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G THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. MAY 1, 1920 APOLOGY STAND URGED BY DEMOCRAT Stand by Administration, Senator Pierce Advises. OFFENSIVE IS ADVOCATED Jackson Club Gathering Told De fensive Attitude 'should Be Iropped hy Party. tiosan PLAY IS SLICE FROM LIFE, DECLARES MARGARET ANGLIN Actress Tells Why Happy End Impossible in "Woman of Bronze." Broken Friendship, Shattered Faith Prevent Reconciliation. apologies" is the campaign of the democratic party as announced officially last night at the regular meeting of the Jackson club by Walter M. Pierce, state- senator from La Grande and candidate for delegate to the democratic national convention at San Francisco. "Every democrat should stop this everlasting apologizing - for the ad- ruin istration," declared Senator Pierce, . "and, dropping the defensive, assume an 'offensive attitude and let the people know what thajlemocratic ad ministration has done for the country. Ave must spread this word very largely by our own personal .efforts, for, as you know, practically all of tr.s big newspapers, magazines and otl.er publications are controlled by the big moneyed interests and will not give us a fair deal. "Any one of . the great features of legislative and administrative enact ments of the democratic administra tion is sufficient,, or should be, to re-elect a democratic regime. Income Tax Is Praised. "There is the income tax, which s takes the money from the rich, who t-an afford it; the federal reserve bank system, which that great genius ,McAdoo gave the country, wrest ing from Wail street the power which it had always possessed, and the farmers' loan act. Either of these should be enough to cause the coun try to re-elect democrats. "And how about labor? Has labor ever been able before Woodrow Wil ton went to the White House to get a hearing from a chief executive? No. but it got a square deal from him and McAdoo. didn't it? Then, for heaven's sake, let's quit apologizing and let the people know what s been done. If' the republicans are able to nut over at Chicago such representa tives of the big interests' as Wood and Lowden and if they should gain control and attempt to repeal the great statutes written into the United States code by the democrats, I fear we shall have a revolution in this country that will shake it to its very foundations." Prior to his "keynote" speech. Sen ator Pierce engaged in a wordy bat tle with D. C. Lewis of St. Johns, a representative in the legislature, re- rardinar the nroposed divided session of the Oregon . lawmaking body, and each "bawled out" the other some what. " Pierce Champions Measure. Mr. Pierce championed the measure, saying it would, put a stopjto leg islative trading. trlcKery ana cm- uanery," white Mr. Lewis branded it as the most villainous measure ever proposed," and declared that it "would brine- about more political tricaery and unsavory trafficking in laws." "I am mighty glad to have this opportunity td talk to a crowd of in ..(. ctlfl "Mr TwiH. - "and - T f-koxe 1 may shed some real republican light on Walter's, pet measure wnicn is moat vicious. He says he wants to cure the 'jam' at the close of leg islative sessions. "Walter has a repu tation, though? of introducing more than his share of bills and did so at the last session and tne special ses- I sion." I "And Lewis was running around I up at Salem with Gua Moeer, like a -hot of othe little puppets, trying to nut over that inlauitous straight- ballot measure to make the people of Oregon vote a straight repuDiican ticket and rob George Chamberlain of the United States senatorship," van Senator Piece's "comeback" when he got the floor, whereat there V --. . mil. i-.ir. "I thanlC you people for the fine J f hearing you gave me, said Mr. Lewis as he started.yto go, "and I want to jh tell yoir that 'Gus is a pretty fine fellow, just the same, and waiter knows it.'" The club indorsed the educational bills, three in number, which are to be voted upon at the primaries on May 21, and Elton Watkins, presi dent of the organization, said that all members would be expected to work hard to help put over the bills. ' Miss Clare Pierce.