Entered at Portland (Oregon)
PnstofHce as yecnnr!-c?a.gg Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PAY CUT IS URGED
FOR ALL OFFICIALS
SOUTH AFRICA STRIKE
OF MINERS IS ENDED
COMPLICITY IX REVOLCTIOS
VOL. XLI XO. 19,133
CANADA'S - GHOSTS "V
FLEE TO SAFETY
No Queer Fires or Brutal
Attacks Recur. -
HOTEL IS 'SHOT UP';
MAN THEN KILLS SELF
FIVE SHOTS FIRED AT FER
. SONS IX IiOBBY.
KING FUAD SALUTED
AS RULER OF EGYPT
HOT BONUS FIGHT
MILLIONAIRE SPEED
FIEND GOES TO JAIL
illlUOUSF
PRINCESS
FAT MA
brew
DROPS FROM SIGHT
Lady From Afghanistan
Fails to Start Home.
VISCOUNT ALIiEXBY CALLS OX
, MONARCH IX PALACE. .
WEALTHY DETROITER PUN
ISHED FOR 2 3-MILE GAIT.
REPUDIATED BY FEDERATION
i
The Dalles Offers Tax Re
duction Plans.
FEWER EMPLOYES ADVISED
6 Per Cent Drop in Levy for
5 Years Suggested.
TAXPAYERS OFFER IDEAS
Deschutes Judge Declares Much of
Fault for High Assessment
Is With People.
r BY JOHN W. KELLY.
THE DALLES, Or., March 16.-
(Special.) A 'slash in salaries in all
officials, a reduction in the number
of employes and a legislative act de
manding the valuations and tax levy
of 1914 or a decrease of 6 per cent
each year for five years, -were the
suggestions that were made to the
state tax Investigation commission In
this city today.
County officials, as a rule, see no
way of bringing about a reduction,
but taxpayers are more fruitful of
proposed remedies. However, much
of the fault for cost items is with
the people, for, as R. W. Sawyer,
judge of Deschutes county, summed
it up, "taxpayers grumble, but they
won't vote."
County Judge McKee of Sherman
county blamed the people for the tax
situation, saying "they voted too
much on themselves."
Got 1st Salaries Vrgci.
It is not whether a thing is good
or desirable to have, but whether the
taxpayers can afford it, it was point
ed out by A. S. Bennett, ex-member
of the supreme court. Judge Bennett
proposed that there be a cut in sala
ries from state officers all down the
line. This, he maintained, is the key
to the situation.' To begin with, there
should be a general redaction of 25
per cent "if we are to get anywhere,"
and this cut should be made deeper
in subsequent years, he added.
A too elaborate system has grown
up in all departments and the judje
advised returning to the simpler ,5jte
of 20 years ago, when there e:e
fewer officials, smaller salaries ad
less luxuries. He would cut some oij
all of the educational millaga tax.
The majority of farms in Wasco
county, he said, "do not earn- 3 per
cent.
Wasco county from 1910 to 1921
has seen its tax valuations increased
30.2 per cent, and the total taxes for
alt purposes have jumped an increase
of 254 per cent. .
Let the Hood River horticulturists
experiment with their own pests in
stead of having the state do this and
let other growers tackle their own
special problems, proposed J. L
Kelly, ex-member of the legislature.
Ho would wipe out ap county agents
and so-called extension work, but
would retain the experiment .farms.
A property qualification for voters
is favored by Mr. Kelly, or the re
quirement that bond measures re
ceive a two-thirds of a majority of all
voting in order to be carried. He
insisted that if the valuation and
levy of 1914 is restored the county
and other officials will be forced
to eliminate non-essentials. Only by
such drastic forcing can officials
bring about a change, he continued.
Bond Coi mission Favored.
A state Bond commission should be
created, according to Judge Sawyer,
whose duty .lt should be to supervise
all bond issues to see that the sink
inn fund requirements are provided.
He, too, wuld restrict voting on
financial matters to ' those who pay
the bill.
County 'assessors should be field
agents for a central assessing power,
jn ins ueuei or tne judge, if an
equalization of assessment is to be
realized.
