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THE MORNING- OREGONTAN, TUESDAY, DECE3IBER IS, 1016. BROKEN GONTKAG T CHARGED If SUIT Pacific Export Lumber Com pany Complains Against -Lester W. David. PROPERTY INVOLVED LARGE In Organization of Monarch Mills Company, Promoter Said to Save Disregarded ' Prior "Contract V "With W. D. Wheelwright! In the organisation of the Monarch Mills Company on June if. 1916, Lester W. David, promoter, la said to have disregarded a contract entered into less than 60 days prior with W. D. "Wheelwright, president of the Pacific Export Lumber Company, contemplat ing the organization of a similar cor poration, according to a complaint filed in the Circuit Court yesterday. The suit Is brought by the Pacific Export Lumber Company to compel epeciflo performance of a contract of April, 28, 1916, to enjoin the Monarch Mills 'Company from further business and to set aside any transfers which ynay have been made. " Property Interests Large, In the litigation Is lnvolved'the old Monarch Lumber Company property of an appraised valuation of $640,000, con sisting of two lumber mills with plan ing mills, dry kilns and an electric light and power plant, 28 ares of land, with 2000-foot frontage on North Port land harbor, and the Kenton lumber yards. Mr. "Wheelwright agreed In writing. It Is maintained, to put (50,000 cash in escrow In the First National Bank, to be paid on the indebtedness of the Monarch Lumber Company as soon as clear title had been produced, and his attorneys, Harold M. Sawyer and Kr sklne Wood, assert that he is still ready to do so, provided the clear title 'Is presented. The title was understood, however, to be subject to an Indebted ness of $200,000. When the contract was drawn Mr. David is said to have asserted that he held a contract for the purchase of the Monarch property from the pres ent alleged owners the Assets Reali sation Company, of New Jersey, Ira M. Cobe, G. M. P. Murphy and W. W. Crawford, capitalists and former offi cers of the Assets company. Mr. Mur phy Is a vice-president of the Guarantee Trust Company, of New York. Alleged Deal Cited. Shortly after signing the contract with Mr. Wheelwright, of the Pacific Export Lumber Company, Mr. David is accused of making a new deal with a group of Investors. This is said to have resulted in the organization of the Monarch Mills Company In June, with Mr. Heusner as president. The Oregon Shipbuilding Company was organized November 11. ' Aoting In the belief that this corporation is affiliated in some manner with the Monarch Mills Company, it is, with its officers, made defendant in the action filed yesterday. The defendants named by the plaintiff Pacific Export Lumber Company are: Assets Realization Company, Monarch Mills Company, Oregon Shipbuilding Company, Lester W. David, John Kier nan. Russell J. Hubbard, George F. Heusner, C. A. Sheppard, W. M. Umden stock, T. H. Johnston, Ira M. Cobe, M. P. Murphy and W. W. Crawford. oCntract Names Officers. . Under the contract terms of the in strument over which the suit is brought Mr. Wheelwright was to have been president of the new corporation and Mr. David one of the directors. The Monarch mills were organized originally by the Lester Wi. David Com pany, a Washington corporation. They became involved and were mortgaged to the Assets Realization Company. Another Monarch Lumber Company was .organized in Maine, and the assets of the Oregon corporation transferred to it. The assets wer later transferred to an officer of the Assets company and a suit of creditors is now pending before Circuit Judge Kavanaugh to set B-side the numerous transfers. EDUCATION BILL CRITICISED Representation fop Labor, Manufac turing and Farming Demanded. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Sharp crit icism by Representative Lenroot, of Wisconsin, Republican, featured the opening of general depate in the House today on President Wilson's vocational education bill. Mr. Lenroot objected to the provision for Federal aid to 'established state 4 schools and contended that membership on the proposed governing board d,.wu,vl us . c o i. c u icvciu man agement of the system from being dom Inafed by general educators. He announced his Intention of offer ing an amendment to require represen tation of labor, commerce, manufactur ing and agriculture on the board. The bill will be taken up again for passage next Monday. -i . College. The deal was closed today. Mr. Carroll has also sold his Harrlsburg store to E. E. Carroll, a graduate in pharmacy from the Oregon Agricultural College. COOS -BAY PLAN LIMITED Engineers Deem Further Work on ' Jetty Inadvisable. OREG ONI AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec 11. (Special.) The chief of Army Engineers having reported to Congress that there is no necessity at this time for a new project for the fur ther improvement of Coos Bay, the ap propriation for that harbor in the forthcoming rivers and harbors bill FAMOUS MINSTREL HAS . BRAND-NEW ACT. n-v r " ' $ At hi" - -s Jt Eddie Leonard. tt. j i v a a uuuia ueuuaru, laajgus