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TITE MORNING'" OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920 " tra ntvfan Plevna k. "Kit t a A (ha EX-CONSTABLES TELL in the United' States district court 1 yesterday and pleaded not guilty to ! station and refuse to handle freight coming over me ssoutnern .facinc lines here. , Th T.lv TV Iron tf t Yi a fnmmorf inl a charge of violating the. federal pro hibition act. He was reieased under $500 bonds. Lowe limped slightly and used a cane. His lameness was said to be the result of a rrequent, breaking of his leg in escaping from arresting officers. Lowe, who owns a fine home in the MontaviUa district, is under two in dictments and is said by federal offi cials to have acted, as Bales agent for the output of several stills. It was charged by revenue agents that he made a practice of contracting for moonshine at - wholesale rates and then made a handsome profit by re tailing the liquor to the consumer. The first indictment against Lowe was returned last spring and was foj an alleged violation of the in ternal revenue laws. The second, re turned in the summer, relates to"the same alleged offense and was brought in after Judge Bean ruled that the new prohibition amendment super seded the internal revenue act. Date of Lowe's trial has not been set. but it is likely that be will be brought into court soon after the first of the year. OF club some time ago appointed a com mittee to investig-ate tne prospects for a new station and, after the com mittee's findings in ihe matter bad been reported, a copy was delivered to the state utilities commission. The commission held that if conditions were as bad as the report indicated it wa. hip-h timo fnr tha Snuthem fv Liberty Digest of News Liberty World Events Place in Harding Administra tion Held Likely. Policemen Resign as Protest "Against Butcheries." Pacific company to build a better station. The Southern Pacific company ad vised the Live Wires just before elec-r WFW QUfT TAP. A V llLill LJ11UII M. 1 .fxfZ edy conditions, but after election, the Live Wires charge, the company stopped proceedings. JT 7 CABINET POST DISCUSSED TROOPS ARE HELD1 "SCUM" CHARLES F 4? AY E Appointment to Court of Appeals at San Francisco Also Suggested by Some Republicans. piack and Tans Declared to Be Lowest of British; Drink Is Partly Blamed, in "PEACEFUL VALLEY" SELP-DETEXSE 1XDICATED IX 4 KLAMATH MCRDEB CASE. '4, ENATOR CHlBERLAi IR. TirE OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Dec. 10. Plans for the appointment of Senator Chamberlain to some responsible place in the Harding administration are going ahead. Several republican senators are known to have discussed the mat ter at length and in detail today. The decision was to consult Senator Cham berlain regarding his wishes first, to ascertain if he would accept an ap pointment, and second, what sort of place he would prefer. ' Serious discussion was given to his appointment to the court of appeals fat San Francisco, where at least one "of the judges is expected to retire in ra short time. The Oregon senator is still mentioned for secretary of war and several republican senators are Insistent that he be given that place In the cabinet, their view being that Harding would strengthen himself immensely before the country by fol lowing precedents established by Lin coln and Roosevelt in naming at least one democrat to the cabinet. Other Influential senators argue tihat this would be a mistake;- that it would weaken the organization which the republican party now has the power to effect in taking control of the gov ernment. Wiljton'a Policy Noted. In his eight years In 6fflce It Is pointed out that President Wilson, with constantly recurring vacancies in the cabinet, never once called a republican into the service, not even in war time, when "politics was ad journed." Some republican members of the senate committee .on military affairs who served with Senator Chamber lain when he was chairman of the committee are taking an active inter est in hs behalf. The proposal, it is learned, was taken up with President elect Harding in some of the confer ences hie id here the first of the week. The wool growers and the mining men of the northwest, were pressing their claims vigorously before con gress today. Many resolutions by wool growers Wiere presented to the committee on ways and means today, one of which came from the Oregon Wool Growers association. It was laid before the committee by Representative Sinnott. Senator Kendrick of Wyoming read to the senate a telegram from