Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 31, 1917, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextTHE 3IORN'I"G OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. JAMJABT 31, 1917. BOXER CAUSED WOE, ASSERTS DUCHESS" Rurick. who won Russia from the Mongols!" Keen on the trail of a camera news story, a young photographer for a mo tion picture news bureau sought out Mrs. Slitting- yesterday. She glanced at his card. "Tell him I will not nee him!" she exclaimed. "He CJiy be willing to pay you for your picture," suggested a companion. "Hah! Tell him, then, that for $1000 he may take, my picture. Why should I not earn this money to aid me till the war Is over?" The camera-reporter secured his In terview, but was met by an impene trable black veil and a proud refusal to consider any argument of lesser weight than S1000. Mrs. Slitting will not appear in the n-ovie news films. Mrs. Lola G. Baldwin, superintendent of the Women's Protective Division, said yesterday that the official inves tigation was completed and that the 13-year-old daughter. Amy, now In a children's home, will be returned to her parents. Mr. Mitting is employed as a sawyer by the Jones Lumber Com pany. Bs3SMltil . J A af I 8 S& Mrs. Mining's Tafe of Trouble Brought by Bill Squires v. Is Substantiated. TWO TITLES ARE CLAIMED "Woman in Dispute Over Child Tells of Banishment by Czar, of Fear of Spies, of Early Iilfe In , Russia and of Royal Birth. 14 OFFERINGS ON BILL STAR TUIUrS PROMISED AT PRESS CLTJB EyTERTAlSMEST. IT K a Tt was Bill Squires.. the Australian heavyweight pugilist, who opened a veritable Pandora's box of troubles for her in America, complains Mrs. John Mittintr. who says she is the Princess Convalinsky, of royal Russian birth, and the Duchess of Buckingham by her mother's alliance with a French branch of that English family. Mrs. Mitting flashed into notice when her voune dauEhter. Amy. recently dis appeared from home, and was found hiding in the basement of Trinity Church. The romantic etory told by Mrs. Mitting gains a semblance of fact from her maintained assurance, her dis play of genuine sentiment and her ab solute familiarity with history and per tons pres. The Australian pugilist, for instance, comes into the recital with a plausi bility that is supported by actual rec ords of the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Mitting at San Francisco, in April, 1007. These records are in the form of clip pings from San Francisco papers of that date, which bear out Mrs. Matting's account of her arrival. Woman Passes as Twin Brother, "We came from Australia, my twin brother and I. because it is intended that the Russian government call him back to servo in the army." explained Mrs. Mittinsr yesterday. "Both of us belontr to the liberal party of Poland, and he feared that his foes would assassinate him if he returned from his Australian banishment. -Snien were all about us. To de reive them I had my hair cut short and dressed myself in male attire. I told my brother that I would take the first boat, and he was to take me neiu Thev thought that I was my brother when I sailed in the Ventura. He fol lowed, a month later, on the Sierra. "Yet on the boat were many who knew me in Australia, and they became susDicious of my identity. My bus band, who was with me, was known as my brother. To avoid the spies we took the steeraere. Ah. it was terrible. The dirt, the squalor! But this Bill Bnulres. he saw me, and he knew. "You know how it .would be. When our boat reached port the San Francisco reporters swarmed around the prize fighter. 'See here,1 he said. 'I'll show you a story. That woman there is the Duchess of Buckingham and Princess of Convalinsky. What trouble they caused me then. What trouble they have caused me since 1" Clippings Bear Out Story. At any rate, on April 24, 1907, the Ventura was temporarily kept from docking because of two steerage pas sengers registered as "George and John Pepper." The newspaper expose re vealed George Pepper as Mrs. John Mitting, styled the Duchess of Buck ingham and Princess Convalinsky, while the younger "brother" became again John Mitting, the husband. Before a special board of inquiry Mrs. Mitting told her story. TRe mem bers of the board scoffed and declared her insane. She was examined by phy sicians, who informed the board of in culry that there were no gears slipping in the very active mentality of the sub ject. The story that Mrs. John Mitting told the puzzled board of inquiry was again related yesterday. In addition to her claims of