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Newspaper Page TextVOL. LVIII. XO. 18.:JI2 Kntrd t Portland (Orc(on) pnto'f'rf a Pnr'd Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT SAID TO FOOD COST TO DROP IS REDS CALL WORKERS OF MILLS TO ARMS OVERTHROW OF TROOPS BY STRIKERS ASKED E PROFITEER DRIVE TO BE LAUNCHED SOON UNDERSTANDING NGULFED EX-OREGON WOMAN DBOtMLME Death of Former Mrs. G. L. Baker Probed. . SOON, HOOVER SAYS E HELD GREAT NEED DECREASE WITHIN MONTH PREDICTED AT LCXCHEOX. LIVES OF CHIEF JUSTICE AND PROSECUTORS THREATENED. ANONYMOUS HANDBILLS CIK CULATED AT GARY. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OTJTLLNIXG PLAXS. IS EH LESION 1 S MAELSTROM Partial Paralysis of Face Is Reported. DOCTORS AROUSING STORM Charges Made That Physi cians Are Concealing Facts. BULLETINS ARE MEAGER Senator Moses Describes Condition ol President, but Draws Anger of Medical Men. r OREUONIAN N.EWS B U RE;A U. Washington. Oct. 1J. Rumors as to President Wilson's condition supplant ed all other discussion today as a re sult of the publication of Senator Moses' letter to a constituent saying that Mr. Wilson suffered a cerebral lesion either at Pueblo. Colo., or Just afterward, which bad caused a slight facial paralysis. The president's physicians came in for much criticism, the charge being that they have been withholding facts from the public. Further comment was aroused when this afternoon's While House statement failed to deny the specific reports that have been the subject of gossip for more than ten days in Washington. . PhyalrtaBa Affiwi at Hldiag Facta. If the statement given out today is correct, one report which was current In the earlier stage of the president's illness would appear to be without foundation. This report was that Mr. Wilson was suffering from cerebral arterial achlerosls and that his con dition was almost identical with that which caused the death of Governor Ernest Lister of Washington. It was partly In refutation of this rumor, doubtless. :hat today's medi cal statement said: "Pulse and respi ration rate, heart action and blood ! pressuie are normal and have been from the onset of his nines." Several eastern newspapers. In cluding the New York. World, leading administration organ, have either In their news or editorial accused the president's physicians and attendants of not being candid with the public, insisting that the country is entitled to know ail of the truth. Pewple Satisfied. The noon edition of the Washington Times today said that the White House physicians would make a de tailed statement as to the president's condition this afternoon, taking the public fully into their confidence, and when the usual brief and evasive bul letin was Issued dissatisfaction was everywhere noted. The criticism comes mainly from the known friends of the president, men who have been In close touch with the White House ever since Mr. Wilson has been the occupant. One of these when asked this after Boon what be thought of the Moses letter, said: "You will notice that Senator Moses Is not taking back anything he said, and he doesn't have to deny it." One significant fact In connection with the president's condition is that Secretary Tumulty waa not permitted to see him from the time of his return from the west until last Friday, and such a wall haa been built about him that only one or two persons aside from the physicians and Mrs. Wilson know exactly the degree of his ill ness. ff "" ttrfm Admits Daager. One of his physicians admitted sev eral days ago that there was constant fear of a blood vessel snapping, although declining to affirm or deny the report that a lesion already had occurred. In view of the pressure that is being brought to bear on the presi dent's physicians, it is expected that some action will be taken In a few days to force the summoning of Vlce Tresident Mar.-hall to discharge the duties of president. In the executive session of the sen ate committee on foreign relations Possibility of Nation Having Dig ger Supply Than it Can Use Without Export Is Cited. SAN. FRANCISCO. Oct. IS. Food prices should begin to drop within a month. Herbert C. Hoover told a luncheon gathering -of Commonwealth club members here today. "The United States must be In a position, however, to sell Its surplus In Europe." he said. ' "The proper credits must be established and our efforts to stabilize Europe must be continued so that there will be a market." The possibility of the nation hav ing more foodstuffs on its hands than it could handle unless the supply go ing board shall be maintained was pointed out by Mr. Hoover. "The United States has done much for Poland," be said. "It should not desert Poland now, when that coun try is on the verge of securing a stable government, which shall be patterned after American ideals. Premier Paderewskl took many American Ideals to Poland. He is American in spirit. The foreign radi cals in the United States are not re cruited from the Poles. "Poland loves America and appreci ates what this nation did during and after the war to relieve