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THE MORAIKti- OKEUOMAX, SAT L KDAK , OCTOBEK 12, 191S. WITNESS TELLS OF BECKER'S THREAT Lieutenant Said to Have De clared He Would "Croak" Rosenthal Himself. "GUNMEN" ARE IDENTIFIED "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie' Seen by One Man and Another Says "Whiter" Lewis Was One of Slayers. NEW YORK. Oct 11. The first tes timony implicating Charles Becker la the murder of Herman Rosenthal was given at today's session of the trial ot the former police officer, accused of instigating the murder of the gambler. It was testified by Maurice Luban. a hanger-on of the underworld, that Becker had said to Jack Rose about three weeks before the murder: "If that Rosenthal is not croaked, I will croak him myself." Luban, who was an eye - witness of the murder. Identified In court today "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie" as two of the men who fired the shots that killed Rosenthal and William Shapiro as driver of the murder car. He also said that "Dago" Frank, like wise an acquaintance, was In the group when the snots were fired. , Witness Discovered In Jail. Luban was discovered by District At' torney Whitman a day or two ago. He was found with his brother, Jacob, in Jail in Newark, N. J., on a. forgery charge, which the brothers said had been "framed up" by somebody. The New Tork prosecutor procured their re lease on parole and. according to Mau rice, the witness, promised to "help them in every way, if they would prove their frameup. ' Luban said be heard Becker make his alleged death threat against Rosen thal in the grill room of the Lafayette baths and that he stood within two or three feet of the police officer at the a time. Luban Does Not Hesitate. Luban's Identification of the gunmen was made- without hesitation. When they were brought In for his Inspec tion it was their third apr-arance In the courtroom during the day. Gio vanni Stanlch, another eye-witness, had previously identified "Whitey Lewis, and they had been lined up also before Thomas Ryan, a chauffeur. who declined. In a frightened manner, to Identify any of them, although he. too, had seen the muraer. The gunmen, on the third appear ance, made a protest. "We don"t object to being identified. but we think we ought to have chance, like everybody else, to be lined up with more men, said Lefty Louie. "We want this thing cleared up, but we want a square deal." Attorney Mclntyre for the defense dwelt long on the fact that Luban had been in Jail on a forgery charge and in other ways attacked the char acter ot the witness. KLICKITAT AWARDS MADE J. J. Brown, ot Goldendale, Wins Louis W. HiU Trophy. GOLDENDALE. Wash, Oct. " 11. (Special.) Judges were busy today making awards In the various depart ments of the Klickitat County Fair. J. J. Brown, of Goldendale, was awarded the silver trophy cup offered by Louis Hill, president of the board of directors of the Great Northern Rail way, for the best individual exhibit of agricultural products. William Olsen, of Husum, captured the first prize offered by the Fair Association for the best collective exhibit of fruit, grasses, grains and vegetables. The exhibit made by the Glenwood Grange, in r-harge of- Al Bertschl. got first prize for grange exhibits. George Garner, of Centervllle, got the sweepstakes prize in the horse department. Spe cial events held in front of the grand stand were: Women's nall-drlving contest, penny shower for children, boys pie-eating contest, and best carriage team exhi bition. The latter was won by Frank Branton. All events on the racing programme were closely contested. In the second heat of the 2:15 pace the judges de clared a foul on Brain, driver of McN., nd H. C. Davis, driver and owner of Bunny Jim, which met with the hearty approval of the large crowd. Brain left his position at the pole on the home stretch In an effort to shut out N'lghtspook, a North Taklma pacer. Sunny Jim was the favorite in the race, but was beaten by a length in each beat, including the second heat, which was declared off by the Judges Race results: 2:15 pace, mill heats McN . first: Sunny .Tim, second: Klghtapook. third; Frankle Dale, fourth. Time, 2:15. 2:30 trot, mile heats Ksta Our,, first; Sons Sparrow, second; paymont. third. Time. 2:80. Half-mile dash Anna Phaon, first; Zlleta Bronna. second; Leo H., third. Time, :ol. Four and one-half furlongs Llttcla S, first; Bella of Portland, second; Little Jim. third. Time, :57. Third day of relay won by Fred Ye&ckel- Stage coach race won by Toppentsh team. Girls' pony race (saven starters) Won by Hughretta McCrow. CONSPICUOUS FIGURES IN TRIAL OF NEW YORK POLICE LIEU TENANT ON CHARGE OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER GAMBLER. GUN BALKS, ROCK LANDS Army Prisoner Would Escape Only to Be Felled by Missile. