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OWQN STATE LIBRARY , MAR 2 o mi VOL. XL.I ISO. 19.134 EPn"f! Lat pVt"$n oreon PoMeffice as Spcni-claes Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH . 18, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS EIS NATIVE HERD OF ELK ROAM IN LAST STAND AMERICA IS URGED YOUNG MILLIONAIRE TOWN MAY GO INTO HANDS OF RECEIVER BITTER RATE MASKED MEN ATTACK RETURNED TO JAIL CASCADE LOCKS HOME BY CHAMBERLAIN TO INSIST ON PAY TO ORIENT FACED FOUR LOGGING CONCERNS CUT. TING TOWARD BEASTS. JOHN DTJVALi "DODGE LOSEK EV WASHINGTON ATTORNEY-GENERAL ADVISES ACTION. ALBERT STEWART REPORTS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIRING OF SHOTS. DECLINED MR ESKIMOS FORDID Intention to Run for Gov ernor Denied. SHIPPING BOARD PREFERRED Ex-Senator's Wish Is to Help Develop Merchant Marine. OTHERS ARE AMBITIOUS H. G. Starkweather, F. S. Myers, T. D. Brown and Milton A. Mil ler Ready to Answer Call. ' THE OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, March 17. George E. Chamberlain, ex-senator and now a member of the United States shipping board, said this afternoon that he had Bo intention of entering? the contest this year for governor of Oregon. He said he had received many letters urging him to return to the state and get into the race, but that his dis position was to remain on the ship ping board where much constructive work could be done. Mr. Chamberlain did no mention the ticket upon which he had been urged to run, but that was because it was understood that his numerous In vitations called for his candidacy as the democratic standard bearer. Race Declared Impossible. , "I have ,told all who have written me that while I felt gratified at the very generous expressions that have come to me -in regard to running again for governor, it is impossible for me to make the face," said Mr. Chamberlain. "I feel that I am in a position now where constructive work for Oregon as well as for the whole country can be done if we can only have the confidence and support of the people, and I feel it my duty, in lew of the fact that the appoint- . ment came to me from a republican president unsolicited by me, and at the urgency of my friends in Oregon without regard to party, that I ought to remain with it, at least until it can be determined whether or not the American people want a merchant marine or whether they want to sur render to foreign maritime nations like Great Britain, Japan and Scan dinavian Countries the carriage of our export and import business. Merchant Marine la Goal. ."The immensity of this business and Its value to America, If only she will stand for a merchant marine, can best be understood when I say to you that in the past seven years we have en riched British shipping interests to the extent of nearly five billion dol lars and other foreign countries al most four billion dollars, while Amer ica has received only $3,000,000,000 for the same service covering the . same period of time. "It has made Great Britain mistress of the seas and her receipts from this source are treated by her people as her invisible exports. Believing as 1 do, that there is a chance to build up an American merchant marine that will carry at least 50 per cent of our commerce, I feel that I at .least ought to remain where I am until a fair trial can be given the effort we are now making wholeheartedly and in the face of the strongest kind of op position which I am sorry to say is domestic as well as foreign." Senator Chamberlain is keenly in terested in the plan recently laid be fore congress by President Harding to give some sort of government aid to American shipping to meet the ad vantages which foreign ships receive from their governments. REPORTS ARE SET AT REST Oregon Democrats Ask Senator Whether He Will Run. - Mr. Chamberlain's statement sets at rest a report prevalent m Oregon po litical circles for several days that he would become the standard bearer in the coming campaign. A telegram was sent to him on Thursday night, signed by two score democrats, ask ir.g an immediate answer whether or not he would run. Although the re ply had not been received last night. The Oregonian's interview leaves no doubt that it will be unfavorable. Throughout the state, in the past week there had spread a rumor that Mr. Chamberlain would head the democratic ticket. Officials of the party darkly hinted to loyal workers in various sections that "an unbeat able democratic candidate would be announced within a few days." In democratic circles ' Mr. Chamberlain is reckoned as the only unbeatable candidate, notwithstanding the result of the senatorial election in Novem ber, 19M. As early as last" October there, were rumors that Mr. Chamberlain would rather be governor of Oregon than a member of the United States ship ping board, although the latter posi tion carries a salary of $12,000 a year and unlimited expenses. Subsequent ly Mr. Chamberlain intimated that he preferred remaining with the ship ping board. Development political in recent weeks