.There should be no curtailment of
educational finances, continued Judge
wyer, excep: where salaries are
too high or instruction unnecessary.
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VISION OF WORLD TODAY,
BY LORD NORTHCLIFFE,
TO APPEAR IN THE
OREGONIAN.
Lord Northcliffe, Great Brit
ain's premier publicist, one of
the best informed men alive
on international affairs, has
completed a tour of the world.
He made a study while on the
. trip of the situation, the ills
and the problems of peoples.
His first authorized statement
of his observations in the va
rious lands that he visited will
be published in The Oregonian
next Sunday, March 19. It is
entitled by authorization of
Lord Northcliffe "A Vision of
the World Today." It. is one
of the most notable and in
structive special articles of the
season. Don't miss it.
Police Declare They Have Plenty
of Evidence Showing- Plot
by Bolshevik Forces.
JOHANNESBURG, March 1. (By
the Associated Press.) The strike of
miners which has held South-Africa
in its grip for more than two months
has been called off.
The decision was taken by the, old
South African Industrial federation,
as distinct from the federation's aug
mented executive. It announced first,
that the general strike was null and'
void: second, that the augmented
executive would a.ll off the mine
strike, and third, that complicity in
the revolution against the govern
ment was repudiated by the federa
tion. The police have declared they have
voluminous evidence showing that a
bolshevik plot was responsible, for the
revolution. The revelations will be
astbunding, they asserted.- A gov
ernment official has declared that
the prisoners exceed 6000, and those
among them responsible for outrages
will be dealt with.
The railway men have resumed
work.
A tour of Fordsburg yesterday
showed that the place was complete
ly clear of revolutionaries and that
the occupation by the government
forces had been entirely effective.
Last night was the quietest since
the fighting began. The work of
clearing out Fordsburg immediately
produced a calmer atmosphere all
around. " - -
The most militant of the . rebel
leaders, Fisher and Spendiff, were
killed by shrapnel.
MEW BUS TAXES ASKED
Commission to Ask Levy of 5 Per
Cent of Gross Earnings.
TACOMA, Wash., March 16. (Spe
cial.) All busses and trucks, operat
ing on the public highways of the
state under exclusive franchises, will
be taxed S per cent of their gross
earnings hereafter, 'if the legislature
adopts a recommendation of the state
tax investigating committee, which
will soon be sent to Governor Hart.
This information was revealed here
today by Reeves Aylmore Jr., secre
tary, to the committee, who was in
Tacoma on his way to Olympla to
work on the" report.
The gross earnings tax will be rec
ommended as an addition to-present
license fees,,Mr. Aylmore said. Trans
portation companies in 1920 had gross
earnings of 2,000,000.
DEMOCRAT LEAVES PARTY
California Leader Turns Republic
an Because of Foreign Policy.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. Theo
dore A. Bell, for many years leader
of the democratic party in California,
today registered as a republican. He
gave as his reason "because I believe
that the present foreign policy of the
republican administration makes a
long stride towards the maintenance
of the world's peace.'"
He had served as democratic rep
resentative from California and was
democratic candidate for governor in
1906, 1910 and 1918. , .
JURY ACQUITS SLAYER
William Sederberg Freed on Charge
of Killing Father-in-Law.
TILLAMOOK, Or., March 16. (Spe
cial.) The jury in the case of Will
iam Sederberg, charged with second
nd I I
ictl I
degree murder, brought in a verd
of acquittal just before midnight.
Sederberg shot his father-in-law,
James Spencer, following a quarrel
between Sederberg and O. D. Spencer.
He wounded him in the arm so se
verely that amputation of the limb
was necessary. Death resulted from
the operation. .
HYLAN TO HAVE REFUGE
"Cyclone Cellar" Being Fitted Up
for Gotham Mayo.
NEW YORK. March 16, A suite,
with shower bath, is being fitted up
in the basement of the city hall for
Mayor Hylan, with a private stairway
leading to his official quarters on the
floor above.
Political opponents of the mayor
facetiously referred to he new suite
as' a "cyclone cellar." The mayor
calls it his "private offices."
