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THE arORXIXG OTIE.GOXIAX. WEDNESDAY. JTJXE 25, 1919. 6 32 WILL TRY TOWIEY Won-Partisan League Leader and Aide Ready for Case. SEPARATE HEARING DENIED Judge Holds Both Defendants Mast . Appear In Court at 'the Same Time. 3XCKSOS. Minn-, June 2t. A jury ot 11 farmers was obtained In Jackson eoanty district court late today to try President A. C Townley ot the Non Partisan league and Joseph Gilbert, a former organiser for the league, on the chart's of conspiracy to teach dis loyalty. Selection of the Jury began this morning and only a few men on the panel were challenged or dismissed for cause. Townley. who has been campaigning In North Dakota, Is expected to arrive in Jackson tomorrow. Taking of testi mony will begin tomorrow forenoon. Judge K- C Dean, ordered Townleys attorneys to have him In court Wednes day noon, saying an election campaign waa no excuse. The defense also failed to secure a separate trial for Townley. Judge Dean ruling that In a conspiracy trial, the two men indicted must be tried at the same time. Three jurors were selected at the fore noon session. The three jurors all of them farmers said they had not dis cussed the case against the two Non partisan league leaders. Townley's attorneys questioned the prospective Jurors as to whether they understood that Non-Partisan league issues were not on trial, but the case Involved only alleged acts of the two that the defendant. "Lonestar. not having been born until 1884. obviously could not have been the One Star. 16 years old. who left the Pine Kldge reservation In 1896. Garnet said be knew One Star, well and that the lad had a scar on his nose. pierced ears and an axe scar on his I forehead. Garnet testified he never I saw the defendant. "Lonestar." until I two or three days ago. and that when they spoke In the courtroom yesterday that it was in American. "He tried to talk Sioux, but I could not understand a word he said." con tinued the half-breed. "He did tell me In English that his father and mother I both were Indians." Birth Statesaeat Hade. Diets told In detail In court about I how he was persecuted from his boy hood days with the suggestion that he was an Indian, until he finally was obliged to demand an explanation from his parents. They demurred and put him off from time to time, he said, un til one night when it waa hot and he I could not sleep he overheard a conver- I sation between his foster-mother and I his father In which his birth was dis cussed. He testified that the next day and subsequently he went to his father. who reluctantly admitted that his I mother was an Indian of the Sioux tribe, but that that should make no difference, as "he waa aa good as any I other child." . Hlfitl .PRICES ANTICIPATED SO REDUCTION IX FOOD COSTS IS FORESEEN. SE SENT HHG0TT PITT 51 CI AX TESTIFIES IX RED WOOD crrr mcrder case. San Francisco Doctor Swears He Directed Girl to Defendant for Treatment. REDWOOD CITY, CaL. Jnne 14. Dr. 1". R. Jordan of San Francisco, in the trlsl here of Dr. Ephriam Northcott, of the same city, charged with the mur der of Ines Reed, an army nurse testi fied late today that he had sent Miss Reed to Dr. Northcott's offices In this county for treatment In the latter part of last February. Miss Reed's body waa found In a ra vine several miles from Dr. Northcott's sanitarium on March 8. Death, the prosecution contends, had been caused by a criminal operation. The authori ties charge her body was cast Into the ravine after she had died from the re sult of the operation. "She wrote the name and address of Dr. Northcott down on a card, and directed her minutely how to reach his offices,- r. Jordan said. Dr. Jordan testified Miss Reed had asked him to perform an operation and that he had told her he did not handle such cases and had referred her to Dr. .Northcott. President of Specialty Manufactur ers' Association Recommends Par- chases in Large Quantities. SALT LAKE CITT, June 24. Manu facturers do not anticipate any reduc tion In food prices, according to William L. Sweet, president of the American Specialty Manufacturers' association, whose address was read before the an nual convention of the National Retail Grocers' association here today. Mr. Sweet was unable to attend the conven tion and sent his paper on to be read. Mr. Sweet recommended the purchas ing by retailers In large quantities, de claring that a reduction In the sise of I stocks means curtailment of manufac- I ture and a continuance of high prices. Sunday