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10, TIIE SUXDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1920 HIGHWAY TO WHIT i 1 I COURT DECISION Pommission Refuses to Spend Money on Doubtful Routes. ONE ACTION NOW PENDS II. A. Booth Declare Locations Must Be Clear Hereafter Be I J fore Action "Will Be Taken. 8AX.EM, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) Tn state highway commission will refuse to spend any more money in highway construction in Polk county until the locations of the west side Pacific highway there are assured agrainst further disturbance by a court of last resort, according to R A. Booth, member of the state high commission, who passed today In Salem. "It would be folly for the higrh way commission to authorize large expenditures of money on state high ways which might later have to be paralleled through action of the leg islature or courts," said Mr. Booth. "Should the locations of the Pa cific highway be upheld by the courts, then' we would feel safe in proceeding with the road improve ment programme as originally agreed upon between the highway commis sion, and the Polk county court." ) . ' Work Will Be Held TTp. j Mr. Booth referred to the pro frramme including the paving of the Salem-Dallas road connecting Dallas with the highway department's loca tion of the Pacific highway at Bick XealL "But so long as there la any doubt as to the location of the north-and-Bouth routes through Polk county, no further work will be attempted on .Xhls road," continued Mr. Booth. He pointed out that this road was located by the commission In order that Dallas might have an outlet to the main highway, as well as connect I jthe west side highway with Salem. Mr. Booth also pointed out that mandamus proceedings now are pend ing in the supreme court to compel the construction of the Pacific high way alontr the routes designated to Include Dallas and Independence on the north and south highways. Be cause of this suit Mr. Booth said the commission could not be expected to spend $300,000 on the road in con troversy when the money is badly needed for highways in other parts of folk county. ( Writ Storm Crews. The mandamus proceedings were tiled by E. C Kirkpatrlck and other Bolk county citizens, under an act of the 1913 legislature, which, it is al leged, Included Dallas andIndepend enee on the main state highway. The commission. In locating the road, se lected a route south from Amity through Rickreall to Monmouth. Spur roads were provided for the accom modation of Independence and Dallas, when the injunction stopped road "work In Polk county. The paving of the Dallas-Salem highway has been completed as far as Brunk's corner, tive miles west of Salem. Any extensions of this road, accord Ins to Mr. Booth, will depend on the disposition of the people there to resurrect and live up to the original agreement between the Polk county court and the highway commission. CLARKE COUNTY CANDIDATE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, COMPLETES TOUR. " v. u-i m- ir wr SENATOR EDWARD L. FRENCH, MRS FRENCH AND DAUGHTER. VANCOUVER, Wash, Sept. 11. (Special.) Senator Edward L. French of Clarke county, accompanied by his wife and granddaughter, Laura Rea French, have just returned from a wide swing around the whole state. Senator French is republican candidate for lieutenant-governor and' is of the opinion that a large number of the voters of the state should have a chance to see him. bo that they will know who they are voting for when they go to the primaries and the general election. Mr. French reports that he had a wonderful trip seeing the flowing fields of grain, the well-laden orchards, the great timber belts and other great resources of this great state. He said that if he has any campaign manager, it Is his little grand daughter, Laura Bea French, who accompanied him on the swing around the state. Senator French has been In the state senate from Clarke county for many terms, and seldom had any opposition, though ortee or twice a demo crat had the courage to 'file for the office, only to be overwhelmingly defeated at the polls. He is a prune grower by profession, and operates a large orchard and packing plant at Ellsworth, a few miles from Van couver on the North Bank highway. That he will carry this section of the state by a big majority is a foregone conclusion, so popular is he in his own community and county. GIRL'S AMBITION BALKED "POOR LITTLE RICH ONE" TIRES OF GILDED CAGE. in brought to the McMinnville hospital. where he died without regaining con sciousneas. - PASSPORTS HELD ILLEGAL REED'S PAPERS SAID TO RAXK FORGERIES. BE Delegate to Third Internationale Uses Document, Says Report, to Shield Activities. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Reports that John Reed, who sought to rep resent the Russian bolshevik govern ment as consul-general in the United i States, has an American, passport was officially denied today at the state department. All of the four identify ing papers which Reed carried, it was announced, were forgeries. An emergency passport which Reed nolds, made out to "Samuel Arnold Jr." at Paris, was declared to be a rank forgery in its entirety, including the signature of Ambassador Wal lace, as was a letter addressed to Ar nold, purporting to be signed by the embassador, and written authoriza tion from the committeemen public in formation made to Samuel Arnold Jr. P.eed was said to have employed these papers to shield his activities s a delegate to the third Interna tionale, under a cloak of' American citizenship. TONO SCHOOLS INCREASE I Attendance In XI igh School Shows