have, however, caused the former Oregon senator to take a (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) i : Bulls Estimated to Weigh 1200 Pounds Act as Scouts for Ant lered Group on Nehalem. CLATSKANIE. Or March 17. (Special.) A native elk herd of be tween 30 and 40 fine animals, still roaming the old haunts on the Neha lem, which were once the big game hunting grounds of the state, are now In their last stand in the green timber on the head of Big creek with four logging companies cutting to ward them. - But this seems to worry the elk very little, . according to reports brought here by loggers of the Ore gon Timber company. So tame have the great beasts become that it is not infrequent to see them in the edge of the timber near where the loggers are at work, and some of the men are said to have come within 50 feet of them. .Two great bulls, estimated to weigh close to 1200 pounds and car rying heavy antlers in season, are the scouts of the herd. They are to gether continually and travel from one part of the feeding grounds to the other. The herd Is thought to have shifted in recent years from the Blind slough district to the head of Big creek. Hunters have not molested them, and although cougar are said to be prey ing on the deer in that vicinity, they are not tackling the elk. Since the killings of a year ago in the coast district poachers have not dared to operate so boldly among the elk. Loggers and woodsmen in the dis trict frequented by them occasion ally come upon horns after the shed ding season. TRAINS CRASH; TWO DEAD Two Portland Women Injured In Collision in Montana. BUTTE, Mont., March 17. Don Caldwell of Livingston, Mont., pas senger engine fireman, . and Carl Peterson of Everett, Wash., were killed and several passengers received minor' injuries in a collision of trains Nos. 1' and 220 of the Northern Pa cific railroad IS miles east of Butte at 7:50 o'clock this morning. The en gines came together on a curve on a steep mountain grade. The cause of the accident has not been officially ascertained. , Among the injured were the follow ing: Merle Thorpe of Washington, D. C, editor of The Nation's Business, . ab 'dominal Injuries. Mrs. J. E. Gratteau, Portland, bruises. - Mrs. Dorothy Woods,, Portland, bruises. . GENERAL FELIX DIAZ SLAIN Prisoner Reported Killed In At tempt to Make Escape. NOGAL.ES. Ariz., March 17. Gen eral Felix Diaz was shot and killed near Ortiz, Sonora, Mexico, midway between Hermosillo and Guaymas, ac cording to advices received here to night. First advices said that the man killed was a nephew of Porfirio Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, but informa tion from dther sources indicated that tke dead man was not related to the late president. General Diaz was ar rested in Guaymas. He escaped, how ever, while, being taken to Lamis'a for court-martial. A telegram from General Fernanz at Lamisa stated that Diaz jumped from an automobile and was slain by a military escort. BABY FOUND DEAD IN BED Restless Murmurings of Twin. Re sult in Discovery by Mother. ECHO, Or., March 17. (Special.) When Mrs. Antone Cunha of this place went to quiet the restless murmurings of Her three - months - old twin daughters early Wednesday morning she found one dead in its crib. The babies were both apparently well when put to sleep, although several weeks previously they had suffered light attacks of influenza. When Mrs. Cunha gave them their bottles at midnight they had both played with her and nothing out of the ordinary was noticed. RUSSIA BIDS FOR TRADE Opening of Free Import and Ex port Business Decreed. MOSCOW, March 17. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A decree .aikiouncing the opening of free import and export tr.ide with soviet Russia was pub lished today. Co-operatives and private persons are granted the right independently to purchase abroad and import goods into soviet Russia and foreign firms are permitted to carry on import and export business In soviet Russia on their own account. WATTERSON RITES SET Funeral of Aeteran Journalist Will Be Held on April 4. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 17. Funeral services for Colonel Henry Watterson, veteran journalist,, who died here December 22, 1021, will be held in the First Christian church in Louisville, Ky on Tuesday, April 4. interment will be in the family plot in Cave Hill cemetery immediately afprward, Henry Watterson, his son, said today. Senators Score Allies for Opposing Bill. TROOPS' WITHDRAWAL ASKED Leaders of Both Parties Say Legal Right Unquestioned. TECHNICALITY IS CHARGED Maintenance of Excessive Forces in Germany Declared to Be Un - just and Expensive. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 17. Declaration that the United -States should insist upon payment of its bill of 1241,000,000 for keeping American soldiers in Germany, were made in the senate by both party leaders Senators Lodge of Massachusetts and Underwood and Senator Borah, re publican, Idaho. Mr. Underwood also urged appointment of an American representative on the allied repara tions commission. Both Senators Lodge and Under wood charged the allies with at tempting "by a technicality to op pose payment . of the bill for the American troops," while Senator Borah said the allies' attitude was "entirely unwarranted." Republicans Are Blamed. Senator Underwood asserted the republicans were responsible for not .having a member on the reparations commission. This, the democratic leader asserted, was the only way in which the occupation claim could, be collected. Senators Lodge and Poin dexter, republican, Washington, -denied this contention, declaring that obligation to pay for the American soldiers rested upon the armistice agreement, and not upon either the treaty of Berlin or that of Versailles. Senator Borah brought up the question today in the senate. He called attention to reports that Pre mier Poihcare of France had declared that America has no legal right to collect for the keep of American troops in Germany. J "I have no doubt that Secretary Hughes will work out some method of securing payment," said Senator Borah, adding that he was, however, primarily interested in having all American troops brought out of Germany. Allies Declared Helped by Army. "Our army was left in Europe sup posedly to the benefit of the allies," said the Idaho senator." "Certainly it was not for the benefit of the Amer ican people, directly or particularly. It now appears that our army is no (.Concluded on Page 2, Column S. ) THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY - : .' ; T -J J ' 1 ifil : T : Son of Late Auto Manufacturer Is ' Sent Back to House of Cor .' rection to Serve Term. DETROIT, March 17. John Duval Dodge, youthful millionaire, today lost his fight to evade the five-day sentence imposed on him in record er's court yesterday for speeding. Cir cuit Judge Jayne dismissing a writ of habeas corpus, holding It was defec tive for technical reasons. ' Dodge was returned to the house of correc tion. Dodge's counsel said he would seek another writ tomorrow. Dodge, the son of the late John F. Dodge, automobile manufacturer, spent last night in the house of cor rection, but obtained a temporary measure of freedom today when the habeas corpus writ was granted by Circuit Court Judge Richter. When it was presented to the su perintendent of the house of correc tion. Dodge was remanded to the cus tody of Sheriff Coffin before he had started on his day's work with the other prisoners. He remained under guard with the sheriff until the hear ing this afternoon. Immediately aft erward, however, he was returned to the house of correction and once more donned prison garb. Rex Earl of Kalamazoo, who, with Dodge and three girl students from Western State normal, participated In at automobile ride in Kalamazoo early Sunday, that ended in -the se rious injury of Miss Emmeline Kwackerneck, a member of the party, was fined $50 and costs of $14.30 in justice court in Kalamazoo this aft ernoon, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication, filed as the outgrowth of the accident. Dodge is under $7000 bond to ap pear Tuesday in Kalamazoo, where he is charged with driving an automo bile while intoxicated, and transport ing liquor. MENTAL CRUELTY ENOUGH Superior Judge Gives Ruling on Ground for Divorce. CHICAGO, March 17. Mental cruel ty was declared - today by Superior Judge Sabath as sufficient grounds for a divorce, Mrs. Elizabeth Tausch in her suit charged her husband, An ton, had taunted her by derogatory comparisons of her appearance with that of "silken-hosed" women whom he had seen. . The .judge declared that whether or not the charges were true, he believed mental suggestions "might be more cruel than beatings." The case was continued. - " PRINCE SAILS FOR JAPAN Tour of India- Concluded; Crowd Witnesses Departure. KARACHI, British India, March 17. The Prince of Wales concluded his tour of India today and sailed from this port on the battlecruiser Renown, bound for Japan. . . The prince was enthusiastically cheered by a large gathering at the quay to bid him farewell. TO GET RID OF THE DISEASE Incorporation Recently Set Aside ' by Supreme Court $1400 on . Treasurer's Hands. OLYMPIA, Wash.. March 17. (Spe cial.) The town of Molson may go inta-the hands of a receiver If the advice of Attorney-General Thompson to Charles A. Johnson, prosecuting at torney of Okanogan county, in an opinion rendered today, Is followed. . Incorporation of the town as a town of the fourth class was set aside by the supreme court recently because of flaws in the proceedings, leaving the ex-town treasurer with $1400 in taxes collected that he does not know what to do with. Seeking a way out, the prosecuting attorney asked the attor ney-general's advice and was advised to have the town-treasurer petition the court for a receiver to liquidate the affairs of this de facto corpora tion. The receiver would then take the money and distribute it as the court might direct. The money belongs o the people who paid it in, the attor ney-general held,- but subject