VOL.. L.VIII. NO. 18,465
En tered at Portland (Oregon )
Postoffice as Second-Class Matter.
PORTLAND OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
$400,000 OFFER FOR
ELKS HOME ACCEPTED
(COPRA INDUSTRY IS
WAR INSURANCE CAN
MILWAUKIE TEACHERS
DENY STRIKE INTENT
THIRD PARTY 111
OREGON IS URGED
WEST'S BONDING PLAN
OPPOSED BY GLASS
VENUS, NOT MARS
NOW BE REINSTATED
IS ELECTROCUTED
THOUGHT
LODGE AUTHORIZES TRUSTEES
ONLY 2 PREMIUMS REQUIRED
MEM2BERS OF SCHOOL BOARD
CONFER OX SALARIES.
MXARV RECLAMATION MEAS
URE GETS SETBACK.
TO MAKE TRANSFER.
UNDER SWEET BILL.
NT OR US
in
CALLING
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Gordon Fawcett Hamby
Executed at Sing Sing.
COMPOSURE IS REMARKABLE
Criminal Record Reaches
From Pacific to Atlantic.
MESSAGE LEFT. TO YOUTH
'Xever . Start Doing Wrong,"
Advice Given, by Murderer
and Train Brigand.
Is
United States National Bank to As
sume Leases New Clubhouse
Site Not Yet Selected.
TO BE KEPT HERE
Business Men, Bankers,
Agree on Plan.
OSSIXTXG, X. T., Jan. 29. -Gordon
Fawcett Hamby, murderer, bank rob
ber andi train brigand, whose crime
record reached from coast to coast,
and culminated in the murder of two
Brooklyn bank employes in Decem
ber, 1918, was electrocuted In Sing
Sing prison tonight.
Hamby maintained to the last the
iron composure which marked his de
meanor from the hour of his arrest
in Tacoma, Wash., last June. He re
fused the offer of the Protestant and
Roman Catholic chaplains to accom
pany him to the chair, and walked to
his death unaided and with a firm
step. After he had seated himself he
turned to Warden Lawes and asked
permission to make a statement. In a
clear voice which betrayed not the
slightest emotion he said:
"I want to say that anyone who
had the misfortune, for indeed it was
a misfortune, to come in front ol
Jay B. Allan's gun, had a chance and
a good chance. That's all. Go ahead,
boys."
From the time of his trial Hamby
had insisted that his right name waa
Jay B. Allan.
Hamby epent his last day in the
death house writing letters in his cell,
reading newspapers and "talking"
with the ouija board. He expressed
relier wnen he learned that an
eleventh-hour effort to get Governor
Smith . to give him a reprieve had
failed.
nmusc Left to Youth.
When asked " what he wanted for
upper, Hamby ordered lobster salad,
of which., he ate heartily. He then
proceeded to enjoy cigars and candy
Father William E. Cashin, the Rom
an Catholic ohaplain. this "afternoon
epent a half -hour with the condemned
man, who did not actually refuse
spiritual consolation, but requested
the priest and Rev. Dr. A. N. Peterson
the Protestant ohaplain, not to accom
pany him in his walk to the chair.
When asked by Father .Cashin if
he had any message for the youth
of the country, Hamby said: "I don't
wish to appear in the light of
moralist, but you can tell them for
me never, to start doing wrong. Once
you! get started in crime you can
never stop." .-
Membership of Portland lodge No.
142, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, last night took the first step
towards acquiring a new home in Port
land, by authorizing the trustees of
the lodge to accept, the offer made
by the United States National bank
for the purchase of the Elks' lot and
building at Broadway and Stark
street.
The purchase price is $400,000, with
an agreement under which purchaser
assumes all existing leases and also
agrees to rent to Portland lodge for
two years the quarters now utilized
by the lodge for club and lodge rooms.
Thus the lodge may occupy the pres
ent quarters, if it so desires, for a pe
riod of two years.
The question of a new building site
was not finally determined at the
meeting last night. The committee
of ten men appointed by Exalted
Ruler J. J. Berg reported on three
propositions made to the lodge for
building sites.
