THEORY GIVEN FOR MOHR'S DEATH Doctor Said to Have Known Too Much About Seamy Side . of Newport High Society. - WOMEN PAY LARGE FEES .Physician, Through Illegal Opera tions, Said to Have Reaped Bis Income Men Found Who Say Tliey Saw Assailants. TnoVTrENCE. It. I.. Sept. 5. (Spe cial.) That T)t. C. Franklin Mohr was killed because he knew- too much about the seamy side of Newport high so ciety was a new theory advanced to day by Providence doctors who knew of Dr. Jlohr'a alleged Illegal opera tions, which yielded him an income of from J50.000 to $75,000 yearly. That names, of prominent persons may be dragged in seems likely. This phase of the case, along with Mrs. Mohr's detailed account of her domestic troubles and the repudiation by ,tbe three negroes of their original confessions, have intensified public in terest. noptor'n Rnrmln Many. The physicians say that because of the peculiar nature of Dr. Mohrs op erating practice and his alleged rela tions with women patients, the doctor undoubtedly had many enemies. .Some of these they suspected would not hes itate to attempt to get him out of the way. Miss Burger, the office girl, does not know yet that her companion on the automobile ride is dead. She constant ly asks about Dr. Mohr's condition. Mrs. Mohr spoke freely to Constable Wallace while in the Bristol County Jail, and he reports her words as fol lows: "Dr. Mohr was a man of wonderful power over women. He could bend them utterly to his will. "What I have had to endure in tile 15 years that I was the wife of Dr. Mohr would have prompted some women to kill him years ago. ilis family knew what kind of a man he was and urged me not to continue to live with him. but I hoped a change would come. Society Women's Keen Bin. "He made a fortune out of Newoort society women. Home paid him as high as J5000 an operation." "Was not your husband a criminal practitioner," the police official asked. "Yes, I am ashamed to say, he was. Tet many of his patients were mem bers of your Newport smart set. I was always afraid he would be caught and pleaded with him to quit his dan gerous ways. "My husband spent his wealth among gay women. l have the names of many, which will be revealed in the course of the trial. While he was automoblllng or dining with his pleas-ure-seeking companions. I and the children suffered in comparative pov erty. "I was in deadly fear of my husban1. He often beat me, and once when I refused to sign over to him certain property that was in my name he threatened to kill me." Sou I pholdi Stepmother. Charles M. Mohr, the physician's son by his first wife, said today that he would continue to regard his step mother innocent of the charge of plot ting his father's murder until she was proved guilty. The police have seized all the books and papers of the dead physician and what names will be revealed as per sons having paid him large sums of money is problematical. The mystery of the murder of Dr. Mohr may be cleared, it is believed, by the finding of two men today. These men. the police say, were flsh tng in Kcho Dake on TuestJay night, not far from the scene of the shoot ing. They told the police that they heard shots and later saw two men standing beside a motorcycle along the road. The fishermen expressed the opinion that they were negroes. They will tomorrow confront George P. llealis. C Victor Brown and Henry Spellman. the three negroes who are charged with murder in connection with Dr. .Mohr's death. tJeorce W. Healis. Henry Spellman and C Victor Brown, the negroes who, according to the police authorities, had previously declared that they killed the physician at the instigation of Mrs. Mohr. denied that they had made con fessions involving Mrs. Mohr or had signed any such statements as re ported. MRS. FOUILHOUX IN COUNCIL Congressional V'nion Arranges to Call on Mr. MacArthur. Mrs. Andre J. Fouilhoux has joined the advisory council of the Congres sional Union for National Woman Suf frage, according to announcement of Miss Virginia Arnold yesterday. It is expected that Mrs. Fouilhoux will take part in the Oregon convention of the Congressional Union Tuesday and Wednesday, being one of the deputa tion that will call upon Representative