VOL. L.XI XO. 19,120
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Hostofflce as Second-clas Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922
PRICK TIVE CENTS
crXMITB PREMIER
S DECLARED
WASHINGTON LIKELY
TO BE DISMANTLED
ES
E
PLANS BEING MADE
FOR HARDING'S TOUR
EDUCATORS DEFEND
EVOLUTION TEACHINGS
MARY OR AGENT
ACTDR F
ST
OFFERS TO RESIGN
LIES,
T
BATTLESHIP LESS ADVANCED
THAN WEST VIRGINIA.
ITINERAKY OP INLAND EMPIRE
CHURCH IS SPLIT WIDE OPEN
OVER MILITANT PASTOR.
OPPONENTS DECLARED FAVOR
ING DARK-AGE METHODS.
I TRIP IS OUTLINED.
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T. OF MOV
DOOMEDTHISTME
OHECA
S O
Present Session Is Not
Expected to Act.
SSUE IS USED AS TOOL
object of Some Leaders Is to
Get Sales Tax Through.
'ARTY COMMAND IS STAKE
bbairmcn ot Finance Committees
In Both Branches Not Work
ins With President.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
Copyright by the New Tork Evening Post,
lac Publ'shed. by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C March 1. -Special.)
The interesting aspect of
omingr developments in the bonus
situation concerns not the bonus it
clf, but the leadership of the republi
an party. The bonus itself is gone.
I'here won't be any bonus this year.
larding has said it Is bonus plus
ales tax or nothing-, and so many
nembers of congress are opposed to
he sales tax that the first Harding
Llternative can hardly happen.
The only way the bonus leaders can
fiossibly get anything now is to turn
n and work for the sales tax. So
ar they have refused to do that.
rhe young leader of the American
region is said to have declared he
ivill camp in Washington and fight
n the Hindenburg line until he wins,
f that is his determination we ara
ikely to have him with us a con
iderable time.
Bonus ITsed as Tool.
This sales tax angle to the bonus
bill is a curious example of things
hat are not wholly what they seem.
The primary motive of at least soma
)f the republican leaders in the house
nd senate not including the presi
dent is to use the bonus eituation
nerely as a device for getting the
ales tax into our tax-collecting ma--hinery.
-. ' ' !
They don't favor the bonus as such,
iut are willing to pay that price in
rder to get the sales tax . on the
looks. They believe in the sales tax
f-incerely and are confident that if
hey can once get it into operation
t will work so well and the country!
vill like it so much that it will be
kept and ultimately will take the
ilace of a part of the present Income
Lax, which can then be modified.
There is another little group that
9 waiting for an opportunity to use
! similar strategy about wine and
eer. Being eager to authorize the
ale of wine and beer, they are wait
ng for the right time to propose
hat the resumption of the Bales of
hese drinks, with an adequate tax
Uttached. would pay the bonus
(readily.
Hopes Declared Vain.
The hopes of these strategists are
f ain, however. The opposition to wins
.nd beer is even stronger than the
Fish for the bonus. Altogether there
s hardly the faintest likelihood of
iny bonus, either on its merits or as
i.he tall to some other kite, becom
ing a law during this session.
But if the bonus is off the scene
the chaos in republican leadership ts
just on it, with increasing prospect
of striking effects. Here is the chair
man of the ways and means com
mittee, Mr. Fordney, violently push
ing the bonus, with or without a
sales tax, in obvious lack of team
work with the president and with a
good many of the other party lead
ers. In the correspondingly impor
tant committee of the senate, the
finance committee, McCumber of
North Dakota, who has succeeded
Penrose, Is the very man who last
July pushed the bonus bill in the sen
ate to the point where Harding had
to -come to the senate personally to
knock it out.
President Not Helped.
i( In a session of congress v'tre the
tariff is the next important legisla
tion, here Is the spectacle of the two
Chairmen of the two committees
which will write the tariff in lack of
unity of policy with the president
Furthermore, as regards some aspects
of the tariff, Fordney and McCumber
are In obvious disagreement with each
other.