The proposition which had the in
dorsement of the majority of this
committee was an offer of property
owned by Simon S. Benson located on
Broadway between Salmon and Main
streets. This site has been offered
to the lodge for $150,000.
The sale of the present home of
Portland lodge of Elks absolutely in
sures a new building for the organiza
tion. It is probable that definite de
cision on the building site will be
reached within 30 days.
CORPORATION TO BE FORMED
Removal of Palmolive Plant
to Be Compensated For.
P0RTLANDERS HOLD STOCK
ConTerted' Policies Are Payable in Increase "Will Be Granted: if Legal
AIR BILL SUFFERS JOLT
Proposal to Make Director Member
of Cabinet Loses.
WASHINGTON, Jar.. 29. The new
independent air department bill suf
fered its first serious alteration in
the senate today when the proposal
to make the director of the service a
cabinet officer was eliminated on
motion of Senator Smoot, republican,
of Utah." A second amendment by
the Utah senator, reducing the direc
tors' salary from $12,000 to $8000 a
year failed of action for lack of a
quorum.
Sharp opposition to the bill de
veloped during the debate. Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho, contended it
would increase air service expendi
tures and Senator-Cerry, democrat,
Rhode Island, assetd.that it would
foster red tape, while Chairman
Wadsworth of the military committee.
which reported the measure, argued
that it would increase efficiency and
cut expenditures from $50,000,000 to
$60,000,000 a year on the separate air
service.
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Company May Be Asked to Redeem
at Par Shares Now Held by
Portland Investors.
Portland will continue in the copra
oil pressing and refining business,
notwithstanding the Impending loss
of the Pacific coast plant of the Palm
olive company. This was decided at
a conference of leading business men
and financiers who met yesterday aft
ernoon at the green room of the
Chamber of Commerce, pursuant to
call of President Van Duzer. The
tentative plan outlined and which it is
proposed to have carried to comple
tion in a few days contemplates the
formation of a new corporation with
capitalization of $750,000 provided.
Plana Are Stated.
The exact detail as to the method
of financing is yet to be perfected,
but it will provide a ' fund of the
amount stated, common and preferred
stock, the latter eventually to be re
tired. Subscriptions to the capital ot
the enterprise pledged at the meeting
aggregated approximately $100,000,
with the suggestion from holders ot
preferred stock of the Palmolive com
pany that in view of the removal of
the plant of that company from this
city it should be asked to redeem that
stock at par in order that the capital
shall be invested in the new plant.
Field la l.arae.
That there is a field for this in
dustry, with a stable market demand
for the product. Is demonstrated by
numerous successful plants in vari
ous localities,' and the experience of
the Portland plant has proved the de
sirability of this location. The busi
ness men recognize the importance of
the continuation of the industry here
as furnishing return cargo for ships
that take lumber to the ports of the
Dutch East Indies. It presents an ad
vantageous traffic condition for the
movement both of the copra, from
Lamp at Death Beneficiary
Group Is Enlarged.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. Ex -service
men may reinstate their war risk
term insurance at any time before
July 1, 1920, under a new ruling of
the bureau of war risk insurance, an
nounced today by Director Cholmely
Jones. Applicants will be reinstated re
gardless of how long their policies
have lapsed, or how Ion? the ex-service
. men have been discharged, pro
vided two monthly premiums accom-
pany the application, and the appli
cant is in as good health as when his
policy was Issued.
The bureau Issued the following
statement:
"The new ruling is the most im-
Land, Labor Delegates
Convene in Salem.
'REDEMPTION OF STATE' AIM
Opinion Is Favorable; Teach
ers Hear Explanation.
There is to be no strike of the two
principals of the high and grade
schools of Milwaukie. neither of the
17 teachers, all of whom are women,
according to statements made to
members of the school board of the
district at a special meeting held last
night for the purpose of making a, re
port on proposed salary increases
sought by the staff. No definite action
was taken because the directors had
asked an Oregon City attorney for
legal advice which was not forthcom
ing un to th hour ot the session.