a con stituent telling of a shipment of ap w.proximately 2000 sheep to a Chicago tracking house for, which the Wyom ing grower realized exactly 32 cents a head. This caused a colleague to call attention to the fact that lamb fchops are retailing in Washington ;jiow for 55 cents a pound." ?. . ;: The mining claimants of the west ;had their inning before the house committee on mines and mining. where a hearing was held on a bill -to exempt claimants from the 1920 as essment work. The outlook for the iWU appeared favorable today when 'John Barton Payne, secretary of the Interior, sent a letter to the commit- "tee approving the measure. FAMi may get state post t.jfew Mexican Said to Be Harding's ''' First Choice. THE OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, Dec. 10. A republican -Benator from an eastern state, essay ing the role of prophet in a private ..conversation this afternoon, gave k -what he declared to be Inside Infor mation on some of the personnel of j the Harding cabinet. These three appointments, he said, night be put down as sure: Attorney-general Harry M. Daugh- i erty of Ohio, close political associate of the president-elect for a number 't of years. Secretary of the treasury John W. j "Weeks of Massachusetts, ex-Unite 1 btates senator. Postmaster-general Will H. Hays ! of Indiana, chairman of Che repub :j lican national committee. i The. only possible deviation from i this programme, he (aid, might be '; the shifting of ex-Senator Weeks to Bocretary of the navy, for which he - is well qualified by reason of early ' schooling at the naval academy at . Annapolis and long service on the rival committee of both house and 2 senate. ; He said further that it was dis j closed during the recent visit - of president-elect Harding here that two choices are in mind for secretary of etate. Mr. Harding's personal choice. , he says, is Senator Fall of New Mex' lco, who was the almost inseparable ' companion of the next president . throughout the two days visit to j Washington last Monday and Tues day. However, he said, Harding fears Senator Fall is not well enough 1 known In the country at large, which i Is an aspect worthy of consideration j Senator Knox of Pennsylvania Is asserted to be the second choice and i regarded by Harding as probably the 4 most popular selection that could be i made for the state department port i folio. This senatorial prophet said that it was a good guess that KLnox ; will get the post. Herbert Hoover, he said, is almost 1 certain to be in the Harding cabinet ; notwithstanding protests made to the J president-elect last Tuesday by at - least two irreconcilable republican . senators. Mr. Hoover prefers first, 5 eecretary of state: second, secretary i of interior, and third, secretary of ; commerce. are more than even r will get secretary of . as said. y-general George Suth lator of Utah, had been o have the inside track. h but later developments indicate that uaugherty will get it. The latter is said to have an ambition to be in the cabinet and to feel that the at torney-generalship is the only post wmcn nis training will fit perfectly. I The chant " that Mr. Ho j commerce, 5 As to att' rland, ex- understood 1 FREIGHT UNDER BOYCOTT i Oregon City Transfer Companies Ban Sonttiern Pacific Station I OREGON CITY, Or, Tec. 10. fSpe 5 cial.) Considerable agitation among J the business men has been created in J this city over the poor facilities of '-handling freight and livestock at the Southern Pacific station. Several I Wife Greets Husband ATlio Defend ed Alleged Attack on Her Honor "With Kiss in Court. KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Dec 10. (Special.) Nine jurors had been fin ally accepted for the trial of Gilbert T. Ingersol on the charge of mur dering Henry Stoehsler, aged 21, ex service man, when court adjourned today. The Stoehsler killing occurred at Dairy, 30 miles east of here, July 20 last. Examination of talesmen today in dicated the intention of the defense to proceed Vipon a theory of self-defense, and to invoke the unwritten taw to save its client. Ingersol ap peared in court this morning appar ently unchanged by his five months' incarceration. He Is past 40. His wife, nearly a score of years hts ju nior, kissed him affectionately in court. It. was in connection with alleged slanderous stories told of Mrs. Inger sol that the quarrel started, which ended in Stoehsler's death. Ingersol met Stoehsler at a community gath ering and asked him if he had made statements of undue intimacy with Mrs. Ingersol. According to witnesses, at the