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THE -MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1920 MAYOR OF VANCOUVER, WASHL, MISSING SINCE SATURDAY. BABY'S RESTORATION BELIEVED INTENDED lillllfM G. R. Percival Disappears While Out for Long Walk. Plot by Kidnapers of Stagg i Child Scented. LIT ELKS JOIN IN SEARCH MOVE TO BE BLOCKED I 6 VANCOUVER MAYOR MISSING. HUNT ON loor Health and Worry Over Suit by Lieutenant's Widow Be lieved Responsible. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 18. (Spe fal.) O. R. Percival, mayor of this ity, has been missing: since 4 o'clock unday afternoon, when he was seen ear the Liberty notel, walking back .nd forth inspecting the pavement ewly laid there. He carried his over oat on his arm. Mr. Percival attended a meeting of e port commission Saturday night id was taker, home. He arose Sun ly morning and left about 9 o'clock. Ding his wife he was going for a ng walk. Later, it was found he id left his watch, purse and money id indentif ication card In his bed. .e is said to have taken bonds to is wife Saturday. As he has been i the habit of taking long walks, othing unusual was thought about it ntil today when it was found he had ot returned home last night. Elks Join In Search. Searching parties were sent out to ay. the sheriff's office and the police epartment supervising the hunts. At :30 o'clock, about 20 Elks, of which jdge Mr. Percival was a member, iined in the search. All of the ter itory beyond Twenty-sixth street to he city limits was diligently exam .led in vain. A woman late today said she had een a man, who answered the des ription of the mayor, walking back nd forth inspecting the pavement ear the Liberty hotel, near the J. M. tandifer Construction corporation iiipyards. The searchers then began ombing the brush in. that vicinity. William Thompson, game warden, "i a launch, made a trip along the ashington side, of the river for sev ral miles down In the hopes that if iie mayor had fallen into the river, here would be some trace. He found othing, however. Mayor's Health Poor. Mr. Percival has not been In good 'lealth for some time, and for this -eason refused to run for mayor igain, to succeed himself. Mrs. Jay M. Fields, widow of Lieutenant Fields, who was killed here in an automobile accident, September 16. Friday filed a claim for $101,000 against the city, and this worried Mr. Percival, and he is known to have talked a good deal about it. Friends think that his mind may have broken under the strain of worry and ill health, and that he has wandered away. He had no money with him, as all his cash was left at home. It Is hardly believed that he would be held up in broad daylight. He has been a successful attorney and his son. Ralph Percival, has been in partnership with him. He has no financial worries and his home life was altogether harmonious. E MEN MEET WRITING MARIXE POLICIES BY AGEXTS IX STATE CKCED. Appointment of Committee to Con fer With Chamber and Other Organizations on Proposal. Steps to obtain the writing of mar ine insurance orginating in Oregon for Oregon agents were favored by 'the Fire Insurance Exchange of Port land, at its regular monthly business meeting yesterday noon at the Hotel Benson. The president was author ized to appoint a committee of three o confer on the proposal with the Chamber of Commerce and other bod ies actively interested in Oregon's business expansion. State Insurance Commissioner Bar bur of Salem, spoke on co-operation between the insurance agents of the etate and the insurance departments of Oregon. Mr. Barbur paid 'partic ular reference to efforts to obtain new legislation and said that as state fire marshal he will recommend some amendments to obtain more funds for his department. John B. Coffey was chosen chair man for the next meeting of the ex change on November 15. In the ab sence of the president, W". S. Halvor, Harvey Wells presided, while Burt Richards was chairman. J G. R. PERCrVAU RECLAMATION PLAN LAID EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN BE UNDERTAKEN, TO Western States Conference at Spo kane Names Committee to Carry On Work. SPOKANE, "Wash., Oct. 18. An ed ucational campaign under the aus pices of the western states reclama tion association in which the recla mation idea of the 17 western arid and. semi-arid states will be outlined to the east will be instituted at once, according to a meeting of the project promoters here Sunday. At the conference were Governor Davis of Idaho, president of the West ern States Reclamation association; James