- daughter of the senator, being called upon for a speech, announced that she had just ime from New York, where she had been with Dr. Esther C. Lovejoy. Miss Pierce said she will open an office at once in the Stevens building and "will do all I can to help nominate Esther Lovejoy for congress from the third district." BY LEONE CASS BAER. TWO women . met in the Heilig lobby on their way out from see ing "The Woman of Bronze." and stopped to exchange greetings, punctuating their observances with careful dabs at their wet eyelashes and perceptible sniffs. "I never have enjoyed anything so much in my life," said one. . "I cried all through the last two acts." "Yes," said the other, "she's won derful, that Angling' but why didn't she take her husband back when he found he was mistaken? I like plays to end happily." ' The two adjusters sniffed their way on out, and afterward, when I told Margaret Angiin about it. ehe said that to her mind the most diffi cult person to please in an audience is the one who is always demanding "happy endings." Life Not AlTtaja Happy. "Not that I don't believe in seeking happiness, and even demanding it," said Miss Angiin, "but life isn't deal ing out happy endings constantly. My play is a slice of life. The wife in it (could not possibly have taken back her erring husband, not because he had erred, but because the big. fine, wonderful friendship that had been theirs had been broken, her wifehood betrayed and her faith shattered. What had she to build on, save ashes of dead hopes? What promises could he give, what deeds could he do that would bring about any happy ending for their little drama? "I am afraid," smiled Margaret Angiin, "that the 'happy ending fiends give me a rather tired feeling sometimes." Margaret Angiin is Canadian, but ehe gays she would rather live in this land of the nearly free and the home of the brave, the land of the profit eering landlords and discontented elevator runners, than under the flag of any other country. She is-a fem inine David Belasco-and even before she was lier own producer-manager she bad her artistic fingers in the pie of any play in which she appeared. Now she looks - after everything, picks her plays, finds her players, rehearses them and directs.- Cos tumes, lights, music, furniture, even the box-office receives personal at tention from Margaret Angiin. She has been called "a woman's actress." Needless to say it is men who see women weep at Miss Anglin's -acting who have said she is a woman's act ress. The intense and poignant beauty of her emotional art. her very human qualities, exercise an intimate and personal appeal over men, and they like to get out from under her jr - ' - - -4 I y v ' Margaret Angllp. f SI IS 1 F RAUL) Payment to Hammond Com pany Held Not Coerced. spell. They've seen, some of them, their own women cry and ache and brood over hurts Just as Margaret Anglin's women do and, oh, well, what's the use of going to the theater to see a woman do exactly what Sadie does at home? Husband Dram Conclusions. On the other hand, Margaret Angiin has put a crimp in the his tronic activities of many a weeping home actress. When her husband goes to the theater and sees Margaret Angiin suffer and shed real tears, he forgets it 's all acting until he thinks of it afterward, and then by that lightning calculation known as a hunch he figures that his wife is some actress, too. The main differ ence, he realizes., is that Margaret Angiin is getting rich off her tears. Every pearly globule is a tie. if you can call a tear-drop a tie. that binds her public to her, a tie of the texture and fiber of intense human admira tion and affection woven into a strong bond of loyalty. She is on her way east with "The Woman of Bronze." New York iB yet to see this big play, the best vehicle Miss Angiin has had since "The Great Divide." She has had this play for ten years, holding it for the time when she could present it exactly as she wanted it to be done. ALLEGED THREATS DENIED LOWDEN SATISFIES DRYS OTHER CANDIDATES HELD TOO FRIENDLY TO WETS. Illinois Governor Is Only -One So Ear Approved by Anti-Saloon League of America. WESTERVILLE. O., April 30. Gov ernor Lowden of Illinois is the only presidential candidate so far whom the . Anti-Saloon League of America has approved as suitable to the pro hibitionists. , . In a statement given out tonight than 30 women in various parts- of the United States and: Canada, did not leave Salem for Los Angeles on the night of April 13, as reported at that time by Chief of Police Welsh, and will not go there unless subpenaed as a witness