closing of retail stores brought about considerable debate at the morn ing session of the grocers, but the con sensus of opinion seemed to be In favor I of strict observance of Sunday. F. B. Connolly, San Francisco, past president of the association, spoke during the morning session, urging a larger and more efficient organisation. Arjay Daviea, president of the Na tional Wholesale Grocers' association, was the principal speaker at the after noon session. The convention adjourned early and went in a body to baltair. bathing resort on Great Salt Lake, where a plunge and dance kept them until htte tonight. Tomorrow the dele gates will go to Ogden at noon. FAST TRAIN TRAVELS WILD Burlington Passenger Rons Five Miles Without Driver. LINCOLN, Neb, June 14. Burlington passenger train No. ( from Lincoln to Chicago ran five miles without an en gineer today, when Engineer James Edgar Johnson of Lincoln fell from the cab a inue east ot. Waverly after be tng bit by a mail crane. The train ran from Waverly to Greenwood before the engineer was missed. Fireman Karl J. Zimmerman stopped the train at Green wood and ran the engine back to Wa verly. There the eng.neer was found dead beside the tracks. Zimmerman declares that Johnson left his seat and stood on the gangway Between tne engine ana the tender. DIETZ HELD HALF INDIAN Qpfraqgd Krotn First rase.) will nul Diets' life read like a dime novel. Cesrltetsi Is Crowded. Spectators, who occupied all avail able sitting and standing room In the federal court, were weil repaid for their visit to the courtroom, for one dramatic Incident followed another in rapid succession. William White Bear, full-blooded Sioux Indian, was recalled by the gov ernment. He testified that at no time had he ever seen Diets on the Indian reservation and that he spoke only one Sioux word, "colas." meaning friend." "When did he use this word?" asked Assistant District Attorney Leavy. "Yesterday afternoon, after court ad journed. Diets came to me In the cor ridor and stuck out his band and said colas.' replied the witness. "I tried to talk with him. but he could not un derstand Tne and could say nothing else la Sioux." Dates "sowed Dlscrepanry. Another government witness who testified he had never seen Diets on the Pine Ridge reservation was Will lam Garnet, a half-breed and Inter preter for Sally Kagle Horse, who tes tified that he bad spent all of his life oa the reservation. The government ernphiPiert the fn"t SCHOOL SYSTEM ATTACKED Secular Plan Denounced as Ger-1 raanio by Catholics. ST. LOUIS, Mo.. June 24. The secular system of education in the United States was denounced as "patterning after the German Idea and as "ma terialistic" by speakers at the Catholic Educational association In annual con- I vention here today. The Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahn, president of the Catholic university at I Washington and president ot the asso ciation, declared present day education resulted from modern materialistic philosophy and that such philosophical systems had brought "Europe into ruin and misery from which it would not recover for centuries. In a paper written by Cardinal Will iam O'Connell It was declared state monopoly of education had made Prus sia what it is today. GERMANS TO SIGN FRIDAY to the actual belligerents during the I war. AH sums delivered from Austrian. Hungarian and Bulgarian reparations I will be pooled with the proceeds of the German reparations for division among the Interested states In proportion to I proved claims. This is a departure from the plan contemplated In the Gar- man Instrument, which provided for a I division according to prearranged I quotas, the original apportionment signing 55 per cent to Franca and 24 I per cent to England, the other states receiving smaller percentages. COUNCIL CONSIDERS AUSTRIA I Xext Peace Treaty and German Problems Are Taken Vp, PARIS. June 24. The council of the peace conference today received a note from the Austrian delegation protest ing against the approval in the peace terms for the liquidation or private properties in certain parts of the old Austro-Hungarlan empire. Work on the Austrian peace treaty was resumed by the council of three today. The completion of the document is desired as speedily as posaioie. I nancial experts were called before the council at today s session. The supreme blockade council met to day to decide on a date when the block ade of Germany should be lifted. One element. It is understood, favors the day when the treaty is ratified, but it Is beiieved the council will probably de cide to lift the blockade with the sign lng of the treaty. 