McArthur. of the Third Oregon Dis trict, in behalf of the Susan B. .An thony amendment. Among others who have offered their cars are Mrs. Vin cent Cook, who will head the deputa tion, which will assemble at 409 Vi Mor rison street at 9:15 Tuesday morning: Mrs. W. J. Hawkins, who will carry Mrs. WiUiam Kent, wife of Representa tive Kent, of California, and member of the executive committee of the Con gressional Union; Miss Cornelia Cook, who will bring Dr. Mary Thompson: Mrs. L. w. Therkelsen and Mrs. I. B Oarriot Hayes, who will bring Mrs Abigail Scott Duniway. Probably 50 or 100 persons will participate In ex pressing their deep interest In the pass age of the amendment at the coming Congress. MISS ALTMAN IS TO WED Portland Girl Will Be Bride of I)r. . Robert D. Benson. A romance which had its beginning In Dr. Laurence Selling s study labora tory was revealed yesterday in the an nouncement of the engagement of Miss Hazel K. Altaian to Dr. Hobert L. Ben son, of Tortland. The engagement was first made public in San Francisco last week, when Mrs. Altman was visiting with her daughter at the San Fran cisco exposition. It was formally an nounced yesterday by Mrs. Altman on her return. The wedding will be an event of the near future. The bride-elect is a graduate of Lin coln High School of Portland, and of Mills College, in Berkeley. Cal. Dr. Benson is a graduate of the Univer sity of Michigan medical college and has been a resident of Portland for three years. HEW NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF CHURCH UtUKl 1UWAKDS PEACE. I : ,: . : . t - $ . - 1 POPE BENEDICT XV. POLICE ARREST 669 Chicago Has Biggest Cleanup in Its History. ALL STATIONS ARE ACTIVE Saturday Xlght Raids to Be fea ture Hereafter, Declares Chief of Police One Clark-Street Hotel Proxides 51 Victims. CHICAGO, IU.. Sept. 5. (Special.) The biggest cleanup in the city's his tory resulted in the arrest of 669 men and women Saturday nigrht and early this morning:. Only two stations Ropers Park and Austin, had no pris oners to report. Most of those arrested were "picked up" as suspicious characters. Others were brought to the stations after raids on disorderly houses. Many women were arrested. Thirteen dis orderly flats and hotels were raided. In the Ohio Hotel. 603 North Clark street, 51 men and women were ar rested. Chief of Police Healy said he in tends the Saturday night raids to be come a permanent feature of police act ivity. The activities of the police were oc casioned by the severe reprimands Chief Healy grave the captains a week apo, when he was told that arrests had been made in only 21 of Chicago's 45 stations a week apo Saturday night. Captains and lieutenants remained late at their police stations and di rected the work of cleaning their dis tricts. They assembled the policemen at roll call and told them to arrest every body who looked suspicious and who couldn't account for himself or her self. Then ihey gave instructions to de tectives to pro through saloons, tough cabarets and other places and take into custody all women who were un escorted. The raids on disorderly houses were made after midnight. Some of the sa loons were overcrowded and the desk sergeants worked overtime writing names into the arrest books. BANKERS ARE GATHERING VA.V61ARD OF DELEGATES ARRIVE IX SEATTLE. Many Bis Problems Scheduled for Con sideration; San Francisco Man Likely to Head Association. SEATTLK. Wash.. SeDt. 5. Efficiency of the Federal reserve banking sys tem, foreign trade expansion, the lead ing role now being played by the United States in international finance because of the European war, and ques tions affecting the potential credit ex pansion of banks under the Federal re serve system, estimated at $3,000,000, 000, are among the more important problems that face the 41st annual convention of the American Bankers' Association to be held in Seattle this week. , The Missouri-Kansas special and the first and second Chicago specials have arrived, and with the scheduled Arrival late tonight and tomorrow of the larg er Eastern delegations, registration headquarters expects a total attend HEAD WHO HAS INITIATED 4 , x - ti - ' 1 - I r- I Photo by Ruschin. ance of 2000 