A. Johnson of Shelby, Mont., president of the Northwest Reclama tion league; N. W. Durham and James A. Ford, directors of the latter asso ciation; E. F. Blaine of Seattle, direc tor in both associations, and C. E. Arney, immigration and agricultural agent of the Northern Pacific railway. According to the programme tenta tively outlined, a committee of seven to direct the work, will be appointed. A sum of $100,000 to finance the work will be raised. Of the committee of seven, three will be appointed by the Western States Reclamation associa tion. Of the $100,000 to be raised, the Northwestern Reclamation league is to raise $35,000. An additional $10,500 will be raised by the league to fi nance work within the five states which it comprises, to assist in the national campaign of the parent or ganization, the Western States Rec lamation association. This money will be apportioned among these states as follows: Washington to raise $13,000, Oregon $7800, Idaho $13,000, Montana $7S00 and Wyoming $3900. the boundary board of the latter coun ty, according to an opinion given by Attorney-General I. H. Van Winkle. The opinion was asked by J. A. Churchill. state superintendent of schools, following receipt of a letter from C. A. Jewell, city superintendent of the schools at Sheridan. It was stated in the letter submitted to Mr. Van Winkle that . district No. 48 of Yamhill county included practically the entire town of Sheridan, but that the town is on the southern boundary of the district and the town laps over into district No. 4-5. The voters of district No. 48 want to annex a part of district No. 45, but this can only be done, according to the attorney-general, by consent of the boundary board of the latter dis-trict. LIGGETT TO VISIT STATE NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS PIiAX DINNER FOR NOVEMBER. Banquet Arranged to Draw Atten tion to National Defense Prob lems and. National Guard. WORK ON CHURCH STARTS Remodeling ot Oregon City Home to Be Completed in 9 0 Days. OREGON CITT. Or.. Oct. 18. (Spe cial.) Work of remodeling the for mer home of Charles H. Caufield on EiRhth and Center streets, com menced this morning:. The 'Methodist church will occupy the building with in 90 days, the property having been purchased for that purpose. The main auditorium of the church will be on the second floor. Some time ago it was rumored that the lower floor would be used as a parsonage, but this is not the case, and when completed it will be one of the most modern churches in the city. JUSTICE STUDIES BALLOT George Brown Discusses Measures for November Election. SALEM, Or., Oct. 18. (Special. George M. Brown, justice of the Ore gon supreme court, at a luncheon of the Salem Commercial club held here today, discussed from an impartial and impersonal standpoint the 11 measures and amendments to be submitted for the consideration of the voters at the November election. Although not- committing himself outright, Justice Brown intimated that passage of the single tax amendment would be equivalent to confiscation of property: His attitude also indi cated that he was opposed to the proposed measure to limit the legal rate of interest in Oregon to 5 per cent, and that he questioned the prob ability of a more intelligent vote un der a measure which would require every adult citizen to . exercise the privilege accorded hira or her by the ballot. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 18. (Special.) Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, who commanded the American armies in the field in France and Belgium, will visit Oregon next month to at- tend a dinner which will be given by the officers of the Oregon National Guard, stationed in Multnomah county. General Liggett, who is commander of the ninth corps area. Pacific coast. with headquarters at San Francisco, today advised Georoge A. White, ad jutant-general of the state, who served under him for a time in France, of his acceptance of the in vitation tendered by Colonel White for the Portland officers. He will be guest of honor at' the dinner, for which several hundred guests, including prominent army, navy and national guard officers and prominent citizens, will be invited. Arrangements for the affair are in the hands of a Portland committee, headed by Major J. F. Drake, who uggested that the dinner be given to bring attention to the new national defense problem which center large ly about the national guard. The day and hour for the affair have not yet been set. General Liggett is known through out the country as the "man in the