FIGHT FOR MAN DECIDED
Judge Disposes of Contest for "Mu
tual Husband."
CLEVELAND, March 16. The fight
here of two women for their "mutual
husband" ended when Common Pleas
Judge Levine ruled that Russell Mc
Farland, Washington writer, is legally
married to Bessie Lyusch McFarland,
his second wife.
. The judge declared he was legally
divorced from Rose Tura McFarland,
his first wife. '
OSCAR L. CAIN FOUND DEAD
Ex-Federal District Attorney's
Throat Is Slashed.'
SPOKANE. Wash., March 16. Oscar
L. Cain, ex-United States district at
torney for the eastern district of
Washington, was found dead in the
bathroom of his residence tonight
with his throat slashed.
UNCANNY SPIRIT NOW GONE
Scientist's 7000-Word Report
Stirs Up Criticism.
EXPERT DECLARED WRONG
Eyewitnesses to Strange Incidents
Accept Verdict as Reflection
on Veracity.
HALIFAX, N. S. March 16. Cana.
da's two ghosts today apparently have
been "laid."
Not a peep was reported from
Antigonish county after Dr. Walter
Franklin Prince, the New York stalker
of the ephemeral, last night issued
his 7000-word report, expressing be
lief that mysterious fires in the house
of Alex Macdonald could be attrib
uted to Mary Ellen Macdonald, the
farmers' foster daughter, subject to
"altered states of consciousness." His
ghost .hunt over, Dr. Prince was pre
paring to return home tomorrow.
Dispatches from Windsor, Ontario
which yesterday reported the spirit of
Leo Leonard of Jackson, Mich, walk
ing abroad, stated that no further un
canny incidents have occurred over
night at the home of his son-in-law,
Franklin Crandall,' who charged the
ghost with having hurled him across
the room. ' '
Clergymen Visit House.
, Indeed, a ghost would have had a
hard time squeezing into the small
house, which was thronged-all way
with the curious. Two clergymen were,
invited by the family to visit the
house to lay the spirit by the power
of prayer.
Rev, H. M. Faulin said'after his
visit that there was no doubt that the
family was in in state bordering, on
panic- -uvei ''
"My opinion of the whole matter is
that these visits of spiritualistic me
diums have so excited the minds of
all of them that their imagination
is running riot," he added.
Amazement and disbelief followed
closely . in the wake of the report
issued by Dr. Prince. In Caledonia
Mills the people who were -eye-witnesses
to . the actual happenings,
while Dr. Prince was blissfully un
aware of the existence of such a
place as Antigonish or the Mills; let
alone the fires and other phenomena,
take his report as a reflection on
their veracity and judgment. There
are thousands, however, who welcome
his suggested solution involving Mary
Ellen and indulge in the ready "I
told you so."
Expert Declared ". ong.
Leo MacGillivray, whose reports re
garding the phenomena of which he
was a witness have been generally
accepted as the most valid and
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Laborer Is Hit in Leg, but Xot
Seriously Injured Motive for .
Actions Not Determined.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 16. After
walking into a local hotel late this
afternoon and firing five shots at per
sons sitting in the lobby and injuring
one, Richard Snyder, aged about 40
ran into a room of the hotel and shot
himself through the head, dying In
stantly. -
Frank John,- a laborer, was hit in
the left leg by one of the shots, the
bullet passing between the bones, but
not causing a fraeture Another shot
went through John's hat. The other
shots went wild. ,
The police have been unableto de
termine Snyder's motive. It was de
clared by witnesses that he shot in
discriminately at persons in the room.
PLATINUM DEPOSIT FOUND
Vast Discovery in Albania Told in
Ijetter to TT. S. Mine Director.
WASHINGTON, D. 3.) March 16.
Discovery of vast deposits of plati
num at Albania? was announced today
by Constantino A. Chekrezi, commis
sioner to America. The announce
ment was contained in a letter to Fos
ter Bain, director of the United States
bureau, ot mines, who said the plati
num had been unearthed several weeks
ago by Professor Zaderholm of the
University of Helsingf ors, who was in
Albania on a mission for the league of
nations.
