Morning Oregonian., December 21, 1918, Page 8, Image 8

TIIE MORXIXG, OREGONIAy, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1913.
destined has passed the fourth meridian,
about half way across the Atlantic
NIGHT. SCHOOL IS WANTED
Parents Protest Discontinuance of
Franklin Classes.
Because It cost $50 an evening: for
an average attendance of four pupils,
night school at the Franklin High
school has been discontinued. -
A petition protesting the action,
signed by 50 persons, was presented to
Superintendent Grout yesterday. The
petition will be presented to the School
Board at its next meeting in January.
Teachers of the Franklin High school
have expressed the belief that the at
tendance t the night school was small
because the building was surrounded
by unimproved lots, trees and shubbery
and is not well lighted. Parents, they
say, are afraid to let their daughters
attend the schooL
GAMP LEWIS OFFICER
FACES C0UBTIV1TIAL
the field were led by Tom Woodcock,
Frank Driver, George Magill, J. R.
Ward and Jay Fowler.
RECEIVE SENTENCE
HOUSING PROBLEM SOLVED
Reed College Students Granted Free
Cse of Barracks.
With, very man In the Reed College
Students' Army Training Camp unit dis
charged, the barracks have been turned
over to the students who wish to stay
at the college, but cannot secure rooms
at the dormitory.
City School Superintendent D. A.
Grout has agreed to let all the high
school students In the city, who are to
be graduated during the latter part of
Three Days More for
Christmas Shopping!
Silver Lake Slayer Does Not
Colonel F. H. Wolven Charged
With Irregularities.
Want Legal Fight.
FAMILIES ARE RECONCILED
DENTIST UNDER ARREST
January, graduate before January 1,
1919, provided their marks are satis
factory and they wish to register at
Reed College on December 30, when a
new term will start.
Martin Swift, Prior to Arrest, Sits
Collection of Commutation for Quar
'. ters to 'Which He Has No '
Right Is Alleged.
as Member of Coroner's
Jury on Case.
MURDEHER READY TO
KALAMA. Wash., Dec. 20. (Special.)
Martin Swift, aged 44, confessed
murderer of John Gilmore, aged 40,
neighbor in the Silver Lake district.
near here last week, probably will be
sentenced Monday to life Imprisonment
In Walla Walla unless, aa rumored, his
friends attempt to make a fight for
him on the Insanity plea. This rumor
had its basis today In the arrival at the
Jail of an attorney to see Sw'ft and
talk matters over with him.
The Swift and Gilmore families liter
ally have "kissed and made up" In all
"""that those four words mean, according
to Sheriff Studebaker, who arrested
Swift, and whose Influence brought the
two families to ui agreement to "bury
the hatchet." Mrs. Swift broke down
and wept bitterly when Sheriff Stude
baker brought the two families togeth
er to make a peace pact, and declared
her husband was to blame for all the
misdeeds of himself and the Swift tarn
Uy members in their actions taken at
various times in the last 16 years
against the Gilmorea, with whom there
has been "bad blood ever since till
more beat Swift in a school election
for supervisor by only one vote.
From that time to the murder fights
were frequent affairs and Swift at one
time told his wife that "he would have
to get Gilmore sooner or later," said
Mrs. Swift to the Sheriff. She urged
her husband to forget and forgive, but
It was not in him to do so and there
was another gun play two years ago
between the men when Swift accused
Gilmore of "deliberately letting his
chickens run wild that they might
scratch up" the Swift garden. At this
time Swift pulled a revolver on Gil
more, who, being the larger and strong
er of the two men, was able to wrest
It from his adversary.
It has been revealed, outside the
written confession of Swift now in the
hands of Sheriff Studebaker, that Swift
planned for some time the murder of
last Friday and waited his chance to
"get" Gilmore in such a position as to
be unable to defend himself by fist or
weapon. It has been revealed that Gil
more was shot in the back while he
was cutting shakes in the woods not
far from his home, and then Swift ran
up to the prostrate man and fired four
other shots into head and breast.
Previous to the shooting. Swift had
told his wife that in case he ever did
"get Gilmore," he would do It without
anyone knowing anything about it and
would "cover his tracks," so she and
the authorities never would suspect.
Swift, after the shooting a week ago,
attempted to keep the story of the mur
der from his wife, but was unable to
do so, though it was through a word
inadvertently dropped by Swift's little
eon that resulted in the arrest of his
parent.
Before the arrest, however. Swift had
sat as a member on the Coroner's jury
passing on the death of Gilmore and
had been one who signed the findings
which in part read "came to his death
at the hands of persons unknown."
Swift has said he cares not to have
anyone make a fight for him, as he
wants to take "his medicine, what
ever it is."
GflRL H. GRAY RESIGNS POST
FORMER PORTLAND RAILWAY
MAN" WILL- TAKE REST.
Director-General McAdoo Accepts
Resignation as Director of
Railroad Operations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Carl R.
Gray, of Baltimore, director of the divi
sion of operation of the railroad ad
ministration, has resigned, and Director-General
McAdoo has accepted his
resignation, effective January 15, 19r9.