field" in France. He commanded the famous first corps, which broke the German drive on Paris early in 1918. HAROLD KLATT DESERTER Youth Escaped Jail Through Chim ney ; Also Fled Away. VANCOUVER, Wash,, Oct. 18. (special, j tiaroia viatt, who re cently was sentenced to from six months to ten years in the state re formatory at Monroe, was also a de serter from the army. Hung Klatt was in jail here In September last year and escaped by crawling up the chimney to the roof of the court house and down the drain pipe. COUNTY RIGHTS UPHELD School District May Not Annex Territory 'Without Consent. SALEM. Or., Oct. 18. (Special.) The boundary board of one county has no legal authority to annex to a school district part of another dis trict Wholly or partly included in an other county without the consent of PUBLIC MUSIC TALKS SET lrce Lectures Planned Under Aus pices of Orchestra. Two tree lectures will be given Wednesday and Thursday ot this week under auspices of the Portland Symphony orchestra. All Fortlanders are invited to attend as guests of the orchestra, the lectures not being re stricted to patrons of the symphony. Evelyn McFarlane McClusky will cpeak tomorrow at 3:30 at Sherman Clay company's concert hall on "The Four Choirs of the Orchestra." She has been giving a series of instruc tive talks to the children in the public schools and is well equipped to handle this subject. An illustrated lecture will be given Thursday evening by Dr. John J. Landsbury. He will speak on "The New World Symphony." by Dvorak and, the Tschalkowsky concerto. The lecture will be given in Room "A" of th Central library. Dr. Landsbury is dean of the school of music at the University of Oregon. The Beauty of The Lily can be yours. Its wonderfully pure, soft, pearly white ap pearance, free from all blemishes, will be com parable to the perfect beauty of your skin complexion if you will and sr- W a 11 t l o to i-1 1 1 KM A V: liiH King Authorities Declare Any At tempt to Remove Infant From New Xork 'Will Be Kougnt. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 18. King county authorities said today they had scented a plot on the part of the kidnapers of baby Bobby Stagg, their friends and hired accomplices, to bring the child back under cover from New York to T acorns, whence It was stolen September 14 ana return it to its mother's doorstep. "If they can accomplish this feat," said Deputy Sheriff Starwich today, "the fact that the baby Is safe with its mother again might possibly in fluence the New York governor to re fuse the extradition of Betty Brainerd. "But such a scheme is going to meet with failure. The moment anyone but the proper authorities leaves New York with Bobby Stagg, that con stitutes another kidnaping and will be prosectued as such." - Baby' Return Expected. Starwich said he believes Police Chief Sherry of Richmond, Va., who tele graphed the local sheriffs office and the Tacoma police Saturday that he understood the baby would be in the hands of its mother by Saturday next. must have had some reason for mak ing such a statement. Sherry's telegrams and others that turned out to be fakes, taken together, convince him, Starwich said, that the kidnapers are trying to get Bobby back to Tacoma under cover of a bar rage of misleading messages, calcu lated to throw investigators into i turmoil. "That the baby had been returned." said Starwich, "would be a final coup for the attorneys for Betty Brainerd to spring on the governor of New York the day Captain of Detectives Strickland ot Tacoma asks the gover nor for extradition papers. Baby's Whereabouts Unknown. "But it won't work. Even should the governor refuse to permit her be ing taken out of New York, she will be closely watched. And the moment she leaves the state, she will be ar rested again and another effort made to bring her back." No authentic word as to the where abouts of the baby has yet reached here from New York. Mrs. Stagg, the mother, has relapsed into her former sleepless, highly nervous condition, which was relieved momentarily last week by the false message that Miss Brainerd had surrendered the baby. William Phillips, sender of the false message from New York, has ex plained that he got his erroneous in formation from the New York district attorney's office and as secretary of the New York Elks lodge, thinking it true, he telegraphed the informa tion to the Tacoma Elks in good faith. A New York newspaper man, friend of Miss Brainerd, telegraphed the following "-message to the Tacoma News-Tribune. Return of Child Is Pledged. "Am able