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VOL. XLI NO. 32
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Potofflc as iconi-e;ii Matter.
BRIDEGROOM OF 29
ICHIEF LIKE HAIA
HUSBAND. AND $700
LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM
LANDS IN CALABOOSE
ARE KILLED
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
FRANCE
MPOSES
DLGOTT LEADING
BY 1 1M RECOUNT
Ballots Cast in 39 Pre
cincts Checked.
OUTWITS HIS MAMA
GONE, WIFE REPORTS
ITALIAN WOMAN SAYS MATE
IS JUST TOWN DUDE
GERMAN-PENALTY
STYLISHLY DRESSED PARENT
BORROWED" CAR SPOJXS
ELOPEMENT SECRET. -
NEW BRITAIN LAUGHS AT
FAILS TO STOP WEDDING
WENT TO BUY PLANE.
I'?'
HOW NEW YORK FELL.
Action Follows Failure to
Pay French.
TEUTON EMBASSY NOTIFIED
Liquidation of Pre-War
Debts Is Halted.
COURSE IS EXPLAINED
Tactic Declared tTsed to Protect
Interests of Frenchmen,
i Jeopard lied by Lapses.
PARIS. Aug. I. (By the Associ
ated Preaa.) Premier Polncara at
noon today notified the German em
- bassy at Parla that the first of" a
series of measures to conserve
French Interests against a lapse in
Germany's pre-war debt payments
would be put Into effect Immediate
ly. The notice followed the receipt
of a note from Germany refusing
to meet the 2.000,000 Installment of
these payments to French cltlaens,
due August IS.
The first of French measures con
. slsts of the Immediate suspension
of all payments to German nation
"als for debts contracted with
Frenchmen before the war. both In
France and Alsace-Lorraine. The
offices In Paris and Straaburg,
which were set up to liquidate these
debts were notified to cease func-
tlonlng at once and to pay no more
German claims until further orders
from the premier.
Payaeata Are Kaspeaded.
The initial measures also Include
the suspension of ail further pay
ments to Germans for Germ, prop
erty sequestrated In France. This
property includes estates, villas, art
collections, etc.
The agreement reached at Baden
under which Germans were being
compensated for the house furnish
ings, stocks, bonds and cash left In
Alsace and Lorraine also la sus
pended, i
It waa explained at the foreign
office that these first measures
taken are not penalties In the strict
est aenae ot the word, but merely
action to safeguard the French In
terests which have been Jeopardised
by the Germans refusing to pay.
ii uese measures rail to-bring a
satisfactory settlement, further and
more severe measures. It waa said,
will be enforced. The nature of
these Is withheld pending the effect
of the present action.
Genua More Awaited.
Official circles said that France
bow would await some move by
Germany.
If Belgium and Great Britain, aa
baa been Indicated, desired to forego
payments from Germany on the prl
vate debta due their nationals, this
will have no effect upon the French
position. It waa declared. France
will insist upon the payment ot these
claims despite any moratorium that
the London conference may decile
to grant. It waa added, and If Ger
many does not meet the French de.
mands the measures taken will be
come progressively more severe.
The German charge d'affaires
brought the German answer to the
French ultimatum to the Quay d'Or
aay a few minutes before IX o'clock.
Fremler Polncare at once pro
nounced it unsatisfactory and gave
French measures should begin.
Cemaay Is Xetlfled.
In bla reply the premier notified
Germany that her "dilatory" answer
to the ultimatum had been unsatis
factory and that France waa taking
measures to protect her Interesta
The German note asked the French
government to reserve Its decision
until the subject was discussed at
the coming London meeting In vtew
of the fact that both Belgium and
Great Britain were willing to con
sider the debt question In connection
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F IT 15NT ONE
THING ITS
Son She. Did Not Want to Take
Wife Peered Because Mother
Thought Him Too Young.
