THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1019.
SENATOR JONES' AID
ASKED FOR SOLDIER
Grays Harbor Comes to De
fense of Lonnie Edwards.
TEN-YEAR SENTENCE GIVEN
Theft of AVine From Barn in Bel
gium Is Offense Abolition of
Courts-Martial Recommended.
HOQUIAM, Wash., July 28. (Spe
cial.) Exposure of what he termed a
"horrible miscarriage of justice in army
circles" was made today oy Hon. Alex
Poison, head of the 1'olson Logging
company and widely known through
out the northwest, when, acting as
presiding officer at the luncheon given
in honor of the United States Senator
Wesley L. Jones by the Hoquiam Com
mercial club, he read a report from
Attorney W. H. Abel of Montesano con
cerning the court-martial and sentence
of Lonnie Edwards of Montesano. Ac
cording to Attorney Abel's letter, Ed
wards, who served with company C,
347th M. G. B.-M., 91s"t division, is now
serving 10 years at Fort Leavenworth
federal prison, having been found guil
. ty by court-martial in France of the
theft of wine in a barn in Belgium.
Owner Is Recompensed.
Edwards, it is stated, was attached
to a company which was billeted in a
' barn in Belgium after the signing of
the armistice. The Belgian owner had
hidden a quantity of. wine in the hay,
and this was discovered by the men
during the night. They extracted 20
or 25 bottles and drank the contents.
When the owner discovered this he
complained to the officers. The of
fenders recompensed the Belgian fully
for his loss, and he refused to prose
cute, but the major in command of
the battalion insisted on court-martial
proceedings, and prosecuted Edwards
and his companions to the limit, a sen
tence of ten years being meted out.
The report read by Mr. Poison says:
rhis voung man was raised in Alon
tesano. His parents are dead. He bears
an excellent reputation. I understand
that every man in his company has
petitioned for the release of Edwards
and also Ginder, his companion.
"These men were up at the front
number of times and were under fire
often, and we hear that Kdwards, while
engaged in carrying ammunition up to
the front, had his horse shot from un
der him, but nevertheless carried on."
Senator Asked to Aid.
Addressing himself to Senator Jones,
Mr. Poison said:
"We of Grays Harbor county who
know Edwards and have known him
all these years believe the tacts as
stated by Mr. Abel to be correct, and
we ask you to interest yourself in re
lieving Edwards of this unjust and
severe sentence. We want you, upon
your return to Wash ington, to call
upon the president and seek to have
tiie executive take action to right this
great wrong. 1 am calling on the Ho
quiam Commercial club and the Aber
deen Chamber of Commerce to demand
that every United States senator and
every congressman support in having
a thorough investigation made into this
case. We must not allow our youth
to have their ideals of a great republic
tarnished to the extent where they will
figure that the u nited fetates repays
its fighting men with a brand of 'crim
inal for trivial offenses.
"We do not want the president and
the war deprtment to misunderstand
us in this petition. We are not asking
for clemency for a son of the countv
We are demanding justice for an Amer
ican who proved himself worthy of the
name, and of just tne kind that made
it possible for us to enjoy our liberty
today."
Mr. Poison concluded by suggesting
that the government pass a law abol
ishirig courts-martral by officers, re
placing this system by providing for
jury composed of men of equal rank
with the man on trial.
portant litigation, yesterday in police
court.
About four years ago "Bounce. the
family pet of the R. W. Anderson
ousehold, wandered away. For four
ears the family has mourned the pass-
ng of "Bounce" and has yearned for
his homecoming.
Two weeks ago a member of the An-
erson family saw a cat in the grocery
tore of Fred Mason. The Anderson
clan at once decided he was their long-
lost "Bounce." They demanded the re-
urn of the cat, but the Mason family
refused to give up their pet.
Mrs. Anderson then procured a
earch warrant, alleging Mr. Mason
was hiding their cat.
The Andersons and Masons and a
veterinary or two and "Bounce" were
all before Judge Kossman yesterday
The Andersons produced photographs
taken in 1913 in an effort to identify
he Mason cat as their own. The
Masons, with the aid of a veterinary.
howed that the cat they owned had
been treated for ailments before the
cat could have wandered away from
the Mason home.
