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THE MORNING OREGOXtAN, SATTJTTDAY, JXTSTl 24, 1916. I RELATIVESUSPECTED OF KILLING FARMER !l I I I I t Ifcfi Mi " ' I I ! 1 AJ f i 3L ! L..lN illHIiliji i i IM miiit ii i-'ii".i.i''iini,i .ii ,ir. Walla Walla Sheriff Intimates Arrest Will Be Made With in Few Hours. nil! "VIMMHM HIM I II SLAYER THOUGHT SHIELDED features of Shooting Lead Officers to Think Murderer Was on Bed Directly Over Victim as He Fired. WALLA WAJLX.A. Wash., June 23. (Special.) No arrests were made today in the Charles A. Sams murder case, but Sheriff Barnes intimated tonight that he expects to make a move within a few hours that will land someone l-Jail charged with . killing the aged farmer In his bed Just after midnight Thursday morning. Taero has been trouble for years among different branches of the Sams' family, which is numerous, and Sheriff Barnes, while declining to name the suspect, intimated that it was a rela tive of the murdered man who was sus pected. The elder Sams was involved In some lawsuits a few rears ago. About four years ago he became converted and Joined the Kazarene Church, and friends say this entirely changed his life. He would have nothing more to do with lawsuits, and endeavored to live an upright life. He possessed a bad tem per, members of the family said, and had be met with someone outside and had a Quarrel with a fatal ending they would not have been surprised. The end came whlle"Sama was peacefully sleeping. The murderer shot him from above and at very close range, the bul lets entering his head. The wife was awakened by the shots, and dimly saw someone leaving the room, she told the officers. There are several points in this case that are puzzling the officers and lead them to suspect some relative, and the possibility that the guilty person is being shielded. Sams slept in the back of his bed with his face to the wall, his head resting on his left hand. The first shot went in Just below the right ear and passed through the head and left hand. Sams apparently turned over on his back before the second shot, as it went straight Into the right eye. The bed was made, and to have fired the last shot the murderer must have been on the bed and the .weapon pointed di rectly at Sams, the officers assert. 10 DAYS LEFT TO SIGN 17,000 NAMES OBTAINED TO DEMAND FOR TAX LIMIT, Chamber of Commerce and Others In dorse Proposed Amendment to Lower State Lei, Only ten days remain for taxpayers and voters to aid in lowering the tax rate in the state by limiting the powers of all tax-levying bodies. Petitions cir culated by members, and friends of the Oregon State Taxpayers' League asking for an amendment limiting taxing pow ers to an Increase of 6 per cent over the levy of the previous year have been circulated throughout the state for the past three weeks and thus tar approx imately 17.000 have signed. Robert E. Smith, of Roseburg. who is a member of the legislative committee of the State Taxpayers' League, is in Portland directing the work of getting signers.. The Portland Chamber of Commerce has indorsed the amendment and, in fact, Mr. Smith yesterday said that no antagonism had been encountered any where in the state. All taxpayers, he declared, were in favor of the proposed measure, but he said the active interest was lacking. Besides limiting: the taxing- power, it is the hope of the State Taxpayers' League, whose personnel represents all parts of the state and its interests, to reorganize the administrative branches of the state government so that unnec essary duplication will be eliminated and greater efficiency win be attained through greater centralization. 10 ADDED TO BATTERY RECRUITING OFFICE TO KEEP OPEN TO MEET REJECTIONS. Two In Montana Are on Way to Re Join Mllltla, Leaving on Receipt of Mobilisation Order. Ten recruits were added to Battery A, Field Artillery, yesterday and sent to camp ithycombe to receive ex amination. That number brings the strength of the battery up to a war rooting of 171 men. However, the offi cer in charge of the recruiting office In the Armory has decided to keep the of fice open both today and tomorrow to receive additional recruits, as it is ex pected that a few applicants will fail to pass the rigid medical examination. Those who reported to Lieutenant Clayton yesterday for places In the battery were': George "W. Stlveson, L. C. Maddix, A. Chrisman. & Rhelberg, C. A. Norris, J. Kelly, R. Foust, C. Stockman. James O'N'eil and Thomas Laughlin. Mr. Stockman was formerly a member of the battery. lieutenant Clayton yesterday re ceived Information through the sister of Norman E. Tuftord that Mr. Tufford was on his way here from Montana to rejoin the battery. He is the oldest member of the battery in point of serv ice, and one of the oldest in the Ore gon National Guard, having enlisted more than IS years ago. Beside Mr. Tufford, only