Vancouver. Wash. A-ug. 5. (Spe
cial). "Where do young fools go
from here when they get a marriage
licenser asked a stylishly-dressed
woman of the county auditor this
afternoon. She wore . black Bilk.
with a hat to match, and tinder the
rim of the hat showed pretty silvery
gray hair of a woman past SO year a
Tere Is a Justice of the peace
Just across the street, J. L. Gar
rett, auditor, replied, as ha lifted his
pen while making out another mar
riage license. The woman waa ap
parently In a hurry and visibly ex
cited.
Rushing from the auditor's office
she ran with the nlmbleneas of a
flapper across the street and de
manded of lira Frank E. Vaughan.
wife of the Justice of the peace, to
know if D. Clarke White had been
married.
lira Vaughan replied he had not
She turned and ran to the residence
of Rev. A. D. Skaggs at another
corner, but was too late. The cere
mony had been performed. She
started to walk down town.
The wedding party. D. Clarke
White. . and Miss Violet Hatch.
10, both of Hood River, got into
the back seat of an auto. Henry
Halvorsen. witness for the couple.
got out of the car and attempted to
explain to the woman in black, but
he would not listen.
To an onlooker the bridegroom
said: "That's my mother. I'm 2S
years old and she didn't want, me to
get married aa if I'm not old
nough. I knew she would do it, so
that's why I did not invite her to
my wedding.
The wedding trio bwzsed by and
waved their hands at mama, but she
would not look.
ORD'S AID IS REJECTED
Railway Declines Help In Carry-
Ins Coal.
LOUISVILLE, Ky Aug. 6. (By
the Associated press.) The Louis
ville de Nashville Railroad company
today rejected Henry Ford's offer
of aid in operating Its coal-carrying
lines in eastern Kentucky.
This announcement waa made fol
lowing a conference between repre
senatlves of the Detroit. Toledo A
Ironton railroad, which Is owned by
Mr. Ford, and representalves of the
Louisville Nashville.
PADEREWSKI LOSES $220
California Man
Against
Gets Judgment
Pianist.
LOS ANGELES. Cal, Aug. 6. A
Judgment for $220.4 against Ignace
Paderewski, pianist and former pre
mier of Poland, now said to be in
Switzerland, has been obtained in a
township Justice court here by W.
A. Pavloskl. '
The amount Involved waa asked
by Pavloskl in payment for his
labor In arranging for a loan of
I1J0.00O on the Paderewski estate at
Paso Robles, Cal.
HORSES STUNG TO DEATH
Team Killed by Swarm of Dees
and DrlTcr Badly Injured.
DENVER. Aug. S. The team of
horses which William Juiiffe. a Bar
thoud. Col., farmer, was driving to
a load of hay. was stung to .death
when a swarm of bees descended on
them, according to a dispatch to the
Denver News todsy.
Juiiffe also was attacked by the
bees and he Is In a serious condi
tion, the dispatch says.
PATROL PLANE ON WAY
Radlo-Kqulppcd De. Havlland to
Fly Over Oregon Forests.
SAN DIEGO. Aug. 5. One of sev-
ral radio-equipped De Havlland air
Planes to be used In forestry patrol
operations In Oregon this month and
text was taken north today by
Lieutenant Harold D. Smith of
Rockwell field
Oregon appropriated $25. M0 to
rejver the expense of the forestry
patrol this summer.
NEEDED," IS CRY
Man of Convictions and
Courage Wanted.
KOHLSAAT " INCIDENT CITED
Stand on Porto Rico Against
Editor Is Recalled.
FIRM ATTITUDE TAKEN
Senate Leader Said to Have De
fied. Old Friend Rather Than
Yield Stand o'n Principle.
BT MARK SULLIVAN.
(Coorrlsht br the New York Evening
Fost. Ins. Fufex.hed by Arrangement.;
WASHINGTON. D. C Aug. S.
(Special.) That the chief lack and
tho chief need of this country Is
political leadership, has been ' so
often repeated that it Is no new
tory. The fact la revived for the
purpose of this article, only, because
certain circumstances make it pos
sible to give a picture of one kind
of political leader a kind that the
republican party once had, but to
day has not.