Gain of 100 Per Cent. CENTRAL! A, "Wash.. Sept. 11.. '(Special.) The Tono schools opened this week with an Increased enroll Iment. the high school showing a gain I or iu per cent, uoere are two new I teachers on the faculty. Miss Nora Vilson of Yakima, and Miss Rena DaM of Bellingham. The end of the first week of school n Ford's prairie yesterday saw an enrollment of 77. The Vader schools reopened with an enrollment of 195 The- enrollment In the Winlock schools shows a 13 per cent gain over I last year. Eighty-three students reg istered In the high school on the I opening day. - Committeemen Reach Bend. BEND, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) Headed by Secretary Correll and Treasurer Dubuy, both of Baker, mem bers of the executive committee of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers' as sociation arrived here this afternoon after a two weeks automobile trip I Which nas included most or the stock raising centers of the state. Other members of the party were A. Blak- I land of Island City and J. E. Snow of Dayville. An executive committee session was scheduled to be held to night for the purpose of hearing rec ommendations from central" Oregon stockmen as to needed legislative re forms in connection with the protec tion and stimulus of the livestock in dustry. Flight From Summer Home Overalls In Quest of Job Ends in Disappointment. GLOUCESTER. Mass, Bept. 11. Mi 3 Louisa Fletcher of Indianapolis, who fled from the ramily cummer home at Gloucester Thursday, was found today at a farm house near Ipswich. Miss Fletcher told the police she fled from home because she felt that she had been subjected to too much discipline and was tired of being a poor little rich girl." She said she decided to maite ner own way in the worm. Ene cut ner hair sihort, put on overalls and rowed a dory to a fishing vessel outsiae Gloucester harbor and asked the cap tain if he wanted an extra hand. The captain told her she was too young. After that, Miss Fletcner ioiq me police, she rowed across Annisquam bay and landed on the Essex shore. This morning a farmer near Ipswich engaged her as a laborer, tone oegan work, but her appearance caused her employer to notify the police that he believed his hired man was a girl in disguise. An officer from this city brought her to the police station. CLATSOP VALUES LOWER Tax Rolls This Year in Totals Show Decline. Over La&t. ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) Figures compiled oy Assessor iom- enweber show that tne loiai vnuc ui iihle property in Clatsop county as fixed by him on the 1920 assess ment roll is 27,7S.0(Z. or smoi less than the amount of last year's roll. These figures do not include the valuations of the holdings of the pub lic service corporations, which are fixed by the state public service com mission, while the valuation of per sonal property shows considerable in crease on this year's roll. The reduction in the total is tne result of taking off automobiles val ued last year at yi&J.izo. dui wnicn under the state law cannot be taxed next year, and a reduction oi approxi mately $400,000 in tlmoer wnicn either has been logged off or burned. YOUTH FALLS OVERBOARD Charles Munday, Mess Boy on Steamer Undine, Drowned. ASTORIA. Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) On the arrival of the river steamer Undine here today she reported that a young man known as Charles Mun day, and employed as mess boy on the boat, fell overpoara irom mat vessel and was drowned Thursday eveiiing. just after the steamer left her wharf here' en route to Portland. The lad was using a hose to wash the galley floor and a moment later the deck boy saw him struggling in the water about 60 feet behind the steamer. The alarm was given and the steamer turned back, but could find no trace of the lad. His body has not been recovered. Young Mun day was about 18 years pld, and nis stepmother and stepsister reside in Portland- Professor Bittner Superintendent. McMINNVn.T.K. Or., Sept 11 (Spe cial.) Professor Omar Bittner, for merly instructor in mathematics in the Jefferson High school of Port land, has been elected by the school board as city superintendent of schools to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor George W. Hug, who goes to Salem schools. Professors Bittner and Hug were classmates at the University of Oregon. Degree of Honor to Entertain. Columbia Lodge, No. 1, Degree of Honor Protective association, will give a social programme Monday night next in tne clubrooms of the East Side Business Mem club. East Alder and Grand avenue. The pro gramme will open at 8 o'clock. The meeting has been called in honor of pat-president8 of the association. Rotary Installation 'Attended. CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. , 11. Last night 20 members of the Cen tralia Rotary club, headed by Presi dent Titus, attended ceremonies in Olympia, making the presentation of ts charter to the newly-organized Olympic Rotary club. A dinner was feature of the programme. Estes Snedecor of Portland, International Rotary president, was in attendance. AUTO KILLS CYCLE RIDER Boy Coasting Behind Another Car Is Killed by Passing Auto. McMINNVILLE. Or., Sept. 11 (Spe cial.) Carl Willis, aged 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Willis of Carl ton. was killed when he was struck by an automobile driven by Charles Hendrie of this city. Mr. Hendrie was returning from his work at Carlton and passed another auto coming from the opposite direc tion. The Willis boy, with another boy named Jones, were coasting on their bicycles behind the approach ing car. As Hendrie