1 tn 5 ,.YVow T , 0t wb I s 4 Yr; eV---$ VK Kt M Fellows Who Stick by You ' ''Through An says Corporal Daly In "this man's army" you form the finest of friendships, the kind that last through life. Read what Corporal William Daly, of Company M, 108th Infantry, says. He knows. He's tried it, Wouldn't you like to be one of Uncle Sam's "buddies," wearing a uniform that is honored in every, land, one of the big, clean army of regular fellows, and "sit on the top of the world"? Well, here's your chance I Read every word of this advertisement. Good Pay Foreign Service Free Education Prom JTuw York Tiibaae, Mmy 31,1919 When you're in the Army, Uncle Sam pays yoar bills food, clothing, living quarters, everything of the best quality. He furnishes medical attention, care of the teeth, all the necessaries. In addition, at the prestnt-rate of pay, yon receive $30 a month and upward all "velvet" It means money in the bank if you arejthrifty. Does your present job show you $30 a month profit? ' Our Flag flies m France, on the Rhine, in the Philippines. Porto Rico, Alaska. China, Panama, Hawaii, etc. What part, of the world would you rather see? Wherever the Flag floats, there Uncle Sam's boys will be found guarding its honor. Extra pay for service in Europe, Asia, Philippines and Alaska. This means experience most people gladly pay for. Uncle Sam pays you. And when you are in the Army, Uncle Sam offers you an education a good one. You can study almost anything, right up to college and technical subjects. You can learn a skilled trade. When you enlist, you actually go into train ing for SUCCESS in after life, laying a firm .foundation to build on. 50.01 11 II' El n m-m Wm H H al M M J Kea-oiooaea men u 30 omg to Serve in France and on the Rhine Now If you want to see the battlefields of France, and the historic Rhine which the Germans thought impassable, enlist today. You will be sent across the Atlantic to join the Army of Occupationpf the A. E. F. This is the chance of a lifetime. Many veterans are re-enlisting to go back there. You may be too late unless you act at once. . YOUR OPPORTUNITY Healthy, Oat-Door Life WILL YOU GO? In the Army, you lire mostly otrt-of-doors. Your work builds you up physically, makes you strong, healthy, alert and masterful. Skilled physicians look after you. Your military duties keep you fit. You eat well, sleep well, feel like a king an the time. Most men gain weight when in the Army, and it's all sound muscle no fat. Military life makes you courageous, builds up will power and self-control, gives you mastery over yourself. It broadens your mind, and stiffens, your backbone. It makes you the kind of chap that gets the best sort of job when your enlist ment is up. It develops confidence and leader ship. The U. S. soldier is respected everywhere, because be has the greatest government in the world behind him. His uniform is a uniform of honor. No calling builds up character and in dependence Eke the military profession. Training in a Skilled Trade Fits You for Success in Life There are thirteen branches of the service: Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Ordnance Dept., Medical Dept. (including Veterinary Corps), Coast Artillery, Signal Corps, Tank Corps, Motor Transport Corps, Air Service (in cluding Balloon Corps), Quartermaster Corps, Engineers, Construction Division. You have your choice of these branches. Each branch utilizes a number of skilled trades often a great many. These trades include surveying, auto repairing, telephone repairing, road construction, wireless telegraphy,tailoring,telegraphy witch board installation, motor mechanics (air and ground) and a great many others. YOU CAN CHOOSE WHICH OF THESE TRADES YOU WILL LEARN. Liberty and Recreation In the Army you have plenty of liberty, and lots of entertainment. You can play baseball, foot ball or other games. You go to shows, dances, movies. You meet agreeable people in K. of C, Y. M. C A., and Hostess Houses. You get acquainted with nice girls. IN FACT, YOU HAVE A BETTER TIME THAN MOST CIVILIANS. Promotion By sticking to the game, you may become a non-commissioned or commissioned officer. Men are also selected from the ranks to go to West Point; others are commissioned from the ranks. There are also the grades of corporal and sergeant in the line, and higher non-commissioned staff grades. Every promotion brings added pay. Marksmanship brings added