The principal point of this article
rests upon two letters which the
late Mara Hanna wrote to Herman
Kohlsaat. Mr. Kohlsaat is now
printing his recollections in the
Saturday Evening Post and these
wo letters appeaer in them.
To understand these letters and
to take in the complete picture of
the kind of man and the klfid of
political leader Mark Hanna was, it
is necessary for the reader to know
that Hanna and Kahlsaat were In
timate friends.
Slea Political Partners.
Not only were they Intimate
friends they had been, so te speak
political partners partners in the
enterprise of making McKinley
president Kohlsaat, as the owner
of two Important papers in Chicago,
and Hanna. as the most aggressive
leader in the republican party, had
been the two men chiefly responst
ble for the nomination of McKinley
and for the direction of the party
which that nomination Involved.
Kohlsaat. therefore, had a right to
expect a little deference from
Hanna. .
But the sort of political leader
Mark Hanna was does not give def
erence to anybody. Such a leader Is
not an advice-seeker. He is not
an "ears-to-the-ground" politician.
Such a leader Is not the kind that
tries to find out what the people
are thinking and then adjust himself
to it Such a leader has a mind of
bis own, has convictions of his own
works out . his own programme,
knows what he wants and then goes
straight toward It
Leader laeklif New.
That Is the kind of political Icrder
Hanna was. (It Is not, of course.
the only kind of political leader.
There are other kinds. But the
United States now has no political
leader whatever, either of the Mark
Hanna type or of any other type.)
However, to proceed with pictur
ing the kind of leader Hanna was
Hanna was In the senate and
Kohlsaat was running his news
paper In Chicago. The question
that came up waa Just how to bring
Into the union the island of Porto
Rico, which had lately been ac
quired from Spain. Kohlsaat with
the streak of idealism In him.
thought that Porto Rico ought to
be brought In as an Integral part
of the union, on the same basis as
such territories as New Mexico and
Arizona. (These two. now states,
wepe then territories.) . Hanna had
no such notion. That Hanna was
right nesrly everybody would now
agree.
Kelt or States Views.
But the point is not at all whether
Hanna was right or wrong. The
point Is to Illustrate what kind of
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HIGH LIGHTS IN THE RECENT NEWS
ee: wma! vje: unoe(stooo
VtfboDrtovv Wilson HAO vvV
WtrA N THE. OUND
After Seeip ' fure of Spouse In
Rogue - j jallery,
Bride Is
T 4 to Swear. Warrant.
- vV
.A weelc Aff-o V.Rtprdsv Mrs.
"irla Francone. 690 Fourth street.
an Italian woman, succumbed to the
advances of her admirer who called
himself Harry L. Smith, and Jour
neyed with him to Vancouver,
Wash., where they were married.
Last Monday she lent him J708, with
which., he said he was goin-g to
Chehalis, Wash., to buy an airplane
and make lots of money. Her new
husband left to get the plane on
Wednesday. On Friday he wrote to
her again and said all he needed was
$118 to complete the deal.
Smith left with his new wife sev
erai notes for $700 which will be due
him shortly from the Marvin Egg
Saver company of Vancouver. Mrs.
Francone-Smlth found out that the
egg saver company had gone out of
business before the notes were writ
ten, and she began to grow sus
picious. Her next step was to go
to the home he had proudly pointed
out, and there she discovered that
Mr. Smith had never lived there.
Then she went to an ex-employer of
the man and got the opinion that
her new husband was not yet di
vorced from his last wife.
It took considerable, investigation
on the part . of Maria Francone
Smith, who speaks English none too
fluently, to learn that her husband's
name was nqt Harry L. Smith, but
Boyd D. Maxwell, with an un
enviable record at police headquar
ters and a picture in the rogues
gallery.
Maria immediately declared she
would be quite willing to swear out
warrant. Telegrams were sent to
the chief of police at Chehalis to
apprehend the man.
ELECTION IS POSTPONED
Hlllyard, Wash., Not to Vote on
Bonds for Swimming Pool.