The advice sought toy the directors hAKMtRS. WORKERS SPEAK
is as to wnetner tney inuy icgaiiy
contract for. the expenditure of funds
not yet within the treasury, as would
be the case were they to grant im-
Radical Changes in Existing
Laws Are Advocated.
portant liberalization of war risk in- I mediate increases to the teachers, ac-
surance since the passage of the
Sweet bill and is designed for the
special benefit of service men who
failed to reinstate their insurance
prior to the new law and who have
been discharged more than 18 months.
Men who have been discharged less
than 18 months still may reinstate
their lapsed term insurance at any
time within 18 months following the
month of discharge by complying
with the same conditions.
"In announcing the new ruling Di
rector Cholmeley-Jones desires to em
phasize the fact that the war risk
term insurance may now be made
payable to any of the following new
and enlarged group of beneficiaries:
Parent, grandparent, step-parent,
wife (or husband), child, stepchild.
adopted child, grandchild, brother,
sister, half-brother, half-sister, bro
ther through adoption, sister through
adoption, stepbrother, stepsister, par
ent through adoption, uncle, aunt,
nephew, niece, brother-in-law, sister-in-law,
persons who have stood in
the relation of a parent to -the in
sured for a period of one year or more
prior to his enlistment or induction.
Self-Assessed Property Tax, Sin-
gle Commission Control, Voting
by Mail, Proposed.
cording to an explanation made by
Mrs. Pearl Wissinger, C. M. Fisch and
F. W. Birkemeier, comprising the
board, and by A. H. Zanders, clerk.
No special indications of strong hos
tility appeared at the meeting, al
though some of the teachers made In-
quiry of the board at first in rather
sharp tones as to the whys and
wherefores of the delay in granting I ers and workers to join in one great
SALEM. Or., Jan. 29. (Special.)
Addresses criticising the present po
litical parties and urging the farm-
rises voted by taxpayers at a recent
meeting.
That there never was any thought
on the part of the teachers of going
on a strike was asserted' by Mrs.
Emily Shaw, principal of the grade
school.
I am not the striking kind of
movement for the "regeneration and
purification" of the Oregon system,
featured the first day's "session of
the convention opening here today for
the consideration of a new state-wide
organization to be known as the
united land and labor party.
Otto Hartwig. president of the State
teacher," volunteered Mrs. Shaw when I Federation of Labor, was elected per-
this subject was brought up.
"We never thought of such a thing,'
chorused the long row of young
women teachers.
This seemed to relieve the tension
which up to that time had been ap
parent and later there was frank, de
tailed discussion between teachers and
directors, ending in a virtual agree
ment that, should the legal advice be
manent chairman of the convention,
and 61 delegates from almost every
section of Oregon were seated by the
committee on membership.
The tentative platform of the pro
posea new organization was out
lined by Frank Coulter, a Portland
machinist and alleged political re
former, who declared that the pres
((.Hi iinea in ureeon warn tu
Secretary of Treasury Advises Di
rect Appropriation; Xon-Taxablo
Feature Also Disapproved.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Jan. 29. (Special.) Dis
approval of the bonding plan for ob
taining a fund of $250,000,000 for re
clamation in the west was communi
cated to Senator McNary today by
Carter Glass, secretary of the treas
ury. The plan, which was carried in
the McNary bill, was worked out at
the recent conference of western gov
ernors in this city, headed by Gov
ernor Davis of Idaho. Secretary Glass'
letter was addressed to Senator Mc
Nary as chairman of the senate com
mittee on irrigation, and said:
'I regret to have to advise the com
mittee that the treasury emphatically
disapproves of the financial and bond
ing features of your bill. I urge your
committee very strongly that, if it
should be determined that the plans
provided in the bill are meritorious
and appropriation to handle the same
is recommended, that it be done by
maKing a direct appropriation of a
specification for the purpose, leaving
the secretary of the treasury to act
under the general authority conferred
upon him by congress, free to finance
the requirements of the plan from
time to time as might be found ex
pedient."
The provision that the bonds issued
under the terms of the bill should be
non-taxable also is disapproved by
the secretary, who says that would
be contrary to the best judgment of
the treasury department arrived at
during the progress of the liberty
loans.
Secretary Glass letter Is a serious
setback to the plan because the bond
ing scheme was contrived to avoid
presenting to congress the proposal
of a direct appropriation.
