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10 THE MORNING OREGONTAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1919. FOB SUYEfi BEGUN Ex-Convict Is Believed to Be Mrs. Freeman's Murderer. SUMMER AMUSEMENT BILLS INQUEST SET FOR TONIGHT Patrolman Sees Man Answering Snpects Description Running to Depot on Night of Crime. Police detectives yterday had un covered no new evidence tend in jr to throw additional lisrht on the brutal murder of Mm. Eunice W. Freeman at her flat. 424 Fourth street. ome time Friday. They are still convinced that Clarence Johnson, paroled convict whom Mrs. Freeman had befriended, knows of the crime and all efforts yes terday were centered on bringing about his apprehension. Photographs, together with finder print Identifications and other data are expected to arrive at police headquar ter this morn in r. and circulars will be printed Immediately and forwarded to all the larger cities of the country askina for Johnson's detention. Efforts will be made to procure fin ire r prints from the bloody piece of gas pipe w 1 1 h which Mrs. Free man was slain, but police have little hope of procuring anything of value. As num erous persons have handled the gas pipe since it was found lying beside the body late Friday afternoon, police believe It hardly possible that the original finger prints can be found Fsyrale Theory HroatH. It Is the belief of John Clark, chief Inspector, that Johnson has fled north and that he m ill be apprehended In effort to reach the Canadian border. Because of the accurate description, including the finger print identifica tion. Inspector Clark said he believed Johnson will be caught in a short time. Mrs. K. Ferris, a psychic, living at the Jefferson rooming house. Fifth and Jefferson street, told police yesterday that she had seen Johnson murder Mrs. Freeman in a vision, and that he was headed toward the Yacolt country, above Vancouver, where he would re main In hiding with a wood cutter whom he knew In that district. The police could find no one who had any knowledge of Johnson having any friends in that section, and they scouted Mrs. Ferris' psychic theory. She said he took a piece of ham and a loaf of bread from the Freeman flat when he left Friday morning, but no such articles are missing, the police Mid. Hippodrome. A BILL, of all-round excellency went XX on t the Hippodrome yesterday in which every act lays honest claim to merit. Smith and Lawrence have a capital turn. Smith saunters in to sing a bit and is interrupted by a thin, little maid attached by a rope to a hound doe in search of a bone. He finds the bone at the edite of the staee and proceeds to lie down happily and rnaw it while his owner chats affably with Smith. They talk about a lot of things. In cluding the merits and demerits of the do, and every blessed remark the girl makes provokes n riot. She has a whimsical, clever way of making- her points in dialogue, and rolls her eyes and makes faces In youthful emphasis. They close their smart, unusually natural and amusing dialogue by sing ing in excellent harmony two old-time darky plaints done in jazz. Personality pervades the Smith-Lawrence turn Another clever pair are Randolph Cray and tllnore Jackson. Elinore is smart and stunning as a motorcyclist stalled on the highway to San Fran cisco. Randolph is a handsome Dustin Farnumlsh type of cowboy, who meets her in the highway, where their casual conversation uncovers a flock of fun. The lines are exceedingly clever and amusing, and as both are good actors, the turn assumes proportions of excel lent comedy. Still another pair who offer a delight ful turn are Francis and Alexander in an epochal song and costume reue from 1776 to 1320. Both the pretty maid and her partner have good voices and their songs sparkle with newness. Thy costume the act handsomely, too. The Aloha Duo scored tremendously, a pretty brunette girl in native Ha waiian costume dances a modified native dance and rings sweetly while her part ner, a talented chap. . plays on the The Oaks. LOVERS of humorous drama have a treat in store at The Oaks this week. The Armstrong Follies company plays true to form in its latest produc tion entitled "The Nut Family." and Sunday audiences were quick to ex press appreciation. The story of the play is simple, being based on the error of an employment agency in sending a shipyard worker to a position as guard in an insane asylum. But the complications and ludicrous situations arising from this mistake are mirth-provoking. Pat Finnigan is the victim of the employment agency's error and his es capades in the home of the Nut family are presented with spirit by Billy Evans. Ed Armstrong, manager of the Follies company, takes the part of Dr. Beno, who has charge of the asylum, and