royal lineage, it set forth the reason for her alleged banishment from Russia. "i was a student in a college of medi cine in Moscow." Mrs. Mitting re counted, "and was a young woman of spirit, keenly Interested in the work of the liberalists. One morning a pro fessor in the classroom offered me an Insult. I threw a book at him. He sprang toward me and the students rioted. Murder Charge Is Placed. "When the fight ended the professor was on the floor, dead from a knlte wound. Beside him lay the knife. I Tli-kri It uri and stood looking at him. Thus I was when the police came and c.lia.rcred me with his murder. "Because of my high birth they took trie before my cousin, the Czar. He cave me my choice Siberia or Aus trails. I chose Australia, though my pirlhood was spent on the Siberian es tate of the tonvalinsKv iamiiy. Jt ai most the same moment, in a college at ciefr mv twin brother created a not and was banished, we went to aus tralia together." . From her birthplace in Bedford. Eng land, she was taken as a child to France, and thence to the Convalonsky lands in .Siberia, on tho Manchurian hrrrir. to live with her grandmother, a tyrannous and unlovely old noble woman, according to Mrs. jiittings ac count. At the mention of a slng-ular friend thin, the recollection of her early girl hood. Mrs. Mitting wept brokenly. There were few friends to be made or rOavmates to be had on the Mancnu rian border, she said, and she ran half wild about the hills, creeping often to the walls of a Buddhist monastery to watch the strange monks. Alliance Causes Troubles. TTvoTitimllv. Mrs. Mittinsr said, she re turned to France to' study medicine. and later to Moscow to complete her studies. There she met with banish ment. chose to spend her exile in Aus tralia, met John Mitting on the island continent and contracted the mesal llance that brought down the displeas tire of her family and the long chain of troubles that have followed her, cul ruinating with the death of her twin brother, who. she says, was killed in action in Turkey a few months ago. Among her papers Mrs. Mitting ex hlbited a bank book on the famous French financial house, the Credit Lyonnais, issued to Madame La Duch esse de Buckingham." at Toulon, France, in ISS9. The check stubs show issuances ranging from 200 to 18.000 francs. From the same source she has a. statement of account, purporting to phow a succession or regular remit' tances, which, she says, were received from her Russian estates before the order of the Czar which revoked her Income. So Called Credentials Presented. Yesterday Mrs. Mitting called at the British Consulate and presented certain papers which purported to be creden tlals. The nature of these documents was not disclosed by Consul Sherwood, who stated that, so far as Mrs. Mit ting's claims to British royal blood are concerned, nothing had been disclosed to substantiate them. "Bah! for the title of Duchess of Tiuckingham: I do not care for it, though it is mine!" commented Mrs. Mitting passionately. "I am the Prin cess Convalinsky, whose line dates back to the reignof Peter the Great even to th srea,t Scandinavian Mosart Quartet Scheduled to Sins', Wa strel, Dancing and Cartoon Tarns Listed. Fourteen big attractions have been secured by the entertainment commit tee of the Portland Press Club for the big entertainment to be given Friday night in the clubrooms. One of the biggest attractions is the - " - j, y . ' "a W&' 'If M Peasleys Photo. Charles J. Heebner, Member of Mozart Quartet, Which Will Sins; at Press Club Jinks. ' Mozart Quartet, the members of which are vocalists of marked ability. O. E. Lightman, the first tenor, has a splen did lyric tenor voice. He has had con siderable stage experience, having been connected with such organizations as the "Madame Butterfly" Company. Bar Goodwin Gray, the second tenor, re ceived his musical training in Portland. Earl H. Walker, baritone, is a graduate of the Oberlln Conservatory of Music Charles J. Heebner, second bass has a magnificent basso-profundo. He for merly was connected with the Abow Opera Company. Happy Jack" Walker, the well- known old-time minstrel man, will en tertain with rapid-fire monologue, songs and dances. Among otheri attractions secured are Catherine Brandes, soprano, who will sing fi, number of classical selections; Laura snea, a pretty little miss, in a singing and dancing act; Franz Gam neder, a phenomenal young violinist; W. J. Carkeek, trick pianist: Mrs. R. J. Sloan, in pantomime; Miss Harrington, classic reader; Walker O'Laughlln, cartoonist, and many others. 