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4. TTIE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER l.5, 1920 BRANSON IS PLEDGED I JO FILIAL DEVOTION Pardoned Convict Dedicates Life to His Parents. $200 IS SAVED IN PRISON Balcm Is Left to Go Back to Yam- liill County "I Am the Happiest Man in the World," He Says. SALEM, Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) "I am the happiest man in the world, and Governor Olcott may rest assured that the remainder of my life will be dedicated to making comfortable my aged father and mother who so loyally etood by me during my long years of Incarceration in the state penitentiary." This was the assertion of William Branson as he left a local hotel early today to Join his parents who reside In Yamhill county. Branson last night received from Governor Olcott an un conditional pardon after partially serving a life term In prison for the murder of William Booth, a rancher who resided in the vicinity of Wil lamina. Innocence la Maintained. At the time of receiving his formal pardon, Branson made no extended etatement, simply informing Governor Olcott and penitentiary officials that he was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and had ex pected executive clemency. In less than half an hour after re ceiving the document insuring his freedom Branson had packed his per sonal effects at the penitentiary and taken quarters at a local hotel, where he remained until this morn ing. During his term in the prison Branson had saved more than $200, a check for which was handed to him ty "Warden Compton shortly before ha departed from the penitentiary. Release In Surprise. John Arthur Pender, who also re ceived a pardon last night after serv ing nearly nine years of a life term for the murder of Mrs. Daisy Weher man and her little son, did not wait for a train to take him to Portland, but left Salem in an automobile an hour after his release. He had pre viously sent a telegram to his mother In Portland notifying her that he had been pardoned and was on hts way to the metropolis. Practically ever since Branson en tered the penitentiary his parents had called at the governor's office once each month to urge hts pardon As often they were disappointed, and the release of their son last night came as a complete surprise. i - a FIGHTING MOTHER ANP PARDONED SON. Hill I nMin , ?w ' i ft I:- . I - 1 f 'i 1 I . fx , - ' 4 , i i - r ' X 1 'JSSSAT-y&SiS I INE MAY POINT WAY OF ELECTION Eyes of Nation Focused Now on Pine Tree State. SUFFRAGE VOTE WATCHED Democrats Hope for Favorable Switch on Account of Lie a gue Issue. Jonn Arthnr Pender, pardoned from life term In the penitentiary and hla mother. Sirs. S. C. Fender, who fouht nine yenra to sain his release. IS ADVEXTISTS PROPOSE TO BCILD $250,000 STRUCTURE. PEXDER HAS MANY CALERS Spanish-American War Veteran to Welcome His Restoration. Nearly a hundred friends, social workers and clubwomen called yes terday at the Portland home of John Arthur Pender, released from a life sentence in the state penitentiary when pardoned Saturday by Governor Olcott. The callers extended their congratulations as heartily to Mrs. S. C. Pender, 70-year-old mother, and to his wife, who for nine years have worked incessantly in behalf of the son and husband. Telegrams, flowers and special notes of greeting and congratulations poured in a steady stream at the little house at 681 Hoyt street. Mrs. R. E. Bondurant and Mrs. G. J. Frankel, prominent clubwomen, who have done much to aid Pender, were among the first to call Sunday morn ing. Representatives of Scout Young camp of the Spanish-American war veterans brought an invitation to Mr. Pender yesterday to attend their meet ings and preparations are being made for a "jubilee" celebration in welcom ing him in Portland. "Those friends and social workers who gave such untiring effort in my behalf feel that they would like to aid me financially, now that I am free," said Mr. Pender yesterday. "1 want them to know that my heart is filled with appreciation of the great help they have given, but, now that the result has been obtained, the op portunity comes for me to work and support my family. And that is Just what I proposed to do from the very start." No plans have been completed by the little family as yet. Whether Mr. Pender will remain here or return to Columbia county is undecided, but he adds that, with his pardon restoring his full rights to citizenship in Ore ron, he will take advantage of , such situation. He will leave Tues day for Salem, where he will finally extend his appreciation to Governor Olcott and those officials of the state who were instrumental in gaining his freedom. Work of Demolishing Old Hospital at East Sixtieth Street to Start This Week. A new Portland sanitarium, ulti mately to cost more than $250,000, will be built by a special board of regents of the Seventh Day Adven tists on the site of their present hos pital. The structure now occupying the grounds at Kast Sixtieth street and Glendale avenue- will be torn down and the new building erected in its place." Work on demolishing the