Nor did "Bounce" appear to be In the
east interested when Judge Rossman
decreed him to be the property of the
Masons. Maybe he will wander over
the Anderson home to live out one
or more of his nine lives, suggested the
court as he dismissed the case.
SEA ROVER. HAS BAR LUCK
FKA'CIS DRAKE OF SEATTLE
LOSES SCHOONER IX GALE.
FIRE VIEWED IN AIRPLANE
Yakima Flyers Plainly See Dense
Smoke in Rattlesnake District.
TAKIMA, Wash., July 2S. (Special.)
Passengers; who went aloft Saturday
afternoon with Lieutenant It. P. Par
shall, the aviator who is demonstratin
aviation here, reported that they could
plainly see, some ,iu ni lies or more up
the Xaches valley, the huge cloud
snoke from the forest fire in the
Rattlesnake creek district.
No definite news was obtained here
yesterday regarding tne extent or pro
press of the fire; the last word re
garding it having been a telephone
message from Forest Supervisor Allen
as he was going to the fire. He re
ported that it appeared to be threaten
ing.
BILL IS ADVOCATED
Agitation for Special Session
of Legislature Spreads.
MAINTENANCE CLAUSE ERRS
State Must Assume Responsibility in
Order to Get Government
Appropriation.
Proposed Trip Around World Started
Four Years Ago Stopped by War.
Skipper Enlists.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28. Francis
Drake of Seattle, wno sailed into San
Francisco bay four years ago in his
little schooner Sir Francis on a pro
posed trip around the world, tells how
war in terf erred with his design and
how recently his vessel was destroyed.
From here Drake went through the
Panama canal and made his way to
Halifax, Nova Scotia. There the call
of war took him to France. Although
he was 50 years old and lame, he en-
isted with the Canadians as an artif
icer. Twice he was wounded. Follow
ing the armistice Drake was discharged
and returned to Halifax. He found his
ittle vessel and with money saved and
from his discharge, again outfitted and
started upon his return. According to
Drake his first ill-luck was in the
Carribean sea, where a storm carried
away his foremast. This was repaired
at the canal to which he made his
way.
Then everything went well until off
Salina Cruz, where a nothwester struck
the Sir Francis, blew her sails to rib
bons and carried her ashore a wreck.
Drake cached his supplies and
started to walk to Filina Cruz, 30 miles.
He carried $1000 i; a belt. Half way
he said Mexican bandits captured him,
took his money, forced him to show
them his cache and left him with no
shoes and only a singlet for clothing.
Making his way to Salina Cruz he was
arrested by Mexicans who believed him
an anti-Carranzista. They discovered
he was an American and thrust him
out. An American steamer then re
fused to take him away and he had
to beg food. The steamer Northland
took him to San Pedro, Cal. He then
came here by train, found money from
friends and continued his way to Se
attle last nicht.
SOLDIERS' MP HELD UP
iTTOEXEY-GEXERAL RULES AO
EDUCATION" MONEY READY.
Payments of Claims Before End of
Year Will Necessitate Session
of Emergency Board.
SHE HAD SUFFERED
SINCE CHILDHOOD
Big
'Bounce" Enjoys Spirited
Day in Police Court.
Legal Battle for Ilia Ownrrnhip
Arouses but Languid Interest.
SALEM, Or., July 28. (Special.)
Before any claims for administration
of the soldiers', sailors' and marines
educational aid bill can be audited by
the secretary of state, prior to January
1, l'J'20, it will be necessary for the
state emergency board to meet, ac
cording to an opinion given by Attorney-General
Brown today at the
request of Deputy Secretary of State
Sam Jvozer.
The bill, as enacted at the last ses
sion of the legislature, provides for an
appropriation equal to two-tenths of
one mill for each dollar of taxable
property in the state. This amount,
based on the valuations for 1919, will
approximate $200,000. Under the opin
ion of the attorney-general any millage
tax levy shall be available for the pur
pose for which it is intended on and
after January 1 of each year.