As between the two men who are
the heads of the most important com
mittees in their respective chambers,
McCumber seems to be getting along
in his senate committee with rathef
Jess commotion than Fordney in hit
l.ouse committee. Within Fordney's
ways and means committee there la
fan amount of insurzencv aE-aJnut
his leadership such as may readily,
sooner- or later, give rise to sensa
tional news. Some of the insurgents
are men who as party leaders are not
less important or less powerful thai
Fordney himself.
BOOTLEG LIQUOR KILLS 19
Detroit Coroner Prepares Report
Covering Four Weeks' Deaths.
. DETROIT, Mich., March 1. Bootleg
liquor was responsible for 19 deaths
In Detroit during the four weeks end
,d yesterday.
This statement was made in a re
port of the coroner's office made pub
lie today.
Battle Cruisers Lexington . and
Saratoga Probably AVill Be,
Completed for Navy.
WASHINGTON', D. C, March 1.
(By the Associated Press.) The bat
tleship West Virginia and the battle
cruisers Lexington and Saratoga
probably will be the three capital
ships now building which, with the
battleship Colorado, will be retained
under the naval limitation treaty for
completion or conversion.
A special naval board . headed by
Rear Admiral McElroy has examined
the facts as to the state of comple
tion of the West Virginia and her
sister ship, Washington, visiting the
yards where the ships are under con
struction. Its report has not been
submitted as yet to Secretary Denby, i
but there are indications that board I
members found the West Virginia to
be much further advanced than the
Washington, confirming the previous
mpression of department officers,
The West Virginia is building at the
yards of. the Newport Shipbuilding
company, and' the Washington by the
New York Shipbuilding company at
Camden, N. J. Since the battle cruiser
Saratoga also is under construction
at the Camden yard, however, and her
selection for conversion into an air
plane carrier as well as the comple
tion of the Colorado, also at Camden,
and the scrapping of the Washington
would keep that yard busy, it was be
lieved there would b little opposition
to selecting the West Virginia for com
pletion.
The battle cruiser Lexington is
building at Fore River, Mass., plant
of the Bethlehem company. If con
gress approves the conversion of two
of these ships into airplane carriers
as recommended, and Secretary Dent
by elects the Lexington and Saratoga
for that purpose and the West Vir
ginia for completion, it was pointed
out, all three of the major capital
shipbuilding yards on the Atlantic
coast would be provided with work
In tapering off under treaty limita
tions. $100 IS NOW BILLIONS
Compound Interest Runs Vp Iebt
of 189 7 and Judgment Given.
SAN JOSE, Cal., March 1. When
George Jones borrowed $100 for three
months at 10 per cent a month inter
est, January 18, 1897, from Henry B.
Stuart, he did not figure, perhaps,
that the loan would lead up to- a
judgment against him for $304,840,-
J32.685.1S in the superior court today.
"Compound interest" is the explana
tion. :
Stuart charged that Jonea disap
peared after the loan. He reappeared
recently and Stuart brought suit.
holding that the debt was not out
lawed because Jones had remained
outsidJ of the state. The court found
for Stuart, named the figure and an
nounced that it was the "only judg
ment he could return under the cir
cumstances." Counsel for Jones said that his cli
ent expected to go through bank
ruptcy. ALBERS BONDS APPROVED
Milling Company Gets Authority to
Sell $1,500,000 Issue.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 1. A per
mit allowing the Albers Milling com
pany to dispose of $1,500,000 in 7, 4
per cent first mortgage gold bonds
for the retirement of current 'ndebt
edness. for final payments on Seattle
mill properties, and for the retire
ment of a 'mortgage on its Portland
properties, was signed by the state
corporation commission today, the
commission reported. - -
The bonds are secured by a first
closed mortgage on the company'
properties, appraised value of which
is $3,492,509.
TREATY T0BE CLOSED
Colombia and America to Exchange
.Ratifications Today.
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 1. (By
the Associated Press.) The exchange
of ratifications of the treaty between
Colombia and the United States, pro
viding for the payment of $25,000,000
to Colombia, will take place here
today.