coroner's inquest, the accused made no direct reply, and there wai an exchange of blows. Mrs. Ingers-ol interrupted at this point with, "If you say so, Henry, you're a liar." I am no liar," the murdered man was heard to reply, and the fatal shot followed an instant later. Just how meny blows- were struck and who was the physical aggressor may prove important questions, for today's examinatiop of talesmen In dicated defense would maintain thf-.t husband was entitled to question anyone whom he suspected of defam ing a wife's good name without being subjected to assault, and the shoot ing might, have followed with self- defea.se as a motive, instead of sum mary vengeance for the alleged slander. "Are you a believer in the unwrit ten law," and "Do you believe in the right of self-defense," were stock questions fired by the defendant's at torneys at talesmen. -Twenty-five talesmen were examined to secure the nine Jurors now in the box. The answer of H. Nylander, the first juror accepted, expressed gen eral belief in man's rigiht to protect his home. Nylander said. I believe in the sanctity of the home and to a certain extent in the unwritten law. I do not believe in a man resorting to slaying in all circumstances, but only when the purity of a woman has been assailed. The questioning exhausted the ve nire of 33 jurors summoned, and a special venire for 15 more talesmen was 'issued. Judge Campbell of Ore gon City is presiding and 12 absentees received evidence that the court would tolerate no evasion of duty when bench warrants were served on them bythe sheriff. Judge Campbell decided to hold court in the new Main-street court house, which the Hot Springs faction in the courthouse controversy still maintain is not a courthouse, marking the first official occupation of the building. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Three former members of the royal Irish constabulary, each of whom said he had resigned as a "protest against British misrule," and later fled Ire land in fear of attacks by ex-comrades, presented today to the com mission of the committee of 100 in vestigating the Irish question ac counts of the operations of the Brit ish military forces in the Emerald isle. All three, John Caddan, John Tang ney and Daniel F. Crownley, told of raids in which they saia they had been forced to participate as members of the constabulary and of the re ceipt from British commanders' of orders U destroy life and property. The commission also heard details of the killing of Lord Mayor Mac Curtaln of Cork from Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of Terence Mac Swiney; an eye-witness account of a military raid on1 a small County Clare town from P. J. Guilford of PittsburV, Pa., and a description of conditions in Ireland in September as seen by Mrs. Thomas Murphy of New York. The commission ad journed its hearings until Wednes day. Black and Tans Held Scum. ' Tangney characterized the "black and tans" as the "worst scum of the country, 'and added: "There were many clashes between the black and tans and the royal Irish constabulary, for we looked upon them as below us. I finally resigned because there was nothing left for me to do as a policeman but lead the mili tary to their butcheries." Caddan gave a' description of life In the military barracks, declaring that each barrack contained a canteen and that "there is absolutely no limit to the amount which the men can buy." "As a result, he continued, "the men spend their time in only three ways: The .short duty on the streets, in the canteen and in bed. They don't go out on duty an awful lot and the canteens are always open." IVlgbt Raids Described. Caddan related accounts of mid night raids and burnings and declared he had seen men, women and children dragged from their beds amid showers of bullets to watch their homes burn. He said quantities of food had been destroyed by the British forces and that regulations had been made ef fective prohibiting long - distance transportation of foodstuffs. Charges that the British had threat ened his life when he had protested against the searching out of men on the single charge of being republicans were made by Crownley. Mrs. Murphy said she "saw the military deliberately shoot a 5-year-old girl who was out after curfew hours." She also said: "Black and tans' held her up to search for arms and tore the clothing from her 2-year-old child. Conditions in Ireland were de scribed by Mrs. Murphy as serious be cause of a shortage of food. She der scribed the bread as "uneatable" and declared that for nearly eight