old struc ture will commence the latter part of this week, or the first of next. No patients have been accepted in the sanitarium since August 31. R. W. Nel5on. manager, declared yesterday that the .board decided on tearing down the present building "chiefly because it had outlived its usefulness and actually become a fire trap." It was stated that this ction was voluntary. The new structure, for which Sut ton & Whitney, architects, are pre paring plans, will be "U" shaped when completed, though the first unit, on which construction will be commenced as soon as the grounds are cleared, will be "L" shaped. The sanitarium is operated on the plan of the Battle Creek sanitarium and will not accept contagious cases. Medical, surgical and obstetrical cases will be admitted. The new building will be capable of housing 75 patients at one time and will provide modern equipment in operating rooms. X-ray rooms and the like. It is not expected comple tion will be reached until next fall. The architects will apply for a per mit today to start demolishing the present building. Graduating exercises for nurses of the sanitarium were held last Satur day night. Professor Rine of Walla Walla, delivered the address to the class, while Dr. W. B. Holden gave the class charge and conferred diplomas. While construction of the building is under way student nurses will not lose time in their training, many of them having gone to local hospitals, while some will study in California hospitals. When the building is com pleted they will return. merce committee, I had much to do with Mr. Harding and was in a po sition to observe his attitude on this large subject. What to do with our merchant marine which cost the .gov ernment over $3,000,000,000, was a question which taxed the best thought of America. The senate commerce committee had hearings on proposed legislation covering a period of sev eral months. During the hearings. Senator Hard ing showed a very clear conception of America's needs for a merchant marine adequate to care for her com merce. He was ever alert to. use his influence against the interests that desired to procure the ships under favorable terms which would have worked a hardship on the taxpayers or the country. His mind was cen tered upon legislation that would as sure the American people ample tonnage for their products and a pol icy that would develop new ports and trade routes. In many conversations with the senator, I found him greatly inter ested in farm problems and the de velopment of our basic Industry through reclamation and irrigation of our idle lands. In my opinion. Senator Harding will make an ideal president and will bring to his assistance the best inougni oi America, ana we may all vote for him with confidence that he will live up to the traditions of his party. HUM DEATH QUIZ TONIGHT CORONER TO SUBPEXA OFFI CERS WHO KILLED HEDDERLY Salem Paper Plant Starts. SALEM, Or.,' Sept. 12 (Special.) The Oregon Pulp and Paper com pany, which recently completed its plant here, yesterday turned out Its first product. A crowd of Salem res idents was on hand to witness the machines perform, and the initial out put of the plant was eagerly sought as souvenirs. The plant will be in full operation within the next two or three weeks, and will employ about 250 men. Expert Demonstrates Culling. CENT RA LI A, Wash., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) A E. Anderson, poultry expert from the Washington State college, frave a demonstration in culling yes terday at the plant of the St. Helens Incubator company on Fords prairie. Tomorrow Mr. Anderson will give Similar demonstrations at Kapavine and Vader. 'S ACTS PRAISED SENATOR McXART TELLS OF COURSE AT WASHINGTON. More People than ever before are drinking MSTANT STUM Pqpular because of its fine flavor; health value and fair price Sold eveiywfeere by grocers Oregon Solon Paints Intimate Pic ture of Candidate and His Stands and Policies. BT CHARLES L. McNART. (United States Senator From Oregon.) For more than three years I have known intimately WarrenG. Harding, republican nominee for president, having served with him in the senate since the early part of June, 1917. Durinaf that period of American po litical life every angle of a legis lator's mind was brought into the foreground and I am pleased to say that the senator's mind stood steady and his voice ever sounded the words of Americanism. When some would falter he beckoned to go ahead and never 'once was his Intense patriotism questioned or his Judgment dis counted. Throughout his career in the Ohio state legislature, and as a United' States senator, his influence has ever been used in the service of the people. By temperament he is gracious, yet strong in his convictions and he yields only when after careful thought he finds his course a mistaken one. During my term in the senate, Mr. Harding voted for woman's suffrage and subsequently used his Influence to secure Its ratification In several states. He voted in favor of submit ting the national prohibition amend ment to the citizenry of the country. In fact, he -voted for all