SPOKANE. Wastu, Aug. B. Hill-
yard. Wash., three miles from here,
will not hold a special election next
Tuesday, the city attorney an
nounced today. Ballots had been
printed, officials named and all
other arrangements made for a refr
erendum on a proposal to issue
bonds for a municipal swimming
pool. And then the city officials
discovered a provision in the state
election laws forbidding the holding
of special elections by any other
than cities ot the first class.
The election has been Indefinitely
postponed.
ARMY PLANEJS WRECKED
Pilot and Passenger Unhurt in
Crash Near Eureka.
EUGENE, Or, Aug. 5 The air
plane that was wrecked near Eu
reka, Cal, yesterday afternoon was
one of the army planes on duty with
the Oregon forest fire patrol, with
headquarters in Eugene. Captain
Lowell H. Smith, commanding the
91st squadron, today received a
message from the pilot. Sergeant
Fred Kelly, saying he and his pas
senger. Sergeant Graulln, were un
hurt.
The plane was being taken to, San
Francisco for repairs.
LIGHTNING KILLS WOMAN
Shoe and Stocking of Friend Are
Ripped Off and Heel Burned
BELVIDERE, N. J Aug. 5. A bolt
of lightning struck down a tree on
the banks of the Delaware river.
then leaped a distance of ten feet to
the porch of the summer home of
Mrs. Thomas A. Berkey of Easton,
Pa., and killed her.
A shoe and stocking of a friend
to whom Mrs. Berkey was talking
at the time, seated but two feet
from her, were ripped off, but she
escaped with a burn on the heel.
SENATOR CROW BURIED
Impressive Funeral Rites Held
at Vniontown, Pa.
UNIONTOWN. Pa.. Aug. 5. Will-
lam E. Crow, United States senator,
was burled in Oak Grove cemetery
here today after impressive funeral
ceremonies.
Senators, representatives in con
gress and state officials attended.
A. WAS 'Wi V WMtUTTUB .cv
r (?CorJ vtvTY SICK jffr' " I wk's. s
ctjfeSii4- FOR ftXNHiUt . 1IOs2XY JT Gooo-long A -X, V
, y JVP I SKIRTS ftRE X.
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Youngsters Bright Romance, Be
gun on Beach, Is Sternly
' Snubbed hy Court.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
ASBURY PARK, N. J.. Aug. 6,
The etern arm. of the law punished
Dan Cupid for a row of bright steel
i-andcuffs here today.
One perfectly good elopment was
adjudged bankrupt, and a merry and
bright wedding trip ended In the
calaboose.
Never was a beach romance more
sternly snubbed by an unkind fate
than that of Donald Slavtn and! the
piquant Lena BowskL Don la 18.
Lena is 16 and lives with her
mother. Both are handsome and
New Yorkers. Don's folks and Lena's
mother have been summering at
Asbury Park.
Don and Lena met on the beach
and Don was soon down for ' the
third time. Lena jumped in after
him and they went down togethe
When they came up ways and
means were discussed. William
Ubhans. Don's buddy, was 'admitted
to the secret
They set forth in a car belongin
to Robert Kopf. who was also atop
ping at the Brlstol-Asbury park,
where the other three had rooms.
They had a license and were headed
for New York when Kopf missed his
car. A general alarm was sent out
and a policeman stopped the party in
Elizabeth.
They explained that they merely
meant to borrow the car and that
they couldn't tell Kopf about it be
cause they were running away se
retly. Unsympathetic court of
ficials wrote the charge of grand
larceny against Slavln and Ubhans,
and they were required to produce
3000 each for bail. Lena, who was
in court with her mother, was pa
roled in the custody of her parent.
RINCESS' COUSIN WEDS
Chicago Manufacturer Marries
Grant's Grandniece.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5. The mar
riage here early this week of War
ren Ripple, 40, Chicago manufactur
er, to 19-year-old Bertha Honore,
grandniece of President Grant and
cousin of Princess Cantacuzene, be
came known today. The ceremony
was performed In the municipal
chapel by a deputy cityi clerk, with
two city employes as witnesses.