bankers. Colonel F. E. Farnsworth, of New York City, is here with his clerical staff putting the fin ishing touches to the convention de tails. Committee meetings of the associa tion will be held tomorrow, and sec tional meetings will be held Tuesday. The convention will open Wednesday morning. William H. Taft, ex-Presl-dent of the United States, will address the convention Thursday. Already there is evidence of associa tion politics, the consensus of opinion now being that James K. Lynch, vice president of the American Bankers' Association and vice-president of the First National Bank of San Francisco, probably will be chosen president. The 20th annual convention of the Washington State Bankers' Association will open here tomorrow and continue two days. After addreses of welcome by Governor Lister and J. W. Maxwell, vice-president of the Seattle Clearing House Association, and a response by ex-Governor Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla, features of the opening session will be the annual address by President Robert Moody, of Everett, and an ad dress on "American Banking Possibili ties" by H. J. Dreher. ex-president of the American Institute of Banking. GLUT oTgIITs FELT PAIOI'SE WAREHOUSES FULL AND DELIVERIES STILL, CQMIXG. Farmers Are Preparing to Hold Great Inland Empire Crop, Hoping for Better Price. SPOKANE. Wash., Sept. 5. (Special.) With the close of the threshing sea son, which permits the farmers to haul the grain to the warehouses, the mag nitude of the Palouse crop becomes ap parent. With probably a third or more of the crop still to be delivered, the Farmers' Union Warehouse Company at Palouse has five large storage houses filled to capacity and has rented other storage room, which is being filled rapidly. All throughout the Palouse. and especially at Grinnell, Ringo. Kennedy, Ford, YS ellesley and Potlatch. on the Washington, Idaho & Montana Rail way, the warehouses are filled to ca pacity. At no time since the building of the Spokane & Inland and the Washing ton. Idaho & Montana lines has there been so much gain delivered at the warehouses as this season. Unless the price of grain raises it is believed the warehouses will be glutted for months. Few farmers will sell at present prices unless just enough to meet the expense of threshing. .t,FDr ,th6 fiff 1 tlme in the history of fUfe ,the harvet was practically finished during August. H0RST PLANT UNHARMED Manager of Hop Ranch Says Fire Damaged El Paso Company. INDEPENDENCE. Or.. Sept. 5 (Spe cial. Dispatches from Sacramento re porting: a mysterious fire that de stroyed the hop warehouse of the E Clement Horst Company and did dam age estimated at 135,000. were denied by H. N. Ord. superintendent of the com pany, here tonight. Mr. Ord says the fire destroyed prop erty of the El Paso company, and that his concern has had no fire on any of its properties. Hoppicklng In mil Blast. CORVALLIS. Or.. Sept. 5. (Special ) Tomorrow morning in all the hop yards in this vicinity pickers will be at work. Some of the yards began picking a week ago, but the largest yards here set their late to begin Sep tember , GRACE DOLLAR HITS SAND AT SHISLAW Steamer Refloated After Nine Hours When Wireless Summons Aid. CREW NOT IN DANGER Florence Holds Fete to Celebrate Arrival of First Freighter, Only to See Mishap of Ocean-Going Craft. MAKSHKIELD, Or., Sept. 5. (Spe c'al.) The steamer Grace Dollar, on her -first trip to the Port of Siuslaw, went ashore today at the south jetty, and sent out wireless calls for the Ump qua and Coos Bay lifesavers. After be ing on the sand nine hours the vessel was floated at f:30 tonight through her own power and a line the crew had run to the north jetty. The vessel re turned then to port to examine the damage. In response to the urgent call for lifesavers to aid In taking the crew and passengers from the Grace Dollar, Cap tain O. P. Britt, of the local Coast Guard station, and his entire crew of eight men left In the station's power boat at o clock tnis afternoon. The distance by water from Coos Bay to the Siuslaw River is nearly 40 miles, and it was thought It would be nearly 7 o'clock when the crew would reah the wreck Wireless Lends Aid. Wireless Operator