Ethel Edwards that of his daughter. Nellie Beno. There is another "Nellie" in the play, nurse, who bewitchingly soothes the troubled spirits of Beno's patients, and this part is acted by Paquita Courtney. Miss Courtney has a. number of songs allotted to her, the biggest hit being "Jazzola." Antonie Spaghetti and Calamity Jane, personated respectively by Walter tarnsworrh and Grace Newton, are two interesting types of "nuts." Jane be lieves herself pretty nearly hard-boiled and goes a long way toward proving that it is no hallucination. George Rehn makes good as Edwin Boots, a nut who thinks he can act. and Esco Ives is Johnnie Wise, a woi-Shipper of the beautiful as em bodied, in the doctor's daughter. Contrary to the habit of insane asylums off the stage, all members of the Nut family are elaborately cos tumed and much special work has bei.-n SON SEEKS FATHER HE Traces Found in Portland May Lead to Reunion. BABY LEFT IN ORPHANAGE Youth' After 21 Years May Meet Par- Now Supposed to Be Wealthy California!!. ent uke-guitar. The girl also .plays, and I accomplished in the way of stage st altogether the act is decidedly pleas ing. They play native and American airs. The three pretty Morris sisters are novelty dancers whose turn is pictur esquely costumed and diverting in idea. The three Macks are comedy novelty acrobats, featuring a funny tramp chap, and another acrobat who turns somer saults by the dozen In midair. The picture is of great Interest, showing Arthur Ashley and Dorothy Green, both screen favorites. In a story of an English lord who wanted to do things a la American. It is amusing, roman tic and well told and is entitled "The American Way. tings. Numerous musical numbers are rendered by members of the cast at each performance. "The Nut Family" will be on at The Oaks all week. SIRPLIS CAXXOT BE BROKEN EUROPEAN FIRST SOLD IX LAXDS. Allies AM 1 1 Come First In Stocks of American War Goods, but All Others Want Some. Too. Mrm. Frffmaa Relative Arrlre. Fred P. Freeman, husband of the murdered woman, and from whom she had been separated for several years. arrived In rortiann yesterday from KlrbUnd. Wash. Mrs. A. A. Griffin, a daughter, arrived during the day from Olympia. They are tttaying; with the on. Cecil Freeman, with whom the murdered woman lived. It was learned yesterday that a pa trolman on a beat near the north park blocks noticed a man. answering; the description of Johnson, walking hur riedly toward the North Bank station at about 7 o'clock on the evening of the murder. At that time the patrol man did not know of the murder, and when he was told to be on the watch for a man of that description, he went In search for the person he had seen. A train left the North Bank station for the east at 7;1 o'clock that even Inc. or about theiime the patrolman saw a man answering Johnson s de script ion. IVputy Coroner Goetsch announced yesterday that an inquest will be con ducted at room 44(5. courthouse, tonight at S:3t o clock. The ramily or the murdered woman has arranged for the funeral which will be held some time tomorrow. PERSHING LEAVES PARIS Cciwrnl to Krview Italian Troop Koine Tomorrow. PARIS. Aug. 17. By the Associated Press.) Until the United States gov ernment effects arrangements for credits with the smaller allied coun tries of Kurope. it seems unlikely that faurplus war supplies in the United States can te sold in large quantise! to the cnnn"ry needing them thj most. Switzerland. Spain. Belgium ;and the Scandinavian countries are negotiat ing in Paris through C. W. Hare, di rector of sales for the United States r deparlrmnt. for some of the sup plies, but negotiations with Jugo slavia. Cxecho-Slovakla. Poland and i other countries badly needing tho gooiis appear hopeless because of lack f credits. Th-re are roughiy $!.000.000,C"0 1 worth of surplus war supplies in me United ij;&tes. -onsi.Mng of tex'iUs, tools drugs, chemicals and ir.incellar.e- cu army stores, r ranee win get an enpotturity to buy what she dis.rts. but as ytt has not formally closed the deal for the American war supplies in France. After ratification of the peace treaties the central powers, it Is be- Uevcu certain, will make offers for surplus American supplies, but tne United States will sell everytning pos sible to the allies. FARMERS FREE TO SELL Idaho Commissioner Says Govern ment Price Does Not Bind. LEWISTON. Idaho. Aug. 17. Miles Cannon, commissioner of agriculture for Idaho, has issued to the press of the state a statement to the effect that farmers have a right to contract the sale of their wheat independent of the government guarantee price. He says It is my opinion that there is no maximum or minimum price established to cover wheat; under the law any con tract made between a buyer and seller Is