With the exchange of ratifications
Colombia will recognize the inde
pendence of Panama for the first
time.
QUAKE SCARES POPULACE
Inhabitants of South American Vil
lages Panic-Stricken,.
BUENOS AIRES, March 1. CBy the
Associated press.; a strong eartn
shock occurred at 4:25 o clock this
morning in the western part of the
proviifte of Mendoza. near the Andes.
The population of several villages
became panic-stricken, but no cas
ualties occurred, and no serious dam
age was done, the advices from the
vicinity state.
CASKET CARRIED IN AIR
a
Plane Overcomes Obstacles Caused
by Snow Drifts in Road.
ARKANSAS CITT, Kan., March 1.
After conveying a casket by airplane
from this city to Maple City, 20 miles
east of here, a local undertaker today
conducted a funeral service delayed
because country roads were impass
able. Snowdrifts had blocked the high
way, . i
Taylor Murder Mystery
Develops New Angle.
MRS. RUPP SUPPLIES CLEVi
Woman Informer Tells Story
of Bootleg Conspiracy.
MEN IN CUSTODY GRILLED
Mabel Norma nd Again Questioned,
but Fails to Throw New Light
lpon Murder.
LOS ANGELES, March 1. The ar
rest of a seventh man, as a result of
disclosures made here yesterday by
Mrs. John Rupp. in connection with
the murder of William Desmond Tay
lor, film director, a month ago to
night, was predicted tonight by of
ficers assigned to the case. '
The arrest, if. effected, would bring
into custody a motion picture actor
of some prominence, who was believed
to have been in the confidence of
peddlers of drugs and liquor, the of
ficers said.
iney declined to make his name
public prior to the actual arrest.
Detectives Grill Suspects.
The six men arrested yesterday,
said to have been engaged in selling
drugs and .bootlegging, were grilled
by police detectives today. The re
sults were not made public, beyond
the opinion that one of the men was
on the verge of "breaking."
Sheriff's deputies located and ques
tioned a Chinese motion picture actor
named only as "Jim," but said once
to have been employed by Taylor.
They stated they learned nothing of
importance from him.
The police made it clear that "J'm"
was not the actor whose arrest was
a possibility tonight.
Mrs. JRupp Makes Statement.
Mrs. RTjpp, who is, said to be knows
also as Mrs. May Lnch, made to the
police a formal statement of 10,000
words, detailing her version of inci
dents wh'ch she said she believed
connected the six men arrested at her
home with the Taylor murder mys
tery.
Among her statements was one that
one of the men, George Calvert, also
known as Rodney Calvert, 25 years
of age, who claimed gas-fitting as an
occupation, said in her presence he
would shoot Tayior if the director
made good an alleged threat to re-
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
IT'S A QUESTION OF OPENING THE BRIDGE OR BEING TIED UP PERMANENTLY.
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Senator Poindexter Preparing De-
tails to Be Submitted to Pres
ident for Ills Consideration.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C., March L Senator
Poindexter began work today upon a
proposed Itinerary, for the president
when the latter visits the northwest
in June.
Details of the tour proposed by the
Washington senator win te presenueu
to Mr. Harding within the next few
days, with the plea that tha Inland
Empire has never shared honors quite
equally with the rest of the west in
the entertainment of presidents, and
that at least two or three days should
be allowed for going over tho Colum
bia basin project in eastern Wash
ington, the Palouse wheat country of
eastern Washington and northern
Idaho, and of the Umatilla valleys in
Oregon, to include a trip to the Uma
tilla irrigation project.
The tour would . provide for brief
speeches by the president at Walla
Walla, Moscow and Pendletpn.
The White House has indicated
that Senator Poindexter's suggestions
relative to the trip will be welcomed
and that the president will be pleased
to talk the matter over some after
noon next week.
SISKIY0US VICTIM FOUND
Placer Resident Wanders Three
Days With No 111 Effects.
GRANTS PASS, Or., March 1.
