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VOL. I. VI NO. 17,482. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURP VY, DECEMBER, 2, 191G. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MORE INSANITY EVIDENCE OFFERED WASHINGTON TAKES STAND ON BELGIUM ALLIES AND GREEKS CLASH IN BATTLE LIQUOR IMPORTS IN NOVEMBER DOUBLE WOMAN AND BROOM ROUT 25 I. W. W. ACCUSER INDICTED AS REAL FORGER DEEP COXCERN OVER DEPORTA " TIOXS IS EXPRESSED. S3800 AFFIDAVITS SOLD, AGAINST 16900 IX OCTOBER. riot Mrrni a ft etc deputy SHERIFF RETREATS. VILLA PREPARING TO QUIT CHIHUAHUA Bandits Are Loading Trains With Loot. Spokane Women Testi fy for Girl Reporter. DEFENDANT TO TELL OF LIFE Arrest of Politician on Insult Charge Sought Before Killing. OFFICER TELLS OF EFFORT Tie-ward of $3 Offered by Police Judge to Miss Colby to Slap tlie Face of Man She Accused of Speaking Insultingly. . . THOMPSON TAXIS. Mont. Dec. 1. Testimony that Miss Edith Colby, a newspaper reporter on trial here for murder for killing' A. C. Thomas, a prominent politician, last September, attempted to have TCiomas arrested for Insulting: her, and further testimony to establish that. Miss Colby -was of unsound mind, was Introduced by the defense today. The testimony that Miss Colby had sought Thomas' arrest was given by "William Strom, a clerk of tje court here, and the last witness of the day. "Miss Colby dropped Into my office the afternoon before the shooting:," Strom said, "and nearly fainted in a chair. She wanted to see Wade Parks, the Prosecuting Attorney, and told, me that she had many troubles." Girl Suspected as Detective. The next morning, Strom said, about half an hour before Miss Colby shot Thomas, she called Prosecutor Parks on the telephone. Scrom answered the telephone and told her that Parks was out of town. Strom said that he had conversed with Parks about the possi bility that Miss Colby was a detective. "Didn't you suggest that Mr. Parks warn A. S. Ainsworth that she was a detective?" asked Special Prosecutor Wheeler on cross-examination. Ains worth, who. was Miss Colby's employer. Is held on a murder charge on the allegation that he Instigated the killing of Thomas. Strom denied having made such a suggestion to the prosecutor. "You never heard Mr. Parks refuse to give Miss Colby protection?" asked Mr. Wheeler. Reward Promised by Jndge. "I never heard her ask for protec tlon of any kind." Strom replied. Police Judge Nippert. of Thompson Falls, testified that Miss Colby had asked him what he would do to her 'if she slapped the face of a man who called her a woman of the under world." "I told her I wouldn't fine her for that," Judge Nippert continued, "but that I would give her five dollars my self, for doing it." Several residents of Spokane, includ lng Dr. Harriett Lacey, Mrs. F. A. Note ware and H. V. Dean, who was a can didate against Miss Colby or City Commissioner of Spokane. testified concerning the defendant's peculiar ac tions in recent years and expressed opinions that she was of unsound mind. The attorneys for the defendant also explained that Attorney W. P. Riddle yof Spokane, a close personal friend of '.ansa coitiy tor a. long time; Dr. Lake, who conducts a spiritual healing pro paganda with meetings In the Masonic Temple, and Dr. George Downs would testify tomorrow. Defendant to Tell Life Story. "With Miss Colby on the stand to morrow we will have her detail the history of her life from the time she was a little girl back In New Hamp shire," said Attorney John T. Mulligan, counsel for Miss Colby, this evening. Information was also obtained from Miss Colby's legal advisers that she will tell of her love for Dr. Hilscher and of the shock and suffering she endured when he -broke their engage ment and married another. She will tell of her struggles to make a. living in Spokane for the last seven years. She also, if permitted, is expected to tell of her experience in Thompson Falls, of the alleged insult offered her by A. C Thomas, of her going to A. S. Ainsworth, principal owner of the In dependent Enterprise, by which paper the was employed, and of his alleged advice to her to go as far as she pleased with Thomas and he would stand by her. She will be asked to tell of going to J. Manire, editor of the paper, for ad vice regarding the Thomas affair and of his