legal and the government in reality has made no attempt to fix a price." The commission contends that the president's proclamation fixing a guar anteed price to be paid by the govern ment was forthe Sole purpose of stimu lating production, but did not bind the producer as to a maximum or minimum at which he might contract. Placed in a Canadian foundling asy lum in infancy by a grief-erased, father and left to face life's battle among strangers, friendless and with an or phan's outlook as his only heritage, Arthur A. Wood. 21-year-old Canadian youth, soon will be reunited with the father he has never seen, but who. through the kindly offices of fate, is now living in wealth among the orange groves of Southern California. Police Inspector Craddock. as head ol the "missing persons" division of the Portland detective bureau, e fast piec ing together the scant threads of identi fication which it is expected will result shortly in the long-deferred reunion. Like a romance from the pages of fiction reads the story of which the Portland inspector is sketching, para graph by paragraph, and chapter by chapter, from facts discovered in Port land, intimately concerned with the his- TERMS OF STRIKERS GIVEN Portal to Portal 8-Hour Day Would End Cocur d'Alene AValkcyut. WALLACE. Idaho, Aug. 17. Granting of the "collar-to-collar" eight-hour day would terminate the strike of miners in the Coeur d'Alene district, which be gan Friday morning, according to statement issued Saturday by the Inter national Union of Mine, Mill and Smel ter workers. "Collar-to-collar" or por tal to portal day means pay from the time of entering the mine until the time workers leave. Recognition of the union is another demand being re sisted. Fifteen hundred miners struck and only a few are working. The only prop erty operating Is the Bunker Hill i Sullivan mine and mill. The Bunker Hill company is reported to have signed an agreement with the men. MYRTLE POINT GETS BANK New Institution Will lie Opened in About Two Weeks. PARIS. Aug. IT. General Tershing left Fans Saturday for his Visit to Home and the Italian battletleMs. He will arrive at Home Monday, where he will attend a review of troops by King MmmanuHl. letter General Pershing will present the distinguished service order to a number of Italian officer.-. King Victor Kmmanuel will entertain General Pershing at luncheon at the ijutrinal Monday. L-nter General Persh ing will visit a military camp and at niaht he will be a gu-st at a dinner riven by the minister of war. On Tuesday General Pershing will go to Trevlso. Tha pliirn Ia P-iHs mill K Ksxr.m K the American commander on Wednes- (J, S. DOCTORS MARSH FIELD. Or., Aug. 17. (Spe cial.) The security Bank of Myrtle Point wMI open in that city in about two weeks In the building occupied by the Flanagan and Bennett bank, which was amalgamated two years ago with the Bank of Myrtle Point. The new institution, which is the sec ond in the town, will be conducted by R. C. Iemant, president: N. G. . Per kins. vice-President: I M. Isuplee. cash ier. J. O. Stemmler. J. L. Lleweilen and Claude H. Giles also are directors. $326,000,000 DEBT LEFT Two Million Already Paid In War Contract Liquidation. WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. Records made public Saturday show war con tracts awaiting liquidation amount to more than 2. 000.000. 000. although su per cent or the emergency commit ments of the government have been settled. It is estimated that payments or jj-'b.ouu.uoo will be required to set tie the remainder. Operations of the army reclamation service resulted In a clear saving to me government or 6Z,Z86,000, another report showed. WHITL0CK RETURNS TO U. S. RELEASED American Tarty on Way to Fight Typhus Hold lp by Germans, COBLENZ. Aug. 17. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The contingent of 200 members of the American sanitary mis sion, which is going to Poland in an en deavor to stamp out typhus there, Sat urday boarded railway trains to con tinue its journey. The Americans had been held up in In tanning and leather. For this pur-I Germany because the military author!- SWIFT TO QUIT TANNING Company Incorporated to Take 0er Leather Interests CHICAGO. Ail. 17. Louis F. Swift. president of Swift & Co.. Saturday an nounced that it had been decided to dispose of ail of Swift & Co.' interest pose the National Leather company has been irvcorporatrd under the laws of Maine, with headquarters in Host on. Mass.. with a capital stock of $30. P00. -00. divided into 3.000.0t0 shares at the par value of $!) each. The seirrfration will be accomplished by offering these shares to the share holders of Swift & Co, each Swu't & Co. shareholder having the right to buy for cash two shares of National Leather company at $10 per share for each share of Swift A i. o. stocks he vwna of record September 10. 