months she had been unable to get milk for her baby. E HELD ALLEGED KID'APIXG THOUGHT BLOW AT EX-WIFE. DRIVE FURTHER PLANNED Presbyterian Synod and Albany College Trustees Meet. Dr. Stanton dinger of New Tork city, secretary of the Presbyterian general board of education, met with the educational committee of the Presbyterian synod of Oregon and the trustees of Albany college yester day in this city and assisted those leaders in further formulating the plan of campaign to double the assets of the college, including the erection of three buildings on the campus of the school as soon as funds can be secured. It was recommended to the trustees Of the college that a vice-president be elected as soon as the right man could be found and that President Alfred M. Williams be put in general charge of the financial campaign, in which $280,000 must be subscribed to meet the offer of $70,000 from the general board of education. Ferdinand Chavea Declared to Have Shown So Affection for Boy Before. Revenge Is declared to have act uated Ferd'nand Chaves Sr., a Span lard, in the alleged kidnaping of his small son, Ferdinand' Chavez Jr., late Wednesday, according to Miss M. C. Vinter, aunt of the little Tooy. Efforts to locate Chavez yesterday failed, although deputy constables went both to Vancouver, Wash., and to Ridgefield In response to reports that a child, had been found answer ing the description . of the missing boy. Another, warrant has been sworn out against the father, charging him with pointing a gun at the son of the woman who keeps the boarding house where the Vinters live. This makes two counts he must answer to when taken in custody. Miss Vinter declared that Chavez apparently planned to work out his ill will against his ex-wlfe, Mrs. Elsie Vinter, 165 Portsmouth avenue, by the kidnaping of the little boy. She said that the man had not shown any affection . for the boy and that could not have .been' the cause of the kidnaping.- . - Miss vinter expressed the belief that the man had gone Into Washing ton with the boy and was possibly in hiding somewhere in that state or had attempted to cross into Canada. She said she believed this would be the natural thing for him to do. as the alleged kidnaping was not far from the interstate bridge. Chavez had been in San Francisco and it was not known that he had come to Portland until the alleged kidnaping took place. Miss Vinter said she did not believe that the man would return to San Francisco, as her people were there and weuld be on the lookout for him. The Child Welfare commission in San Francisco, she said, was also working on the case. Miss Vinter described the boy as rather tall and strong for his age although he had a chubby face. PERMITS IN JEOPARDY LOCAIj FIRMS ARE DECLARED TO BE UNSANITARY. WOMAN, AGED 109, DIES Mrs. Mary Pedwanj Declared Old est Person In State of Washington. SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec 10. (Spe cial.) .Mrs. Mary Fedwang, believed to have been aged 109, the oldest woman in this state, was found dead this morning in her shack on. the Duwamlsh waterway below the Spokane-street bridge. Her husband, George Fedwang, 85 years old, died two weeks ago. Since the death of George Fedwang investigations have been under way to ascertain the truth of the state ment by Indian friends in the neigh borhood that Mrs. Fedwang was 109 years old. It was said she recalled events of more than 90 years ago. The body was taken to the morgue, where it will await funeral arrangements. Front Street Dairy Commission Houses Are Charged With Health Violations. The city health bureau will refuse to issue licenses to the Hazelwood company, handling wholesale dairy products at 18 Front street, and to the Savlnar comoany, commission merchants at 100 Front street, accord ing to announcement made yester-Jay by Gordon Lang, chief of the sanitary division. City Commissioners Bigelow, Bar bur and Mann visited the two estab lishments yesterday and report that in both institutions an offensive odor permeates the air. At the Hazelwood establishment, complaint is made that chickens are dressed while still alive and an unsanitary basement is the second count placed by the health au thorities against the Savinar com pany. The Hazelwood company which deals In chickens, according to the records of the health department, "is the same company recently convicted in the federal court for selling adult erated butter without paying the li cense fee. It has no connection with I the Hazelwood Ice Cream company !or the Hazelwood restaurants and bakeries. It is