Williamson, of this station, was in constant communica tion with the Grace Dollar from the time she struck. The sea was smooth and the Grace Dollar, was on an even keel. The vessel was stranded . on the south spit, and worked farther in land since this morning. The Umpqua station was first advised of the need for help, and was told of the affair through a special messenger from Gar diner, who went down to the Coast 10 miles away on a special boat. The Umpqua lifesavers left some time before the Coos Bay Coast Guard mo torboat started at 2 o'clock. It is said in the dispatches the Grace Dollar struck while negotiating the outward passage, and was unable to navigate the channel after being swerved from her course. Vessel Carrying; Lumber. The stranded craft was the largest boat that has ever been in the Siuslaw River, and was carrying the first of two cargoes of lumber from the Point Terrace sawmill. The mill had been working several months on dimensions timbers for the Willamette-Pacific Rail way, and had two cargoes of lumber that had been sold in San Francisco. The load was lightered from scows in the lower river near Acme, and there had been a jollification last night over the event of the vessel's being in port, it being considered that the large amounts of money expended on the jetties, north and south, had finallv deepened the harbor sufficiently to make it sare for vessels of the Grace Dollar class to navigate. Craft Draws 14 Feet. At last accounts there was 12 feet of water on the Siuslaw bar at low tide, and the vessel now ashore draws 14 feet. It was expected the high tide would let out the craft drawing that much. The Grace Dollar is a steel vessel built at Long Beach. Cal., in 1313. for special service at Bandon, where she operated for a year transporting lum ber from the Lyons-Johnson mill. When the lumber business slackened the mill closed down and the vessel made sev eral trips into Coos Bay, taking lumber from the C. A. Smith mills. Of late she had been engaged in charter work along the Coast. The crew consists of Captain Fosen and 26 men. GRACE DOLLAR T.OXG STRANGER Vessel 'Wrecked at Slnslaw Xot In Columbia for Year or More. The Grace Dollar, a steam schooner formerly in the service with the larger Dollar steamers, has not been identi fied with Portland traffic for a year or more, Although several years ago. when under the Dollar flag, she was a frequent caller at this port. Herbert F. Kellogg, vice-president of the Frank Woolsey Company, said yes terday that several years ago his com pany did considerable business with the Grace Dollar and other Dollar ships, but that of late she was prac tically a stranger to the Columbia and Willamette rivers. OREGON DRY ACT DEFENDED Dr. J. E. Anderson Replies to Criti cism of G. C. Brownell. OREGON CITY. Or., Sept. 5. (Spe- Cial.) Oree-nn' nrnk!Hnn 1 defended in the First Methodist Church luu,s"' ut. j. ti. Anderson, of The Dalles, father of the measure, as the most .drastic litw thai .... ka ; . . Tinder decisions of the United States supreme court. He replied to the criticism of George C. Brownell. char acterizing the nrt-na "an 1nai A .in state." Dr. Anderson explained, in reply to Mr. Brownell's statement that the peo ple wanM -i n-Ai.ihi.4n- fiuuimuujl, L 1 1 I I such a law would be unconstitutional uuuer me Decision of the Supreme Court in the case of the State of Ken- tuckv acralm;! tha Aam- 1 . . , i - i.uniiio ' j i csa v-utii pany. in which it is declared that a jias no auinority to regulate in terstate shipments of liquor. T T saiH that i ; . . . were in favor of an absolute prohibi tion measure. Knowing that it would be invalidated by the courts, and that SOme Of thair npiml4i.alB . .-, -1 cated such a law. GRANGE VISIT SCHEDULED Pomona of Marion County to Call - on Pomona of Linn County. ALBANY. Or.. Sept. 5. (Special.) Pomona Grange, of Marion County, will visit Linn County Pomona Grange Sep. tember 22 at the Grand Praire Grange Hall, near this city. Arrangements were completed yesterday for the spe cial meeting, which will continue ail day. C. E. Spence. 