her starva Erection of New Indus - trial Edifice Starts. CO-OPERATION PLEA MADE Clubs, Unions, Public Officials, Individuals Planning. EMPLOYERS' DUTY TOLD DART ESTATE IS $65,000 Will of Late Judge Filed for Pro bate at St. Helens. ST. HELENS. Or.. Oct. 13. (Spe clal.) The will of the late Judge James Dart has been filed for pro bate. The instrument, which was made SeDtember i. 1S18, named John H. Dart, son, and C. C. Cassatt. so in-law. as executors. The widow and four children share alike in the disposition of the estate so far aa the rentals go. Upon the death of the widow the estste is to be divided In four equal parts and the four children will receive equal shares. The estste' is valued at $65,000. of which $3000 is In cash and $10,000 in notes and mortgages. The remainder of its real estate situate In Colum bia and Multnomah counties. Improper Advertisement of Busi ness to Employes Said to Be Cause of Much Discontent. GARY CENSORSHIP DENIED General - Wood Says - Request to Press Probably Misunderstood. WASHINGTON. Oct. . 1J. Denial that a military censorship had been established at Gary. lnd.. where fed eral troops are on duty because of the steel strike, was made in a telegram received at the war department today from Major-General Wood, command ing the central department, with headquarters at Chicago. "No press. censorship has been es tablished at Gary." said the message. "Tour advice probably due to misun derstanding of a request made to rep resentatives of the press not to pub lish certain information which would tend to complicate the military situ ation at Gary." (Copyright by the Public Ledger Company. Published by Arrangement.) BY CARL ACKERMAN. Fifth Article. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. (Special.) While the Washington conference Is busily engaged In formulating a na tional Industrial and labor policy, the success of the deliberations ulti mately will depend upon the attitude of the public, business and labor in every city and town in the United States. It does not matter what pro gramme is employed by the delegates in the national capital. It -will amount to nothing unless there is individual, municipal and national co-operation and support. Much depends, of course: upon the nature of the plans for the period of readjustment to follow the signing of the peace treaty, but eVen more depends upon the chambers of com merce, labor councils, city ouici and employers. w Structure Asked. The situation today, it seems to me, after making a .wide investigation, is this: We must build In the United States a new business structure. There must be a new foundation, walls and roof. The Washington conference has an opportunity of laying the founda tion. .The public will have to build the walls to support the roof, which will have to be constructed by labor and capital. Naturally.' before we have a founda tion, the walls and roof cannot be constructed, but while preparations are being made in Washington for the foundation, the public and busi ness and labor interests of the coun try should be engaged In making their preparations for the walls and roof. How can this be accomplished? Muck Activity Seen. The answer is that in many com munities, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, plans are being made already for the superstructure of a new In dustrial edifice. It is evident that Homaj of Capitalists, Churches and Other Buildings : Are Under' Heavy Special Guards. NEW YORK. Oct. 13. Members of the bomb squad tonight were assigned to protect Bartow S. Weeks, supreme court justice: .Alexander I. Rorke, assistant district attorney,' and James J. Gcgan, detective sergeant, acting head of the squad, as the result of th finding of anarchist circulars which attack the three men and call on the workers of the steel and "every other industry': to. arm themselves. As an added precaution a special guard has been placed around public buildings, churches and the homes of prominent capitalists and public off! cials. Federal agents were co-operating with the district attorney's office and the police department in running down the authors of the manifesto, which, signed "the American anarch is tic federated commune soviet of New York," Is said by the police to be the most radical yet discovered. The circular was the first found here directly attacking individuals. Denouncing the action of the police in dispersing a mob of several thousand radicals who attempted to march up Fifth avenue last week without a per mit. it called upon Justice Weeks, now presiding at a trial in which the defendants are charged with criminal anarchy, Mr. Rorke, prosecutor at the trial, and Detective Gegan to resign their high positions," and asserts hey will have "to pay Wie price for every worker killed er wounded." HUNTERS FIRE DYNAMITE Bullet Misses Rabbit, but Sets Off Cache That Floors Two. MARSHFIELD, Or., Oct. 13. (Spe cial.) Walter Worthington and com panion while hunting rabbits Sunday on the Anson Rogers farm on Coos river saw a bunny and fired. The bul let missed the animal but penetrated a cache of $150 worth of dynamite. with surprising results to the nlmrods. Trees and other nearby articles, earth and stones were thrown hun dreds of feet into the air and Worth ington and his friend were leveled as if a German shell had exploded' in their Immediate vicinity. They were 100 feet from the dyna mite, but the force was terrific and threw them many feet. Neither was injured, however, but they have given UP bunting for. the time being, .. The explosion was heard in Marsh field, 13 miles from the scene. Three Steel Plants In Chicago Bis iricts Reopened; Steps Taken to Prevent Disorder. tConoiuded on Page 4, Column 8.) COLORADO TO BE SUED New Mexico Authorized to Start Action About Boundary. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The su preme court today granted the per mission to New Mexico to file suit against the state of Colorado for the purpose of determining the correct ness of the present boundary between the states. The case was made returnable next yirch 1. CHICAGO, Oct. 13. Coincident with police reports that three steel plants in the Chicago district reopened to day,: word from Gary, lnd., announced the ' general distribution of anony mous handbills urging overthrow of the federal troops stationed In that city. The handbills found through out the downtown section of Gary purported to bear a "proclamation of the communist ' party of America,' but were unsigned. "Great mass meetings" were advocated as the means of usurping control. No disorders were reported from the various steel centers in the dis trict, although labor leaders were said to have distributed several hundred additional pickets in South Chicago, Gary and Indiana Harbor. Reports indicated the largest num ber of pickets gathered in the vicinity of the Wisconsin Steel company, of the International Harvester company and the Interstate .Steel & Iron com pany plants at South Chicago, both of which reopened today after three weeks of idleness. Police said ap proximately 800 men returned to work at the Wisconsin plant, where the usual force is reported to be 1000, and that 200 men resumed opera tions at the Interstate, which is said to employ 400 regularly. John Fitzpatrlck. chairman of the rational committee for organisation of steel workers, declared he did not believe more than 3 per cent of the men in the Gary plant of the IJnlted States Steel corporation had returned to work. The radical pamphlets were dis tributed as a "proclamation of the communist party of America." The heading of the proclamation was "the capitalists challenge you, workmen." The pamphlet declares that the mu nicipal government of Gary, submit ting to the control of the steel trust, had forbidden the workingmen to hold public meetings and parades and that for two weeks, the workingmen had "permitted the steel trust govern ment to trample underfoot the demo cratic rights which .they had been so often assured were the heritage of the people of this country." 'The national government, thecapi-J talist state," the pamphlet says after telling of the arrival of the troops had stepped in. The steel trust .was in danger of being beaten. To save itself it brought into the field the Instrument forged by the capitalists o uphold their system of exploita tion and oppression, the state which n spite of all Its democratic preten sions is but the physical oppression of the dictatorship of the capitalistic classes." The pamphlet concludes:' "Gather in great mass meetings. Bring to the attention of the unen lightened workers the meaning or martial law at Gary. Show them that it is not enough to strike against low wages and bad working conditions. but that the strike must be directed against capitalism. "The workers must capture the power of the state. They must wrest Battle Rages in City as Warships Bombard. MANY CIVILIANS VICTIMS Legislation Prohibiting Excessive Price Charges Will Become Effective In Short Time. Russian Northwestern Army Defeats Bolsheviks. GERMANS IN 5-DAY FIGHT (Concluded on Page 2. Column 4.) ROBBER SUSPECTS HELD Two Men and Woman at La Grande Have Weapons and Money. LA GRANDE. Or., Oct. 13. (Spe cial.) Chief of Police Christiansen is holding tw men and a woman giving names of Bill L'ndrrrood, Jim Miller and Mrs. E. McCarthy,- on tele graphic warrants as suspected par ticipants in the recent Brigham, Utah, bank robbery. Word was received 13 minutes be fore train No. 1? left yesterday morn ing, and Sheriff Warnick. Deputies McDowell. Driscoll and Railroad Of ficer Hannan were on the platform. The three arrested were well armed, and carried nearly $1600 In gold and currency. They are held pending the arrival of the Brigham sheriff. DYING SLAYER CONFESSES Man. 73. Says He Killed Wife in Ohio 25 Years Ago. MANPAN. N. D., Oct. 13. Stricken with paralysis. Albert Brooks. 