to the claims of creditors of the defunct cor poration. - . There is no method whereby the 1921 road district tax can now be im posed against the property sought to be incorporated. "Since the county wili take over the assets of the town it would not seem that its inability to impose a road district tax would result in any lack of equity," the opinion said. KLANSMEN HELP NEEDY Ku Klux Organized in Roseburgr With Large Membership. ROSEBURG, Dr., March 17. (Spe cial.) A mild sensation was .caused here today when three Ku Klux Klansmen in full regalia, appeared in the lobby of the Umpqua hotel and upon leaving that building entered a waiting auto and were whisked away out of town. It later developed that the trio had carried food, fuel,' cloth ing and money to two needy families residing near the limits of the city. Following the incident, F. M. Simon- ton, organizer, gave out an interview in which he stated that the Klan had been strongly organized in Roseburg and that there is a large membership in this vicinity. A motion picture and lecture are to be given here soon by the organization. L0RENZ GOES TO DETROIT Famous Vienna Surgeon Holds Farewell Clinic in New York. I, NEW YORK, March 17. Dr. Adolph Lorenz, famous Vienna orthopedic surgeon, today held his farewell New York clinic Tomorrow he will leave for Detroit to remain there until March 26, when he will return to this city to sail for home April 12. His assistants said that sinc.e his ar rival he had conducted 25 clinics in this city, examining about 2203 crip ples and operating on 20. "I am sorry I am unable to per form all of the operations that I think necessary," said the surgeon sadly. AND CRIME BREEDERS. at COMPETITION CAUSES STAND Action of Japanese and Brit ish Lines Is Felt. COAST MEETING CALLED Services Operating Out of Port land and Seattle Asked to Participate. SAN FRANCISCO, March 17. The eight steamship companies operating out of San Francisco to the orient declared today for open rates on all overland and westbound traffic to the orient. The declaration marked the opening of what is expected to be one of the most bitter rate wars ever fought on the Pacific coast. The decision follows the action of British and Japanese steamship com panies operating out of Vancouver, Seattle and Columbia river ports cut ting rates on all tonnage on export bills of lading. The open rates, which permit - companies' to charge what ever they believe necessary to get the business, became effective at 4:30 P. , M. today, immediately after the conference of the eight operating companies. Northwest Competition Felt. They are the Java Pacific company, Toyo . Kisen Kaisha, Pacific Mail Steamship company, Robert Dollar Ship company, Furness-Withy, McCor- mack & McPherson, China Mail Steam ship company and Struthers & Barry. E. G. A. Watts, secretary of the Pacific westbound conference, made this statement in regard to the open rates: "We are forced to meet the com petition of steamship companies of the Pacific northwest who have been cutting rates to a ridiculous figure. The result, has been that the freight reaching the Pacific coast on export bills of lading has been carried from our shores to the orient in ships of other nations, while the American steamers have been sailing across the ocean empty." Officials of the eight companies de clined to comment on the move, other than to say that it was .forced on them by foreign companies operating out of northwest ports. Teirsrami Are Sent Oat. Open rates on overland and west bound traffic will not effect the rates on local traffic or traffic originating: from any Pacific coast ports, it was announced. Rates to the orient from San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and other Pacific coast points will remain as they are. Nor Is there possibility, it was said, of a rate war between coastal and intercoastal lines. A meeting of the eight companies concerned will be held Tuesday, it was announced, at which time plans will be considered for bringing to gether representatives of all lines operating from Pacific coast ports to effect "a reasonable understanding." At the same time that the confer ence went on record as permitting its members to slash rates to meet com petition from northern ports, it sent telegrams to all shipping lines oper ating out of Portland, Or., and Seat tle, suggesting that a conference be held at which all might agree on similar rates. Next Tuesday was set as a tentative date Zor this. ' Board Officials at Meeting, The heads of the steamship con cerns comprising the conference met this morning with officials of the shipping board, but what action was taken was not made public. It was said the proposal, to allow the lines to make any rate necessary to get business was discussed. ! The story was current In shipping circles tonight that, the rate cut in the north which precipitated today's action had broken up an attempt by the shipping board to form a gen eral conference to fix rates from all Pacific coast ports. As the lines plyiijg out of San Pedro to