'of Oregon City, master of the State Grange, will be present and the fifth degree will be conferred. In each county the Pomona Grange is made up of Grange members from all parts of the county. At the coming session Miss Bertha Beck, lecturer of the Linn County Pomona Grange, anJ Mrs. G. F. Marcus, lecturer of Grand Prairie Grange, will have charge of the programme. r f - a ?' .-j It 'sssss-. I --v wvi The New York City to the Palace of Liberal Arts, Panama-Pacific Inter national Exposition When visiting; the Exposition you are cordially invited to hear the human voice traveling; over the Transcontinental Telephone Line from New York. Over this canal of speech, 3400-miles long, voices are brought from the Atlantic Coast to visitors comfortably seated in our theater. See the motion pictures illustrating the Progress of Telephony .an intensely interesting story. Demonstration Daily (except Sunday) 11:00 A. M., 1:30 P. M., 2:30 P. M., 3:30 P. M., 4:30 P. M. PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS FEW LOANS ARE BIG Germany Relies on Small Sub scriptions "for Finances. RAW MATERIAL EXHAUSTED Krupps Supply $10,000,000, but Many Biff Companies Are TJnable to Help Because of Having Nothing to Keep Up Work. BERLIN, via London, Sept. 4. The third German war loan, announced last week. Is attracting much attention In all circles, and it is stated that every, thing indicates the subscription will be hlgrhly successful. A considerable number of big- eub- scripcions aireaay nave been announced. The Krupp family has subscribed 40. 000.000 marks ($10,000,000) and the Ber lin municipality 45.000,000 marks ($11, 250.000). Many companies have sub scribed several millions each. The be lief is expressed in banking circles, how ever, that such company subscriptions will be fewer tnan in March, since manv concerns which were well supplied with raw materials when the war broke out and were able to continue their opera tions and put their profits into the March loan, lately have earned no profits, the raw materials having been worked up. It is expected, on the other hand, that small subscribers will be marshaled in greater numbers than ever. Some large employers of labor and clerical help are maKing aavances in wages and salaries to assist their employes in subscribing. The financial press has advocated that Germans sell foreign securities to raise money for subscribing, since the gain on exchange makes it advan tageous to sell now. The Tagebiatt. however, warns against selling certain American bonds in view of the de pressed price In New York. The news paper expresses the opinion that it is better to hold the bonds for price re coveries after the war. POLK COUNTY COMING COURT SETS ASIDE fuoo FOR DIS PLAY AT LAND SHOW. Thornlay, November 4, Has Been D- iKmated Eastern Farmers' Day. Middle West Folk Guests. The County Court of Polk County has made an appropriation of $200 to assist in defraying the expenses of an exhibit at the coming Manufactures and Land Products Show. This is the advice received from Mrs. Winnie Bra den, of Dallas, secretary of the Polk County Fair- Association. Business men from Independence, Monmouth and Palls City, with a delegation of Dallas merchants, visited the Polk County Court and outlined the benefits to bo derived from taking part in the Port land show. Thursday. November 4. has been set aside by the management of the Man ufacturers and Land Products Show as "Eastern Farmers' Day," when a train load of farmers of the Middle Western states will be In Portland, on an ex cursion arranged by the Union Pacific system. The visitors will make a trip to the exposition at San Francisco and returning to their homes will inspect farm lands in Oregon. L. C. Anderson, exposition commis sioner for the railroad company, has been in Portland the last three days in connection with the "Visit of the farmers. Mr. Anderson, with William McMurray, general passenger agent cf the O.