Platinum was found in sufficient
quantities to warrant belief that the
deposits in the Ural mountains, con
trolled by the Russian soviet govern
ment, would lose their prestige as the
world's chief supply of the precious
metal, according xo tne commission
er's letter.
BIGAMIST TRUSTS. WIVES
Offender Believes He Can Count on
Loyalty of Some.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,' March 16.
An appeal to some of numerous wives
is to be made by Isaiah Moore, con
fessed bigamist, for them to be wit
nesses in his behalf when he goes
on trial here on indictments charg
ing him with bigamy, embezzlement
and grand larceny.
Moore said his defense would be
that his nervous condition at times
caused him to be irresponsible. , -
'I think I can depend on Helen
Hardgrove of Augusta, Kan,," said
Moore. "If she refuses me, I'll try
some of the others."
Miss Hardgrove has denied marriage
to Moore.
BIG BOND DEAL CLOSED
New York Bankers to Take Over
$30,000,000 French Issue.
NEW YORK, - March 16. Purchase
of $30,000,000 6 per cent external sink
ing fund bonds of the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean
Railroad company has
practically been concluded -by Kuhn,
Loeb- & Co., and the National City
company.
The issue, which matures in .1958
will be publicly issued at $83 and in
terest. Proceeds will be used for pur
chase of roll i: 3 stock and other im
provements.
HIS OWN WORK WOULD KEEP
r-.
Head of New Government Pledges
Word to Work for Welfare
of Beloved Country.
CAIRO, Egypt, March 16. (By the
1 Associated Press.) The proclamation
of the , sultan, Ahmed Fuad Pasha
as king of .Egypt, today was accom
panied by the firing of salvos of 101
guns in Cairo, Alexandria and -Port
Said, nd of 21 guns, in all .the other
provincial capitals. '
Field - Marshal Viscount Allenby.
hitherto the British high commis
sioner, accompanied by members of
his' staff, called at the royal palace
and congratulated King Fuad, whom
he : addressed as "your majesty."
Through Premier Sarvat Pasha the
king addressed a letter to "our noble
nation" in which he said in part:
"God has graciously permitted the
independence of Egypt to be attained
by our hands. We are grateful to
God and hereby announce to the
world that from today Egypt enjoys
independence and sovereignty.
. "We have taken for ourself- the
title his majesty, king of Egypt, in
order to insure the country's dignity
and its international status. We ask
God and the nation to "bear witness
that we shall endeavor to work for
the, welfare: and happiness of our
beloved country. -We hope this day I
will inaugurate an era which will
restore Egypt's grandeur." -
PASSENGER TRAVEL LESS
Kepons snow xraiiic xen n
Per Cent in 1821.
WASHINGTON, D. C March 16.
Passenger traffic on class 1 railroads
during 1921 was 20 per cent less than
in 1920, according to reports com
piled today by the carriers for the
interstate commerce commission. A
similar condition was reported last
month as to freight traffic.
Total passenger miles "reported for
1921, the number of passengers multi
plied by the miles carried, amounted
to 37,382.000,000, compared with 46,-
841,000,000 in 1920. Total revenues
from passenger fares were $1,153,752,
000,' or $133,671,000 less than in 1920.
PETS ARE PROVIDED FOR
Fund Left for Care of Manufae-
turer's Cats and Dogs. ' . " ,
NEW YORK, March 16. James Bol
ton, deceased textile manufacturer.
was so fond of his cats and dogs that
he made a separate bequest in. his
will, filed for probate today, stipulat
ing that $5000 be invested in stocks
and bonds to provide a fund for their
care.
His widow is the principal benefi
ciary under, the will, which disposes
of an estate in excess of $200,000.
MORE FARM LOANS MADE
Advances Totaling $2,312,000 for
Western States Approved. .
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 16.
Approval of 96 advances for agricul
tural and livestock purposes aggre
gating $2,312,000 was announced to
night by the war finance corpora
tion. ,
The loans included: California, $22,-
000; Montana,, $246,000, and Oregon,
$45,000. ' i
HIM BUSY.
