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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 31, 1916. 13 DOUBLE PLATOON SYSTEM IS ASKED Firemen File Petition With Mayor to Investigate -Proposed Plan. BUREAU MEMBERS SIGNERS Officials Say They Are Against Innovation Because It Will Mean Increased Taxes. j Is Up to Council. Firemen and labor leaders opened their campaign yesterday for a two platoon system in the fire bureau by filing J -petition with Mayor Albee, si(me'yy! 320 firemen, asking that a commits e be appointed to Investigate tha practicability and advisability of ths system with the idea of the City CounAlStestP-bllshing: it if the commit-, tee finding warrant. If .ht VtoVuneil is unwilling to estab lish ie- System, the petitioners ask that tneyi bi given permission to cir culate initiative petitions to place the question on the ballot at the city elec tion next June.- The fire bureau rules now prohibit circulation of such, peti tions within the bureau. The petitions were presented by Cap tain Harry Hawkins, Engineer George Allen and Captain I N. Riley. They bear the names of 320 men out of 417 in tha service. All the men were invited to sign. Mayor la Opposed. Tha petitions ask that the rule re garding circulating initiative petitions be waived and that Mayor and Fire Chief "approve of and co-operate in an Investigation together with a repre sentative committee selected by the signers, of the advisability and the practicability of substituting what is commonly named the 'two-platoon' system for the present system with the end in view of making such substitu tion if the findings warrant." The proposed two-platoon system is opposed by Mayor Albee, Chief Dowell and all the battalion chiefs in the serv ice. It is also opposed by the majority of captains, it is said. Mayor Albee said to those who presented the peti tions yesterday that he does not be lieve the people would approve the proposed plan because of the heavy ex pense necessary to put It into working order. "While I sympathize with the gen eral idea of giving firemen better hours, I feel you are making a mis take," said the Mayor to the commit tee." We are now In the midst of a time when people axeclamoringfor lower taxes anil "I do not believe you will get very far in a move which means Increased taxes, l believe you are hurting your own cause. Condi tions will not be changed next June when the election occurs from what they are at present, as far as increas ing taxes is concerned." Expense Is Increased. The fire officials oppose tha pro posed system because of the expense necessary as well as the fact that it would decrease the efficiency of the fire bureau by cutting out the fire pre vention campaign, and decreasing the number of men on duty In the fire sta tions. It has been estimated that the cost of the service would be S200.000 a year more than at present, and that firemen would not get the benefits they expect. Under the system they would be on 12 hours and off 12 hours in every 24 and would have no days off. Under the present arrangement they get one day off in six, and Mayor Albee will ask the Council at once to give them one day off in five, com mencing December 1. Mayor Albee and Chief Dowell took the petitions under consideration, and robably will refer them to the City Council. The movement is backed by the Civil Service Employes' Associa tion, which is affiliated with the Cen tral Labor Council and the American Federation of Labor. REPAYING UP TO VOTERS PAYMENT BY CITY OR PROPERTY OW.VERS TO BE DECIDED. City Commission Declines to Take Ac tion Without Expression by Clti- , sens at Election. It will be up to the voters at the next city election to decide whether the city or the property owners shall pay for repaying streets where pave went has worn out. The Council yes terday decided the question is too big and too important to be decided by Councilman! c vote, inasmuch as repay ing will be an ever-increasing item. The question came up in connection with pavement in the St. Johns district. which is in bad condition, and is not under maintenance either by the elty or the contractor. St. Johns people have been insisting that the city make repairs. Commissioner Dieck put the problem up to the Council yesterday along with a report regarding condi tions In St. Johns, and the fact that the city is not legally obligated to maintain the pavement. The question involves a precedent, in the opinion of the Commissioners. If the St. Johns streets are repaired at general cost the same privilege must be extended to all other parts of the city. Inasmuch as there are about 500 miles of Improved streets the repaying item necessarily will become a tremendous item in years to come. Commissioner Dieck made the motion that City Attorney LaRoche be in structed to prepare legislation to be submitted to the voters. This idea met with general approval of the Council members. glimpse the Round-up to ascertain if the broncho busters have any worse mounts than ware .assigned to the troop. N. Selig, of Falls City, is at the Eaton. C. E. Warner is registered at the Eaton from Salem. F- L. Edwards, of Seattle. Is regis tered at the Oregon. H. A. King is registered ft the Per kins, from Haystack. E. L. Webster is registered at the Seward, from Eugene. 