72. called the state's attorney to his bed side today and confessed he had killed his wife in Columbus. Ohio. 25 years today .Senator John Sharp Williams objected to the consideration of the i ago. Poindexter resolution calling on the j According to the story told the president to furnish the senate with j state's attorney. Brooks struck his certain communications received in wife across the breast with an Iron January by the state department from i bar during a quarrel. He fled to San Dr. Paul 3. Reinsch. then minister to I Francisco, and has been traveling China, and from the American mil-1 over the country since, coming to itary and naval attaches at Pekin and j Mandan about eight months ago. Tokio. which are understood to show full details as to a conspiracy by Japan for the complete destruction of China. Senator Williams ,based his objection on the president's illness. "This action. commented Senator j Poindexter. "is to me a confession Super-Eggs Also Coming According that the presidents condition is such Doctors hold out no hope for his ; recovery. . iSUPER-CHICKEN PROMISED that he is not able to discharge the duties of his office." j WASHINGTON. Oct 13. President Wilson's condition was described as "about the same" in a bulletin issued to Boston Expert. CLEVELAND, Oct 13. Super chickens and eggs, two or three times their present size at a cost not much greater than present prices, was pre dicted today by Alton E. Brigga, Bos- tonight by Rear-Admiral Grayson. ' ton. president of the National Poultry. bis personal physician. It was added Egg and butter association, in an ad by Dr. Grayson in an Informal con- cress to the 1000 delegates attending ference with newspapermen that a ; the opening session of the 13th an gradual althougn alight improvement ' nual convention today, was being noted in the president's! Mr. Brlggs said a new type of super- condition daily. The bulletin issued tonight said: -White House. Oct, 13, 10 P. M ICeaclttdcd go Its i, Column 1, hen is being bred and in the near fu ture would reach the public, thus doing much to lower ' th cost of giving- SOME PEOPLE CAN LEARN ONLY THROUGH EXPERIENCE. I 1 ST 1 1 - ' fSSS' i I I I . Berlin Denies Attack on Letts From Rear and Says Return of Bal tic Troops Is Hindered. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 13. Allied cruisers are aiding in the defence of Riga, against German attacks, which for five days have been incessant and stubborn, according to a communica tion issued by the Lettish foreign office Sunday. Riga is being bom barded by the enemy. The situation of the Lettish troops in Riga is desperate, according to dis patches from Helsingfors. The Ger man and Russian troops at any mo ment are expected to force the pas sage of the Duna river, which sepa rates the main body of Colonel Ava-loff-Bermondt's troops from the main position of Riga. The old town of Riga and the port have been greatly damaged, it is said. Many civilians have been killed or wounded. Letts Invited to Parley. . Claiming to have checked the at tack of Lettish troops on the let flank of his forces. Colonel Avaloff Bermondt, commander of the forces of the "Russian general government has, since taking Riga, invited the Letts and Esthonians to confer with him at Mitau. The purpose of this conference is to "prevent further bloodshed and to bring about joint action against the bolshevik!." mere has been no indication of advance east of Riga by the German- Russian forces. The landing of 50,000 Lettish troops at Ltbau was a new development in operations Klong the Baltic, but- with the exception of the reference made to it by Colonel Avaloff-Bermondt, nothing is known as to the success of the movement. In the meantime, the town of Yam burg, about 75 miles southwest of Petrograd, has been taken by the Russian northwestern army. pakis, Oct. 13. Important troop movements are occurring in the direc tion of JRiga, according to a telegram received here from Basel. Esthonian troops have left Segewold for Riga. oil mues aisiant, ana Lettish rein forcements and other Esthonian de taehments are en route to Libau on board a transport for the purpose of joining Lettish forces. LONDON, Oct. 13. A wireless com munication from General Denikine to day claims further victories against the bolshevists in the direction of Orel and also in the region of Kiev. General Denikine announces the cap I turo of Ostrozhensky ' Vazhonoi (a I town which cannot be located on f I available maps) with 1500 prisoners. j The bolsheviki made an attack upon f I his army with large forces In the I . vicinity of Orel, but were unsuccess I , f ul. General Denikine captured 3000 prisoners and occupied Krovie (pos sibly Kromy, about 25 miles south west of Orel). General Denikine's forces also oc cupied the important provincial cap ital of Chernigoff, about 75 miles north of Kieff. The advance con tinues. The capture of Yamburg marks the beginning of the push by troops of the Russian northwestern i.rmy un der General Yudenitch toward Petro grad, according to a dispatch to the Dally Mail filed Saturday at Libau. General Glazenapp is reported to have taken .four complete bolshevik regi ments, 2000 other soviet troops and the entire staff of the 10th bolshevik division. His losses are reported to have been 27 killed and 150 wounded. Offensive