Miss Honore, niece of the late
Mrs. Potter Palmer, came here from
Chicago with Mr. Ripple July 21
They registered at the Ritx Carlton,
ept their secret from everyone and
Iter the ceremony departed, in
forming the clerk they would leave
no forwarding, address, as they
mignt rorsake the conventional
oneymcon trip to Atlantic City and
try Lenox, Mass., instead. .
AUTOMOBILE PRICES CUT
Two Detroit Companies Announce
Marked Reductions.
(By Chicago Tribune 1ased W!r.
DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 5. Reduc
tions of $210 on the five-passenger
touring car, $10 on the seven-pas
senger touring car. 16U on the road
ster and $400 on the coupe were an
nounced late today by the Chalmers
Motor Car company.
The revision of lists, the 12th in
the industry during the past week
is one of the most radical In the ex
tent of its reductions.
The Paige-Detroit company also
announced reductions In four models.
The Jewets line follows:
Five-passenger touring $995, three
passenger roadster $995, five-pas
senger sedan $1465, four-passenger
coupe X144&. All prices are f. o. b.
factory.
FLYER RESTS FOR TRIP
Lieutenant Doolittle Prepares to
Cross Continent.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Aug. 5.
After a non-stop flight from San
Antonio, Tex., to Jacksonville yes
terday in nine hours 15 minutes.
Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, army
aviator, rested here today in prep
aration for an attempt tomorrow
night and Monday to fly from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast In a
one-stop flight within 24 hours.
Lieutenant Dooiittle's flight will!
be made with the sanction of the
army air service and its purpose is
to demonstrate the feasibility of
moving air forces across the con
tinent rapidly i an emergency.
AS GLIMPSED BY CARTOONIST PERRY
5;S To Y3E. vB.Co.VEixVNG
tOtA VUlATTrACK OF t-WNOlo VTIS
IN TRAIN CHASH
50 Persons Injured in
Missouri Wreck.
COACHES DROP INTO CREEK
Scene of Disaster Said to
"Resemble Battlefield.'
RELIEF CREW SENT OUT
Union Men, Now on Strike, Man
Emergency Train Which Takes
All Available Physicians.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) -.Thirty persons were
reported killed and about fifty in
jured tonight at Sulphur' Springs,
Mo., 26 miles south of here when
Missouri Pacific passenger train No.
4 crashed into passenger train No. 32
of the 'same road.
Train No. 32 was en route from
Hoxie. Ark to St. Louis and stopped
at Sulphur Springs to take on wa
ter, when train No. 4, en route from
Fort Worth, Tex., to St. Louis,
crashed into the rear end, telescop
ing the coaches of the first train.
Coaches Drop Into Creek.
v Several of the coaches were
pushed into a creek and some of
the passengers are said to have
been drowned. A number of boy
scouts were on the Hpxle train.-
Engineer Matt Glenn of train Nb.
4 was killed instantly. He resided
in St. Louis.
No. 32 . was composed of seven
coaches and No. 4 of 12 steel
coaches. Calls have been sent out
for assistance and a Missouri Pa
cific relief "train has been rushed
to the' scene of the disaster from
here. I
Relief Train Is Sent Ont.
A relief train, manned with union
men now on strike also 4was sent
from Poplar Bluff, the division head
quarters of the Missouri Pacific,
carrying all available physicians.
According to the report of the
conductor of the relief train sent
from here, the scene of the wreck
resembled a battlefield.".
The boy scont troop which was
reported to be on the local passen
ger train was returning rom the
summer camp at Ironton, Mo., about
100 miles south of the scene of the
wreck. The engineer of, the fast
train, it was said, had received an
order as his trsin . assed through
Riverside, a flag station several
miles south of Sulphur Springs." It
was said he was reading the order
when his train passed the block
signal and he inadvertently over
looked the signal' to stop.
