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THE SUNDAY OREGON'IAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1920 PROBE COMMITTEE tn its Infamy" than the ralelng- of thousands of dollars from men out side of governmental circles. "I agree with -you, senator." Sen ator Reed said, "that to levy in any way a political" assessment upon a g-irl working: for the government is absolutely inexcusable." LOSSES OF COUNTY UllltllllHIlIlIIIIlllIlIIIllIlIIIllI mimmiiuiiiiiHimmuiir.iiy WILL NUT CALL He i i 0 COX 01 REVEALED Campaign Investigation Chicago Ends. at FECESS TAKEN TO SEPT. 22 ROGERS PLEADS GUILTY Offender Sent to Prison for Forg ing Wife's iVame. T. J. Rogers, who forged the name of his wife to checks totaling $731 and fled to California with a girl whom he married illegally last Feb- Meelings to Be Resumed Either In JTeiv York or Washington; Girl Employes Asked to Subscribe. : CHICAGO, Spt.. 11. The senate com mittee inestigating campaign ex penses today closed a two-weks" in quiry into charges of Governor Cox that the republican party Is seeking a J15.000.C00 fund. The sessions here also developed testimony bearing on charges that the democratic party so licited campaign contributions from federal office holders and accepted unlimited amounts from other con tributors. Refusal to summon Governor Cox as a witness before the committee was announced by Senator Kenyon, chairman. He gave out a telegram received from Frank A. Munsey, east ern publisher, demanding that . the democratic presidential nominee be eubpenaed. Senator Kenyon's reply was to the effect that Edmond H. Moore had ap peared before the committee as a personal representative of the Ohio executive, and the committee consid ered that sufficient. The committee will meet September 23 in either "Washington or New York, Chairman Kenyon being empowered to choose the city. Senator Kenyon said that if Washington was selected, the witnesses who were to have been heard at Pittsburg would be called there. .The committee had planned a meeting- In Pittsburg to investigate reports that Pennsylvania liqour In terests were taking an active part In financing the democratic campaign. The last day's hearings were con ducted by Chairman Kenyon, repub lican, and Senators Reed and Pomer ne, democrats. Senators Spencer and Edge, republicans, were absent, the latter having left Chicago last night, after making a statement deriding the Cox charges. This attitude drew V. M. C. A. JUNIOR SCHOOL WILL OPEN TOMORROW. JJL ' , - r , v - -4 i - m I- J fir e r - 4 v A ' : -i&xUitiwii ffvirtvfritrr''T" aft Hack Miller, dean. The college preparatory school of the Oregon institute of tech nology begins its fall term on September 13. The school is lo cated on the fourth floor of the Y. M. C. A. building at Sixth and Taylor streets. Hugh Mil ler, dean of academic schools, said that, the course of the school is designed to fit stu- -dents for the schools of colle giate grade in the Oregon In stitute of technology, and is also accredited to the Univer sity of Oregon. The school is for men and boys only, and the gymnasium and swimming pool of the Y. M. C. A. are open to them, as well as the many social features of the building. . Jackson Court Publishes Re port of Accountant. $107,523.21 ON DEPOSIT IE criticisms from democratic members. Senator Reed having characterized the Edge statement as "Indecent." Republican Drive Planned. Republican plans for a seven-day drive for funds in Chicago, and tes timony that the democrats bad as sessed girl employes of the internal revenue office at Aberdeen, S. D., 40 each to help finance the democratic Campaign were topics today. - Frederick C. Barber of New York, a professional money-raiser, in charge of the Chicago republican drive, tes? titled he had prepared) a card index f about 25,000 prospective contribu tors, including a preferred list of some 500 to 800, each of whom was believed to be able to give $1000. Upward of 1000 workers will be engaged in the one week's drive, he said, with 1500, 00 as the goal. Testimony by Caleb Bnix, local newspaper man, that the republican national committe had sent out pub licity matter giving the Chicago quota as $700,000 led Mr. Barber to Buy he had heard others make the same statement, but he "let them rave." His goal, he emphasised, was jr.no, 000. "Did yon ever discuss the amount ith Fred W. Upliam, treasurer of the republican national