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash., Oct. 11. (Special.) When a sentry of the Twenty-First Infantry was guard ing two prisoners in the garrison, while they were doing police duty. Private Brozinskl, being held for tbe larceny of $50, attempted to escape. The sentry pulled his gun, loaded with National Guard ammunition, and ' the cartridge stuck. The sentry threw the gun, yelled to a nearby sentry to look out for bis otber prisoner, . and gave chase, picking up and throwing a rock as he ran. The rock struck Brozinskl, and stunned him long enough for the sentry to overtake him and march him back to work. CHAMPION DIVER WRECKED Contlnuad from First Pace.) previous record was held by the Seal, which dove Z5S feet In Long Island Bound June Si. The F-l was christened the Carp, but was renamed November IT. 1911. Greek Destroyers Keaeh Algiers. ALGIERS. Oct. 11. One of the Greet torpedo boat destroyers recently pur chased in England, which was sup poped to have sailed for Philadelphia, arrived here today and throe otheia ,wlU arrive tonight. N . ' - - jr .0-' " ' ) , ' ' : ! t - V . : ' : iti ir.'iiif uruwraf ) 'iff ' ' ' jjiiWttyfrin)iwtfniiMrifrrf fin ii rf "Tnrirnimii'iiiB'iiiiiiiivii S M fmsjl - tnrii i ". ' ' '"SaaaSSiFieSsMsM? ifcii n""" '' FARM CREDIT URGED Method Declared to Reduce Cost of Production. SUBSIDY NOT NECESSARY Essential Point, Says President, Is That State and Nation Shall Assume Responsibility for - Honest Institutions. (Continued from First Page.) Above, Mrs. Charles Becker, Wife of T efendant Below, Left, "Whiter" Lewis, Identified Yesterday as Okie I Men Who Shot Rosenthal, ud Imak Muellers Right, John W. Hart, Conns el for Becker. ERLANGER Manager Doesn't Know Leon ard Was Wife's Husband. SUIT ENDS IN MISTRIAL Relationship of Defendant With Miss St. Clair Conceded, bnt Inquiry as to Other Women Is , Blocked by Court. NEW TORK, Oct. 11. (Special. ) There was a sensational ending to the suit of Edith St. Clair against Abra ham L. Erlanger, the theatrical man ager, before Justice Page in the Su preme Court today. The Justice with drew a juror, making the case a mis trial, and fined John v. ttouvier, oi sounseL 50 tor contempt of court. The suit by Miss St. Clair was for recov ery of S2500 claimed as due as an in stallment on a 125,000 contract. The climax came after a long en counter between Mr. Bouvier and Will iam T. Jerome, Mr. Erlanger's lawyer, as to whether Erlanger should answer if he and Miss St. Clair had been on terms of undue intimacy. Mr. Bouvier maintained that he should be forced to answer. Jerome bridged the diffi culty by conceding such relationship and Mr. Bouvier pressed the witness as to his relations with another woman. He was blocked at this point by the court. Then the lawyer asked abruptly: "Who is Leonard?" 'Leonard is a man and an actor, I guess." And a husband?' continued Mr. Bouvier, extracting from a portfolio affidavits sworn to by Erlanger in the suit brought in June, 1911, by Mrs. Erlanger. 'I don t know that," replied -Erlan ger. You do not know that Leonard was the husband of the lady you married?' I do not know any sucn thing." re sponded Krlanger. TOKAY FESTIVAL OPENS FIRST ANNX.VL GRAPE SHOW HELD AT GRANTS PASS. Several Hundred School Children Take Part In Parade Scenes to Go Into Film Shows. GRANTS PASS. OrN Oct. 11. Spe cial.) The first annual Tokay grape festival was held in this city today. A parade of automobiles took place after luncheon, in which about za autos par ticipated. Many of them presented beautiful spectacles as the clinging vine of grape hung gracefully about the machine with large clusters of luscious fruit interwoven, giving the cars an aDDearance of a veritable vine yard, such as are only found on the red lands that surround this city. Several hundred school children took part in the parade, A large auto truck from the Country Club orchard, carried many boys and girls along the line of march. The scene was pnotograpnea for the purpose of being used in moving-picture shows. Dealers, carrying grapes in wagons, sold fruit along the streets during the ceieDrauon at t ana 10 cents a bunch in order that all might be able to have Tokays with which to decorate. . The commercial grape Industry was started In this county about four years ago and has become so well established as to be a paHng justness, and it was deemed meet that such celebration should be held and that one of like nature should follow each succeeding year. Films were also made of all phases of the apple orchard at the Elsmann ranch, also a fire drill of pupils In the high -school. The Stinebaugh and Wheeler chicken ranches were photo graphed. Before leaving the Southern Pacific photographers will take films of modern road-building west of town. GOVERNOR REPRIEVES FOUR Hunt, of Arizano, Compares Death Penalty