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1 rtfi DUD Cai OD L S LC'
clared Widened.
LEADERS' ANGER AROUSED
Sales Tax May Be Center of
Furious Debate.
PROFITS LEVY CONSIDERED
Unanticipated and Unwelcome
Amendment to Bill Also Is Con
sidered One Possibility.
' BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Copyright by the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 17.-
(Special.) Any reporter with a pro
fessional interest in political rows
must find nimself seriously incon
venienced when the ootential con
testants are separated as far as the
distance between Washington and
Florida, . will all K. hnnnior whew
president Harding gets back from
Florida and all parties to the, row are
in one ring and within the focus of
a single pair of eyes.
It is difficult to make out the mo
tive of the dispatches which have
been coming from the president's en
tourage and which are published in
Washington in the newspaper which
is owned by Harding's Florida host
But if it is difficult ta determine
the motive in Florida there need be
no doubt about the result in Wash
ington. Republican Leader Furioun.
The republican leaders who are al
luded to in these dispatches are fu
rious and the end of the situation
which has been developing for
the last ten days or more is now pret
ty clearly in sight. ' -
First the dispatches said the presi
dent was tired) of republicans $n coh
greas cmln.i to the White Hoi: se toh
leadership and then disregarding it
Then they said that Harding would
veto the present bonus bill if the re
publican leaders forced it through
Finally the dispatches said that
Speaker Gillette of the house, who is
with the president in Florida, would
refuse to recognize the "republican
leaders when they try to push the
bonus bill through, as has been their
plan, under a parliamentary pro
cedure limiting debate to 40 minutes.
Chance for Row la Seen.
That would be extraordinary for
the speaker to do under any circum
stances, and it alone would be enough
to precipitate a row, even if the row
were not sufficiently under way any
how. There is one angle to this re
ported intention of Speaker Gillette
which makes you wonder just what
Harding's motive can be and what
broad course of action he may have
in mind for the future.
If Gillette recedes from his reported
position and lets the republican house
leaders have "heir way, the house
bill will go through the house with
out any more fireworks than can be
let loose in 40 minutes.- But if Gil
lette should really attempt repression,
there would be quite a different de
velopment. - V
Furious Debate Expected.
Some other way will be found to
get the bill on the floor. There need
be , no doubt of that. But whatever
other form of parliamentary proced
ure may be found will entail a de
bate not limited to 40 nynutes, but
one that will go far, fast and furious.
In that debate, if the republicans in
congress and the democrats as well
say half the things about- the ad
ministration which they now sullenly
declare they are going to say, there
will be a very merry, merry time
indeed.
One possible outcome of that situa
tion might be a combination of re
publicans and democrats to restore
the excess profits tax as a means of
providing the' bonus money, or some
other form of unanticipated and un
welcome amendment. . Still another
development might be an amendment
providing for a sales tax to raise the
bonus money and a square fight on
the sales tax issue. Conceivably that
may be the thing Harding and hla
friends are- playing for.
Harding' Motive Considered.
A fight on the clear alternative ot
bonus plus sales tax against bonus
minus sales tax would bring the issue
exactly -where Harding has always
said he wanied it. If the bonus plus
sales tax should be defeated after an
oped fight and a roll call, the onus
of defeating the bonus might then
rest on the democrats and those
among the republicans, who refuse to
favor it In that form.
As a more future-looking motive
for Harding's course it may be con
ceivable that he would not ' be dis
posed to see the present republican
majority in the house cut down con
siderably in the November elections.
To any one of the 200 republican rep
resentatives, each considering his in
dividual case - and at .this moment
breaking his neck for re-election.this
is a malevolently impious and wicked
ly treasonable thought. But the gen
eral behind the lines is occasionally
called upon to consider the larger
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Son of Auto Maker Fined $100 and
Sentenced to Five Days in
House of Correction.
DETROIT, March 16. John Duval
Dodge, millionaire son of the late
John F. Dodge, Detroit automobile
manufacturer, was sentenced to five
days in the house of correction and
fined $100 today when he admitted
driving his automobile 23 miles an
hour three miles in excess of the
speed limit. He was taken to jail.