committee?" Senator Reed asked. "Yes, sir, that Is. there was not an awful lot of discussion about it. Mr. Upham would say something and I would listen, all the time with my own plan in mind." "While you kept In your own mind what you were going to raise, what did Mr. Upham say about what you Should raise?" "Mr. Upham is not an easy man to contradict," Mr. Barber explained, and 1 usually found that the easiest way with him is to let him express his own opinion and then go ahead with my own plans. Mr. Upham in nome talk with me mentioned $700,000, hut I could not be sure whether he mentioned it for all of Illinois or only Xor Cook county." Girla Korced to Contribute. Miss Eunice Coyne, a newspaper re porter in Aberdeen. S. r., and .Miss Jessie Burchard of Minneapolis, clerk tn the Aberdeen internal revenue col lector's office, told of the democratic effort to raise money from girl clerks. 11 iss Burchard said she had donated S0 from her salary of $120 a month after receiving a letter from a demo cratic campaign fund raiser request ing her to call at his hotel and "ar range this matter." About a dozen frirl clerks went to the hotel, she tes tified, and subscribed $40 each. A copy of the letter said to have been received by the girls was pre tented by Miss Coyne, who said she received It from Miss Marian Armen trout, a stenographer. The letter was from F. M. Waterbury who. ' Miss Coyne said, told the girls he was act ing for Clarence H. Mee. South Da kota chairman for the democratic committee and father of J. Walter Mee, internal revenue collector . at Aberdeen. Miss Coyne said some of the letters were delayed because they bore- in sufficient postage and that the girls had to pay one cent on them when they were delivered. . . Girla Had to Pay Poitist. ?They had even to pay postage in getting duns from the democrats, did they?" Senator Kenyon commented. Miss Coyne said she understood the girls who were asked to contribute were all dependent upon their $120 a month salaries that most of them were living away from home and be cause rant and living costs were- high In Aberdeen she "did not believe they could afford it." The newspaper story written by Miss Coyne referred to the money raising among the girls as "black jacking," and Senator Reed requested an explanation of the term. Mis Coyne said it Ws a newspaper word synonymous with "blackmail." "You would have used a stronger word If you had thought of It?" Sen ator Kenyon commented. "If there Is any word too strong to be used for this episode, I do not think the English language contains it." Miss Jesse Burchard did not agree with Miss Coyne's conclusion that the girls were unwilling contributors and denied that they were afraid of losing their jobs if they did not contribute. The girls talked it over and de cided to give $40 each. Miss Burchard said. "Did Mr. Waterbury fix that as the amount?" Senator Kenyon asked. "He mentioned it." replied Miss Burchard. "Is that the way you all happened to give $40?" "I supnose," she answered, "it was because one girl gave $40 first." Senator Kenyon characterized the solicitation of funds from girl em . ployes of the government as ' "worse ruary, pleaded guilty to forgery yes terday and was sentenced to a term not to exceed 20 years in the peni tentiary by Presiding Circuit Judge Tazwell. While his first wife, Mrs. Bessie L. Rogers, was in a hopsital Rogers married the daughter of A. W. Leverich of Albany and went to Oak land, Cal., where he -secured employ ment as a window dresser. He was arrested and brought back to Port land last Vuly. A plea for clemency was made on the ground that the man has tuber culosis but was ineffective. Rogers declared that the reason he married the second time was that the girl was the only person who had been kind to him and that she had nursed him through a sickness in an army hospital. Judge Tazwell' told him that an Illegal marriage, wa a poor way to pay a debt of gratitude and that it was an offense greater in the eyes of the court than the forgery. TRUCK COMPANY TO MOVE New Station at Fourth and Taylor Ready for Occupancy. Truck company No. 1 yesterday was ordered into the new central fire sta tion at Fourth and Taylor streets by acting Fire Chief Toung. The com pany probably will enter the building early next week, according to City Commissioner Bigelow. The new building erected under the direction of Battalion Chief Holden contains - facilities for engine and truck companies No. -1 and also an assembly room which will be utilized for meetings of the fire bureau. A new order will be issued tomorrow prohibiting all parking of vehicles in front of the new fire station, it was announced yesterday. s Securities of Defunct Jacksonville ' Institution at Time of Fail ure Was $11,000. - J M"ED FORD. Or.. Sept.