probable that the present li censes would be revoked by the coun cil, but for the fact that they ex pire within three weeks. It was de cided that instead of such action, the health bureau would refuse to issue a new license and appeal could then be made to the council for a hearing, if the operators of the two establish ments desire to present their side of the case. SlflSLE TAXERS PERSIST . . i - ... V : . WOUtiD-BE REFORMERS UNDIS MAYED BY DEFEATS. ( MU 1f"K ' L atmWeric J k lL ft" is1,K-yC4?A S) PROLOGUE jC mWtl Don't Forget ' - 5 8SlT JltSA " KEATES MUSIC TEST SUNDAY at 12:30 l ) lip -y ; i- - - 4,1 His second independently produced picture from his own studio. him and had told the sheriff when he gave himself up that it "seemed like home" . to him. Rev. Mr. Fowler is himself a mining man and is just back from Montana, where he was investigating proper ties in which he says John Coplen ex pects to interest himself. He bears letters from John Coplen and says he does not understand why his step father should have thought the old man in Jail an impostor. He last saw the brothers together In Denver 2! years ago in his mother's home. Inmate Escapes State Hospital. SALEM, Or., Dee. 10. (Special.) Gene Demont escaped from the state hospital here today. Demont was committed to the hospital from Mult' rtomah county. He Is not considered dangerous by the Institution officials. Xew Proposed Amendment to State Constitution Is Submitted to Secretary of State. SALEM, Or., Dec. 10. (Special.) The Oregon single tax league, despite the defeat of its measure at the gen eral election November 2 by a vote of 147.426 to 37,283, today filed with the secretaVy of state a proposed consti tutional -amendment providing for single tax in this state. The amend ment will be referred to the attorney general for ballot title and will go before the voters of Oregon at the general election in November, 1922, unless a special election is called be fore that date by an act of the legis lature.- Detective Hunts Dolls. James M. Riley, head of the local Pinkerton detective forces, has al most forsaken chasing crooks and is engaged in the pursuit of dolls. Riley is chairman of the Knights of Colum bus doll committee and is engaged in rounding up all available dolls for a show and sale that will be held by the knights in their clubhouse next Tuesday for the benefit of the four Catholic homes for children in this vicinity. These are St. Mary's Home for Boys at Beaverton, Or.; Christie Home for Birls at Oswego, Or.; St. Agnes' Foundling asylum at Oregon City, Or., and the House of the Good Shepherd at Portland. Portland Men Sent to Jail. SALEM, Or.. Dee. 10. "(Special.) I. L. Llnstott and George Shields, both of Portland, Or., who were arrested in a local lodging house recently, charged with having liquor in their possession, today were sentenced to five dayis in the county jaiL The men were taken m a raid and both pleaded guilty when arraigned In court. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonlan. Main 7070, Automatic 560-95. HOLM AN ESTATE $54,000 Will Filed for Probate Laves Most , of Property to Widow. An estate valued at more than $54,000 was left by the late Edward Holman, according to the will filed for probate yesterday. His widow, Julia Holman, has been named executrix and is . the principal heir. Provision is also made for bequests to her- sister, Hannah Cook, and a niece. Iris Whitney Lutz. Certain funds from the estate are to be held in trust for Walter, Herbert, Howard, Kenneth and Edward Holman, grand- children, and foO a month is to be paid to Robert Miller Ackley until he reaches 31. Mr. Holman died December 5 at the age of 62. He was for many years in the undertaking business. LOWE PLEADS NOT GUILTY Robert Lowe, Reputed Bootlegger de Lnie, Again in Cojrt. Dapper and debonair, Robert Lowe, reputed bootlegger de luxe, appeared The amendment provides that from July 1, 1923, to and until July 1, 1927, all revenue necessary for the main tenance of state, county, municipal and district government shall be raised by a tax on the value of land. Irrespective of improvements in or on it, and thereafter the full rental value of land, irrespective of im provements, shall be taken in lieu of all other purposes as the people may direct. ' "" ' The proposed amendment bears the signatures of Arthur Brockwell. pres ident of "the league; Alfred D. Crldge, vice-president; Christina H. Mock, secretary, and J. E. Herman, man ager. All of the officers of the league are residents of Portland. Records in the offices of the sec retary of