legislation that had for Its purpose the promo tion of our war programme. After the conclusion of the war he voted for the treaty of peace and the cove nant of a league of nations with such reservations .as w re thought by the majority of the senate to be essential to the welfare of our country. A3 member of the senate com- Bullet That Proved Fatal Entered Forehead Behind Right Temple, Investigation Shows. An inquest Into the death of Bert Hedderly, who was shot by federal and police officers in a liquor raid near.. Union avenue . and East Oak, streets Friday night, will be held tonight at the courthouse, according to Coroner Smith. The Jury is' to be selected today and subpoenaes issued for the officers who took part in the raid. An autopsy will 'be performed to determine the course of the bullet after it pene trated the skull. Investigation indi cates the bullet, which pierced Ked derly's arm, was fired. from the rear, while the bullet which caused his death entered his forehead slightly above and to the rear of the right temple, said Coroner Smith. Coroner Smith would not state whether he thought the officers who took part in the raid were within their rights in firing upon a man who had been called upon to halt, saying that was a point that . would have to be decided by the coroner's Jury tonight in fixing the responsibility for the fatality. The testimony of the officers implicated need not be in troduced in the Investigation, said Coroner Smith, as the men cannot be forced to testify against themselves. NURSE PLANS CAMPAIGN Miss Godsey Seeks to Improve Marlon Health Conditions. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 12. (Special.) Miss Lillian Godpey, Marion couty health nurse, has opened offices in the courthouse and this week will enter upon an active campaign destined to Improve the health con ditions of this section of the state. Miss Godsey arrived here two weeks ago. She said she had been received with enthusiasm at all towns visited in the county and that practically every physician in the county had volun teered to assist her in her work. Miss Godsey was accompanied on her re cent trips by Miss Cecil L. Schreyer of Portland, associate state advisory nurse. , WILLAMETTE HOPES HIGH Registration Records at University Expected to Be Shattered. SALEM. Or., Sept. 12. (Special.) All registration records in Willamette university will be shattered this year,' according to members of the faculty. This prediction Is based on Inquiries received from different states, to gether with the present bona fide en rollments. The university opens Sep-tember'IS. According to President Doney, more than 100 women already have filed applications for accommodations in Lausanne hall.' which is now nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy later m the month. (Continued F"rrm Fh-irt Page.) or is supposed to indicate the way in which the political winds are going to blow in November. For that rea son a very close study at close range of what has been going on here in a political way and the influences at work since the primaries were held in June Is Important if people are ' to profit by a knowledge of what the result of these endeavors and influ ences are likely to be and what results are most likely to follow them. Gubernatorial Contest Keen. Of first Importance Maine on Mon day elects a governor. The term is two years. The voters will have an opportunity to elect either Colonel Frederic H. Parkhurst. republican, or Bertrand G. Mclntlre. democrat. Both men are widely known in the state, have both been elected or appointed to positions of trust, are strong party men and of about the same age. Both have been successful in business and both are descended from old Maine families. Either, it seems generally admitted,' would make a representa tive governor There is no reason for supposing, however, that Mc lntlre can be elected. On the other hand. If a fairly representative num ber of women go to the pons, as seems likely. Colonel Parkhurst will very likely receive a majority of about 26,000. ' Without the women voting his majority Would, it seems, likely be not far from 12.000 or 14.000 less. Local Issnes MtsslniC. Two ears ago when Governor Carl t. wuni.tt nrrtud the stale over mr. Mclntire by only 900O. a lot oi ioi issues appeared in the result which are not there mis iimc. p9t th governor not less than 5000 votes. The result of 1916 when Gov ernor Milliken. running for the firat time, mustered a majority of 18,830 over Governor Oakley C. C'urtie. me democratic nominee, 1 taken on all .m. . more nearly like situation Governor Curtis had been elected In law hv reason of the progressive fight in the state, but had defeated Governor Wiljiam T. names oy ou.j 3789 votes despite over is.owi casi for Halbert P. Gardner, progressive. Republican Representatives Race. Also on next Monaay Maine voters will elect four representatives. ine nominees by party and district are as follows: Republican 1. Carroll 1j. rseeay, z. Wallace II. White Jr.; jonn a. Peters; 4, Ira G. Hersey. Democrat 1. Frank H. Haskell; 2, Wallace in. i-nce. 