Judge,-Bartlett also recommended
that Dodge's driver's license be re
voked for a year.
Dodge's wife wept as sentence was
passed on her husband.
As Dodge was being escorted from
the Courtroom he was served with a
summons in a damage suit for $10,000
instituted In behalf of Edwin Schulti.
12-year-old newsboy, who Is said to
have been run down by an automo
bile driven by Dodge several weeks
ago. -
The speeding charge was filed
against Dodge March 5. This morning
his counsel asked for a continuance
saying his client was unavoidably de
tained in Kalamazoo, where he was
arrested Monday charged with driving
an automobile while intoxicated and
illegally transporting liquor.
Judge Bartlett refused to grant the
continuance.
The Kalamazoo case is the out
growth of a ride following a dance
early Sunday, in which Dodge, Rex
Earl of Kalamazoo and three girl
students of Western State Normal
participated and which resulted in
Emmeline Kwakerneck, one of the
girls. Jumping from the automobile
and sustaining serious Injuries. Dodge
is under $7000 bond to appear for
hearing there March 21.
Twenty-one other motorists were
sentenced to terms Jn the house of
correction.
QUART OF POISON TAKEN
Jobless Roseburg Worker Drinks
Wood Alcohol, but May Survive.
ROSEBURG, Or., March 16 (Spe
cial.) J. J. McDonald, recently cook in
a local restaurant, endeavored to com
mit suicide late today by drinking a
quart of wood alcohol. " McDonald has
been ill -R fth influenza and was out of
work and iwithout funds.
After drinking the alcohol he re
pented of his action and hastened to
the offices of County Physician Wade
and applied for relief. He collapsed
while talking to the doctor and was
rushed , to the nospital, where the
poison was taken from his stomach
The doctors believe that he will re
cover, but fear mat he will lose his
eyesight. .
MR. NORTHRUP NAMED
Local Man Nominated for Receiver
of Portland Iand Office.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, March 16. Frank
O. Northrup was nominated today 'for
receiver of the local land office at
Portland, Or.
Frank O. Northrup succeeds to the
position left vacant by the retirement
of George R. Smith, whose term ex
pired February 28. Mr. Northrup has
been a resident of Portland for many
yeats and is engaged in the real es
hRinAa VVfrh hla wifA ho live
at 153 East Sixty-eighth street. Mr.
Smith held the office for the past
eight years.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 46
degrees; minimum, 36.
TODAY'S Bain ; westerly ' winds.
Foreisjn.
King Fuad saluted as ruler of Egypt.
Page 1.
Strike of miners In South Africa called off.
Page J.
National.
Report on oonus Is filed , by Fordney.
Page 2.
Amnesty urged for 118 political prisoners.
Pago 2.
Senator Reed in treaty fight hurls fire at
empty sea.ts. Pago S.
Government to stay out of coal wage
fight. Page 8.
Hot bonus fight brewing in house. Pago 1.
Pomentiq.
Canada's ghosts retreat to safety. Page 1.
Princess Fatima.' drops from sight. Psgs 1
Diva's separation from husband final.
Page 3.
Millionaire speeder fined and sentenced to
house or correction. -so x.
Big film merger expected In east. Page 6.
Pacific Northwest. f
Seattle labor leade'rs accused of manipu
lating money of workers. Page 7.
Russian woman earns way to America
, by sewing. Page 6.
Fay cut for all stats officials urged
Page 1.
Columbia counties hit by Palmer bill
Page 7.
Chehalis banker heads Washington cham
ber. Page 8.
Hotel Is "shot up": man then kills self.
Page 1.
Fraud suspected fn Boise failure. Page 4.
NnortA. -
Conference likely to change rules. Pago 14
Blanks sent clubs for amateur event
Page 14.
Strangler Lewis . challenges Dempsey te
mixed match. Page 15.
Foxy eye demanded of pitchers. Page 14.
Three bouts of action on tomorrow's bill.
Page 15.
Commercial and Marine.
All wheat grades higher on bid on local
"board. Page 28.
Speculative buying lifts wheat at Chicago
Page 22.