for or against her husband, came to light last night when she was located at the home of friends in this city. - . Mrs. Watson apparently is about 35 years of age and shuns newspaper publicity. She flatly refused to make any statement other than admitting that her marriage was legal. From . friends with whom she is making her home here it was learned that she was married to Watson in Nelson, B. C, about seven years ago and that they resided in Canada until last Christmas when they came to Salem. Mrs. Watson had been here but a few days when she was called east and -immediately left to attend her father's funeral. " When she re- Dr. P. A. Baker, general superintend ent of the league, says after a brief turned, Watson had left for Los An- revlew of Governor Lowden s record . geles. She has not seen her husband SERVICE FLAG IS FURLED Woodmen Hold Ceremoffy in Mem ory of War Record. The big service flag containing 3:!2 stars, four of them gold ones, i which has hung in Woodmen's hall 'in memory of the- war record of -Multnomah campNo. 77 was furled last night at special ceremonies held by the lodge. Fred J. Johnson and Major W. S. Gilbert, former chaplain of the 3d Oregon, were the speakers, one telling of the home service- and i he other of the war's effect. Major Gilbert said America's soul was awakened by sacrifice and cer tain principles should not be lost that "were learned in war times. Mr. Johnson also talked on similar linis. Those taking part in the musical programme were Mrs. Esther Min slneer Legler, Robert Louis Barron ai;d the Franklin high school gle i)ub, on prohibition that "prohibitionists consistently can support him he is nominated."' . Senator Warren G. Harding's pro hibition record is reviewed ..at con siderable, length, but no definite statement as to his acceptability is made. - "Senator Harding of Ohio usually votes with the drys, but always talks for the wets," the statement says, and adds: "When the 18th amend ment was pending in the senate Hard ing announced from the floor that he was .not a prohibitionist, that he failed to see ire it a 'moral question' and that he favored compensation of the liquor traffic. Of course, any man who favors compensating the liquor traffic would not be able to see in It a moral issuer The statement goes on to say that Harding voted for the ISth amend ment and the Volstead act, but voted against prohibition in the District of Columbia. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of Cal ifornia, the statement says, "is being solidly supported by the liquor in terests of California, not because of any particular service he has ren dered them, but because he seems to command the support of the discon tented and the liquor people just at this time are very much discon tented." and also possibly because a "Sacramento, Cal., paper has an nounced Mr.. Hoover's dry convictions." Commenting on Governor Lowden. the statement says he -was opposed for election as governor by many pi the prohibitionists of Illinois, "but since his election as governor he has been so .eminently fair and friendly to the prohibition laws and their en forcement that prohibitionists con sistently can support him if he is nominated." The statement reiterates the posi tion of the league as regards Gov ernor James M. Cox of Ohio and Gov ernor Edwards of New Jersey as an nounced some time ago by declaring that Governor Cox is "thoroughly wet" and that Governor Edwards is not really a candidate, but simply running as a side partner to Governor Cox in the hope of accumulating some strength that may be turned over to Cox at an opportune time." since that time. - Whether Watson left his home frequently while living in Canada could not be ascertained, as Mrs. Wat son refused to make any comment. Although considered a stranger in Salem, it was learned that she is well known to a number of local people. MURDER MYSTERY IS CLEARED -CONNECTICUT GUARD OUT Plot to Blow Cp Capitol Given as Reason for Call. HARTFORD, Conn., May 1. Colonel Charles W. Burpee of the first state .guard regiment, here at 1:10 this morning called his staff out. It was lven out officially by Colonel Burpee th.it the call was sent to all officers and men of the state guard as the result of a telephone tip that the capitol building, the state armory and the East Hartford bridge were to be blown up before dawn. Within half an hour about 75 men had