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TIIE . 3I0RXIXG OREGOXIAX, . TnURSDAY. FEBRFART 1920 m m GRIP OF TESTIMONY NET Trial Disclosures Asserted to Be Important. 18 WITNESSES TESTIFY Newspaperman Declares Defendant Told Him Ud Was Off and Sky Was the Limit. nmvn RAPIDS. Mich. Feb. 4. Bits of testimony given today in the trial of Senator Truman H. Newberry and six score Michigan politicians were considered by government attor neys as important to the charge of conspiracy which they are seeKing 10 establish. James Sweinhart. head of the New Tork bureau of a Detroit newspaper, related that Frederick Cody, a de fendant, told him in New Tork the lid is off in Michigan and the sky is the limit." "Frrltcht" Guaranteed. Walter Chappelle, editor of a-coun try weekly, testified that Benjamin F. Reed, another defendant, had so licited him to become a county chair man in the Newberry organization, and told him "the freight will be paid." Practically all the '18 witnesses on the stand today testified in .the face of a general objection by the defense. The objection, overruled by the court, was that the government had failed to prove that a conspiracy existed to violate the federal election and postal laws and that therefore the individual acts of defendants could not be of fered in evidence at this stage of the iProceedings. In the cross-examination of Lyle hanahan, an attorney and one of the organizers of the Xewerry campaign committee in his county, he testified that he had received $40 from John B. Harris, chairman of the committee and one of tiie defendants. W. H. Kichorn, questioning for the govern ment, drew from Shanahan that he had used $5 of that amount to pay a challenger at the primary polls, but had not accounted for the remainder. Women Employe Testify. Introduction of testimony designed to prove its charges of conspiracy, fraud and corruption in yie election of United States Senator Newberry was made by the government. The government called several young women employes of the New berry campaign committee. They brought into the testimony the names of several defendants, but were ques tioned particularly as to the way money was handled in the office. Miss Louise B. Delameter, a steog rapher, testified she was paid by check the first week and after that bv cash. She also testified that "large quan tities" of form letters were prepared In Detroit and cent by parcel post to New York for Newberry s signa ture. The testimony of another girl served to bring out the use of Senator New berry's private office in Detroit as an adjunct to the campaign headquar ters. Commerce to fill the unexpired term of Paul C. Murphy, resigned. He was the unanimous selection of the spe cial committee of the board named to select a man. A representative of the Travelers' Protective association appeared to ask the co-operation of the chamber in the plan to raise a fund of $15,000 for the entertainment of the members of that organization who are to come to the annual convention this year. It is es timated there will e between 4000 and 5000 commercial men here at that time. The request was complied with. Several other matters were pre sented to the directors by represen tatives of civic and fraternal organ izations, which were taken under ad visement, definite action to be recom mended by the various committees at a later date. BOB " U FOLLETTE IS STORM CEWTER Plans Laid for Triumphant . Return to Power. FIELD AGAINST SENATOR COPIES OF OFFICIAL ZOXIXG BALLOT CALLED FOR. Much Discussed Circular Mailed 'Chamber Asked Pay for Printing. Xot to ' EX- IS ELSIE 1IOWEY EXPLAINS HOW SHE APPEARED INTOXICATED Woman Says She Wasn't Really, but Her ex-Spouse Made Her Taste Vile Stuff. Elsie Howey, on appeal from a mu nicipal court sentence for driving an automobile while intoxicated, ex Dlained to a jury in the court of Cir cult Judge Morrow yesterday after noon Just how It happened that the machine she was driving knocked down a gasoline pump at a filling station and why she acted as though drunk and had the smell of liquor on her breath, though she was not intox icated. It seemed that on the afternoon of the accident Jack Howey, whom she had divorced two months before, pleaded persistently with her to go with him to Vancouver and become legally bound to resume cooking the meals he so greatly missed. As he argued with her she drove him about the city in the automobile owned by her mother. She said she refused to accede to his request.