Scientist Comments on
Mysterious Signals.
WAR PLANET HELD LIFELESS
Message From Venus
lieved More Likely,
Be-
EARTH CONDITIONS SHOWN
VETERAN'S CAR DAMAGED
or the child or children of such per- I favorable, the board will grant an in- j tightly drawn that equality and jus.
sons, parent, granaparent, oieip-i ticc, iu ue paiu in me lunn ji a
parent, or parent through adoption of I bonus when funds are available, which
the insured's wife or husband. I will be in May or June.
War risk term insurance may bet "I am sorry that the board cannot
converted into United States govern- 1 tell you tonight that you are to be
ment insurance now or at any time granted an increase," was the open-
within five years after the end of the I ing statement of Mrs. Wissinger, pres-
war. i ldent of the board, who presided. She,
Converted insurance may now be I as the other directors, expressed
paid in a lump sum at death. If such I willingness to take favorable action,
method of payment Is designated by but all insisted they must first have
the insured.'
no
. pnilDPC ' tnl I M rl I iax.iyt:r nucsiionro our Humor
ity, a court might hold that the di
i.o oc uarrea, ana that it re-
mained for the farmers and work
ers to amalgamate their interests and
redeem the state from Its seemingly
unsat.siactory condition.
Legion Man at Montesano Finds
Spike in Mechanism.
MOXTESANO Wash.. Jan. 29.
"STILL
(Special.) For the first time since
the I. W. W. murder trial opened here
factional neutrality has been frac
tured by an overt act. Machinists
will moil with broken, battered dif
ferential cogs of F. R. Vangilder's
automobile.
Tonight Vangilder, who heads the
American Legion delegation here as
Sn HT.DrV,'a li,nt.nont awl n -
from political bossism and pre.6 .tftf.-oW . lh.ntraUa post, es
rule.' - - . - 1 . -
sayea to start nis car. 'mere ensued
Dakota I.rBiir Cited.
The non-partisan league. Mr. Coul
ter said, had worked wonders for the
redemption of Dakotaa, and the time
had arrived when Oregon should be
made a real democratic star. free
U. S. GETS BRITISH FLAG h11 the oil 18 Dressed' and of lum-
ber that is snipped in sucn large
Colonel Carl Abrams, Salem, "Hon
ored in Presentation Ceremony
quantities from the Columbia river
district. '
It is estimated that the investment
to be made will be approximately
$40,000 in land and dock facilities.
$150,000 in machinery and $300,000 in
buildings and storage, with approxi-
WINCHESTER, Va., Jan. 29. For
mal presentation was made tonight
of the original Guild Hall flag of
Winchester. Rnclanrt. tn its nnmpnake.
Winchester. Va.. as an exnression of mately-$250,000 working capital. Port
the endurine amitv and eood will of land investors have on two different
Gordon Fawcett Hamby, the high
iwayman who today expiated his
crimes In the death chair, was ar
rested in Tacoma. Wash., last June
under the" name of "Jay B. Allen,"
after killing a man there in a re
volver fight. He was later identified
as one of the .two robbers who, on
December 23, 1916, held up the East
Brooklyn Savings bank and, after
killing two of its employes, escaped
In an automobile with $13,000.
Mur Crimes Confessed.
Extradited to New York and tried
Tor this crime. Hamby stood re
vealed as a self-confessed participant
in the robbery of 13 banks and two
trains and many killings. He stead
ily refused to tell anything about his
family. He said he preferred to be
known as "Allan" and that he was
born in 1893 in Alberta, Canada, He
declared his parents were dead and
that he had two brothers whom he
had not seen for five years. He said
he was a college graduate and had
specialized in psychology.
After Hamby'8 conviction here his
attorney, against the prisoner's
wishes, appealed his case. He ob
tained "the appointment of a commis
sion to determine the bandit's sanity,
but the higher court affirmed the ver
dict and he was also found to be
"normal." He freely admitted his
crimes and said he was wanted in
Chicago, San Francisco and other
places. After the Brooklyn robbery
Hamby said he met a girl in New
York and that they went successively
to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Pittsburg, Chicago. California and
Tacoma.