state show that single tax measures have been submitted to th-e voters at various times during the past ten years, with the result that they met more decisive defeat at eaci succeeding election. PRISONER RICH MAN'S KIN PASTOR IDENTITIES AGED BIXX1JTG MAX IX JAXU Efforts Being Made to Interest Wealthy Brother In Case and to Get Forged Check Paid. Although he had not seen James Coplen, now in the county jail, for 22 years. Rev. Charles U. Fowler of the Brentwood Nazarene church yester day walked into the sheriff's office and positively identified the aged prisoner as the brother of John D. Coplen. wealthy mine owner of 1518 Gremercy place, Los Angeles. Rev. Mr. Fowler is a stepson of John Cop len and did not know of the plight of his 'relative until he saw the news paper articles. Efforts are nowgbelng made to in terest the brother in the case and to settle it by paying off the $27.65 owing on a check forged by the accused man in eastern Oregon. Sheriff Hurlburt Is endeavoring to get in touch with the sheriff at Pendleton to ask him to hold off coming for the self-confessed forger. Not only is Coplen - related to the wealthy California!, but his mother was a member of the family of Presi dent Garfield, according to Rev. Mr. Fowler. The brothers were reared on the frontier, one becoming wealthy through his mining operations and the other following an adiverse road James has been In jail much of the time since his relative last heard Irora What Wil Cheek ri 1 1 armvai muime In Chicago more than a thousand denizens of the underworld were recently rounded up in a swift series of spectacular raids which marked the advent of a new chief of police. In New York City, since the first of the year, the Tribune tells us, 'the unsolved murders alone total more than 100," and the hold-ups, robberies, and thefts reported by the police represent a property loss of more than $3,100,000. In Philadelphia, according to the Inquirer of that city, there have been 100 murders in eleven months; and a recent record of fifty hold-ups in one day has resulted in plans for a special motorcycle squad of bandit chasing riflemen. , In Pittsburg, according to a correspondent, "there has been an increase of 20 per cent in crime this year," and "13 murders remain unsolved by the police." In Boston, says the Herald of that city, "hold-ups by gunmen are becoming increasingly numerous." In Cincinnati the Commercial Tribune states that "every agency of robbery is working overtime." In St. Louis conditions have recently compelled Chief of Police O'Brien to organize a "drive" against gunmen, gangsters, and the criminal forces gener ally. Cleveland's records show 70 murders. Detroit confesses to an increase in homicides and robberies over its average for, the last six years. In San Francisco the head of the , detective bureau reports that "crimes of violence have increased since the advent of pro hibition." In Seattle "robberies, hold-ups, and burglaries have been occurring with dis turbing frequency," according to the Seattle Times, which adds, "the entire country is experiencing a veritable epidemic of crime." THE LITERARY DIGEST this week December 11th publishes a survey of the crim inal records of the big cities in the United States, and shows from comparative statistics of this country and Europe the unenviable record which America holds. Other striking news-' articles: The New and Greater Roumania (With full-page colored map) The League's Swaddling Clothes The World Is Oil-Mad War-Time Offenders Out of Jafl Non-Partisan League Gains Germany's Third Year of Peace - ' The World as Lenine's Oyster How Prohibition Works in Norway The Death-Throes of a Plant Hypodermic Salvage . Does Tobacco Kill Mouth Germs? Bread Without Flour Artistic Signs for the Highway German Music in Westminster Abbey 1 An American Macbeth in London Church Union as a "Great musion" China's Starving Millions The Up-to-Date Legendary Ruler of Russia World-Wide Trade Facts Fruits and Nuts "If .America and Japan Went to War" A Japanese View Nameless Dead Soldiers Honored by England and France Malatesta's Hobbies Are Anarchy and Canaries Mexico on the Way Back to Normalcy American War-Plane the New Speed King of the Air Topics of the Day Best of the Current Poetry Many Illustrations, Maps and Humorous Cartoons December 11th Number on Sale Today Newsdealers 10 Cents $4.00 a Year The (Oil FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (PubHlhTrilrirFrrnourNEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORKw S TIs a X TTsa . rr b i re m i am a . rur t r V Digest ' J