now to pledge by word that the child will be returned soon. "Child well. My interest now in leniency for Miss Brainerd and Stagg. Believe I may be able to locate Stagg and would urge him to return and face trial, provided bail could be arranged in the preliminary trial. Do you know any Tacoman who might provide bail, under described circumstances? What would be attitude of authorities to- wsrds both? Will my pledge that child be returned soon suspend arrest of Seattle people?" The reply was that the authorities would not offer immunity to either Stagg or Miss Brainerd, though Mrs. Stagg emphatically said she wanted the baby above all else. IMMUNITY FOB PAIR. SOUGHT Hodge Speaks in Cowlitz. , KELSO, Wash., Oct. IS. (Special.) "Bob" Hoage, formerly sheriff of King county and candidate for gov ernor in 1916, spent today in Cowlitz county, campaigning for the - repob lican state and national ticket Mr. Hodge spoke at Woodland this after noon. This evening he will deliver an address in Kelso. Mr. Hodge, while in eastern Washington recently. found that many former supporters of the farmer-labor ticket are breaking away from it. Mrs. Stagg Is Requested to Drop Charges of Kidnaping. TACOMA. Wash.. Oct. 18. (Spe cial.) Whatever Edward P. Shaw, one of the editors of William. Ran dolph Hearst's New York American, knows, he is buoying up the hopes of Edith Cunningham Stagg by telling her to be patient and await develop ments as her son Bobby. 21 months old, is safe. Shaw is seeking im munity for George T. Stagg, father of the boy, and Betty Brainerd, who are accused of kidnaping Bobby from Mrs. Stagg's home in Tacoma on the night of September IS last. Shaw has taken an unusual interest in the case and has been telegraphing tc a newspaper friend here to have Mrs. Stagg drop the .charges against her ex-husband and Miss Brainerd. G 1 1 r eorgc Bernard Shaw Defines A Qentlemands One WhdJries cjoPutmore Into&fe Dhaw He ZJahes Out Of It Quality, As Expressed By iSleinBloch IdeahfDriescifoPut Uhrelnto Clothesan'DhePrieeEntitles Vhe WearerVoExpectyj! SieinShehJnd Shde jlrels Onebid IndivkihhJsVhe Blades OPA Sheens Smart Clothes J "Merchandise of cJ M tyVrite to the SiciTi-Bloch furlSmartneSS aUlonthl erit .Only jarm atfiochetftexTlY lazme w' J lens MSh2on$ The latter is held on 83000 bail in New York and Stagg is at large. 'Tell your granddaughter I know positively that the baby will be re turned," Shaw said in a telegram sent today to Mrs. E. Cunningham, great- grandmother of the missing baby. Can tell exact time by middle of week. Know that baby is well and properly cared for. Ask her to have faith in this statement for a few days." Mrs. Stagg did not make Shaw's name public. One of the theories that the police held following official denial from William T. Phillips, secretary of the New York Elks lodge No. 1. that the 55? 3k is the Cuticura Soap IS IDEAL- For the Hands Sosp. Of u fci iM) nt,TI com .CBc wtrTlMw, BrBnTtpfas Trade-Mark that stands for QUALITY We Stick up for the quality of our goods. Our Prices are right. For Coal, Wood or Gas or Com bination of AIL 3,500 Dealers in United States 135 Dealers in St. Louis Sell Them It your dealer tries to talk you into buying another kind, write to us. Charter Oak Stove & Range Co. ST. LOUIS, MO. We Also Make Warm-Air Furnaces baby had been found, was that the child is being held as a hostage while an attempt is made to obtain Immu nity for the alleged kidnapers. Phillips sent a telegram last week to the Tacoma lodge of Elks, saying that the baby had been found in a children's society in New York. He said in a later message he had been mistaken. Old Line Resumes Service. The port of Charleston, S. C, has been placed on the schedule of the steamer Hawaiian, which is coming to this port in the near future in the resumption of the old Amerlcan-Ha- Acheson's Opening Offer 1 have purchased the stock of woolenB (about $9000) of Mr. K. E. Stone at 92 Broadwav, opposite the Oregon hotel, and will just say that in all my experience in the cloth business I never have seen so magnificent a lot of woolens under one roof. I refer toquality substantial, fine, heavy, pure wool worsted. The blue serge In this stock bolts of It will compel your enthusiastic admiration as well as curiosity to know how it comes to be here these times when fine heavy serge is hard to find. Then fine, heavy Bankers' grey worsted is also here but more anon. I'll turn to my opening offer; that's what hundreds of people are curious about, as most people know any cloth I sell is good stuff. Well, I was