- as he was slightly In toxicated, though not maudlin. . As they were about to cross the Haw thorne bridge a friend of Howey's signaled them and asked them to take him across. Mrs. Howey did not re member his name and denied that It was John Doe, but said that when he arrived at the other side of the river the stranger presented to Howey a half-pint flask of white liquor, pre sumably moonshine. Howey insisted on the machine being stopped a little later so that he could have a drink, and was determined that Mrs. Howey should drink also to steady her un strung nerves, she said. ' The liquor was vile-tasting and she spit it out, getting violently sick, she testified. That was how she hap pened to have liquor on her breath when, not long after, the machine careened into the filling station. Howey caused the accident by drunk enly grasping her arm as they were driving up to the station, she explained. Calls for copies of the official bal lot of the Chamber of Commerce on the referendum ballot being cast on the proposition for or against the zoning system yesterday indicated that the outcome of the circular printed but not mailed had aroused the Interest of business men. The members of the board of directors of the chamber having withdrawn con sent the use of their names, the cir cular was not mailed. The .rising tempest was calmed thereby, but in view of the fact that the city plan ning commission was deprived of the privilege of mailing the printed mat ter through action of a representa tive of the chamber, the body was asked to pay the printing bill incurred. While officials of the chamber were even more reticent man tne previous day in entering into any discussion of the matter, it could not be ascertained that anybody had con sented to pay the bill. Should it come to the chamber for auditing It Is probable that more will be heard of it. The directors of the chamber took no actibn on the subject of the com munication, because it was regarded as a closed incident. All but one ot the directors had requested that it ba not circulated with their individual names attached. The request having been complied with, no action by the board was deemed necessary. "It is the desire of the directors that a full vote be cast on the prop osition," said Executive Secretary Dodson. "That is the purpose of the referendum and the count will dis close the view held by the majority of the membership on this question. There seems to be a radical differ ence of opinion as to the adoption or rejection of the zoning system and the members did not think it was their right to commit the chamber to anything that was not the expressed wish of a majority." Plans Laid to Beat Lenroot, Elect Own Friends to State Offices and Get Delegates. ALIEN SWISS CONVICTED Hugo Turner round Guilty of Re ceiving Stolen Property. Hugo Turner, an alien Swiss, 23 years, who has served two terms in San Quentin penitentiary, California, was convicted by a jury in the court of Circuit Judge Morrow yesterday of receiving stolen property. He will ba sentenced Monday. Turner was suspected of robbing a jewelry Btore at 171 Third street of 28 watches, nine of which were found on his person when he was arrested a few days after the robbery, Novem ber 27, 1919, in Seattle. Turner's first alibi was that he was a collector of watches and had picked them up at various towns along his route in com ing to Seattle from the east. When they were identified he changed his story, asserting that he bought them in the north end, Portland. Several contradictions cropped out in Turner's story and the Jury brought in a unanimous verdict. CAR SERVICE PETITIONED Extension of Line to Mt. Calvary Cemetery Requested. Operation of street cars to Mount Cal vary cemetery, as provided in a fran chise granted by the city to the United Railway company, is demanded in a petition signed by Dan Kellaher and Rev. James H. Black, presented to the city council yesterday. The petition was referred to Commissioner of Pub lic Utilities Mann. According to the petition, the rail way company agreed to operate cars from Portland to the cemetery on an hourly schedule, but has failed to do so. The council is urgea to aemana this service for the benefit of the persons who have relatives and friends Interred in thisjemetery. BY CARTER FIELD. (Political Correspondent New Tork Trib une. Published by Arrangement.) MILWAUKEE, Jan. 27. Robert M. La Follette is the center around which the politics of Wisconsin Is revolving. He is now laying plans for a trium phant return to power. He probably will be a candidate for president him self and will surely attempt to elect a La Follette-controlled delegation to the Chicago convention. In addition he will have a candidate for governor to succeed Governor Philipp, who is completing his third term. Victory there would give the La i ollette crowd control of the state patronage for the first time in many years. La Follette will also have candidate for senator against Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, formerly one of his warmest friends, but who did not prove docile enough in 1912. While La Follette has not said that he would have his name put on the ballot as a candidate for the presi dency, he is expected to do so. It really makes very little difference, politicians here say, whether he does or not. No one thinks he really has a chance for the republican nomination, and no one has any idea that La Fol lette thinks so. It is Just a question of getting a delegation-elected which ne can aDsoiutely control and having this delegation select a national com mitteeman for the next four years who will do La Follette's bidding. Field Against La Follette. A canvass of the situation shows that La Follette has slightly the best of his opponents so far as control of the delegation is concerned. The best ber as the situation stands today is that he will have almost, if not quite. as strong a following in