3. Archie C. Towle; 4, Leon G. C. Brown. Mr. Peters has already served rour terms; Messrs. White and Hersey each two terms. Mr. Beedy is a new man for thia honor.. All of the democratic nominees have been making active contests and speaking many times, but as the state is now districted, a democratic candidate for representa tive must be possessed of very un usual vote-getting qualities to win his district. Republican leaders say that when the machinery is working properly and with no issue such as Bull Mooseism to tempt voters away from the party ticket, no democrat has half a chance to go to congress. And this year the republican ma chinery is functioning in the usual Btiaoe with no cross currents to raise havoc with the plans of those who want four republicans from Maine in congress. Party Sweep Predicted. Independent, unbiased observation covering a period of a month or more rieht up among the voters and party toilers leads to the decided belief that all four of the candidates nomi nated on the republican ticket will be elected. Two of these, Messrs. Peters and White, are now looked upon as among the ablest members in the New Kngland delegation of 32 members. 'Maine will also elect a state auditor. Roy L. Wardwell of Augusta, now. auditor, and a republican, will no doubt be elected over James J. Neilon.of Biddeford, nominated in the democratic primaries. Neither the state senate, which now consists of Jl members. 28 of whom are republi cans, nor the house of representtives, composed of 110 republicans and 41 democrats, should change political complexion as the result of this elec tion. It is not so easy to determine what will take place in Maine in Novem ber. The state has in its results then upfiet many a well-reasoned calcula tion as based entirely too firmly on the results -of September. All the voting then will be confined to the election of president. Wo Spilt Bothers This Year. While it Is true that this state has given its electoral vote to but one democrat since 1876, and this to Pres ldent Wilson in 1912. when the Roose-velt-Taft split took place, the guber natorial returns when compared with the electoral, throw some Interesting pictures on the screen. For example and as before noted. Governor Milli ken won in 1916 by 13,830 votes. When the votes for electors were counted the same year the "state was shown to have been carried for Charles E. Hughes but by only 5388 votes. . Those who pretend to know the rea son for this situation declare that Maine never warmed up to Justice Hughes; that this formed the sole reason why he came so very near to defeat right upon the heels of a sat isfactory republican victory in the September or state election. That was one of the closest shaves that the Pine Tree state has ever had, for majority of but that size with upward of I3d,ooo votes cast was indeed an escape by only a hair's breadth. Main republicans say nothing like this i going to take place this year; that with Governor Calvin Coolidge good New Englander, holding second place on the ticket the vote will show as large or larger republican majority in November as at the state election held within the next few days. Still this is but a boast. Democrats Jlope ror Trarfragrc Just what is suffrage going to mean in Maine? The state has nearly If not quite as many women qualified to vote as men; and at once upon th Tennessee ratification being certified to Washington. Governor Millike called the legislature into special ses sion; registration acts were passed almost two weeks before election, making it possible for all entitled to vote to do so. Tennessee's action came too late to place any Maine women in nomination for office this year. Democrats have expressed the be- iier mat women nere win pe attract- ed to that ticket by reason of Its - i favoring the league of nations Just as advocated by President Wilson and that the idea of the league takes a stronger hold and has a deeper ap peal, as some claim upon women's -minds than upon men's minds. State republican leaders hold no such view and declare that in no state has the politics been changed by women's votes at least that argue as one may, no actual swinging from one party to another by reason of woman suffrage can be proved as the single cause when applied to any body poll tic so large as an entire state. The real point of the matter is that or ganization counts, or at least has in the past counted, for as much more in Maine as -elsewhere. It should count for more than suffrage in this state this year. And the democrats say they have no organization and that It is now too late to form one. I This Is not the situation In the re- publican camp. Harding and Coolldge clubs are springing up in every town and village and leaders are every where busy advocating making the next administration at Washington republican. It is certain, too. that in Maine the league, as proposed with the Lodge amendments, would have found much general favor with the voters that with article X in the Wilson form would have been suffi cient to cause the United States to stay out in the minds not only of most republicans but large numbers or Independents as well. And In Maine today as in all our states save in the solid south, there are enough voters who regard political ties so lightly as to make it possible with these voters vigorously back of a cause, to carry an election.