one other member of the battery whose names were on the muster roll prior to the call for mobilization has not yet ap peared. He is Thomas Kennedy, who is also in Montana. Air. Kennedy is ex pected to arrive in this city before the battery is mustered Into the Federal service. Sixty-six recruits have been added to Battery A since recruiting began lst Monday. ALL AMERICAS MAY ACT Southern Nations" Discnss Interven tion in Mexico. SANTIAGO. Chile. June 23. iTie Chilean government has been In active telegraphic communication with the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and the United States. The possibility of intervention by all American nations to bring about a peaceful solution of the Mexican situa tion haa been dlsaussed. r r ' - H rot 1 XI 1 1 ; f ::'! TODAY'S FILM FEATURES. reopie s 1 1 o huu oauus, 4 "Pictographs." coiumoia xne Borrows 01 Love," "The Love Comet." Majestic "East Lynne." T & D 'Ta Boheme." Pickford "The Spell of the' Yukon." - Sunset "Police." ftTORTLATWS brand of motion plc- X. ture censorship Is every day be coming more of a menace to our busi ness, and the newly-formulated code of standards Is another move in the campaign for the complete muzzling of the screen a method of expression which constitutionally should be as free as the press." This epitomizes the opinion of mo tion picture exhibitors and exchange men towards Portland's censorship, and particularly the latest Inquisitorial move, that of formulating a code of procedure"to govern the pre-exhibition viewing of photodramatic offerings. Now for the retort. "The only oifference in the situation is that every motion picture man is going to get a "square deal'," says F. T. Richards, chairman of the Port land Board of Censors. "The only man who will be in a position to complain against a stricter censorship will be the fellow who has 'slipped something over in the past, thus getting the best of his competitor. Standardization of viewing is what we are aiming at, and not a more rigid censorship." "I think that motion picture men will not have any particular complaint to make against stricter viewing after the code is in operation," comments Mrs. Eleanor T. "Colwell, secretary of the board. "We simply put In written form a foundation upon which the viewers may operate. The application must necessarily be up to them, as In the past." Chairman Richards says that a code of standards Is imperative at this time, for with Summer taking many people from Portland the ranks of the viewers will be thinned, a loss which must be filled by those unacquainted with cen sorship and rules governing such. He also points out that motion picture men accept the standards of the National Board of Review, their own organiza tion, and that Its standards are much more complete in every way than those of Portland's board. He charges, inci dentally, that the rulings or the Na tional review body are Infrequently fol lowed In Portland. Those Interested In the matter, one which apparently primarily affects the exhibitor and exchange man, but really affects the general public Just as much because of its relation to public entertainment, will watch the developments with .close attention. Forgetting, or ignoring, the open or subterranean hostility between censor and exhibitor-exchange man, a hostil ity based on a vital principle that of free expression rather than particular actions, the opinion is growing among the unprejudiced and disinterested that motion picture censorship in Portland is becoming more stringent. Another Comedian? The following letter was received by Clarke Irvine well-known scenario ?i-rlter and correspondent of the Mov rvg Picture World in Los Angeles. "The Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" have nothing on' this letter, which re quests the writer for a position per forming histrionics" for the moving pictures: SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., June 18. 191. To the Director of The Moving Pictures WorldDear Sirs: 1 write with graciously to you for a reasons best in explanation as henceforth. I very much whould like have position in the company under your merito rious direction, and I will be highly obliged if you obtain the kindness to tell roe: If you obtain some work to give me: If it becomes essential to obtain specials knowledges for it; If the work n your direction will be per manent; And what would be the reward of It (the less and the more or leas). I have Inform for you that I traveled some littles since departure from home. My ages are twenty-four years. I retain somewhat of life, least a little on accounts of having been contracted for out states, in services with different person.' I have known mld dlingly the low and high classes overall and can become able to give you inform to make your human pictures quantities real, also Sir. perhaps or soon periorming msireonics 101 the Moving Pictures World. 