Liberty bonds active ' and firm at New
York. Page 23.
Demand Insistent for cheap woolen goods
Page 22.
New York stock market has strong ton.
. Page 22.
Cargo ship to arrlvs March 28. Page 16.
Portland and Vicinity.
Ex-convict inventor-author in Jail again.
Page 22.
Weather report, data and forecast. Pagj 22.
rreoii aula traffic men discuss nrohlemM
at Salem bearing. Page 6. j i
MIND EVIDENTLY CHANGED
Big 44-Karat Diamond Is'
Still Held by Government.
TRAIL OF DEBT LEFT
British Nation, After Arranging to
Take Wanderer Home, Says It
Is Through With Her.
NEW YORK, March 16. By the
Associated Press.) The Princess Fa
tima, sultana of Kaboui, In Afghan
istan, forsaken by her lawyer, bereft
of her 44-karat diamond and denied
further shelter by her unpaid land
lady, stepped Into a taxicab today
to drive to the steamer City of Lahore
and embark with her. three young
princelings for a voyage to Bombay
in a suite furnished by the British
government but she never reached
the pier.
Tonight she was secluded some
where and those who knew how her
fcrtune of a few months ago had
ebbed away doubted that her purs
held the cost of bed and board. It
was said she had decided to stay and
try to recover her big diamond held
by Unple Sam.
Diamond I Still Held.
The City of Lahore was out on th
Atlantic tonight. The British consul-
general was assuring those who In
quired that he and the empire h
represented have no further Interest
in the doings of the once wealthy
lady who dazzled Broadway last sum
mer .with her" nose Jewel, and a little
later visited the White Hous to b
ushered into the prf pence of th pres
ident of th UnitJt States, with all
the dlgnlt-lue a royal guest,
TI.o United States govvrnnent was
holding tight tonljht to th 44-karat
diamond that the princess naively
brought into America without paying
duty and then tried to rell. Paul
Kotch, the lawyer who fought for her
when those whose bills she had not
paid went to the courtroom, an
nounced he was through. Mrs. Ida
M. Wyllie, in whose lodgings the
princess has remained since last
November, said she, too, had reached
the end of her patience.
Ullls Paid for While.
For a while the princess paid her
bills at the boarding house and then
for many weeks she overlooked th
practice, the landlady said. Thre
weeks ago the British consul-general
took up the burden and continued
until after breakfast this morning.
Yesterday Mr. Kotch went around
to the Waldorf-Astoria, whero tho
princess lived in fine style during her
first thrilling weeks in the metropolis,
and persuaded th management that
inasmuch as the princess had meant
wel1 and wa 0,n ? "ct out ot tn
country today, it would bo a gracious
gesture to release her luggage. The
heart of the management softened
and the 'luggage was roleascd. al
though the princess still owed the
hotel money. Mr. Kotch called at the
Narragansett hotei, where the prin
cess also had made her abode for a
time without any particular Impres
sion being left upon her pocketbook,
and that place also released what
luggage It had retained.
Bag Are to Be Held.
John Bull doesn't know where th
trunks went after they Itft the Wal
dorf. Unole Sam doesn't know. Mr.
Kotch doesn't know. Mr. Wylllo
doesn't know. But Mrs. Wyllie has
the bags that the Narragansett re
leased. She is going to keep them
because she says the princess owe
(Concluded on Pace Z, Column 3.)
THE TRUTH ABOUT
HOLLYWOOD. I
Recent events, the Taylor t
murder and the Arbuckle case, J
focused public attention on
Hollywood, center of the mov-
ingf picture industry. All t
kinds of reports enamated t
from the Los Angeles suburb.
Some of them were true, some
of them false, and others a
mixture of truth and fiction.
Next Suncay The Oregonian
will print the first of a series
of articles on Hollywood. They
o ra vL'Tttjn ntf n inAe-ntTAvnt
investigator whose sole object t
ivas to get at the truth. He
gives an intimate survey of
the picture colony, without
any attempt either to cover up
or to exaggerate the evils that
exist.
The moving picture is an
important factor in American
life and the public is entitled
to know just what the situa
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