- 11. CSpe- ciaL) The first official information j about Jackson county's losses througn having -deposits in the defunct Bank of Jacksonville was made public to night by District Attorney Roberts and the county court. This report throw some light on the cond-uct of. the bank by W.. H. Johnson, president and cashier, who is in Jail under $50,000 bail awaiting trial, and also shows that Jackson county had $1CK7,523.21 on deposit against the bank's securities of $11, 000 at the time the bank failed. Mrs. Myrtle Blakely is the county treasurer, and her bond as such is only $20,000. Bank Report Soon Sae. The state bank superintendent's re port on the condition of the bank Is expected to be made public within the next week. The statement issued by the district attorney and county court reads in part as follows: "Details of the audit of the county treasurer's accounts and the condition of the county funds, resulting from the failure of the bank of Jackson ville are summarized as follows from the report recently filed with the county court by E. M. Wilson, public aecountant. who made a special audit after the bank's- failure. "The history of the account with the bank of Jacksonville is reported in detail from January 1, 1917, to the time of the closing of the bank August 11. 1920. January 1, 1917, the balance carried in the bank was $11, 081.40. Up to June 1, 1918, covering 17 months, this remained uniform and with but little variation in monthly balances. Increase Starts tn 1918. "The increase in the monthly bal ance begins in August, 1918, and on December 31, 1918, was $5-5,968.40, of which $13,927.86 was in drafts on the bank of Jacksonville, coming from the tax collector and deposited December 31. On December 31. one year later, the balance was $64,078.86. During 1920 a gradual increase in bal ances took place although decreases are noted for January, June and Au gust, until the balance at the -tima the bank closed was $107,523.21. This part of the county's funds be ing unavailable during adjustment and settlement of the bang's affairs, the various county funds, districts and municipalities will be short of funds temporarily. Pour Drafts May Bare Bearing?. "Four drafts, issued by the Bank of Jacksonville to the county treas urer May J., may have a bearing in drawing conclusions as to the intent of Mr. Johnson, the cashier of the bank at that time. On May 1 the balance of county funds in the bank was $91,318.93. The drafts issued to the treasurer were numbers 97, 98 and 99 on the American Exchange bank of New York for $25,000 each and No. 1406 on Wells Fargo Nevada' National bank of San Francisco for $15,000. The COAST SWEPT BY GALE Astoria in Path Apparently of an Equinoctial Storm.' ASTORIA, Or., Sept. 11. (Special.) A southerly gale that apparently was the equinoctial Btorm struck this section during the night and, accom panied by a heavy downpour of rain, contlnuea an day. Reports from, out side were that a heavy gale was blow- ing along the coast, but inside the harbor the maximum wind was 26 miles an hour. xne oaromeier dropped to 29.50. so the storm is expected to continue dur ing the night. , TOO TIRED TO SLEEP Many people are unable to sleep be cause they are too tired. They have driven themselves so hard for so long that they are on the verge of a nerv ous breakdown. Night sounds ex cite them and silence depresses them. What little sleep they get does not refresh them and each day finds them a little weaker than, the day before. The first thing to realize in seeking relief from insomnia is that it is not a disease but a symptom. Narcotics will produce sleep, but they will not remove the cause of sleeplessness. If the victim of insomnia is pale and los ing weight and strength and com plains of headaches and indigestion, It is reasonably certain that the cause of the trouble is thin blood. The problem theuis to find a blood-build er that is non-alcoholic, free from habit-forming drugs and is of proved worth. Such a remedy Is Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills. This tonic will supply the blood with the elements needed to build up the tissues, to re pair waste, to revitalize the nerves and to strengthen the digestion. As new health and strength are carried to every part of the body it will b-s found that sleep becomes natural and that body and mind are invigorated by the rest. , Do not neglect yourself, but begin treatment now with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. If your druggist cannot supply you the remedy will be sent postpaid by the Dr. Williams Medi cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., on re ceipt of price. 