to Witch-Burning. PHOENTX, Aria., Oct. 1L Declaring that capital punishment had no more place in the present day order than the burning of witches. Governor Hunt granted reprieves today to William Campbell, Eduardo Peres, N. B. Chavez and Miguel Feral ta, all or whom were to have been hanged today. The re prieves deferred the date of execution to April 13. Governor Hunt expressed the hope that the Legislature would pass at Its next session a bill abolishing capital punishment and added that if the law makers tailed to act tne people would be certain to Initiate such a law. DARROW TRIAL GOES OVER Illness of Chief Counsel Is One Rea - son for Delay. LOS ANGELES, CaL, Oct. 11. Attor neys for the prosecution and defense agreed today to postpone the beginning of the second trial of Clarence S. Dar- row until October 31. The trial on the Indictment charging the Chicago law yer with the bribery of Robert A, Bain, a McNamara Juror, naa oeen set ior October 21. Press of business and the ill-health of Chief Counsel Earl Rogers, of the defense, were the reasons-given for the delay." That problem faces the people of this country today not in so severe a form as it threatened the older countries of Europe, but, still, as a great and press ing economic problem. , Added Capital Is Necesary. "In Europe this problem has been successfully met, first by reducing the cost to the farmer of producing his crops, and, secondly, by increasing his production through the adoption of im proved methods of cultivation. Both the Federal and state governments In this country have done much to afford the farmers instruction in improved agricultural methods. But It stilt, re mains for us to reduce the cost of the farmer's production by affording him the necessary capital for the exploita tion of his soil upon the most advan tageous terms. He must be afforded the money necessary for him to 'adopt improved methods. It must be made profitable for him to place every acre of his ground under cultivation. This offers the consumer relief from in creasing cost of foodstuffs." . President Taft strongly 'deprecates any idea of establishing co-operative credit in the United States through the support of Government subsidies. "We must establish a credit system of, for and by the farmers of the United States," he writes. "The coun try enjoys today great prosperity, the factories are busy, the workingmen are employed and everywhere the wheels of industry hum. The farmer shares In this general prosperity. The pro posal which I make is not to subsi dize the American farmer. Fortunately for the country he does not need It, nor would he accept it." President Taft Warns the Governors that in this plan, as in all financial schemes, there is room for harmful ex ploitation for personal gain. Government Guarantee Essential. "The most essential point to bear in mind is the need for the. assumption by the Federal and state governments of the responsibility for economically and honestly conducted institutions. . Such assumption is the essential precedent for obtaining the confidence of the American as well as of the European investing public If this safeguard is given the farm land banks President Taft is convinced that be can secure the farmers market for their mortgage loans not only in all of the big money centers of this country but 'also on the ex changes of Europe and thus afford the American farmer the capital necessary for the full exploitation of the entire agricultural resources of this country. Elaborating his thought concerning the farmers' need of capital to develop new methods of production, tbe Presi dent says: Why, then, will not - the investor furnish the farmer with money at as advantageous rates as he is willing to supply it to the Industrial corpora tions? Obviously, the advantage en joyed by tbe industrial corporation lies in the financial machinery at its command, which permits it to place Its offer before the investor in a more attractive and more readily negotiable tform. The farmer lacks this machinery, and, lacking it, he suffers unreason ably. This Is not theory. Through all the changing conditions of a cen tury the soundness and practicability of such financial machinery, based upon the peculiar credit needs of the agri culturist, has been tried out, and so successful has been its operation that in Germany, in times of financial stress, money has been taken out of the com mercial field and placed in the keep ing of the Empire s agricultural co operative banks for safety. The value of this assistance to the farmer re ceives unquestionable testimonial in the growth of the system in the countries of Europe. More specifically this ad vantage may be seen in the fact that through this machinery the German farmer has received money, at times, at rates lower than those current in com mercial