been granted for sixty days ID
permit of an appeal, if one is granted.
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CORPUS CHRIST!, Texas, S"pt.. IS
— Troops are today patrolling the
streets and assisting: in clearing away
the wreckage as the result of the hur
ricane which swept here Sunday and
yesterday morning.
Twenty five are known to be dea l
and there may be other* bodies found
when the debris is cleared away*.
Two hundred were injured.
T’.vee thousand are horn Iosh.
Relief trains are coming bat have
not arrived up to noon.
The death toll in the sunotmdhig
.ount.'V is not known hut i.-* believed
to be large.
Local city authorities are s< ding
food, one day’s rations to each person.
An unconfirmed report says P->
bodies have been found on the re
Nueces Ray upon which Corpus Uhris
ti is situated.
SEVENTY BODIES POUND
SINTON, Texas, Sept., IG— This
city is the relief headquarters for tho
surrounding territory.
MACON, Sept., 16— The citizens
of this Georgian town, at a mass meet
ing, demand the civil service commis
sion order the dissolution of the police
and firemens unions, or for the men to
resign. Two hundred and twenty five
former soldiers are ready to replace
the policemen and firemen in case of a
strike. The commission today ordered
the dissolution of the unions and the
policemen and firemen refused.
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CONCEDE REDS AS VICTORS
NEW YORK, Sept., 16— Manager
MeGraw has conceded the National
League pennant to Cincinnati. By de
feating the Giants today the Reds can
cinch the rag.
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PARIS, Sept., 16— The Supreme
council is to solid Germany a note say'•
ing the peace conference holds Ger
many responsible for the speedy with -
drawal of troops in the Baltic states.
The Hungarian situation is causing
the conference uneasiness as the Ru
manians are about to withdraw with
out giving the Budapest government a
chance to organize a police force of
confidence. The conference has re
, quested the Rumanians to leave a
limited force to gurantee order.
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SITUATION AT
OMSKCRITICAL
OMSK, Sept., 16— Minister of In
terior Pepalauff has issued a procla
mation saying the situation at the
front is critical but that General Kol
chak’s forces are being reorganized
and preparing for a new offensive
: against the Bolsheviki forces .
The Bolsheviki forces are believed
i to have insufficient reserves to make
a concerted counter attack .
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Already seventy bodies, mutilated
be\ond recognition, have been found
and are in the morgue here.
MANY HOMELESS
HOUSTON’, Texas, Sept., 16— Ov
er 23 are known to be dead at Corpus
Christi and fully 4,000 are homeless
as the result of the hurricane.
The property damage is estimated
to be over three million dollars.
The storm has passed and believed
gone to tin* gulf section of Western
T< xa .
KKUKP IS ASKKl)
SAX ANTON 10, Texas, Sept., Ifi
Coipus Christ! is without light and
water and food is short. The Mayor
has appealed for relief. Two relief
trains left here at midnight.
Many bodies have been washed
as' ore at various beaches in Texas.
Several have been sighted on rafts but
the waves are rolling so high no craft
has ventured out yet.