Mr. Gray, who formerly was president
of the Western Maryland Railroad,
said he was in need of complete rest.
In announcing the resignation to
night, Mr. McAdoo said no successor
to Mr. Gray had been appointed. Mr.
Gray resigned as president of the West
ern Maryland to take up his duties
with the Railroad Administration last
January when the railroad congestion
of last Winter had reached serious pro
portions. In his letter to Mr. Gray accepting
the resignation, Director-General Mc
Adoo said:
"You have served with such marked
ability, loyalty and patriotism, and
have rendered service of such great
value in the responsible post you have
occupied, that your resignation is a
great loss to the Railroad Administra
tion and to the country."
Carl R. Gray formerly was president
of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle, the
Oregon Electric and the Oregon Trunk,
with headquarters in Portland. He left
here seven years ago.
WIRELESS OPEN TO TROOPS
JJOTS ABOARD TRANSPORTS MAY
HEAR FROM RELATIVES.
Charges for Service Via New York
Fixed at 16 Cents a Word, In
, eluding Telegraph Tolls.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20. Relatives and
friends of soldiers returning on trans
Torts from overseas may communicate
with them by wireless and receive
answers to their messages under a
Navy Department agreement announced
here tonight by the Third Naval Dis
trict office of communication.
According to the announcement, mes
sages may be filed at any telegraph
office and will be relayed to New York,
Boston or some other Naval radio base,
where they will be flashed to the in
coming ships. Answers will come over
the same route.
Charges for the service via New York
ore 16 cents a word, including tele
graph tolls. As many of the soldiers
are without adequate funds, it has been
arranged that persons so desiring may
pay in advance for answers to be filed
en board the transports.
The only restricticn on the service,
Jt was said, is that no message will be
accepted, until the ship for which it is
ANOTHER HUN PLEA COMES
TJ. S. Again Appealed To Despite Re
cent Admonition.
WASHINGTON. Dec 20. In enlte of
Secretary Lansing's emphatic admoni
tion that such communications must
not be addressed to the United States
CAJIP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., Dec.
20. Frank H. Wolven, ranking Colonel
at Camp Lewis, was placed under ar
rest here late today by command of
Major-General Joseph D. Leitch on
charges which allege irregularity in
70,000 IDLE MEN IN BERLIN
Soldiers Begging, With Much Work
Available.
BERLIN, Dec 20. (By the Associ
ated Press). There are between 60,000
and 70,000 unemployed workmen in
Berlin. according to the Taglische
Rundschau. Of this number 7000 are
TWO WASHINGTON STATE FAMILIES, AT WAR FOR 16 YEARS, "KISS AND MAKE UP," DECIDING TO
"BURY HATCHET" AFTER FATHER AND HUSBAND OF ONE FAMILY COMMITS MURDER.
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT FIRST EIGHT ARB SWIFTS MRS. SWIFT HOLDISO BABT IX HER ARMS) MRS. GIL-
MORIS AND HER FAMILY,
alone, the German government has sent
another appeal to the American Gov
ernment for modification of the armis
tice terms and for food.
The receipt of the note was an
nounced at the State Department today
with the explanation that it would not
be made public because it did not differ
from previous appeals and was in vio
lation of the decision "that communica
tions must be addressed to all the gov
ernments associated with the United
States in the war.
SPAIN SAID TO LIKE U. S.
Spanish Premier Says He Agrees
With Wilson's 14 Points.
PARIS, Dec 20. Count Romanones,
the Spanish Premier, arrived in Paris
today. He comes for conferences with
President Wilson and representatives
of the allies.
'Ouf feelings toward America are
most friendly and most cordial," Count
Romanones said to the correspondent
of the Associated Press. "Public opin
ion throughout Spain is favorable to
the maintenance of the best relations
with America, and the feeling is that
we must do -our utmost -to make them
closer. Both the government and coun
try are entirely agreed on President
Wilson's 14 points, and are especially in
accord concerning a league of nations.
which wholly agrees with Spatiish
Ideals. Indeed, Spain does not wish to
bo the last to enter such a league."
G. 0. P. TO OPEN OFFICES
Raymond Benjamin Will Establish
Regional Headquarters.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 20. Raymond
Benjamin, chairman of the California
Republican Central Committee, re
turned tonight from New York and
Washington, to open regional head
quarters for the Republican National
Committee.
Mr. Benjamin will be in charge of the
headquarters as regional representative
of National Chairman William H. Hays.
The purpose of opening headquarters
here, Mr. Benjamin said, was to keep In
cloBe touch with the states of Califor
nia, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho
and Arizona.
Mr. Benjamin will resign from his po
sition as chief Deputy Attorney-Gen
eral of California on January 1, to re
sume his law practice
GUARDS ACT AS ANCHORS
Heavy Wind Threatens to Destroy
Military Airplane.
EUREKA, Cal., Dec. 20. (Special.)