responded, cordons were thrown about the capitol and the state armory and a detail was on us way 10 ma bridge. From all points in the city additional guardsmen were hurrying j to the armory. Slaying of Betty Pryor at Plum Station, Wash., Explained. One of the most mysterious mur ders .of the Pacific northwest is cleared up by James R. Huirt's con fession that he had killed . Betty Pryor. one of his 20 wives, near Plum Station, Wash., in July. 1919. Her body was found July 10, but was never identified, and no clew to the mystery ever was found. The woman was for a time believed to have been from Oregon, inasmuch as an automobile bearing an Oregon license number was seen standing near the scene of the murder on the night of July 9. Huirt's confession and his description of the manner in which the murder was Committed have convinced the authorities that the body was that of Betty Pryor, whom Huirt, under the name of Mil ton Lewis, had married in Couer d'Alene, Idaho, March 25, 1919. She had been a waitress in Wallace, Idaho, and Spokane. Wash. T. H. Pitner, a farmer near Plum Station, found the body in a shal low grave a mile and a half from Plum Station. HUNT FOR GRAVE FAILS (Continued From First Page.) don at Sacramento, some time in 1919. Maude E. Goldensmlth of Wallace. Idaho, married under the name of Charles Newton at Tacoma in Jan uary, 1919. An unknown woman at Wallace or Kellogg, Idaho, who sent an anony mous letter to Chief of Police W. J. Weir at Spokane. Wash. Mrs. James Creamer of Spokane Wash. Mrs. Minnie E. Bellew of Chicago. Mrs. Elizabeth F. Williamson of Sacramento. Mrs. Kathcrine Wombacher of Se attle. Mrs. Alma Estelle Snyder of Spo kane. Watson's arrest was caused by Mrs. Wombacher, the wife with whom he was 1ving at the time. WIFE AT SALEM . RETICENT Woman Refuses to Go to Los Ange les Unless Subpenaed. SALEM. -Or., April 30. (Special.) That 'Mrs. Kathryn Kruse Watson wife of J. P. Watson, alias James R. Huirt. who is under arrest at Los Angeles charged with bigamy in con nection with his marriage to more $12,000 Turned Over Declared to Rave Been Part Payment on Undetermined Debt. That J. R. Shaw was not coerced into paying $12,000 by threats of the penitentiary, but that he voluntarily paid over the amount when discov ered involved in a fraud as part pay ment of an indebtedness not yet de termined, is the answer of the Ham mond Lumber company to the sensa tional charges recently made in a suit filed in the circuit court against the firm by Mr. Shaw, who was man ager at Mill City for the lumber con cern. Mr. Shaw contended that-he had been threatened with jail if he did not make good the loss to the Ham mond company through a lumber con tract Becured by the Merrill Lumber & Shingle company, when it was found that he owned stock in the latter company, and that the $12,000 was paid under duress. In the answer filed yesterday. George B. McLeod and A. B. Ham mond of the Hammond company say that the bid of their company in this transaction was based on suggestions of J. R. Shaw and his brother, R. S. Shaw, and that they afterward learned that Mr. Shaw was a stock holder in the Merrill company and also in the Gooch Lumber & Shingle company and Hill & Cramer, bitter enemies of the Hammond concern. While supposedly holding the latter concerns at arms length, Mr. Shaw was their secret active manager as well as stockholder and by his ma chinations they received secret "un conscionable and excessive profits" through alleged fraudulent deals with the Hammond company, it is asserted. When faced with the facts, Mr. Shaw is said to have promised to make restitution, as evidence of which the $12,000 was a first payment on an indebtedness "not yet deter mined." The defendants assert that they never told Mr. Shaw he had violated the criminal laws of the state and was subject to prosecution in the criminal courts,, saying thatthey did, however, accuse him of violating his duty and breaking faith with them in manner which made him civilly liable for heavy damages. The case has attracted much at tention, as Mr. Shaw was manager of the Mills City office of the Hammond Lumber company for many years. $100,000 STOCK IS CLAIMED Demurrer Filed to Complaint In Hammond Lumber Case. ASTORIA, Or.. April 30. (Special.) A demurrer to the complaint was filed in the circuit court today by the defendants in the case of R. S. Shaw against the Hammond