alleged advice to her to shoot Thomas. Healer Expected to Testify. "By Dr. Lake, of Spokane, we expect to show that Miss Colby went to him and that he treated her for mental trouble," said Attorney Mulligan. In court today women friends of Miss Colby from Spokane matched their wits against those of B. K. Wheeler, who is conducting the case for the state, and at times quick replies from Mrs. N. A. Noteware. Dr. Harriet Lacey, Mrs. Charles Whipple and Miss R. Drake brought titters and laughter from the feminine portion of the audi ence, which filled the courtroom to ca pacity, and the court admonished the spectators that they must cease1 their daughter. Germany Informed Bad Impression Has Been 3Iade Interference With Relief Work Is Feared. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Acting on Its own' behalf.' the American Government has stated anew Its deep concern over the deportation of Belgians from their own country by the German military authorities. This action has been taken as a result of information abofft the deportations gathered from different sources, and after frultlees Informal ef forts on behalf of the Belgians made by American Charge d'Affaires Grew, at Berlin. Germftnv n been Informed that, the treatment of the Belgians has made a bad impression in this country and the United States cannot avoid taking no tice of the situation, basing Its etand on the broad grounds of humanity. The American Government, it was learned today, was led to move not only because of the expressed feeling that the deportations have been looked on with disfavor both by the American people and Government, but fear that Belgian relief work, which is admin istered by Americans, may be interfered with. STUDENTS BAR FLOWERS Dress Suits Also Waived for Formal Dance at University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. Dec. 1. (Special.) Members of the sophomore class, under the leadership of President Robert Atkinson of Cot tage Grove, voted at a special meeting to prohibit the purchase of flowers for girls for the annual formal dance to be held December 9. Wearing dress suits was left optional to the sophomores and the upper classmen. Freshmen are barred from wearing dress suits during the entire year. FLOODS IN SPAIN SERIOUS Homes and Dikes Collapse and Communications Are Cut. MADRID, via London, Dec. 1. rSerious floods are ravaging Eastern Spain, par ticularly the province of Valencia. At Alcira the railroad station and several houses collapsed and the people took refuge on roofs and church steeples. ' Communications have been cut at va rious places. The floods have destroyed dikes and covered the whole country side. At Murcia the waters aij still rising. Thousands of families have been reduced to beggary. CHINA RESTRAINS COOLIES Transportation to Russia Is Forbid, Berlin Hears. Berlin, Dec. 1. (By wireless to Say- vilre, N. Y. The Russian newspaper Russky Sloto, as quoted by the Over seas News Agency, says in a dispatch from Harbin that the Chinese govern ment has prohibited the sending of coolies to Russia. Large numbers of Chinese coolies are being used by entente nations to make up for the scarcity of labor brought about by the war. INVADERS GUARD DEAD KING German Troops Stationed at Tomb of Charles, of Koumania. BERLIN, Dec. 1. (By wireless to Sayville.. N. Y.) The royal sepulchre at Curtea de Arges, In Western Rou mania, in which the body of Kins Charles reposes, has been placed under the protection of German troops. Emperor William has ordered that German forces which pass through the city shall deposit wreaths In the tombs of the king and queen. MOURNERS ARE WRECKED Man Who Attended Emperor's Fu neral Reported Killed. v AMSTERDAM, via London, Dec 1. A train traveling between Vienna and Budapest with several personages who attended the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph, says a telegram re celved here from Vienna today, col lided with another train at Herczechta len, and it is said that numerous pas sengers were killed or injured. MR. WILSON SHOPS EARLY President Guarded by Secret Service Men, Buys Christmas Goods. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. President Wilson today joined the early Christ mas shoppers. Accompanied by several secret serv Ice men, he walked for more than an hour through Washington's downtown shopping district, stopping in various stores to make purchases. G. M. HYLAND FOR MAYOR Mass Sleeting Names Candidate Against Astoria Primary Choice, ASTORIA, Or.. Dec 1. (Special.) At a mass meeting of citizens held to night George M. Hyland was nominated as an Independent candidate for Mayor in opposition to F. C. Harley, who was nominated on the Republican and Democratic tickets at the primary lection. Fight Begins on Slope of Acropolis. 'ANIG REIGNS IN ATHENS French Sailors First to En gage in Hostilities. RENCH ADMIRAL IS FIRM Greek Kins Definitely Refuses to Hand Over Guns Forces Are Re potted Marching South From Points North of Athens. LONDON. Dec. 2. A dispatch to the Daily Mall from Athens timed 11:45 A. M., Friday, says: "Fighting has taken place between French sailors and reservists on the slopes of the Acropolis. Passengers from Piraeus say that when passing the Thesee railroad station they witnessed the fighting. 'This fighting, according to other information, was between French sail ors and Greek troops. Panic Begins In Athens. "A panic has begun in Athens. Crowds are rushing through the streets and shops are being closed. 'Two French cruisers have entered Phaleron Harbor." Large .French, British and Italian contingents last night disembarked at Piraeus without Incident, says the Ex change Telegraph Athens correspondent in a dispatch dated Friday. An Athens dispatch to the Dally Chronicle under date of November 30 ascribes the following statement to Vice-Admlral Du Fournet. in command of the allied fleet in Greek waters: 'I Insist absolutely on the execution of my demands, and will see that they are realized in spite of all obstacles. French, British and Italian detachments will be landed at all points necessary. I will endeavor to avoid bloodshed, but will fulfill my mission thoroughly." Greek Force Marching South. An Evening News dispatch filed at 1:45 A. M. yesterday says further reports have been received of forces marching south from Thessaly and other sections of Greece north of Athens. The garrison of Chalcis is marching with rifles toward Schimatari. The dispatch says a minor disturbance occurred last night. A few revolver shots were fired. No one was injured. Just before the time of the filing of the dispatch. King Constantino notified the entente ministers of his definite refusal to hand over the guns. Gasoline to Go Up Today. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. The price of gasoline here will be advanced to morrow to 20 cents, according to an- ouncement made here today by the Standard Oil Company. There would be no advance, it was said, in the price of distillate, but that painters' naptha would be Increased 1 cent a gallon. THE MISSIONARY. " I t ........ r"" J..........J.J.....x ..... Impending Drouth Spurs Those Who Would Have Stock on Hand to Call on Friends in Haste. Shades of the seven years' drouth! With a dusty, arid, "bone-dry" Ore gon In prospect after the Legislature whips into shape a law to fit the new prohibition amendment, Multnomah ! County citizens who find use for their two quarts a month called upon their friends in - a panic last month, with the result that liquor importations doubled over the month of October, which had. broken all records Itself. County Clerk Coffey sold to common carriers for the use of their llquor- seeklng patrons a total of 33,800 legal affidavits last month. This compares to 16,900 sold in October and 12.100 dis posed of in September. This brings the total number of af fidavits sold in Multnomah County since the state went dry to 139,600. Only one affidavit for sacramental purposes was required last month, though the total for the year is 601. There were 11.450 affidavits Issued for alcohol to be used, presumably, externally. This brought the grand total of alcohol affidavits to 104.650 for the 11 months, but it was only the second highest month in alcohol slip sales, October leading with 13.000. Strangely, not a physician's prescrip tion for whisky was issued during the month of November, though the year's total of these reaches 2302. HOBOES T0JHAVE COLLEGE Law, English, Journalism and Na ture Study Among Courses. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. Announcement of the opening here within a few days of International Hobo College, offer ing courses for migratory workers in law. English. Journalism, hygiene. mathematics and nature study, was made today. The college will be conducted under the . auspices of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association, it was stated, and is fortified by an en dowment of $750 given by James Eads How, of St. Louis. " U-BOAT CAPTURES AIRMEN Britons Removed From Disabled Machine at Sea. f . BERLIN, Dec 1. (By wireless to Sayville. N. Y.) A German submarine recently encountered a British damaged airplane floating on the sea off the mouth of the Thames, says the Over seas News Agency. The two officers who were in the airplane were made prisoners and the airplane was destroyed by the sub marine crew. LIFE TERM GIVEN BANKER Waco, Tex., Financier Is Found Guilty of Murder. WACO. Tex.. Dec. 1. T. R. Watson, bank president, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 99 years' Im prisonment by a jury in the District Court here today. . Watson was charged with shooting and killing John S. Patterson, State Banking Commissioner. TREYINO WAITING FOR AID Residents Are Warned Against Harboring Foreigners. REBELS THREATEN DEATH Many Chinese Said to Have Been Slaughtered De Facto Officers in Juarez Ship Property to the United States. JUAREZ. Mex.. Dec. 1. Villa bandits were reported to be loading two trains with loot from the stores and private residences of Chihuahua City and pre paring to follow these trains west on the Mexican Northwestern Railroad, ac cording to a message received at mili tary headquarters here tonight from General Ozuna's scouts at Sauz. General Ozuna's cavalry column was at Cuilty. the first station north of the state capital, the report said. The scouts obtained their information from refugees reaching Cuilty and Sauz from Chihuahua City. This news was taken at headquarters to indicate the inten tion of Villa to evacuate the city after looting it. as he did at Farral. Santa Rosalia and Jimenez. General Trevlno was said by General Gonzales to have been in Horcasltas yesterday awaiting the arrival of General Francisco Murguia's forces from the direction of Camargo. south of Chihuahua City. Villa to Kill All Foreigner. Villa made a speech against foreign ers in Hidalgo plaza, following his oc cupation of the city, a Chinese farmer and merchant, who left Chihuahua City Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, said on his arrlvaf here early today on a troop "train. In his speech. Villa warned, all residents of the city against hiding any foreigners in their homes and declared he intended to kill them all. the Chinese added. Villa also said he intended to confiscate all foreign property and give it to the Mexicans. The Chinese explained" that he did not hear Villa's speech but was told about it by a Mexican woman in whose house he was hiding at the time Villa occupied the city. She returned to tell him she could no longer shelter him, as she was afraid of Villa's wrath if he discovered sho was hiding a for eigner. Chinese Telia of Kncape. Before he could leave the houso a detachment of Villa's men came in, the Chinese said. They broke down the door and started a . search for him. when he ran out the back door and escaped to Nombre de Dios, near Chi huahua City. He said he saw Villa troops at the country home of General Luis Terrazas, north of Chihuahua, and these fired at the train which was (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2. Mob Starts Trouble When Free Meal and Transportation Are Re fused in California. REDDING, Cal.. Dec 1. (Special.) Mrs. Louis Domenicl is the heroine of Lewiston. Trinity County, because she routed 25 I. W. W.'s with a broom stick after Deputy Sheriff Mark Van Mater had retired ignominiously from the field. The I. W. W.'s, employed In construc tion work by the Northern California Power Company, demanded free meals on rainy days when they could not work. -Being refused they demanded free rides on the company's auto truck back to Redding. This being refused, they fell upon the comnanv's chauffeur. Deputy Sheriff Van Mater, who had arms, tried to put a stop to the near riot. The strikers only Jeered at him and forced him to run to cover in the village store. Mrs. Domenicl, who was In a butcher shop next door, came out with a broom stick and belabored the near rioters over the heads and shoulders without fear or favor. They retired from the field In dis order and walked out of Lewiston for Redding, sending word back to forward their little belongings by parcel post. ALIMONY PAID IN PENNIES Stubborn ex-Husband Sued to Com pel Csc of Legal Tender. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo.. Dec. 1. Mrs. Minnie G. Scanlan. divorced wife of Thomas Scanlan, a miner, tiled suit in District Court today to comDel her husband to pay her $45 a month alimony in legal tender. Scanlan for three months has paid the alimony in pennies, a month ago sending 9000 pennies, one for a month in arrears. Mrs. Scanlan alleges that today he sent 4300 pennies which had been soaked in sorghum. It took her three hours and 45 minutes to wash oft the sorghum, Mrs. Scanlan said. JEWS TO BE DISTRIBUTED Committee Will Look Afler Immi grants Following War. NEW TORK, Nov. 1. A special com mittee to work out the problem of dis tributing the Jewish Immigrants who will come to the United States after the war so that they will not settle in densely populated cities was ap pointed today by the Federation of Jewish Farmers of America in conven tion here. Another committee was named to co operate with charitable organizations in placing orphaned children on farms. Boy Scalded in Bath. Willie Ferguson. 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ferguson, of the Sheffield apartments. 272 Broadway, fell into a tub of boiling water while preparing to take a. bath last night, and sustained burns so serious that it is. doubtful if he will recover. The child was taken .o St. Vincent's Hos pital and attended by Dr. Thomas Fox. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4S degrees; minimum, 8U degree. TODAY'S Klin, Increasing southerly wind. War. Roumanians said to have failed in desperate effort to stem tide. Page 4. Allied fori- lands at Piragua and clash fol low. Page 1. Mexico. New York regimental offlrera on border re Mgn. char-Kins General with insult. Page 4. Villa preparing to abandon Chihuahua after looting it. Page 1. National. Federal Inquiry Into food costs will cover utile range. Page 3. Washington hopea ;reat Britain will yield point as to Austrian Ambassador. Page 4. Germany willing to pay for marine If it Is shown she was not transport. Page 4. loincM Ic. Morgans withdraw allies' loan. Page 2. Cattle disease diagnosed as stomatitis. Page Colonel Roowrvelt analyzeee; result of elec tion. Page 2. Woman with broom route 23 I. W. W. Page 1. More testimony of girl reporter's Insanity offered at murd.-r trial. l'age 1. Diet squad loses J0 pountli In day. Page 3. Sports. Oregon and California Vnlverslty elevens may play In Portland next Fall. Page la. 3."0" fans s - Spokcnc hockey team win from Portland. Page IS. Coat League club owners postpone Salt ltke meeting day because of wedding. Page 16. I-acirir Northwest. Interest Is unabated In Lewiston Livestock Show. Page 5. Governor asks "War Department to send Troop and Battery home. Page 6. Tax CommlEsioa probably will make state levy same a last time, plus o per cent. Page o- Pair who were sweethearts before Civil "War are married at ancouver. Page 7. Older boys in session at Corvallla. Page C Commercial and Marine. All cereals lower in Northwestern markets. Page 19. Minor rails firm and active feature of stock market. Page 19. Betilcla ready to come into river. Page 15 Portland and Vicinity. Woman Accuser Is indicted as real forager. Page 1. Manner of circulating petttlona declared faulty by grand Jury. Page 14. Mass meeting tonight to plan food boycott. Page 3. Electrical week opens tonight. Page . Ortgon hotel men open convention here. Page . November liquor imports double. Page 1. American Masonic Federation members are Indicted. Page 6. Cudahv Hotel fire I warning to owners of dangeroua buildings. Page 6. Music course at normal for aupervlsors is favored. Page o. Walter J. Burns ! home from month spent in Kngland. Page 2. Survev shows state has tuberculosis problem. Page 5. Home-makers' course mystifies School Board, rage 14. Weather report. cat aud forecast. Face 19. Grand Jury Holds Mrs. Rose Luciano. NEIGHBORHOOD ROW HINTED Action Follows Failure of Case Against Mildred Brown. 