passed the other car the boy either dodged out in front of Hendrie's car or was tripped by his chain breaking. The injured boy was Police Officer Resigns Post. SALEM. Or., Sept 11. (Special.) Harry Rowe, for five years connected with the Salem police force, today re signed his position to act as a private officer. He will be succeeded by W. H Porter, formerly a guard at the state penitentiary and previously con nected with the police force in Port land. JURY- INTERFERENCE CHARGED; TRIAL OFF Letter Circulated at I. W. W. Hearing Disclosed. $1000 REWARD' OFFERED in their recently completed club house at Park and Taylor streets. The initiatory work will be under the per sonal supervision of Frank J. Loner ran, who, at the last supreme con vention of the order was elected one of the supreme directors. The degree work will commence at 1 P. M. The official dedication of the new Knights of Columbus building will be' held October 12, at which time prominent members of the order from the states of Oregon and Washington will be present On October 21, 22 and 23 a bazaar will be held in the new building. Search Begun for Writer of Offend ing Letter Eastern Editor Disclaims Authorship. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 11. (Spe cial.) Because a typewritten letter discussing radicalism and attacking labor leaders was circulated in the last few days among superior court jurors trying William Cunningham, charged with criminal syndicalism. Judge Jurey, on motion of the state, today declared the case a mistrial and dfscharged the Jury. Cunningham has been out on balL Whether the court's action will serve to exonerate him or whether another trial may be held will be decided by Judge Jurey Monday. The Cunningham case was about to go to the jury after a week s trial. The letter that ended the trial was typewritten, mimeographed and signed with typed signature, 'Sherman liog ers, chairman of committee." Hearing of the matter, Sherman Rogers, in dustrial editor of the Outlook, who is in Seattle gathering material for his magazine, called on Prosecuting At torney Brown. Rogers Dralea Authorship. Mr. Rogers indignantly denied that he was the author of the letter, and offered a reward of $1000 for the conviction of the person who wrote it. Investigators under Prosecuting At torney Brown are seeking the writer. Members of the trial Jury had given Judge Jurey a copy of the letter and the court had turned it over to the prosecuting attorney. Evidence had been completed this afternoon, when Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Patter son moved for a mistrial. The prosecutor read the letter, which urged "patriot Americans" to awake and fight sedition in all guises. Several local labor leaders were named as "more dangerous than the I. W. W." "With our patriotic citizens doing their duty in the jury room," said one paragraph, "there will be no more L W. W. You do your duty." "Our supreme court has held." ex plained Mr. Patterson, "that matter so extremely prejudicial as this letter must be vital to one side or the other. No instructions of the court can cure it "We feel that to submit this case to the jury under the circumstances would be a travesty upon Justice. The state would not wish a verdict of guilty under these conditions, and if the verdict should be for acquittal it would to our minds be based partly at least on considerations that should not have entered into the case." Outrage, Declares Judge. George F. Vandeveer, attorney for the defense, conceded the state's right to majce the motion, and added that the defense could hardly op pose it. In calling the mass a mistrial. Judge Jurey remarked that the letter was not only unfortunate, but outrageous. Cunningham ie an alleged I. W. W. organizer. He was arrested June 5 by the police anti-red squad, mem bers of which said they found in his pocket a check for a suitcase. The suitcase yielded I. W. W. membership equipment and propaganda. The com plaint against Cunningham charged that as an organizer for the 1. W. W. he belonged to and aided a group of persons advocating, advising and teaching crime, sedition, violence, in timidation and injury as a means of effecting industrial, economic, social and political changes." FIRE DAMAGES HOTHOUSE Blaze Said to Have Been Started by Lamp Explosion. Fire, which broke out in the hot house of the Swiss Floral company at East Seventh and Hancock streets yesterday morning, caused $200 dam age to the building and a loss esti mated at $150 in plants destroyed. The building belonged to J. G. Baker, 120 North Twenty-third street The fire is said to have originated from the explosion of an oil lamp. Cl-ril Service Paper Appears. "Civil Service" is the name of a new publication Issued by the Portland Municipal Civil Service association. The first Issue appeared at the city hall yesterday under the editorship of Orrin E. Stanley of the department of public works. The paper has the approval of the executive committee of the organization and will be used for the purpose of spreading news of happenings in the organization to members who cannot attend the meetings. COX'S TACTICS AIO REPUBLICAN PARTY Bourbon Nominee Stands Dis credited Before World. CHARGES ARE DISPROVED Stricken Woman Recovering. Miss Margaret Albert, who was taken to fit Vincent's hospital Friday night in anvunconscious condition fol lowing her collapse pn a Mount Scott car, was reported improving last night and will probably recover. Phy sicians attribute her illness to heart trouble. Miss Albert lives at 6825 r oriy-sixtn avenue southeast. Investigation of Democrat's Accu sations