-. In the matter of public meetings both parties in Maine have in the last two elections and again this year conducted them as if afraid the enemy would steal their thunder. No meet ings were held outside of the big republican "get-together" at Island park, near Augusta, until ten days ago. During that period the speech making has been fast and furious. Both Franklin D. Roosevelt, demo cratic vice-presidential candidate, and Governor Coolidge have spoken in Maine, as have half a dozen senators and a dozen representatives from other states. It is needless to add that all state candidates have attend ed many meetings and have presented their views from platforms from Kit tery to Eastport. REPUBLICANS SURE OP MAIXE Democrats Admit They Have Little Chance at Polls Today. BY MARK SULLIVAN. ' (Copyright by the New York World. Pub 'litihed by Arrftngement.) CHICAGO, Sept. 13. (Special.) The necessity of satisfying the public interest In the campaign fund Invest! gation here in Chicago has prevented your correspondent from doing what would have been more interesting and also more important. In the absence f opportunity to make a personal urvey of Maine in anticipation of the lection mere tomorrow, all that can e given is a summary of judgments xprcssed by local leaders of both parties In various districts of that state. The net of these judgments i ecidedly favorable to the republicans, The democrats admit they have but scanty organization and have not done much work. Almost the only demo cratic effort has been the presence in he state of national spellbinders from utside. The republicans on the other and are enthusiastic about their or ganization, and have been busy and effective in every county and town f the state. The republicans were areful to put up four strong candi ates for congress, while the demo- rat ic candidates are admitted to be, n the whole, weaker. When the suf rage .amendment was adopted re ently, the republican organization was already mobilized to get their women registered, the democrats were ot. There is, as an observer in Hancock county expresses it, "an intense feei ng of republicanism in the republican party and lukewarmness in the demo ratic party. Leaders on both side mention the league of nations. Som republican leader say that a few members of their party, who believe strongly in the league, will vote fo the democrats tomorrow. These sam republicans, they say, will return to the republican fold at the presiden tlal election in November, but they will vote with the democrats in th hope of administerng a warning to th republicans. On the other hand, thi balanced by the admissions from democratic leaders' that a certain umber of democrats of Irish descent who are hostile to the league of na tions, will express their hostility by voting the republican ticket tomor IBN30 1HE .YCfflLmGJLANS JTR iililfiSSll Hliillil is PS ill m 1VTEXT to his mother, the best friend a young man can have is his bank balance. Like his mother, that never deserts him when he needs it most. You cannot always be young, and you cannot begin to save too early. Let lis show you how, TODAY. . THE NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK PORTLAND. OREGON. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Ask for Mr. Ku ' row. Attacks which have been made 6800, but In 1916. at the presidential during the last week of the campaign election, the republican majority was against the republican candidate for: but 5400. Such a result as is predicted governor, may or may not be a result which would otherwise have been received as a test of the feeling throughout the country this year. In the lack of this episode, the re publicans counted oh and some demo crats more or less admitted. a probable republican majority of from 12,000 to 8000, without the women s vote, and of possibly 10,000 more "with tho women's vote. These figures are large relative to the results of other recent elections. In 1918 the repub lican candidate for governor won by this year would be justly received by politicians everywhere as indicating a marked republican trend throughout the country. Ex-Emperor Pays Congratulations, AMERONGEN, Sept. 12. The Ger man ex-emperor last night visited Bentinck castle to congratulate Eliza beth, daughter of Count von Bentinck, who is to be married soon to Captain Siguard von Ilsemann, once an adju tant of the emperor. 'Ok I -"ST Yes or No 1 is the answer to a ques tion every woman knows. Her answer is her bid for happiness and love or jewels, silks and disappointment. NORMA TALMADGE In Arthur Goodrich's Broadway Triumph 'YES OR NO' "50 YEARS AGO" The Liberty's Newest Mu lon.1 Oddity, Presentlnjc Idnh Lidyard and Albert Gillette. Also the Liberty -Review and News Events. ALL THIS WEEK WSWi , & vow uwltr!. 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