loans. Paternalism to Be Avoided. - "It Is natural that some of the Euro pean governments should have extended a paternal protection over the systems of agricultural nnance ana to nave given them financial as well as legal assistance. - This, however, must be guarded against in this country. We must establish a credit system of, for. and by the farmers of the United States. It were better, otherwise, not to consider tha matter at all. It is an interesting commentary on the value of paternalistic governmental support to note that this plan of agricultural co-operative credit has thrived best In fact, has enjoyed a substantial de- Bell andVing By FREDERICK FANKIN& AYES Absorbing, astounding, inspiring, baffling. London Academy. Power and originality. Cork Examiner. A great work Boston Herald. Marks of genius constantly. Troy Record. A wealth of ideas. Boston Transcript. Genuine aspiration and power. Occult Review, England. Near the stars. Portland Oregonian. Astounding fertility. Brooklyn Times. A striking book of verse. Boston Post. Price $2.50 Q. p. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers, N. Y. Visiting Friends When your out-of-town friends come to Oregon you would take increased pride in skowing them around if you could say, "We have one of the most perfect sewer sys tems in the world; it is con structed with Portland Glazed Cement Sewer Pipe." Unprejudiced e n g i n e ers and contractors . invariably prefer it. The Pure Product of Nature's Springs. You will feel better and do better forming NATURAL LAXATIVE Glass on Arising lor CONSTIPATION where the - movement has grown up veiopment only in those countries from the farmers and where the Gov ernment has to the greatest degree re trained from attempts artificially to nurture the plan by subsidy and has restrained its interference to the proper field of imposing restrlctlonal legisla tion for the purpose of preventing speculation. The entire field of agricultural co operative credit is properly divisible into two parts: First, the co-operative societies of farmers, formed for the purpose of obtaining personal credit: and, secondly, the societies or private corporations formed to create a sound security in land mortgages for the pur pose of gaining a National or Interna tional market for bonds based upon farm-land mortgages. Both of these forms of co-operative credit may be found in many .of the European coun tries under varying forms of organiza tion. The general principles, however, are very much the same. It is not practicable here to go Into the details of the organization fol lowed in European countries in the for mation of these co-operative societies. A very good law has been enacted by the State of Massachusetts allowing the incorporation of credit unions. which should furnish an excellent example for otber states. Their estab lishment is generally a matter for state legislation and encouragement. their organization and management are wonderfully simple, and the experience ot the .European countries shows that their success is practically inevitable where the environment is congenial to their growth and where proper laws are passed for their conduct." TAX T0P!CS DISCUSSED Meeting at Ashland Largely Attend ed Dunn Ijeag-ne Formed. ASHLAND. Or.. Oct 11. (Special.) A taxpayers' massmeetlng was held in the city hall this evening, attended by outside parties in addition to local res idents. Senator Mullt presided. Re sponsive to a demand for a curtailment There Are No Better Pianos Than We Sell Every piano shown on the floors of onr stores is the highest possible standard of quality at its price and the product of a factory that has earned distinction for the excellence of its instruments,' the sincerity and earnestness of its managers and pro prietors. No piano that is not good enough to bear an unqualified guarantee for quality and true musical worth is good enough to find a place in our estab lishments. Possibly lower priced pianos are offered than we sell, just as shoddy goods are sold by low-class . tradesmen, but dollar for dollar the intending pur chaser will find that quality is the real essential in our pianos and that his dollar will buy more in quality, service and musical satisfaction here than elsewhere In the West. , Here you will be shown pianos at prices as low as you can safely afford to buy-r-as low as good pianos can be sold, allowing a nominal profit for the dealer and insuring the permanent satisfaction of the buyer. Our installment contract is more liberal, more pleasing and our terms more satisfactory than else where, and your complete satisfaction is our first and highest consideration. By all means investi gate most thoroughly before buying. STORE OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 9:30 T IT. W.-JMM. 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