pay. Skill at your trade. brings increased pay. Now, Men, what do you want? Call and talk it over To-day! Ask all the questions you wish. You incur not the slightest obligation by doing so. Courteous non commissioned officers on duty will cheerfully furnish information and give you printed matter to look over at home. This advertisement tells only part of the story. Get the rest to-day. United States Worcester Army Recruiting Officer Bldg., Portland, Oregon Baker, Or. Aberdeen, Wash. Centralia, Wash. The Dalles, Or. Eugene, Or. Astoria, Or. Grants Pass, Or. Salem, Or. Pendleton, Or. i BURGLAR ROBS RESIDENCE Reliable Method of Hair Care Hair la by far the most conspicuous thing about us and is probably the most aaslly damaged by bad or careless treat ment. If we are very careful In hair 'washing, ire will have virtually no balr troubles. Aa especially fine sham poo for this weather, one that brings out all the natural beauty of the hair, that dissolves and entirely removes all dandruff, exeesa oil and dirt, can easily be used at trifling expense by simply dissolving a teaspoonful of canthrox (which you can get at any druggist's) In a cup of bot water. This makes a full cup of shampoo liquid, enough so It la easy to apply It to all the hair Instead of Just the top of the head. This chemically dissolves all impurities and creates a soothing, cooling lather. Rins ing leaves the scalp spotlessly clean, oft and pliant, while the balr takes on the glossy richness of natural color, alao a flufflnesa which makes it seem saneh heavier than It la. After canthrox shampoo, arranging the hair la 4 pleas ST. AIT. . FLAG BIR.MXG IS VIOLATION Paris Peacemakers to Probe Expres sion of Hon Resentment. PARIS, June 4. Word of the burn ing of certain French battle flags by the Germans has been received here. Peace conference opinion is apparently unanimous that this is a distinct viola tion of the peace treaty. Inasmuch as CASH A.ND JEWELKY STOLEN AXD SHOT FIRED. Masked Robber Leaves Apartment Discouraged When Door Is Slammed In Face. By firing a shot to Intimidate his vic tims, a masked burglar made his escape from the home of Carl Keller, that document stipulated that the flags 595 Alnsworth avenue, after ransacking should be returned to France by Ger-I Mr. and Mrs. Keller's bedroom at 4:40 many. I a.m. yesterday. He stole ii cash and It is proDaole that a commission I small articles of Jewelry. will be appointed to consider taking! Mr. Keller reported to the police that action in the matter. I he woke up while the intruder was in th rMm. and ordered the man tn cret Presumably the foregoing refer to M, The burglar lumped Into the hall- French battle flags taken by the Ger-war- fred a hot Into the floor, and mans In the war of 1870-71. Prisoner Seeks Freedom. SPOKANE. Wash., June J4. A peti tion for a writ of habeas corpus on be half of Fred Lowrey, serving sentence In the state penitentiary at Walla Walla on a charge of criminal anarchy, was filed In the United States district court here today. Lowrey was sentenced from Pacific county in ISIS to a term ot two years in the penitentiary. Beloit College Class Gradnatca. REIHT. Wis.. June i4. Beloit col lege gave certificates to 6S graduates today. Twelve men of the class had received either American or French decorations for bravery. Justice Will lam Ren wick Rlddell of the supreme court of Ontario, Canada, delivered the commencement address. made good his escape. Mr. Keller says the burglar was five feet four inches tall, weighed about 1.0 pounds, and wore a dark suit. Ha waa armed with a nickle-plated revolver. S. P. Angell of the femerson apart ments, Williams avenue and Emerson street, reported to the police that a masked highwayman had entered his rooms and had attempted to hold him up, but had left without obtaining any thing. The robber first entered the room where Mrs. Angell and her sister slept and asked where they kept their 1 11. hi.. The women told him to go aee Mr. government pi w ' AnrelL who slept in another room. I bonds entirely paid iy wunin m ears. The hirhwavman nounded on the door. I according to a statement by W. P. G. Mr Am. 11 onened it. but slammed It ! Harding, governor of the federal re nil locltad It whan the hia-hwavman serve system, in an aaaress oeiore me thrust a revolver in his face. This Iowa Bankers- convention toaay. conduct so discouraa-ed the robber that I He termed the federal reserve the he left the apartment. I financial lire aeparimeni 01 tne wria Lra Pearl Rowder. who Uvea la the, wax. 