This means that the money can be
made available on January 1 instead
of waiting until the tax is actually
received by the state treasurer. The
attorney-general holds that the edu
cational aid bill comes within the scope
of millage tax enactments of 1915 and
1917. He also holds that because the
money to be derived from this source
cannot be made available before Janu
ary 1, warrants in payment of claims
cannot be issued until that time by the
secretary of state.
Several other legal questions con
nected with the soldiers', sailors' and
marines' educational aid act are now
before the attorney-general for interpretation.
SALEM, Or., July 28. (Special.)
An amendment correcting the main
tenance clause in the Roosevelt high
way bill and other legislation passed
by the voters of Oregon at the special
election held on June 3, is said to be
slated for consideration "in the event
Governor Olcott yields to the requests
for a special session of the state legis
lature to ratify the woman's suffrage
amendment to the federal constltu
tion. according to word brought to the
capitol today.
At the time the Roosevelt highway
measure was approved by the voters
last June, it contained a clause to the
effect that the road should be main
tained at government expense. Copies
if the results of the ballot and the
measure were later sent to Oregon's
delegation in the United States con
gress, and at a subsequent conference
in Washington, it was ascertained that
the government would refuse to match
the $2,500,000 authorized under the
provision of the local enactment until
such time a the maintenance clause
was so amended that the state would
assume full responsibility for the road
in the future.
Special trillion 1'nvorrd.
Under the governme t road aid bill
states receiveing feder-.l funds for con
struction of highways must provide for
maintenance, and in this the Oregon
legislation is defective. Because of
the fact the Oregon legislature does
not assemble until 1921. the legislators
from those counties most interested in
the Roosevelt highway project are said
to be anxious for a special session and
reports reaching here todey indicate
they are organizing with a view of
joining the suffragists in their cam
paign to call the lawmakers together
at an early date. These legislators
charge that because of the defect in
the maintenance clause, actual work
on the high way will be unnecessarily
delayed unless a remedy Is forthcom
ing at a special sesion instead of wait
ing for the regular assembly nearly
two years hence.
It was partly because of the danger
of an exteneded session and considera
tion of such legislation not connected
with hatification of the womn's suf
fage amendment that Governor Olcott,
in his recent answer to a delegaiton
of women from Portland, wade it plain
that he would not assemble the law
makers unless it was agreed that they
would waive their salary and per diem
and con fine their work to consideing
the amendment at issue. Another con
dition upon which the executive said
he would convene the legislators was
that they personally request such a
session and thereby evidence a sincere
desire to pass the ratification.
SeNHlon Is Costly.
A special session of the legislature
called by ex-Governor Frank V. Ben
son to pass a bill appropriating money
with whicht to maintain and improve
state institutions and correct errors in
several laws to the interests of the
state lasted two days and cost the
taxpayers fore than $5000.
Only one request to call a special
session of the legislature had been
received by the governor tonight, this
coming from Representative Eugene
Smith, of Multnomah county. Eastern
Oregon men here today haid sentiment
in the section is adverse to calling
a special session and that few. of the
legislators would respond unless paid
the salary and per d iem allowed by
statute. Local officials are watching
with consireable interest the attitude
of the coast legislators, for it is known
that they favor the session and will
work to that end.
Seattle Woman Gains Over
Twenty Pounds by Tak
ing Tanlac.
"For the first time In my life that
I can remember I am free from stom
ach trouble and can sit down and eat a
hearty meal without suffering after
wards' said Mrs. Ida V. LaVein. who
lives at 6049 6th Ave. X. W., Seattle.
the other day.
"Up to the time I commenced taking
Tanlac," she continued, "I had been in
bad health ever since I was a child.
I was unable to digest my food prop
erly, and every time I ate anything I
would suffer from indigestion after-!
wards. Nothing I ate seemed to do,
me a particle of good, or give me any
strength at all. As I grew older this
condition just seemed to get worse all
the time, and I finally got so low in
health and was so weak and run
down that I had to give up and take to
my bed. For over a month I was hard
ly able to move. I would often have
raging headaches that would almost
kill me, and I was so nervous that I
would lie in bed night after night and
not sleep a wink.
"That is the condition I was in when
I began taking Tanlac, and I had about
come to the conclusion that I wou Id
never find a medicine that would do
me any good. Well, I c-n truthfully
say that I commenced to feel better the
very next day after I started on Tanlac.