-W. R. & N.. has made arrange ments with the Chamber of Commerce for the entertainment features to be carried out while the farmers are here. One day will be given over to an Inspection of the exhibits at the Ar mory and adjoining buildings. Another day will be given to a trip through th Willamette Valley country. The farm- CASTOR I A . For Infanta and Children. Tfcf Kind You Hare Always Bought Boars the Eiffoatars ofC Canal of Speech Admission Free THE PACIFIC -TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY ers will also be taken for a sightsee ing trip over the city. CHICAGO BUYS BERRY JUICE Blackstoue Hotel Sends Order to Oregon After Testing Sample. Loganberry juice extracted In Ore gon is tj be the special drink served !n the dining-room of the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. Orders have been received from Drake Bros., managers of the Black stone, for a number of cases of the Oregon loganberry juice to be sent im mediately to Chicago. This order was the result of a chance order made by their sister while taking luncheon at the Benson Hotel in Portland a few weeks ago. .She called for a glass of loganberry juice from the menu and sampled it for the first time. She immediately requested the man agement of the hotel to send a case of the juice to her brothers, declaring It to be the finest thirst-quencher that she had ever tasted. ALBANY FAIR DATES SET Show to Be Known, as Central Wil lamette Valley exposition. ALBANY. Or.. Sept. B. (Special.) "Central Willamette Valley Exposi tion" will be the name of the indus trial fair to be held at this city October 14 to 16 inclusive. Superintendents of the various de partments of the exposition were named yesterday by the board of directors. They are Horses. W. H. Hogan; dairy cattle. V. H. Pfeiffer; beef cattle. Charles Ashton: sheep. E. L. Brown; swine, J. M. Schlegei; poultry. Ed Schoel; farm implements. W. A. Bar rett: farm and garden products. W. A. Kastburn; floral department. Mrs. J. K. Weatherford; art department. Miss N. Gordon Canfield: textile. Miss Sue Breckenridge; culinary, Mrs. H. A, Nel son. STORES TO CLOSE FOR DAY Labor Day Celebration to Be Held by Aberdeen and Hoqulam. ABERDEEN, Wash., Sept. 5. (Spe cial.) Business will be at a standstill in Aberdeen Monday in celebration of Labor day, which this year will be observed jointly by Aberdeen and Hoquiam with a picnic at Electric Park, midway between the two towns. The celebration will last from 10:30 A. M. until midnight. John Wallace, ex-Industrial Insurance Commissioner, will be the principal speaker. The feature of the evening entertainment will be a dance and a smoker. At the smoker, "Jockey" Bennett, of Port land, and "Tex" Vernon, of Aberdeen, will furnish a 10-round fight. Forty Firemen Off for Tournament. CORVALLIS. Or.. Sept. 5. (Special.) Forty firemen left Corvallis this afternoon for Oregon City to take part in the Willamette Valley firemen's tournament Monday and Tuesday of this week. As part of the Corvallis delegation, the Firemen's band will be prominent. The Corvallis department is believed to be one of only three fire The 19th Annual WASHINGTON STATE FAIR September 20 to 25, Inclusive North Yakima, Wash. $20,000 in Premiums and Purses, Splendid Displays of Livestock, Poultry, Fruits and Produce, Manufacturing, Agricultural and Educational Exhibits ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE FACING PROGRAMMES IN THE NORTHWEST Carnival and Outdoor Thursday Governor's Attractions of All Kinds Day Both Day and Night Friday Elks' Day Good automobile roads lead to North Yakima. Reduced rates on all railroads ( For Premium List and other information, address FRANK MEREDITH, Secy., North Yakima departments In the United States that have a department band. Two on Motorcycle Killed. BILLINGS. Mont.. Sept. 5. Lillian Erickson. 17 years old, was almost in stantly killed and her father, Emil Erickson, proprietor of a local mattress factory received injuries which caused his death, when a motorcycle on which they were riding was run down last nirht by an automobile driven by L. J. Mclntyre. a local real estsle dealer. TdDAY Big Special Bill Theda Bara In an Entirely New Role Supported by Jean Sothern and William E. Shay TwoOrphans William Fox's Greatest Production Keystone Feature Comedy "Only a Messenger Boy" Two Acts Miss Leah Cohen Portland's Marvelous Songstress Appearing 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 P. M. Starting Today 11:00 A. M. Prices Week-Day Matinees, 10c; Evenings and Holidays, 10c and 15c : Mr 'JM"" w-v; E U -. . I , I "a. jl f '