8. A. Pease Is registered at the Cor nelius, from Jefferson. Fred Harrington, of Caldwell, Is reg istered at the Perkins. C. F. Risley, of Alameda, is regis tered at the Cornelius. Mrs. T. A. Harper, of Dundee. Is reg istered at the Seward. Albert C. Allen is registered at the Portland from Medford. W. C. Brown is registered at the Cornelius, from Condon. S. F. Wallace is registered at the Oregon, from Newberg. Donald J. "Vickers, of Eugene, is reg istered at the Imperial. B. S. Haney is registered at the Eaton from Kansas City. G. C. Hanna, of Sheridan, is regis tered at the Washington. ' T. M. Boyd Is registered at tha Im perial, from Oakland, Or. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Cowley, of Beret, Ky., are at the Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. .Johnson, of As toria, are at the Nortonia. Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Shaw, of Walla Walla, are at the Portland. Mrs. J. J. Carr is registered at the Nortonia from La Grande. Mr. and Mrs. James Tullls. of San Francisco, are at the Nortonia. Charles D. McNamara is registered at the Nortonia from Spokane. Mr. and Mrs. C. Baugh are registered at the Washington, from Molalla, DESERT TO SEND PARTY CHILDREN OF FARMERS TO COME FROM HARNEY COUNTY. Youngsters Are to Bo Entertained by Clnbs and High Schools) and Are to Give Concerts. Next Wednesday and Thursday will be sagebrush days in Portland. Then 30 children from burns, Harney Coun ty, the capital or the central sagebrush belt, will be guests of this city. They are coming to announce to the world that Harney County and Sage brushland has a railroad and is able to ship the abundant products of that rich section of Oregon to the markets of the world. The visitors ara members of the Chil dren's Symphony Orchestra of Burns, and while here will render two con certs at the old Baker Theater at Elev enth and Morrison streets, Wednesday night and Thursday night. On Wednes day the Harney County visitors will be luncheon guests of the Portland Ad Club and on Thursday they will dine with the Progressive Business Men's Club. All the rest of their entertainment will be in the hands of the students of Portland's high schools. Delegates from the high school bodies yesterday held a meeting at the Cham ber of Commerce and appointed com mittees to arrange a programme. Bill Hanley is responsible for the sending of the children of the farmers. Instead of trying to arrange a get acquainted excursion of men. "These children, none of whom is more than 16 years old, are from the families of farmers," said Mr. Hanley. "They have studied music while at tending school at Burns, and they will put on a wonderful two hours' show. The leader is 12 years of age." The students plan to provide autos to take the visitors to the various schools. Council Crest, the museums, the battleship Marblehead and to the theaters. William Grout, of Washing ton High, Is the general chairman of the student committee. INTENT REQUIRED IN FORGERY CASE That Ford Designed Fraud Is Held Essential in Action Now on Trial. LOCAL COLOR DEVELOPED FOG CAUSES AUTO WRECK Car Hits Approach to Viaduct. Woman. Slightly Hurt. A heavy fog, hanging over the high way, caused the wrecking of an auto mobile, driven by A. B. Loomis, of 360 Cook avenue, near the Twelve-Mile House early yesterday. Mr. Loomis. with a party of friends, was returning from a visit on the Columbia Highway, when he drove his machine into the concrete approach to a small viaduct, which was obscured bv the focr. All of the party escaped Injury, with the ex-! ceptlon of one yung woman, who was cut across the nose by broken glass from the wind shield. She was taken to her home by the Ambulance Serv ice Company. The front wheel of the car was broken. Mr. Loomis Is a fireman on the fire boat David Campbell. TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND BEAUTY" AT PANTAGES. PERS0NALMENTI0N. J. F. Courtney, of Bend, is at the Per kins. E. L. Jones, of Seattle, is at the Port land. B. C. Caldwell, of Lebanon, is at the Eeward. jnrs. . n. &ay, oi oaiem, is at the Seward. A. S. Brown, of Astoria, is registered at the Oregon. H. K. Merwin, of Salem, Is registered at tne Oregon. J. R. Shaw, of Mill City, is registered at tne imperial. f J. O. Tiberg is registered at the Per- Kins, from Astoria. Charles McGowan. of Klamath Falls. is ai me imperial. P. D. Shea, of Westport, Is registered at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ayre, of Baker, are at the Portland. Barnet H. Goldstein, United States Deputy District Attorney, left last right for Pendleton on a business trip. As he was witn xroop A or the Ore gon troops on the border he will Miss Ethel Rose. When the Shubert Bros, scoured the country for types of beautiful women in the prize photographic contest in 1912, Miss Ethel Rose was chosen as the typical New England girl. Miss Rose is appearing with Leo Perinoff, supported by the Imperial ballet, at Pantages this week. She Is considered one of the most beautiful women on the American stage and her wonderful dancing won for her stardom in "The Passing Show of 1914," "The Honeymoon Express" and "Maid in America." This is the first appearance of the noted dancers in Portland vaude