7- . same apartments, reported that a bur glar had stolen a diamond locket, a bracelet and tS In silver from her room. Inspectors Swennes and Graves are investigating. WAREHOUSE WORK STOPS Heavy Cranberry Crops Expected In A9(oria District. ASTORIA. Or., June 24. (Special.) Work on the new warehouses for the cranberry industry at Allendale has been temporarily stopped on account of the delay by the transportation com pany to construct a spur at that point. The new warehouse is to have double the capacity of the one constructed last year, and is of the same type, namely, hollow tile and all floors of mill con struction. Especial attention is being paid to ventilation. Thia has been found to assist In the keeping quality of the fruit, and the growers are spar ing no expense to improve the quality of Clatsop cranberries. The building is two stories,' and with the warehouse room already at this point, it is possible to store 3000 barrels on each floor. A good crop is expected in thia district. BONDS PAIDJN 25 YEARS Director of Federal Reserve Sees End of U. S. Debt. FORT DODGE, la.. June ii. The DEMOCRAT POLICY FLAYED! POIJfDEXTER DENOUNCES THEIR 'VACILLATION AXD WEAKXESS Opposes Suggestion That Great Brit ain Should Be Asked to Settle Mexican Problem. NEW YORK. June 24. Senator Poin dexter, republican of Washington, told the 15th District Republican club to night the "mission of the republican party in the Immediate future is to save the republic from the process of national disintegration in progress dur ing the present administration." Denouncing "democratic vaccination and weakness" in dealing wth Mexico, Senator Poindexter said the republican party should elect a president who would fulfill the responsibilities the nation had assumed in Mexico. "The suggestion now made In ome quarters," he continued, "that Great Britain should be invited to restore ocder in Mexico should be denounced as false to our fundamental policies." Senator Poindexter advocated repeal of "the act of the democratic congress and president internationalizing the Panama canal": repudiation of "the Dromise of the democratic administra tion to haul down the American flag in the Philippine Islands"; repeal of the extraordinary powers vested in the president during the emergency; speedy redaction of war taxes; and the fram ing of a tariff bill to protect industry and maintain wages. Turning: his attention to radical agi tators, the senator said it should be the first care of a republican administra tion to stamp out of the country the propaganda of anarchy and revolution. , "The alien advocates of enforced communism and confiscation," he said, "should be returned at once and with out exception to the country whence they came." South Taeoma. Wash., and Marguerite Aldrldge. Napavlne, Wash. COMMISSION HEARINGS SET Nine Public Service Cases Ordered Vp Next Month. SALEM. Or., June 24. (Special.) Nine cases have been set for hearing by the public service commission for next month. They are: July 7, at Swiss Home, relative to station fa cilities; July 9, at Bandon, relative to electrlo rates; July 8. at Marshfield, relative to telephone rates; July 12, at Alrlie, relative to telephone rates; July 15, at Portland, relative to express service; July 18, at Astoria, relative to station facilities; July 25, at Waldport, relative to telephone service; July 29, at Boardman, relative to station fa cilities and July 29, af Irrigon, rela tive to grade crossing. Spokane Carmen Get Rise. SPOKANE, Wash., June 24. An nouncement of a new wage agreement , granting concessions to employes of the SDokane & Inland Empire railway system here was made today by officers of the local street car men o union, un der the new agreement pay to employes ranges from 39 tot 45 cents per hour. Licenses Granted at Chehalis. CHEHALIS, Wash., June 24.- Spe- lal.) Marriage licenses were grantea at Chehalis today as follows: D. Philips and Mary Glass, both of Portland, Or.; T.iovit TurnelL Yakima. WaHh., and Ragnhlld Anderson, Adna; Walter O. Robinson, Arego. Or., and Jessie Bremer, Rochester, Wash.; - Clarence Earl Fonda, Eugene, Or., and Anna Alters. Chehalis; William R. DeWolfe, WOMEN! DRY CLEAN THINGS AT HOME Try it! For a few cents you can dry clean everything. Save five to ten dollars quickly by dry cleaning everything in the home with gasoline that would be ruined by soap and water suits, coats, waists, silks, laces, gloves, shoes, furs, drap eries, rugs everything! 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