29 JOIN NAVAL MILITIA MEMBERS OF MILITIA ENROLLING IN VOLUNTEERS. Action Pats Men at Call of President for Sen-Ice and Pay Will Be Allowed for Drill. Twenty-nine members of the Oregon Naval Militia were accepted last night In the National In aval Volunteers, an organization created by act of Congress in August, 1916. Lieutenant-Command er G. C. Blair, of the Oregon Naval Militia, is in charge of the Portland division. of the volunteers. Lieutenant - Commander Blair said that the supply of blanks has been ex hausted and that as soon as additionals arrive from Washington many of the members of the Naval Militia will be enlisted. There are now more than 50O members of the Naval Militia and it Is expected, that au will Join the volun teers. The volunteers will receive pay for drill work and will be subject to the call of the President when any con- tigency demands their services. Only members of the Naval Militia can join tho volunteers. Enlistment automatical ly expires when . enlistment lJn the militia terminates. The Naval Militiamen who passed the examinations ana were accepted as members of the volunteers last night are: W. J. Boardman, C. M. Baldra, Carl Braun. G. W. Mclntyre, F. J. Branch!, C A., Pike. K. C. Poole, R. E. Krause, G. V. D. Fortner. C. V. Shoe maker. Thad Wilson, W. H. Norman; A. E. Jenne, A. D. Morris, K. P. Stearns, A. B. Chitty. Roy Bertrand, W. C. Kelly, G. A. standjiey. L. K. Jlartyn, D. IL Yeomans, J. Aschenbrenner. H. S. Tur ley, E. L. Wilson. A. F. DeBrau. W. B. Rich, A. D. Fox, M. C. Walton and C M. Martyn. DRIVER IN TROUBLE AGAIN Arthur Skibbo Is Sent to Jail Third Time. for Arthur Sklbbe, driver of a car for hire, who was arrested Monday after- non at Twenty-second and Belmont streets after his machine had over turned a fire hydrantand crashed into a tree on the parking, pleaded guilty to drunkenness in Municipal Court yesterday and was sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment. . This is Skibbe's third Jail sentence at the hands of the Municipal Court. He was sentenced on September 18 for driving an automobile while intoxicated and 10 days later for drunkenness. North Portland Club to Meet. There will be a meeting tonight of the North Portland Commercial Club at the North Portland branch library when ways and means of bringing the Columbia Slough under the Port of Portland Jurisdiction will be consid ered. It Is proposed to have the slough taken over by the Port of Portland mi dxsde4 Ad oumtyU improved, j YOne Mew Seme ' Aft Ene Show eir airs EACH year the Annual .'Exhibit ol Studebaker at the shows, has been filled with significapce to the motor car buying; public and 'to the entire automobile industry. Each yearStudebaker has announced, higher quality, and greater value 1912 Studebaker announced" the first-six-cylinder car in the.world tinder $2,000. Since then nearly every othr manufacturer ol automobiles jias followed the. lead of Stude baker 'and reduced prices. fl3 Studebaker announced the first fow priced car with "Crown Fenders. Since then nearly every other manufacturer in the-industry has adopted Cfcown Fenders. 1914 Studebaker announced the first 7 passenger six-cylinder car under $1,500 shice then nearly every manufacturer of automobiles has again reduced the prices. .191 5 Studebaker announced the first 7 passenger car in the world under $1,000 and this is still the only .7-passenger-car in the world under $1,000. f 1$15 Studebaker announced the first full 50 horsepower 7-passenger Six under $1,485 and this is still the most powerful Six on the market within hundreds of dollars of its price. Since June. 1915. many manufacturers Have increased the quality to compete with Studebaker, but none have equalled Stude--baker m' value, in quality, in power, or in comfort. wthin hundreds of dollars of the Studebaker price. 1916 December. 3rd. Studebaker again announced a FOUR which i still the, first roujt.cruMOEft models FOUR ChaiaU $ 850 . FQUR Roadster . . - ' . 330 FOUR Tourinr Car - . . 940 FOUR Every-Weather Car . - J 140 FOUR Landau Roadster ... 1150 All Price P: O. B. PrtA. and only four cylinder 40 horsepower 7-passenger carunder .