III in ( the Orpheum show at the Hellig, is in love with vaudeville. "I can- say without boasting." said Mr. Leonard, "that I have never had a setback in vaudeville and the reason for it is that I do not "flop." Some performers use the same bag of tricks year after year and wonder why the public and then the managers get tired of them. It's their own fault. This is a world of work and you must not stop. "I expect to be In vaudeville for some time yet. I've been in it for 20 years, for minstrelsy and the good sort of musical comedy are forms of vaudeville and I tell you vaudeville is only Just beginning to grow. I know there are a' few disgruntled vaudeville performers, performers who croak about the game's falling, but It is themselves, not the game, that we must call failures." Mr. Leonard is presenting a brand-new minstrel act this sea son. He features his own songs and Is accompanied by a trio of banjolsts and a pianist. will be lilted to $80,000, raised under the old project. The chief of engineers says that under the present project a channel 400 feet wide and 25 feet deep has been ordered across th bar, and 1c 13 the opinion of the engineers 'who have studied the project that no further work on the Jetty is advisable. Whatever additional depth amy be needed, it is reported, can be obtained by dredging. FRENCH IMPORTS GAIN Monopolies Produce the Greatest Month's Revenue of War. PARIS, Dec. 11. The statement of the Minister of Finance for November shows the month to have been the best since the beginning of the war in re ceipts from indirect taxes and monop olies, which totaled 339,000,000 francs, or 24,000,000 francs more than for the same month in a normal year, and 107, 000,000 francs more than for the same month last year. The duty collected upon Imports was 61,600,000 francs more than In Novem ber, 1915, and 63,300,000 francs ,more than in a normal year. ' CROWLEY NAMED IN'. CONSPIRACY TRIAL Pilot and Stoker of Fire Tug 'Say Detective Was at Scene of Explosion. SMITH'S WIFE ON STAND Woman, However, Will Not Be Per mitted to Testify Against Hus band Purchase of Dyna mite Is Described. CAN FRANCISCO, Deo. lie Charles C. Crowley, alleged go-between through whom German Consul-General Franz Bopp and others here are charged with having conspired to blow up Canadian railroads. and entente mu nitions shipments, was twice identified today in connection with the Seattle dynamite barge explosion of May 30, 1916. "Yes, air, that's the man," said R. L. Harris, a stoker on the (Seattle fire tug Snoqualmle on the night of toe ex plosion. "That's the man who, came on board about an hour and a quarter after the explosion. He said he was a Government man and wanted to make '.nqulrles." Crowle. with Consul-General Bopp, ,Vice-Coneul E. H. von iSchack. Lieuten ant G. W. von Brinckenn, Louis . J. Smith, Mrs. Margaret Cornell and Jo hannes von Koolbergen. is being tried in the United States District Court for conspiracy ' to violate American neu trality and the Interstate commerce law. The blowing up of a 30-ton dynar mite barge at Seattle. Canadian Pacific tunnels in British Columbia, the St. Claire tunnel at Port Huron, and other acts are specified. Pilot Also Identifies Crowley. Previous identification of Crowley as a self-styled "Government man" who pressed similar Inquiries six weeks after the Seattle affair was made to day by Louis Boyd, pilot of the fire tug which rushed to tbe scene of the explosion. Mrs. Louis . J. Smith, wife of a de fendant and Government informer, was put on the stand over the objections of the defense. The Government won, but Judge Hunt ruled that she must not testify against her husband. She had answered only formal questions when she was excused from the stand temporarily, while with the aid of three more witnesses he continued laying the ground work for the story of her and her husband. - W. E. Lovell, captain of a Dupont Powder Company boat on Puget Sound, testified he delivered a case of dyna mite, "40 per cent strong," to "Walter Weaver," May 24, 1915.- He made no Identifications of any of the de fendants. Purchase of Explosive Recalled. II. G. Bostlck, a Dupont salesman recalled a man named Winter who bought such a case from him at that time, "to blast rock on his farm." E. M. Herrington, superintendent of the powder department of the Dupont works at Dupont. Wash., said he knew Smith when the latter was employed at the Hercules works at Pinole, CaL, and that Smith went to see him in May, 1315, looking prosperous. "He told me he was then the Western man ager of a tobacco company," Herring- ton testified. He had previously writ ten me asking for a job, but when we met he said he didn't need it. He gave me a box of cigars.. When I knew him at Finole he was a soda screener." IDAHO MUSTER AT BOISE REGIMENT TO BE QUARTERED AT BARRACKS TILL RELEASED. ARMY GETS NEW AIRCRAFT Seaplane Squadrons Scheduled for Hawaii and Panama Canal. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 11. Two recon naissance military airplanes, the first of several new machines for the Army aviation school here, were received to day from a Buffalo company. .Another is expected this week. It is expected that with th eplacing of orders Saturday by the War Depart ment for 96 seaplanes, several students at the training school on passing their Junior military aviators' tests early next year will be assigned to the sea plane squadrons scheduled for duty in the Panama Canal Zone and Hawaii. DODGE REHEARING IS ASKED Trustee In Bankruptcy Alleges Er rors In Big Timber Case. A rehearing of the Dodge rase, in volving 3660,000 and title to thousands of acres of land in Skamania County, Wash., is asked for In" a petition filed! In the Supreme Court Saturday by Thomas Mannix, attorney for Parker Stennock, trustee in bankruptcy for the E. H. Dodge Interests. Frederick X. Krlbs and Wlllard N. Jones are de fendants. The petition is based on the allega tion that the Supreme Court erred in ordering forfeited a railroad built by Godge. and said to be worth $225,001), and in overlooking persooal property on the timber tract, worth $65,000. LANE FARMERS TO UNITE Association to Secure Loans From Federal Loan Banks Proposed. EUGENE. Or., Dec. 11. (Special.) Thirty Lane County farmers will hold a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce In Eugene tomorrow for the purpose of forming associations with a view to securing loans from the Federal Farm Loan Banks. The association will be the first to be formed In Lane County. SORORITY ROBBER CAUGHT Naval Officer's Son Is Said to Have ' Confessed $60 Theft. OAKLAND, CaL, Dec. 11. John Per kins, 16, son of Captain O. W. Perkirts, U. S. N.. stationed at Bremerton, Wash., and whose mother is a leading society woman, is being held by the Berkeley police as the sorrorlty-house burglar," who has been wanted for some time. The police say they caught him this morning coming out of the Delta Delta Delta home and that he confessed to having stolen $60. The boy's father was intending to send him to Annapolis. TANK CAR ORDER FAILS Supreme Court Overrules Interstate Commerce Confttilssion. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The Inter state Commerce " Commission, the Su preme Court decided today, is without authority to compel railroads to furnish oil tank cars to shippers. An Injunction secured by the Penn sylvania Railroad against enforcement of an Interstate Commerce Commission order requiring the carrier to provide cars of such special type was upheld. General Bell Notifies Governor That Guardsmen Have Been Ordered to Report at Capital. BOISE. Idaho, Dec'. 11. (Special.) The second Idjlfo Regiment, recently ordered released from border duty at Nogales. will be. mustered out at Boise. Today Governor Alexander received a telegram from General Bell, commander of the Western Division, at San Fran Cisco, authorizing this announcement. General Bell said: "Idaho regiment will be mustered out at Boise." ' Preparations .will immediately be made to prepare the barracks for the reception of the regiment. An expendl- tore of $100 or more will be necessary, as the plumbing, the light and heating connections will immediately have to be attended to, the buildings will have to be renovated and a large number of cots installed to accommodate between 1000 and 1100 -officers and men. The concerted effort made to change the demoralization orders from Salt Lake City to Boise has been success ful. State officials, headed by tbe Gov ernor; the Commercial Club, led by President Jess B. Hawley; the Idaho Congressional delegation and citizens generally Joined in the demand to re voke the order of demobilization. General Bell, of the Western head quarters, was in charge of the regi ment's movement.. After hearing from Boise, he decided to allow he troops to come to their home station for their welcome and demobilization. MAIL ROBBERIES DISCLOSED Jewelry Worth Thousands Found When Drivers Arc Arrested. BUFFALO, N. Y Dec 11. Mall rob beries amounting to thousands of dol lars were disclosed today, postal au thorities announced, in the confessions of Richard and Frank Chapin, mail wagon drivers. Jewelry valued at between $10,000 and $15,000 was recovered at the Chapin home, but It is said much other loot, consisting of stock oertiUcates and ne ffotiable paper, was destroyed. - Read The Oregonian classified ads. W. T. Carroll Sells Drug Stores. JUNCTION CITY. Or.. Dec. 11. (Spe cial. W. T. Carroll, a resident and busi ness man of Junction City for the last nine years, has sold the Red Cross Drug Store here to, C. A. Fryer, of Shaw. Or. Mr. Fryer la a graduate in pharmacy from, Oregon Agricultural HORSES DIE IN BARN FIRE Incendiarism Suspected In Early Morning Blaze Near Woodburn. WOODBUEN, Or., Dec 11. (Special) The barn of Amide Laschappelle at St. Louis, west of Woodburn, burned to the ground thlo morning at 2 o'clock, together wlt"h five head of horses, grain, hay and implements! Two other horses were so badly "burned that they had to be killed. Incendiarism is suspected, You can see sets and leave orders at GILL The J. K. Gill Co. 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