a good while up there on Alder street and now to LET VOU ALL KNOW WHERK I AM opening up this Ladies' and Men's Suit and Coat tailored-to-order store, I am going to make the most unusual offer I have ever made and more remarkable different far and away beyond anything in the way of sales offers ever made in the world yes, world our earth I can not say universe, for I don't know beyond this earth for in other spheres there may be economic systems in vogue whereby clothing does not cost anything. NOW BttACE YOURSELF and believe your own eyes, be you woman or man and then get in here next Wednes day (tomorrow) or as soon after as possible and get your name down as one of the customers who will get the advantage of this offer. 1 have said to my knowledge my offer has never been made in our world earth however, I have thought of it before but I never was in a financial condition to do it nor have I ever had the combinations of circumstances and conditions which exist at this time which are favorable. Therefore I will first say that I absolutely believe that the better instincts and virtues prevail in humanity and everyone is worthy "of trust or confidence insofar as you trust them. Therefore in the end in this proposition I absolutely and unqualifiedly without strings or conditions, LEAVE IT TO TOt. TO SET THE NET PRICE lor PAV ME for the clothing you now buy of me Are you STILL BREATHISOf then read on. Presuming you are one of the economical, prudent customers who will take advantage of this OPEXIxt; Pi'BLIOITY offer as follows: You select your suit, coat or garments, ladies' or men's. When it is finished satisfactory to you you pay for it. same as you always have done. I then give you my note drawing 6 per cent interest, due 12 months after date, for 75 per cent of whatever priced garment you have purchased. That is, if vour suit cost $100, you get a note for $75. I will have received as mine to keep 25 per cent, or on a $100 suit $25, which is quite a little less than the cloth costs in a $100 auit. Twelve months after date my note made payable to you will be due at three days' demand. Tou have worn the suit you know what it is good or bad you know then if good cloth is any cheaper you have made up your mind about me and my work. Tou then know what the suit is and has been worth to you. Tou are master of the situation absolutely assured of being able to protect yourself as to what vour clothes cost yes; you can then do as you see fit allow me what ever you want to for the suit on my note SOMETHING OR NOTH l(i. I'll pay the note or balance. Tou can allow me on my note from nothing up to full face value of the note if you want to. That is entirely optional with you. YOU THUS SET THE PRICE YOU PAY" ME FOR THE GARMENTS. - Besides the saving to you in dollars, there is the assurance that von will get first-class materials, for I cannot afford on this offer to send out otherwise. ARE YOU STILL BREATHIXGf Then read on for the rest is detail. Of course this offer, from its very nature, is limited; therefore, you can register your name and have your suit made any time before February 1. next. This way you can make pay ments along that should help you to get in on this, for I want all classes to get a whack on this. Now if any man or woman reading this and expects to get any clothing within a year and don't get in on this opening offer, all I can say is that there is something wrong with his reasoning faculties. Store will open at 8:30 A. M. Wednes day and this offer will rontlnof until I "holler monKfa," as I have set a limit as to the number I can accept and I reserve the right to withdraw the offer any day or hour so don't delay. J. M. ACHESON 92 Broadway. Opposite Oregon Hotel. waiian line service, according to an nouncement received from Williams Dimond & Co.. Pacific coast agents for that service. The Hawaiian is due at this port early next month wih general cargo rrom the Atlantic sea board. She will take back general cargo. Rust is a compound of oxygen and iron that only forms in presence of water. A Durercat Kinds of Laomdry 4 Different Prices SAST 494 Health Underwear s eySrMen,Women'and Children Change your underwear! Why shiver in the cold when a little transaction with your under wear dealer will give you "warmth-without-weight" of Duofold? Duofold is the double-layer underwear. Wool outside for warmth; cotton underneath for comfort. Light and soft to the skin and a safeguard against dis comfort and sickness. The ideal fall and winter underwear. Duofold Health Underwear Co. Mohawk, New York