CARS REPORTED IN RIVER
One or More Coaches Reported
Thrown Into Mississippi by Crash.
(By Chicago Tribune Leaeed Wh-e.)
SULPHUR SPRINGS. Mo.. Aug. 5
A large number of persons was
reported to have been killed and
many injured when Missouri Pacific
passenger trains No. 4 and No. 32
collided- near here tonight.
Relief trains carrying nurses and
physicians were arriving from St.
Louis and other points nearby.
Train No.- 32 was bound from
Texas points into St. Louis. Train
No. 4 is a local passenger train run
ning between Poplar Bluff and St.
Louis. Both trains, according to re
ports, were running late.
According to reports, four cars of
o. 32 were telescoped. There also
were reports, unconfirmed, that one
or more cars had been thrown into
the Mississippi river, which runs
side the tracks where the wfbek
occurred.
At Riverside train No. 32 picks up
four coaches left there by the Mis-
issippi River & Bonne Terre train
and takes them into St. Louis. It
was not known here whether No. 32
ad picked up the four coaches be
fore the wreck.
It was the opinion here that the
collision must have been a rear-end
one.
UTHE QUESTION IS WOUUB XT tjirt-ftrNiixii oc-.-ii-tt. VJt-.
VUVRT tltfVPVOA-e. To 2rG-T ' & CF UV1NC
OPF OR TO STACK. OM?
Much Uniformed "Adviser of
Czar" and "General in World
War" Betrayed by Photos.
(By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.)
NEW, f ORK, Aug. 6. His royal
highness. Prince Louis Henri de
Chateroux de Busslgny de Bourbon,
heir apparent to the throne of
France, personal adviser of the late
czar of all the Kussias ana com
mandant of hia body guard, a gen
eral in the Russian army in the
world "War, intimate of Theodore
Roosevelt and tho late Pope Bene
dict, all by his own admission is.
It was learned today, none other
than
Harold Schwann, 23, until a few
years ago the town dude of New
Britain, Conn.
Following their identification to
day, from paotographs of the
"prince" as the former village char
acter, who married Ethel Abetz
there in 1916 and was divorced by
her on July 27, 1920, in Hartford,
New Britain folks are laughing over
young Schwann's thorough duping
of the New York public.
After he was divorced, Schwarm
came to New York. Attired in white
Russian tunic, with black citation
cords and a mourning band "for the
late czar," as he explained; corduroy
breeches, chauffeur's puttees, a cap
with two gold stars and two silver
bars what he said was the "fatigue
uniform of a retired Russian major
general," the "prince" for a year or
more had been a familiar figure on
Riverside drive. He almost invar!
ably toted a four-foot gold-plateo
sword and was accompanied by his
monkey, "Cheeto" and his dog, "an
Italian wolf hound, a present from
the late pope."
He boasted "vast estates, seized
by the Soviets," and said he spoke
six languages." He has mingled at
intervals with the cream of New
York society. His secretary and
valet is Joseph Terry, ex-United
States navy sailor.
Last Sunday the "prince" was ar
rested, when, it was charged he In
terfered, brandishing his sword when
detectives were raiding an alleged
disorderly apartment In the same
West Ninety-sixth-street building
in which he has his abode.
Magistrate Simpson, when the
"prince" was arraigned after two
days and nights in a cell in his full
military reealia. would permit no
questions as to his identity, de
clared his' arrest was "outrageous,"
rebuked the arresting officers and
apologized in the name of the- city
of New York. The "prince" an
nounced he would sue for $100,000
damages for false arrest.
Confronted tonight by statements
of his mother, Mrs. Emlle Schwarm
of New Britain, and a sister and
other relatives of Harold Schwann's
ex-wife, who positively identified I
the "prince" aa Schwarm from many
photographs, the "prince" laughed
contemptuously.
"Ridiculous, absurd," he said.
"Bring on these doubting peasants
and let them face me."
KING INSPECTS MAJESTIC
England's Ruler Narrowly Es
capes Fall Down Stairway. .
(Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.
Copyright, 1022, by the Chicago Tribune.)
LONDON, Aug. 5 King George
and Queen Mary inspected the ex
German steamship Majestic a
Cowes today.
King Oeorge narrowly escaped
from falling when he slipped on the
iron-grated stairway descending to
the engine room, as he could not
clutch the greasy railing. The chief
engineer gave the king a handful
of cotton waste so he could grip
the railings.
MATHILDE GOING TO PRA
Miss McCormick and Father Will
Visit Near Lucerne.
(Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service.
By Chicago Tribune Leaded Wire.)
PARIS', Aug. 5. Mathilde McCor
mick and her father will leave Sun
day or Monday for Lucerne, where
they will be guests of Mrs. Stanley
R. McCormick, who has rented Cha
teau Prangins, a few miles outside
of Pra.
Max Oser spent the summer in the
village of Relden, near the chateau,
with relatives of Julia Mangold, his
ex-secretary. He Is reported there
to be in Paris tonights
NO FRAUD YET DISCLOSED
Errors Discovered Are About
Evenly Divided.
PROTESTS ARE HEARD
County Clerk Beveridge for Time
in Center of Storm; Hints of
Irregularity Scouted.
Ben W. Oicott leads Charles Hall
by one vote in the precincts of the
state In which a recount has been
held thus far.. The lead of eight bal
lets by Hall the first day of the
check of precincts in Multnomah
county was cut down to four yes
terday, with the result that the
lead of five votes obtained in Marion
county by Governor Oicott gives
him the edge on the contestant by a
single vote. '
Thirty-nine precincts were checked
yesterday, leaving 65, or less than
one-half, yet to be canvassed of the
135 questioned by the Hall forces.
There has yet to crop up a single
instance of palpable fraud or stuffed
ballot boxes. So slight have been
the errors disclosed in the recount
and so evenly divided among the
candidates are they that they have
yet to be classified as anything but
honest mistakes.
The contestant lost a point yester
day when Circuit' Judges Bingham
and Kelly instructed, the Hall forces
that they must furnish the attor
neys for Oicott with the specific
'.barges against the 300 persons
named Friday as having voted Ille
gally within the county. Without
this information, the contestee could
not know just what he would be
sompelled to refute when testimony
:s taken and the hearing would be
delayed interminably, the judges
ruled. They did not require, how--ever,
the giving of precinct num
bers in which the votes were cast.
Beveridge Hears Pretext.
Joseph W.Beveridge, county clerk.
held the fort yesterday against a
Etorm by a score of the people listed
by the Hall attorneys as having ille-
E-allv voted. Numbers were ais-
tictly peeved at, the intimation that
they had been party to any fraud
i.nd were Inclined to blame the
county clerk for the publicity they
iad received. Some were persons
.vho were sworn, in at the polls by
freeholders, others those who had
changed their registration on elec
tion day, All contended that their
actions were regular In every way.
' The recount yesterday disclosed a
gain of ten votes for Oicott, com
pared with an increase of only five
votes for Hall, and a loss of six
votes for Oicott. compared with a
loss of only five for Hall. This
makes the total gain for Oicott on
yesterday's count 15 and the total
gain fpr Hall 11, a net increase :n
favor of Oicott of four votes. The
tally of the day before showed a
gain of eight yotes by Hall In Mult
nomah county. That was a net gain
of only three votes in the state as
Oicott was five ballots ahead in Mar
ion county as a result of the recount
there earlier in the week.
The 39 precincts canvassed yester
day ranged between Nos. 43 and 110.
A new system of double checkins
was inaugurated by Jay Bowerman,
one of the attorneys for Oicott, yes
terday, which appeared to speed the
check considerably. There remains a
little less than two days' work in
the actual recount of the challenged
precincts. Putting on evidence to
substantiate some of the fraud
charges and to prove illegal voting
In certain precincts, together with
arguments, may last several days
longer. -
Some Errors Discovered.
The precincts in which errors were
discovered yesterday and the result
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