(Special.) Wandering In the Siski
yous since Sunday . nignt, wiinoui
food, fire or shelter, Milton Blalock,
about 28 years old, was found on the
Pacific highway a few miles north of
here this afternoon.
Blalock, who is subject to epileptic
spells, took a lantern and a. can and
went to a neighbors to borrow some
coffee. He failed to return to his
home at Placer, about 20 miles north
of Grants Pass. Search was insti
tuted, but he was not located until
today. He ate a good meal and
seemed none the worse for his ex
perience.
NO HOPE LEFT DODGERS
House Passes Bill Making Prose
cution Possible at Any Time.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March i.-i
The hoiise, 264 to 20, today passed the
senate bill extending indefinitely the
time during which draft evaders and
deserters from tho army or navy dur
ing the world war could be prose
cuted by continuing the military
status of deserters. The measure also
extends for another three years the
time during which draft dodgers can
be brought to trial in civil courts.
Secretary Weeks in a letter to
Chairman Kahn of the military com
mittee urged prompt passage of the
bill.
"Colored Billy Sunday" Start?
Riot That Has Boisterous
Sequel in Courtroom.
NEW YORK, March 1. Opposing
factions of the Holy Trinity Baptist
church, a negro congregation in
Brooklyn, marched to court today to
tell the story of "a small-sized riot,"
which followed the alleged aclion of
their pastor. Rev. T. S. Harten of
Boston, known as the "Colored Billy
Sunday." in ordering read at a Sun
day vesper service a list of the "hell
cats" and "snakes" in his flock.
When the story had been toid and
the court had handed down a dec'slon
on an angle of the trouble, pande
monium broke loose in the courtroom,
with, women dancing down the aisles
and men hurling their hats Into the
air and clapping their hand3.
, Testimony showed that on Jn.nuary
3, Rev. Dr. Charles D. Patterson had
been ousted from the pulpit by in
Junction, after charges had been pre
ferred against him, and the Boston
evangelist famous for his sermons
"A Hot Day in Hell" and "What the
Devil Do Tou Want?" had been
named as his successor.
Then, It seems, Mrs. Ella Cheatham,
whose husband Is chairman of the
board of deacons, and who herself is
one of Mr. Patterson's supporters, cir
culated a paper, entitled "Why th
Rev. Dr. Patterson Is Temporarily
Absent From His Pulpit."
On ' February 19, it was alleged,
Mr. Harten had ordered the churcn
clerk to read aloud the list of "hell
cats" and "snakes" who had signed
the petition. Thereupon, to the
cheers of supporters and hisses of her
opponents, Mrs. Cheatham '. was al
leged to have marched down the
aisle, snatched the paper from the
clerk's hands and tore it up.
All of which led to John Dickerson,
a trustee and Mr. Harten supporter,
getting out a summons for Mrs.
Cheatham on a charge of disorderly
conduct and her appearance "n court
today. The case was continued
OIL CURES MORE LEPERS
Ten Are Paroled and Three Dis
charged as Cured.
HONOLULU. T. H., Feb. 21. (Cor
respondence of the Associated Press.)
Ten more leper patients at the iva
lihi hospital here recently were pa
roled by the territorial board of health
and discharges granted three former
leper patients who had been on parole
for some time.
All of the patients had been treated
with the chaulmoogra oil specific re
lined by Dr. A. L. Dean, president of
the University of Hawaii. None had
been under treatment - longer than
two years. Dr. F. F. Trotter, president
of the board of health, said that the
paroling o patients after periods of
treatment ranging oniy from eight
months to two years was one indica
n of the success of the Dean spe.
cific.
Lloyd George Tries New
Political Menace.
ACTION CAUSES SENSATION
Conservative Chiefs Meet to
Discuss Situation. .
ELECTION SOON IS LIKELY
Split in Coalition Continues and
Liberal and Labor Parties
yre Gaining Votes.
LONDON, March 1. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Premier Lloyd George
has threatened definitely to resign in
a statement to Austen Chamberlain
and other unionist leaders. He has
made no public . threat to quit. His
action was in the nature of a protest
against the tactics that have been
employed to undermine his power in
the coalition and in parliament.