1519. ties refused permission to travel through Germany in motor cars. The traditional association of cats -ith old maids Is believed to have originated in the middle ages, when cats were always kept in nunneries. In the Argentine republic If a man engaged to marry hesitates beyond a reasonable time in leading his fiancee to the altar he Is heavily fined. Y. M; MEN ARE 'SEAMEN' Ir. J. K. Amlerson of The Dalles in Tarty Working Way Home. NEW YORK. Aug. 17. (Special) Four business men who sailed months ago to do Y. M. C. A. work for the army overseas have turned up at Y' headquarters in New York in the guise of one "cook's mate" and three "ordi nary seamen." Failing to get any other passage home, the quartet signed as part of the crew of a freighter and have just finished working their way h0w greatly they will please you across the Atlantic. The four mariners are Dr. J. E. An derson of Th Dalies. Or : Nls H. Nel son of Omaha. Charles H. Fleming of Beverly. Mass.. and Thomas H. Wall of Bath. S C. They returned on the freighter West ilambo. THIS WEEK TRY KRUMBLES AT OUR RISK This week you are Invited to make a thorough trial of Krumbies at our isk. Buy a 15-cent package of Krum jles from your grocer. Use the whole package if you wish, and if you are not more than pleased your grocer will refund your 15 cents without question and we will reimburse him. We couldn t ask you to buy Krum bies on this basis if we did not know The Miss Jane Addams Also Arrives From Abroad. NEW YORK. Aug. 17. Brand Whit lock. United States minister to Belgium, arrived here last night from Brest on the Holland-American liner Nieuw Am sterdam. Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, who, after going abroad to attend the In ternational Congress of Women at Zu rich, served on a Quaker mission sent to Berlin to investigate the food situa tion there, was among the arrivals. Officers and enlisted men of the A. E. F. to the number of 1879 also returned. Portugal Gets 21 German Ships. LISBON. Aug. 17. It was announced today that 21 German ship9 now In English ports will be handed over to Portueal. tory of father and son. Boy Placed In Orphanage, Twenty-one years ago Arthur Wood was born at Winnipeg, Canada. A few weeks later his mother passed out of his life. The father, frenzied with grief over the loss of his wife, without money and friends, was compelled to place the boy in an orphan asylum. The father than wandered about from city to city, seeking work at his profes sion, that of scenic artist. His travels. in 1909, brought him to Portland; where he was employed as a scenic decorator by W. Ross, 929 Thurman street. The son grew to boyhood in the foundling asylum. A an early age he was adopted by F. F. Fry, of Torontt, and he has grown to manhood bearing the name of Arthur Fry. It was not until he had reached early manhood that he had been told of his father and mother. He at once began a nation wide search for his father. Portland Police Take Hand. Learning that his father, Joseph Wood, had come to Portland several years ago, the youth wrote to the po lice department asking for aid. Inspector Craddock learned that while employed here in 1909, Mr. Wood be came acquainted with a wealthy widow who was visiting here from the east. Their marriage soon followed. A few months later they left for Southern California, where they purchased a large orange grove near Los Angeles Although the father left l'ortland nearly 10 years mko. Inspector Crad dock learned unofficially that he still resides near Los Angeles, where he is reputed to be very wealthy. The in spector has written the father and ex pects shortly to get a reply. Letter Sent By Inspector. He has written the son that his search is nearing an end, but not until definite word is received from the father will the inspector inform the youth of the results of the search. , The father is said to have made ef forts to locate his son several years ago. but clouded records at the orphan asy lum halted his efforts. He learned, it is said, that his son had been adopted by another family, but he could not learn their name, nor where they lived. After several attempts, the father is said to have given up all hope of ever seeing the boy again. Those who knew the father in Portland more than 10 years ago are said to have been familiar with this part of his history. r s i i r4 m Tr : Mrs. fjinger will give a tree Lecture- A Demonstration on Cooking in our Sixth Floor Auditorium Today at 2 P. M. Today's News for en and Bovs M New Shipment Men's Trousers $5 to $12.50 Men are coming; more and more to see the advantages and economy of having one or more extra pairs of trousers these days of higher clothing costs. This new shipment offers at very moderate prices an excellent assortment of trousers For Dress, Business and Everyday Wear All-wool serges and cassimeres, hard-wearing worsteds and heavy cheviots in plain shades and mixtures to match any coat and vest. . Sizes to fit men of all proportions 28 to 52 waist. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) 1 MA GODWIN SMASHES REDS 'THREE-FIXGERED JACK" BUSY AT LOS AXGELES. Apostle of Anti-Bolshevism Brands Outlaw Organizers as Seeking Overthrow of World. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 17. (Spe cial.) W. H. Godwin, better known as "Three-Finger Jack is here from Seat tle, where he helped break up the reds organization in the Interest of the government. He followed 487 organizers here and speaks in several factories each day. He is said to be fast smashing any hold bolshevism may have here. Since his arrival he has obtained the memberFhip bonks of more than 1400 men who have resigned from the I. W. W. after hear ing him speak. Of the 487 agitators wno nave come to Los Angeles to make trouble for the city and the United States government, but 26 are Americans," says Godwin. The remainder are Russians for the most part, witn a sprinkling or tier mans. I have the photographs of 30. nnn nf thnse mensand am locating them I all tho time. Since my work to break 5 2 Famous "Triple Sampeck Service" Suits for Boys New Shipment Just In The fact that these suits, besides having Sampeck quality and style to recommend them, can be purchased for $15 and $20, will be of great importance to everyone interested in BETTER clothes for boys at moderate prices. High-grade materials. These suits are exceptionally well tailored, with all seams interlocked and reinforced at principal points of wear. New waist-seam and belted models. All sizes, 6 to 18 years. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. (Mail Orders Filled.) Tne- Quality" Store or- Portland V i ! up this organization began I have ob tained the membership books of 29,000 misguided men. 'When I tell them what I know of bolshevism, they come on my side im mediately, especially after I bare the fact that they are lending their aid to an organization which would enslave them absolutely. "The J. W. W. to my mind is the most subtle and iniquitous effort ever made to turn the world over to rapine and murder and shackle the hands of free dom." Crops Average $1000 Acre. YAKIMA, Wash.. Aug. 17. (Special.) M. A. Chandler, owner of a 20-acre ranch in the school section, southwest of this city, says he will have 5500 boxes of apples; 2000 boxes of winter pears and 500 boxes of Bartletts. besides peaches and small amount of livestock. He estimates the returns from his crops to average about $1000 an acre. Portland Boys Captured. ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 17. (Special.) Em 11 Jossi and Kenneth Jenkins, run away boys, who left tnelr homes in Portland the first of the week, were caught here Friday by Chief of Police Dave Shambrook. After communicat ing with the parents the boys were sent home ployes. in charge of railway em- EXPORT BILL APPROVED Measure Authorizes Creation of Cor porations for Financing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Senator Edge's bill authorizing the creation of corporations for financing American export trade in Europe was approved Saturday by Secretary Glass in a letter sent to the New Jersey senator. Senator Edge expects to get tho measure before the senate this week. Salem Finns Adopt 18-Hour Week. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 17. (Special.) Feveral Salem manufacturing concerns, among them the Thomas B. Kay wool en mill, have already adopted the 48 hour w(k for women, as recommended by the Oregon industrial welfare com mission at a recent conference in Port land. There are several plants in Salem employing a large number of women and the shorter work day has met with favor her. war taught us bow to make Krumbies 100 per cent better by creating a blend of choice cereals that is really most delicious and appetizing. Everybody likes Krumbies. They are made in tne same Dig Kitchens that produce Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes this fact is a guarantee of Duality. Buy your money-back trial package of Krumbies today. Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., Battle Creek Mich. Adv. HURKYK TEA FUr mmi t4 hvafttl CUaaat A Dmea - ParltaMS ii!iiilll!IiI!III!IIIlIIHI!l!liill!l!lll!l!llllllli!il!!i!l!IIIIIilll!llllll!li!!!l!!!i H The Bank of California I National Association ' ' Founded in 1864 H HEAD OFFICE: SAN FRANCISCO EE EE - Branches at EE H . PORTLAND, SEATTLE and T A COMA Conducts a general banking business. 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