60 cents per box. An Interesting booklet, "Building Up the Blood," will be mailed free on request. Adv.' Garments for Women The name stands for all that is best in clothes. Construction The style, tailoring and mate rials used are of a character that enables the dealer to sell this splendid product with absolute assurance of satisfaction to the customer. The NEW FALL Suits and Coats ARE NOW in -OUR CABINETS. We would like to have you call and permit our salesladies to show you the new fall creations. A wonderful showing of plush and other new Fabric Coats priced $50 to $225. Splendid TAILORED SUITS and DRESSES for misses and women, priced $50 to $200. You know when clothes come from Gray's they are right in style and quality. Exclusive Agents for - Printzess Suits and Coats i i GRAY 366 Washington St. At West Park total was $90,000, or practically all of the county's account with the bank.. "Drafts No. 98 and 1406 were put through 6ther banks by the treasurer and returned unhonored. No. 98 was later made good by the Bank of Jack sonville, but No. 1406 was not. al though deposits were made in the bank on May 15. 18 and 19 to more than cover these two drafts. Drafts Nos. 97 and 99 remained in the hands of the treasurer uncollected at the time of the bank's failure." PAPER AIDED BY PLANE Dry Matrices Carried in QuickTime From Seattle to Victoria. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 11. (Spe cial.) The airplane was called into service this afternoon for the first time In the Pacific northwest to send assistance to a newspaper. The Victoria, B. C, Times ran short of dry matrices and telephoned a call to a local paper for the loan of 25. By automobile the "mats" were . . . 1 . nstenM to a LaKe Union hangar, , into beyond Port Townsend. After Eddie Hubbard, pilot, in a small plane delivering the "mats" he turned about loaded them into his machine and left and was 8Tln at home by about at 2:62 P. M. for Victoria. He made I CIOC- the 75-mile air-line run, landing in ui at v itiona, ax ; issue fashion nlata. uni.l.i.. v Certain Parisian tailors regularly , . , . - - - , -..w . jbduo iBnjoji piaies contain "quaii ne ran ensigns Tor clothing for pet dogs. SUNDAY DINNER $1.25 Cream of Chicken Corn Soap Vegetable Soap Celery Radishes Choice of Lettuce Tomato Salad, French Dressing , Special Fruit Salad , Crab Salad Choice of Baked Salmon or Halibut Boast Spring: Chicken, Giblet Sauce Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Natural Gravy Leg: of Veal, Apple Sauce Stewed Chicken with Hoodies Mashed or Baked Potatoes Choice of Stewed Fresh Tomatoes Green. Lima Beans Spinach Strangles Beans Corn en Cob Choice of Pis Pudding" er lee Cream Tea Coffee or MiTtc Salted Nuts Hazelwood Plate Dinner 75c Cream of Chicken Corn Soup Choice of: Salmon, Halibut - Chicken Fricassee with Noodles Roast Veal with Dressing. Stringless Beana . Corn on Cob Mashed or Baked Potatoes Choke of: Pie Pudding: or Ice Cream Tea Coffee Milk or Buttermilk Hazelwood Vegetable Dinner 40c Asparagrus on Toast Corn on Cob Green Lima Beans Stewed Summer Squash Bread and Butter Tea Coffee or Milk TazelcDOod Qj CONFECnONZKSf &RESTAURW7T 388 Washington St. . 127 Broadway Music at the Washington St. Hazelwood niiiuiiiiiuiuiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiiuiiiiniiiniiuHiniiiHiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiir ATTENTION, DANGERS! Why Not G to Manchester Ball Next Thursday T Swell Orchestra, Dandy Floor! S5V4 FIFTH STREET, SIXTH FLOOR, Between Stark and .Oak. Bdvt-y. 3590. r- You Need A Good FountainPen every hour in the day every day in the year! A srood Den is one that will never fail you one that will never make your spotless linen resemble a coal yard nor your signature resemble the aimless scratching of a hen. 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