2 WOMEN ASK VINDICATION State Seeks to Find Person Who Telephoned to Physician for Check, and Who Had It Indorsed and Cushed. Rose Luciano, chief witness for the state In the preliminary examination of Mildred Brown on & charge of forgery, in the Municipal Court last July, was indicted yesterday for the crime with which Miss Brown was charged, after an exhaustive investiga tion of the Multnomah County grand Jury. Contradictory statements and admis sions of Mrs. Luciano, who lives at 471 Patton road, led to the fastening of suspicion upon her after the acquittal of the girl because of Insufficient evi dence. Indorsement Forgery Charged. Forgery of the indorsement of a, check for 120 given by Dr. R. J. Marsh, a physician with offices in The Ore gonian building, is the specific crime for which Mrs. Luciano is now being held. The forgery dates back to June, 19. On that day. Dr. Marsh received! a telephone call frtom a woman repre senting herself to he Mrs. J. Carlone. of 631 South Fifth street, a nurse known to Dr. Marsh for several years. A tale of misfortune was unfolded. She concluded with asking for a loan of $20. Thinking it somewhat strange that the woman should call upr him. Dr. Marsh nevertheless acceded -to. the request. He gave his personal check to a. youth of about 20 years, who enme to his office, sent.'presumablv. by Sirs. Carlone. Mrs. Carlone Comes Along. A few days later. Mrs. Carlone stopped in at Dr. Marsh's office. The physician expressed the wish that her troubles were not so grievous as when she had last talked with him. and was astounded when Mrs. Carlone declared she had not telephoned him. an. -I knew nothing about the check. A police investigation was begun, and Mrs. Carlone began a personal in quiry into the matter, for vindication. One woman friend called upon by Mrs. Carlone. Mrs. Luciano, volunteered the Information that she could explain the affair, saying that she knew Mildred Brown was the culprit. On Mrs. Luciano's representations. Miss Brown, of 669 Fifth street, was arrested for forgery and & preliminary hearing was held before the Municipal Court. At this hearing Mrs. Luciano told her story. Substantially, it was that she was crossing the street at Sixth and Alder on the day of the check episode, when she saw Miss Brown coming out of the Meier & Frank Company's store. Miss Brown stopped her. she said, and wanted her to cash a check. Mrs. Luci ano refused, at which Juncture Ora Uarman. of 291 M Hawthorne avenue, appeared on the scene. Other Woman Caches Check. "I said. 'Ora. you go in and cash the check. I don't like to, as I used to work there.' and she went in." testi fied Mrs. Luciano. "She brought back $19. having bought herself a pair of stockings. She gave the $13 to Mildred, who wanted all the money, but I told her that the ought to give the block ings to Ora for her trouble." A nice, clear story, making matters rather dubious for Miss Brown. But Mrs. Luciano had no corroborating wit nesses. Miss Garman could not be found when the matter came up in Police Court, and the testimony was not considered strong enough to hold Miss Brown to the grand Jury, in the face of her own denials. Mrs. Carlone was not satisfied. Her own skirts had not been cleared, and she demanded a grand jury investiga tion of the affair. Deputy District At torney Joseph L. Hammersley. who as sisted the grand Jury in its work, finally found Miss Garman. Her story before the grand Jury made no mention of Miss Brown. She admitted the meeting with Mrs. Luciano, it appears, but said that Mrs. Luciano gave her the check to cash, went In the store with her, bought the stockings for her. and kept the $19 of the check. She did not see Miss Brown at alL Vntrntk Is Admitted. Mrs. Luciano was haled before tre grand Jury. Her testimony In the Mu nicipal Court was reviewed, and she admitted that she had not clung to the truth. Miss Brown had no part In the transaction, so far as Miss Garman was concerned, but was around the corner during the .conversation and check-cashing, Mrs. Luciano now said. Miss Brown denied seeing Mrs. Luci ano that day. and denied ever seeing the- check in question, when called be fore the grand jury. Among other allegations of Mrs. Lu ciano was the assertion that Miss Brown had told her that a, nephew." Elbert Christofner. was the boy who went to the office of Dr. Marsh to get iCuuttiu-tvd, ou l'ao Column 4.)