ville and their engagement is one of the most important of the early Fall season. Witness Tells of Life In Wilds of Alaska, Where Two Were Re garded Without Question as Man and Wife. Intent to defraud Mrs. Caroline Ford or another by the deeding away of Portland property by Homer N. Ford and Elizabeth U. Frary. who signed the deed under Ford's direction as Eliz abeth G. Ford, must be shown by the state to the satisfaction of the jury in the court of Circuit Judge Davis, if Ford is to be found guilty of forgery. Discussion on this point was entered into on a motion for a directed verdict made by Attorney John C. MeCue at the conclusion of the case for the prosecu tion yesterday. He maintained that Mrs. Ford had no right dower or oth erwise to the property in question and could not have been defrauded. Deputy District Attorneys Collier and Hlndman held that it was not nec essary to prove fraud, and only in cumbent on the state to show that there had been an apparent effort to perpetrate fraud. Attorney McCue ob jected that the point was not so much the Intent as the possibility of the instrument to defraud. "Apparently capable of defrauding" is the reading of the statute, said Judge Davis, in overruling the motion. Deed Causes Litigation. The state may elect not to claim that Mrs. Ford was defrauded, but tnat tne man to whom the property was con veyed, J. D. McKlnnon, of La Grande, was injured by being given a deed which might cause and did later cause litigation. Attorney C. E. Cochran, rep resenting Mr.' McKlnnon, has testified that he would not have approved the in strument had he known the woman signing was not the wife of Ford. Mr. McKlnnon said he probably would not have accepted the deed bad he douotea "Elizabeth Q. Ford" was Ford's wife. Another point raised by Attorney Mc Cue In his motion and to which the court gave no consideration was that there had been no direct proof of the marriage of Caroline Voght to ord; that the testimony of witnesses was neccessary. He further asserted that the relations of the two were illicit in the beginning and in law were pre sumed to have continued so. Some hours before. Attorney McCue assured the court and jury that the defense had not Insinuated by cross-examination or otherwise that Mrs. Ford was ever a dishonorable woman. Wedding Recognized In Alanka. Any doubt that the contract mar riage of the Fords at Eagle City in 189a was considered legal and bind ing in Alaska at that time was sadly shaken by the testimony of J. J. Cav ender, of Seattle, formerly a deputy United States Marshal in Alaska and an acquaintance of the Fords for many years. Miss Caroline Voght was married to Ford December 24. 1898, at which time there was no Judicial officer or min ister to perform the ceremony. Mr. Cavender was certain of this. "I remember, because Just before Christmas that year one of the boys froze his feet and both had to be cut off." said the witness. "He knew he was going to die and wanted a priest. There was none to be had and I re member them telling him that there was no God north of 63." A contract marriage before a notary public or deputy customs officer was a frequent occurrence in that part of Alaska then, said Mr. Cavender. "Mar rlage was a sort of stone-age affair then in that section," he explained. To the question, "Would you consider the marriage of the Fords legal 7" ne replied: "There isn't any question about it. Conditions made custom, and cus tom made law there. He never denied she was his wife in that country." He had known the Fords well, liv ing near them for a considerable while in Eagle, when they rented his cabin. And he knew the conditions of the country at that time. His descriptions were virile. There 'were about 1500 men and 12 women at Eagle in 1898, ne saia, not including the Fords, who lived about 12 miles from the town. Several of the women were married, several were of loose character and the others were mated." He explained that "mated" was a sort of trial marriage in Alaska then, in which the male asserted an ownership in the woman, which was respected by others in the camp, but without binding ceremony. Many of these matings later resulted in wedding bells, be asserted. Fords Not Mated Couple. Mr. and Mrs. Ford were not one of (he mated couples, but were married according to precedent and law of that country, he maintained. The first child to be born in Eagle was Ford's daugh ter, who died a year later. When Deputy Collier elicited from the witness the information that what were known as roadhouses on the Yukon were like country hotels and not the roadhouses of alcoholic repute. Attorney McCue interrupted. "I wish to disclaim any desire In my cross-examination yesterday to In sinuate that Mrs. Ford was ever a dis honorable woman." He had asked her if she had not conducted a roadhouse. "The cross-examination yesterday clearly showed an effort on the part of counsel to besmirch this woman and I want this matter cleared up," retorted Deputy Collier. Harriet Ford, aged 12. pupil in the 7-B grade of the Richmond School, was put on the stand yesterday to testify against her father. She told of visits with his sister and parents in James town, N. D.. and Albion, Mich., and later to being sent to the Coast with her mother