the 2G dele gates as he had in 1916. when he had 16 out of the 26. He has not been able. however, to develop much sentiment so far for his choice for senator. His candidate, James Thompson, of La Crosse, will, most observers here be lieve, be badly beaten in the repub lican primary by Senator Lenroot. In a desperate effort to prevent La Follette from dominating the Wis consin delegation to Chicago, repub lican leaders have resorted to a plan as old as politics, but seldom applied in similar circumstances. It is the old game of the field uniting against the leader. Representatives of Gen eral Wood, Governor Lowden, Senator Harding and other candidates for the nomination who have come here have all agreed, so far. after consultation with the local leaders that the safe thing for them to do is to stay out.The fight will therefore be made for an uninstructed delegation. Chairman George A. West of the etate commit tee. Governor Philipp, Senator Lenroot and other prominent republicans all think that the best way to handle the situation. It has been demonstrated to the sat isfaction of the presidential candi dates also that the only chance to atop La Follette from going to Chicago with a solid delegation behind him is for everybody else to stay out and let the local opponents of his policies fight for an uninstructed delegation. Wood and Lowden Lending:, Were It not for the La Follette sit uation it is not unlikely that Wiwcon sin would present a favorite son to the Republican convention Senator Lenroot. Mr. Lenroot is not a candi date, and his friends here, while they regard him most enthusiastically as of presidential caliber, are net anx ious to make trouble for him in his race for the full term in the senate by boosting him for the higher office. Letters from all over the state, how ever, indicate that there Is a consld-1 erabie sprinkling - through the tate of voters who would like to see Len root president. As between the avowed candidates, sentiment seems about evenly diyided between General Wood and Governor Lowden, with Wood a little more pop ular with the people not ordinarily in terested in politics and Lowden more popular with the rank aud file of the organization. All sorts of energy is being applied in behalf of General Wood, but in the opinion of many ob servers a good . deal of it is being wasted. For Instance, a very prom inent republican here told me today that three different representatives of General Wood's organization had oeen to his office, within a few days, who knew nothing about each other s ac tivities. although all three were "working the same side of the street.' Very little has been done here in behalf of Senator Harding, of Ohio. Wisconsin, say men explaining why there is less sentiment for him man for Wood and Lowden, is an intensely progressive state, and tnat, justly or unjustly, Harding is regarded hero as being more reactionary than either Wood or Lowden. S5 0 5 CC 5 Big Fonr Possibilities. It has been made clear to the head quarters of the various booms that there is no objection to their doing all the missionary work they wish in the state, and also that the anti-La Follette leaders here will not be dis turbed in their fight for an unin structed delegation by any amount of propaganda in behair of the Individual candidates which their workers may see fit to flood through the state. The more of that the better, the anti La Follette men say. It may all help. The earnest request is made, however, that the candidates for delegates be let alone, or at least be not asked to commit themselves to any .candidate prior to the primary at the which the delegates are elected. After the pri mary, leaders here say. they will have no objection to frierids of the various candidates doing anything they wish to the delegates. The anti-La Follette men are so busy with their up-leill fight that they have no time for making a choice as between the candidates. All have per sonal preferences down underneath but they are not talking about this. and they are shunning absolutely any thing remotely approaching the ap pearance of tieing themselves up. While no definite slate has been de cided upon behind which the anti-La Follette men will unite, the men being most prominently mentioned for the Big Four are Governor Philipp, George A. West, chairman of the state com mittee; L. K. Baker of Ashland and Otto Vosshard of La Crosse. On the La Follette side will be a candidate for a place on the Big Four, and that there will be a full La Follette ticket put up. Another undecided question in the La Follette camp is who will be the senator's candidate for governor. La Follette has asked the various as pirants to agree upon this themselves, without his deciding it. He is very anxious to avoid friction in his own camp, as the election of one of his followers as governor is tremendously Important because of the state patron age that could then be used In greas ing the La Follette machine. Wilson Can Have Delegates. , So far as the democratic organiza tion is concerned, It is very anxious to do whatever President Wilson wants. If the president wants to run for a third term he can have the Wis consin delegation for the asking. If be does