the orient are controlled by the companies" which also operate from here, today's action will result in vir tually equal rates being -et for the traffic from all principal Pacific coast ports. FARMER GETSLIFE TERM Ex-Soldier Convicted of Murder of Alleged Home-Wrecker. TALBOTTON, Ga., March 17. Lee H. Coart, prominent farmer who served during the world war as a major, was sentenced to life impris onment here today for the murder last fall of A. B. McNiece, former superintendent of Talbot " county schools. The jury returned a ver dict of guilty with recommendation of mercy after deliberating' 14 hours. Major1 Coart, in his testimony, al leged that McNiece had wrecked his home, while Mrs. McNiece, for the prosecution, , asserted that the de fendant had made advances to her which- she had spurned. 8 Companies Confer San Francisco. Bridegroom Tells at Wedding That Party Threatened to Return With Reinforcements. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 17. (Spe cial.) Albert Stewart of Cascade Locks, here tor his wedding to Mrs. Mary C Lee, matron of that town, re ported to authorities that his home was attacked two nights before by a party of 12 masked men. He declared that the visitors, giving an alarm about midnight, sought to get him in his yard, one of them posing as an automobile agent. When he declined to leave the house the men, he said, fired several shots. Matt Huckler, a Hood River boy, who has been staying with Mr. Stewart during a recent illness, was present at the time of the call. Mr. Stewart declared that he could conceive of no reason for the visit unless it resulted from some personal grudge. The men threatened, he said, to call later with a larger number. Justice of the Peace A. W. Onthank offflciated at the marriage of Mr. Stewart and Mrs. Lee. Mr. Stewart expressed the opinion that his visit from masked men might Lave resulted frorn his recent activ ity In reporting to Mrs. Lola G. Bald win of the Woman's Protective asso ciation a case in which he alleged a resident of Cascade Locks had con tributed to the delinquency of a girL He said, however, that he was unable to identify any of his callers. No official investigation has been made. Belief was expressed that Stewart may have been the victim of a hoax. FIREMEN AVERT PANIC Lodging House Fire Cuts Off Sev eral Who Are Rescued. A small panic was averted and considerable damage to the building prevented by Captain Grenfell and Lieutenant Boatwright of the fire marshal's office who happened to be passing In. front of 204 Fourth street yesterday when an explosion occurred on the second floor. The two officials sent in a call for fire apparatus and then hurried upstairs, where they found a group of people in the rear end of the hall, cut off from escape by flames. The people were ushered out a rear entrance and the fire was put out by chemical apparatus. It had been caused by some .furniture, polish which Lewis Besothe was making in his room, fumes from turpentine and vegetable oils igniting from the gas flame. The lodging house was run by Mrs. M. O. Peterson and damage to It and Hyland's book store under neath amounted to $700. FAILURE COSTS $3,250,000 Ex-Wheat King Estimates Loss In Attempt to Corner Market. NEW YORK, March 17. Joseph Leiter. former Chicago "wheat king." today testified that the failure of his attempt to corner the market In 1S97 had cost him $3,250,000. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, BO , degrees: minimum temperature. 84 de grees. TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds. Foreign. Republican army prepares for fight. Page 8. National. Republican chiefs divided on army. Page 8. Senators want America to insist on pay ment for troops in Germany. Pago 1. Politicians held responsible (or attack on Porto Rico governor. Page 2. Chamberlain declines to run for governor. Page 1. Continued pessimism as to future falls to halt German industrial activity. Page 2. Democratic chiefs confer on bonus. Page 7. i Doraestie. Young millionaire Is back In Jail. Page 1. Old - time spook much like modern one. Page S. Obcnchaln case put in jury's hands. Page 4. Edison Issues quia on gold standard. Page 3. Theater merger affecting whole country piopffed. Page 8. Glass manufacturers and labor leaders in dicted by federal grand Jury. Page 6. Boy explorer relates queer habits of Eski mos. Page 1. Bitter rate war to orient faced. Page 1. New arrest made in Taylor murder caae. Pago 6. Faclfie Northwest. Town may go into hands of receiver. Page 1. Native her J of elk roam in last stand on Nehalem. Page 1. Car company ordered to spend 1500,000. Page 4. Masked men attack Cascade Locks home. Page 1. Only three of'.elsrht state offices likely to be conlesiea in pninancn. nK a. Proportional rates testimony heard. Page 5. Sports. Junior tenuis champion to be sent east. Page 1. Beavers to learn to steal signals. Page 10. DePinto crawls out of fight and Gordon Is substituted. Page 17. Multnomah club gymnasium exhibition to night. Page 14. Four basketball teams survive. Page 1. Dundee defeats White. Page 18. Commercial and Marine. Another cargo of northwestern wheat sold for export. Page 23. Foreign buying lifts wheat market at Chi cago. Page 23. Railway bonds register sharp advances. Page 23. Many stocks rise to new high marks. Page 22. Direct line to Manchester to be Inaugu rated in May or June. Page 22. Portland and Vicinity. Good oranges declared plentiful in mar ket. Page 15. White Star chapter to fight narcotics evil to be organized here. Page 7.