If the prime minister presents his
resignation, it will merely be a per
sonal resignation and not the resigna
tlon of the government.
The prime minister's threat of res
ignation has been the political sensa
tion of the day. Hints of Mr. Lloyd
George's resignation have been cur
rent ever since Sir George Younger,
head of the conservative party or
ganization, engineered a revolt of
some 50 "die-hard" tories asrainst the
premier during the latter's absence
at the Cannes meeting.
One outcome of that revolt was a
practical split in the coalition and
public abandonment of the so-called
coupon system under which hereto
fore candidates, whether conserva
tive or liberal, entered the electoral
contests under a united banner.
Lord Birkenhead, who perhaps is
the most powerful member of the con
servative party, and Austen Chamber
lain remained loyal to the premier.
Birkenhead, In public speeches,, de
nounced the tactics of Sir George
Younger.
A few days ago the prima minister
had a frank talk with A. J. Balfour
and Mr. Chamberlain, placing the sit
uation plainly before them, and Its
result has been communicated by Mr.
Lloyd George formally to Mr. Cham
berlain, who is the nominal leader
of the conservative party. According
to the report, the prime minister's
ultimatum is that either he or Young
er must go, and the ultimatum 1q
final.
The attitude of the "die hards" is
that they decline to recognize Lloyd
George's leadership unless they are .
allowed to dictate the policy of the
coalition, which would include res
toration of the legislative veto to the
house of lords and a protective tariff.
The prime minister is said to have.
threatened to resign when he re
turned from Cannes, but was dis
suaded- by Austen Chamberlain. Since
then, disintegration of the coalition
has proceeded rapidly, a large body
of the conservatives showing a dis
position to support the revolting ele
ment. At the same time recent bye
elections, in which the government
candidates were defeated, tended to
show that the country was com
pletely out of sympathy with the
coalition, while the labor party and
the Asquithian liberals, who opposed
the coalition, are constantly gain
ing strength.
Ever since parliament reassembled.
the belief that general elections were
approaching has overshadowed all
proceedings of a political character,
both within and outside of parlia
ment. Meetings of the government whips
and the organizing leaders of the
conservative party were held today
to consider the new situation and,
although nothing definite was de
cided, it is expected that a meeting
of the whole conservaitve party will
be called at an early date.
The general impression is that an
election cannot be far distant, but
there is still an alternative, namely,
the resignation of the premier. In
which case the king might call upon
Mr. Chamberlain to form a cabinet
to carry on the government. This
government, in the general opinion,
however, would have a short life.
The prime minister dined privately
tonight with the liberal ministers of
his government, when the situation
was gone over.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that
Sir George Younger will retire from
parliament and be elevated to the
peerage.
MANY OFFICIALS ASKED
Governor Olcott Issues Invitations
to Narcotics Conference.
SALEM, Or., March 1. (Special.)
Invitations to attend the western gov
ernors' conference on narcotics, which
will be held in Portland March 4, are
being issued by Governor Olcott to
all federal, state and other officials
who attended the Oregon conference
at which the association was formed.
Through the press the governor has
extended an invitation to the heads of
all men's and women's organizations
interested to be present at the meet
ing. The conference will be held in
the Portland council chamber, start
ing at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Californian Says Students Must
Be Allowed to Decide Be
liefs for. Themselves.
CHICAGO, March 1 Attempts to
suppress by law the teaching of the
doctrine of evolution and other scien
tific theories In the public schools
were vigorously opposed here today
by speakers before the annual meet
ing of the National Education asso
ciation as representing an attempt to
substitute methods .of the dark ages
for modern public schooling.
"Opposition to the theory of evolu
tion," declared Professor Edwin R. A,
Seligman of Columbia university, "ex
presses the ideas of the childhood of
society. Now, If we are going back
to childhood, let's go all the way.
Let's teach that the earth Is flat and
that the sun moves around it."