'With waitings for your kindly answer, and very yours truly, ICTMESAN HAKEDATI. Irvine says he is not yet producing pictures, he only writes them, but if Mack Seamett will please write him he will gladly give the address of the young person who desires to act in the films. Better answer. Mack, for here may bo another Chaplin,. or at least a good comedian. Screen Gossip. Douglas Fairbanks of Thanhouser's No, father twins. Is not the Fairbanks Evelyn Brent, who is seen on the Metro programme in "The Spell of the Yukon," with Edmund Breese, Is 1 member of the famous "Polar Bears' who swim in the ocean near Coney Island during the Winter months. Drinklngice cream sodas is one of the fads of Edna furviance, wno plays oooos'te Charles Chaplin in his new Mutual comedies. As soon as work at the studio has halted for the day Miss Purviance walks to town in order to get up a thirst, which she then quenches with from thr.ee to five sodas, the num ber depending on how thirsty she hap pens to be. Then, to counteract any Increase of avoirdupois uxat might b occasioned by the sodas, she walks all the way home. Alan Hale, Count Louis in the Metro Rolfe production of "The Purple Lady," once studied to be an osteopath, but soon deoided that he would rather play doctor to the stage. We are looking for someone who will not Take advantage of an opportunity to use "reel" and "real." Assert that the moving picture In dustry is "still In its infancy." Tell us that mavie actresses "look awful on the street." Spring the "I knew her when " line. Claim that his scenario was "stolen. Inform us that "you can't believe any thing the press agents say." Tell us, after laughing at the capers of Charlie Chaplin, that he's "so silly." Confide that "you can't get in the pictures without pull." Bay that all movie plots are the same. Thomas Dixon wishes to announce most emphatically, that his new specta cle. "The Fall of a Nation," Is not anti German. House Peters is no longer connected with Paragon-World Film. e "Civilization" and "The Fall of a Nation" are playing to capacity houses in New York. The first spectacle ap peals for disarmament, the latter for better preparedness. Tom Terrlss, who produced the Unity success, "My Country First," which has received Indorsements from the most noted men of the country, from Presi dent Wilson down, announces that he has secured an option on all the famous plays In which Walter Whiteside has appeared and also an option on the per sonal appearance upon the- screen of Mr. Whiteside himself, Anita Stewart is going to appear as a newspaper reporter in a forthcoming feature. Famous Players are in the ring for big feature scenarios. Announcement is made that $100,000 is to be expended for 100 synopses, at $1000 each. Only big writers are asked to submit these synopses. ' Holbrook Blinn is to sever his con nection with World Film. -Edna Hunter has signed with Vita graph. Ruth Roland has been added to the stars on the Knickerbocker feature service. Having qualified as a nursemaid, Marie Doro, the Lasky star, is now studying the art of making artificial flowers for her forthcoming production, "The Kid," which Is now being re hearsed under the direction of William C. de Mille. Miss Doro says that if she remains a screen star much longer she will have become so efficient with so many vocations that she can secure a position almost anywhere. The Sellg laughing hyena, strange as it may seem, is useless for comedy. Marguerite Clark prefers ' a field of daisies to a motorcar full of orchids. When the Famous Players-Paramount star finished rehearsals for "Silks and Satins" she Jumped into her car and drove out into the country where she could be surrounded ' by all kinds of flowers in bloom. The tiny star al ways has flowers in her room. BANK LEASES' BUILDING HIBERNIA SAVINGS TO OCCUPT OLD MERCHANTS QUARTERS. Space Will Be CO by 75 Feet on Ground Floor and Mezzanine Floor. Fixtures Taken, Too. The old home of the Merchants Na tional Bank on the northeast corner of Fourth and Washington streets was leased yesterday for a 10-year period by the Hibernia Savings Bank, which will occupy the building on July 1 as Its new home. The quarters taken by the bank are B0 by 70 feet on the ground floor of the two-story marble building, as well as the mezzanine floor and space in the Abasement. All of the bank furnishings left by the Merchants National Bank at the time of Its consolidation with the Northwestern National Bank will be utilized by the Hibernia Bank. The building at Fourth and Washing ton is owned by the Trimble estate and the fctanley a. inompson company agent for the building, and handled yesterday's deal. The structure now is completely occupied with "the Trans portation Club on the top floor, the Hibernia Bank on the main floor. cafeteria in the basement and a retail shoe store on the Washington-street side. For the past decade the HibernllM Bank has been located on the north east corner of Second and Washington streets. It first opened for business in the McKay building 25 years ago and occupied a room on Washington street, between Second and Third streets, be fore moving to its present location. British Columbia's agricultural products for the year ending March. 