$1,000. Studebalfer again announced a six which is still the first and only "50 horsepower 7 passenger six cylinder car under $1,450. And Furthermore Studebaker Announced in the Series' 18 still greater value, still more refinements, still more luxurious comfort, making it still more difficult for any corn petitor in this country"tb' compete in value, quality, or price, with Studebaker. When the Series 16 Studebaker cars were announced June 26th, 1915, and the Series 17 Studebaker cars January 1st, 1916. they were the highest exponents of .motor car power, value, comfort and quality, ever of fered by the automobile industry at any where near the price1; but1 since June 26th, 1915, nearly 100,000 of the Series 16 and the Series 17 cars haVe been sold and placed in the hands of owners in every part of the world. These cars have been tested, under every"conceivable condition of service and where any improvements of any kind could lit made, they have been made. And with these "improvements, many of which are in unobscrvable detail, Stude baker -engineers havelrefined the Studebaker Series IS car into a product which they be lieve wilt give the owner of a car as nearty perfect satisfaction as. any motor car in the world can .give. The Series 18 Studebaker 1 an evolution developed from the broad experience of act- THe StudeBaker Corporation of America . Wholesale Oaly Chapmaa and Alder Street Oregon Motor Car Co RETAILERS. flMM Braaws Pars; aad Darla St. ual 'serVice which is the highest criterion of automobile design and any Series 18 Stude baker j'ou buy has been . refined and im proved to "stand up" and "give service ia any part of the country, "no matter .whero you want to use it.' There is greater value, dollar for dollar, rn both the Series IS FOUR and SIX, not only over any other, Studebaker car ever an nounced before, but over, any other car ever offered the public" "by any other company within hundreds of dollars of the Stude baker price. The greater value offeccd by Studcbakc? is made poesihle: Because of Studebakers greater fac tory facilities, more experienced man- ufacturing organization, greater buy ing power; Because of Studebaker's time estab . lished sales organization and distribu tion facilities built up on world-wide goodwill; Because' Studebaker manufactures most of Us own parts, and therefore, is able to effecta still greater saving for its customers, by eliminating the middleman's profit, and at-, the same i time it is also able to give the public higher quality, because it. can manu facture every vital part of the caf with uniform excellence. And finally it is the sum-of these advan tages which makes Studebaker the largest producer .of high grade; medium priced .automobiles in the.worlda 41X.CYL1MDCR MODELS SIX Chassis - SIX Roadster ' SIX Touring Car - - -SIX Landau Roadster SIX Every. Weather Car. ' SIX Touring Sedan SIX Coupo - - - . SIX .Limousina All Price T. O. 8. Detroit. 1170 1180 1350 1X80 170O 1750 2600 GUIDES TO ORGANIZE 500 High School Boys to Take N. E. A. Visitors Over City. SCHOLARS TO BE TRAINED "Know Portland Is S logan Com mittee to Go to Kansas City to IStd Superintendents to the . Convention in July. Five hundred high school boys of Portland will ba recruited at once into a regiment of cruides for aervice during the National Education Association con vention here next July. These guides will be trained so as to give the mail mum aervlce to the city's visitors during the convention and It will be their duty to- escort convention delegates to any part of tha city they " desire to reach. Professor F. S. Ball, principal of Franklin High School, is chairman of the committee on snides and he has plana that caU for an efficient organi zation. He will prepare a list of ques tions and answers giving complete in formation about Portland that will be printed in the School Bulletin. This will serve as a basis to drill the guides. Imaginary trips about the city will be taken by- the guides under the dlrec tion of Professor BalL. who will use this method of Instruction in drilling the boys. "Know Portland is to be the slogan of the campaign. Professor Ball reported his plans last night to the executive committee la C&fcrt t th Rational Education As sociation convention, which met at the Chamber of Commerce. R. Alderman, City Superintendent of Schools, presided. A strong delegation from the Pacific Northwest will go to the meeting of the department of superintendents of the National Education Association.' at Kansas City February 26 to March 8. Superintendent Alderman and two others yet to be named will attend from Portland. J. Ju ChurchilL State Su perintendent of Public Instruction, Salem: C. E. Beach, City Superintendent of Tacoma, Wash.: Frank B. Cooper, City Superintendent at Seattle, Wash., and Dr. Frederick B. Bolton, of the University of Washington, Seattle, are among those who will attend, and others. In addition to railroad repre