by Mr. Ford. About four visits by her father were made in the five years she lived in Seattle. She made an excellent . witness, answering all questions without hesita tion and frankly. As she testified her mother leaned forward in' her seat at the rear of the courtroom, with anxious eyes on her daughter. Ford glanced at her seldom, while his jaws worked rythmically on gum and his fingers nervously folded a slip of paper into triangles and squares. At the conclusion of her testimony. Attorney icjue maae a motion to strike out her testimony as immaterial, asserting that Ford did not deny she was his daughter and that her parent age was not an issue of the case. It was denied. Paper Signed as Wife. A significant bit of testimony by Mrs. Ford In the morning was that, when Ford's father died in Michigan, leaving an estate to be sold, all the heirs had to sign the conveyances and that she signed as the wife of Homer Ford. Dr. John W. 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Mrs. Pearl Barkhurst, who knew Ford In North Dakota, testified that she met him in the Fall of 1912, and that he told her he had been divorced from Caroline Ford, was paying her $100 a month alimony and that his second wife was in the East. Raymond D. McKlnnon, son of J. D. McKlnnon and present owner of the property Involved in the argument, was the first witness to be called by the defense. He testified that Ford's repu tation for fair dealing and honesty in La Grande was good, but later, on cross-examination, admitted that Ford had never lived In La Grande, and that he had not heard Ford's reputation discussed. Miss Frary may be produced by tha defense as a witness today. LAND MEASURE DEBATED Grange Hears Arguments for and Against Proposed Tax Law. "The land and loan measure on which you will vote in November is a Henry George measure, and if it carries it will mean the confiscation of your lands and you farmers will become ten ants simply, without title, unable to borrow money for improvements, for the state will then be the owner. " de clared A. L. Veazle in his address yes terday afternoon before Russellvllle Grange in the hall on the Base Line road. Nearly 200 members heard the de bate between Mr. Veazie and Dr. C. H. Chapman, the latter speaking for and Mr. Veazie against the measure. Dr. Chapman made the opening argu ment, in which he said that as a land owner he- had arrived at the con clusion that the measure would help the value of his land, that it would in no way affect its title, and that it would reduce taxes. LIQUOR CAR DRIVER JAILED Astorian Also Fined for Operation of Auto While Intoxicated. Thomas Russell, of Astoria, arrested a week ago by Patrolman Sims, at Sixth and Davis streets, was convicted in Municipal Court yesterday of driv ing an automobile while intoxicated. Judge Langguth fined him $40 and sen tenced him to serve five days In the City JalL Russell at once began his term. When arrested by Patrolman Sims he had five gallons of whisky in the car, which he said was a supply for a long motoring trip he intended to take. His mother and two brothers reside in this city. J. Ham Lewis to Slake Five Speeches. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 20. At the request of the Democratic State Central Committee, Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, who had been as signed to make one address in the state of Washington, will speak in five cities, as follows: Spokane, September 26; North Yakima, September 27; Tacoma and Everett, September 28, and Seat tie, September 29. - Five Big Specials for Dollar Day at Powers 24-InclT Matting Suit Cases 31.00 Strong, well mtda Matting Suit cases, full a4-inch size, arched grip, brass lock and clasps, riv eted metal corners, nicely lined. Big special -ralut. $2.00 White Enamel Medicine Cabinets Sl.OO $2.50 Nickel Plated Covered Ceseroles Sl.OO White lined brown earthen ware with steam outlet in cover. The case Is a beauti ful design, nicely nickeled and highly finished rein forced handles, strongly secured. $1.75 Hardwood Folding Sewing Tables $1.00 A table of this nature Is nec essary to every home. Made of hardwood, nicely finished with stamped yard measure on edge. 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Birkenoff proves to be a popular violinist. He picks his selections with the idea of pleasing the greatest num ber and succeeds nicely. The two Ah Hears are talented dano ers who sing also. In Chinese cos tumes, they present a clever comedy act. The picture part of the programme is a big flve-reeler entitled "The Evil a Woman Does." It Is a Bluebird .prod uct, a picturization of Erail Gaborl au's story of the same name laid in the Latin Quarter of Paris. AUTO USE IS CONSIDERED Counsel Opposes Albea Ordinance, But Postpones It. . The policy of allowing city employes tr dam thii- nrlvat ntnmnKIU. fA. city purposes met with Councilmanlc opposition yesieraay wnen aisyor Al- Dee s proposal ordinance to allow re pairs, gasoline and oil for private cars to the extent of not more than S10 a month was up to passage. Commis sioners Baker and Dieck said the city should not allow use of these cars, be ing amply able to buy cars fpr the em ployes where actually needed. 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