Why, in little or no time I was able to
get up, and I Just kept on Improving
until I am now as healthy as anybody
in Seattle. 1 just feel fine all the time
and can do all my housework without
the least trouble. I never have a
headache now, and my nerves are In
such fine condition that I sleep Just
like a child every night, and when I
wake irp in the mornings I am so nun
gry that I can hardly wait for break
fast to get ready. My stomach trou
bles are all gone, too, and, in fact, 1
am just simply enjoying perfect health.
I have gained over twenty pounds In
weight, and that proves that rr.y food
Is doing me lots of good. I certainly
have confidence In Tanlac, and never
lose an opportunity to speak a good
word for it."
Tanlac is sold in Portland by the
Owl Drug Co." Adv.
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Sale of Wall Paper i
Buy Now for Fall j
Thousands of rolls of beautiful paper on sale at special prices all this week. ff
Sale starts Tuesday morning. Be on hand. 5
Moire Ceiling
15c Double Roll
White, cream or ecru in
this popular ceiling at
about half its value. This
week only 15c.
15c
for Double Roll
of 16 yards for your
choice of 50 pretty pat
terns suitable for bed
room and kitchen.
V
arms
Tiles
Choice of 10 patterns of this washable
paper at 45c double roll. Why pay twice
that?
Oatmeal Papers
They are SO inches wide with 112 square
feet to the bolt, and the special price is EE
39c bolt. EE
this year, but dozen of automobiles,
driven by Berioim-lookintr bucks, their
tonneaus filled with tents and bedding
and dogs and children, have paused
through here. Some of the Indians
stated that they were bound for the
coast on an outinff.
TACOMA TO BID ON F
WAR DEPARTMENT STORES MAY
LOWER LIVINU COST.
Commercial Club Refi ra Request
to Submit Proposals on Car
load Shipments.
TACOMA, July 28. Following receipt
this morning of a request trom the war
department, askinc bids on huge stores
of food supplies, the city council today
took preliminary action to purchase
some of the goods for re-ale to con
sumers here. It was agreed that the
city present bids on all food offered
that can be sold here.
The communication from the war de
partment was received by the commer
cial club. It was announced that bids
will soon be received from private or
municipal organizations on 7.00.000
pounds of pork. 1.000,000 pounds of
prunes. 2i 5.000 pounds of corned beef.
1.000.000 pounds of corn meal. 200.000
pounds of flour. 150.000 pounds of bacon
and other supplies.
The fact that the goods will be of
fered in carload lots or more led the
city council to agree that the city
should try to purchase some of the
food in an effort to reduce the high
cost of living here.
Cut Out
Borders
Great assortment here as
low as 3c, 4c, 5c, 7c and up
to 15c a yard. Borders
that usually sell for much
more. -
All 50c Papers
Special at 39c
A lot of nice living; room
and dining room patterns
very special at 30c double
roll.
Handsome
Tapestries
7."c Double Koll of 16 Yards
Choice of all 85c, 90c, 95c
and $1.00 Tapestry- paper
at only 75c. Good time to
buy now.
EE Heavy Deadening Felt for house lining; special 5c yard. EE
EE Certain-teed Paints Jap-a-Lac Stains and Enamels EE
EE Mail us your order. Your money back if our selection does not please you. EE
Smith's Wall Paper House
H 10S-110 Second St. Portland Between Washington and Stark H
wheat, but the yield thin Reason will
probably po to nearly 15.000. The need
of threshing: machines will prevent the
harvest of some of the (train. Charles
Miller, of the Krankton district, unable
to fiecure a thresher, cut his 7heat crop
for hay.
The Highland V illlnir company is
rushing to completion an addition to its
plant, and will make a specially of
flour from local wheat.
Mechanic Wants Kxamlnai.on.
MAKSHFIKLD, Or., July 28. (Spe-
ber whlrh filed for permission to take
examinations being conducted here by
the state mechanics board, which will
remain In the county for a week. The
applicant s came from all fect Ions of
I he count y. The boa rd, comprising
M. I. (iraiinlnK, H. U. Kanrher and
M K. KoRRess, are holding the ex
aminations in t'ie local V. M. C. A.
headquarters.