not want It himself, but will Indicate which candidate is his favor ite, that .candidate can probably get Wisconsin's delegation. The number of democrats in Wisconsin is very small for the size of the state. Not only do the republicans greatly out number the democrats, but the social ist party is so strong it is really a, question, should an election be held, whether the democratic party would be second or third in strength. Such a situation, corresponding somewhat to the control of delegations to the republican convention from southern states, tends to make the democratic organization a rather close corpora tion, able to deliver all it has the presidential delegates to almost any candidate it desires. The one democratic candidate talked about more than any other here is William, G. McAdoo. However, the organization has about decided that the best thing to do, without being informed as to the president's wishes, is to send an uninstructed delegation. The question will be threshed out at a conference to be held on Febru ary 5. There is considerable talk here about Herbert C. Hoover, and the Mil waukee Journal has encouraged let ters with regard to his candidacy. These letters have indicated a rather The bigger your family. the less you can afford to buy common tea it costs so much. "What do you mean by that? The tea I am using costs much less thanSchill- ing V By the pound, yes. By the cup, no. Schilling's makes a. lot more cups to the pound. It is actually cheaper. Don't believe it? Your grocer pays your money back if you don t find it so. There are four flavors of Schilling Tea Japan, Ceylon-India, Oolong, Enzlish Breakfast. All one nuaJitv. In parchmyn-lined moisture-proof packages. At grocers everywhere. A Schilling & Co San Francisco widespread admiration, particularly among the business men of Wisconsin. for Hoover. Berger Vote Largely a Protest. The tremendous vote given Victor Berger, despite the virtual certainty that the house of representatives would not seat him, is explained here as being due more to the desire of the people to protest against existing conditions than because they sympa thized with Berger's utterances or be. lieved in socialism. No one denies that the Berger district, which com prises about half the city of Milwau kee, is strongly socialistic. Milwaukee has a socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan, and the general opinion is that the socialists will win the next municipal election, which occurs on the same day as the national election. It Is pointed out, however, that on the day of Berger's election there were 4000 brewery employes out of work in his district alone, in addition to the number of employes dropped by more than 10.00 saloons. His dis trict is half the city, and Just 2200 saloons were closed by prohibition. There was intense resentment against both parties In congress for not hav ing repealed war-time prohibition. There was bitterness about the cost of living, which the workers feel the government ought to do something about besides make promises, and there was a scarcity of coal in Mil waukee at the time of the election. So thousands of the votes were neither German nor socialist, it is pointed out. but were Just a protest. A situation in which there Is keen interest, but which no one knows any thing about except Senator La Follette himself, and he is not talking about it, is the possibility of his running for president on a third ticket. Recent praise of La Follette in the Hearst newspapers has caused some wonder here whether Hearst will back La Follette On a third party ticket. The Hearst paper in Milwau kee, The Wisconsin News, is expected to support La Follette in his fight for control of. the state delegation. Mat his for Quality Cravats the smile of a man's attire Attractive neckwear is an outstanding feature in good grooming. The neckwear we show will appeal to your taste for nice things. Silks and Knitted Ties $1 to $5 A Profitable Clothes Investment In buying' clothes, figure the cost by the months of service they will give rath er than by the price you pay. Clothes that are made from the quality viewpoint stand up under the strain of long, hard wear. 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Harry New, convicted of the murder of Freda Lesser, became convict No. 33406 at San Quentin prison Tuesday. He arrived there from Los Angeles, his mother, Mrs. Lillian M. Berger, accompanying him as far as the prison gate. New will serve an in determinate sentence of from 10 years to life. In reply to tearful requests from Mrs. Berger that New be not put to work in the jute mill on account ot the condition of his lungs. Warden Johnston reassured her that her son would receive the same consideration as other prisoners. Coreans Form Own Militia Unit. HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 26. (Spe cial.) Hawaii's ' first national guard company to be composed entirely ol Corean enlisted men has been in spected for federal recognition. An interesting feature of the formation of the new militia unit is the ap pointment of Robert Lee, secretary of the Nuuanu Y. M. C A., as second lieutenant. 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