sentatives, will Invade the Kansas City gathering with a warm invitation for all there to come to Portland In July. A reception will be held by the North west delegation and some Oregon prod uct, presumably loganberry Juice, will be served. The xecutlver committee will prepare a souvenir for distribution at the superintendents' meeting. It was reported to the meeting: last night that many hotel reservations are already pouring In for tho July conven tion fro many parts of the country. Among the reservations that have ar rived is the request of Miss Frances B. Hardin, of Chicago, president of the Teachers" League of America, for space as headquarters for that body, ill 68 Hardin will bring a delegation with her. Guard Who Died on Border Buried. NEWPORT. Or.. Jan. SO. (Special.) The body of Private Edison Tavenner. Battery D. Sixth Fjeld Artillery, reached Newport and was buried here today nnder the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, Woman's Relief Corps and Spanish War Veterans. Young Tavetmer, who was 18 years old last May. left Newport last December at the call for volunteers and enlisted with the Idaho volunteers at Boise. He served at the Mexican border near Nosales, Ariz. Several weeks aro he was Utken ill and died January 25 of pneumonia. He was the eldest eon of Mr. and Mra William Tavenner, of this city, and leaves, besides his parents, throa brothers and tour Blgtera, TROOP FETE IS PLANNED BATTER V A AUXILIARY ARRANG ING WELCOME. of courC. and alimony of 75 a month agreed upon. They were married in 1911 and have two children. Kather ine, aged 4, and Jacqueline, aged 3. Governor and Legislative Committee May Be Asked, and Civic Demon. stratlon Ia Proposed. Plans for the welcome home of the Oregon troops soon to be returned from the Mexican border were dis cussed last night at a meeting of Bat tery A Auxiliary, held at the home of Miss Gallup, 806iji Belmont street. Mrs. Eva Patterson, president of the organi zation, presided. It was decided to co-operate to the fullest extent with the Troop A Auxil iary in perfecting' arrangements for a big reception to the troops, and the wish was expressed that the welcome take on the nature of a civic demon stration. It was suggested that the Governor, a committee from the Legislature, as well as county and city officials, par tlclpate with citizens generally In greet ing the men. It was thought likely that a big dinner for tho men will be arranged that will be followed' by a reception and dance. It will-also be asked, probably, that the streets be decorated in a suitable way, and It Is hoped that if the men's equipment is available a street parade will be held. The committee named to co-operate with Troop A Auxiliary and to prepare detailed clans follows: Mrs. Eva Pat terson. Charles J. SchnabeU Miss Mary Howaton, L. L. Reist and J. A. Wright. Mrs. John W. Hunt Asks Divorce. John W. Hunt, a well-known com mission man. is sued for divorce by Mrs. Louise R. Hunt in an action filed In the Circuit Court yesterday. Cruel treatment, including a habit of going out fop-the evening and staying out all night. 13 alleged in the complaint. Property rlibu bav been uttled out PAIR FREED FROM BLAME Supreme Court Acquits Bond Couple In Xorris Affair. BEND, Or.. Jan. SO. Special.) John Collins and Ethel Howell, of Bend, who were indicted with Dr. E. Rea Norris in the Fall of 1915 tor their alleged part In the Norrts affair with Klda Bell, of Turaalo. for which he was con victed and served a sentence In tha State Penitentiary, have obtained a de cision in their favor in the Supreme Court, according to word received hero today. The refusal of Judge Duffy to give a directed verdict in favor of the de fendants is held to have been an error. The two defendants were with Norris od the Bell girl on the trip when the acts occurred for which Norris was found guilty, but the Supreme Court holds that they were not parties in the words of the statute. Western Siberia needs manufactured pood.. Dr. Kerdlaaad KIbsi a New York City phyalrlaa and author, aarsi "There caa be ao stron-. rlgorom, Iron mem aor beautiful, healthy, ro"y-f-herked womra Ti-tthout Iroa. Nnxated Iron taken three times per day after meals v ill la crease the stressta sad eadoraaee of weak, nervou. ron-dowa folks SOO prr rrt ta tivo netki' time ta many Inst an res. Avoid the old lirrni of metallle Iroa which may Injure the teeth and corrode the Momach. and thereby do more harm thaa a;od- Take oaly organle lien Sunled Iroa." It la dlspeased la this city by Owl Drue Co, and adl soad drugslats.