101:,, were greater in value than the production of any other of the principal Industries British Columhla Minerals 'amounted" to ';.."S.S2', timber products f-S. 20.000. r.cheries and agricultural prod- . ' . . - - ( YOUR LAST 'CHANCE P i cjk f o r dl P ep p 1 es- Today Only "The Spell Marguerite 1 Yukon" Clark r . in ' Robert "W. Service's enchanting u Q1T ' J C j. poem story of the Far North. A OllKS and OatlllS play that throbs' with the heart- ascinatSi tirin beat of sturdy manhood. It's wortH su cSrrningSy Cometh going miles to see. ; your friends. Coming Tomorrow BsmaaaatsnTsmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaTcnfsmart I FrancisX.Bushman Wallace Reid Beverly Bayne' - Cleo Ridgely in , in "A Million " 'TheLoveMask' v 3. IVIinutc The 1,137 Youv Ben Wiitinff to OBDURATE MAN SUED County Attempts to Clear Dan ger Spot on Highway. STORE ABUTS ON ROAD Building Obstructs Motorists' View 'and Owner Refuses to Mow Back Eren When Ail Ex-, penses Are Of lered. Condemnation proceedings were start ed by the County Commissioners yes terday apalnst a strip of land embracing- 1-25 of an acre at Springdale. on the Columbia River Highway. " The county officials declare that they must obtain possession 01 mis strip so that an element of danger that threatens to mar the pleasures or highway travel may be removed. The land Is the property of J. B. True and lies in the curve where tho high way swings through the village of Springdale. 1 Although the county's right or way along the whola course of the highway is 60 feet wide, the paving is oniy j.o feet wide and Is laid In the middle of the road. But in pavine around the curves me pavement was carried to ins insiae edge so that the acuteness of the cor ners would be reduced to a minimum. Store Obstruct View. whn fh hiehway was built a two- story building stood on the True prop-ot-t-Lr xi i- True conducted the store. The building was within 20 feet of the road on either side ana ODStruciea ine view of motorists traveling either way. The road slopes gently there, ana ma chines coming down the road Irom Crown Point are apt to travel at the speed limit of 25 miles an nour. Realizing the oanger preoem.cn this -situation. Roadmaster jonn . Teon many months ago. appealed, on behalf of the county, to have the store building moved bacK a non aisrance so that this "blind corner migm De eliminated and all element of danger removed. m- Tru. nrotested. The county nrrA-.H f A niv for the removal and to reimburse him for all expenses or losses incurred. Mr. True again reiusea. Move Inereues Dasnr. T3 worst Is yet to come. When Mr. Teon went out on' the highway a few days ago. ne touna was preparing to extend bis store front to the very eage oi m '6"""; A crew of .men now Is at work on the Job. When it Is compieiea ii wm completely shut off the view from either approach to this corner. The danger 1 augmented by the like lihood that automobile parties will stop in front of the store. n iney wv, they will have to- stop on the Pved road, as the store approaches to the edge of the pavement. If two ma chines try to pass coming around that corner when a third machine is stand ing in front of that store pood nigat! "It is Inviting disaster to allow a condition like that to exist." eaid Mr. Yeon yesterday. "If we don't do some thing about It we are going to have a smash-up on that corner Just as sure as you live. "A few bad smaah-nps and people will be afraid to come out on the highway." Aecideart Narrewly Mlaeed. As Mr. Teon wae viewing the situa tion, -sorrowfully, yesterday morning, twsv cars whizzed (ast one another around that corner with no room to mnn. No more than the width of a eead pencil separated the fenders as they passed. The only way out of the difficulty, says Mr. Teon. is for the county to condemn the property and remove the obstruction. In accordance with that idea the County Commiesioners yesterday startl ed condemnation proceedings. They surveyed a triangular strip upon whicu a part of the building stands and-which they propose to acquire under condem nation.! An offer of $725 was made for the strip, which embraces - 4-25 of an acre. The first hearing under this procedure will be conducted next Monday. Meanwhile, it is probable that motorcycle officer will patrol that eec- tlon of the road to warn people of tht danger. CARD ORDINANCE IS READ Measure Prohibiting Playing Poolrooms Xear Passage. . in An ordinance putting cards and card tables under the ban In pool and billiard-rooms