- gtatutory levies block tax reduction. Page . Nebraska farmers prospering again. Page 22 Divorce asked from blue-Sunday wife. Page 12. Lions club celebrates arrival of its charter. Page 14. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. POWERFUL DRIS Extracts and Toilet Water No Longer Used. BOY EXPLORER IS BACK Seven Years Passed Among Northland's Natives. QUEER CUSTOMS RELATED Inhabitants Do Not Sew Selves in Sacks, but Disrobe to Go to Bed, Is Declaration. NEW TORR. March 17. (Special.! Fresh from the magnetic pole, Har old Nolce, the boy explorer of Seattle, has brought us tidings that this is a small world. Such was the consump tion of vanilla and lemon extract, hair tonic and toilet waters among Alaska Eskimos that the aurora borealis was threatened with a short circuit, and now all these beverages are verboten. Still, a few Eskimos' sandwiches are moistened with a varied brew of dried apples. They combine the ef fect of 'imik tok, which, when freely translated, means 'he is watered.' The young woman who becomes en amoured of Mr, Noice, who showed himself at the Hotel McAIpine today, to be tall, handsome and 26 years of age, may have some qualms of anx iety over his past. 7 leara Spent Among Eskimo. Noice has been living really liv ing for the last seven years among the farthest north of North American Eskimos and from what he has said the "goings oh" up there are no bet ter than they ought to be in the South Sea islands. They even have a hula hula dance. Noice has come to town to have a specialist attend to a shoulder which was dlsjocated when ha was diving out of the low door of , ifiLnj six months ago. Another of hi missions, he said, wag to find a publisher for his Eskimo dictionary, and he hop. to Interest soma museum In a collec tion of prehistoric relics he du( out of buried Eskimo villages In Victoria island In the Arctio circle. He was a member of the last Stef ansson expedition for two years, and when It broke up he set out alone to explore Victoria island and the shores of Coronation bay, turning archae ologist and ethnologist along the way, although he had taken no course In those subjects In his high school daya in Seattle. 1,1 'era tore Is Larking. "They have no literature," Mr. Noice said In reply to a question, "nothing written, and practically no folk lore. The language has a well organized grammar, but the natives don't know what real grammar means. They use nominatives, ac cusative, subjunctive, ablative, voca tive and similatlve rases without be ing In the least aware of It. Their language, with words having unlim ited prefixes and suffixes, has more flexibility than ours. For Instance, we can only say. good, better, bent. The Eskimos have good, goodcr. gooderer and goodererererer as far as you want to go before reaching better." The word nelllkak" In the manu script of Mr. Noice's dictionary the innocent sound meaning "a pair of ladies' knickerbockers" star'ed fhe conversation on the subject of Eski mo belles and brought the interview near Its printable conclusion. Eskimos Disrobe for tlrrp. It Isn't true that Eskimos sew themselves up for the winter. They disrobe totally for sleep, even when the thermometer reaches 65 below, and each Itsloo has one bed sack anI no pajamas for the family or guest. Mr. Nolce, accustomed to the abridged hospitalities of Seattle, was equipped with his own sleeping bag. Another quaint and universal cus tom at the top of the world Is wife trading and wife-lending. This Is not ' on the felonious basis of our wife borrowing, he explained. Wife Offered to Onesta. "They are very kindly," said Mr. Nolce. "If you are a guest of an Eskimo gentleman and just setting out on a journey, he will offer you his wife as your temporary wife. Eventually, of course, he gets her back again. Men and women see nothing wrong or well, onerous about this. Many a young Eskimo woman has had from SO to 100 or more temporary husbands before sho enters middle age. They marry young, some as early as 12 and a conviction on a statutory charge would be Im possible up there. "Yea, some of the girls are quite pretty . . . and they're all quite nice. In their way. No. there was no one that I lost my heart to . . . but there were some that I liked. The fat ones are the most popular, per haps, but some prefer the slim ores. The half-breeds are closer to our American ideas of beauty." Palestine Comnilxsionr-r to Quit. . LONDON, March 17. Reports thai Sir Herbert Samuel will rctirr hortly as BritiBh high commissioner for Palestine are printed by the Pall Mail Gazette and Globe.