Eliminates All Possi bility of Victory. CHICAGO, Sept. 11. (Special.) Clarence B. Miller, secretary of the republican national committee, in a statement at the wind-up of the cam paign fund Inquiry here, declared that by his unfounded charges as to the re publican campaign fund, Mr. Cox has done the republican's a real service. He called the Cox charges baseless, and said Cox made them "out of the wind and mud." He said Cox did the repub licans real benefit because the inves tigation fully advertised to the Amer ican people that the clean plan for raising funds had- been adopted by the republicans and would be carried through. Mr. Miller said: "Governor Cox made us sore at first but now we feel indebted to him. We now feel grateful to him for two reasons: "He has demonstrated to the Ameri can people his own unfitness and un reliability. It would seem hardly possible that any American citizen could vote for a man who has thus demonstrated such total unfitness for the great office of president of the to know juat how the money is being United States. He undoubtedly has raised, because we are proud of the destroyed himself in the minds of the I plan adopted in American politics. 'More than a year ago the demo crats undertook to raise by popular subscription a campaign fund of from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000. They did ev erything they could to bring: results. They failed, not because the system was bad. but because the democrats of the nation refused to support the party. "They spent much more, in fact, three times as much as the republic ans have spent in the effort to raise funds. The republican method of pop ular contributions has succeeded be cause the people of the nation are willing to give their money in order that a democratic administration may be wiped out and republicans put in -control. This tells the whole story. "The result, then, is Mr. Cox stands discredited before the world, and the republican organization has been giv en the best recommendation it ever received." people of this country, but he ren dered a still more important service to us. and one totally unexpected on his part. Cox Charges Fall Flat. . "This investigation of the senate committee, which is now concluded, has been the best thing for the re publicans that possibly could have happened. It has disclosed, of course, that no facts exist in support of the outrageous charges made by Cox. He made them out of the wind and mud, and everybody knows that now. "The searching inquiry which the committee made was surely a search ing one, it extended into every nook and corner. This method of decen tralized giving is the greatest step forward in purifying politics that has been taken by any party in this coun try in the laBt half century. By this system we throw off and abandon the plan of a few rich men con tributing great sums to the campaign, and thereafter thinking they should have a voice in government affairs. "The finest illustration of the old system that has thus been discarded by the republicans is afforded by the facts which occurred in 1904, when Parker and Roosevelt were candi dates, and two men contributed more than $600,000 to the democratic fund. "The rich New Tork banker, Mr. Bel mont, gave $250,000. to the national committee and an additional sum to the state and congressional commit tee. Thomas Ryan, one of the great capitalists of New Tork, contributed $450,000 to the democratic national committee and an additional sum to the democratic congressional com mittee. These two men could say they nearly owned the democratic party and when the democrats spoke, it was the voice of Belmont and Ryan. "The republicans never received such contributions from any one as these. They now receive small sums from many individuals. When the repub lican speaks today it is the voice of the American people. "The investigation has thoroughly advertised to the people the repub lican plan this year and we are grate ful to Mr. Cox that this has hap pened. We want the American people CAT DIPHTHERIA CARRIER One Death and Another Case or Disease Traced to Feline. Death of one girl in Portland from diphtheria and transmission of the disease to another girl have been traced to a house cat, according to Dr. John C. Abele, assistant city health officer. The case fas firght brought to the health bureau's attention by a letter signed by Mrs. Agnes M. Morris, 744 Fourth street who said that a girl had died about a month previous and that she had noticed that a cat be longing to a neighbor had been ill. The daughter of Mrs. Morris, accord ing. to the letter, had played with this cat and is now threatened with the disease. Immediately following receipt of Mrs. Morris' letter. Dr. Abele killed the cat and examination of the cat's body confirmed the belief that the animal was infected with the disease. The child who died from diphtheria, said to have been transmitted by ths cat. was -Mary Sargent, who died at S. Vincent's hospital July si- Class to Be Initiated. The Knights of Columbus will in itiate a class of 60 candidates today L If 1 The most wonderful musical instrument in the world THE thrill' of the artist's per sonality and magnetism is transferred from the concert hall to the home, at the touch of a tiny lever ! All the music in the world is open to you. With the Ampico every shade of expression, beauty of tone color the very essence of the gen ius of Godowsky, Hofmann, Bauer, Ornstein and a host of others is reproduced at will, with an art so perfect that all thought that it is a reproduction is lost. 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