Held Too Late. General Vladimlroff, who was main ly instrumental in organizing the of fensive, is quoted by the dispatch as saying that the German-Russian of fensive under Colonel Avaloff-Bermondt came too late to stop the ad vance of the Russian northwestern army. Lettish troops still hold the eastern part of Riga, on the right bank of.the Duna, but the position Is ob scure. Colonel Avaloff-Bermondt's troops have occupied Thorenberg, the western part of the city, and are bombbarding positions east of the river. Nothing further has been learned here regarding the reinforce ments which it was said were landed from British ships or whether Esthon ian troops are coming to the aid of the Letts. . A dispatch to the Manchester Guardian from Berlin reports that the Russo-German intrigue is of very long standing, an eastern adventure having been in the minds of military reactionaries in Berlin since the beginning of the year. It will be re membered, the dispatch states, that the far reaching possibility of such a measure almost tempted independent action on the part of the German armies in the east at the critical mo ment of the ratification of the peace WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. In antici pation that legislation to stop prof iteering soon will become effective, the department of-Justice is putting the final touches to Its plans for pro cedure when the new weapons are available. . Attorney-General Palmer today called a meeting of the conferees who took the cost of living problem under advisement nearly three months ago. Secretaries Glass, Houston and Wil son, Chairman Murdock and W. B. Colver of the federal trade commls sfon, Director-General Hines, Assist ant Attorney-General Ames, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Leffing wen and H. E. FIgg, assistant to Judge Ames, were present. After a review of the progress made so far, which was said to be very gratifying, considering that none of the laws requested of congress was placed on the statute books, the con ference discussed new steps to be taken when the "real campaign" Is started. Officials declined to indicate what they had in mind, but it is known that Attorney-General Palmer is prepared to proceed vigorously in a number of individual cases. Another conference is to be held later in the week, when Secretaries Baker and Daniels are expected to attend and to advise concerning the release of surplus foodstuffs still held by the military departments of the government. Secretary Baker to day canceled instructions for tl.e dis tribution of sugar held by the army on learning that the supply was available for only two and one-half months in advance. Planning to take the public into his confidence concerning action against the. cost of living, Attorney-General Palmer will make a number of trips into adjoining states beginning the latter art of this month. HUSBAND PUT UNDER ARREST Seattle Police Hold That Drowning Is Suspicious. WOMAN DRAGGED DOWN Clothes Are Caught in Propeller and All Erforts at Rescue Are Futile; Body Not Found. GENERAL BARRY RETIRED Commander of Army Eastern De partment Reaches 64th Year. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Major-Gen eral Thomas H. Barry, commander of the army department of the east, was today at noon automatically retired from the service by the reason of age having reached his 64th birthday. . - He will-retire to private life, and pending the appointment of his suc cessor, Brigadier-General Charles J. Bailey, who has been stationed a Fort Toten, will command the depart merit of the east. P0INCARE SIGNS TREATY Action of French President lor- mally Ends Slate of War. PARIS. Oct. 14. (Havas.) The journal Officiel announces this morn ing the signing by President Poincare of the document ratifying the peace treaty with Germany. Other acts signed at Versailles June 28 are to be deposited in the foreign office in accordance with the final clauses of the peace treaty, thereby ending the state of war. CANADIANS GIVE THANKS National Holiday Is Observed Throughout Dominion. MONTREAL. Oct. 13. Canada cele brated Thanksgiving day. It was a holiday throughout the dominion. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 13. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Bertha Elinor Miller, wife of Walter B. Miller, a photographer and ex-deputy sheriff, and former wife of George L. Baker, now mayor of Portland, was drowned In Lake Washington Monday afternoon under circumstances that resulted in an in vestigation by the police and sheriff s office, after which Miller was arrested. Mrs. Miller disappeared from aboard a small launch on which she and her husband were the only passengers while Miller was working on the en gine, according to his statement to the police. The Millers had been in volved in domestic trouble for some time, the police say, and divorce ac tion has been threatened by each, though none had been filed. They were on their way across Lake Wash Ingtop. Rescue Effor's vptiv. Miller told the poll.