"The effort to support and defend
the Bible through legislation," said
Dr. Frank E. Spaulding, "strongly
suggests a wavering faith of the part
of the advocates of such measures."
These who are sound in faith," as
serted Dr. Spaulding, "know that the
unhampered effort to extend the
knowledge of truth ,ln every direction
can only confirm the truths of the
Bible that have stood unshakeable
through the ages.
"If we were to eliminate those
studies based on the doctrine of
evolution from our public schools'
curricula, we'd have left no science
at all In the schools. I think William
Jennings Bryan and certain state
legislators and their supporters in
this matter are taking the wrong
course. Such methods lead away from
the true spirit of the Bible."
Every . intelligent person, Will G.
Wood, state school superintendent of
California, pointed out, should be fa
miliar with the first chapter of the
book of Genesis and likewise, he
added, with the doctrine of evolution.
"America must guard against In
tolerance and closed-mindedneBS," Mr,
Wood warned. "We must work for
open.-nrindedne9."
McADOO TO LIVE ON COAST
Future Home Is to Be Made In Los
Angeles, Cal.
NEW YORK, March 1 (By the
Associated Press.) William G. Mc
Adoo, secretary of the treasury under
President Wilson, announced tonight
that he will leave New York soon,
his home since 1892, and settle I
Angeles, Cal. With Mrs. McAd
will leave for the Pacific coast Friday.
His son, Francis H. McAdoo, will Sue-;
ceed him as a member of the New
York law firm, McAdoo, Cotton &
Franklin, of which he was senior
member.
"I'm going to Los Angeles to make
my home because Mrs. McAdoo and I
like the country," he said.
STEAMER IN DISTRESS
Jalisco, Mexican Vessel, Reported
Adrift Without Propeller.
BEAUMONT, Tex., March 1. Dis
tress signals have been received from
the Mexican Bteamer Jalisco (position
given as 23 degrees north and 91 de
grees 33 minutes longitude), the first
of the vessels which inaugurated the
newly established passenger line be
tween this port and Mexico.
A message said that the Jalisco
was helpless and adrift without pro
peller, with a storm threatening.
Ships were rushing to her aid.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 52
degrees; minimum, 36 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; winds becoming south
easterly. Foreign.
British premier offers to quit. Page, 1.
Griffith appears to control Irish. Page 6.
Royal honeymoon at Great Manor to bo in
seclusion. Page 3.
National.
Bonus certificate plan considered by sub
committee. Page 2.
Lack of money for fuel may tie up every
ship in American navy. Page 2.
Senate ratifies Yap treaty by vota of 67
to 22. Page 3.
National rivers and harbors congress con
venes. Page u.
Bonus believed doomed at this session,
Page 1.
Battleship Washington likely to be dis
mantled. Page 1.
Germans blamed for charges against
American dye industry. Page 6.
Domestic.
Bunco men make $1,500,000 haul. Page 3,
Court says Mary Plckford or agent lies
and leaves It with Jury. Page 1.
Arrest of motion picture actor pends in
Taylor murder mystery. Page 1.
Educators defend teaching of evolution.
Page 1.
Negro congregation takes church row Into
court. Page l. ,
Pacific Northwest.
Governor of Idaho attacks land bill.
Page 7.
Poll tax defeat generally forecast in Wash
ington. Page 7.
Governor Olcott names committee to
study cabinet form of government.
Page 5.
Cash bonus checks will be mailed to Ore
gon war veterans today. Page 4.
Sports.
Beavers open training camp. Page 14.
Aggies now claim basketball title. Page 14.
Franklin defeats Commerce, 47 to 12.
Page 15.
Commercial and Marine.
Hop contracting begins In Oregon in small
way. Page 22.
Domestic rails active feature of bond mar
ket. Page 23.
Two steamers to take bulk grain. Page 18.
Stock market has firm undertone. Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Head of Zionists and party in city. Page 8.
Yeggs trapped preparing to crack safe.
Page 11.
Portland city council officially votes lack
of confidence In Oregon public service
commission. Page 13.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22.