Kiport Sale- Manager Here.
HOOD RIVKIt, Or., July (Sne-
Iclal.) uwight U Woodruff, New York
S rowers Association, after a tour of
other northwestern fruit districts, has
returned here. Mr. Woodruff will, this
week, visit in other fruit district and
then return to Now York, flopping a?
the convention of the International Ap
ple Shippers association at Milwaukee.
Alaskan I'ontot inIacil.
WASHINGTON. July CS. A resolu
tion extending for ! days the time for
the collet-tion of evidence in the Alas
kan dt-legate contested elect ion case
brought by J ams W ickersham. re
el h 1 Forty applicants were the num- and export sales mnaeer for the A ppl r Mlr n. was nnptd v the house
AUTOS REPLACING PONIES
Families of Indians Knjoy Summer
Outing In Modern Style.
HOOD RIVER, Or., August 28. (Spe
cial.) Families of Indians now partici
pate in their summer outings with as
much nonchalance as the most sophisti
cated of white cousins. The redmen
and their families travel by automobile.
In former years Indians from neigh
boring reservations, camp equipment,
baggage, squaws and papooses aboard
ambling ponies, as they wended their
way to the huckleberry fields in the
remote sections of the valley, were no
unusual sitht here.
No one has sen an Tndian pony train
HOOD RIVER HARVEST ON
Va I ley Will Have Hi ?gel Whea t
Crop Kver This Year,
HOOD RIVER, Or.. July 28. (Spe
cial.) Harvest of the Hood River val
ley's biggest wheat crop will begin this
week. Hugo Paasch, east side orchard
ist, whose 20 acres of wheat will prob
ably yield 40 bushels to the acre, has
purchased a new binder, and the valley
now has five of these machines owned
by orchardists. The valley last year
harvested almost 10,000 bushels of
I
F HE has really suffered all the ail
ments and been subjected to all the
experiences about which testimony was
offered yesterday in police court, he
certainly must be possessed of the pro
verbial nine lives.
He is a cat: a large gray, lazy-appearing
feline of male gender. And he
was the subjprt of excitabl. if nnim-
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A Beautiful Complexion
Hair And Hands
They mav be yours if you make the
Cuticura "Trio your every-day toilet
preparations- The Soap cleanses,
purines and beautifies, the Ointment
softens, soothes and heals redness,
roughness, pimples, dandruff, etc.,
the Talcum powders and perfumes.
Soap 25c. Ointment 25 ami 50c. lalcnm
2Sc Sold throughout the world. For
sample each tree address: "Cnticura Lak
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CHILD'S PATERNITY DENIED
Divorcee Sues Myrtle Point Man for
Baby's Support.
MARSHF1ELD, Or., July 2S. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Pulford. divorced wife of
S. D. Pulford of Myrtle Point, bas
brought suit in the Coos county circuit
court against Chet Huliner of the same
city, seeking compensation from the
defendant as father of her six-months-old
child. The case furnishes the big
grest sensation the county has had re
cently, for the defendant is a bachelor
and one o fthe leading business men of
Myrtle Point.
Mrs. Pulford has been divorced for
several years, and has two children
by her first husband, who has paid in
part for their support since the divorce.
The trial of the case . wil be heard
during the latter part of August or
the first of September.
Huling denies the paternity of the
baby.
DE VALERA NOT INVITED
Seattle Council Votes Down Resolu
tion of Invitation, 4 to 3.
SEATTLE. Wash., July 28. By a vote
of 4 to 3 the city council today post
poned indefinitely a resolution which,
if passed, would have invited Eamonn
de Valera, "president of the Irish re
public," to visit Seattle merely as a
citizen of Ireland to epeak on Irish
conditions.
Mr. De Valera, however, will visit
Seattle the latter part of September,
according to announcement today by
E. J. Coen. former president of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians in this
city. Coen says De Valera will make
several speeches while here.
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a word that
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store does not already have them,
send the name to us and we will
write them.
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It is a happy combination of peaches, mounds
of ice creams, fruit juices, whip cream and
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