"I was surprised that the California
police did not get me," he said, short
ly after being brought east. "Then
in Tacoma I got in that political row
with 'Bob' Davis and killed him. 'Bob'
was a game fellow and I'm sorry I
shot him, but I was afraid he was
going to get me. After that I was
all ready to beat, it to Shanghai,
China, and now here I am.
Brooklyn "Job" Bungled.
"I expected to get $50,000 out of
the Brooklyn 'job,' " he confided, "and
X was greatly disappointed at the lit
tle we did get. This was because my
partner did not carry out my instruc
tions. I had ordered him to jump
over the rail the minute we entered
the place, but he was an amateur and
wasted too much time. It , took him
about four minutes to pick up what
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the people of the ancient English mu
nicipality towards the hundreds of
thousands of Americans who passed
through the city on their overseas
journey to the American expeditionary
forces in France. The presentation
was made by Major-General Bethell,
military attache of the British em
bassy in Washington.
The flag was brought from Win
chester, England, by Colonel Carl
Abrams of Salem, Or., to whom it was
entrusted on the occasion of a for
mal ceremony on July 4, 1918.
occasions nnancea preierrea stock
Issues, each of $40,000, in the Palm
olive plant and its predecessors, so
that there is outstanding this $80,000
that was entirely taken here.
Portland Holding: I.erjtcr.
Other issues of preferred stock of
the corporation tnat have been floated
throughout the country have also
found some local investors, so that
the Portland holdings in the company
that has decided to ouud its new
plant at Oakland- is probably con-
Xew Yorkers Get Tliem by Parcel
Post From Binghanipton.
NEW YORK. Jan. 29. The wide
spread distribution of "kitchen stills"
with which many New Yorkers are
reported to be making ."moonshine"
beverages at home, has been traced to
Binghampton, federal prohibition
agents declared here tonight.
They said the stills, which are
crudely made of tin pans, were de
livered by parcel post.
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NOTICE TO THE Pl'BLIC,
On and after Sunday, Feb
ruary 1, 1920, the price of The
Sunday Oregonian will be lOo
for all copies sold on the
streets, news-stands, trains,
through agents or delivered by
carrier.
The price of the Daily and
Sunday delivered to one address
by carrier, through agents or
by mail remains the same, 75c
per month.
rectors, personally, must pay it, com.
mented Director Fisch.
"Yes," laughed Mrs. Wissinger. "and
my husband has already warned me
that in such case I shall have to take
in washing to pay it."
Every one joined in a hearty laugh.
"But, Mrs. Wissinger," spoke up one
of the young women teachers, "if
you were to take In washing, you
would get $6 a day, as against we
teachers' $5," and again there was
laughter.
The present minimum salary in the
Milwaukie . grades is $80 per month
and that of the high school $100. A
recent election held in the high school
building voted funds for a straight
$25 increase per employe. However,
it is pointed out by the directors, the
money does not come in until May or
June and meanwhile they feel they
must have absolute assurance of their
legal right to issue formal orders for
payment.
smashing clatter and the automo
bile failed to answer the wheel.
When Vangilder inspected the in
ner mechanism, probing with a flash
light, he drew from the mesh of
broken cogs a bridge spike.
The car had been parked on a side
street all day.
Chimney Monopolists Fined.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Brick chim
ney constructors from various parts
of the country were fined! in federal
court today a total of $18,325 for com
bination in restraint of trade..
rule.
The tentative platform, subiect to
the ratification of the convention, waa
then presented by Mr. Coulter,
follows:
Educational "we announce the fact
that the system and practice of our
educational institutions is borrowed
bodily from Germany and its inevita
ble dTift is toward the destruction of
personal initiative and Into the field
of aristocracy and special privilege.
we tnererore demand that the
schools be placed upon a real demo
cratic basis by making school boards
really representative through propor
tlonai representation, and that the
object of the schools be to teach
democracy itself rather than the Idea
to train children to be servers of
others for profit."
Econnoinlc "Tne abolition of all
taxes on the products of labor and the
raising of all revenues from the com
munity made values in land and other
natural resources.
Utility Ownership Advocated.