Shipping plot scored by W. D. B. Dodson.
Page 6.
Action on recall of public service commis
sion to be taken early. Page 4.
Parents of Holladay pupils protest to
school ooara. i age .
Jury Told to Determine
Which Is Telling Truth.
SEALED VERDICT RETURNED
Mother of Actress Cries as
Lawyer Talks About Her.
PLOT DECLARED HATCHED
$108,000 Claimed as Commission
on Pay Received by Star ou
Two-Year Contract.
NEW YORK, March 1. Federal
Judge Mack reached tho conclusion
today that either Mary Plckford or
Mrs. Cora W. Wilkennlng, who sued
the cinema actress for $108,000, had
deliberately lied, slid he left it to a
Jury to decide which one was guilty.
The Jury returned Us decision this
afternoon, but, as Judge Mack bad
gone home, the verdict was sealed and
the question of veracity will not be
publicly settled until tomorrow.
The lie, according to tho juds.
rested In the conflicting stories of the
methods Mary used back in 1916 to
get Adolph Zukor to raise her salary
from $4000 a week to $10,000.
Mrs. Wilkennlng, whose business is
that of locating Jobs and better
salaries for people who live by amus
ing others, claimed that it was she
who persuaded Mr. Zukor to fatten
Mary's income. She said the screen
star came to her and told about bear
ing that Charlie Chaplin was making
million dollars a year, and ehe
thought her curls and her pout were
worth just as much as tho comedian's
derby and shuffle, or words to that
effect.
Plot Declared Arranged.
According to Mrs. Wllkennlng's
story, it t was agreed-that she should
sally forth and get other producers to
bid for Mary's services, which would,
force Zukor to raise the ante, and
then she wbuld get 10 per cent com
mission on the new contract. Thus
she claimed $108,000 as her commis
sion and extra charges, because Mary
got a $10,000-a-week contract run
ning for two years.
Mary, who was In the court room
today with her husband, Douglas
Fairbanks, and her mother, flatly de
nied Mrs. Wllkennlng's story. Her
lawyers told the Jury that Mary was
such a good actress that producers
came around to her with tempting
contracts and that it was downright
silly to think she would have to run
around looking for a Job.
Mary's mother testified yesterday
that Mrs. Wilkennlng didn't have a
thing to do with- the contract, but
wanted it signed in her office because
It would lend her prestige. Today
Mrs. Wllkennlng's lawyer told what
he thought of Mary's mother, and
Mrs. Plckford almost cried. But she
smiled again when Mary kissed her
and told her to brace up and show
her "Irish sense, of humor."
Court Says One Lied.
"This Interview, between the plain
tiff and the defendant either took
place or It did not take place," said
Judge Mack, addressing the Jury.
"One or the other has deliberately
lied. It cannot be a mere figment of
the imagination."
Then he told the Jury thnt if it
found Mary had been the one who
slipped from the path of truth. It
(Concluded on Pi
Column 2.
SPORTS KDITOR TO roi'KR
SEWS OK COAST LEAC113
CAMPS.
Prospects for a first-division
baseball club in Portland this
year are better than they have
been in several seasons. The
Beavers opened their prelimi
nary training at Pasadena yes
terday. By the first of next
week things will start to hum
at the Portland camp In the
California city.
L. H. Gregory, sports editor of
The Oregonlan, wlil supply
Portland far,3 with the dope on
the Portland team starting tho
first of next week. Mr. Gregory
will arrive In Pasadena In time
for rollcall Sunday. His articles
in The Oregonian will keep the
home fans advised as to every
detail in the building of the
team. Every angle of the train
ing camp activities will be
thoroughly covered.
In addition to keeping the
fans advised on the doings of
the Beavers, Mr. Gregory will
visit the camps of other teams
in the Pacific Coast league. In
this way the Portland fans will
be kept posted on the enti-e
baseball situation of the Pacific
coast, and when the season
opens on April 4 with the Bea
vers meeting Los Angeles at
Los Angeles they will have a
very good idea of the strength
of the teams in tho league.
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