-, cm r?,n. .: the launch slowed up mi.i ,. and Miller said he wa v.o-.r k c : when he heard a splasi . vi up he saw Mrs. Miller . i the. craft struggling ir :i ;.;:. put the boat about ai '. .!.--.....' t toward the spot whe ..; y was, he said. Her flour' her more In the path of ' the bow ran her dowi boat about again and t; she was caught under Running to the ster . Miller said he discover Miller's garinnnts were i. propeller ol the vessel. . hold of heif coat in an e f her but pulled the coat 017 of it remained fast in ti and Miller was unable t launch under way. if C' l' : iv. t its rf 'v. f.r: NDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 64 degrees; minimum, 52 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle northerly winds. Foreign. Riga engulfed' In battle. Page 1. Women In "T" work develop lacuiues, says ex-teacher. Page 10. Flume's gay life aimless comedy. Page 2. Britons launch campalen in Denair Ol league of nations, mtt National. President reported to nave oram ieBion, face partly parauu. . ... Steel arbitration ippiremu uuvmcu. page e- .... Oregonlane may yet get 01a war claims, rage 1. Domestic. Food prices will arop vunii mum. Hoover says. Page J. Reds call workers in steel mills to arms. Pn?e 1. Understanding between employer and em ploye held nation's need. Page 1. Prominent educator visions U. 8. govern ment suicide. Page 14. Soviets eye democrats as buffer. Page 4. Senator Kenyon Fays only half of steel workers speak English. Page 4. Overthrow of federal troops by strikers advocated. - Page 1. Six westbound fliers reach Presidio field. Pa . . . ShaMung provision of treaty debated in Senate. Page 3. Episcopal church breach less imminent. age o. jtCoacluded on 1'age i, Column l.J. Pacific Northwest. Mrs B E. Miller, ex-Portland woman, run over by launch, drowned. Page 1. Medford asks Portland to aid Crater Lake road movement. Page 4. Training for home negleoted, says Mrs. C. H. Castner. Page 7. Commercial and Marine. Oregon apples bring good prices at eastern auctions. Page 21. Steel ships here will be sent to Atlantic Page 20. Vile food blamed for death of sailor. Page 20. Sports. Rivers-Trambitas go should be warm one. Page 10. Irve Higginbotham is coming for visit. Page 11. Portland and Vicinity. Oregon Knights of Pythias meet here for annual convention. Page 14. Laundry strikers in temporary truce. Page 22. Roosevelt life lessons commended especially to young, 1 uoo iv. , Steamer Helps Hvtiund The boat was drifting .(tim,! M h n the steamer Atlanta m k 1... Miller explained briefly .b' happened and he was gli r ; v ,0 a point south of Klrkl . , h. ing shore Miller notified thr h. office by telephone and tl.cn. t-. , -lio.j a small launch owned and opi : i' John Huber of Musklngtv ,. t ; wth him in search of ;ri. iillloi body. Deputies and motorcycle policemen went to Kirkland at once to investi gate the circumstances. It was fol lowing this investigation and a ques tioning of Miller by Lieutenant W. B. Kent and Deputy Prosecuting At torney Patterson at police headquar ters that Miller was arrested. Miller arrived in Seattle October 8 t aboard the steamshin President onrl registered at the New Arctic hotel. Mrs. Miller arrived Wednesday and registered at the Calhoun hotel. They had been in California some months. Since Mrs. Miller's departure from Seattle she made one visit to Port land. Following that visit Miller told the police they had not lived together and his trip to Seattle was for the purpose, he declared, of filing a di vorce complaint. Reconciliation Is Attempted. George W. Miller, an automobile dealer at 715 East Fine street, a mu tual friend of the Millers, but not a relative, endeavored last' Saturday night, Walter Miller told Lieutenant Kent, -to effect a reconciliation be tween Walter Miller and his wifo. Deputies and police with grappling hooks searched for the body, but wcro unsuccessful up to a late hour. Mrs. Miller was 45 years old and was once tre wife of George L. Bsker, now mayor of Portland, and a mem ber of a pioneer Oregon family. When asked by Lieutenant Kent regarding domestic trouble, Miller de clared that he and Mrs. Miller had al ways had more or less trouble ever since they, were married. It was (.Miller's peculiar actions when found adrift in the little launch that aroused the suspicion of persons aboard the steamship Atlanta, who also notified the sheriffs office. Mil ler accepted the tragic death of his wife with little concern, they said. Later, whilo being questioned by Kent and Patterson, Miller broke down and wept bitterly. He had nothing to say when questioned after his conference with tho detective and prosecuting at torney. Wife Follows to South. Miller was at one time a photog rapher on a local newspaper and later went into commercial photography In a firm known as Curtis & Miller. Three years ago he entered employ ment under Sheriff Stringer as a dep uty and developed the county photo graph gallery maintained at the coun ty jail. He also studied and became a finger-print specialist. Several months ago Miller went to (Concluded on Page 2, Column 3.) ) m 107.2