Lumber com pany, G. B. McLeod, J. K. Weather ford and A. B. Hammond. This ac tion was brought to recover posses sion of $100,000 worth of stock in the Hammond Lumber company which the complaint asserts was obtained by the defendants by fraud. The demur rer says: "There is a defect of parties de fendant in that it affirmatively ap pears from the complaint that John A. Shaw is an indispensable party de fendant in determining the question as to the rigflt of John A. Shaw to make the transfer of stock to the defendants and the power of the court to decree that .the defendants deliver the stock to the plaintiff in the event it determines the transfer to the defendants should be set aside." U. S. BICKERING DEPLORED Nation Faces Critical Situation, Says Mr. Leffingwcll. NEW YORK. April 30. The United States as a nation must get together, stop bickering and face the critical situation which confronts the world as It would a foreign wr. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Leffingwell told the Academy of Political Science at its semi-annual meeting here to day. The gathering was attended by prominent bankers, business men and public officials from various parts .of the country. x United States Senator Edge of New Jersey; who was to have addressed the academy, was unable to be pres ent. It was decided to include his prepared speech in the printed record of the meeting. DOCTOR KILLS CANNIBALS A. II. RICE, EXPLORER, WRITES OF GIANTS' ATTACK. Party, Paddling Up Tributary X Amazon, Set Upon by Huge Savages. NEWPORT, R. I.. April 30. (Spe cial.) While exploring an uncharted tributary on the Amazon river. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, well-known society explorer, was attacked by large force of cannibals and in the fight which ensued killed two, while another member of the expe dition kiled one before the cannibals became frightenedi and retreated. Dr. Rice, who has been in South America for several months, with Mrs. Rice, formerly Mrs. George D. Widener, is now on his way to the United States and expects to be in Newport about May 15. According to a letter received from one of the expedition. Dr. Rice and Chester Ober, in company with native Indian guides, went up the river and, when . paddling became too difficult, had to resort to use of long poles as means of navigation. When nearing tne snore a numoer or cannibals rushed from hiding to attack, being de ribed as giants, who wore nothing but scowls. Dr. Rice and Mr. Ober quicklyreaehed for repeating rifles and fired pointblank into the can nibals, . killing three. Terrified, the cannibals retreated, as did Dr. Rice's party later. Indian guides told the explorers that the cannibals made it a point of fasting three days before making an attack, and had they been successful, there, is little doubt but that the explorers would "have been killed. Mrs. Rice was with the expedition, but not with her husband at that timu. . FACT ALL about CLUBS! The OVER This message VITALLY concerns every man who. wears WORK clothing 1. Good Overalls are Scarce. 2. If men who don't need overalls buy them; it means WASTE. 3. If overalls are wasted, it means IN CREASED scarcity. 4. If overalls become more scarce it means EVEN HIGHER PRICES. As one of the leading manufacturers of work clothinc in the West we OPPOSE this movement. It is not a square deal to the working man, who will be forced to pay abnormally high prices because of the waste of others. It is not a square deal to the retail merchant. He is not responsible for the hih prices of today. The growth of this movement would force him to sell his clothinsr and furnishings at a loss ancl make it up on work clothes. We are asking the co-operation of every thinking citizen in stamping out the "OVERALL CLUB" movement, which threatens his best interests. v ELOESSER HEYNEMANN CO. San Francisco Mfgrs. of OVERALLS t2 Portland mm- We welcome correspondence from the readers of this paper on this subject. RUIN FACED BY H SUGAR ADVANCE PRESENTING GRAVE SITUATION". CAPITOL CONTRACTS LET Awards JIade at Olympia for Keat ing Below Estimates. OLTMPIA, Wash., April 30. (Spe cial.) The state capitol commission today awarded contracts for the con struction and equipment of the power and heating plant for the new capitol group. For the general construction, including the walls, tunnels, and 175-foot stack with stone facing, the contract was let to