was sent up to third reading- by the City Council yesterday or final passage in two weeks. The meas ure apparently has the approval of the majority of the Council. Under its terms cardrooms will be prohibited in connection with any .pool and billiard-room. They will b al lowed only on special permit granted by the Council and in no case in con nection with pool or billiard places. The ordinance also requires extensive pub lic notice before any poolroom is es tablished In the city. The cardroom part of the measure does not apply to pool and billiard places In private clubs. , DIVORCE DENIED PARENTS Judge luvis Dismisses Suit Because of 10 Children. For the sake, of their 10 children Cir cuit Judge Davis yesterday demanded that Elizabeth Weidenklller and Con rad Weidenkiller adjust theif differ ences, and dismissed the divorce action tiled by the wlfei . The marriage of the Weidenkiller was of the old-fashioned. Continental kind, in which the husband was an absolute stranger to the wife until the day of marriage. In her dlvorca complaint Mrs. "Weid enklller relates that she arrived in Portland January 18, 1904, unable to speak a word of English, and found that Weidenldller was a widower with six children, had meager household goods and was In debt $500. She had a child of her own, and three more have since been born. MRS. MARY LEWTON DIES Funeral of Mount Tabor Woman to Be Held. Today. Mrs. Mary Lswton, well-known Mount Tabor woman, died yesterday morning at her home, 10S East Sixtieth street. t the earei of 73 years. Mrs. Lewton was bora in Illinois in 184S. and came to Oregon IS years ago. Surviving her are five children: Mrs. Adele Godfrey, of Seattle; Emma R. Lewton and Nor man M. Lewton, of Portland: James D. Lewton, of Forest -lrove and Theoflore O. Lewton, of Seattle. She was the widow of the late James T. Lewton. Funeral services will be conducted today at I o'clock from the Mount Tabor Methodist Church, Rev. E. L. Eidridge and Rev, W. Tr Kerr officiat ing. Interment will be in Mount Scott Cemetery. TUNNEL PROJECT TABLED Council Decides Beaverton Proposal Is Too Big; to Tackle. Construction of a tunnel through the hills In South Portland between Mar quam Gulch -and the Tualatin Valley for road purposes is too big a proposi tion to be considered at this time, ac cording to the decision of the City Council yesterday. ' A communication from the Beaverton Clumber of Com merce asking for Portland support In the project was tabled. The Beaverton organisation asked that the Council Join with the outside districts in asking the Legislature to create an assessment district to finance the project. RECRUITS JOIN MARINES Enlistments in Portland Reported to Average Two Dally. " , Recruits are now being taken tn on an average of two a day at the United States Marine Corps recruiting station In the Panama building, according o announcement made yesterday by J. L Manion. assistant surgeon In charge. Many more tplicanta are received, but it is said that not more than one in five can meet the rigid requirements of the Marine eervice. Dr. Manion announced that he ex nects to receive word" Monday from the War Department authorizing the immediate recruiting of 4000 additional marines under provisions of a bill re cently passed by Congress. Portland's quota of this number will probably be at least 50 men. although not limited to that number, according to Dr. Manion. GIRL'S ASSAILANT SOUGHT Unidentified Man Attacks Tonnjc "Woman Here From Holland. The police are In quest of an uniden tified man who attacked Miss Van Staaveren, in Macleay Park at 6:30 Thursday afternoon. The young woman, who Is the guest of relatives at the Macleay Park Dairy, was strolling in the park with two small children, when the man appeared and. without parley, threw her to the ground, choked and kicked her. The screamr of the frightened children caused hlra to flee. Miss Van. Staaveren came here from Holland three, weeks ago. She Is able to -give a meager description of the man. Hx Is described as about 25 years of age, height S feet and 10 Inches, .weight 150 pounds, dressed In brown suit, tan shoes and checked cap. A man answering this description was observed by others earlier in the day. He told them that he was em ployed in "patrolllnir the park." ALICE BRADY the exquisite in Henri Murger's famous classic "LaBoheme LAST TDIE TODAY Commencing Tomorrow William Farnum in "The Spoilers" by Rex Beach. New Edition. Bigger, Better, Awe-inspiring. The Theater with an environment. Broadway at Stark Asked br Frsna at the V. S. Bakery 79 I E a Great Stass GreatLPlays rvewer higger,Betterj Screen productions are at tike test playivouses METRO PICTURES SHOWN FIRST BUN EXCLU SIVELY AT COUNG SUNDAY Francis X.Bushman A5D Beverly Bayrie ijt A Million- a Minute" Don't merely say '.'Give me a loaf of Butter-Nat Bread." but S'er sale by - ,11 (Md Pickford THEATER-