Drenched by a heavy rain, and
chilled by a 40-mile wind, 30 members
of the 48th Company, California Mili
tary Reserves, stood all last night
holding to the earth three military bi
planes, otherwise unanchored to Hill
Field. The men, selected to guard the
planes in which .Lieutenant Harwell
and five companions made a flight to
this city from Sacramento last Wednes
day, were forced to act as anchors
when the wind lifted the planes and
threatened to destroy them against
trees at the end of the field.
The guards were relieved this morn
ing and the machines anchored.
LABOR TO OFFER PROTEST
Chicago to Stage Demonstration in
Behalf of Thomas Mooney.
CHICAGO. Dec. 20. Responses to a
call for a labor mass meeting to be held
January 14 as an international protest
against judicial and legislative action
in the case of Thomas J. Mooney and
other labor men indicated, it was said
today, that labor leaders and represent
atives of the rank and file from all
sections of the country would attend.
Mooney was convicted of murder in
connection with the San Francisco preparedness-day
bomb explosion, sen
tenced to death, and on November 29,
last, his sentence was cbmmuted to life
imprisonment by Governor Stephens, of
California. The call for the meeting
was sent out by the Chicago Federa
tion of Labor.
Phone your want ads to The Orego-
nian. Phone Main 7070, A 6095.
moneys he has received from the Gov
ernment as commutation for quarters
and -light and heat. At the same time
an order was Issued naming the person
nel for a general court-martial, ordered
to meet December 30 or as soon there
after as practicable to try Colonel
Wolven.
The charges against Colonel Wolven,
It is said, are that he collected commu
tation for quarters, fuel and light to
which he had no right under Army
regulations. Colonel Wolven, with his
family, has been living at Stonecamp,
near the military reservation, but it is
charged he drew commutation for a
house in Washington, D. C. .
Officers Are Summoned.
Colonel Wolven is a dental surgeon
and in charge of all the dental work in
camp. He has served many years in
the regular Army as a dental surgeon
and his advance has been rapid during
the pant two years. There are only
two officers here. General Deitch and
Brigadier-General Frank B. Watson,
who outrank him.
The arrest and trial of Colonel Wol
ven will be the first here of an officer
of high rank. Because of his position
as a regular Army Colonel, it was im-
possime to oDtain sunicient onicera or
equal or higher rank to try him. and
Brigadier-Generals Edward J. McClern-
and and Peter W. Davidson have been
ordered here from Camp Kearny, CaL,
to sit on the court. General McClern
and will be president of the court.
General Watson will make the third
General to sit on the case.
Members of the court will include
eight Colonels and two Lieutenant-
Colonels.
Seattle Attorney Jndgre-Advoemte.
Captain Herbert W. Meyers, a former
beattie attorney, will act as judge
advocate and prosecute the case. He
will be assisted by Lieutenant M. A.
Albee and A. G. Ludington.
Prior to coming to this camp. Colonel
Wolven had been stationed at the Pre
sidio, San Francisco, and many other
regular Army posts and forts.
The arrest of the accused officer does
not include his confinement other than
ne must not leave the military reser
vatlon or his home
LEAGUE OPERATIONS BARED
PLAN'S FOR FUTURE WORK OUT.
lilXED BEFORE COMJ1ITTEE.
metal workers. The total, the paper
says, does not Include strikers, the
number of whom varies. The walkouts
generally are of short duration.
The Vossische Zeitung refers to the
increasing number of soldiers engaged
in begging while there is much work to
be done. It complains that even the
collection of garbage is unsatisfactory
Bince war prisoners no longer do the
work.
Socialist Labor Party to Meet.
The Socialist Labor party will meet
at Alisky Hall, Third and Morrison
streets, at 8 P. M, Sunday. The sub
Ject will be "The Collapse of Capital
ism." F. G. Johns will speak. Music
Is arranged. The admission will be
free.
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Colonel Charles E. Iydeclter Sub
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During the Last Campaign. .
WASHINGTON, Dec. JO. Colonel
Charles E. Lydecker, president of the
National Security League, today told
the House committee Investigating the
organization's activities in ths last
Congressional campaign. that the
league will not cease with the ending
of the war and he outlined a preten
tious educational programme which he
said now is under consideration.
"The congressional committee which
carried on the campaign last Fall to
return 100 per cent Americans to Con
gress; will continue its work," said the
witness, "and will endeavor to accom
plish the following things:
"Establish a National budget system,
abolish rule of seniority in determin
ing chairmanships of committees of
Congress, abolish inactive committees,
pass a constitutional amendment which
will make it impossible for defeated
candidates to sit in that body, bring
ing about reform of franking abuses
and to have Cabinet officers sit in
Congress."
During a discussion of the history of
the organization. Colonel Lydecker
was asked why S. Stanwood Menken
had resigned as president of the league
last June. Colonel Lydecker replied
that after Mr. Menken had refused to
"reprobate William Randolph Hearst
for opposing certain National prepared
ness measures, both Mr. Menken and
members of the executive committee
had decided it would be better for
him to resign.
Wamlc's Standing 103 Per Cent.
WAMIC, Or., Dec. 20. (Special.)
The first day of the Red Cross Christ
mas roll call drive In Wamic ended
with the membership exceeding by 3
per cent the total number of people
above 16 years of age. Six teams In
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