the Western Con struction company of Seattle for $132,330. The contract for the me chanical equipment was awarded to Bergh & Greggs. Tacoma. for $124,879. The total amount of .the contracts is approximately $30,000 below the architects' estimate. Plans provide for supplying service for the entire group when completed. TABOR JURY DISAGREES Case Against Aged Woman Goes , Over to Xext Term of Court. PAW PAW. Mich., April 30. The jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah I. Ta bor, 80-year-old Lawton (Mich.) wom an charged with manslaughter in con nection with the mysterious death of her daughter, Maude Tabor Virgo, re ported a disagreement tonight and was discharged by Judge Howard Wiest. The case goes over to the next cir cuit court term, which opens the mid dle of May, but it was indicated a postponement to October probably would be sought. With Wages and Operating Ex penses at Apex, Unprecedented Rise Conies as Hard Blow. SAX FRANCISCO. April 29. (Spe cial.) With the announcement today of a further advance in sugar to the wholesale price of $22.75 a hundred pounds in carload lots, grave possibll tiei were hinted by fruit canners throughout the state and a situation is foreseen that may involve the fruitgrowers of Calironia in losses totaling millions of dollars. . Last year's canning season sugar was purr chased by the various canning con cerns at an average price of $9 a hundred and even that was consid ered too high. Now, with wages and other operat ing expenses at their apex, the un precedented advance in the price of sugar comes upon tne canners ana the fruitgrowers of the state as a crushing blow, and ltis freely inti mated in canning circles today that the amount of fruit put up will be comparatively small. In addition to this fact, the trade is reported to be carrying over considerable portion of last year s pack, which could not he exported because of the unsettled European conditions which have seriously af fected the rates oT foreign exchange and made the export trade in canned fruits' unprofitable. "We do not know exactly where we stand," admitted Elmer F. Chase of the Richmond-Chase company, one of tho large Santa Clara valley fruit canning and packing concerns, today. "The Jobbers are showing no inclina tion to buy, for they already have goods on hand. Furthermore, because of the steady upward trend of sugar quotations, we are unable at the pres ent time to furnish quotations on this year's pack. "Usually at this time of the year we are able to tell approximately what the price of fruit will be, and with the price of sugar stable we can give a reasonable estimate to our cus tomers. This, however, is now im possible, and with the prediction of a bumper crop in the Santa Clara valley, as well as In other sections of the state, one of the most serious problems in the state's fruit-canning industry has arisen." From all sections of the state come the same reports as to the fruit sit uation and both farmers and can neries are experiencing grave appre hension as to the season's outcome. grounds on the state game farm here about the middle of May. The traps are here waiting to bo installed as soon as the concrete house is com pleted on which work will start im mediately, said Bruce B. Brundage, president of the association, yesterday. Trap Men to Invite Commission. EUGENE. Or.. April 30. (Special.) All members of the state game. and fish commission will be Invited by the newly . -organized Lane County Sportsmen's association to attend the dedication trap shoot at the new club Two Automobiles Collide. An automobile driven by Paul Orlieg, 294 Jefferson street. was wrecked last night in a collision with an auto driven by H. H. Haynes. 333 East Forty-first - street, at East Twenty-sixth and East Burnside streets. No one was injured. Itching. Scratching. Skin Diseases That Burn Like Flames of Fire Here Is a Sensible Treatment That Gets Prompt Results. For real downright, harassing dis comfort, very few disorders can ap proach so-called skin disorders, such as Eczema, Tetter, Boils, eruptions, scaly irritations and similar skin troubles, notwithstanding the lavish use of salves, lotions, washes and other treatments applied externally to the irritated parts. No one ever heard of a person be ing afflicted with any form of skin disease whose blood was in good con dition. 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