Will I if nwnmhin nf all n,,l.llA
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acter and based upon special privl INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWSlaa are "1uired s" '
w quire temperatures above freezing to
I prevent rigidity. So the extremely
J low temperatures on Mars, probably
1 never hieher than zero, would not
CHIEF OF POLICE IS ILL
Smallpox Affliction Xot Serious
Enough to Cause Alarm.
Diagnosis of the illness of Chief of
Police Jenkins, who has been at his
home at 641 Marguerite avenue for
several days, yesterday disclosed that
he is suffering with smallpox. His
condition is satisfactory, and not such
as to cause any alarm, it was reported.
During the chiefs absence John
Clark, chief of detectives, will serve
as head of the department.
Washington Astronomer Says There
Is Reason for Belief Wanner
. Planet Is Inhabited.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. (By the
Associated Press.) If wireless mes
sages are being received on the earth
from some other planet, as suggested
by William Marconi, it is not Mara
sending the signals, but most prob
ably Venus, says Dr. C. G. Abbott.
director of the Smithsonian astro
physical observatory and assistant
secretary of the Smithsonian institu
tion.
Dr. Abbott makes no claim that the
mysterious wireless signals do come
from another planet, but says if they
do Mans is eliminated as a possibility
because known conditions on that
planet probably would not permit the
existence of any form of living
creatures.
Mars Distant and Cold.
"In the first place," says Dr. Ab
bott, "on account of the greater dis
tance, nearly two and one-half times
less radiation from the sun reaches
Mars than reaches the earth. It la
probably nearly 100 per cent colder on
the average jn that distant planet
than on the earth. Knowing what
low temperatures occur on this earth,
in the course of the winter season,
it will readily be realised what 100
degrees colder would mean. In the
second place, even If any form of life
could withstand that degree of cold,
it is definitely known by the. investi
gations of Director Campbell of Lick
observatory that there is practically
no water vapor in the atmosphere
surrounding Mars, which fact crosses
out the possibility of that planet's
supporting any vegetation or other
form of food for living creatures.
"The "polar caps which are seen
on Mars may be either hoar frost
from the minute traces of water vapor
in the Martian atmosphere, or. what
is quite as probable, frozen carbonic
acid gas. The so-called "canals' of
Mars are non-existent except as in
definite markings according to such
telescopic observers as Barnard, Hale
and others who have observed with
great telescopes under well-nigh per
fect conditions."
Life Dtrl.rrd ImpoBKtble.
"But, it is objected, there may be
other strange forms of beings which
need no water or vegetation or heat.
This is also reduced to impossibility
by the fact that all living things are
made up largely of different com
pounds of carbon. While the stellar
spectrum shows that there is carbon
on all heavenly bodies, the chemical
tlege
"The establishment of governmental
and state lite, accident and fire in
surance Blmilar to the soldiers' and
sailors' insurance now in practice, to
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The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
50 decrees: minimum. 42 deErrees.
TODAY'S Cioudy; gentle southeasterly I allow the carbon compounas to exist.
in a condition suitaoie tor originating
JUROR MADE TO AGREE
Mob Treatment Causes Parmer to
Find Negro Slayer Guilty.
MUNKUK, l.a., Jan. 29. Because a
juryman failed to agree to a verdict
of guilty in the case of Alvin Cal
houn, negro, alleged confessed slayer
of N. E. Arnold, a young white farmer,
a mob publicly whipped the recalci
trant juror and then dipped him in
mudhole, said reports reaching here
tonight from Tallulah, where4.he trial
was held.
After his chastisement, the report
said, the mud-covered juror returned
to the jury room and agreed to a
verdict of murder in the first degree.
He then was ordered to leave town
by a delegation of citizens.
PEACE SIGNED BY SOVIET
Terms With Letvia Expected to
Follow Esthonian Agreement.
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 29. A peace
treaty between Esthonia and soviet
Russia was to be signed today, ac
cording to a Reval dispatch to the
Politiken.
The Berlingske Tidende's Helsing.
fors correspondent says the signing
of peace between Letvia and soviet
Russia is expected in a few days.
GIRLS GET SMOKING ROOM
Chicago Theater Manager Explains
"Women Drove Him to It.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29. A Chicago the
ater today announced it had opened
smoking room for women. The man.
ager said the "women drove him to
it." He said he found girls were
smoking in the washroom, the boudoir
and even in the lobby.
The women smoke more cigarettes
than the. men, the manager said.
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winds.
Foreign.
External credits held chief need of France.
Page 8.
National.
Secretary of treasury opposes international
conference credit and trade plan.
Page 6.
Farmers declared to be in favor of return
of roads to private hands. Page 2.
Venus, not Mars, signaling to earth, latest
explanations ot mysterious messages.
Page 1.
Wood-Polndexter debate plan arouses envy
of rivals for presidential nomination.
Page 4.
War Insurance can now be reinstated.
Page 1.
Secretary Glass oppose west s bonding
plan. Page 1.
Fletcher's resignation due to lack of policy.
Page 6.
Domestic
Gordon Fawcett Hamby. notorious mur
derer and ntglvwayman. electrocuted.
Page 1.
Divide excess railroad profits, says Hinea.
Page 3.
Channel for liquor sales is fixed by inter
nal revenue bureau. Page 3.
Efforts to Impeach jurors in I. W. W.
trial blocked. Page 6.
Railroads plan wage cut, charges brother
hood head. Page 2.
United States ambassador's resignation laid
to lack of definite policy toward Mex
ico. Page 6.
Socialists repudiate sabotage. Page 4.
Pacific Northwest.
Stockmen Indorse packing regulations. J
Page 5.
Third party In Oregon ia urged. Page 1.
Sport.
Oakland and Seattle ball teams lead in
Binning players for 1020. Page 16.
Portlanders box tonight In south. Page 18.
Jimmy Wilde knocks out Mike Ertle In
third round. Page 1.
Commercial and Marine.
Two hundred thousand barrels
bought by grain corporation.
Portland and Vicinity.
Copra industry to be kept here.
Expected demise of Postmaster Frank
Myers coaxes aspirants into open. Page
4.
E. U. Coburn Is fourth entry . In race for
the nomination as secretary of state.
Page 10.
One-way traffic to come op In council to
day. Page 10.
Ars couple engaged or not Is problem that
confronts Judge McCourt. Page 14.
Picketing termed "collective hold-up."
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Eiks sell clubhouse property for 1400.000.
Page 1.
Milwaukie teachers deny Intention of strik
ing. Page U "
of flour
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life.
"The plant Venus, on the other
hand, shows every condition neces
sary for maintaining life. It is nearly
the same size as the earth and is even
nearer the sun than the earth is. This
would apparently make the climate
considerably hotter on Venus, except
for the fact that the atmosphere sur
rounding Venus is continually cloudy.
This universal cloudiness, by reflect
ing the radiation from the sun, re
duces the temperature to about the
same range as that experienced here
on the earth. This cloudiness also
shows a sufficient amount of water
vapor to support vegetation and
higher forms of life on the planet
Venus.
Life on Venus Probable.
"As regards the possibility of re
ceiving wireless messages from an.
other planet, Venus at its nearest ap
proach to the earth is 25,000.000 miles
away, whereas Mars is at least 50,
000.000. "From these considerations, it may
be concluded that if any planet is try
ing to signal our earth it is Venus,
and not Mars. It can be definitely
proved that Mars is unsuited for
maintaining any form of life, while
with the conditions prevailing on
Venus there is every reason to be
lieve that the planet may be popu
lated by beings fairly similar to
ourselves."
NEW YORK, Jan. 29. Wireless
communication with Mars is "not at
all Improbable." IV- Charles P. Stein
metz, inventor and a leading author
ity on electric waves and power, de
clared tonight. He said this could
probably be done by the consolidation
of all the electric power in the coun
try into one great sending station at
the cost of about $1,000,000,000.
Lofty towers at least 1000 feet
hieh would have to be erected, ho
added, to transmit the messages to
the planet which never comes any
nearer the earth than 50.000.000 miles
and at certain periods is 250,000,000
miles away.
The inventor urited that the mys
terious wireless messages received at
the .various stations be recorded.
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